Author: flyagaric23

  • Mavericks of the Mind Live! Review by Fly

    Mavericks of the Mind Live! by David Jay Brown & Rebecca McClen Novick. 

     

    By Steven ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt.
    Amsterdam. March 2, 2013.

    David Jay Brown quickly rewarded me for my response to a post he made on Facebook, proposing friends of his–read and review–advance copies of his new book ‘Mavericks of the Mind Live!’ I have spent the last week dipping in and out of the dialogues, sampling their taste, considering how to weigh them, and by what metric?

    “Seems to me like everyone should have an isolation tank and get free of all this! This is my addition to technology, the isolation tank.—Dr John Lilly

    Each of the panel members do not always agree, which to me shows the tolerance and good will of the participants and the tricky terrain they are exploring together. David and Rebecca launch the panel into free flowing feedback based on their provocative questions that include psychedelics, theology, law, anarchy and death. For me, the contributions by Dr Wilson in particular, illustrate how well human consciousness can formulate meaningful answers, on the fly, including both personal experience and published sources, with the noticeable effect of speaking like he writes: artfully. A great accomplishment for a social scientific philosopher and master satirist, me’ thinks. I should add that the book is worth purchasing and reading for the RAW and Timothy Leary contributions alone.     

    “Psychedelics just accentuated what I was beginning to develop out of mathematics and physics–a sense of the order.– Dr Robert Anton Wilson.

    The wisdom from the speakers, together with the good timing of the conferences that were right on the tip of the internet information explosion (1993-94), set an historical intersection point, well worth of reconsideration. Without the present day reference points of Google, Facebook, and Twitter each of the speakers navigate somewhat familiar pathways into discussion relevant to our current hyper-connected social networks, search engines and intelligent predictive technology.  Also how interpersonal relations, and everyday social life changes during consciousness shifts. These Mavericks are invoking the future (1993-2013) and beyond with good cheer and a no-bullshit attitude.

    “We can literally flash millions and billions of ideas to each other, and change and change, and change and add. William Gibson talked about the global atmosphere. You can tap into it and still be as personal and intimate as you want with those that you want to communicate with that way.–Dr Timothy Leary.

    Due to exulted status of these Maverick futurists, in particular Dr Robert Anton Wilson, Dr Timothy Lear, Dr John Lilly, Dr Nick Herbert and Dr Ralph Abraham, the trajectories they set as a tribe together in these dialogues, stand testimony to the great consciousness revolutions that flared during the 1960’s, and the technological innovations & methodologies they spawned, plus, lots of sex, drugs, rock and roll and yoga in the streets. Amen!

    “When nobody is complaining that they’re being hurt, that’s what I consider being a victimless crime. And the difference is not only that I can’t see any reason that a victimless crime should be against the law, but the only way you can enforce laws against victimless crimes is setting up a totalitarian state–because, to return to my example, if I’m getting hit over the head I’m going to go complain. But if three people are smoking pot in the next room and listening to New Age music, nobody is going to complain about that, because we don’t even know about it–so there’s no victim. The only way you can find out how many people in Santa Cruz are smoking pot and listening to New Age music tonight is by spying on the citizenry. – Dr Robert Anton Wilson.

    http://www.amazon.ca/Mavericks-Roundtable-Discussions-Kleefeld-ebook/dp/B00BE86ZRO

    Steven James Pratt a.k.a Fly Agaric 23.

  • TTOTT 2013: Go git’ yr’ pens and pads

    TTOTT 2013 by Steven ‘fly’ Pratt.

    Some of my readers, and a small portion of friends may be familiar with Robert Anton Wilson and his tale of the tribe, but, alas i imagine that most are not. If you stumbled upon this writing, and are out of facebook well done, I dearly wish you might give me a chance to turn you on.

    I have shared the continued relevance and impact that the individuals and ideas from ‘the tale of the tribe’ have had, and are having on global humanity through a network of blogs and posts. I am also resending the same simple message here: read Robert Anton Wilson’s books and try out his ideas, again! This post consists of a short review of his ideas from TTOTT and current 2013 events and breakthroughs that have a direct correspondence to the characters.

    Swooping from the global banking and credit circus to ‘open source’ software ‘The tale of the tribe’ forms a unique doorway into a coherent system, running from the renaissance to the present day, that helps frame some big questions pertaining to our times, a bawdy bunch and global cross-section of individuals and their works selected by Dr Wilson for an equal balance of high-brow and low brow, art and science and mysticism, all innovators and ahead of their time.

