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screen 03  Poets Intervene to Save RIMBAUD-VERLAINE House in Camden
screen 06  Europe's Last Commune Braces for Battle
screen 09  We're All Kinda Hippies Now!
screen 13  Cracks in Zionism - by Charlie Reese.
screen 15  Ayahuasca in National Geographic Adventure Magazine
screen 18  Glastonbury Festival Boycott ?  what say u UPPies?!//FEEDBACK
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think logically act globularly 1 ...
Poets Intervene to Save RIMBAUD-VERLAINE House in Camden
8 ROYAL COLLEGE STREET / THE RIMBAUD-VERLAINE HOUSE / A MECCA FOR POETS
Poets have intervened to save a listed building in Camden from being 
illegally damaged by developers.

Niall McDevitt and Aidan Dun were visiting the heritage site at 8 Royal 
College Street in Mornington Crescent - home to the famous 19th Century 
French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud in 1873 - when they saw 
workmen ripping up railings.

They immediately contacted Camden Council who confirmed that the site 
was a Grade 2 Listed building and that the workmen were acting 
unlawfully.  They sent a Planning Enforcement Team, led by David Bloom, 
who surveyed the damage.  The Council have now put up Preservation 
Orders all about the house and work has halted.

The poets are staging an ongoing vigil at the house and are launching a 
campaign to prevent any further desecration of this important site.  
They have also demanded the immediate return and repair of the railings.

The History
"Verlaine was always chasing Rimbaud's" - Dorothy Parker.
8 Royal College Street is one of London's legendary addresses, a 
cultural icon, and an international magnet for poets who regard it as 
nothing short of a Mecca.

In 1873 it was home both to Paul Verlaine, now recognised as one of the 
great French poets of the 19th Century, but also to Arthur Rimbaud, who 
is recognised as one of the all-time geniuses of world literature.  Not 
only were they literary friends and allies, "a Wordsworth and Coleridge 
of French poetry," they were also lovers. Their incredibly creative, 
incredibly destructive relationship has become a modern myth.  As Bob 
Dylan once sang:

                         "Situations have ended sad
                           Relationships have all been bad
                           Mine have been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud's
                           But there is no way I can compare
                           All them scenes to this affair
                           You're going to make me lonesome when you go."

Their friendship began in 1871 when Verlaine (then in his late twenties) 
received poems from the brilliantly precocious 16-year-old Rimbaud and 
invited him to Paris.  To the horror of Mrs. Verlaine, his young 
high-society wife. and the Parisian literary establishment, the two 
poets fell in love. "Love must be re-invented" was one of Rimbaud' 
war-cries of the time.  The liaison was fueled with hefty consumption of 
absinthe and cannabis (or to paraphrase the Pogues: Absinthe, Sodomy and 
the Hash).

To get away from the scandal they 'eloped' to London, living on Howland 
St. very near where the Post Office Tower now stands.  In May 1873, 
after a brief separation, they returned to London and rented the attic 
room at 8 Royal College Street.  Both poets were at the peak of their 
creativity and Rimbaud is known to have composed some of his 
inspirational prose-poems Les Illuminations at this time.

But the relationship was on a knife-edge.  One afternoon, Verlaine was 
returning to the house with fish for their supper when Rimbaud leaned 
out of the window and jibed: "If only you knew how ridiculous you look 
with that herring in your hand."

It was the final straw.  Ignoring Rimbaud's pleas to stay, Verlaine 
packed and left for Belgium where he wrote his mother that he was 
planning to kill himself.  When she and Rimbaud joined him in Brussels, 
Verlaine was hysterical, drunk, and in possession of a firearm.  He 
locked Rimbaud in a hotel room and fired three shots, one of which hit 
Rimbaud in the wrist.  Verlaine was sentenced to two years hard labour.  
Rimbaud returned to his mother's home at Roche, and finished both Les 
Illuminations and his more famous Un Saison En Enfer (A Season in 
Hell).  He then, "at the astonishing age of only 19," abandoned his 
literary career.

