Rave Culture and Religion

Part IV Global tribes The technomadic counterculture ...

11 Techno millennium Dance, ecology and future primitives Graham St John [O]nly a mass idealistic fashion within Youth Dance Cul ...

appropriate for ‘recolonizing the psyche-space of the entire superstructure of society’ (Dei 1994). It was time, according to De ...

the cusp of a catastrophe, and that beyond that cusp we are unrecognizable to ourselves. The wave of novelty that has rolled unb ...

the reawakening of traditional attitudes towards the natural world, re-establishing ‘channels of direct communication with the p ...

Like the ultimate scout leader, the message McKenna delivered to thousands of young people in his capacity as guest speaker at p ...

syndrome, the BoM have taken on the role of ‘artists and madmen and trypsters and children [and] all God’s Fools’, divined to ‘p ...

FAX machines, audio cassettes, free software and computer networks’ (ibid.). White promoted a decentralized social and economic ...

The Book of RavElations: zippy Eschaton Speaking at the launch of the Zippy Pronoia Tour held at the Wetlands nightclub in Manha ...

enthusiasm of Rave with the eco-wisdom of Festival Culture to produce a mix of meltdown proportions.^21 Clark’s trans-Atlantic m ...

Ram Dass, Alexander Shulgin, Rev. Ian Stang (Church of the Subgenius), Rupert Sheldrake, Francis Huxley and Robert Anton Wilson. ...

held together by a hopeful view that decentralized and pirated technology can be adopted in the quest for spiritual advancement, ...

emergent San Francisco rave community set forth to emit the signals of a ‘liberation theology’. Writing in 1996, Hill stated: So ...

at the heart of the West’s ecological vandalism. We are informed that Gurdjieff draws attention to humanity’s forgotten obligati ...

they are recreating timeless environments and reconnecting with natural forces’ (Hill 1999:100). Influenced by Goa psychedelic f ...

hours and hours’, they state on their website, ‘encountering aspects of our own personal karma, and the karma of humanity, trans ...

humanity entered 5,000 years ago. For Argüelles, since the artificial time frequency of the 12-month Gregorian calendar and the ...

Travelling from their base in Canada, down through the US, Mexico and Guatemala, to Costa Rica, Mycorrhiza’s annual Timeship Ter ...

Survive’ these sculptures have evolved into significant reference points for international technomads whose cultural logic combi ...

[With] co-created magic...this land is returned to the ancient and magical indigenous chain of wisdom. If we unite our purpose a ...