    “Art as TRANSACTION / Information as TRANSACTION—RAW”

    Most of them, worryingly to me, are still understudied overlooked and almost forgotten in the majority of mainstream Academic institutions, yet, together in synchrony and as the TRIBE, they bootstrap their influences and coherence into a group of 13–relatively unknown–super geniuses. A kind of renaissance super hero-gang. I think that Dr Wilson picked these characters very very very carefully, and of course, they still hold infinite potential for anybody crazy enough to begin studying em’ and carefully scaffolding between ideas, and, furthermore, I am certain they will be important for the future scenarios and technological breakthroughs during 2013 and ahead, in the spirit of the poet as early warning missile defence system.

    “Pound & Joyce supplement each other
    like Jefferson & Adams
    each created a NEW non-aristotelian
    language
    for the tale of the tribe”–RAW

    In one sense, the tale of the tribe includes some of the most complicated and scholarly works known to man: Finnegans Wake, Information Theory, General Semantics, Pound’s Cantos, Cybernetics, Ulysses, Media Studies and Quantum Mechanics. On the other hand, I think that Dr Wilson recognized this ‘too complicated’ factor, and might have been hinting, in part, that in the age of internet search engines and masses of shared data, translation software etc. the once esoteric works and ideas available to the select few, can now be read, decoded, studied and poured over, even when high…by anyone and everyone who can connect to the net. You don’t need no stinking Yale or Cambridge library, or even their professors, in many cases, you require a connection and whole lot of time, will and energy to invest in things that at first may not seem worth your while pursuing. I hope to persuade you otherwise.

    “Distinguish also between faith-based programs [NO FEEDBACK]
    and research-based programs [MAXIMUM POSSIBLE FEEDBACK].–RAW

    For me today, the tale of the tribe boils down to the concept of humanity. The problems confronting everyman man, women and living system on planet earth today. Dr Wilson stressed a comprehensive strategy, a GLOBAL view, and he was known for having at least seven models for explaining anything. This wish to communicate and show compassion to all-around-humanity remains a goal of ‘TTOTT’ and at the same time liberate humanity, consciousness and our  daily doings from the boot and chains and guns of the oppressors:

    Those who champion closed systems, surveillance, secrecy, violence, war and clandestine attacks on the emotional and physical strings of a mostly innocent humanity-as-a-whole. Those that fan the flames, do damage to names, switch the rules, the sneaky pundits and spin doctors, the war advertisers and the TV Mirage salespeople, those that wish the majority of us live in fear and in debt, be it to Gods or States-entities, they’re surely watching you even now. I hear you, and I think ‘TTOTT’ provides an historical current that runs counter to the above trending towards centralized control and secrecy, to shallow pools of bullshit passing as news and bad, wrongheaded single mindedness and bullying throughout the mediasphere. The decentralized universe of the mystics, poets, shaman & shawomen, neuro-scientists, design scientists and information theorists pushes against centralized control, both psychological and political (via. The digital hacktivist revolution) these are new forces that we have all heard about, if not felt in our daily life.

    “can we see this emerging in psychedelics & internet?
    or in Leary & McLuhan at least?”–RAW

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

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  • Panorawma for Robert Anton Wilson (2013)


    Panorawma
    (for Robert Anton Wilson)

    handcrafted study
    in every direction:
    Robert Anton
    Wilson’s 360

    digital artefacts now
    fly thru a CHU space, hand
    drawn appliances
    of raw sciences

    fresh crafted platforms
    state-of-the-art in house
    to look around use fingers
    gyroscope, arrows or mouse

    visit Washington cash spill
    illuminate, cool off
    cook listen wash-up
    go to pot or

    grill, open calendoor
    playback answer
    machine

    to zoom: pinch or use the + & – icon
    aim beyond language
    Into SPACE, go on

    explore rich n’raw media
    behind hots-pots
    cooking
    panorawma views
    you choose

    –Steven ‘fly’ Pratt. 23rd January 2013.
    www.raw360.net

  • Pegasus Thor and NASA Meateor

    I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
    1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
    2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
    3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”–Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

    Maybe Pegasus sent an air burst to earth
    a fireball to shock and strike fear into humanity
    and distract them from their food?