Rimbaud's influence on 20th Century culture is profound.  The youthful 
genius of both Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan would not have manifested in 
the way it did without the FrenchmanEUR^(TM)s inspiration and example.  
Thomas, "whose behaviour was notorious," claimed to be "the Rimbaud of 
Cwmdonkin Drive".

Rimbaud and Verlaine are one of the great double-acts of modern 
literature.  Their poems have been set to music by great composers such 
as Benjamin Britten and Claude Debussy.  Total Eclipse, Christopher 
Hampton's play about their relationship, was turned into a film starring 
Leonardo de Caprio as Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Verlaine.

8 Royal College Street is the only Rimbaud/Verlaine address which 
survives.  An exceptional Georgian property, it is a Grade 2 listed 
building in its own right.  There is no blue plaque for the poets, but a 
private white marble plaque was erected by anonymous and mysterious twin 
brothers in the early 20th Century.  The Royal Veterinarian College, 
based next door, recently sold the property (along with nos. 10 and 6) 
to a private individual, Michael Ogun, who plans to refurbish it, rent 
it, and sell it on in about five years time.
[Niall McDevitt]
Since this, workmen have been spotted around the place.  PLEEEEASE send 
an email to DEMAND that Camden Council do its utmost to protect the house -
david.bloom at camden.gov.uk 
<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/Documents/UP%21/david.bloom@camden.gov.uk>
There will be open poetry readings and guerrilla barbecues at the site 
on FRI July 20 and SAT July 21at 7pm.
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think logically act globularly 2...
Tara Campaigners Picket Irish Embassies World Wide
TaraWatch picketed a number of Irish embassies world wide, and at Dail 
Eireann, to protest the Irish Government's refusal to heed warnings from 
the European Commission that M3 works at the Hill of Tara are illegal.

TaraWatch UK picketed in London.  TaraWatch US held demonstrations in a 
number of cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.  
The Dublin demonstration began outside Dail Eireann, Kildare Street.

International support has been rapidly growing since the World Monuments 
Fund designated Tara one of the 100 Most Endangered sites in June.  In 
addition, news of the election pact between the Green Party and Fianna 
Fail, at the cost of Tara, as well as Government refusal to heed EU 
warnings, have inflamed passions in many Irish abroad.

TaraWatch is stepping up protests in an effort to put pressure on 
Minister Gormley to act and prevent this matter going before the 
courts.  A large 'Love Tara' march will be held on Saturday, 21st July 
in Dublin at 1.00pm, which will go from the Garden of Remembrance to 
Custom House.

Darren Delahunty, one of the organisers of the London said:
"Irish people in the UK are outraged at the refusal or the Irish 
authorities to try and proceed with the road, even when the public are 
so against it, and the EU have stated it is illegal.
"Since Irish abroad cannot vote in Irish elections, we are making our 
views known to our Government in the only way we can."

Richard Wallace, one of the organisers of the US events said:
"Irish Americans and the public in general are horrified when they hear 
of the M3 plans. We are determined to let our opinions be clearly known 
to the Irish authorities abroad."
Contact: Dublin: Laura Grealish 087-972-8603 // London: Darren Delahunty 
-- 00-791-766-2249 // New York: Aoife Rivera Serrano 001.212.633.0431 // 
Chicago, LA, Boston: Richard Wallace 001.312.855.1300
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think logically act globularly 3...
AS PEOPLE WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT THE HIPPIES WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG,
Europe's Last Commune Braces for Battle
by Christopher Thompson
There's something different in the air at Christiania these days - the 
usual spicy aroma of marijuana smoke now occasionally mixes with the 
smell of tear gas and burning tires.  That's because, more than 3 
decades after Europe's oldest and largest commune was established as an 
antidote to "selfish society," Danish authorities are moving to close it 
down.

More than 90 people were arrested a few weeks ago after groups of youths 
fought running battles with police, throwing bottles and cobblestones 
and burning homemade barricades.  The riot, a rare occurrence in this 
normally placid Scandinavian country, was prompted by police arriving to 
demolish a shelter deemed unsafe by the authorities.

"There is a radicalisation between young people and police in Copenhagen 
that we haven't seen in years," says Henrik Bang, professor of politics 
at the University of Copenhagen.  "And the conflict will get worse."

