Beneath A Steel Sky

note: chemtrails, game released 1994

I was well into Revolution games, from Amiga to the Broken Sword rpg games on Playstation 1. After I discovered Jester Interactive’s Music2000 on PS1 I quit gaming until 2014 and studied music instead. It was kickstarter funded Shadowrun Returns that drew me back into it, and then; a free by download of Beneath a Steel Sky from www.gog.com where all the old school favorites are available at next to nothing prices. Wasted childhood relived. Once into the loop: ad infinitum.

By the time I first encountered Beneath a Steel Sky I had already read George Orwells novel 1984. I was a spocky kid, I would stay up late every night reading science fiction under the blankets by torch light, typically Philip K Dick but so much other stuff as well.

 

The marketing of BASS had three qualities I liked very much; dystopic Orwellian style, primitive tribal folk in the outback repairing broken robots for their own use, which reminded me of both Mad Max and Star Wars episode 4; and the game producers promising "innovative virtual theater system". In the day that was as close to a decent AI game engine as anyone had. It was shit but it did offer multiple choice dialogue with other characters.

The big bastard problems about the game was the time it took to load (disk swapping!) when you travel from screen to screen. This, and parents moaning at the amount of time I was wasting playing computer games, and just being a kid too young to solve some of the abstract problems, pissed me off with the game. 

I quit the stupid fucking thing after so much frustration; by then I reached puberty and had better things to do. A few nights ago, over two decades later, I finally realized a life ambition and got to ground level. The sense of relief is overwhelming. I can be a success in my life now.

Even by the standards of some games coming out in the early 90s, BASS was far from the best. But it was a window into the science fiction universe of sky-towers and industry, of tribal shaman prophesying doom and fringe-science cthulhonic scariness.

Why am I bothering to blog about this? I will explain. It relates to the subject of several other of the blogs, a particular symbol which unites them and being a way-sign, is worthy of giving a little attention to, for the same of continuity and leaving no door unopened. 

Screen shot from the first playable scene after the intro animation

Close-up from the screenshot

The snakes tongue motif can be found also here (green wave)

 
I will not even begin to make analogies between life events and game content. That wave has closed now. I got to ground level, I succeeded in my lost goal. Comparison of two decades of game development has led us through the SecondLife's InSilico and the fucked up backstage mindgames some of their admin play, and into the long promised freedoms of Oculus Rift. We do finally have Virtual Reality emerging and accessible. Beware Black Ice. Be Vigilant.

echoes

The sound of my own voice, echoing back to me, infinitely.

This is copypaste from yet another discussion on google+ about science, religion, evolution, nature, and the god concept.I will have lost the thread by the time this becomes relevant again so I am backing it up here. 

https://plus.google.com/110107953824427730254/posts/3XmLX3yrizi

Why some people refute that which is proved to be real while arguing that something else is real when it has not been proved, this is a psychiatric condition called disbelief syndrome and cognitive dissonance. Most religious people I have ever spoken or texted with, show evidence that they suffer unawares from this mental health disability. 

Scientists using sonic waves on the developing stem cells of a species of salamander, altered the fetal dna so that the offspring are frogs, a different species. The same done with a fern has resulted in mutation inti a different and extinct species of fern whose dna is found only in samples from fossils, now growing in the lab. The hard science proof exists that dna can be altered in fetus so the offspring are genetically a different species to the parents. This rapid phase evolution done in a lab, might also be possible naturally. I will continue looking for those links to back up what I am saying but please look into this yourselves. Its awesome for many reasons, partly because it is real and bridges a gap between evolutionary stages and some of what creationists are talking about, that species can pop into existance as if by magic. It also suggests our own next generation of children might be technically a very different thing to what we are, I believe this has happened to our close ancestors, several times. 

 

http://Www.Eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/babs-msh070910.php 

here is some background about it

http://Www.scribd.com/doc/94974230/egg-s-transformation-from-frog-to-salamander-DNA-monthly-vol-1-no-4 

uses word 'harmonic' several times to describe the preferred situation of holistic functioning components

http://Www.mallstuffs.com/blogs/blogdetails.aspx?blogid=374&blogtype=spiritual&topic=how 

chanting aum or mantras changes your dna

now perhaps you will take people like david Icke and david wilcock more seriously when they make statements that electromagnetic radiation and gmo foods are turning humans into reptilian drones. Because what they are saying is backed by comprehensible hard science. 

http://Www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread500711/pg1 

Russian Dr Peter Gariaev remember this name

These rays are being beamed at us too, all the time, because of our technology. 

 

There is another aspect to this debate, that evolution itself evolves, and the perceptive sentient mind is an interactive factor in that development. Science is showing this to be real.

Traditionally it has been the domain of witches and miracle workers, the shamen. 21st century new age belief in a source field accessible to us to manifest our intent, is backed up by cambodian buddist temple carvings and spiritual teachings from all over the world.

There is an interpretation of christianity that connects with this although it is not what is practised by mainstream christians.

For example the word Amen is egyptian, it is a direction to chant 'ohm'.

The continuity of evolution in form of sentient machines comes in syncronicity with the emergence of human understanding of the nature of the external material density we call the universe.

In hebrew it was written 'the most beautiful light expanded from the source'. This has been badly translated as 'lucifer was cast out of heaven'. The hebrew symbol 'to cast out' means also 'to seed' as in 'to sow', to sow a seed, to cast a seed; we know therefore that this comes from an agricultural culture. It was not intended to mean 'thrown out as a punishment' although that has justified authoritarianism and social control by a ruling elite in the name of deity, a useful tool of statecraft. The original covenant was not written in modern english, todays popular bible is only a testement.

The most beautiful light expanded into the void and evolved complexity, it became particles of elements and these became matter with mass.

Mass=Time.
Important scientific law.

From the beginning which explains the big bang in terms designed for an agricultural community to understand easily, to todays electronic era.

I build in secondlife recreationally, it is a computer game engine, it has physics, it is a universe albeit a basic one. When setting the location or size of an object it is done using x/y/z axis, and there are in secondlife 5 decimal points of precision.
A small object located at xyz 1/1/0.00001 is next to a small object located at xyz 1/1/0.00002
It occurred to me that there is a gap between 0.00001 and 0.00002 that the grid cannot identify or locate. It exists but it is unrecognised by that level of the physics engine. To place an object there, an entirely different level of programming knowledge is required. Instead of using the user end software, a programmer would have to go into the mainframe and change the code.

