[pagan-magik] up! 0029// Michael Bowen To Collaborate on Fraser's Next Book!// march 24, 06

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Unintelligent Design (say the scientist)
(or Proof of Design from Above?) (ask i)
The recently discovered Mimivirus is so much more genetically complex than 
any previously known virus, not to mention a number of bacteria, that it 
seems to call for a dramatic redrawing of the tree of evolution.

“This thing shows that some viruses are organisms that have an ancestor 
that was much more complex than they are now," says Didier Raoult, one of 
the leaders of the research team at the Mediterranean University in 
Marseille, France.  This represents a radical change in thinking about 
life's origins: Viruses, long thought to be biology's hitchhikers, turn out 
to have been it’s formative force.
[Discover, March, 2006]
 >> and they just happened accidentally for no reason in the trillionth of 
a nonosecond in an area smaller than, in terence's mckenna's words, a 
gnat's droppings,  yeah, sure. :)
UP!
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Sometime this month of March, Iran will stop accepting the U.S. Dollar for 
oil sales, and will only accept Euros.  Since the western media have 
ignored Iran’s stated intention for a year now, be warned that they will 
probably mis-report the event as another case of Iran raising the stakes.

Like the other day.  Rumsfeld said the US would not ALLOW Iran to go 
nuclear, Iran replied that it “could cause pain too,” and our media 
reported it as Iran making threats.

While we’re on it.  I’d like to announce that I agree wholeheartedly that 
Israel should be “wiped off the map”.  Know why?  Because it means that a 
state based on religious grounds, ‘Israel’, should not be allowed.  Nobody 
is calling for thousands of dead Israelis, they want the state called 
“Israel” turned into a religiously tolerant state like all others on the 
planet, and it’s what the Palestinians have always been demanding.  DID YOU 
UNDERSTAND THAT?!  Every single western medium invariably reports it like 
Iran wants to make war on Israel, but IT’S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH WAR - AND 
ALL THE MEDIA PEOPLE & POLITICIANS KNOW THIS PERFECTLY WELL.

NOTE: shortly before the US attacked Iraq, Saddam Hussein ceased  accepting 
the U.S. Dollar for oil sales.
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u cant understand the world without innerstanding yourself
the up! 0029 // march 14, 02
la- la- la- lap-toppling da system!
michael bowen
u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world
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YES, LET’S MAKE THIS AN ISSUE!
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw probably didn’t meant to say it but he did, 
on British TV this week.  When asked about a "double standard" regarding 
Iran, he replied:

"I want a nuclear-free Middle East. It's the policy of her majesty's 
government. We've been working to achieve that. We have ensured over the 
last few years that 2 of the 4 countries there which posed a nuclear 
threat, Libya and Iraq, have had their nuclear weapons removed.”
 >> yeah, right.

“But If you want to see a nuclear-free Middle East, you've got to remove 
that threat from Iran, including the rhetorical threat to wipe Israel off 
the face of the map.”
 >> you see?!  they don’t wish to AND CAN’T attack the people of Israel, 
they want a regime change there that will return that country to the family 
of civilised nations  a non-religion-defined state.

NOW HERE IT COMES === “And once you've done that, then we can get on to 
work at, in respect of Israel."

DO YOU SEE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS??!!!

"This isn't the time to discuss this," said an Israeli government spokesman 
next day.   Israel did not want to deflect from the Iranian issue by 
drawing attention to itself and creating a diplomatic issue over Straw's 
comments.

I BET THEY DON’T!  BUT WE DO!  THE CAT’S PAW JUST SLIPPED OUT OF THE 
BAG.  YES, LET’S DEFLECT FROM THE IRANIAN ISSUE AND PLACE ATTENTION ON THE 
MAIN THREAT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: A NUCLEAR ARMED “defenceless” ISRAEL!

SPREAD THE WORD!  LET’S SPREAD THIS ARTICLE AS WIDELY AS WE CAN, AND MAYBE 
WE CAN MAKE IT AN ISSUE!
www.jpost.com
UP!
.. contents...
p.04 ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY ONE; The Human Be-In
p.06 Discriminating A Vision From A Hallucination
p.08 Ayahuasca US Supreme Court Votes Unanimously to Allow Its Religious Use
p.09 //FEEDBACK - IMEALS FROM READERS :)
p.11The Flying Saucer’s Apprentice LAST PART. Unzipped: Saint Crasier Flark 
The Martyr And His Highly Original Fleet Street Philosophy
p.14 Goa Cops Deport ‘Unwelcome Travellers’
UP!


