DJ Fly Agaric 23 and Cosmic Trigger, you digger?
The DJ fly agaric 23 thinks a new extended introduction, describing just a small fraction, a tiny part concerning the incalculable influence that the 1977 book – Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson - has been on him, and, the writer thinks it would be a great chance to share some of his experiences since reading Cosmic Trigger and journeying into Chapel Perilous (USA), to discover the Author of the book – such was the impact the DJ felt that the work was having on his life and those around him - what the researcher discovered there, in the new world; led him here - today, here trying to figure out why page 109 of the Bob's book - Email to the Universe - requires two years of study.
In retrospect the sceptic seems humble and reserved, the Pratt feel slightly naive and somewhat foolish re-telling the tales as they happened, due to them happening, in some sense to DJ Fly agaric 23 – an avatar and aka the DJ manifested, with some help from a drunk or two, in his local community when he first created an avatar for the new internet email explosion – F.A 23 was the perfect being to work with. DJ fly wanted to spread some of the ideas he discovered in Cosmic Trigger to his friends and his family, as he felt the wisdom to be so profound and optimistic that the post millennium future would be as nothing without Dr. Wilson’s great wisdom and knowledge being perpetuated throughout the worlds culture. The DJ was in his early 20’s and as the writer mentioned – very naive – but this foolishness led the DJ to try new things and read more books and journals to find out for himself if this stuff he was spouting as second hand wisdom - snippets and bites of RAW - had any relationship to DJ culture, acid jazz, hip hop and graffiti art? The inquisitive DJ wanted to sample soundbites of RAW and perpetuate that wisdom into the dancefloors and rave’s he was a part of, locally (Stourbridge, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley) around 1996-2000
Millennium trip to Mordor
Triggered by a house fire six days before new milleniyumyum day, the 23 year old DJ fly agaric 23 felt like taking a great adventure gamble, and doing something heroic; something nobody he knew had ever done, and something he decided to do all by himself, for once – take a trip to the Prophets Conference Santa Fe to witness the author of Cosmic Trigger give a lecture titled “The Universe contains a maybe”, and check to see if he was what i read into what he wrote that he was, (Anarchist, pro-pot, scientist, genius, comedian) the event was synchronisticali’ taking place on the DJ’s 24th Birthday (15/04) so fly figured he should go to see Dr. Wilson on the last day of his twenty third year as the Prattfool. The DJ’s turntables were sold, the tickets were booked, Terence Mckenna passed on (4th Aprill 6000 AL,) and the intrepid dj fly agaric flew to NYC, greyhounded to Santa Fe, smoked a bowl, met two RAW heads from New Orleans who weirdly also shared the 15th of April with the fly agaric as the day they were born out from the mothers womb, wow, the student of RAW synchronicity said to himself, the two brothers of mine were also smokers and had books by Dr. John Lilly that they were speaking highly of to the intrepid tripper.
Reasonably stoned, and tucked away at the back right had side of the James L. Little Theatre – Santa Fe – the fly agaric 23 sat awaiting the Dr.... suddenly bamboozulu’d by news that Dr. Wilson will NOT be appearing at the conference due to illness! But before he could lift a hand to his mouth in astonishment – everyone – in the theatre, comprising over 500 or so unknown American souls, looked at fly agaric 23 and applauded due to an announcement made to them highlighting my long distance travel from Birmingham; England.
The Pratt felt a fool, but humanity and strange forces reached out and influenced the 24 year old young man to continue up the west coast of America – on an adventure into the unknown territory of the DJ’s rave-trip-paradise – the bay area, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, and the journeyman spent the next two months in the Bay Area, California – wondering through an utterly unbelievable universe inhabited by critters from out of Cosmic Trigger, no, i mean some of the real human beings RAW was writing with and about roughly 25 years ago and more in Cosmic Trigger!
The most relative part of my first 2 months living in the Bay Area, Berkeley in fact, just off of Telegraph Avenue (a location mentioned in the Sufi-clown tale from Cosmic Trigger), seems to the researcher looking into Chapel Perilous to be - the interview with physicist Saul Paul Sirag, which took place in the kitchen of Dr. Jack Sarfatti, 27th MAY 2000 E.V - Nine years ago (2009). The interview was captured onto a mini-disc, and lay unheard of, or translated for seven years until the DJ managed to find and translate the wonderfully erudite wisdom of Saul Paul Sirag. Here is part of that days recording, and a little insight into what the Pratt was also thinking of, with the questions concerning superstring theory, cabbala and Dr. Wilson.
Guilding the Lilly Network?