    Maybe Darpa and co. were testing a new weapon
    that fizzled out, and/or was shot out the sky
    by Russian MIG’s or Thor’s bolt?

    NASA sound out of their whig
    spouting “PURE COINCIDANCE!
    it seems like puritanical
    nonsense from the Dark Ages to me.
    How can a spokesperson get away with such
    rubbish,

    conjecture works best
    when based upon statistical
    probability

    NASA should know better
    and speak eloquently to the world, not just like
    carbon copies of Enron’s spokespeople
    or a Tesco supervisor.

    Footnote 1. The Russian Air Burst.
    Footnote 2. Pure Coincidence, not related in any way.
    Footnote 3. The Pope and Putin toast to the meteorite.
    Footnote 4. Meteoric coincidence and back to the question of meaning

    The Russian Air Burst event.

    “coincidence may be more earthshaking than telekinesis. There have been coincidenses so dramatic, so symbolic or so wildy improbably that they have aroused feelings of the uncanny in scientists and laymen alike for generations.”–Robert Anton Wilson. The Physics of Synchronicity, Coincidance p.g 148.

    It’s like a huge camera flash in the sky, like an atomic blast or the explosion of tons of TNT. It’s like a rocket, like a ball of fire. But what WAS it that streaked through the sky? A meteorite! I hear you thinking. Well yes, most probably a meteorite, but the other possibilities should not be ruled some concerning the global military industrial complex and the development of space weapons and earth based super-guns? Other reasons for considering the smaller probabilities about WHAT and WHY, and HOW include creative thinking and deductive reasoning. Like the controversial Russian M.P who implied that is was not a meteorite but in fact a new American super-weapon test that resulted in something flying across the sky and exploding. Wow, maybe some Hollywood lawyers will be knocking at his front door tonight? great for the news vultures.

    The on-going hunt for the fragments and pieces of the meteorite, and/or super weapon are also interesting stories in their own right. Each one, as I am writing this, have the very small possibility of turning into a classic H.P lovecraft tale or science fiction fantasy horror story. Who knows what lurks beneath the lake of CHEBARKUL where a fragment is believed to have smashed through the ice there, close to CHELYABINSK where the temperature is -15. What of extra-terrestrial matter exploding in the atmosphere, drifting over the planet, getting into the earths weather cycles and eco-system. All these ideas have been well explored by modern writers, but only a few have begun proper investigation into the Chelyabinsk explosions with an open and playful mind.

    I am pulled into commenting on the barrage of signals put out by space agencies, media outlets and space spokespeople about the events that took place on Friday February 15th, 2013, in the skies over Russia. NASA for example, are connected with the rather idiotic and ‘gift to any conspiracy nut’ when Paul Chodas said ““These are rare events, and it was an incredible coincidence that it happened on the same day as the close flyby of Asteroid 2012 DA14, the two are not related in any way.” And “It seems like we’re in a cosmic shooting gallery here. There were two very rare events happening on the same day. Pure coincidence.”

    Pure Coincidence! Not related in any way!

    (a rant on non simultaneous apprehended events)

    Well, they are both space based objects that came very close to earth, one actually hit the earth. From different trajectories, yes. But they came from outer space. They are related in that sense. The term ‘Pure Coincidence’ seems like an insult to any thinking individual. Like ‘sheer coincidence’ or ‘absolute simultaneity’, a ‘pure coincidence cannot be found anywhere, at all, at all’ it is a pretty meaningless statement, and for this to come from a NASA spokesperson concerning such an edgy subject, open to hundreds of tons of wild speculation, signals to me how closed minded their operations must work.

    And so, imagine the G20 in Moscow! And the Pope’s resignation, the lightning strike at the Basilica, and the resignation of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, and lets not forget the global war on terror, banking malarchy and police state, surveilence state on the rise! but, what nut would presume to know what the hell is going on? Are these separate events swarming in disinformation by default or are they connected in a more intricate way? Well both of course, but let’s play a game anyway and find out through pretending we are seeing these events through different eyes, in another part of the world where you have never been to. Maybe ask yourself how you would feel witnessing such a strange event in the sky, and if you had no internet or reference library to answer your questions. Here’s a chronological outline of some events over the last 6 days that might make the start of a good story?