On my first reading of megatripolis at forever I slowly sensed two things.
First, a deep shift in mine and the planet’s tectonic plates.
Second, a burning need to read it again which I just did.  Wow!
It’s all part of what you used to call Holocaust Aversion Therapy, remember?
A Vision of a future that ’s worth striving for!
Who else is even TRYING to do that?!  I shall undoubtedly read it again!

But there’s more.  I’ve now had the overwhelming realisation
that YOU ARE PROBABLY THE GREATEST LIVING WRITER ALIVE TODAY!
Look at your breadth.  From the UP! to your inspirational club flyers and 
events,
the Encyclopedia Psychedelica (of which I’ve read 6)
all your mind-boggling & inspiring interviews over the years,
and all the Megatripolitans from Megatripolis days (I have the complete set!)
For decades you have been out there on the leading edge of the Future,
calling us onwards, not just as an intellectual, or a critic, but a doer, 
an activist,
an inspiration and information hub to more than one generation.

And, unlike other alternative heroes, you present yourself as a regular 
human being,
working to make the message clear and simple so that nobody will be left 
behind,
you dare to take very high spiritual principles into clubland’s gory depths
and often pay the price of throwing pearls before swine,
but you never let that stop you, you go on shining your light
almost as if you can’t help yourself, and I believe you genuinely can’t!
I know you’re a Gurdjieffian and, altho I’ve never been in a group, 
everyone I’ve met who follows the Way of the Sly Man is fairly incapable of 
lying to themselves.
You’re not pushing your ego (much :-) and, as I heard it said about you the 
other day,
you are not into it for the girls like most other heroes I could mention.

A deep and heartfelt thankyou, maestro.
Please don’t resign from this miserable human species yet, ok? :)
Damien, Brighton, UK.
UP!


!!! BREAKING NEWS !!! !!! BREAKING NEWS !!!
Famous, revered Beatnik painter, Michael Bowen, co-creator of the original 
Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, is to collaborate on Fraser 
Clark’s next book ‘Dopinions, One Man’s Mindbendium Compendium’.
  !!! BREAKING NEWS !!! BREAKING NEWS !!!
The opening page of each chapter will be graced with a Michael Bowen oil 
painting, several of which have been exhibited in prestigious European and 
American galleries and museums.  He will also do the cover.

‘Dopinions’ chapters include ‘Manna Maketh The Man’, ‘We’re Going To The 
Chapel And We’re Gonna Get Mushroomed’, ‘The Rasta Who Flew Too High’ 
‘Jesus Was A Pot Puffin’, Mushie Munchin’, Pagan Archetype Designed To 
Encourage Us To Be The Same!’ and, of course, ‘Monkey’s Magnificent Trip’.
!!! BREAKING NEWS !!! !!! BREAKING NEWS !!!

GET megatripolis at forever HERE...
http://www.oneworldnet.co.uk/ebooks/index3.php
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US On Human Rights: Laugh Yourself To Death
It's that time of year for the US State Department's annual comedy classic, 
the “Country Reports" on human rights.  Funnily enough, Iran is now among 
the worst offenders, along with Cuba, home to the US's Guantanamo Bay 
prison for those not charged with any crime.  (which is why it’s not in the 
report, geddit?)

But Iraq - great news! - has seen a significant improvement, Abu Ghraib and 
Shi'ite death squads notwithstanding.  "In Iraq 2005 was a year of major 
progress for democratic rights and freedom."  Rib-tickling stuff to 
entertain your fellow prisoners during the boring hours of “rendering” 
perhaps.

In its 16-page introduction, the report also singled out the human-rights 
performances of Syria, Sudan, Nepal, Russia and, you guessed, Venezuela as 
particularly problematic through the year, even as it praised what it 
called "advances"  in Afghanistan and, Colombia.  Oh, and Ukraine, Lebanon, 
Burundi and Liberia too.
UP!


ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL HISTORY ONE
Several of my allies in Rave Culture lament how little their generation 
really knows about the Hippy Generation, for they’re beginning to realise 
how important this alternative cultural continuity really is.  For that 
Alternative Vision did not die out, not in the least.  The truth is that 
the media pretty much ignored the committed Hippies at the time, and have 
continued to do so till today.  Instead you just see the same old 
“celebrities” from those days trotted out.  It ended for them when they 
“made it”, but Hippies weren’t trying to “make it”
quite the opposite!