The volunteer was invited to a week long symposium honouring the life and work of Dr. John Lilly, where he met and exchanged some very brief ideas with Saul Paul, Brian Wallace, Jack Sarfatti, Kurt Von Meir, Jean Millay, Captain Clearlight, Faustin Brey, Creon Levitt, Amanita Von Meir, and Dr. John Lilly himself – but not more than five words of thanks and greetings, and a signed book – the Dyadic Cyclone. The stunned DJ fly agaric 23 floated for the first time in a Samahadi tank only 20 ft. From the inventor himself. The DJ met other DJ’s, volunteers, smart kids, beautiful minds, techies, sound editors and engineers. The editor would like to add that he was a part of a mediation, visualization experiment conducted by Jean Millay and including Saul Paul Sirag, John Lilly and other’s at the symposium, and the impressions the DJ received were unmistakable and were reported back to Jean “ I saw a group of lizards wearing what appeared to be yellow swimming hats”
The DJ found a little more volunteer work at another conference, this time in the Presidio – Planetworkers 2000 A.D – featuring a transcending disembodied Terence Mckenna, Bruce Sterling, Mark Pesce, Peter Russel... and hundreds of information technology meets global ecology masterminds and think tanks meeting to headline the new GREEN revolution in sustainable and alternative, and energy and ideas – the best most mind blowing ideas the DJ had ever heard of, mixed up with DJ Vaja, David Rothenburg and Kai Eckhardt and others contributing music to the conference, encouraging dancing and inter-comingling, yeah the DJ thought, breakbeats and green-beats, global ecology and information technology, the Pratt thought... an intelligent businessman might put some investment into some of these ideas back in Dudley, maybe that would help the poor fuckers back home who have no idea of the possibilities and wonderful new technologies that await us all, all humanity, now, and the skeptic added – NOW – we need to invest now. The writer looks back in astonishment at the amount of criss-crossed material oozing out of Cosmic Trigger into the conferences as seen through the eye of the man with the movie camera working – as a volunteer for Soundphotosynthchess. The metaprogrammer was beginning to wonder what he had invoked over the last three years before coming to America.
The DJ attended the Howeird 420 street fair, the Terence Mckenna Wake at 1015 Folsom st. And met Dennis Mckenna, and rubbed dance shoes with Erik Davis, Dusty, Mark Pesce, hippies, freaks, scientists, and crystal shrines in memory of the great Terence – whom the DJ dedicated a DJ-mix to 6 days before he left England called “RA HOTEP RECONFRENCE” audio-parts of which are available – with another brief telling of this tale - at the maybelogic quarterly network. The Fly was smoking bowls, talking about RAW material, entertaining wonderful beautiful people, and couch-surfing upon the crest of good heartedness of Bay Area folk, the half-irish blooded Englishman often felt like a very special human being, treated kindly and with an instant loving warmth and friendship than he was used to from strangers, especially strangers in another strange country so far away from home.
The 4 and 20 year old cosmic kid went flying back to lime land with a hell of a story, and also news about internet and stuff and things, hard to put into words, – remember the internet? – well the skeptic heard conversations about wireless-power, dude, and the weed will bake your ideas perfect, thought the dealer. Some of his friends listened for a few hours, but then, the DJ thinks - not having read Cosmic Trigger - how could these tales bear much significance to them? after a while the tourist realized he had better learn to write again, at least if he was to present his travel tales and experiences to the people he most loved and cared for, humanity as a whole, his family and his friends, in a way which they might take seriously, or at least my effort to communicate in a neutral way - seriously.
RAW Springs 2000 A.D.
Although the dedicated illuminati journalist had failed to see Dr. Wilson in the flesh, the journey had inspired many remarkable meetings with remarkable men and women, an interview, some gigs – as DJ Fly agaric 23, and some links with like minded people on the other side of the Atlantic ocean to which the Pratt was born. Even in 2000 A.D the fool had not yet read the entire Illuminatus Trilogy only part I in awkward situations. The independent researcher felt mostly ignored, which he has come to expect now - by most of those people in his community and the greater external government who happen to be ignoring what RAW has written, and going so far as to act upon it, as fly agaric 23 has done. Here the tale turns really wild and fanciful beyond the DJ’s headonistic dreams...
Having helped a painter – a little bit – by setting up his second Graffiti art exhibition in Birmingham, recording new material with his classically trained - Saurang player – Surrinder, and pressing up 200 limited edition 10” vinyl records, using a Princes Trust business grant of 200 Pounds, that was intended to show, after time, the good sense and predictive ability of the business idea and then maybe land some doe to maybe buy some real equipment and make better recordings and manufacture more records, start a record label? This was the lifelong goal of the DJ, the writer thinks. And reading more and more literature on Lilly, Post Quantum Physics, Alan Watts, Saul Paul Sirag, Erik Davis, Hakim Bey and more he still has visions of the DJ vinyl tool he dreamed of...