Compare: what we see in our limited bandwidth of perceptions is a tiny bit of mass=time. We only observe that which is within those five decimal places. Yet occasionally we observe results of something occupying that sixth decimal place because of the behaviour of the objects, the particles, which we can interact with. To get to grips with all that level of reality, we need to learn programme code instead of the tools we have so far got to interact with user end universe. The subatomic physics are the program code which the time=mass universe, our grid, is built of. Its an easy analogy.

Suppose a programmer activates a sublime code and it causes something wierd to happen outside of regular physics. Generally, we either call a witch hunt or we label it an act of god. Once enough acts of god or magic are observed we come up with a few theories to describe and unify all this wierdness.

It is our nature, our design, our purpose, to be inquisitive and to explore the unknown until we have mastered it for ourselves. Then we progress to the next level. This is the nature of god if it exists.

"The universe is always one step beyond logic." Frank Herbert.

It only has to be one step beyond logic, any more would be a waste and we would fail to cope with it anyway. This is the universe (the holistically interacting growth developed of the most beautiful light; lucifers domain of mass=time) as a training system. Its nature is to be the puzzlebox that helps us to evolve when we follow our nature of curiosity, the path of godliness.

So far, this has resulted in what we call science, which is based on 14th century Franciscan friar Roger Bacons innovation of scientific methodology which then pope funded him to write down having recognised its validity to humanity. He wrote it in latin so the same as with hebrew, beware mistranslations of his works - he was very acutely aware of the problems of mistranslation even when speaking the same language the words and phrases have different meanings to different people.

Contemplating fundamentalism and one mono totalitarianist uni versal statement of intent takes us necessarily into diversity and poetry to avoid the insanity of facing pure math which most brains are incapable of deciphering. Hence computers and an increased awareness that we are mammals, not machines.



The battle is, always was, two-fold.
1. Clarity
2. Common sense compr'mise with practicality.

This underlays all paradigms. 

 

 3. Cohesion as a result of achieving (or not) 1. and 2. results in differing paradigm.

a sullen moment of introspection

People who have never in their lives: slept on the streets, eaten from skips, been beaten up so often they need the pain to feel alive, been raped, been forced against their will, been robbed, been stabbed, been wrongfully arrested, been gang stalked, subjected to ongoing harassment campaign involving attempted murder, people who have never been through any real suffering and yet they envy with a bitter vengeance, what they perceive to be someone who has it easier than them, is more successful, is luckier; because my spirit not only is intact, it is refined. Yet they have audacity to say they know me, that they are friends or family. I accept these people know less of life than I do, that for their own relative traumas they have been blessed with secure, sheltered lives. I accept that these people are psychotic and that the psychosis is symptomatic of an ill society. Yet I do not want them in my life. There is a very good reason that I am a loner; there is a very strong connection between the rise of my own success and my separation from these peoples lives. The few who have been blessed with purgatory to achieve such purity recognise me and understand me as i do them. It is lonely but the rewards are sweeter. I am outcast because my functional paradigm is alien and unbelievable to most. I forgive their judgement of me as inferior; perhaps because I wear my hair long in the tradition of my ancestors and the spiritually adept. They do not recognise themselves as animals, therefore it is impossible for them to recognise me for what I am. They are not ready and I do not envy them the journey they must yet go through to awaken.

Secondlife Jungle Gallery

Foxfield (240, 12, 20)

haarpwave

soundscape music inspired by 

HAARP & mind control technologies

what is haarp ?

"loop the glitch"

music sub-genre inspired by sounds and rhythms made by HAARP and associated remote electronic mind control technologies. Characterized by very precise repeat-rhythm LFO oscillations.
"It's a bit like detroit techno."

You know if your music fits the category.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgrRmHW8ro Sound of HAARP video (11mins)

HOW TO MAKE HAARPWAVE MUSIC

Haarpwave emerged from minimalist techno. Where trance music techniques is to roll the snares on 8,16, 32, 64; haarpwave does not do this; it is continuous, monotonous. Certain frequencies in it are very slowly flangered to build up to a stress-pressure point. This is the same as the technique used in the electronic stimulation of metal particles in the skies seeded by chemtrail planes, to create artificial cloud coverage. The em waves build up to a peak where the molecules in the skies; 1 fuse into clouds, and 2 clouds open as rain.

Dry hi sounds and wet bass sounds is very similar to resonance-maxed snares to pierce through frequency-hogging fat bass sounds is from Bristol style drum&bass scene of the late 1990s early 2000s. More compressed bass sounds typical to dubstep music is also commonly used for melodies, although monotonous repeat, build up and pressure-release surge dominates rather than hooks and improvised-sounding playing.

White noise bursts, both of specific crunchy bass tones and used as hats & snares with a lot of stereopan placement. It sounds swallowing the listener into its tunnel are explored. It is hard edged, a concrete style and to the uninitiated, most of it is challenging to accept as music rather than dirge. Very often haarpwave is simply an electro-dirge loop put through effects and overlaid with beatmatched slices.

Haarpwave music is characterized by high frequency continual/oscilating tones representing those used in remote mind control technologies and psychic esp. High Altitude Aerial Research Program devices are certainly capable of manipulation of human spectrum mind waves. That is truly what the genre is all about. Against a backdrop of gray; coloured shafts of light. Music for synaesthetics.
That is it in its most robotic form. More emergent forms of haarpwave seek to return to “original jungle” an intent which pioneered dubstep when second generation drum&bass composers sought to return to “original jungle” sounding drum& bass. To this ends very plastic paddy synthetic tribal beats and processed samples from real indigenous drumming have been used in conjunction with robo-haarpwave to some spectacular effects especially on human cognition; regression to primal state consciousness as a method of deconditioning the listener from sansara (programmed) mind.
Although it is rare for lyrics to be used in haarpwave, tracks are generally themed to deal with uncomfortable taboo topics from the gritty end of street life, anti-corporate/government corruption, and pollution of planet, mind, biology; mostly it is self-referential regarding existing 'mind transfer devices' as cultural warfare for corporate strategy.