And yet it is critical that this strand of what’s turning out to be the 
winning meme thread is understood by today’s generation, for the Battles 
were all defined in the Hippy Era, and the possible victorious strategies 
were sketched out and tested then.  They failed because their numbers were 
too small, and because they were demonised by the official media (see the 
parallels today?!) But the work went on and the idea memes spread as they 
unstoppably do.  Until today, when the majority of the general public is 
very well aware indeed of the failings of the Official Path, and are 
already up to their knees in the Alternative Vision.

But much less aware of the history behind these developments.

So the UP! has decided to respond to this challenge by publishing 
occasional Alternative Cultural Histories.  And probably the most obvious is


The Human Be-In
There were certain events that still remain as monumental.  The Human Be-In 
was one.

On Haight Street in San Francisco, Ron and Jay Thelin had opened the 
Psychedelic Bookstore.  They sold books dealing with Tibetan mysticism, 
drugs, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, authors like that.  The Psychedelic Store 
was safe, we felt.

One day we saw a poster announcing the First Human Be-In to take place on a 
Sunday in Golden Gate Park.  No explanation as to what it might be.  But 
that was the way with the psychedelic movement: a lot of information was 
communicated by the choice of words.  Somehow we knew what they meant, and 
we planned on attending.

On the day, thousands of hip people showed up. There was no event as such, 
or rather, we were the entire event.  There was a stage on some flatbed 
trucks from which Allen Ginsberg read poetry and Dick Alpert spoke and, I 
think, the Grateful Dead played some music.
 >> note the real hippies’ attitudes to the band - just a group of guys 
making music.  it was the Rock&Roll Bizness that made them the names they 
are today, but are, in no sense, real hippies.

There were no unpleasant incidents.  A parachutist landed in the middle of 
the field of people, to every one's delight.  Nothing happened.  We were 
just there; a human be-in.
But for the first time we knew how many of us there were.  We had suspected 
it, from the increasing number of wildly painted cars you'd see, or long 
hair; and people had started giving the "peace sign" to each other as a 
greeting that conveyed that they recognised a fellow hip person.

But the Human Be-In was different: it showed us that we were strong; 
something was Happening that was huge.

Within weeks be-ins became love-ins, and they were taking place all over 
the country.  There was one in New York that attracted many thousands, and 
in LA they became a regular event.
UP!


ONE BY ONE THE DINOS FALL

Grassroots Impeachment Movement UPDATE 650,000 Americans Have Now Signed
And 27 Members Of The House
Now Support Impeachment Inquiry
As a result of the full-page impeachment ads in newspapers, the mass 
demonstrations, rallies in Congressional districts, and the more than 
650,000 people that have joined the impeachment campaign 
at  ImpeachBush.org, the political climate in the United States has changed.

Now they want to place the next big ad in a major newspaper and need your 
help to do so.

The 27 members of the House of Representatives, including John Conyers, the 
ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, are supporting a bill, 
H. Res 635, calling for "a select committee to investigate the 
Administration's intent to go to war before Congressional authorization, 
manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing 
torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding 
grounds for possible impeachment."

Rep. Barbara Lee of California, one of the co-sponsors of the impeachment 
inquiry, has said: "Our principles are enshrined in our Constitution and a 
system of duly enacted laws, and in a government where all are accountable 
and no one is above the law.  Our Constitution gives us a system of checks 
and balances and divided power because our founders were bitterly familiar 
with dealing with an unaccountable executive and were determined that our 
nation should not have a king."

At the same time the Congressional inquiry inches forward, and recent polls 
reveal that a majority of the country now favours impeachment if the 
President either lied about the reasons for going to war or broke federal 
law with his illegal wire-tapping program.  This is a clear-cut sign that 
the impeachment movement is becoming a decisive factor in U.S. politics.

Help place the next major impeachment ad going to:
http://tinyurl.com/rjwbn
UP!

Dear Fraser
I worship your email newsletters!
Birgit Cunningham, London
UP!