One day around October 2000 E.V - the DJ guesstimates – he received an email from the Prophets Conference that said words to the effect of: Get yourself to the Prophets Conference Palm Springs, and get your own lodging and you can be the volunteer P.C helper who assists Dr. Robert Anton Wilson about the conference in his wheel-chair.
The magician left the library – where he checked his email – and his only steady link with the Cosmic Trigger worlds out there, since getting back from the dreamspace – in a state of high high beyond description. The DJ’s ego had been inflated to the size of a planet – it was true – the magic works, the journey has just begun, the proto-novelist thought – and on the 15th December the independent journalist flew to Chicago, heard John Coltrane in the airport, and connected to Palm Springs airport and literally walked out the airport door with a bag of vinyl records, some cloths and a small box of magic mushrooms hand picked that year from Wychbury Hill, near Stourbridge where the Pratt grew up (Dr. Wilson very politely refused the mushrooms when the Pratt offered them to him in his room two days later) The DJ found a cheap room at 35 Dollars a night, but with only 150 on me person, times were already tight, which leads me to a dinner tale spent with uncle Bob the Pratt shall never forget. On the night before RAW’s lecture cunningly titled “The Universe contains a maybe” me and BOB had dinner together at the hotel restaurant – the helper recalls that Bob had crab cakes for starters and a dish called “Snakes in the grass” for his main course. The mood was fine and respectful until the Pratt decided to throw a question concerning some neurotic detail about pancakes or my musical ideas – oh lord. The kicker came when it emerged, after i had left after desert to go to my dish-washing PAID job at the rather quaint Cheecky Monkey Pub, in Palm Springs – so as to be able to stay another two nights, but due to my ignorance the Pratt had left Dr. Wilson with the Bill (which the DJ assumed was on the house, conference tab) and also, though, the task of getting himself back to his room – he of course did not mention this to me as i was leaving and assured me he would make it back in fine form. The writer and independent journalist regrets leaving Dr. Wilson that evening, and will never forget the feeling of every glass, dish, cup and saucer washed that evening, and the next day...
A Manhattan with lunch
The following day included another early lunch with the genius duo of Paul Krassner and his wife Nancy, together we ate and joked, well i just laughed and ate really; and the researcher mostly listened to incredible dialogue; ?!?!?!?! perpetual jokes and cutting critique, (damn i wish i could recall these exchanges, for the most part about G. W. Bush and the Florida election fraud!) of new age psychobabble. Nancy snapped-up the now legendary picture of RAW holding up the Manhatten that he had with his lunch, and also a picture of me and RAW together, one of only a few rare pictures of my times in the USA, not having a Digital or other camera most of the time. RAW even had time for an interview with a TV news crew, in which he spiced up the language with his freshly loosened Tongue Fu, warmed up by lunch with Paul.
The stoner often wishes he could remember more of what was said that day, the DJ recoded in Bob’s room with permission, but the reporter does recall that Bob repeated his optimism and interest in getting third-world countries on-line, connected through internet. Some other Rascals speaking at the Confernece were Steven Greer, Jean Houston, Greg Braden, Edgar Mitchell, and others i forget... but for me RAW clinched the show when launching into the hilarious KING KONG outburst during a panel Q & A session concerning Annunuki E.T.’s. The journalist did get his private interview with Robert Anton Wilson, in his room on that same evening, and stoned, the Pratt talked mostly of pancakes which RAW expertly turned into koans before my ears. We were interrupted only by the kindred folks from Disinformation.com – Richard Metzger, Brian Jones and another Brian who’s name i forget – and they pulled out the 2000 A.D Cannabis Cup winning Sativa called Williams Wonder – and we all smoked a pipe and once again, the writer wishes he had a better faculty for remembering times such as these. Maybe in the future it will come, but for now i have the transcript of that short interview between us – at the Prophets Con. 2000 A.D.
