Transpondency

• Mind Control Made Easy, or How To Be A Cult Leader
• Local Natives: "Sun Hands"
• The Wellness Show
• Vancouver Convention Centre, May 2, 2010
• The Books: "Beautiful People"
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre: "The Ballad of Jim Jones"
• Tanlines: "Real Life"
• Cloud Cult: "Everybody Here Is A Cloud"
• Cults: "Go Outside"

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IDEAS: Spitballing & Brainstorming

• Broadcast: "The Unchanging Window"
• Concentrated Consciousness: "Anesthetized"
• Gamelan Nyai Saraswati: "Tari GOLEK AYUN-AYUN"
• Solid Eye, Electromagnetic Field and Stream Of Consciousness
• Pseudo Slang: "Out A Touch"
• Terrence McKenna: "The Felt Presence of Immediate Exprience"
• Cake: "Rock 'N' Roll Lifestyle"
• Roman Be: "Money From Nothing"
• John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek: "Fear the Boom and Bust"
• Hard Drugs: "Bad Ideas (Don't Give Up)"

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone, and, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love"

Now I understand for the first time that all these problems are caused by a race asleep and thrashing about in its panicked nightmares. There will be wars and holocausts and genocides as long as God is portrayed and thought of as a tight- minded legislator, a feudal lord, an offended king, a hypersensitive artisan - even if church managers condescendingly tack onto that ridiculous list the not- very-convincing footnote that He is also loving. As long as people dream that they are insecure and needy in some sort of eternal jeopardy, there will be atrocities. But as the human race grows up spiritually, and as individuals gain a personal experience of the God they have been worshipping in fear, they will recognize that much of their theology and philosophy is built on nightmares. That will be the day of peace. [It is time] ...to play an active role in the process of the world's awakening. -George Fowler from "Dance of a Fallen Monk"

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• Religious identity: Catholic, Gnostic, Zen Buddhism
• Marshall McLuhan biography by Douglas Coupland
• Searching for spirituality, Zen mediation drop in
• Interpassivity and the Electric Monk
• Slavoj Zizek and Douglas Adams
• Believe verus Faith
• My first psilocybin mushroom trip
• The fundamental interconnectedness of all things
• All the world's a stage, Global Theatre
• Mythology and ritual, the hero's quest

• Terence McKenna, What the psychedelic experience is for
• Bill Hicks, Rants in E-Minor
• The Clean: "In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"
• Alan Watts, segments from "The Alchemy of LSD"
• Jozef Van Wissem: "How the Soul has Arrived at Understanding of Her Nothingness"
• Nina Nastasia: "You're A Holy Man"
• Walking Life: "The Holy Moment" & "We are the Authors"
• Sweet Trip: "Pretending"

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Shrooms! The Movie a pseudo avant-garde film on psilocybinmetaphysical illumination & existential crisishigher quality version: http://blip.tv/file/3433948

Explore a strange world where reality is turned upside downEmbark on a psychedelic journey through the imaginationEnter into the magical matrix of your inner mindExperience the phantasmagoria of the universe...on Shrooms!

This may or not be sum sort of sequel to Episode #125 from May 2009

Another introduction to the book to end all books...

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

• Dominic Behan: "Finnegan's Wake"
• James Joyce recording: Anna Livia Plurabelle
• Bat For Lashes: "Pearl's Dream"
• Joseph Campbell from "Wings of Art"
• Ben Watson from "Late Lunch with Out to Lunch"
• Brobdingnagian Bards: "Finnegans Wake"
• Nasekomix: "Adam's Bushes, Eva's Deep"
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ronen V: "Page 439"
• Bob Dobbs, Five Bodied, Menippean McLuhanist
• The Bob and Ben Revolution
• Marshall McLuhan: "The Medium is The Massage"
• Momus: "Cibachrome Blue" & "Finnegan The Folk Hero"
• Peter La Farge: "If I Could Not Be An Indian"
• Riordan Finnegans Wake reading
• Songs To Wear Pants To: "Casey & Finnegan"
• John Cage: "Roaratorio, An Irish Cirus on Finnagens Wake"
• Passages From Finnegans Wake soundtrack

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Listen! Put your headphones on.