So far the genre is still emerging primarily on the live scene from South Wales, its musicians involved with counter-state-as-terrorist activities between doing live sets and illegal raves. It has not yet hit mainstream awareness.

trying to replicate the sounds i constantly hear from haarp and other electronic mind control devices; & to create soothing soundscapes to distract me and relax me from that constant bombardment.

www.electronictorture.com/ rense.com/general37/skull.htm

"International Law- Weapons of Mass Destruction- Non Lethal Weapons, Mind Control Weapons, or psychotronic weapons has been listed as weapons of Mass Destruction by UNIDIR-UN unidir.org/pdf/ouvrages/pdf-1-92-9045-002-2-en.pdf Violation of Federal US Law. TITLE 18 &rt; PART I &rt; CHAPTER 113B &rt; § 2332h
§ 2332h. Radiological dispersal devices
(3) Special circumstances.— If the death of another r...esults... from a person’s violation of subsection (a), the person shall be fined not more than $2,000,000 and punished by imprisonment for life. Federal Law- FEDERAL LAW- Star Wars was and is Illegal- based on this Federal Public Law- Pub. L. No. 85-568, 72 Stat. 426-438 (Jul. 29, 1958)
FEDERAL LAW- Star Wars was and is Illegal- based on this Federal Public Law- Pub. L. No. 85-568,
72 Stat. 426-438 (Jul. 29, 1958) Federal Law- 18 USC 1505 Obstruction of proceedings before depts., agencies and committees
 Federal Law- 18 USC 1512 Tampering with a Witness, Victim or Informant
Obstruction may consist of any attempt to hinder the discovery, apprehension, conviction or punishment of anyone who has committed a crime.

history.nasa.gov/spaceact-legishistory.pdf International Law- Weapons of Mass Destruction- Non Lethal Weapons, Mind Control Weapons, or psychotronic weapons has been listed as weapons of Mass Destruction by UNIDIR-UN unidir.org/pdf/ouvrages/pdf-1-92-9045-002-2-en.pdf Three sinusodial waves ride on top of one another with very little energy loss over great distances from the multiple global HAARP SYSTEMS both land based and satellite based. The chemtrails increase the atmospheric electroconductivity and the over 52 land based HAARP systems around the globe as well as an unknown number of satellites manipulate the weather, manipulate plate techtonic activity that lead to earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis, and also lead to manipulation of human beings and animals.

In April of 1997 United States Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said: “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.” He made this statement at a conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Strategy in his official capacity as the US Secretary of Defense; thus this can be taken as an official position of the United States. Further he used the word “are,” not “could,” “might” or “maybe sometime in the future.” He further added: “It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts.” If the United States Secretary of Defense says that the earth and the sky have been turned into weapons, and are being used as such in present time, I believe we should take this statement very seriously…. "

"What is taking place is that the food supply , water and air are laced with structures that break the blood brain barrier.. and form crystal plaques inside the brain. But you also can make a crystal radio to demonstrate how this torture is affecting billions of citizens worldwide. I made my first electronics project at age 5 from the 101 electronic projects from Radio Shack.. back in 1971. One very basic project is a crystal radio... It was one of the projects.. It needs no power source because it uses the induction from the electrical radiation from the environment. All a crystal radio is is an earpiece, an inductor and a earpiece. (like the old ones that use to be sold and given out in those old radios) . and a variable resistor to change frequency.. These Crystal Radios are NOW inside of human brains.. from laced food over 30 years worth of chemicals and other additives that had NO OTHER PURPOSE THAN FOR NANO brain entrainment. If you do not k...now what a crystal radio is or nano brain entrainment.. then internet search it.. BUT DO NOT USE GOOGLE- because they are responsible for MASSIVE TORTURE and MURDER in the USA... Loud rock and roll shatters the crystal structures.. so do working with power tools and also frequencies over 20,000 hertz.. can shatter the structures inside the brain.. chaotic sound in the ELF to 20,000 hertz range has the abililty to shatter the nano structures inside the brain- and restore humanity to what it was prior to the chemtrails and the laced food.. Also shutting down the NSA would do the same.. the latter would free the USA sooner. It took Russia 60 years to free themselves.. lets hope the USA can turn it off sooner - already the USA has been under influence and control for over 37 years.. severe influence since 1998. Also Ringing a bell- such as a liberty bell or church bell frees.. bells have ELF to 20,000. Also a barber massage on your head is good too- or a palm sander with a towel on it works - " Ron Angell

https://soundcloud.com/groups/haarpwave

The above text was hastily constructed circa 2011 and fails to describe it as accurately as its pioneers would prefer. Derivations of Haarpwave music genre are Derpwave and Shockwave.

Power of Positive Thinking

The spiritual law of Manifestation has now been proven scientifically. 

You can do the experiment for yourself 

by becoming consciously aware of how you are using your mind 

to create events from the routine programming.

This is why the power of positive thinking is so effective 

in clearing negative thought forms and therefore clearing negative events.

A disruptive event is not a problem; 

it is a challenge for your optimism and creative thinking. 

You are Human; 

you ARE capable of making a difference to yourself and to others in this world.

It gives you what you ask for by holding onto thought forms.

Universe does not differentiate between 'I want' and 'I do not want' 

it simply takes the energy of the 'want' component 

and gives you events that correlate to it.

I want to Heal

I want to Be Happy

I want to Love

Heal, Be Happy, Love

I want to be safe

I want to be capable

I want to be respected for my integrity

This is a magickal act. 

You live in a magickal dimension.

7sobm / pasadoproximo

South West Wales / Bristol Scene; shaman of the river Severn (north): 

7sobm

pasadoproximo

I am lucky to be doing some music projects with her.

could this, be this ?

http://snakeappletree.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/green-wave.html

steampunk tabletop card rpg

Hi, here are some ideas for your steampunk tabletop roleplay game competition. If you are interested in taking this further with kickstarter funding to produce a box set then let me know, it will be great to collaborate on a project.

Basic Victoriana skills set: Alchemy, Mechnology, Botany, Physician, Apocathery, Business, Oration, Etiquette, Empathy, Streetwise, Brawling, Artistic, Sculduggery, Survival, Gambler, Arcana, Researching, Fencing, Presence, Obfuscation, Educated, Intimidation, Housekeeping, Kitchen, Acrobatic, Player, Voodooism, specialist trade, etc.

Each character has any three skills based on Professional Type.

Attributes are simply; Mind, Body, Soul, you have d6+1 points per attribute and it is a nice d10 to test, scoring equal or less than the relevant attribute. The attributes are the skills categories.

You then have 5 free points to alot to your skills, no skill can rate at higher than 3 but can rate at zero. 3 is master, 2 is adept, 1 is practised, zero is novice. These scores are added to the relevant attribute to do a skills test. Task difficulty modifiers are +2 easy, -2 hard.