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Discriminating A Vision From A Hallucination
by Peter Gorman
Of all the people who had ever been with me drinking ayahuasca I have 
always known that I’ve been the most frightened.  I would keep an eye on 
them as best I could, watch them as they cleansed themselves, bent over a 
railing or crumpled on a raised platform hut’s flooring absolutely giving 
themselves over to the powers that held them, unable to control the 
simplest body movements, and even then I knew they were less terrified than 
me.

It was an awful feeling to be able to explain things about ayahuasca to 
people yet know that each time I drank I had less control over what would 
happen to and with me, not more.  My experience wasn’t a shield, it was a 
door that was opened wider and wider to allow bigger and bigger monsters 
through.

They weren’t real monsters coming through, of course.  They were the 
monsters that were me, or the visualization of the monsters that dwell in 
the horror men do one another.  But the doorway was a real doorway.  Not 
something one could grasp or see, just a kind of opening that allows one to 
glimpse what exists on other levels.  All of it filtered through humanness, 
our vision needing to see a shape to grasp the isness of something; our 
hearing allowing us to imagine sounds in order to give meaning to something 
or someone.

My guests would sometimes ask if what they had seen while drinking 
ayahuasca was an hallucination or a vision.  I only knew how to answer for 
myself.  Years earlier I’d gone through a terrible blackness in search of 
my dead mother at the behest of my father who’d come to me in a dream.  And 
after an eternity of that empty black space I’d come on a wall of white 
gauze which seemed to me to be the wall beyond which lay the world of the 
Dead.  Out of it my mother’s figure formed like a computer graphic in a 
movie - ten years before computer graphics like that were even imagined.

When she came together she said “You’ve got to stop calling me like 
this.  It’s so hard to come together in a shape you recognise as me.”

Later I realised that, had I been given endless time to make a list of 
10,000 things I might imagine my mother saying on seeing me for the first 
time since she’d died, that would not have been on it.  And that became my 
rule for discerning between an hallucination and a vision: if something 
seen or heard or felt would not have been on a list of 10,000 
possibilities, if it were nothing I’d ever dreamed or imagined or read or 
seen, then it was a vision.

I don’t know how to prove that true, or if I need to, but that’s how I see it.
UP!


“Keep up the great work, Fraser! There are still a few of us south of the 
border
crying in the wilderness.”  Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duluth, Minnesota.
UP!


Ray McGovern | I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
Ray McGovern has written a letter to the House Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence:  “As a matter of conscience, I am returning the 
Intelligence Commendation Award medallion given me for "especially 
commendable service" during my 27-year career in CIA.  The issue is 
torture, which inhabits the same category as rape and slavery - 
intrinsically evil.  I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with 
an agency engaged in torture.”
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206A.shtml
UP!


The Old Tom Cat Of Pengegon Moor,
cataracts like gobstoppers, so his eyesight's piss poor.

He follows folk around from place to place
mewling mantra chant, funereal pace;

He drips, he twitches,
you soon get the messitches;

Tramping behind you mile after mile, doesn't know you’re trying to be hostile;

He'll follow you to Hell,
where Lucifer will ensure he's beamed straight back
To Pengegon Moor

RATS FLEE AT A STROLL
SAFELY HOME TOWARD SEWER
FROM THE OLD TOM CAT OF PENGEGON MOOR.
Philip Mckeswick, cornwall.
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Ayahuasca  US Supreme Court Votes Unanimously to Allow Its Religious Use
You Can Fight The DEA And Win!
As reported by the Washington Post and the New York Times on February 21, 
the US Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Brazil-based church, O Centro 
Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (UDV) in a landmark case that allows 
for the religious use of ayahuasca, which contains the psychedelic drug DMT.

New Chief Justice John Roberts said the Bush administration had not met its 
burden under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to show that it 
could ban "the sect's sincere religious practice."  He had also been 
sceptical of the government's position in the case last year, suggesting 
that the administration was demanding too much, a "zero tolerance approach."

The Bush administration had argued that the drug in ayahuasca not only 
violates a federal narcotics law, but also a treaty in which the US 
promised to block the importation of drugs such as DMT.