• The World of Quadraphonic Sound
• Head Shop: "Listen With A Third Ear"
• Klotzsch & Krey - Through All These Years of Trying to Belong
• How to Listen Effectively
• John Cage: They say, "you mean it's just sounds?" thinking that for something to just be a sound is to be useless, whereas I love sounds just as they are, and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don't want them to be psychological. I don't want a sound to pretend that it's a bucket or that it's president or that it's in love with another sound. I just want it to be a sound.
• Bruce and Miss Nelson - Soul Transportation
• Kim Krizan: Creation comes out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. This is where, I think, language came from. I mean, it come from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some connection with one another. It had to be easy when it was just simple survival. “Water.” We came up with a sound for that. “Sabretooth tiger behind you!” We made a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things we’re experiencing. What is “frustration”? Or what is “anger” or “love”? When I say “love” the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person’s ear travels through the byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love. They say they understand, but how do I know? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead. You know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel we have connected and think we’re understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. That may be transient, but it’s what we live for.
• Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan's interest in Freud and distaste for post-Freudian "ego psychologists" are briefly mentioned, and his clinical work on "the mirror stage" is discussed in depth. The relationship in Lacanian thought, between metaphor and metonymy is explored through the image of the point de capiton. The correlation between language and the unconscious, and the distinction between desire and need, are also explained, with reference to Hugo's "Boaz Asleep."
• Uberkids: Sweet Trip (Intellivision Mix)
• Edwin Schlossberg: Vibrations/Metaphors
• Inuit Throat Singing with Algia Mae Hinton "Buckdance"
• Past Eroticism - Canadian Sound Poetry in the 1960s - Vol. 1
• Frank Zappa: Alright, um, as you know, I'm not the kind of a person that reads books, I've said this before many times, I'm not fond of reading. But, I do, I have in the past made exceptions, and uh, one of these exceptions was this part of the, the book that, I'm sure you know, called Naked Lunch, and I've received permission to read the part about the talking asshole. So . . .
• Greg Whitehead "If a Voice Like Then What?"
• People Like Us: "Guide To Broadcasting"
• Terence McKenna: A language which could be seen would be a kind of telepathy. If you could see what I mean you would see my thought. The way we communicate, small mouth noises and the assumption of shared dictionary, an assumption that is never borne out by careful questioning, is a miserable way to communicate.
• Dennis James: "Adagio for glass harmonica in C major"
• Legomaker: "Are You Listening"
• Henry Miller on the end of books, direct communication, instantaneous creative expression

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• Vancouver 2010 Olympics Winter Games
• Olympic Resistence Network protesters
• Vancouver Media Coop
• Safe Assembly, Evening News @ VIVO Media Arts
• Andrew Koenig found dead in Stanley Park
• Debt crisis in Greece (Athens 2004 Games, coincidence?)

• The Twilight Sad: "Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters"
• Fleet Foxes: "White Winter Hymnal"
• Why?: "Eskimo Snow"
• Bowerbirds: "Nothern Lights"
• Yeasayers: "Wait For The Wintertime"
• The Afternoon Naps: "Winter Olympics"

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• The Aliens: "Magic Man"
• Alan Moore is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell
• Art Is Magic, from the documentary The Mindscape Of Alan Moore
• Think About Life: "The Wizzzard"
• Faded Paper Figures: "Logos"
• Scholar: "Magick with a K (Phosphoros remix)"
• Feral Children: "Universal Design"
• Death By Panda: "Magical Myths and Expectation"
• Alasdair Roberts: "Ned Ludd's Rant (for a World Rebarbarised)"
• Sweet Trip: "Your World is Eternally Complete"
• Magical Mistakes: "Psychedelic States"

There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness. The very language about magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about supernatural events. A grimmoir for example, the book of spells is simply a fancy way of saying grammar. Indeed, to cast a spell, is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people's consciousness. And I believe that this is why an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a Shaman.

I believe that all culture must have arisen from cult. Originally, all of the faucets of our culture, whether they be in the arts or sciences were the province of the Shaman. The fact that in present times, this magical power has degenerated to the level of cheap entertainment and manipulation, is, I think a tragedy. At the moment the people who are using Shamanism and magic to shape our culture are advertisers. Rather than try to wake people up, their Shamanism is used as an opiate to tranquilize people, to make people more manipulable. Their magic box of television, and by their magic words, their jingles can cause everyone in the country to be thinking the same words and have the same banal thoughts all at exactly the same moment.

In all of magic there is an incredibly large linguistic component. The Bardic tradition of magic would place a bard as being much higher and more fearsome than a magician. A magician might curse you. That might make your hands lay funny or you might have a child born with a club foot. If a Bard were to place not a curse upon you, but a satire, then that could destroy you. If it was a clever satire, it might not just destroy you in the eyes of your associates; it would destroy you in the eyes of your family. It would destroy you in your own eyes. And if it was a finely worded and clever satire that might survive and be remembered for decades, even centuries. Then years after you were dead people still might be reading it and laughing at you and your wretchedness and your absurdity. Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die. It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

-Alan Moore

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"Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenins Head" art installation in the City of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada by the Gao Brothers of China.

Vladimir Lenin Chairman Mao

This large scale sculpture features two iconic figures in shiny polished stainless steel, a diminutive Miss Mao delicately balancing on the head Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary whose monumental ideas profoundly influenced Chinese political history. This potentially controversial sculpture is part of the Gao Brothers Miss Mao series, often described as cynical realism.

This sculpture can be read as a political narrative, as well as a reflection on the current nostalgic attitude toward Mao. The position and scale of the two figures simultaneously questions and ridicules their relative positions in an undeniable commentary. The Gao Brothers have consciously chosen to play the role of social critic and therefore walk a careful line in terms of politics.

City of Richmond

The Gao Brothers