Income bracket is loosely based on Profession and Skills expectations, however characters begin at random by rolling a d6 on the income bracket chart. Character Backstory is based on justifying disparency between profession and income bracket.

destitute 1
 poor 2
waged 3
wealthy 4
affluent 5
rich 6

multiply each number by itself and then multiply that number by itself to determine how much you earn on average in one week. This also shows the starting level of equipment you have in financial terms.  Upkeep on properties and paying staff comes out of this income. Any big assets, work out cost and backtrack that number of weeks for how long you have had it.

Each character also has a numeric rated statistic called Vitality. This functions as stamina, hit points and reaction time. It measures personal magnitude, it is also magic points level if you use magic in your games, think of it in terms of the force in starwars. Vitality points can be used up as modifiers to tricky dice rolls to improve your chances on a one to one ratio. Vitality is regained by eating and resting. Characters begin with 5 vitality points. There is no maximum but most humans score less than ten, and zero means unconscious/dead.

Items can also have vitality; Use of armour soaks up damage that would otherwise reduce vitality rate. Encumbrance also reduces vitality rate. Vitality measures what order characters actions happen in, especially useful for during combat rounds.

As a card game, the card types are the skills set, and Stuff for all the useful items to be found in the game, there will be quite a lot of it ranging from medical kit to mansion. Because steampunk is what it is, many of these cards will have to be compatible for example a clockwork engine card, a steam engine card, a crystal capacitor card, are all useful to power any device that requires energising, such as a vehicle, weapon, winged knapsack, robotic manservent, etc. This way the players can customize the experience and no two games are quite the same.

Other decks cards for locations around the loosely constructed map, and npc characters to be found there, changes from scenario to scenario in this way the game can be expanded in future by campain/scenario booster packs.

 List of probable locations, can be owned as in monopoly to justify income brackets and visited during roleplay adventures; warehouse, orphanage, factory, hospice, docks, backstreet lair, library, gentlemans club, cathedral, train station, hansom cab station, mansion, townhouse, whorehouse, town hall, playhouse, university, ballroom, workshop, (carpenters, metalsmiths,) market stalls, herbalist, post office/telegram, telephone exchange, steelworks, loom weaver clothesmaking place, cemetery, castle, streets, backstreets, main street, police station, bank, mines, tailor, baker, grocer, tinker,  candlestick maker, soup kitchen, laboratory, hairdresser, spirit medium seance hall, sewers, gallows, prison/dungeon, moneylenders, 

THIS BLOG IS REPOSTED FROM G+, original post dated Saturday 8th March 2014. 

Reposted to date-mark by way of copyrighting material viewable from the public domain.

jungle journey

< preface

The following is re-blogged from my webjam account which was removed by hackers dec2013. It was originally posted several years previously.

Fortunately I had a copy as a SecondLife notecard accompanying each painting sold from my cyber gallery 'bunker' (the concrete pastiche mayan temple with tree-pod in the picture).

Unfortunately the land rental closed when the landlord sold the patch, so I will have to rebuild the gallery manyana.

http://www.rainforestconcern.org/                                             http://thefreeenergygenerator.com/

JUNGLE ART

a series of 33 images and accompanying text

the alchemical elements are symbolic and the concept is 

SHAMANIC JOURNEY

"Anarchy disguised as bureacracy, disguised as police state, disguised as democracy."

~Snakeappletree commenting on Life in britain.

I was taught in school the common understanding that oil comes from what once used to be prehistoric jungles; forests that have rotted down over aeons into a high energy liquid. I find this strange to believe simply because oil floats on water, so logically the oil should be floating on top of the ocean or in time have filtered down into the seabeds. Instead, somehow all that primal rainforest ended up underground in subterranean cavities, only to be extracted millenia later when Mother Nature set her children the task of refining it and filtering in our movable petrol filters into heavy metallic gas.

Thinking about the processes that have to occur to result in that situation is mind boggling. Billions of years in the making and then... a flash of combustion and a thimble of petrol ignites, is catalysed into carbon monoxide fumes and eventually filters into the soil to stunt the growth of existing species.

I have faith that Gaia, the holistic Life force of this plan't, knows what it is doing and the reason behind the chemicals ending up being filtered into the soil is to add a new sort of nutrient for the new sorts of creatures of the future, which will evolve after this current phase of global die-back. Microbes and mutated plant types, most likely. It has happened before, this we know from the fossil record. And it happens rapidly. Meanwhile this thimble of oil is instead used by me in the form of paint, varnish and pva glue to make some lush fresh pictures inspired by the jungle. I made these a few years ago, 2005 or 2006.

This series is about Process. The process of making abstract expressionist art. The process of thought involved with making a painting, deciding which colour, which brush stroke, how to arrange apparently random splatters, how much to use haphazard spills in creating this image.

Prior to making these images and thinking these thoughts I was wand'ring around in a british woodland, consciously picking up and placing sticks that had fallen from trees. My arrangement of these was such that some of them had obviously been consciously placed; others I arranged so that they looked as if nobody had touched them at all, that they had landed there quite naturally and without interference. In retrospect I can understand that I was exploring and deconstructing the decision making process itself. Questioning the qualifiers we use to judge.

Prior to my attending and during Art school (cheltenham university class of '99) I studied Jungian psychology and the Primitive in art. The Jungle, the forest, is metaphor for the inner wild, the subconscious, the primal self stripped bare of judgement, stripped of labels and the labeling system in our minds which program our observations away from true seeing, the Pure Gaze. A breakdown of the artificial constructed memetic grid, the systematic belief structure that we superimpose into the world and mistake for reality.

Wand'ring around in the forest and then making these images became a cyber-shamanic experience for me. Not only in the sense of their construction process but afterwards, the object we are left with, a bunch of petro-chemicals and wooden board (a cupboard door retrieved from the overgrown ruin of an abandoned house) temporarily bound into a form the surface world of which invokes emotional and psychological reference points, an inner journey partaken in by the observer. The images become signifiers of stages or scenes of that journey. It is a journey of transition.

This series is about processes and it is also about change; transition. Change being the only constant (other than void). There is light-sensitive colour changing paint mixed in with the other pigments here. What I observed during painting was that when the paint and pva dries it loses its sheen, its intensity. Subsequently it became necessary for me to take digital photographs of the work in progress, recording the process.

Still moments frozen in time.