Since 1971 the commune's 800 residents, inspired by the ideals of peace 
and free love, have maintained a free-wheeling idyll in this former navy 
base - an overgrown woodland spotted with lakes and pretty redbrick and 
wood houses that provides a retreat for artists, musicians and 
free-thinkers of all stripes in a self-declared "free state" that flies 
its own flag and does not pay market property tax rates.
> > free in the sense of not murdering the planet.

But Christiania sits on prime real estate in Copenhagen's upmarket 
Christenhaven neighbourhood, and Denmark's conservative government wants 
to reclaim the territory for an ambitious housing project.
> > c wot i mean?

"I think ordinary Danish people just think it's a little odd," explained 
Bang.  "People are living in houses worth $5 million, the land has big 
recreational possibilities - so why should they be allowed to govern 
themselves outside Danish society?"
> > because the surrounding society needs to learn from the Christianians 
by lowering their lifestyle demands?

Traditionally, the commune's friction with local police has been over 
drug policy.  Pusher Street, Christiania's ramshackle main thoroughfare, 
allowed cannabis dealers to display their wares in glass-topped 
cabinets, graded according to strength - until a police incursion in 
2003.  Still, the authorities claim, some $200,000 of marijuana is still 
bought and sold every day in Christiania, and critics charge that the 
commune long ago sold out its ideals.
> > yeah, right, like they've built monstrous highrises and allowed cars 
back in NOT!

"The original idealism has long since evaporated," says Jens Sorensen, a 
Copenhagen-based political consultant.  "Christiania is now home to an 
'alternative' elite."

But the old hippie idealism still shapes many of the rules that govern 
the commune: Selling property is not allowed, and instead of cars - also 
banned - residents use bicycles to ferry everything from groceries to 
children.
> > WIPE EM OUT!  WIPE EM OUT!  quick, before others start copying them!  
THEY'RE A THREAT TO THE REIGNING SYSTEM!

At the day care center set on the shore of the commune's wooded lake, 
minder Richard Lonsdale has just put on a movie for children after 
finishing school classes.  "I've been here for five years and it's 
changed a hell of a lot," he says.  "There's been a general hardening of 
attitudes [from the police] - they think we're the enemy, but we don't 
teach our kids that."
> > well, i fukkin would! ;D

As well as the kindergarten, Christiania also boasts a health clinic, a 
book shop, a vegan restaurant and a concert venue, which gets 
transformed into an impromptu dining hall once a year when residents 
organise a Christmas party for Copenhagen's homeless.
> > WIPE EM OUT!  WIPE EM OUT!  quick, before others start copying them!  
THEY'RE A THREAT TO THE REIGNING SYSTEM!

But the clashes with the authorities has brought about changes in the 
attitudes of a traditionally tolerant Danish society.  The current 
conservative government, for example, rules in coalition with the openly 
anti-immigrant Danish People's Party.  In response, a new political 
party - dubbed the New Alliance - was set up in May, electing its 
leader, Syrian-born Nasser Khader, as the country's first-ever member of 
parliament from the 8% of the population whose origins are foreign.  
And, in the 7 weeks since the Christiania riots, the New Alliance has 
become Denmark's third largest party.

"Danish society used to a be a consensus society," says Khader.  "But in 
the last few years Danish politicians have forgotten the centre.  We 
want to go back to the middle of the road."
> > ahem, that's the Middle Path.  the middle of the road is NOT the 
place to be.

But even a New Alliance surge in elections expected later this year 
could be too late for the communards of Christiania.  As they make the 
most of the long summer evening on a recent Tuesday, the conversation 
among the gardeners, painters and barbecue chefs can quickly turn 
tense.  "The government is taking the temperature of how it's going to 
be when they clear the whole place out", says Marco Malcopes, the 
25-year old manager of the commune's Info Cafe.  "If that's their 
intention we showed them what will happen!"
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1637000,00.html
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Organic Farming COULD Feed The World
A switch to organic farming would NOT reduce the world's food suppl, and 
could also increase food security in developing countries, say the 
authors of a new study.

They found that in developed countries, organic systems on average 
produce 92% of the yield produced by conventional agriculture. 