DJ Fly to San Francisco
The DJ left Palm Springs with friends the reporter met in San Francisco, who, were also at the P. Conference - with a keen interest in Steven Greer and the Disclosure project. I spent New Years eve on the back of the Vallejo houseboat (where Kerouac once lived) while tripping acid with a strangely small crowd – and listening to the track “How to disappear completely” by Radiohead on repeat all of that morning. Entering into 2001 – the DJ felt as if the world was opening beneath his feet, he was on RAW’s email list, living in San Francisco and had a new job at a record label called Cosmic Flux – situated on Haight and Fillmore street S.F. and was in love with a Nepali poet and translator, the writer would like to add. The DJ was also playing live shows with some of the best jazz funk and world music – musicians in the world, Kai Eckhardt (bs) Alan Hertz (drs) Fareed Haque (gtr) Tal Morris (Gtr) Liam Hanrahan (bs) Gregory James (gtr) Eric Levy (kys) Ray White (vcl) and many others over the course of the next 5 years, but the band Garaj Mahal and Kai Eckhardt were the heart of the fantastic opportunity t musically express some of the experiences the DJ was having in America, with other musical artists who had between them played with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Nigel Kennedy, ...
DJ fly was invited, and sometimes paid to contribute sounds, soundbites and turntablism to the Garaj Mahal performances and the first 2 studio albums. (Mondo Garaj 2001 and Blueberry Cave 2005 Harmonized Records). The cosmic theme continues with the tune “Cosmic Elevator” taken from the Blueberry Cave album. The DJ only wd/ also like to add that he once jammed with Paul Godwin and Kai Eckhardt, only to discover Paul has an electronic project called simply - DOGON!
2001 somebody tried to blow up America, who? WHO?
The DJ turned 25 years old in San Francisco - 2001 – and saw RAW twice more giving lectures at “Pantheon Con 2001” and “The learning Annex, in a comedy routine/class on writing science fiction/teaching.” which the technician helped video record for Soundphotosynthesis, but alas does not have a copy of... The researcher flew home August 2001, to link with his family and friends and pass on more of the wonderful discoveries the investigative journalist had made and some artefacts the prover’ could manifest as proof. Some audio tapes and video’s, contact cards, flyers and CD’s of musicians, artists, physicists, poets and lovers the swimmer had met on his journey into Chapel Perilous, information technologists and global ecologists, virtuoso musicians, and to top it all an interview with Dr. Wilson himself, the unified field of humanitarian intelligence pulling all the other material together – being the magnet that pulled me into the Chapel, and also the guide by which the writer figured he would have to study so as to report back the information gathered in a humanitarian language, without bias, and rid of unnecessary words devoid of meaning, to condense, simplify and balance. By September 10th 2001 the DJ felt ready to launch a revolution in the minds of the European people, to his tiny mind he imagined a new bridge between artists, writers, poets, painters, designers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, neuro-scientists, musicians – all getting together to launch the 21st century based upon the emerging free spirit of communication using internet and growing individual communications devices – how could they stop the millions of people around the world bringing the spirit of new community and a new electronic world to every-people by sharing information and investing in art and ecology furnished businesses – generally moving away from the private financial interests driving the emerging electronic culture and economy? What could they do the poet thought, while writing about, among other things - an Israli Suicide bomber, on the evening of September 10th 2001.
The cynical DJ watched his dreams and ambitions fall down that day, and for weeks afterwards wondered what the hell he was goning to do now, now the Bush administration had struck off a new war on terrorism surely the revolution i imagined would get disrupted, somewhat pulled into the mayhem and chaos of bodies, wires, and cement that highlighted the descent into Bush 2.0 republicanism and patriotic CIA Nazi US foreign policy at its most virulent, and more worryingly with a total and unwavering support by the British government and culture – rejecting the 10’s of millions of people opposed to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq as a minority report. The skeptic and conspiricist were both shocked by operation shock and awe – which saw a new global force taking on roughly 2 billion people in the Islamic world with the worst kind of worded religiously motivated military crusade against the sacred centres of the middle East imaginable, Neither side or national leaders looked like they could be trusted to the researcher, Saddam Hussain, George Bush, Osama Bin Laden and Tony Blair seemed all equally stupid, malicious, dangerous and untrustworthy. Voices started to say to the DJ, come on now, you have been in training to make sense of these kinds of disinformation programs, do it, do the work and sideline the music, become the independent journalist once more, pursue the greatest conspiracy of the 21st century (The Bush 2.0 administration) and get back into the work, your country and family and community needs you to do this, go, go and find out what the hell is going on. You may never get this chance again.
Four more years
Switching gears again the 25 year old investigative DJ flew back to San Francisco, with roughly 50 pounds and another bag of 12” records, and managed to stay in the U.S under the radar, without the proper papers for four long years, way into the next criminal BUSH era - post November 2004 – another depressing blow to the optimists vision of America, Europe and the rest of the world returning to the states of relationships in 1999, just before the new wars and the new banking crash and the uprising of surveillance culture en masse crawled out into the world’s streets and neighbourhoods where good people were assaulted and abducted by religious ideology and viral marketing ploys and gimmicks combined to form the war on some terror.