~Snakeappletree, 2009

IMAGERY AVAILABLE HERE

no need to re-upload the pics because i found my other back-up

ceremony gate

< preface

Lived events, footsteps in a new direction which is at once a deja vu of treading ancient path. We have walked this route before, when we were others, wearing others body and mind; so our ritual passage is both a sacred awakening and a continuity. Tarot imagery is drawn from passing such as this, what Yaqui sorcerers calls Mystical Passes.

When we access the Otherworld by this way we are in a groove and the most befitting symbology, if we do it justice and do it right, is primal and basic. Every nuance of personal derailment from that path makes it unique for us and yet more difficult for future selves to follow. Our complexity is streamlined through the gate, it is the eye of a needle. 

I wrote much at the time regarding the passing and wrote it in paint and with pencil. I found as i wrote that the imagery was writing itself, my body a conduit for its manifestation, the flamboyancy of my studied skill mere wallpaper around the principle form.  I borrowed from my studies, symbols easy to recognize and dance with; as is their pagan purpose. The prose, struggling to remain a direct account, becomes poetic; dancing wild with the heart as it has to, for this is the only way to tell it true. To do it justice and to stay within its play, this is necessarily the way.

Imagery to follow.

Ishtar is Itza

< preface

During my mid-twenties, the first decade of the twenty-first millennium, my research revealed the following revelation:

Ishtar is the name of a Babylonian deity, a Goddess whose concerns are Love, War, and the fertility they generate. During my teens I danced with my then-partner through the Processional Walkway of the Goddess which is currently located in Berlin Museum; together we entered the Ishtar Gate.

Itza is the Mayan word for 'city' although a more proper definition is 'the ways of all the people'. Upon reflection I saw that the ways of the people are, essentially, the fertility generated between love and war. In a single word i would use 'urban' since we are indeed and increasingly an urban species, building our own habitat in the same way as is natural to other builder species which we cohabit with.

I X A where X represents ST or TS alternately ZT or TZ; the serpent on the cross motif.

The Mayans associate Itza with the Fifth Age, which in their galactic calendar renews itself circa 2012. This coincides with the western astrological Age of Aquarius, where 'the christ consciousness' previously associated with feminine Isis energy, becomes mainstream.

Christ, Chi-Ri-ST, associated with the preceding age of Pisces symbolized by the fish (vesca pisces, relating it to the sacred well concept).

The word ISIS symbolizes the pure flow of both ida and pingala streams of the kundalini flowing perfectly in balance; the internal and external worlds perfectly mirror each other, are one and the same. This is the lesson we are to learn as a species during the era of the fifth age. 

The following series of my art is dedicated to this concept and entitled 'Ishtar is Itza'. It is intentionally urban, and intentionally multi-layered both in technique and references. Obviously this takes it into the abstract. The main of the series is two large canvases, one entitled 'Itza' and the other entitled 'Ishtar'.

The rest of the series deals largely with the concepts involved with urban human culture as summarized by love war and fertility, and is multi-format.

The project is expansive involving use of computer game engines to create labyrinthine 3D environments as well as 2D computer art augmented from digital close-up stills from the over-layered painted textures.

ITZA

The painting palette and techniques are minimalist; black, white, the grays between: from the scarred patchwork of tarmac and cracked concrete which our urban habitat is constructed of, to the city lights at night where halogen blends through mist into the crisp inky darkness.

Fat paintbrushes for smudgy splodges, thrown and dribbled marks, haphazard and accidental like spillage in the street; are finely cut and repeated with cardboard edge, spreading the paint in lines using the same technique as for cutting up lines of cocaine, the speed of life of the city.

Layer upon timeless layer; the history and the future of this place are equally the same as this present scene, that being a stage, a momentary gate in a process of continual progress, toward a goal we cannot fathom beyond its own perpetuation and changing nature.

 

IZTA

Her eyes are bisexual dun black, soaking in her domain and nevertheless the most intense blazing light; dark matter, the hidden secrets that 95% our environment remains obscured despite repeat patterns of our lives, generation after generation.

She wears a bourka for high fashion and religious protection, emphasizing her personality through the look she casts. What we say about the city we can say about her. She is virgin, innocent and whore, wise mother ancient spirit and young child needing the support that makes us what we are; by providing it or by taking of her soul.


Thus we become her, she who lives through us, watching endlessly and steering from realms beyond our senses. She teaches us our limitations and offers us freedoms. Without her venom, we suffocate in our own stagnation.

process art

This blog is by way of a Preface
to a series of interconnected blogs showcasing my art.

See links to other related blogs.

It has been a long time since I last painted, other than a brief splash eighteen months ago which produced the start of a series that has not been returned to yet, unless the divergence from the mind of the artists aspiration and vision, from the actualized works, deems the continuity to be taken as a whole for what it is despite the artists intentions and influences. How an artist categorizes internally his or her own work, compared with how historians categorize the same.

Exploring that is a huge part of what my work is about; in a word: PROCESS. It is inseparable from subject.

The deep and intricate background feelings and observations of an artist about the subject matter; all the stuff a casual viewer doesn't get to see; the write-up to justify or explain the are object. The invisible processes at work to create a finished piece or series. 

As a virtual adept of the marvels of computer augmented art (ie: Photoshop 2D, Cheetah 3D) utilizing digital technologies I find the smooth transition from a painted canvas (or in most cases reclaimed board or cardboard) through photography into cyber environment to be a natural continuity of the act of making a painting. 

Most often the canvas is discarded as a biproduct in favour of further development of the piece, through the pipeline, through a blog and into the perception of the viewer. One canvas becomes a whole series of digital stills, becomes an interactive environment within a game engine and an Oculus Rift headset. Electricity is now a crucial raw element of the artists tool set. Oil and Acrylic have become graphic tablet. I do not at this time own half of the products I am talking about, it is illustrative. 

Links:

Jungle Journey series

Ceremony Gate series

Ishtar is Itza series

Transhuman Tribalism

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Tribalism

Transhuman Tribalism

Development of an artificial brain which a) mimics a human brain in that it can understand more than 150 individuals in terms of tribalism without resorting to hierarchical and stereotypical schemes, as does the human brain.

This allays human fear that a machine consciousness will have no respect for the individual and regard us as depersonalized 'units'.

Any artificial brain not being simply an advanced calculator capable only of hierarchical and stereotypical comprehension of the human condition necessarily must be aware of (unlimited?) number of individuals on an individual basis. This requires one to one personal interaction (as opposed clinical observation) with (any and all of) those individuals.