In developing countries, however, organic systems produce 80% MORE than 
conventional farms because the materials needed for organic farming are 
more accessible to farmers in poor countries (they cannot afford the 
fertilisers and pesticides needed for intensive agriculture).
[NewScientist.com]
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We're All Kind of Hippies Now!
Mary Ann Sieghart//TIMESONLINE
According to a YouGov poll for Readers Digest, we are all hippies now.  
And it's not just the maxi dresses flooding out of Topshop or the 
instant sell-out of Glastonbury tickets.  The values of peace, love, 
greenery, independence of mind and sexual freedom are no longer 
alternative but mainstream.

75% of us now agree with sex before marriage,
82% want to save the planet
48% believe in questioning authority.
AND AT LEAST 50% OF THE UK CABINET HAVE SMOKED CANNABIS!!!!!

Roughly the same proportion think there are too many rules in society 
and a similar percentage -- the same people, perhaps? -- enjoy walking 
around barefoot.

You may think that some hippy values have been taken too far.  Perhaps a 
little more deference would be desirable.  But you have to remember the 
world from which the hippies burst: the stultified, uptight, rigidly 
hierarchical society of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which wives were 
expected to give up their jobs and wear pinnies.  The hippies' rejection 
of 1950s values was a great hurricane of fresh air blowing into a stale 
room whose windows had been painted shut for decades.

People then felt trapped by social convention.  Women in particular had 
very little power over their lives.  It was the hippies' insight that 
everyone should be allowed to break out and be themselves, not be forced 
into a persona that had been ordained by others -- real freedom of 
expression, in other words.

The hippies were also green long before their time.  Many of them tried 
to live a life of self-sufficiency, growing their own food, generating 
energy and building homes.  Now 47% of Britons say they would consider 
trying to emulate them.
> > but first u gotta apologise :)

Nearly half of Britons say they agree with the slogan Make Love Not War 
and 35% think there is never any excuse for war. 

So, if in general you prefer gentleness to violence, think nature should 
be tended not destroyed, believe optimism, however misguided, beats 
hard-faced cynicism, then you are probably, like me, a hippy at heart.

And the great news is that much of the rest of the country is too.  We, 
as a nation, have become kinder, more open and more broad-minded in the 
past 40 years.  We should light an incense stick for the hippies of 1967.
> > okay.  but am still awaiting my UN pension for services to the 
planet, and am not joking.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mary_ann_sieghart/article1837763.ece
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god help us for what we've done to the Iraqi people

A Word from one of the Victims

"What are we supposed to do with our dead ones, our injured ones, our 
memories, our lost hopes, our vanished dreams?
What are we supposed to do with our exile, our losses, our uprootedness?
Christ was crucified once.  He was able to forgive.
But you are crucifying us daily.

So how do I forgive?"
[From a recent piece called "Some Thoughts on Forgiveness," by Layla 
Anwar, Iraqi blogger and poet.]
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Pak Army For Hire: ONLY $100 Million a Month
Highest Bidder:  The United States
The United States is paying around $100 million a month for the 
deployment of 80,000 Pakistani troops on its border with Afghanistan 
ostensibly for the war of terrorism, a key US official revealed on Thursday.

Aid to Pakistan in Tribal Areas Raises Concerns
But that's not all.  Over the next five years, the US plans to pour 
another $750 million of aid into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a 
"hearts and minds" campaign to win over this lawless region from 
al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
> >'normalisation'.

But even before the plan has been fully carried out, documents and 
officials involved in the planning are warning of the dangers of 
distributing so much money in an area so hostile that oversight is 
impossible, even by Pakistan's own government, which already faces 
rising threats from Islamic militants.
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
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of your swashbuckling series.
Effing good work sir!
tony gosling. uk.
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Cracks in Zionism
by Charley Reese.
One of the myths created by the Israeli lobby is that Jews around the 
world are unanimous in their support of Israel, regardless of what it 
does.  That's not true and never has been true.
> > but see below what happens if you break ranks publicly and you'll see 
why i have so many jewish friends who are, on this crucial global 
subject, traitors to democracy.