    11th Feb. Pope Ex-Benedict XVI steps down. Lightning strikes the Basilica in Rome as he resigns.
    12th Feb. North Korea test a Nuke.
    15th Feb. Russian air burst event.
    15/16th G20 finance ministers meet in Moscow.
    15/16th Claims of similar air-burst activity in Cuba and California

    The Pope and Putin toast to the Meteorite

    The Pope looks up from his Vodka and screams ‘Vlad, we’re fucked now’ turning to Mr Putin and waving is frail feminine hands in the sky at the trail of white smoke leading off from a bright object.  “Holy Fuck, Oh lord, Jesus Christ our saviour, what the fuck is going on?” the Pope said as the sound of the exploding object finally reached the twentieth story of the remote hotel situated in the boondocks of Russian. “Holy smoke!” vlad exclaimed.

    (Journalist talking into a phone behind a truck in Moscow) “listen, it’s a double bind, those big dicks at the war office want more military expenditure either way, meteorite, wrong, or a motherfucking U.F.O”

    “Yes, understood, but that’s not your business is it. Just take the pictures, see what you can dig up, and write us a full report in no less than 48 hours, the people are hungry for any updates on this thing, the churches and filling and so are the malls, this is great for FOX, Great for America, keep it up.” Said Jake, sitting in a silver rimmed oak lined chair, playing solitaire are watching the Jeremy Kyle show simultaneously.

    (ching, glasses toast a new deal)

    Meteoric coincidence and back to the question of meaning.

    Only 16 hours before earth’s star gazers were poised for the close passing of asteroid 2012DA14, an unknown, alien meteorite broke through the earths atmosphere and streaked across the sky as a fireball, exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The fact of having two special space-rock events, one of which involved the largest meteor strike since Tunguska in 1908, within 16 hours of one another  leads me to reconsider their connection, which is flatly denied by NASA and most official astrological spokes-entities.

    Like something from a Harry Potter book, lightning was pictured striking the top of the Basilica in Rome on the occasion of the Pope’s abdication, 11th February 2013. What are the chances of this happening? and what are the symbolic references between lightning and religion, between the Pope stepping down and the lightning strike on the Basilica, other than a creepy feeling its produced by the writers of the Da Vinci Code. And at a stretch, we could include the meteorite explosion barely five days later and lean toward extra-terrestrial influences and god knows what.

    Both of the above examples are widely recognized, at least, as weird coincidences, or funny things that seem to imply more than their parts, their meaning bonded together somehow bootstraps itself into an epiphany moment, a moment of interconnectivity and meaningful coincidence, or more rightly into a field of synchronicity (a term coined by Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli).

    However, in the world of public relations and life after the original Snub, some choose to totally and utterly reject meaningful coincidence, such as NASA’s spokes-person Paul Chorod who recently stated: “These are rare events, and it was an incredible coincidence that it happened on the same day as the close flyby of Asteroid 2012 DA14, the two are not related in any way.” And… “It seems like we’re in a cosmic shooting gallery here. There were two very rare events happening on the same day. Pure coincidence.”

    To me this highlights the official nonsense and corrupt statements that lead to confusion and chaos in questions concerning science, scientists and what the hell is going on. Although the trajectories of the asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Russian event were different, suggesting they came from totally different places, does not rule out hundreds of possible scenarios we have NOT YET COME TO KNOW.

    More generally the inability to treat life as an open question, and an open search for meaning, an on-going process  seems to prevent science from moving forward, both in its public relations and in its physical experiments and resulting technologies.

    The Physics of Synchronicity, as defined by Robert Anton Wilson proposes superior language technology, where coincidence and synchronicity are the doorways to new understanding, connectivity, scepticism and ‘the universe next door’. i.e a parallel world of ‘science fiction’ language and story that explores the topsy turvy world of the dialectic or Tao of coincidence. Performance by example, See: ‘Schroedinger’s Cat Trilogy, Masks of the Illuminati, Illuminatus! Trilogy. And we find ourselves back to RAW.

    “But the growing convergence of data from coincidence hunters and the latest theories in quantum physics suggest that the model that will tie this together will be much more than revolutionary proof of ghosts or of UFOs or even of thought transference would be. We seem to be dealing with a force that is, as Dr Paul Kammerer said, as universal as gravity and without limitations in either space or time.—RAW, The Physics of Synchronicity, 155.