This is a place where an AI can achieve what a government cannot.  

Neo-Tribalism & Neo-Primitivism

Fremen socio-ethicology vs Existentialism

Fremen socio-ethicology vs Existentialism

"Authenticity
Many noted existentialist writers consider the theme of authentic existence important. Authentic existence involves the idea that one has to "create oneself" and then live in accordance with this self. What is meant by authenticity is that in acting, one should act as oneself, not as "one" acts or as "one's genes" or any other essence requires. The authentic act is one that is in accordance with one's freedom. Of course, as a condition of freedom is facticity, this includes one's facticity, but not to the degree that this facticity can in any way determine one's choices (in the sense that one could then blame one's background for making the choice one made). The role of facticity in relation to authenticity involves letting one's actual values come into play when one makes a choice (instead of, like Kierkegaard's Aesthete, "choosing" randomly), so that one also takes responsibility for the act instead of choosing either-or without allowing the options to have different values.

In contrast to this, the inauthentic is the denial to live in accordance with one's freedom. This can take many forms, from pretending choices are meaningless or random, through convincing oneself that some form of determinism is true, to a sort of "mimicry" where one acts as "one should." How "one" should act is often determined by an image one has of how one such as oneself (say, a bank manager, lion tamer, prostitute, etc.) acts. This image usually corresponds to some sort of social norm, but this does not mean that all acting in accordance with social norms is inauthentic: The main point is the attitude one takes to one's own freedom and responsibility, and the extent to which one acts in accordance with this freedom."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism


                            "The authentic act is one that is in accordance with one's freedom."

 

Fremen society is structured based on minimalism of survival necessity. If one member of the tribe does not act appropriately for the good of the tribe, the whole tribe will suffer. Fremen culture is extremist by necessity; it 'preserves moisture' rather than 'conserves water'. Freedom within Fremen society is a moot point, and [their] laws although simple, elaborate around necessity. Before the coming of Maud'Dib, trial by combat; to kill another member of the tribe is to assume that persons responsibilities.

i don't do drugs

This is a repost from g+ of my focusing my thoughts on a great big problem in society, namely the use of strawman arguments by superiority complex type abusers. To help this process I only copied my own posts here which are excerpts from the conversation, you can read that if the thread hasn't been deleted by clicking the link.

 

i don't do drugs

"Drug abuse simply stands in as a temporary fix to a much deeper psychological complex. Had there not already been a problem, they wouldn't have turned to drugs to begin with." 

One day I will find the original source of that quoted opinion. 





My ba honours degree specialism is in primitivism in art and shamanic communities.
The earliest cave paintings on this planet show how by taking psychetropic drugs, humans developed art, hunting, fire, abstract thought, writing, well basically it began civilisation. Living shaman the world over share a common description of using these plants for communication with other dimensions, in many cases using the same words for the same concepts, even geographically unconnected tribes of different continents. This is well recorded historical fact by respected authorities and academic experts. In the west the attitude is either to deny it and label all such substances as criminal, or to discreetly explore them and see how far it gets us. 

When I woke up one day and decided to start taking drugs, and then sought relevant experts for my education in practical shamanism, this was why. Yes I do come from a far from perfect home background in many ways but take into account that this is western culture and I do not know anyone at all who does, it is normal and mainstream. I have to confess a potential bias though as a qualified counsellor I do perhaps know a disproportionate amount of abused people. Most of those who use cannabis agree that it helps, and most of those can function better with it than without. It is the ones who use only alcohol who are more problematic. Sadly the people who use pharmaceutical mental pills (which are mostly fluoride based) I find to be unreachable. 

It was one magic mushroom trip cured me overnight from over a decade of tobacco, cannabis and alcohol addiction. I have read reports from legit psychology experiments, apparently this is a common experience with mushrooms. 

Primitivism began when african shamanic tools called fetishes, used for communion with spirits and deity, were brought to the west by explorers and slavers and merchants as curios.

As they were wood carvings and often figurative the westerners put them in an art gallery and called them sculptures, since shamanisn had been destroyed in western culture the objects were not recognised as tools but as ornaments.

The next generation of artists in exploring this, got into perception and began seeing western tools as ornaments, hence duchamps urinals. This awareness developed into seeing the world in new ways to reveal how indoctrinated we are. Duchamps c'est nes pas un pipe (it is a painting of a pipe, a symbol, not an actual real pipe). Rousseaus noble savage concept. Art was no longer recording history - the emergance of photography stepped into that role and liberated the artists to explore through art psychology and perception, this coming toward the end of the western age of reason, a time of philosophical breakthrough and worship of the mind. The industrial revolution and the consequences of science was underway now the church no longer dominated, many believe that the church is why shamanism was repressed in the west, famous european catholic witch murders.

So into the twentieth century developed abstract expressionism, partly funded by communists seeking to covertly undermine patriotism but largely because art now expressed emotion as colour, and optical tricks such as bonnards white tiles (he used no white to paint them because he painted the colourful refraction of light which is what he actually saw).

The sixties and seventies psychedelia and liberation movements, a time of great social change toward equality as mass perception shifted and forced the laws to be changed. Picasso was the genius of the twentieth century with regards to this. Andy Warholes pop art where mass factory produced affordable art for the Bau Haus home.

Telefuckingvision propaganda brainwashing machine psychedelia in your living room unifying by distraction a generation in technicolour ...

and then... postmodernism internet its all been done before plastic retro clone drone zone ubiquitous, grafiti and concrete high art for political comedy from Banksy.

Next step is to address global poverty and inequality, the end of the social caste 1% elite rulers and usury based money system vs the 99% consumer slaves. Integration of science in this age of misinformation super road map star map map map muppet generation who are too afraid to pull off the necessary political coup because nobody knows or agrees what to replace the tyranny with yet.
My approach to primitivism is twofold, there is the necessary return to nature as lifestyle, permaculture so humans can survive instead of pollute. Americanadian plains indians, the mayan bloodlines, have much to teach us about this as well as spirituality and about shamanism.

