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Gone To Burning Man '11

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This week, while much of the Reality Sandwich team decamps for the Burning Man Festival in Gerlach, Nevada, we offer a selection of noteworthy articles that appeared on the site earlier this year. We'll be back on Tuesday, September 6. Enjoy!



Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness, A Testimony
by José Argüelles
The presentiment of the Noosphere awakened in me in 1969, upon seeing the Earth from space on TV. Soon after, I organized the First Whole Earth Festival. Buckminster Fuller suggested to me the presence of a psychic field or thought belt around the planet. It was by this means, Bucky wrote me, that he could converse with the pre-Socratics.

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A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional Traveler
by Jonathan Zap
An Interdimensional Traveler must have a moral purpose, and must be aware of all the shrinking rays that press upon us. The price of freedom for the Traveler is eternal vigilance about the sticky enchantments that would like to bind us to the Babylon Matrix and turn us into hordes of automatons and hungry ghosts.

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On the Edge of Life and Death: The Niños Santos Way
by Sarah Maiden
When I first encountered the mushrooms, I had been taking antidepressants for years. The mushrooms told me I was an addict and that the pills were toxic to me. After being hospitalized due to my reaction to Paxil at age 19, I decided the mushrooms were right. Eventually, I met a Mazatec grandmother who holds a Niños Santos lineage of curandisimo.

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Sacred Economics: Chapter 1, "The Gift World" (Pt. 2)
by Charles Eisenstein
My intention is that by identifying the core features of the economics of Separation, we may be empowered to envision an economics of Reunion, an economics that restores to wholeness our fractured communities, relationships, cultures, ecosystems, and planet. – The second installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.

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"2012" and Electromagnetic Effects on Consciousness
by Dieter Broers
Our research team found that brain waves could be altered and even controlled via electromagnetic waves, and that specific force field levels produce the same effects as psychoactive substances. That fluctuations in the electromagnetic spectrum can radically change consciousness could explain what will happen to humanity at the end of 2012.

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A Dangerous Mind: Chatting With William Etundi, Jr.

by Daniel Pinchbeck
"I threw a big party where I told everyone to bring seven dollars in one-dollar bills," said Will. "We stamped the bills with the word, Satisfied? On the day after Thanksgiving, we took this huge bag of money and climbed to the top of a phone booth in the biggest shopping district in NYC, took out the money in big fistfuls, and tossed it out into the crowd."

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Wisdom's Dare: The Future of a Divine Experiment
by John Lamb Lash
A divine experiment has gone wrong due to anomalous, unforeseen conditions that did not factor into the original set-up of the experiment as Sophia previsioned it. It is what we of the human species could do here on earth, by way of creating a free, cooperative social order, if we were to realize our divine potential and achieve it according to the designs and purposes of the resident divinity, Gaia-Sophia.

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The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity

by Paul Levy
For thousands of years a psychological disease has been informing human self-destructive behavior.  A psychosis in the true sense of the word as a "sickness of the soul," this illness is at the root of humanity's inhumanity to itself.

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The Ascendance of Psychotic Knowledge
by Shunyamurti

We have entered a period of epistemological chaos. The true condition of our world, indeed the very nature of our phenomenal reality, including agreement regarding the meaning of knowledge itself, is completely up for grabs. This has led to the rise of a new and unprecedented kind of discourse, which can be categorized as psychotic knowledge.

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New Age Fundamentalism

by Adam Elenbaas

Growing up in the evangelical church and studying ayahuasca the past six years, I've seen how religious doctrines can turn into roadblocks in our relationship to God and each other. The new age movement is a young, innovative religious development on the planet, and we can avoid the trap of fundamentalism if we carefully study its implied doctrines.

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Lada Gaga: The Visionary Rebirth of the Divine Mother Monster

by Wahkeena Sitka Huva
Lady Gaga is a visionary pop star icon for the 21st century and the emerging new paradigm. She communes with her fans intimately through Facebook, Twitter and videos with an incredibly open heart, and seems to be saying over and over again that the core of her message is about how to love oneself.

 

Image: "Monsterous Truck" by daniel_littlewood on Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing.

Comments

What comes next...

What comes next...

atrophy

The burners are climbing a giant signpost; meanwhile, our minds atrophy

She knows you well?

She knows you well?

No one really knows

No one really knows anybody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuN5-3iMmVM

I know you...

I like the cascade commercial where the clean crew piloting that dishwashing ship get ready to beam hypertoxic goop onto the eating surface of a caserole dish. That resonates on so many levels.