This may not be the last word on the case, however, considering that the 
justices have sent the case back to a federal appeals court, which could 
consider more evidence if the Department of Justice wants to continue the 
case.  Nevertheless, the Supreme Court ruling was clear, decisive and 
unanimous in rejecting all the arguments put forward by the Department of 
Justice lawyers.
UDV website:
http://www.udv.org.br
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US Declares War On Chocolate!
Bolivia And Peru Grow “More Cocoa”,
Says Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics & Law Enforcement
 From Reuters News Service
WASHINGTON - Increased political clout of cocoa growers in Bolivia and Peru 
has farmers growing more cocoa in a trend that is causing concern in 
Washington, the US State Department said in a report on Wednesday.

The influence of cocoa growing associations, known as cocoaleros, was 
greatest in Bolivia, where cocoa association founder and farmer Evo Morales 
won the presidency in December.

"We are concerned about the inability thus far of Bolivia's new president 
to articulate whether or not he will allow cocoa eradication and US 
counter-narcotics assistance to continue," said Anne Patterson, assistant 
Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.
 >> zero out of 10 for spelling.  zero out of 10 for knowing what she’s 
talking about.  and zero out of 10 for being in touch politically.  as UP! 
readers already know, Morales’ foreign minister is calling for coca leaves 
to be given for breakfast at school meals!
and don’tcha love the idea of cocoaleros?!
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35401/story.htm
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Doctors Tell U.S:
Stop Force-Feeding Inmates
It’s “an excruciatingly painful practice,” involving pushing tubes into the 
stomach through the nose, and causing bleeding and nausea.  And it’s been 
going on with 80 prisoners for SIX MONTHS!

The United States authorities are facing demands by doctors from around the 
world to abandon the barbaric method of force-feeding hunger strikers at 
Guantanamo Bay.

More than 250 medical experts launched a protest this week against the 
practice - which involves strapping inmates to "restraint chairs" and 
pushing tubes into the stomach through the nose.  They say it breaches the 
right of prisoners to refuse treatment.
Among the 80 prisoners refusing food are a UK resident and a Saudi national 
married to a British woman with 4 children.

"Fundamental to doctors' responsibilities in attending a hunger striker is 
the recognition that prisoners have a right to refuse treatment” say the 
doctors.

Published today in The Lancet, their open letter has been organised by 
David Nicholl, a consultant neurologist at the City Hospital in Birmingham, 
who has the backing of doctors from Europe, the US and Australia.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350367.ece
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//FEEDBACK IMEALS FROM READERS

Hi Fraser
 >> “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not 
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many etc” 
Buddha.

You could do worse than listen to what the Buddha said.  Illuminati indeed 
:-D, kinda like a badge, if you believe in the Illuminati, you're a genuine 
conspiracy nut!  Stick with the science is my advice my man.
 >> in very simple terms (so you can keep up! :) there exists a pretty 
small coterie of obscenely and unimaginably wealthy and powerful men who 
obviously get together to protect (and extend cos that’s what rich people 
actually DO, unlike u and me) their interests.  so it comes down to the 
same argument re the German Holocaust whether they’re doing what they do as 
a reflex or a policy.  now if it was you and your gang i’d be pretty sure 
you’d be doing more poetry and traveling.  but with these guys?


And I was impressed with your conversion to vaccines...
 >> The guru, Neem Karoli Baba, told him that instead he should help to 
save India from a smallpox epidemic. After years of persistence, he led a 
100,000-strong team of WHO doctors that vaccinated the entire country.”
pete, wales.
 >> i gotta admit that was a big fly in my ointment as i was putting the 
piece together :)  notta real “hippy” was my thought train, yes.  and don’t 
serious people (comme moi)

give much credence to the theory that it was the WHO smallpox campaign in 
africa that caused the whole AIDS thing there.  but then i thought:  hell, 
well, there are even hippies who still think we live in a purely material 
world so who am i decide? :)
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 >> (believe me, since it’s maybe even the single biggest Holy Cow on the 
planet today and obviously a suitable target for the UP!, i did a long 
search on this subject. but it turned out too long to publish here, and too 
heated and confused to be worth the hassle involved in making it public - 
by which i mean the organised jewish fanatics who take pot-shots at anyone 
who raises their head above the parapet - ask ken livingstoned! but i’ll 
send it to anyone who would like to know some more FACTS on this whole issue.)

Frase,
I would like to know what you found on this subject.  I'm Jewish and was 
raised with the spectre of the Holocaust haunting us everywhere.  "Never 
again!" was the mantra I heard the elders murmur, over and over.  And yet...

There's the work of Norman Finkelstein, a Jew, for example


And while most of the literature from Noontide Press and the Institute for 
Historical Revision seems anti-Semitic, they publish some stuff that gives 
one pause.

