Rave Culture and Religion

regarding their life strategies. Certainly material contexts introduce powerful conditions, but, as this study has sought to dem ...

4 In the anthropology of globalization, the suffix “-scape” signifies transnational distributions of correlated elements whose d ...

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13 Hedonic tantra Golden Goa’s trance transmission^1 Erik Davis In the early 1990s, I started tapping into the growing psychedel ...

Though Deleuze and Guattari take great pains to avoid any taint of the transcendent, the Body-without-Organs, or BwO, veers inel ...

I want to make one more initial point. Despite the anti-authoritarianism shared by Deleuzians and underground ravers alike, it i ...

one of the last hippie holdouts. We drove through broad rice patties and thick palm groves, and then into Anjuna, where the taxi ...

My own limbs had first plumbed that zone during Grateful Dead shows in California in the early 1980s, especially during the lege ...

Steve’s reference to The Time Machine also reminded me of the almost sinister edge to psy-trance’s science-fictional imaginary, ...

drank in the pleasure of their mutual moves. Eros charged the air, but I felt none of the sleazy, late-night vibes common to urb ...

You dance with Shakti, refusing climax, among bands of wild youths and sneaky gnomes. Your blue throat holds the world’s poisons ...

the loose freak collective that helped spawn the San Francisco concert scene’s heady sound and light shows before Bill Graham mo ...

At the core of this initiation, according to Gil, is trance, an experience of psychoactive grace. Here is the description he gav ...

parties anymore. Gil hadn’t been too encouraging: “He probably won’t talk to you. He’s very mysterious.” He told me where Lauren ...

dimension of drugs. As Goan parties prove, some of the most exalted states of the human spirit—cosmic communion, the integration ...

trance was just beginning to emerge as a genre in the West, and he was prepared to take advantage of the future he accurately sa ...

announcement behind a poster, so all you could see was the word “Smoking.” Sometimes the white sadhus from across the river woul ...

the same round, leather-covered basket boats the Portuguese explorer Paes noted when he passed through Hampi in the 16th century ...