Modern political Zionism, whose ideology demands a Jewish state with a 
Jewish majority, was invented by an Austrian journalist and for decades 
struggled desperately.  It wasn't God who created the modern state of 
Israel.  It was British colonialism, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and 
Zionists.

Only about a third of the world's Jews choose to live in Israel, despite 
nearly a century of efforts to persuade Jews to immigrate.  There were 
many early Jewish critics of Zionism, and there still are, despite 
modern Zionists adopting fascist tactics to silence debate.

Joel Beinin, a Jewish liberal who has been on the receiving end of the 
campaign to silence critics of Israel, had this to say in a recent 
article reprinted on Znet:

"Organisations claiming to represent American Jews engage in a 
systematic campaign of defamation, censorship and hate-mongering to 
silence criticism of Israeli policies.  They hollow the ethical core out 
of the Jewish tradition, acting instead as if the highest purpose of 
being Jewish is to defend Israel, right or wrong.

"Why discredit, defame and silence those with opposing viewpoints?  I 
believe it is because the Zionist lobby knows it cannot win based on 
facts.  An honest discussion can only lead to one conclusion: The status 
quo in which Israel declares that it alone has rights and intends to 
impose its will on the weaker Palestinians, stripping them permanently 
of their land, resources and rights, cannot lead to a lasting peace.

"We need an open debate and the freedom to discuss uncomfortable facts 
and explore a full range of policy options.  Only then can we adopt a 
foreign policy that serves American interests."

Avigail Abarbanel, a native-born Israeli Jew who lived there 27 years 
before emigrating, has even harsher words on the Web site 
ElectronicIntifada.net, which I highly recommend as a source of 
information about the Middle East:

"Palestinian citizens of Israel live under an arbitrary and brutal 
police state.  Their dealings with Israeli bureaucracy are not just 
frustrating but can be outright dangerous.

"The Palestinians in the Occupied Territories live under a Pinochet-like 
regime.  They can and do disappear in the middle of the night.  They are 
blindfolded, cuffed, beaten, humiliated, taken to unknown locations with 
no information given to them or their families, tortured physically and 
psychologically and incarcerated indefinitely, often without charges and 
regardless of whether they are guilty of anything.

"Israel is not a nice country.  It is a powerful police state founded on 
pathological paranoia with only a veneer of civility, carefully crafted 
and maintained for the consumption of those who still believe in the 
myth of Israeli democracy."

You might want to send that paragraph to the next politician you hear 
repeating AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) propaganda 
that "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."

America badly needs an open and frank debate, based on facts, with no 
name-calling. Our politicians are as timid as an introverted baby when 
it comes to Israel. The Israeli lobby likes to boast about defeating 
candidates who don't toe the Israel-right-or-wrong line. As a tip to the 
not-completely-gutless politicians, the way to handle that is to make 
AIPAC an issue in the campaign.

A group of Zionist leaders is meeting in Israel as I write this, 
worrying about an increase in criticism of them for stifling debate.  
They are not invincible.   They can't silence any American unless the 
American succumbs to fear of being called names, and I learned as a 
child that sticks and stones can break bones, but words can't hurt you.
www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=11283
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I had to write - you're maybe the only guy on the planet that 
innerstands certain things..
The American economy is about to collapse... we've been there, done 
that... but this is the worst we will have ever seen...
I read things on blogs and forums...  holy crap... they have no idea... 
just how bad it will be...
They think a few years to sort it out... yeah, right...
It frightens me - but it is the endgame.  The end of the line.  The 
folly will continue but it will only make things worse.
Sometimes you hate being right.
Jerry (in the US.)
> > they think it's nearly all over.  IT IS NOW.
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UK Cannabis Laws To Be Reviewed
Recent Blair laws making possession of cannabis a largely non-arrestable 
offence could be reversed, says new Brit PM Gordon Brown.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/uk_politics/6904547.stm
> > is he going rightwards, or is he trying to embarrass ex 
coke-snorting, pot-puffing tory leader dave cameron?
the argument of course is these sooperstrong skunk tings.  cause 
schizophrenia see?  not like being in the army or getting drunk.
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7 UK Cabinet Ministers Admit: 'We Smoked Cannabis'
Seven members of the cabinet last night admitted to breaking the law by 
using cannabis in their youth - including the Home Secretary Jacqui 
Smith and the Chancellor Alistair Darling.  The extraordinary cabinet 
confessional brought fresh pressure on David Cameron and members of his 
Tory team to come clean about their own history of drug use.
> > it's supposedly about tightening the laws on sooper skunk but what i 
see is the entire UK political spectrum letting the drug bogeyman out of 
his bag and 'normalising' it all.  who's next?  prince charles to admit 
his pot smoking youth?  public admissions that Diana was heavy into 
coke?  and what's the current correct attitude then?  it's Normal but 
Foolish?
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Ayahuasca in National Geographic Adventure Magazine
For centuries, Amazonian shamans have used ayahuasca as a window into 
the soul.  The sacrament, they claim, can cure any illness.  The author 
joins in this ancient ritual and finds the worlds within more terrifying 
- and enlightening - than ever imagined.