And the actions of Israel today makes one suspect that much of the rhetoric 
of those Jews/Israelis who occupy Palestine and talk as if the Jewish 
Holocaust is the only holocaust -- this bothers me.

So, tell me what you've found.
Lanny, Willits, CA
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london
SAT MARCH 25    (Mothers Day Weekend)
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!  MOTHERS AND CHILDREN LET DOWN BY THE CSA.
2-4 pm @ 79 Whitehall, London (across from Downing Street)
3pm - PRESS PHOTO CALL. Petition being presented to No. 10 by 6 mothers and 
6 babies & toddlers
Organisers: BabiesForJustice - ALL concerned organisations welcome (except 
dads demanding visitation rights who can do their own protest on Fathers 
Day :)   Speakers: to be confirmed
Please email to register for protest at
info at babiesforjustice.co.uk
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America’s "Enemy Within"
The US Surgeon General warns that obesity is overtaking terrorism as a 
threat to the American public.  But others contend that fear-mongering over 
obesity is "a big fat lie."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206H.shtml
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The Flying Saucer’s Apprentice
PART FOUR & LAST
Unzipped: Saint Crasier Flark The Martyr
And His Highly Original Fleet Street Philosophy
WHAT Fraser Clark has in terms of a philosophy, is really not all that 
unique or difficult to express
 >> this, as i said at the time, was entirely intentional.

Goddess worship, WoManity, Peace, Love and a Fair Prophet.  Then there's 
the "harmonise your hemispheres” racket, which ties into hemi-sync 
mythology created by cyberpunks.
 >> LaoTse (to name one of many) was well into it before Sid Vicious was a 
mildly irritated gleam in Goddess’ eye :)

Rewire the brain, using chemicals.  Listen to the beats at approximately 
140bpm,
 >> 124, the baby’s heartbeat in the womb.

everything else is like "banging" unless its "trance" but that's like 
synthesiser music with a metronome.  Sounds pretty surface hype, or is it?

When one reads Clark in his multifarious forms, extracts from EPi, 
^evolution, Zippy Times, or the Megatripolitan, you realise that he is 
really just one of those incredibly interesting characters situated in a 
pantheon that includes the entire history of psychedelic pop-culture, from 
Ginsberg to Burroughs and beyond, part Wavy Gravy, part Sir Francis 
Drake.  But to understand him you have to remember the period in which he 
speaks to various sections of the community across different 
generations.  For example - there's nothing terribly profound about wearing 
a "smiley" badge, unless you're living in a fascist state, and this is 
where Clark becomes interesting.

He is the master of systems collapse, because everything the Tories and the 
right-wing say about Clark and the Zippies are inevitably true.  In the 
face of Puritanism and the Christian orthodoxy, Clark is positively satanic 
- a breed of Celtic shaman and pagan hedonism that goes hand in hand with a 
form of anti-authoritarian mysticism.

"The zippies believe that word processors can be used to save the earth, 
and ask you to project "negative vibrations" at the stock exchange to 
provoke economic collapse." So goes an I-D story published in 1989.
 >> laptoppling da system, as it says on the UP!s masthead :)

Sadly, it’s here that he expresses his early reaction against Punk, an 
"anti-punk" attitude because "punks were the second wave of energy - a 
negation of what the hippies had become"  The early hippy who created 
zippy, would come unstuck on the issue of cyberpunk versus 
techno-hippy.  Was there any difference essentially with what was already 
happening on the West Coast at the time of the Pronoia Tour?  The failure 
of Clark's team to address this and other pressing issues of cultural 
importance relegated him to the status of oddity.  Reactions were 
swift.  Clark was denounced as nothing more than a hoodlum, who had come 
from England to disturb the tranquillity of new-age America.
 >> actually we were VERY CLEAR on this issue.  i was always asking why 
punks were still wearing black?  hadn’t they heard the funeral had been 
cancelled?!  they didn’t like that, they’d built their social status on 
their negative rejection.  while they were right to reject the sick culture 
around them, that was never gonna CHANGE anything.  same with rock’nroll 
which was now a socially dead music.  my life was actually threatened by an 
old rock’ roller chap :)  of course it has since become clear to the whole 
planet that america’s culture is deeply sick, with everyone basically 
pushing hir own ego and to hell with GroupMind.

