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| This work is, as scholarship, the product of a 6 year long anthropological study of the culture in which we live |
| As entertainment, or the performance of the experience of Body - it is more akin to meta-art or "rock n roll" in the tradition of spontaneous prose (or stream of consciousness) pioneered by Jack Kerouac; sketching the soul or performing consciousness or the adaption of structural simplicity to the chaos of the sensory or intellectual world (our birth, sex, and death) - a merging of ritual and poetry, bodily experience and intellect, which always heightens both - or, as I prefer, unified cultural response. It is, therefore, a broad stroke of my brush and is not meant to convey new knowledge of any kind. We have enough of that already. It is Body. It is source material, more music than fact and, as music, cannot be disregarded any more than one's own life could be. |
| THE SPONTANEOUS CREATION |
| OF CULTURAL ARTIFACT: |
| THE HEART OF PSYCHEDELICS |
| I woke up inside the Sun, and kissed the Serpent on the Tongue. |
| The solar system owns all knowledge. We live in a solar system, and it, through us. You figure it out... |
| We must conclude that technology and media have had as much or more influence upon modern man and woman as did the world embodied by the goddess/woman of ancient neolithic. Therefore, we must treat tech/media with the same regard/disregard as one would treat any man or woman. Technology is sexy - it effects every aspect of our being and, therefore, in structure, conveys more information as a psychosexual (and even biological/ecological) phenomena than does the totality of its content. Therefore, the only way to make use of tech and preserve our modern sanity/freedom is to alter the way we respond to media and even our perception of it. This, of course, is the same as saying that we must reinvent the individual. |
| Midwife, matchmaker, |
| our grandmother, our grandfather, |
| Xpiyacoc, Xmucane, |
| let there be planting, let there be the dawning |
| of our invocation, our sustenance, our recognition |
| by the human work, the human design, |
| the human figure, the human mass. |
| -The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life |
| Thank you... |
| This is a psychotropic response or even a psychedelic response as technology's effects reach right down to our sexuality, making the 21st century body and enjoyment of it as ritualistic and sacred an art as cave art was to ancient peoples, especially since psychosexual response to modern/primitive times or the lack thereof has a direct influence on the fate, destiny, morality, sexuality, and mortality of the planetary culture which worldwide communication/entertainment makes possible. |
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