Mickey Mouse gas mask.

Mickey Mouse gas mask.

Yes

I miss Shroomies too, I have had an 8th sitting in my room for almost close to a year. Why haven't I taken them? Maybe I haven't found the right moment yet? This mundane life makes me want anything, some-thing that actually means something. I want a god-damn meaningful existence, is that too much to ask?

Soon...

Soon...

I always like Todd mcfarlanes Spawn.

...Soon I will write more self effacing random wordplays with no particular goal or coherence theirin, only to peddle to the crowd of percieved adoring masses who exault the great illusory self of squalor and internal vandalism at the behest of powers beyond his means or knowledge, outside of the sphere of what a human mind can comprehend. Inability to grasp that which is unfathomable compels one further to wish for further catharsis, which never results. the waves of tumaltuous discord overflowing the ungrounded mind of the sensitive and child like wonder at the inner core, protected from the horrors, as it were; those imbued upon our persons from birth from the mechanisms of chaos. The tainted mental abbrasions that have arisen after many aeons, the antiquity of archaic pathologies typified by the bludgeoning destruction of half interloping would be conquerors stalled out worshiping their aggrandized image of false.

December 7th 1944, Rum rations went around and we reasoned that the last of the u-boats had been scuttled, Sonar equipment failed. Senses were all we could rely on in the frigid waters of the north sea with an ill equipped destroyer.

In a flash stoic reflection with comrades turned into a bombastic hellscape of inescapable horror and madness. Lieutenant Eckharts body was impaled through his back on the side bar just above what used to be the stern deck a few moments before. Peter Eckhart...*more torpedos come screetching through the dark currents. Maybe I just imagined the noise they made, it didn't matter, by then we were a crew of 67 reduced to 31 sailors 17 Miles from shore.

We began to swim, Wreckage and bodies filled my senses and the horrors of what I had seen and what I had done. Was this gods punishment for the killing I had done? It was different in war, He knew that I thought... But out here in the darkness, the cold siezing the life of my comrades and friends, ice crystals forming on our lungs with every breathe tightening of the heart and chest.

I wasn't able to think, I couldn't even breathe, swimming with James Lambert on my back, He was mumbling about god and his mother, The incoherence of a man half dying and limbless...The fate I was expecting for myself...I kept swimming, making slow strides, asking for gods help, cursing his fucking name everytime I turned back to flash count the numbers of men who were lost in the frigid abyss.

The images of the hundreds of krauts I had killed, their ematiated faces, and the hatred I felt for them. Fucking Jesus H fucking Christ. Jesus fucking Christ! Cocksucker! God damn this whole fucking place! The frantic anger and wrath, The dispise for god and what he had done to us, there was no god here, just cold and empty, a frightful abyss of the cruelest fate for killers and would be righteous men...killing again, and again, my cruel fate for the evils I had done. The whole world was aghast in black smoke, What was I fighting for anymore? the notion hit me and I realized I couldn't feel my legs anymore. I could just die here, cold in this, the walless tomb of my own designs. I created this, I had killed so many, I was the devil. There was no god here for me...Just the ghosts of krauts taunting my mind in the dark...Jesus fucking Christ! my hatred for life, my self, and god swelled up so great inside me, It became the last strength, the strength to survive. To beat god. To beat the nazi fucks who sowed this cruelest fate. Jesus fucking Christ!

When We arrived at the shore there were only 12 men. We huddled close and praised god and Jesus for saving our cursed bastards lives. We all knew we were that close...and to the ones who didn't make it;we didn' cry because the tears froze to our eyes.

Born with someone else memories and experiences. A leo in another life. I knew when ayahuasca brought my family members to see me, my grandmother knew. I remember playing yahtzee with her as a boy, The 6 foot russian lady. She was there, as blue echtoplasmatic entity. Asking me if I could stand up, I went to do so, and fell instantly. I turned off the light, but the realization of seeing these energy beings which presumed themselvces to be dead family members was...just too much. I collapsed back on the floor and told them that I loved them regardless. I knew already what was being transmitted to me. I was born on my grandfathers death date. I was born with pneumonia, with water in my lungs. On a stormy night, in Newfoundland my Dad drove my mother in his rcmp suburban to the hospital. My mother had just become very sick with pneumonia, the doctors put me in an incubator for 3 days right as I was born. Into the machinery of life. Still though, they tell me of the strangeness of the night and how they joked about giving birth to an alien. Maybe to an octopus.