During the 5 years spent in the United States of America, the - DJ/writer/swimmer – came into orbit with many remarkable people, and the maybelogician has Dr. Robert Anton Wilson and the book Cosmic Trigger to thank/blame for initiating this journey into Chapel Perilous and out again - into Chapel Penniless - and out again, in, out, in, out of various Challenging environments – a labyrinth of experiences – and thousands of synchronicities and seemingly fortunate incidents - the reach of the RAW net.... the non-simultaneously interacting universe of connectivity, communication and hilaritas engine - thought the Pratt. The egoist wanted to just list some of the people he learned from, and communicated with while in the USA, in no particular order, and, i might add, some were only very briefly met once, sharing the usual formal greeting gestures, some others were studied alongside for years and months - in particular the some of the musicians - from the band that was Garaj Mahal (2005). I might also add that some of the musicians were jammed with, alongside, in a live setting, in an environment where collaboration can be somewhat fleeting and momentary - for just 40 minutes one night - for example, as was the case with Leo Nocintelli.
Eric Levy (Musician), Craig Easley (Poet, musician), Michael Bowen (painter) Alexander and Sasha Shulgin (pharmacologists), Gregory James (Musician) Henry Dakin (philanthropist), Brian Wallace (Musician), George Brooks (musician), Bob Weir (musician), Joe Firmage (scientist, entrapeneur), Buzzy Lindhardt (musician), Abigail Lewis (researcher), Tsering Maya (Artist, writer), Carlos Washington (musician), Brian Jordan (musician), Bob Tesch (researcher), Sameer Gupta (Musician), Creon Levitt (scientist), Alex Popvics (Musician), David Ulansey (Philosopher), Jack Sarfatti (physicist), Saul Paul Sirag (physicist), Jack Perla (musician), Fire and Earth Errowid (pharmacologists), Fareed Haque (musican), Dennis Mckenna (pharmacologist), Kai Eckhardt (musician), Benny Reitveld (musician), Herbie Lewis (Musician), Bernie Worrell (Musician), Nicki Skully (Esotericist), Dava (musician, Artist) James and Sally Redfield (writers), Jim Wilson (Musician), Paul Krassner (Philosopher, Comedian), Robert Anton Wilson (Scientific Philosopher), Cody and Robin Johnson (Reasearchers), Mark Pesce (Technologist), Erik Davis (Writer, teacher) R.U. Sirius (writer), Kurt Von Meir (Scientist), Captain Clearlight (pharmacologist), John Babcock (Toxicologist), Faustin Bray (Artists, Archivist), One Wolf (Shaman), Mike Crowley (Scientist), Zakkir Hussain (Musician), Alan Hertz (Drummer), Dave Holland (Musician), Jerry Goodman (Musician), Chet Helms (Concert promoter), John Lilly (Scientist), Ray White (Musician), Bobby Vega (Musician), Tom Waits (Musician, who the dj bumped into picking up Thai food in Sebastapool, C.A.), Luke Vibert, DJ Logic, Q-Bert, Kid Koala, (DJ’s) Jean Millay (scientist), David Boyce (Musician), Micheal Franti (Musician), Radioactive (Musician), Gregory James (Musician), and many more the DJ has forgot... the thousands of freaks who came out to support our shows across the U.S.A and all critters the writer has come to know and collaborate with at the Maybelogic Academy. Cosmic Trigger seems responsible for initiating this entire journey, and for that spark of inspiration the fool will be forever indebted to said book and author – Dr. Robert Anton Wilson. The fly was hooked, line and sinker and has been digesting - ever since returning from the U.S.A, processing the wonderfully strange meetings he had and re-presenting the out-of-this-world experiences.
Cosmic Trigger 2009 redux.
The independent journalist made a trip back to the USA in 2006, only to be red carded and sent to Atlanta Jail house for the evening until the next available flight home, the fool thought he could wave his hand and waltz right through the gate as if those four years had never happened, the fool was wrong and got a police escort onto a 747. The writer started again in England, back home in Stourbridge, started building a basis for communicating this massive reality labyrinth connected with Dr. Wilson, and soon found the challenges tougher than he first thought, having booked the local town hall for the European premier of Maybelogic: The lives and ideas of Robert Anton Wilson – confident all his friends would come out and support him plus others eager to find out the final secret of the Illuminati! The Pratt’s optimism got the better of him, and the show had to be cancelled and moved to a local pub called “The Birch Tree”, here the DJ felt comfortable and liked the Birch – fly agaric symbolism, and so for 20 Pounds the DJ launched maybelogic - the movie - on the 21st December, 2005. Unfortunately only 3 people watched the movie in full - two of them were already at the pub who then seemed interested in the DJ setting up his turntables next to an apple laptop, preparing for the after party, which got cooking after we smoked some joints outside and got a few pints of bitter into the DJ engine room.