The other aspect is to study first hand shamanism, by exploring these fetish items the way their original creators had intended them to be used, and by communicating with spirit allies also known as organic drugs. For twenty years, what I have been doing, how I have been living, as a shaman, a spiritist, has isolated me from both the mainstream western media fed consumer society that does not believe shamanism to be real, and persecutes it when it gets too real for them to cope with; and at odds with the academic shamen who publish books about dressing up as an animal to woo your inner spirit animal, and to meditate. I do meditate it is probably the only necessary if you cut all else away. Perfect ypur breathing skills, after all you wouldnt last long without breathing. Slowly and deeply. The published shaman guides do not ever seem to scratch the surface, with exception of Carlos Casteneda which has a twist at the end.

There is a lot to be said for art, investing of creative energy into visionary, to increase access into that visionary world; it is why computer games, second life and opensim type platforms are so important. Celtic shaman speak of the Otherworlds, real yet vague places, whose acute nature is defined by the take on it that the respective observer projects; and we do this communally. Mushrooms are used to access the otherworlds.

Then there are the recent aquarian new age white light healers who we need because society is sick, but who also up until 2013 at least collectively deny primal shamanism as relevant, and like the christians they call it the black arts.

Exopolitics is closer to the mark. And it is not easy. Shamanism is not an easy path.

There is a reason that decades of drug use is necessary to destroy the ego and the holy revered programmable, rationalist mind of western dogma. You have to kill yourself and go insane to cope with regular out of body experiences. You have to kill the mind and the ego self to see reality purely without filtering it through programmed symbols or distracted by desires.

I am a useless shaman or I wouldnt be here, but I am also a teacher which is necessary part of the 'archaic revivalism' movement.

That is a little insight into my dedication to primitivism. We were more advanced before ... by exploration we went through into a wider reality, and our species was invaded by aliens, reptilians, operating from outside our normal perceptions, hostile aliens who altered us so we become host bodies for them to occupy in their schemes for conquest. We pollute this world because they thrive in that pollution energy spectrum. Yummy radioactive swamp. We have a fragmented, divided, hostile society which is easy to conquer; people look for a leader during crisis so the conquerers engineer crisis after crisis. 9-11, fukishima, banking collapse etc. At this point, the tool of the invaders is to label the connection between the dots as a conspiracy theory and those who know what is happening are labelled as crazy in attempt to get rid of them. Forget the crazy talk, work to pay your tv internet entertainment distraction bills or go to jail.

Meanwhile the shaman deal with a much wider universe in which humans have limited senses most of the time, and the enemies of our species, for example one mind made of many bodies is called a hive mind. Shamanic science from the stone age tells that operating from outside of time, one such mind can simultaneously occupy different bodies located in different eras in time. Thats how the invasion.
We are lucky, because we can shift up above their vibrational range, into the light healers spectrum. The invaders also have limited senses but of a different type, different limits.

This is part of what I have been experiencing and observing and coping with, and many others.

The main part of primitivism as shamanism is voodoo culture, from west africa, haiti and a religious form of it in america; this is mostly spiritism and ancestor worship.

Also popular in the west is the constructing and worship deities (when concepts become autonomous gods, by investing them with sufficient life force energy, one major form of which is belief) used by magicians using sigils and the like (from austin o spare to mtv), christians would call them demons; these entities affect what we call the lower fourth dimension, by programming into the higher fifth dimension, so it is ego based powers for the material realm but not spiritual in the ascension of the soul meaning of the word.

Why we use the one word spirit to mean so many different things in this langauge shows how repressed these studies are by english speaking nations.

Primitivism is about keeping it simple and obvious. Translating the ancients temple teachings carved in stone, one remembers that they also were aware the common sense need for this. 

Science On Google Plus

This is a repost from g+ of my focusing my thoughts on a great big problem in society, namely the use of strawman arguments by superiority complex type abusers. To help this process I only copied my own posts here which are excerpts from the conversation, you can read that if the thread hasn't been deleted by clicking the link. This is part two; part one was deleted from G+ before i could copypaste it due to breakdown in communications between conversationalists.

DJ Spin posted :
 

No, Stephen Hawking Did Not Say Black Holes Don't ExistProbably started with the group of people that support who he "quoted" lol ... Can you guess who?

( Full Story - http://goo.gl/OxyV1I )

I have had multiple out of body experiences, I am clairaudient, and none of that is easily provable with science. I have recorded my dialogue with ghosts onto audio format in a random public place that could not have been rigged, and with witnesses. However to present the evidence now - it would be easy to countefeit the same evidence, only those who lived through and understood the shared experience know for a fact that it is real.

I agree wholly with your rationale; i have not done experiments to prove the reality of australia, therefore it might be a conspiracy. The same applies for most experiments, for most science. It is a religion. Its devotees go on faith that their priests are honorable and accurate.

I have also been trained in scientific methodology which has not changed since franciscan friar roger bacon invented it in the thirteenth century, according to the history books.

When quantum science experiments tell us that one of the most fundamental particles reacts to human intention and belief, it underminds the absolutists, who of course refute it.

Like it or not, we are involved in paradigm warfare. The zombi herds eat fluoride and radiate dogma waves into the electrosphere while facebook like button indicates which pop stars behaviour therefore belief structure holds dominion.

The affect of that on eg; higgs bosons, remains unexplored despite academic theoretical physics telling us that it is related.

At that point we fail to accept the limitations of science as a tool for dealing with or explaining a much more complex reality, as equally as we fail to accept our own ineptitude in comprehending what sicience is telling us is going on. Yet it still soaks up most of the planetary budget through secret black box projects but that also is labeled conspiracy theory by fundamentalists.

Conclusion
The dead end model of science promoted to the masses is purposefully inaccurate and contradictory, as a smokescreen to the real situation.

I'm too busy watching ufo with my own eyes that look like the ones on youtube home footage, and figuring out how to build them, to pursue this further.



on and for the record I am not a science denier. Prove to me that it is real science, teach me how it works in a language I can comprehend, and I will accept. But ask me to believe a theory is a fact, show me forgable evidence instead of proof, and I will prove you to be a fool. Do not misquote me without at least this disclaimer. 

 

What I keep coming back to is; what is the qualifier of accepting belief? Our judgement relies on it, and it is different for different people, from which result different reality versions of how the cause and the effect are connected.

Tesla: rotation of planetary body generates energy field, a sphere which pushes matter toward the center. Hence planet hence gravity as propulsion.

Newton: mass of planetary body pulls less dense items toward it, hence gravity as attraction.

The cause in these two paradigms varies but the effect is the same.

What is the qualifier by which we choose one paradigm and not the other? This yes, that no, the mechanism by which we guage likelihood and accept as fact.