It is one thing to introduce sages like Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert or Alan 
Ginsberg to an audience in an English club, it’s another thing entirely to 
try doing the same thing in hippy home territory.  What was occurring at 
Megatripolis/West and so many of the parties we attended was that the 
audience was preaching to the would-be converter, the priest was being led 
by his congregation.  Clark had become a victim of his own philosophy.
 >> we were trying to unite the hippies with the tecno-ravers (ZIPPY = 
Hippy + Tecnoperson), each of which utterly rejected the other till we came 
along.  here is one area which history will judge we succeeded phenomenally 
i think.  tho the punks will sneer :)

If you read "Morning of the Magicians", by Louis Pawls and Jacques Bergier, 
first published in Paris 1960 as "The Dawn of Magic," you'll be amazed to 
find a form of New Age patois current doing the ‘60s, and you’ll also find 
the title of the first chapter, just two innocent looking words - Future 
Perfect!  If that were not clearly amazing in itself, there is an entire 
chapter on the thoughts of George Gurdjieff.  Stuff like "A man is immersed 
in dreams, whether he remembers them or not does not matter
  What is 
necessary to awake a sleeping man?  A shock is necessary.  But when a man 
is fast asleep one shock is not enough.  A long period of shocks is 
needed.  Consequently there must be somebody to administer these shocks... 
for, though a man may be awakened by an alarm clock, the trouble is that he 
gets accustomed to the alarm clock far too quickly, and ceases to hear 
it.  Many alarm clocks are necessary and always new ones."  Sound familiar?
 >> you will never understand my actions in the round without being 
familiar with Gurdjieff’s teaching.  i was in a Gurdjieff group for 3 
years, and have considered myself a Gurdjieffian ever since.  and 
simultaneously, while deeply involved in the grindingly self-honest 
gurdjieff “Work” (as it is called), i was a hippy  which is the cultural 
zone i reckon he would have involved himself in if he’d lived today.

The idea that we have to “wake-up" is common to a lot of new age 
thinking.  What isn't common is that we have to "wake-up on the 
dancefloor," or "use a laptop computer" - in other words, create a 
new-fangled alarm clock.  It was Clark's genius to suggest elaborate 
methods of consciousness-raising that really got people.  The man was more 
accessible than either John Lilly who "talked to dolphins," or Tim Leary 
who’d turned to virtual reality as a form of psychedelic, or Terence 
McKenna, who went from describing aliens and mushrooms, to talking about 
the I Ching and computers.

Clark didn't need a psychedelic, there was no prescription except 
acceptance of an earlier state of conscious, call it an awakening - the 
"Second Summer of Love" which had hit Britain in 1988 and crossed the 
Atlantic in 1989.  The Berlin Wall came down. The Cold War ended.

Just one of Clark’s creations in this pre-tour period was the "Magic Maggie 
Healing Doll". "You are invited to participate in the most important 
psychic experiment in history... whether you think Maggie Thatcher is good, 
all bad, or a bit of both, the fact is that she’s in a position to affect 
the destiny of every psyche on this planet."

This invitation was to make use of "acupuncture points" marked on the 
Maggie poster to help open "Margaret Hilda Thatcher’s' heart centre. This 
will fill her with peaceful energy and love for all life-forms, thus 
arousing the living goddess within her. We consulted a range of healers and 
acupuncturists about the prime minister in order to arrive at these 
particular points" and so it goes, in a classic example of what Clark was 
calling "Magic Politics".

Reading Clarks' EPi meant that you could partake of the counter-culture 
without necessarily taking drugs.  Drugs were just one trick in the “Peace 
& Love Wizard Warrior’s” armoury of shamanic techniques for “waking up”.
 >> waking UP!?

This innocence was lost on the Pronoia Tour, when instead of invoking the 
‘60s to counter-balance the ‘90s, resurrecting the swinging decade became 
an end unto itself, an old-timers’ reunion - not surprising when you 
consider how literally every baby-boomer had jumped on the band-wagon, 
expecting us to deliver, not only hippies, but the drugs as well!  and a 
vision of me dying at age 30.  My response is - you must have wanted this 
insanity really bad, you wanted it so much you've even got yourselves 
another Vietnam!