Woodstock Europa
After the movie launch in the Black Country, the DJ met with Lance in London during the audio recordings of Illuminatus Trilogy, and continued work on his first book – of collected writings from the U.S.A and some new work from England titled World Piss: The spore of the woids. (due for a summer 2009 edit) The drummer had a small collection for Pope Bob and was joined by his friend Emily on bass, in his home town centre of Stourbridge, jamming for money to help Bob pay his medical bills, having raised only about 8 Pounds, the unemployed DJ, who was living at his mum and dad’s house - went down to the local pub and continued the drumming and prayer in hope that somehow, the vibrations wd/ reach Bob and help to heal him. Bob passed on the 11th of January 1/11 and the stoner didn’t get the news until the 12th of January (incidentally the day that Alice Coltrane passed over), and quickly started planning a local event to pay tribute to Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, and once more launch the memes into the environment the best and only way the DJ, drummer knew. The day of the Stourbridge tribute to Bob was a mixed success, once again a low turn out led to a lack of interest in the movie playing, the music and the CD’s i had produced with texts and images as a homage to Bob. Still, those who were there had a fun time, in the skatepark, and the DJ managed to video record some of the event. This event took place on the same day as the London RAW memorial, keeping the Midlands and the North represented, somewhat. The writer also set up a myspace Rawmemorial website, which links up various raw memorial events and footage
Coldcut and Alan Moore tribute to RAW
The DJ’s ego was inflated to the size of a Zeppelin when he heard Matt Black of Coldcut giving him props for helping to put the Coldcut Raw memorial event together, in the small but important capacity of encouraging Ninjatune and Coldcut to link maybelogic, and through the DVD movie Maybelogic, i managed to make a small part of a dream of mine come true, to be a part of a collaboration between Robert Anton Wilson and Ninjatune (in 1999 both of these were the DJ’s favourite things); the movie was released July 23rd 2003 – and the associate producer travelled from New Orleans (11th July – 23rd) with his friend Ben all the way to Santa Cruz for the premier, the last time i ever saw Bob, in classic fashion getting into a jaguar and speeding off from the theatre, we were outside smoking and met him briefly upon his leaving... The scene actually reminds the DJ of the short video released of Dr. Wilson leaving in a car – shortly after he passed.
Now in March 2007 Coldcut and Mixmaster Morris were to produce a giant, experimental multimedia celebration of Bob, including Bill Drummond, Alan Moore, and once again, the prematurely deceased genius of Ken Campbell (2008) in a full blown 2 and a half hour tribute. Many from the MLA and the unemployed DJ were present and were all thrilled by the performance featuring a 20 ft. Talking Bob head, manipulated by VJ DJ manipulations accompanied by a phalanx of ambient sounds-escape, soothing beats and intelligence lounge-core. The DJ was impressed and knocked out, in particular by Alan Moore’s poem for BOB, the geni was loose. The DJ attempted to promote the video of the extravaganza with mixed success, eventually finding a host after a long drawn out process, but the DVD project still lingers, somewhat, in the air... a copyright nightmare i suspect...
The day after the London Coldcut memorial the DJ flew to Amsterdam, to meet the band Galactic who he knew, from a brief meeting in New Orleans - and after only a week the DJ had a job as a dishwasher at an Irish pub, which allowed him to stay longer and build a better resume’ 2 years later the DJ is still in Amsterdam, studying...working on his most ambitious project yet – OUR HISTORIES BACK – His attempt at lifting the Tale of the Tribe into a new creative arena and creating a framework to explore some of the Idea’s and clue’s Dr. Wilson left us to chew over for the next 1000 years...
AFTERTHOUGHTS?
