"We are being transformed, even at this moment, by our extraordinary velocity and by the emergence of a newly insistant force-the power of NOW." ~Stephen Bertman~

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Your brain is designed to design realities.
~~Tim Leary

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A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
- Jack Handy

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The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.
~~ Henry David Thoreau

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"The Sound eventually becomes louder and louder and begins to pull the spirit up. This mystic Sound reverberating ceaselessly within us lifts our soul above body-consciousness. At each stage the Celestial Music becomes more and more enrapturing. When the soul hears this divine Melody, it gets magnetized and attracted to it, and the soul soars within. Traveling on that Sound, we travel higher and higher to worlds of unimaginable joy." - (Sant Rajinder Singh)

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"We are being transformed, even at this moment, by our extraordinary velocity and by the emergence of a newly insistant force-the power of NOW." ~Stephen Bertman~

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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
- Buckminster Fuller

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If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.

If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
~Taoist Chant -6th Century

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"Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best."
- Frank Zappa

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Noise, then, occurs when language breaks down. Noise is a wordless state in which the very constitution of our selves is in jeopardy. The pleasure of noise lies in the fact that the obliteration of meaning and identity is ecstacy.
- Simon Reynolds

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"When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls and others build windmills"
--Chinese proverb

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"Have tremendous expectations and believe in them" --- Unknown

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Watch your thoughts;
they become your words.
Watch your words;
they become your actions.
Watch your actions;
they become your habits.
Watch your habits;
they become your character.
Watch your character for
it will become your destiny.
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
If I am only for myself,
what am I?
And if not now, when?

-- Hillel

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"If you act like a dumbshit they'll treat you as an equal."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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"In music, instruments perform the function of the colors employed in painting."
~Honore De Balzac

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored... Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."

- Aldous Huxley




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“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger”.

- Chinese proverb.

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But the beauty is not the madness
Tho' my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.

- Ezra Pound, Cantos, CXVI

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"The composer...joins Heaven and Earth together with threads of sound"
~Alan Hovhaness

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ONLY BREATH

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

-- Rumi

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It all comes down to a choice between fear and love.
~~ Anon

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There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. ~Dr.Who

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What is important is to be wholly discontented, for such total discontent is the beginning of the initiative which becomes creative as it matures; and that is the only way to find out what is truth.
~~J. Krishnamurti

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored... Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."

- Aldous Huxley




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Why should i see god better than this day?
I see something of god each hour
of the twenty four, and each moment then,
in the faces of men and women,
and in my own face in the glass;
I find letters from god
dropped in the street,
and every one is signed by god's name.
And I leave them where they are,
for I know that others will punctually
come forever and ever.
~Whitman

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"The superior man tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails and people's minds are led towards
the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearence of a great world."
- Confucius

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"... It had been five years since the brutal but transformative illumination of my own Bwiti initiation in the damp jungles of secretive Gabon, and it seemed, abstractly, a good idea to check in with the ancestors and the hard-ass Iboga spirit once again. And the trip would be paid for..."

- Daniel Pinchbeck, 2012: The Return of Quetzalqoatl

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The tendency with many people after they are a little "advanced in years" is to look backward and with regret. The "looking" should be the other way--forward. If you want to go backward in every sense, mental and physical, keep on cultivating the mood of living regretfully in your past life.

It is one chief characteristic of the material mind to hold tenaciously to the past. It likes to recall the past and mourn over it. The material mind has a never-ending series of solemn amusement, in recalling past joys, and feeling sad because they are never to come again.

-Prentice Mulford


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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Jubal Harshaw

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A wine bottle fell from a wagon
And broke open in a field.

That night one hundred beetles and all their cousins
Gathered

And did some serious binge drinking.

They even found some seed husks nearby
And began to play them like drums and whirl.
This made God very happy.

Then the "night candle" rose into the sky
And one drunk creature, laying down his instrument,
Said to his friend-for no apparent
Reason,

"What should we do about that moon?"

Seems to Hafiz
Most everyone has laid aside the music

Tackling such profoundly useless
Questions.

-Hafiz

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Aaah, Music....a magic beyond all we do here!
~~Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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"... the role an observer plays in determining the form a quantum takes may be no more mysterious than the fact that the way a jeweler manipulates a gem determines which of its facets become visible and which do not."
-- Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, referring to physicist David Bohm's model of the universe as a "kind of giant, flowing hologram"

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"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
- Frank Zappa

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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate their darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.
~~Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

- Stanley Kubrick

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Your imagination is supposed to be the engine of your destiny. It is the wizard's wand you can use to design your future. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Every human creation on this earth has begun as a vision in someone's imagination.
~~Rob Breszny

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"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

- Stanley Kubrick

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"There is no here, no there; Infinity is right before our eyes." Seng-Ts'an


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Five Guidelines for the Aquarian Age

1. Recognize that the other person is you. (In lak'ech)
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When time is on you, start and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos will clear the path.

(Yogi Bhajan, Mind, p. xiii)

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Trust your crazy ideas. - Dan Zadra

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"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
~T.S.Eliot

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lazlo sez:
On Mon Dec 28 6:08:17 2009
Here's a bit of psychedelic history.

San Francisco 1993, featuring Terrance McKenna

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cecil sez:
On Mon Nov 16 7:59:50 2009
In commemoration of the new 2012 catastrophe movie, the next C3 presentation will be dedicated to debunking the Mayan 2012 doomsday prophecies.

That is, if C3 performs before December 2012. Otherwise, I guess we'll just have to wait.

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Cecil sez:
On Mon Jul 13 7:14:34 2009
"Archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest musical instruments ever found--bird-bone and ivory flutes that they say are at least 35,000 years old. The flutes' design and studies of other artifacts from the site suggest that music was an integral part of human life far earlier than first thought."