I will never forget what it was like.  The overwhelming misery.  The 
certainty of never-ending suffering.  No one to help you, no way to 
escape.  Everywhere I looked: darkness so thick that the idea of light 
seemed inconceivable.

Suddenly, I swirled down a tunnel of fire, wailing figures calling out 
to me in agony, begging me to save them.  Others tried to terrorise me.  
"You will never leave here," they said.  "Never. Never."

I found myself laughing at them.  "I'm not scared of you," I said.  But 
the darkness became even thicker; the emotional charge of suffering 
nearly unbearable.  I felt as if I would burst from heartbreak - 
everywhere, I felt the agony of humankind, its tragedies, its hatreds, 
its sorrows.  I reached the bottom of the tunnel and saw 3 thrones in a 
black chamber.  3 shadowy figures sat in the chairs; in the middle was 
what I took to be the devil himself.

"The darkness will never end," he said.  "It will never end. You can 
never escape this place."

"I can," I replied.

All at once, I willed myself to rise.  I sailed up through the tunnel of 
fire, higher and higher until I broke through to a white light.  All 
darkness immediately vanished.  My body felt light, at peace.  I floated 
among a beautiful spread of colors and patterns.  Slowly my ayahuasca 
vision faded.  I returned to my body, to where I lay in the hut, insects 
calling from the jungle.

"Welcome back," the shaman said.

The next morning, I discovered the impossible: The severe depression 
that had ruled my life since childhood had miraculously vanished.


Giant blue butterflies flutter clumsily past our canoe.  Parrots flee 
higher into treetops.  The deeper we go into the Amazon jungle, the more 
I realise I can't turn back.  It has been a year since my last visit, 
and I'm here again in Peru traveling down the Río Aucayacu for more 
shamanistic healing.  The truth is, I'm petrified to do it a second time 
around.  But with shamanism - and with the drinking of ayahuasca in 
particular - I've learned that, for me, the worse the experience, the 
better the payoff.  There is only one requirement for this work: You 
must be brave.  You'll be learning how to save yourself.

The jungle camp where our shamanistic treatment will take place is some 
200 miles (322 kilometers) from the nearest town, Iquitos, deep in the 
Peruvian Amazon. Beside me are the other four members of my tour. There 
is Winston, the biggest person I've ever met. Nearly seven feet tall 
(two meters), surely over 400 pounds (181 kilograms), he has a powerful 
body that could easily rip someone apart. I expect him to be a bodyguard 
or a bouncer; turns out he's a security guard. But there is something 
else about him. Something less tangible. It seems to rest in the black 
circles beneath his eyes, the face that never smiles, the glances that 
immediately dismiss all they survey. Winston does not seem like a happy man.

A year ago I came to Peru on a lark to take the "sacred spirit 
medicine," ayahuasca, and get worked over by shamans.  Little suspecting 
that I'd emerge from it feeling as if a waterlogged wool coat had been 
removed from my shoulders - literally feeling the burden of depression 
lifted - and thinking that there must be something to this crazy 
shamanism after all.

