Rave Culture and Religion

Notes

1 In late 1993, on assignment from Details magazine, I visited Goa in order to write

about the psychedelic techno scene there. The piece eventually ran as “Sampling

Paradise” in Option magazine. The present chapter is a reflective remix of the original

article.

2 Interview with the author, December 1993.

3 A good popular introduction to tantra can be found in Feuerstein (1998), while Gopi

Krishna’s personal account (1967) is fascinating for its first-person and profoundly

somatic account of shakti. For a scholarly analysis of the somatic side of traditional

Hindu tantra, see White’s (1996) excellent book.

4 This is a problem with the usual routine of dividing the night between various DJs,

each of whom focuses on his or her own individual set: the overarching development of

the night is usually lost. In this case, a little more “master narrative” may not be such a

bad thing.

5 Daybreak (n.d.: 23).

6 See Bhagavan Das’s freak autobiography, It’s Here Now (Are You?) (1997) for an

exemplary expression of profound spiritual hedonism.

7 Interview with Michael Gosney: http://www.radio-v.com/main/beam/innerviews/

goagil/ (accessed August 10, 2002).

8See Chapter 14.

9 For an interesting discussion of this question inside rave culture, see Tramacchi

(2001). For a general overview, see Forte (1997).

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