  • Itza Chichen

    Itza Chichen by Steven ‘fly’ Pratt

    … that a Hawk, a Condor
    a vulture capitalist
    encircling the stone Temple?
    Kukulkan we come in

    a good morning Solstice sun
    casts 9 serpent shadows
    back down the Pyramid

    nose
    of feathered
    serpent: Quetzalcoatl
    in Chinese dragon year of
    2012, tick-tick & galactic

    alignment, Ahowl!
    21st of Pope Greg’s December
    this Venus morn
    the Mayan Baktun
    long count calendar

    counted itself
    into a new cycle
    at 5:11 a.m, i counted
    but lost track at thirteen

    Terence Mckenna & Jim
    Joyce playing about
    my write hemisphere
    with twinned
    trickster

    spirit voice:
    Ez & Charles Olson
    constructin’ scaffolds tward
    ma left

    Here under Chichen Itza sun
    gods meet in tents
    the Glyphs & dynastic

    histories multiple
    brewed into one river
    us individuating current

    Natural forms & DNA streamin’
    washwishing thru geoglyphy
    Ez’s ideogramix
    Joyce’s cross wordsley

    glossalilya
    here in seahorse
    frog snake vulture tortoise
    Venus star jade and Peyote
    force

    tale of the tribe
    swung by the Yucatan today
    some tales were fatted for
    news

    snakes, some woven
    Astro-archaeo
    linguistix

    ancient theology
    indigi’ and geni’ study
    shawomanism

    Mystery dubbled
    helix’d
    smoke on mirrors & dates
    & hours numbers knots

    Messy
    American stooges & wots
    Your epic poem of
    All-at-once History
    math magix and name games
    transfix and go
    hunting minds for a fuck
    in hot letter flames

    solid pictograms stare out
    of the greystone faced
    eyes and skulls of Mayan
    facebook profiles

    speech crawling brief
    tired and tensely
    along glyphic contours

    like army ants
    contemplating NSA
    global data centres from a
    leaf

    –Steven ‘Fly’ Pratt.
    (January 20-23rd January 2013)

  • Bigendig of Mayan Long Count in Panoramas

    At Chichen Itza last week–between playing drums for Fantuzzi, The Earthlings, and The peace tribe band at the chaotic ‘synthesis2012 festival–ifly, made some panorama photographs using my I-Pad, and shot some weird underwater video in a cenote called Encantado (rumored to have a female crocodile living in it!)
    My journey was really FAR OUT and mystical, beautiful and challenging all-at-once. I got into more textual porridge over at my acrillic blog. Be my guest:
    I opened an account with www.360cities.com today, and wanted to share my first batch of panos. Love, steve fly
    My Trip to Chitchen Itza and Tulum 21st December 2012: (Condensed diary spillage):

    Reflections on my trip to Chichen Itza: (a prose introspective streaming dollop) http://acrillic.blogspot.nl/2012/12/reflections-on-end-of-mayan-long-count.html

    360 PANORAMAS BY FLY.

    “And greater grown then in the trifle of her days, a mouse, a mere tittle, trots off with the whole panoromacron picture”–James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. pg. 318  

    Snapped December 21st, 2012. Chichen Itza.
  • Piramide De Kukulcan

     

    Photo by Steve ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt. 21st December 2012. 

  • Reflections on the end of the Mayan Long Count from Chitchen Itza

    I had a hoot writing this mish-mash of thoughts and reflections on my trip to Mexico last week, and what it all means, i will probably go back and edit some sense into it. In the meantime, here’s my raw spillage on Synthesis 2012.

    Thanks

    Thanks in no particular order to Fantuzzi, Jaris, Kat, Chris Donagan, Issac, Cappi, The Earthlings, Justin, RC, Spirit Essence, Caroline Casey, Kevin Whitesides, B. Jeff, Frank Gamble, Mark Von Stone, Michael JaiDev, Michael Stocker, John Carlson, Paul Carey, Alphonso, Paula and Paula, Zia, Pitt, Oliver, The Luminaries, Sun Ruh and the Last Dragons, Meghan, the fire dancers, musicians, artists, healers, scholars and freaks  who pulled together under the most challenging circumstances to keep pushing the good vibe.

    Saturanlia Panoramas

    And so the tribe walked on down to the Mayan site, chanting, dancing, singing smiling, laughing and honouring the local gods, however they please. A moving circus of self-owning ones, minds on the walk, talk tapes unfastened, tired, far from HOME, moving towards the once state-of-the-art city complex of Chitchen Itza in the blueberry dawn, yes, if not just for the invocation of the sun, a new dawn.