Science Now Article

Previously, the Neandertal bear bone flute was considered the oldest, at over 55,000 years. But recently this has come into question and some say the holes in the bones were made by fangs, not hominids.

All I know is what I feel, and I feel the whistle or flute has been in use for hundreds of thousands of years.

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Cecil sez:
On Mon Jul 20 14:14:33 2009


Through the magic of Hulu I watched a movie while on the road last week... the pilot for the FOX TV series "Virtuality." I really enjoyed this and thought, "finally, we're going to have some good S/F on broadcast TV for a change." Not so fast, buddy-boy. FOX cancelled the production, in favor of their usual reality TV schlock. And all I got was this lousy pilot. Here's an
article reviewing the pilot.

You can watch Virtuality here!

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gerry sez:
On Fri Jul 31 17:29:40 2009
Roger Ebert
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/everymans_guide_to_quantum_the.html


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Cecil sez:
On Tue May 5 8:48:58 2009

From the ashes of the Peace Conspiracy comes "Summer Solstice Bliss-Out Festival" June 19 on the Gasconade River near Mt. Sterling, MO.

Check out the MySpace Site for more info or to sign up.

The arrangements are being made for a sane and secure festival, no hassles, so what are you waiting for? It's just down the road from CoMo and JeffCity so that road-trip excuse won't fly!


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Cecil sez:
On Thu Apr 9 13:17:56 2009


Yep, the future's like that. People are now sending "twaiku" - haiku twittertweets. This is what it's like when one's life and taste are both taken away at the same time.



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lazlo sez:
On Wed Apr 1 9:58:23 2009
Can GOD's existence be proven mathematically?

Christopher Michael Langan suggests it can in his article Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe. Note: you don't have to have a Ph.D in mathematics to follow his work, but it would sure help. (Quoted text is from "The CTMU: A New Kind of Reality Theory")



"...What does this say about God? First, if God is real, then God inheres in the comprehensive reality syntax, and this syntax inheres in matter. Ergo, God inheres in matter, and indeed in its spacetime substrate as defined on material and supramaterial levels. This amounts to pantheism, the thesis that God is omnipresent with respect to the material universe. Now, if the universe were pluralistic or reducible to its parts, this would make God, Who coincides with the universe itself, a pluralistic entity with no internal cohesion. But because the mutual syntactic consistency of parts is enforced by a unitary holistic manifold with logical ascendancy over the parts themselves - because the universe is a dual-aspected monic entity consisting of essentially homogeneous, self-consistent infocognition - God retains monotheistic unity despite being distributed over reality at large. Thus, we have a new kind of theology that might be called monopantheism, or even more descriptively, holopantheism. Second, God is indeed real, for a coherent entity identified with a self-perceptual universe is self-perceptual in nature, and this endows it with various levels of self-awareness and sentience, or constructive, creative intelligence. Indeed, without a guiding Entity whose Self-awareness equates to the coherence of self-perceptual spacetime, a self-perceptual universe could not coherently self-configure. Holopantheism is the logical, metatheological umbrella beneath which the great religions of mankind are unknowingly situated."

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Cecil sez:
On Mon Mar 23 10:18:42 2009
Don't believe anything you read on the web. C3 performed in Lupus last Saturday night but it wasn't your typical "performance" per se.

Mostly, it was about food and far-out sounds. Thanks to all for the company and the experience!



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cecil sez:
On Fri Dec 16 9:31:49 2005
This Sunday the phantasmagorical and auspicious C3 Psychoto-Electro Arkestra will be celebrating Kwantaaa, a new holiday that allows you to be in an n-dimensional holiday space and celebrate years and years of Kwantaaa simultaneously with yourself and other copies of you.


It is said (by those people who said it, in that unintelligible language they say it in, in that far away land where they live to say things and such) that all mid-winter religious celebrations have their origin in Kwantaaa. Druids think the Christians co-opted their celebration, yet the Vikings are pissed off at the Druids for stealing their tree.


Neanderthals, sitting barefoot and playing on their bison-bone flutes, could easily tap into the n-dimensional holiday vortex to project emotions and basic holiday concepts thru the Kwantummm Ether into the future, where we find ourselves today.

The Neanderthals felt it would be great fun to distract the future hominids by giving them archetypical iconic cues so they could fight with each other over who came up with the shiny bauble in the first place. The most time-honored iconic cues projected to us certainly include:

  • Booze - shuts down the background buzz of Kwantummm Ether thus acting as a sort of chemical self-actuating prophecy fulfillment (whew!).

  • Trees - to turn our seasonally affected disorder malaise inside-out, so to speak, juxtaposing an outside natural feature inside our hovel, often driving us to drink.

  • Presents - just a word-play, that's all - like Baba Ram Dass would say, "be here now" the present is exactly that. Neanderthals want nothing to do with future hominids back-channelling to them. They valued their privacy and that is why we know so little of them today. Presents keep us from drifting into the past.

  • Gluttony - ultimately leads us to turn on ourselves. After Cromagnon did such a swell job chasing down and roasting the Neanderthals (which of course they foresaw) this is the ultimate vengeance. Case in point: What time of the year do you think it was when the Donner Party changed from an exploration party to a dinner party? Clue: Certainly wasn't the 4th of July. Be very afraid when Aunt Sadie finishes the last piece of mincemet pie and starts looking over your leg like it might need a bit of lemon-pepper seasoning.

  • So let us humbly celebrate Kwantaaa at the Ragtag Cinema (which invokes nostalgic feelings of raggedy street urchins in Hal Roach depression-era comedies) from 1:00PM until approximately 4:14:23PM or until the Neanderthals dismiss our sorry asses to go live in the present again.

    The past is remembering you... Remember yourself!

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