Culture in a New Paradigm
Renaissance in the Post-Digital Age:
Experimental writing/ Stream of consciousness
YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ | Brush and Ink/ Digital Image | Feb 5th 2012
Cultural prohibitions stop us from being in control of the fear we are in. We cannot afford stupidity; racism; sexism; material consumerism; corporation-ism and the eternal seeking out something we have been sold to us all of our lives, by those whose interests only seek to support those labelled ’shareholders’, in a world seemingly falling apart and unforgiving to those considered human, and choose not to be consumers of mass-produced propaganda of ‘desire’ that does nothing to enhance our lives.
Desirable objects put upon a society only propagate the eternal wheel of discontent within the psychology of people born into a world on a course of destruction, for the perceived desire of ‘profit and growth’, with no room for those who decided a long time ago to drop out of a system that only cares for its own survival, through the atomisation of people and the misguided selling of ‘democracy’, one person one vote, to a culture repackaged and sold back to us as a product of desire and aspiration.
Rene Descartes proposed[i] that only humans have souls. That a spider can spin a web better than a human ever can, yet the spider cannot spin a web creatively, giving the proposition that only humans have a soul. That only we being able to think beyond the mechanical and in doing so allows Descartes the view that the ’seat of the soul’ was switched on, within the pineal gland, yet the removal of the ideological aspect of the soul has given us permission to rape the Earth of all its resources for the benefit of humankind, when in actuality there is no overall benefit to our species, due to the inevitable fragmentation of the psyche, due to hierarchy theory.
Nature is not mute.
Terence McKenna revealed how the idea persisted where hierarchy theory has explicated the idea of systems giving way to a fractal universe. The macrocosm and microcosm are inextricably linked. The intent of goal projection to perceived goals has been running wild in a society lost from paradise, separating itself from nature, when in actuality we are and always have been part of nature; seeking nature and the purpose of our journey in the unfolding of a realisation of spirit through language, art and the phenomenon of energetic qualities, that have always been linked to each level of existence, from singular cells to complex life living upon the Earth and beyond.
The direction of Society has lost itself into the embedded principles of ‘gathering’ materialisation of the self for the perceived idea of security – an evolved devolution of the human species via ‘I’ and ‘WANT’ that has been propagated by ’systems’ in fear of losing the ’security of profit’; to maintain the lifestyles of the few, who do not care for those of us at the bottom seeking ‘freedom’ from the tyranny of a civilisation built upon the foundations of material wealth, and not raised on a psychical spiritual wealth of a community of learning, helping, loving and the raising of consciousness to higher realms of understanding. We are part of a natural biological energetic frequency of vibration, seeking the infinite from a perceived finite life that we are told is real, yet itself is an illusion created by those wishing us to be bogged down by the idea of ‘property’ that we have no idea of what to do with.
WINTER OF DISCONTENT 1979 | Mixed Media | Dec 2011
Art, through the process of shamanic realisation can free us [through creative principles] to greater reflection and expansion of the inner-space, freeing us from the psychic demons given to us through previous misunderstandings of parents, peers and teachers who are also lost in a system built to control the very freedom we aspire towards. To seek closure in this realm of existence that no-one understands tantalises us to more questioning of the conventions of power and institutions, whose sole purpose is to ’stay alive’ and save itself from its own fear of destruction, through ever more increasing control of our lives.
‘Time is the moving image of eternity’ Plato (c. 428–427 BCE)
‘The Shaman [Artist] leaves the mundane plane to ‘trigger’ a rupture through the plane of society’s existence into ‘new dimensions’, to behold time, as James Joyce remarks ‘in a nutshell.” (Terence McKenna)[ii]
Each of us can project ourselves and penetrate into new dimensions of existence, to revel in the realities of truth and awareness of other doorways, revealing other ways of living instead of giving ourselves over to institutions who seek to control us; dictating how to live and how to see and create.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ | Brush and Ink/ Digital Image | Feb 5th 2012
The commercial artist is duped into selling their creativity to the creation of ‘image’ to form propaganda that does nothing to free us from the mire of society, but only to propagate ‘desire’ that sells illusions of existence; to aspire to be something the majority can never attain; to live a life of lies for the benefit of companies and shareholders that we are told we need. If you ‘want’ (desire) to be something – THEN be.