    We the tribe, discordians, stuck apart, but coming in and out of togetherness, an ooze of disparate creatures in white, domesticated primates with a sack full of mental baggage, some sacks much lighter and better packed, but still, our monkey bodies pulled our saturated fruits on down that road to the  site where we would seed the imagination of the entire planet. Pretty heady stuff for a ripe fruit no doubt and an opportunity for ‘ploughing some field’ in the sense of amplifying certain aspects, turning them over, cycling similar horse manure into the ‘field’. And, simply, wishing for new flowers to bloom. Is this the new age? Haha. Well,…first it depends of what your idea about the meaning of ‘is’ is. And ‘this’ is. Follow me.

    I turn over the reins to a Joycean like philosophy, based on maximal play, maximal connectivity, dymaxion maximal tension, and ‘hologrammic’ prose. No Age? Knowage? Nowidge? Gnoeich? Take it or leave it. The language we use and the platforms we adopt to communicate language are the ‘things’ in play, the THINGS in the game. State of the art: sharing.

    And, so, if I can leave this writers shell behind, I will write more along the lines of how I felt, with total immersion, and sound effects included. The sweat and heat of the rocks, the condor and the hawks, the trinkets, the chanting, camera flashes. And the food wrappers, button clicks, cell phone GOOD magic and play, the best be those that could weave between worlds, sewing up holes in the global microcosm wild world weavers, with feathers, shells, drums dream catchers, more feathers, teeth and rainbow jewels, crocodile cunning, mantis Yoga. Unified filed of people, doing the human thing, coming into and out of orbit. Into somewhere else, mystics, in the woods among the rocks and glkypix. Talking about wherenit, and why to the when ce fourth . And, he men and women split off into ships, motherships, EARTH central. Soil and hummus, humans, yes, the place alive.

    Honoring the local Gods

    And honouring the local gods I say, to mean those that I really accent made the unity between tribe, the home at every step, open wisdom and cool disposition. Getting to know the characters you bump into throughout a week of music art, performance and improvised survival in Chitchen Itza, a pretty spooky place, you might hazard a guess to blaze a fire to highlight the game. The whatnowwherewhowhyness?

    It’s complicated, and it’s hidden, it’s hidden and always secret. Generally speaking, you know? Love is everywhere and peace permeates all spaces, living in potential, ready to settle into or between the cracks. And so the dead went down to the place of the dead. And the spacetime continuum folded in on itself, if you can imagine that. A cabbage inside a washingmachine, so there we were, carrying our fruits to the site.

    Each individual tale of what happened in Chithen Itza is equally valid and should be equally considered as a tale of ‘what’ happened, and defined by that persons point of view (POV). Lets hope that each story can shake loose the hinges of stale bread heads and exhibit a new way to communicate. Mind body peach sitting at the beach helps too, be good to yourself in whatever way makes you feel good, duh!

    Chitchen Itza, and Pueblo proved to be a pretty difficult place to communicate from with a limited patchy internet and limited phones and limited help. Which among other things, led to a whole in my ability to feedback real time with what was happening on the Solstice. Only today, 29th December 2012 have I found a chance to search ‘chitchen itza 2012’ in google, and read the articles.

    I have been pretty much APPAULED at the quality of sincerity and lack of understanding from the main stream press for over 20 years anyhow, but now, with my experience of BEING THERE, and then seeing images of people reporting to  have BEING THERE, and–what it all means–reminded me of the up-hill struggle of the cop-media to capture anything that resembles ‘wisdom teachings’ and ‘ways’ of the great ancestors, elders, great old ones (GOO).

    Apparently the reporters knew all-about the thousands of so called ‘festival goers’ that were honoring ‘things and stuff’ in very important ways. Bah Humbug, i thought, reading the press releases days later….Internet is a part of this NEW AGE thing too, you know? Visit the latest from CCC at the 29th annual meeting for an update.
     
    I cannot speak for the Mayan ceremonies and rituals performed in and around the site that morning, but they were stunning and awesome sights and sounds to ma’ ears. Yes! Easily the most ceremonial and audio heavy activity. Fully authentic sounding and looking, feeling, and smelling. I really felt the energy in the music at that moment.

