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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Out beyond all ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~~Rumi

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Trust your crazy ideas. - Dan Zadra

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You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. . .
~ Rumi

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"Computers - the gizmos themselves - have far less to do with techie enthusiasm than some half-understood resonance to The Great Work: hardwiring collective consciousness, creating the Planetary Mind. Teilhard de Chardin wrote about this enterprise many years ago and would be appalled by the prosaic nature of the tools we will use to bring it about. But I think there is something sweetly ironic that the ladder to his Omega Point might be built by engineers and not mystics."
~~ John Perry Barlow

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"Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony."
~Isidore of Seville

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"We are entering a new era. I call it 'the Singularity.' It's a merger between human intelligence and machine intelligence that is going to create something bigger than itself. It's the cutting edge of evolution on our planet. One can make a strong case that it's actually the cutting edge of the evolution of intelligence in general, because there's no indication that it's occurred anywhere else. To me that is what human civilization is all about. It is part of our destiny and part of the destiny of evolution to continue to progress ever faster, and to grow the power of intelligence exponentially. To contemplate stopping that--to think human beings are fine the way they are--is a misplaced fond remembrance of what human beings used to be. What human beings are is a species that has undergone a cultural and technological evolution, and it's the nature of evolution that it accelerates, and that its powers grow exponentially, and that's what we're talking about. The next stage of this will be to amplify our own intellectual powers with the results of our technology."

- Ray Kurzweill

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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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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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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

- Bobby Kennedy on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

- Joseph Campbell

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"Don't just eat that hamburger, eat the HELL out of it!"
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free.
~~Rumi

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My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

- Bobby Kennedy on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
- Buckminster Fuller's final interview before his death, "NewsCenter4", WNBC-TV , 1983

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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 you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
- Jack Handy

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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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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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Millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore,
but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive. Everything is speeding up – the
madness, the collective egoic dysfunction, as well as the arising of the new
consciousness, the awakening.
-Eckhart Tolle

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

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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~Rumi

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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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"I don't know! I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again!" ~Bart Simpson

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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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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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Look how far the light came
To paint you
This way
-Bruce Cockburn

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love is the religion
the universe its book

- Rumi

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

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"We must begin to understand not only that there is an urgent need to change
the world but that we have the power to do so." --Jonathan Cohen

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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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"Master, if abstainence is a means to detachment, what is the means to abstainence?"

"How refreshing to drink fine wine after a long thirst!"

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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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"Computers - the gizmos themselves - have far less to do with techie enthusiasm than some half-understood resonance to The Great Work: hardwiring collective consciousness, creating the Planetary Mind. Teilhard de Chardin wrote about this enterprise many years ago and would be appalled by the prosaic nature of the tools we will use to bring it about. But I think there is something sweetly ironic that the ladder to his Omega Point might be built by engineers and not mystics."
~~ John Perry Barlow

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"There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber."
- Jimi Hendrix

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This I replied: no one,
if he could help it,
would tolerate the presence
of untruth in the most vital
part of his nature concerning
the most vital matters.
There is nothing he would fear
so much as to harbour falshood
in the the soul.
~~The Republic Of Plato

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

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

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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