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Gateways If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.Human history represents such aradical break with the naturalsystems of biological organization that preceded it, that it must be the response to a kind of attractor, or dwell point that lies ahead in the temporal dimension. Persistently Western religions have integrated into their theologies the notion of a kind of end of the world, and I think that a lot of psychedelic experimentation sort of confirms this intuition, I mean, it isn\'t going to happen according to any of the scenarios of orthodox religion, but the basic intuition, that the universe seeks closure in a kind of omega point of transcendance, is confirmed,it\'s almost as though this object in hyperspace, glittering in hyperspace,throws off reflections of itself, which actually ricochet into the past,illuminating this mystic, inspiring thatsaint or visionary, and that out of these fragmentary glimpses ofeternity we can build a kind of map,of not only the past of the universe,and the evolutionary egression intonovelty, but a kind of map of the future, this is what shamanism is always been about.MescalA shaman is someone who has been to the end, it\'s someone who knows how the world really works, and knowing how the world really works means to have risen outside, above,beyond the dimensions of ordinary space, time, and casuistry, and actually seen the wiring under the board, stepped outside the confinesof learned culture and learned and embedded language, into the domain of what Wittgenstein called \"the unspeakable\", the transcendental presense of the other, which can be absanctioned, in various ways, toyield systems of knowledge which can be brought back into ordinarysocial space for the good of the community, so in the context of ninety percent of human culture, the shaman has been the agent of evolution, because the shaman learns the techniques to go between ordinary reality and the domain of the ideas, this higher dimensional continuum that is somehow parallelto us, available to us, and yet ordinarily occluded by cultural convention out of fear of the mystery I believe, and what shamans are, I believe, are people who have been able to de-condition themselves from the community\'sinstinctual distrust of the mystery,and to go into it, to go into this bewildering higher dimension, and gain knowledge, recover the jewel lost at the beginning of time, to save souls, cure, commune with theancestors and so forth and so on.The Shaman Shamanism is not a religion, it\'s a set of techniques, and the principal technique is the use of psyche delicplants. What psychedelics do is theydissolve boundaries, and in the presence of dissolved boundaries,one cannot continue to close one\'seyes to the ruination of the earth,the poisoning of the seas, and the consequences of two thousand yearsof unchallenged dominator culture,based on monotheism, hatred of nature, suppression of the female,and so forth and so on. So, what shamans have to do is act as exemplars, by making this cosmic journey to the domain of the Gaianideas, and then bringing them back in the form of art to the struggle to save the world. The planet has a kind of intelligence, that it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is,transform your language through asynergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, asynergy between dance and idea, asynergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian super mind, I mean I think it\'s fairly profound, it\'s fairly apocalyptic.History is ending. I mean, we are to be the generation that witnesses the revelation of the purpose of the cosmos. History is the shock wave of the eschaton. History is the shockwave of eschatology, and what this means for those of us who will live through this transition into hyperspace, is that we will be privileged to see the greatest release of compressed change probably since the birth of the universe. The twentieth century is the shudder that announces the approaching cataractsof time over which our species and the destiny of this planet is about to be swept.If the truth can be told so as to beunderstood, it will be believed.\"Hope\"The emphasis in house music and rave culture on physiologically compatible rhythms and this sort of thing is really the rediscovery of the art of natural magic with sound, that sound, properly understood,especially percussive sound, can actually change neurological states,and large groups of people getting together in the presence of this kindof music are creating a telepathic community of bonding that hopefully will be strong enough that it can carry the vision out into the mainstream of society. I think that the youth culture that is emerging inthe nineties is an end of the millenium culture that is actually summing up Western civilization and pointing us in an entirely different direction, that we\'re going to arrive inthe third millenium, in the middle of an archaic revival, which will mean a revival of these physiologically empowering rhythm signatures, a new art, a new social vision, a new relationship to nature, to feminism, toego. All of these things are taking hold, and not a moment too soon.
Have you ever wondered what the
night sky would look like around
Vulcan, Tatooine, Alderan or Arakis?
Would it look like the Earth’s night
sky? Would you look up and see a
dark sky with only a handful of
very bright stars that stand out in a
background of dim stars? Would
you be able to recognise patterns
of constellations in the sky that the
small number of bright stars appear
to trace out? Would you look up
and see discernible patterns such as
a snake like Draco, or a line like
Orion’s belt? Also would the bright
stars of the constellations
themselves be concentrated in a
belt like ring? Is the Earth’s night
sky just like the night sky of all of
these imaginary planets or their
real analogues?
The answer to all of the above
questions is a resounding NO.
Almost all the night skies of planets
orbiting distant stars fall into one of
three basic patterns. Planets
located in Galactic Nuclei (which
constitute about 90% of stars)
would see a very bright sky filled
with millions of stars that all have
just about the same brightness.
Planets located in high gas areas
such as spiral arms would see only
a small number of randomly
distributed dull stars. These
constitute about about 8% of the
remainder. The last approximately
2% would see a sky similar to the
Solar System’s but it would look
more like a wall paper made up of
a uniform field of mixed bright and
dull stars with few if any creating a
discernible pattern.
As it turns out the Solar System, we
are fortunate enough to inhabit,
has a very rare sky and occupies a
very unusual almost spooky
position in space. Astronomers
have discovered the Solar System
sits in the middle of a very low
density star bubble. This bubble is
about 3000 light years across. It
contains about a million low mass
stars but only a few thousand high
mass stars. Even stranger, these
high mass stars are primarily
located in a band called Gould’s Belt.
Gould’s Belt is a ribbon of stars that
make up the constellations of the
night sky. This narrow band is tilted
about 20 degrees to the plane of
the Milky Way, our Galactic disk. It
is the combination of low star
density with a band of ultra bright
stars concentrated in a belt which
runs through it that provides the
beautiful night skies peppered with
constellations that the Earth’s
inhabitants are allowed to enjoy.
These constellations have figured
prominently in the history of the
Earth. They have been useful tool
to navigate on sea and land. They
also have proven valuable to
agriculturalists to mark out the
farming labor cycles. The
constellations have also figured
prominently in the imagination of
people all over the planet who
used them as visual symbols of
their mythology.
There is a second great mystery
associated with the stars of Gould’s
Belt. These stars seem to have
been formed separately from the
rest of the stars in our Galaxy. Stars
are normally formed in the gas rich
spiral arms. The stars in Gould’s Belt
however seem to have been
formed outside the spiral arms in
“some local violent event.” This is
truly a weird situation. The Earth
sits in the middle of a peculiar
bubble that seems to have been
swept clear of most of the stars
that were originally formed in it.
The bubble was then surrounded
by a unique ring of a few thousand
bright stars that were formed in an
unusual, possibly unique, event
separately from all the other 200
million stars in this galaxy.
The title of this Blog was taken
from the headline to the article
which contained most of the
information used in this Blog. The
article however attempts to
explain this amazing situation
through the invocation of Dark
Matter. At this time no one even
knows if Dark Matter actually
exists. Even if it is proven that Dark
Matter exists and was the
immediate cause of the
wonderfully beautiful, glorious skies
the Earth enjoys, would it not seem
likely that the ultimate cause
behind this incredible series of
coincidences was the Hand of God?
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