    No, no, no, no, no….THIS is what REALLY happened. (my trip to Chitchen Itza, Mexico, on the Winter Solstice 2012, and cycling day of the Mayan Long Count Baktun ‘measure’ of timespace.

    My approach here pays as much respect as I can pay to Caroline Casey for her trickster redeemer qualities and etymological seed-spinning. To invoke play. To propose the open ended mystery, the coming together of the stories, the threads weaving, speaking in tongues, mind-body-speech research, each to their own, and good peace be with em’

    Be GOOOOOOOD!

    To be nice to each other, have fun and share wisdom, to try and live a life as an example to others, in everything you say do, eat, and play with. The ‘clown’ and the myriad of clowning acts, the prankster and the trickster, the rascal mystic, those that play harder that most scholars, those that wield the wit of a Jonathon Swift, or a Joyce, the playful satirist, cutting deeply into the fabric/skin of our shared linguistic ooze space. Who says it best?

    Well, I like mysticism, and I adore mystics, I mean, I like the playfulness and the intelligence game aspect. To mean, the question of ‘what the hell is going on’ is still way up for grabs, but I am excited on behalf of the long lineage of globally active seers, shamans, witches, heretics and what I might call mystic scholars, due to the rise of information technology and the resultant ‘space-time’ we inhabit or co-create as if by magic, out of nothing, total immersion and connectivity to the greatest innovators and masters, and the dullest face smack.

    I mean to imply here that a long line of outsiders, those running contrary to the current western paradigm of late capitalist bust bubble life, have been working with ‘code’. Or developing their own communications devices, systems, networks, knowledge bases etc. Today, in the last few days of 2012, it seems apparent to me that there is a BOLD statement that should fly first:

    GIVE THE MAGICAL WIZARDS ACCESS TO THE SACRED SITES. Or GIVE THE LOCALS CLEAN WATER, HEALTHY FOOD AND SUFFICIENT TRADE AND BARTER SYSTEMS TO LIVE COMFORTABLY IN THE AREA SURROUNDING THE SITE.

    And HONOR the local gods. Dance as they do, drink and laugh and look serious as they do, and you shall have fun, and show your shared satchel of wise-stuffing. Walk with a swank, speak highly and be the change, you wish to see in the world, take responsibility, I suppose. Of course, this is true, but what can we do to support the movement .

    Walking down the path to Chitchen Itza with a candle chanting Hoooo Naaaaab Kuuuuu, the sun crept over the bushes like a sniper in orange combats, more than a thousand ‘synthesis people’ snaked on down the trail dressed in white, chanting regalia, singing, praying.

    Some line confusion, double ticket gods strike a double blow, along with the ‘no big bag’ gods, who set out their laws straight, not allowing certain shaped bags and objects. The early morning Sunrise inside the Site came quickly, and early, the Mayan ceremony was taking place around the back side of the first pyramid you are confronted with.

    I filmed some of their special ceremony and followed a little way, but then i felt a little invasive with my damn Ipad and walked off to the ball court to make a further series of panorama photographs surrounded by fewer tourists (of which i was one)

    This introduction to my day, might as well be the introduction, or be somewhere involved with my plan to create a linked panorama tour of my trip, featuring info’ HOTSPOTS and linked media from each space, making a comprehensive ‘tool’ for multimedia interactivity and exploration…gulp……gulp….and FEEDBACK.

    http://www.360cities.net/javascripts/krpano/krpano.swf
    The Great Ball Court, Chitchen Itza (North End) in Mexico For me, the New Age did begin in some sense on the 21st December 2012, it was based on a false belief (that the website I was launching with a friend, would be launched LIVE on the 21st at 11.11 GMT) that I did not get to check till later that day, to discover it was NOT YET live. (as of writing this it IS LIVE: www.raw360.net please do go visit and you will see what I mean, wow, wicked work CHU).

    Please, just love the earth, and love each other. Not so tricky eh, well, naaa, thought you might grimace with an ending like that. Oh no, not the hippies again. Well, O’ yes, me thinks that message, and that of the rainbow people worldwide, the artists and writers, painters, poets, and dancers, is the message: LET US PLAY. Join the dance, the song. Change the darkness and misery into fun and laughter, with some taste if you can muster it. Let us celebrate seduction, illusion, gameplay, strategy, paucity, glossalalia. Love one another, be good, have fun.

    –Steve ‘Fly Agaric 23’ Pratt.

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