7 http://www.rtts.com (accessed 12 September 2002).
8 http://www.oraclegatherings.com/intention.htm (accessed 8 November 2002).
9 For example, see Velayutham and Wise (2001), who discuss the sexualized exoticizing
of Hinduism at ‘Homosutra’, the 1999 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Sleaze Ball.
10 McKenna from ‘Re: Evolution’, http://www.deoxy.Org/t—re-evo.htm (accessed 3
November 2002).
11 http://www.crossroads.wild.net.au/lab.htm (accessed 17 November 2002).
12 http://www.technocosmicmass.org (accessed 7 May 2002).
13 http;//www.technocosmicmass.org (accessed 7 May 2002).
14 And otherwise described as inclusive ‘non-differentiation’ (Hutson 1999:66),
‘communal subjectivity’ (Martin 1999:94) or ‘belongingness’ (Pini 2001:2).
15 Indeed Matsuri Productions is a prominent trance label.
16 But these ‘poles’ are almost chimeric, as one grasps the Afro-futurist ‘conceptechnics’
patterning, for instance, the European stylistic inspiration of seminal Black
American Detroit techno artists like Derek May—for whom ‘Kraftwerk is the delta
blues and Depeche Mode are Lead Belly’ (Eshun 1998:178).
17 Here, Pini is explicitly referring to female ravers but, without wishing to conflate the
experiences of females and males within such contexts, the quote is no less applicable
to males.
18 Thus dichotomies evoked by rave micro-narratives—progression/regression,
transcendence/immanence, futurism/primitivism, posthuman/primal, future/past—
seem unsustainable.
19 http://www.christianraves.com (accessed 13 October 2002).
20 http://wwwsacreddance.org (accessed 24 September 2002). Also see http://www.rave-
theawakening.com/rave/rave.html.
21 http://www.raveistherapture.co (accessed 12 November 2001).
22 Or the maximal stimulation of the autonomous nervous system through integrated
‘driving’ mechanisms associated with alternative states of consciousness (see
Takahashi, Chapter 7).
23 Which, according to Phillip K.Dick (from his Valis, as reported on Fusion Anomaly:
http://fusionanomaly.net/anamnesis.html) is salvation-finding gnosis (accessed 1
August 2002).
24 Bastide, whose ideas are translated into English in this collection by Gauthier (Chapter
3).
25 See Saldanha (Chapter 14), who discusses this in relation to parties on a beach in the
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