The stoner almost forget to mention his collaborations in Europe with John Sinclair on radiofreeamsterdam.com (who maybe responsible for forwarding the "Kick out the JAMMS motherfucker" meme - reaching far and wide across the global landscape? I owe everything i know about Theolonious Monk, and Be-Bop to John who has been a recent creative catalyst in my life - igniting my American experiences and memories once more - and even inviting me to perform with him in London earlier this year - as DJ Fly Agaric - for the Obama inauguration and Martin Luther King dates - alongside Elliot Levin and a band of cosmic jazz warriors. In 2009 the DJ and writer seems to be finding the spirit of performance once more, something he has missed since spending so much time writing, writing, posting, writing and googling - day in, day out. The writer of the story of Cosmic Trigger and fly agaric 23 feels tired and should stop here.
http://www.maybelogic.org/maybequarterly/10/1003EwigeBloomAndCraft.htm
Steven (Fly Agaric) Pratt
"Ours is a brand-new world of
allatonceness. "Time" has ceased,
"space" has vanished. We now live
in a global village...
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message
ITS ALIGHT MATTER By flyagaric23
every spore is a Tstar.
On August 5th, 1945 a Mushroom cloud appeared over Hiroshima, illustrating humanities latest breakthrough in Killingry: the ability to kill more and more people in less and less time.
The first neurotransmitter known to science; Acetylcholine, was identified in 1914 around the time of the breakout of the first world war by Henry Hallett Dale while doing research on heart tissue. Henry went on to win a nobel prize for his rediscovery.
The devastating killingry made possible by biological nerve weapons of massive destruction, and other devastating nerve agents are partly due to their rapid inhibition of something called acetylcholinesterase in the victims. Constant stimulation of the muscles glands and the central nervous system are the symptoms. Over excitement, panic, terror and death. Some popular insecticides inhibit this enzyme when they destroy targeted insects such as fungas gnats, green fly and other little buggers. The great Paul Stamets has some revolutionary ideas for the pesticide industry that utilizes intelligent fungus to repel various critters, such as carpenter ants. Non lethal methods of pest control seem to be a livingry technology.
Muscarine, a subdivision of Acetylcholine, and a neurotransmitter in both the peripheral and central nervous system can be used to treat Alzheimer's disease and other complications involving muscle relaxation. The stimulation of the muscle glands through Muscarine acts as an example of a psychoactive mushroom drug being used intelligently and positively as a remedy and a medicine to help prolong life. LSD is also a similar case -- after the intelligence spooks have had their fun and games, maybe the healers and shamans can reclaim this tool for treating various in-balaces in 2008 and beyond.
During the rainy season in the Sonoran deserts in Colorado, some people make a pilgrimage to communicate with little green toads. Small, soft and velvety to touch; with cute little emerald heads--full of jewles--these holy amphibian drug lords can individually deliver enough psychopharmacological energy force to launch, as Ralph Metzner puts it: six to eight adult human beings, potentially, into cosmic hyperconsciousness; into the heart of creation, while returning them safely to their original human form shortly afterwards. A loving example of inter-species communication between mankind and amphibians. With a unique psychoactive neuro-chemical interface at the heart of this magical communion.'
Entomology is a word roughly translated to the scientific study of insects, while etymology is the study of the origins of words. Drosophila melanogaster is the common species of fruit fly used in genetics experiments ever since GM kicked off pharmacorpse culture around 1910 AD. Most modern pharmacological technology and genetic advances are indebted to humble fruit flies and various neuro-chemical discoveries have been due to extracts from the toadstool: fly agaric. Flies, Toads and fly agaric.
The highly respected Italian Ethnobotonist and Ethnomycologist Giorgio Samorini has developed a super-fly socio-biological hypothesis that links toads, flies and fungi and getting high all together . The buzz term for this new field of science is zoopharmacognosy: the study, celebration and liberation of animals, bugs and plants that mindfully interact and medicate using cognitive neurochemicals, acting as an evolutionary advantage, when considered at different levels of complexity and magnification among species.
Mycoremediation is another exciting new field of science spear-headed by American mycologist Paul Stamets, and roughly translates as environmental renewal by using fungus and their spores. Fungi have their own kingdom of nature, yet every individual spore is a Tsar: they do not have leaders or Kings in their fungal kingdom in contrast to human oligarchy. They charitably recycle billions of tons of natural and man made waste products freely so that other species of plants, animals and humans benefit incalculably. Furtile soils and healthy nutrients are naturally linked with the fungal kingdom. As are Oak trees and many Orchids that depend on the nutritious underground workshops of fungal fibres and their unique properties for communication, connectivity and networking.
Yes, the mushrooms are inter-netting.
In contrast to this fairy story of shimmering crystal veins and sprouting emerald jewels we have the story of the civilized Homo sapien species, their wars and business. VX trade and thermonuclear chess games, in 2008 a natural disaster for this beautiful and life sustaining planet. But also the fortunate stewards of spaceship earth. Fungus on the other hand, through their bio-remediation properties alone, are like recycling angels, miricle cleaners for our planet earth, in some sense. They are rewarded by the worlds governments and the United Nations with being scheduled and prohibited, at least the species that are trying to talk as well as DO! Such as Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe mexicana, and Psilocybe semilanceata. Long live the new flesh!
