hours and hours’, they state on their website, ‘encountering aspects of our own
personal karma, and the karma of humanity, transcending layer after layer like an
onion, until the dancer disappears altogether and only the dance remains’. This
techno-mediated ‘rediscovery of ancient trance tradition’ represents a ‘full-circle
return of humanity to its primordial beginnings’:
Is it by pure coincidence that this profound, inspired, reconnection is
occurring now, in the looming shadow of a world grown sick through
overpopulation, environmental decay and corruption? Or could this be a
divine manifestation, gifting the collective shaman of humanity with a vision
of interconnected love consciousness at the most crucial moment...?^36Enabled by communication technology and cheap airfare, the CCC further
speculate: ‘Perhaps we are the earth’s first global tribe...spread across the planet and
circum-navigating it’. The key rendezvous points for this self-identifying ‘fluoro-
Rainbow tribe’ are gatherings celebrating not only lunar cycles, but total solar eclipse
—like the annual Solipse Festival held in Zambia in 2001, or Outback Eclipse in
South Australia 2002. Other events include the Solstice Music Festival on the slopes
of Mount Fuji and Australia’s Rainbow Serpent. Such global dance tribe events are
lauded as ‘planetary healing communities’ (Antara and Kaye 1999), where
collectively generated ecstatic energy can be consciously directed into the ‘planetary
grid’, thought positively to impact collective consciousness.
Casting the DreamspellA further strategy of reconnectivity is evident in the adoption by new tribes of the
Mayan 13 Moon Calendar. Post-rave dance milieus are affiliating with the World
13 Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement committed to the replacement of the
Gregorian calendar with what is known as the Dreamspell calendar on 25 July 2004,
‘Galactic Freedom Day’. Stimulated by José Argüelles, who claims to have revealed
timecodes in the classic Mayan calendar consisting of complex physical and spiritual
cycles, the Dreamspell calendar forms the basis of the movement for a new Time.
While the annual cycle of 13 moons falling each 28 days demonstrates ‘harmony
with the Earth and with the natural cycles coded into the human female biological
cycle’,^37 the Tzolkin records a spiritual cycle which the Maya claimed came to them
from the galaxy In this cycle, widely regarded as the ‘13:20’, there is a 13-day
galactic cycle and a 20-day solar cycle. Both cycles turn together, overlapping to
form the 260-day cycle of the Tzolkin. Argüelles began interpreting the Mayan
codes of time in his The Mayan Factor (1987); and, in conjunction with Lloydine
Argüelles, a subsequent work, The Dreamspell: Journey of Timeship Earth 2013
(1991), conveyed the mathematics of fourth-dimensional time (‘the Law of Time’)
in the Tzolkin—a synchronic order of time distinguished from third-dimensional
astronomical time. In his Time and the Technosphere (2002), Argüelles distinguishes
the ‘natural time’ of the cosmos from the ‘artificial mechanistic’ time which
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