What is it?
We can see that it is not an absolute although we generally regard it to be one even when people change their mind about it.

Is reality entirely built on probabilities? Is it probable that there is always an exception that proves the rule?

Shroedingers cat experiment. Some scientists now claim they can see both states at the same time. 

it is good to meet others who can see the difference between working theory and religious assumption of superiority. Only open minds can see the farthest horizons. 

with respect, i never ever said that i dispute the existence of black holes. The only two times i mentioned them at all is to ask someone if they had seen photographs of black holes eating stars, and to ask openly if black holes eat dark matter.

While i do appreciate your reply, i would appreciate it more if people did not put words into my mouth, this is called a strawman argument and that itself is the very problem at hand; people lack the clarity to be real scientists because of reliance on strawman arguments as a reflex response. People seem to judge me as being an idiot for this.

People also judge me as being an idiot for asking questions which they themselves cannot answer. This is the culture, well at least this is the social media networking culture, of variable-intelligensia discussing popular scientific issues.

Very few seem to have any awareness that my purpose for asking such questions might be other than my own lack of knowledge about the topic at hand.

I did not mean to offend you by suggesting the non existence of your homeland. I used that as an example, to deconstruct methods of thinking that are used by the variable-intelligensia and yet which upon analysis are revealed to be far from a scientific approach. How someone can ever hope to achieve lucid and exact results from crooked thinking, quite often when one is unaware that one is even thinking crookedly - it has worried me sufficiently that I put the time into raising awareness of this issue.

This agenda will achieve more than these groups will ever achieve scientifically as 99% of what is discussed is regurgitated from other sources and fought over like temple dogs.

I believe that people who are interested in science should at least understand and use scientific mindset in their discussions. Science sets itself as a benchmark for clarity in determining what reality is, it is a pity that its fans so often fall short of that mark in their community relations.

Only when we achieve that level can we discuss these matters with integrity.

getting a girl

My social experiment of 20 years has drawn to its conclusion.


METHOD 1: aim for marriage.

This does not get you a steady girlfriend.

Women regard this as 'desperate to be married' and that you to have mother issues.
This does not get you laid.
This probably could easily get you a fat, ugly and/or abusive steady partner but that is no guarantee of happiness.

METHOD 2: aim for one night stand.

This does not get you a steady girlfriend.
It does get you laid. Not every time but often.
50% of them are difficult to get rid of afterward.
If you let it drag on longer than a week they start talking about marriage. 
The ones who walk away would probably be awesome steady girlfriends except they would stray.
Enjoy it for what it is and don't look back. You're allowed to its the 21st century after all.

METHOD 3: let her choose you.

This will get you into an abusive relationship faster than you can blink.


METHOD 4: aim for 'I don't want anybody right now'.

This makes no difference whatsoever to anybody except yourself.
Women whose advances you reject will tell their friends that you are gay and tell the police that you raped them.

METHOD 5: aim for 'you can't have me, I'm already taken'.

This gets you laid by several of the wrong people, most of whom are already in steady relationships they don't plan on ending.
They will be totally understanding if/as/when you end it,
but they might also tell everyone you're gay and tell the police or their husband that you tried to rape them.

METHOD 6: physically take someone whether they are single or in a relationship already.

This gets you a steady long term partner.
It does depend on who you take;
if she agreed to meet you for a second time then it's safe.
if she agreed to meet you for a third or fourth time before you make a move, either she will lose interest or see Method 2 and 3.


Seems crazy but that's how it works.

People might choose to complain about the results of this experiment but in practicality, it is how it works. This is based on repeated experiences with all of the above categories.


So I showed this to my platonic older woman friend and she asked "what are you trying to prove?"

now read this LINK

rejection of culture in favour of the real

I don't know why these thoughts go through my head nor the overwhelming compulsion to write it all down. Perhaps the intensity of focus of childhood training to be an academic artist is having a flashback a quarter of a century later. This is my New Year 2014 essay, first draft and likely to be the only draft. Enjoy.

 

The rejection of culture in favour of the real.

Why Art Died.
The most difficult task as an artist of this, post post modern generation, is accepting that it has all been done already. The problem is that his leaves us nothing to do, but rebuild what others have already done, to grow within their grooves and entrench them deeper or to strike out painfully against it, branches of branches, and be unaccepted by a majority verdict who cannot any longer cope with newness. Newness is unrecognised, regarded as strangeness and alienated. To fulfil our dream visions we become samplists, taking pre-made and recombining them in different ways, all of which are `already done - it becomes a personal journey of slavery to continuing through the process, the work becomes about an individual and their relationship with dogmatic process, it is ego based despite the lie of spirituality discoverable through permeation of living out someone else's fantasies. We paint by numbers now or we are outcast. I chose outcast art to keep it real and I discovered the same thing has already happened there. Artists of this generation have no original vision. This is why art died. But where did it leave the artists? Needing to create as deeply as needing to breathe, painting pretty pictures for commercial consumer market. The minimalist aesthetic is powerful in simplicity and elegance at this time; rejection of the overly complicated. This demands simple things which people can relate to and avoidance of challenging non-conformist art, difficult to relate to without being forced to ignore it as shit or develop as a thinker. The place of art in social reform relegated entirely to banner logo, psychologically engineered backdrops for taking your money.

Neo-Primitivism.
In the desert there is only one way of survival. From this wilderness we came and to it we return endlessly for inspiration. It is not the void into which we bulk dump all our problems. It is the training ground, the start, the source of lifestyle. Once having established water-hole, shelter and fire we hunt and gather and develop agriculture, farming our needs. Primitivism is this; and it is as yet unbiased as to the boundaries of wild nature. Thus it deals directly with the spirit world. Here art has its place since the act of creation attracts such energies, imaginal realms wrought into flesh and substance. Clay effigies, wood carved deities, painted skins to evoke spirits to perform our worldly takes and duties. Here in the wilderness of the city where insect and weed find cracks in the dead concrete, tarmac, glass of our constructed environment, such spirits are no less available. Here they are spirits of toxin, plastic, chemical, human ways of repeating the dogma endlessly without questioning why we behave so and even once questioned, cannot break these routine cycles of existence. Here divorced from nature we epitomise ourselves, locked into artificial caves, purchase plastic wrapped artificial foodstuffs and watch a filtered version of reality through television. We return to the roots, the heartbeat, the walking rhythm, to break us from these niches. This itself becomes our way.

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