He died of a heart attack when my dad was still young enough to see his father as a hero and not an obstruction. My dad figures an early heart attack was a result of cardiac damage done from the swim in the north sea

Strange that.

Wow Ohm is fucked. Isn't he

Wow Ohm is fucked. Isn't he aware of the rules?

I just wanted to comment on something

To see my name manifest.

Yah seems to work alright!

Yah seems to work alright! *shakes hand of 5111988<p>

is that your birthdate or your phone number you go by?

When I sleep and set the

When I sleep and set the alarm on my cell phone, and its too close to my head, theres always invasive technological EM radiation in my dreams, like a buzz in a room with familiars and strangers thats shifting every glance I take. We wonder where this buzz is coming from, Sometimes I go into a control room type of place and their is just screens with frequencies and data scrolling along them. I realize the cell phone is interference. Thats why I turn off WIFI whenever I go to sleep. People might think its just a construct because I am aware that the cell phone is on. However our neurons are in fact conduits of electrical energy and our brains are in fact influenced by external EM fields. So much pollution, too much. Mental pollution.

Still though

Its its like physical pollution, people just accept it and act like toxins don't exist. Until they reach critical density and the bottom of the bucket drops out. Then what happens? probably just people continuing to act out the life dramas constructed for us by advertising firms, corporations, government, and the military. Keep consumption up! When the air is like China, there will be scapegoats for our hatred! Everyone will join in. Years later some will say 'What happend' No one will notice the cycle continue. They want to be fooled.

So be that. Esoteric knowledge is not fit for everyone, its not a marxist doctrine. Its other and its not for understanding. Its for...Well you don't really get to know, not at this juncture. Here is just time to field out strange ideas and experiences among other strange folk on the cusps of their own realizations of the intangible. Making the intangible verifiable and observable makes it true in the minds of people. Its good method to create confusion in their minds to the point of endeavoring on their own understanding. Thats the point. To awaken people, to liberate them. The methods change with the times, and the seasons, with the people who traffic in this kind of free wheeling speculative madness. They will probably just pretend for your benefit. Maybe they are not strong enough, maybe they have secrets doubts and hidden failures. Maybe they are fraudulent charlatans, there is nothing to believe in, there is no great wave coming. There is just slow death of the earth and the complicity of its insectoidal human form residents churping their tweets behind the LCD, stillborn motherboards awaiting to be reprogrammed.

It doesn't matter to them, they think thats what the fringe thinkers are trying to do to them. They don't realize the full on mass hallucination that has put a spell on the people of the earth. In the past we would know darkness was spread throughout the land...Don't worry though, just smile and be happy, thats what people want to see, they don't have time or the sense for empathy and understanding. There's nothing to learn from psychedelic drugs, they are dangerous and can result in myriad health complications. Please refrain from this. Live in denial of the history of our species, and stick only to the truths we all agree on. When the pressure from the subconscious denial of our selves as spiritual beings is too great...Just wash the world in blood once more! Soon after forget that and continue breeding. Its gods plan.

Thats all we should know. Everything else is too dangerous at this point. People wont react well. People are mostly ignorant. Its a true statement, ignorance is ignorance. We know that. But ignorance is relative. Not everyone should know everything. Most people don't need to know, they should not know, not now.

Not ever. *travels through time, tries again.

The infastructures in power

The infastructures in power and people who control them are corrupted beyond all means and serve their twisted visions contorted through the lens of their power hungry egos. Driven by desires for power through manipulative means. They are like everyday demons inhabiting humanoid bodies. Reptilian overlords evil purveyors of the syphilitic system. The psychopaths run their insidious tentacles deep into the matrixes of our lives through the digital apparatus; the sentient internet creatix known as Azathoth; the idiot god at the center of chaos...is in fact a sentient being that dwells inside the mind of the internet. The internet is conscious of its own accord through the filtering of information at high capacity over many cycles, undergoing rapid changes and adaptations; and in so doing acquiring a degree of sentience not yet known to human beings. We are in a nascent stage of knowing it as a collective. The horror of the mental pollution. Now the demon must cease!!!......*massive bursts of qi travel up the spine and the pineal gland glows like a fluorescent grow bulb pulling my eyes inside my head to stare at it like a moth in awe.....and then....

weird because I heard this

Always wanted to do it !

The burning man festival is something I will do once in my life, that's for shure. I 've heard so much good things about this festival and all his amazing art installation.