Buddah said to a follower who said to him ‘I Want Happiness’ to first remove the ‘I’ for that is EGO; then remove the ‘WANT’ for that is DESIRE; and then what you are left with is ‘happiness’ [OUTCOME]. Remove (EGO) and (DESIRE) and the outcome is already yours to behold… If you REALLY want it. But have we been taught to fear it because what do you do once you have attained it?
CHRYSOPOEIA | Brush and Ink & Digital | Dec 2012
Take the hand that nature has given us and be un-afraid to experience that which is to be experienced. We must be ready to let go of everything we have been TAUGHT to WANT in a society that has been brought up to be in FEAR of itself.
‘The DAO of the ancestors stare back at us every morning in the mirror of reflection. See yourself for who you are and be aware that you see a reflection of illusions built over time, illusions that we need to strip away to get at the ‘truth’. [Walking, thinking, conscious beings of stardust]. To remove the ‘crisis of civilisation’ that has become so complex in its diversity that we are quickening the pace of literally placing the planet at a crisis point, that inevitably will lead us to a point where we will have to separate ourselves, to become what we behold, a kind of apotheosis. To become Divine and meet a future state of consciousness that we have been attracted towards since the beginning of time, [to a point of closure to receive the textural information that gives meaning to substance] and new revelations of consciousness through the endeavours of humankind and all species on the Earth.’ Terence McKenna[iii]
In other terms:
‘To become one with God and return to the source of transcendence, [becoming both creator and the created, in a true shamanic sense of awareness]; riding the wave of knowledge to realise true wisdom and move forward towards a new state of ‘being’ from whatever we decide to imagine of ourselves, leading into the imagination which is our ‘true home’. For what we imagine we create and what we create becomes our reality… literally.’ Terence McKenna[iv]
The ‘mirror of our mind’ allows us to create ’stuff’ allowing us to move beyond the material and into the realm of ideas and the imagination, towards the path of being true and of true enlightenment. A new Renaissance for being.
CHRYSOPOEIA PSYCHEDELIA | Brush and Ink & Digital | Dec 2012
If not then we will continue to follow a course of action that is controlled and manipulated by a hidden elite who are masterful in their controlling of resources:
‘The Lacanian view of hidden language within the psychology of people and the repression of ideas and thoughts could lead to new forms of dis-ease within illusionistic culture. Ideology inevitably leads to the destruction of the ’self’ and our connection to community. Through the division and separation of tribal forms of culture I can foresee a push towards a new global form of economic control, through the restriction of food production (corporate control/ GMOs/ mono-agriculture), consumerist attitudes to materialism and the loss of the Divine within the human soul. Some talk of a spiritual path yet are unaware of their separatism from their community and culture. In the UK as we move closer to devolution, my concerns lay with ever more increasing English Nationalism, leading to new forms of control and new forms of dictatorship. This will only end up fuelling further repression, stifling creativity and increased angst, leading to an exponential increase in forms of mental illness, protests, rioting and dis-eases (August 2011 riots/ Occupy/ 99%) … something Big Pharma will relish and Governments will enjoy through the dumbing-down of people through the SOMA of ever more increasing novelty. This is something that is happening in Egypt, Libya and the revolutions of the Middle East through the restriction of new freedoms via Militaristic governance.’ Adam Grose[v]
Are we ready to see the ‘truth’ of our past and be willing participants in the removal of the masks created by culture that is most definitely NOT your friend?
‘The brain is more like a receiver of consciousness rather than the brain creating consciousness, in the same way programmes are not made in your TV… the box is too small.’ Terence McKenna[vi]
Adam R. Grose BA (Hons), PGCE, MIfL
i – Descartes, Rene, Animals as Machine, Powerpoint Lecture, <kellyinglis.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/animals-as-machines.ppt>
ii – McKenna, Terence, Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature, Lecture by Terence McKenna <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCbBVUiQzVM> Accessed Jan 28th 2012
iii – Ibid
iv – Ibid
v – Grose, Adam, Art as Transformer: First Draft (Working Title), (Falmouth: UCF, 2012) – MAFA – Extended Essay in progress
vi – McKenna, Terence, Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature, Lecture by Terence McKenna<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCbBVUiQzVM> Accessed Jan 28th 2012