Not only is Clark, a follower of Gurdjieff, but he subtitled his club 
Megatripolis, (just another joke) "the future perfect state".
 >> why wozzit a joke?  read megatripolis at forever and believe! :D

However, to understand Clark, one has to understand not just the people who 
inform his philosophy, but the milieu in which he operates.  The early 
‘90s, for instance, were a hot-bed of counter-cultural activism and this 
activism eventually found its way into rave culture.
 >> raves were 100% politics-free when i got going.  hence my oft quoted 
statement:  “You can’t have a perfect club in an imperfect society  you 
have to change society”  none of the believed that when i started  they all 
believe it now.

Naomi Klein describes one particular creative combination of "rave and 
rage" which proved "contagious, spreading across Britain to Manchester, 
York, Oxford and Brighton, and in the largest single Reclaim The Streets 
event to date, drawing 20 000 people to Trafalgar Square in April 1997."

It was memes like this which created the “Zippy Intervasion of the UK”.  We 
wanted to reclaim the internet from the straights and use it to "spook John 
Major’s Criminal Justice Bill, which banned "music with a repetitive beat."
As Paul Staines says in "Acid House Parties Against the Lifestyle Police 
and the Safety Nazis".  "Imagine a regime so totalitarian that it will not 
allow its young citizens to dance when they want.  Imagine that this regime 
introduced a law which banned dance parties unless they were authorised by 
the state, and even then the parties would only be allowed to be of limited 
duration and on state-licensed premises.  Naturally this regime would, in 
line with its ideology, only apply these laws to parties held for profit."

Thereby forcing the "wicked and evil" dance promoters into the untenable 
position of throwing parties for nothing.  It was this ultimate sacrifice 
of the notion of profit which would force much of the counterculture during 
the ‘90s into giving away virtually everything of value, including the 
music, which we all were encouraged to "copy, re-mix and burn".

The result would be traumatic in terms of one’s personal status and bank 
account.  Very few people actually made any money, and of those who did, 
invariably they were damned as the "sell-outs", artists signed to studios 
and record companies producing industrial-issue dance music that had little 
going for it, except the beat and a passing reference to the underground.
 >> yeah, precisely what i’ve been fighting all my life :)
[ends]
David Robert Lewis, Writer, Artist and Cultural Activist, PO Box 4398, Cape 
Town 8000, South Africa.
up!

Flying Saucer’s Apprentice// FEEDBACK

I do NOT wear hats!  And made NO changes in my get-up for the Zippies.
 >> i gotta say this is true, and he continued all through the zippy season 
to regularly attend dinosaur punk rock bands like they weren’t going out of 
history let alone ‘fashion’ :)

Remember, if you can, I came to the Zippies via Mark Heley's CLUBLIFE mag 
as photojournalist covering the Mega Rave/Unity/Rainbow gathering down near 
the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
It was after that, I was host to Fraser, and Aid to the Megatripolis Club 
San Francisco events. Lots of work and 2,800 ravers on opening night. High 
Times too. Not bad.
As for being a perpetual 4 year old, I may have tried to come down to your 
level, but also, I do recall, you smoked a Great Deal of -you know- as well.

What is it that makes you so disgruntled, David?
Peter Booth Lee, San Francisco.
UP


Goa Cops Deport Unwelcome Travellers
Authorities in Goa stepped up their campaign against its long established 
international backpacker, psy-trance community this week formally 
announcing that they can deport any foreigner they like without reason, 
under the 1946 Foreigners Act.

The State Government issued their declaration during the deportation 
proceedings of 60-something long term German resident Ingo Grill and his 
Canadian wife Maria Brotherton, who together created and ran the arts and 
crafts flea-market the Saturday Night Bazaar, long one of Goa's key tourist 
attractions for young western travellers.

Mr Grill's fate matches that of ten other Westerners recently deported, as 
part of a new campaign by Goa police to identify and deport 'undesirable 
aliens', which Director General of Police (DGP) Neejar Kumar said is being 
carried out in tandem with their continuing crackdown on dance parties.

"Whenever we have got the information, we have stopped the rave party," the 
DGP told the Goa Herald newspaper, "Last Saturday we stopped one at Arambol."

The Goa Herald also revealed that British, American and Israeli authorities 
have started colluding with Goa police about drugs, which could have 
startling implications for misbehaving tourists, judging by the experiences 
of Australians busted in Indonesia recently, following co-operation between 
Indonesian and Australian cops.
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