Buddhism does work. It is possible to increase personal
power through meditation and living in greater harmony with the natural world.
However, the temptations of Western civilisation are strong. The path of
rave development, if it is not a practice of exclusion, has to involve the incorporation of the most hostile elements of Western civilisation. The most hostile elements of Western civilisation include: materialism, pornography, drug addiction, the media, the ethics of efficiency and Christian moral reaction.
These elements are so powerful that they must be transformed. They may not be opposed in a debating or sedentary sense of hostility against them. With this in mind, I propose that the most practical way of transforming the hostile elements of Western civilisation is a rediscovery and awakening of
Shamanism.
In contrast to Buddhism,
Shamanism may be easily incorporated into a Western lifestyle. After all, we have 50,000 years of communal memory locked up in our minds somewhere. This communal memory refers back to the stage where human beings were hunters and gatherers, and did not practise sedentary lives.
The path of
rave development becomes in the context of shamanism, the understanding that the journey is the discovery of energy flows from animals to humans and back. Rave knowledge is the emergence from the barriers that sedentary society erects to stop you from accessing the hunter/gatherer energies. The increase in power is when you can sense the way in which the inner force of the shaman may be released and used in everyday life.
I have included a shamanic figure on the next page of this web site.