Muscarine occurs inside the fetching fly agaric species of mushroom, alongside some other psychopharmacological secret agents known as ibotenic acid, muscazone and muscimol. Fly agaric (Amanita Musicaria) and many other fungi in the agaric family are spread far and wide across planet earth. Due to the lack of fungal fossil records, no specific data pinpointing exactly how long these toadstools have been here among the flora, although it's safe to say much longer than homo sapiens. Scientific research upon this particular species of fungus has led to some compounds used to increase longevity, just like the fairy tales said they would. Alternatively, other fly agaric extracts can dramatically paralyze biological life, much like how usury paralyzes wealth of a nation. See the ingredients to V-Gas. G-Gas. I.G Faben and the history of modern biological warfare and area denial weapons.
Terence Mckenna once proposed that psylocybin containing mushrooms and not Amanita mushrooms maybe a more fitting candidate for the mighty Soma complex due to their stronger psychoactive properties. I agree with this theory based upon my own experiences with these different mushrooms. Some other theories propose Soma to be an alchemical combination of various psychoactive vegetables mixed together. Thousands of years ago in Vedic Hindu culture Soma was celebrated as the divine ambrosia of immortality. Today some brighter scientists can show how the chemical muscarine lives up to this description by providing useful medical drugs that help prolong life.
The great Aldous Huxley deployed SOMA as a literary device in his novel Brave New World, Soma's function in this novel was as an opiate of the masses substituting religion and television and other stimulants popular with Homo sapiens of the 20th Century. This excellent distopian device scares me relatively more than Eric Blair's Big Brother and his similar critically paranoid, Nineteen Eighty Four. Although to me, both of these novels seem like fairy stories when compared with the terrifying phenomenon known worldwide as Satan Claus from the TSOG!
Semiotics used as a method applied to fairy myth helps to refine a linguistic approach and attempts to find the 'words' of it's universal lunguage. Many people who choose to ingest psychedelics generally experience a dramatically increased sense and sensibility of light, soft star spark flares, fiber-optic energy Flashes of photonic bombardment. Annihilation. Super nova sensations, neural explosions in/ouwords. Atomik detonation of all physical boundaries. Energy flashes repeating; all safely tucked away behind the eyelids.
Bioluminescence is another relatively new scientific term, adding to the quagmire of TERMS, and this one describs the process of biological cells - emitting - light photons, also known as bio-photons. DNA RNA of all RNA DNA life forms, are perpetually emitting these biophotons everywhere and has been doing so since the first RNA DNA--molecular poets--resurrected themselves upon spaceship Earth. Because of the relatively weak broadcasting strength of these biophotons modern science has only recently scientifically categorized them, the mystics, magicians, witches and poets however have been singing and dancing about this light for thousands of years. In the Tibetan book of the Dead for example, there are six lights which correspond to six realms of existence. Traditionally, the realm of the gods, jealous gods (asuras), humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hell beings. These lights are also known as the lower lights.
An ever growing population of anthropologists and scientists have visited and participated in ancient sacred vegetable rites and magical ceremonies and then journeyed back to a western scientific paradigm with their alternative new lamp, map, model and metaphor. Brave Knu tempronauts vividly describe incredible visions; tales of serpents, jaguars, Pink river dolphins, insectoid timespace traveling anthropologists, light beings, diamond encrusted dancing angels, self transforming basketball elf chemists, E.T's, ghosts, vegetation spirits, pookhas, superluminous skyladders leading to other star systems.
Every man and every women is a spore.
This dissolution of boundaries between human, animal, insect, vegetable, plant, mineral, cell, atom, seems a result of a better perception, or interacting process. Visualizing the RNA DNA bio-photons more vividly seems to be a result of certain psychoactive compounds on the human nervous system. And upon the human neuro-semantic and neuropsychological belief programs under the operaters control. I'm doing this right now, and so are you!
The perceived magik-fire inside of fireflies or the lightening inside of lightening bugs is known as Luciferin. Jellyfish and Antarctic Krill, among other critters also contain Luciferin. These creatures translate and amplify the light to such a degree that they appear luminous. Yet, if we could increase our sensitivity to light then maybe all DNA RNA based life would appear illuminated?
Coincidently, illumination or enlightenment [the concept] often appears to critters under the influence of psychoactive compounds--
flyagaric23, Spring Equinox 2006. (july 18 2008)
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