"If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them."

- Spock

"This Side of Paradise"

Stardate 3417.7

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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
- Arthur C. Clarke


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The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
- Arthur C. Clarke


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The Universe is a creation entirely within a being that is outside time and space, and dreaming about what we are. Everything is connected, because it's all being created by this one consciousness. And we are tiny reflections of the mind that is creating the universe. That's what the alchemy says. -Augustus Owsley Stanley

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"Through vibration comes motion. Through motion comes color. Through color comes tone."
~Pythagoras

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"If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have and my own preconceived, silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen."
- John McLaughlin

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
--George Orwell, 1945

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"The meeting of
two personalities is like
the contact of two
chemical substances:
if there is any reaction
both are transformed"
--CARL JUNG

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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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...every atom that belongs to me
as good belongs to you...
~Walt Whitman

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We've all been in prison
because we couln't tell the truth

Ya know each man has made
the very bars he's clinging to

~Mike Cochran

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Sometimes I say to a poem,

"Not now,
can't you see I am bathing!"

But the poem usually doesn't care
And quips,

"Too bad, Hafiz,
No getting lazy--

You promised God you would help out

and He just came up with this
new tune."

Sometimes I say to a poem,

"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the Sun."

And the poem will often
Respond

By climbing onto a barroom table:

Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.

--Hafiz

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Play is our first act. If we are lucky, it will be our last. "The child's toys and the old man's reasons," wrote Blake, "are the products of the two seasons." We begin in play, and in our wisdom return to it. Play is the taste of paradise from which we came; a foretaste of the paradise we will enter... Play is a peak experience, the feeling of 'that which was, is, and ever shall be.'
~~George Sheehan, from Running and Being

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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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Does sunset sometimes look
like the sun's coming up?
Do you know what a faithful love is like?

You're crying. you say
you've burned yourself.
But can you think of anyone who's not
hazy with smoke?
-- Rumi

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"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
- Wavy Gravy

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We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.

-Timothy Leary on Millbrook

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~Alan Kay

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You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."
- John Lennon


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"Try now to get a picture of that luminous reality, the grand orchestra of the universe. Its heavenly strains are not only filling all interstellar space but they are ringing with far more enchanting music through all the higher worlds beyond the utmost bounds of the physical. The higher we go, the more enchanting the music. In those higher worlds the music is less mixed with matter, and so it is not dulled. After passing the Third Region on the Path of the Masters, this sublime chorus becomes so overwhelmingly attractive that the soul grows impatient to go on up. It is absorbed in it. It lives in it day and night. It is its life, its joy, its spiritual food. There is not a cubic millimeter of space in existence which is not filled with this music. Sweeter and sweeter its heavenly strains vibrate through every living being, great or small, from world to world, and from universe to universe. Its life-giving melodies may not be consciously heard by those who are not trained to catch them, but there is not one living being in all creation which does not derive its life from this current. All joy that has ever thrilled a living soul has come out of this divine harmonic. How great is this luminous reality!"
- Julian Johnson, "The Path of the Masters"



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"I'll play it first and tell you what it's called later."
~Miles Davis

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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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"If we can locate, at the very center of our silence, our individual 'still small voice', we will have found our greatest ally in life."
-Robert Lawrence Smith,Quaker Book of Wisdom

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Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
- Buckminster Fuller

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"Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves."
~Henry Threadgill

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"From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless."
~Hazrat Inayat Khan


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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
-Kurt Vonnegut

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Socrates died for your sins.
~~Lazlo Kovaks

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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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Possess nothing and be possessed by nothing. Put away what you have in your head, give what you have in your heart. Here a world and there a world, we are seated on the threashold.
- Sufi saying (from Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson)

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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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Come faith, come love,
come be in me -

Come dwell in broken pottery -

Come the empty, come unfilled -
come all being, come to me -

I'm not living, I'm not rolling,
not walking paths of the dead -

I'm not living,
I'm not living,
in the Shadow of God anymore.

- D Cravens



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DEMAND 7: I demand that you seek out and create stories that make you feel that the universe is friendly and life is on your side. You could hunt down stories about how, for example, rising rates of intermarriage are helping to dissipate ethnic and religious strife worldwide; how the violent crime rate in America has been steadily declining for 30 years; how death rates from cancer are shrinking; the birth rate among teenage mothers is the lowest it's been in six decades; acreage devoted to organic farming is increasing rapidly; the number of refugees and weapons sales all over the world are way down from the level they were 15 years ago, and how the actual bare naked truth is that levels of literacy and education and political freedom and peace and wealth are steadily growing all over the world.
~~Rob Breszny

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"Whether you're playing in a bar, a strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to compliment and enhance life."
~Carlos Santana

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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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Dance like no one's watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one's listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.

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I'm not here, I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait.
-Andrea Pusillo

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In the beginner's mind
there are many possibilities;
in the expert's mind
there are few

~~Shunryu Suzuki

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
- Frank Zappa

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

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"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. "- E. Merrill Root

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The real truth is this: The whole world is joy. Heaven is a festival all year long. Of all lies, the greatest falsehood is melancholy.

- Issac Bashevis Singer


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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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