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True Hallucinations 03 - Along a Ghostly Trail (28 min, 22mb)
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Terence McKenna - Food Of The Gods (PDF,3mb)
Food of the Gods is a powerful catalyst of intellectual growth for anyone engaged in the pursuit to understand this world. It explores mankind's connection with the Earth as an organism. Terence's speculations on our long lost mutualist relationship with plants has deep implications in science and offers sound insight into modern conditions of human iniquity.f.i. McKenna postulates
- The loss of the feminine in today's 'dominator' cultures has been further catalyzed by our abuse of plants, drugs, and nature as a whole.
- The psychedelic experience, with its ego dissolving effects represents an important component of the symbiosis of man on Earth.
- The striking similarities in the chemical structures of neurotransmitters in the brain and indole compounds in hallucinogenic plants are no coincidence.
Despite the exhaustively researched and largely scholarly presentation of this work, unfounded criticism ensues when the subject matter stands as evidence in the indictment of many commonly held belief systems. Terrence McKenna didn't write for the amusement of those unfamiliar with the psychedelic experience. It was well within his mental capacity and scholarly abilities to legitimize his work for an audience of intellectual indifference.
Neither was it that the uninitiated were intentionally ignored and his priceless intellectual contribution was meant to be out of reach from common people, in an extension of Huxley's philosophy which he is often mistaken for representing.
Rather, his weakness seems to be his naivety in assuming that people inexperienced with psychedelics would approach his work with the unbiased mindfulness due of a reader of any great work of cultural and spiritual diagnosis.
The fact is that any intelligent, honest approach to this work will inevitably lead one to an intersection with a reality that cannot be negated.Those who are experienced with psychedelics are likely to find in this book truths which they will integrate without hesitance - truths with implications profound enough to dissolve many of the illusions that largely pass as fact.
Terence McKenna: Food of the Gods Pt.1/6
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Tuxedomoon - Ghost Sonata, An Opera Without Words (82 ^ 91mb)
One year ago (Rhotation Sundaze 17,18 & 20) i posted some of Tuxedomoon's (solo) albums Ghost Sonata came from the bonus DVD of their 7707 boxset...
"An opera without words" Tuxedomoon calls the soundtrack to the multi-media theater piece they originally wrote for an Italian arts festival in 1982 "possibly the most psychedelic symphony ever waxed" their record label suggests. True, this ambitious collage of neo-classical strings, electronics, cabaret futura and taped musique concrete isn't even your average post-modernist score. To recap, the members of Tuxedomoon were early Ralph Records associates who relocated to Belgium in 1981 where their increasing Eurocentric forages could thrive in a mutually beneficial climate. Their first album since 1983 to feature the "classic" lineup of Peter Principle, Blaine L Reininger and Steven Brown beside Winston Tong and Bruce Gedulig, The Ghost Sonata is a tint masterpiece of sorts, being an ultra-vivid, rhapsodic updating of film noir atmospherics that was cruelly born 40 years too late to complement Citizen Kane. Although the component parts overlap, The Ghost Sonata leans toward the overridingly elegaic, elegant swell of strings, resonating as if the last string section on earth-the title track, "Les Odalisques" and "Music Number Two" are particularly outstanding - using the electronic enhancements, neo-cocktail jazz passages (on woodwind and piano) and added dialogue to provide a palpable sense of mood/scene-shifting momentum. The net result captures Tuxedomoon's rarified, quixotic melancholy at its peak - like Joy Division and Dead Can Dance, a melancholia that is less comforting than overwhelming, eschewing the comfortable gothic trappings of gloom for gloom's sake. A unique overspill of imagination, through a glass darkly.
01 - The Funeral Of A Friend (2:25)
02 - The Ghost Sonata (1:40)
03 - Catalyst (0:39)
04 - An Affair At The Soiree
05 - Music Number Two (2:51)
06 - A Drowning (0:25)
07 - The Cascade (3:02)
08 - A Mythic Death (2:16)
09 - Basso Pomade (2:29)
10 - Licorice Stick Ostinato (2:27)
11 - The Laboratory (5:07)
12 - Les Odalisques (4:10)
13 - An Unsigned Postcard (3:06)
14 - Music Number Two (4:16)
15 - The Ghost Sonata (4:46)
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