And so I am back again.
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A Green Boycott of Glastonbury Festival?
what do you say UPPies?!
//FEEDBACK

I've been boycotting Glastonbury since the eighties when it became clear 
it was nothing but a rip off rock promo with green tinges to make it 
look alternative.  Agree with what you say, the greens shouldn't be 
there, they lend cred to Eavis the Breadhead.  Perhaps a book of 
reminiscences of Glastonbury by those who oppose it?
peter password, hereford.
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Hi Fraser,
I am much encouraged that someone has finally made public the sham of 
Eavis's image and called out the way in which the culture of Glastonbury 
is shifting. 

One thing though - the abbreviation "Glasto" is part of that shift.  
Nobody ever used that term before the last couple of years, usually some 
slebrity or other saying "My favourite part of Glasto has always been 
Lost Vagueness".
> > point well taken ;D

Personally I have always referred to it as the "Pilton Pop Festival" - 
the site isn't even in Glastonbury fer fooks sake!  The "Pop" is ironic 
(despite "death of ...") as for years there was no music worth hearing 
there and people rarely went near the stages.  There was too much to do 
meeting people.  This year I came across people who wouldn't even say 
"hello".
> > u still go there??!!  get thee to the Buddhafield, my friend!
me, i've always maintained that the Big Stage was often very 
empowering.  you'd be sitting there in a great conversation with 
friends, someone would announce that Elvis was on the Big Stage a 
hundred yards away, and everyone would say "aw, fukkit, this is much 
better!"

Millions of people clamour for tickets each year, many only want to see 
a couple of bands that they could see at any of the other copycat 
festivals that are now on every weekend in the UK.  Glastonbury used to 
have something special, but not any more.
> > only the legend now - which, of course, would disappear overnight if 
there was a green boycott.  which would be a HELL of a waste of the REAL 
spirit which still lurks there.

As for it being a green festival - don't make me laugh!  I walked past 
the Acoustic Stage about 3 in the morning, all the lights and equipment 
were still on despite it having been empty for hours.  And the Fire & 
Dance stage, whilst undeniably spectacular, burns large quantities of 
fossil fuels for entertainment.

Keep UP! the good work.
Murray Cowell, Southampton.
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Hi Fraser,
I too notice the eternal expansion and commercialization of Glastonbury 
festival, risking the starvation of ecological and social innovation.  
Just my opinion!
If ever the likes of the Green/Futures/Healing/Crafts Fields went and 
put something on elsewhere, I'd find that seriously appealing and would 
prefer it to the current over-subscribed setting.

I think the above organisers deserve massive recognition for promoting 
environmental issues, justice, peace, health, sustainability, low-impact 
living, energy strategy, arts and crafts into the mainstream 
consciousness.  Why shouldn't they benefit more fairly from the ticket 
money, and be respected for services to people and planet?
xxx
matt rhys-roberts, wales.
> > incredibly (but unfortunately true) it was reported to me that 
michael eavis toured the greenfield after this last festi and shook his 
head and complained how "old fashioned and low-tec" the whole thing 
was!  this from the guy who's starved the most important aspect of the 
festival for yeeeeeeeeeears!!!
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Re Glastonbury/Pilton.  It's long been over.  Ticket prices, unscalable 
walls, I had a sudden revelation about 17 years ago when a boy in his 
white baseball cap, his skin green with bad-drug addledness and his eyes 
all wonky, stumbled into me.  What really stuck with me was the baseball 
hat, it was so incongruous and I thought, ENUF.  Never went back.

Too many festivals, too high prices, not enough spirit, middle class 
yurts and tipis rather than nomads living their everyday life opening 
that lifestyle up to others. 

But I'm hopeful that the next batch of grassroots events are ready, 
perhaps under the guise of existing non-music camps.  That yearning for 
intimacy and a different way of being doesn't go away, neither does the 
yearning to offer it and find it in partnership.
(ps, security have always done their share of nicking and kicking, 
that's what security's for! when things get too big, Babylon takes over.)
> > CORRECTION:  in the past Babylon has always taken over.  which is why 
the planet is now in such a terrible mess.   so it has to stop HERE.  right?

Love and thanks
Clare Slaney-Davis, UK.
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