2002 Jan-Jun Brainmachines Emails

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January 2002

#2175 Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:51:36 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Happy New Year 2002!!! Hope everybody had a good time!! This is a for Wednesday nights at Opium with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy this Winter in this nice and cozy bar enjoing the Trance music. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Our special guests Dj Chasqui(La Paz-Chiletrance) Niko(Synthetic Sadhus) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 No Cover Thanks!!Gracias.. Love and Light Angeles

#2176 Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:31:58 New Years Reviews From: “ismoked” Wylies Trance Mission Best deal in town. The cavalry came: Marco from SUN Project and Frank E from Koxbox came and DJed at the trance mission after thanks to good old Kamal, who had been playing in a jail cell in the basement of the bank at Tsunami! Wylie’s new place is rocking, very comfortable, big and above all completely decked out in cool psy-artistry. It easily outdoes the old penthouse, and even has a beautiful roof. Don’t miss the next one. (and if yer not on safetydance, you won’t get the addy; wylie ran out of goodwill towards nontrancers and strangers and no longer promotes at techno parties after the graffiti and garen’s camera stealing incident) Tsunami Despite the heavy drama at the door (my companion wasn’t exactly kissing ass), and the weird security measures (no backpacks on the dance floor), Tsunami looked like it was a good party and the sound was good. I missed both acts because it just wasn’t as comfortable as Wylie’s. But it worked out because they came later and we all got to hang out. Also, just in.. From: “goakat” dinkydun at hotmail Tue Jan 1, 2002 9:37am Happy New YEar Everyone Hey everyone Justa quick note to wish you all avery happy and peaceful New YEar. So far things in Ireland have been going good, but have not found a psy-trance scene yet!I will be working on it so if anyone is coming this direction (or to the UK), drop me a line and we’ll try and arrange somthing. I’ve found a few places ((indoor and outdoors) and have been in contact with a festival promoter!! It’s going to be a great Year. Keep up the good work lads, keep on stomping and have one for me!! Slan agus Beannacht Kate P.S. Went to see Orbital though, and they were most wonderful my how I missed the Irish fungi also!!!

#2177 Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:07:04 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays/YANIV FROM COSMOPHILIA TONIGHT From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!! Opium Den. Tonight our special, special guest is Dj YANIV from Cosmophilia records on Germany. Come and listen the Trance Music tonight and is FREE!! Happy new Year!!!! Love and Light Angeles

#2178 Sun, 06 Jan 2002 20:47:52 The Emperor has no…. clothes? From: “ismoked” So the Emperor stands before us, naked and jaded. Grappling at gadgets that have been subsequently demechanicized, ruffaging the ground for lost batteries in a blur of white powder induced longing. Seek what you will with blinking eyes, pulsating to geometric patterns of kinetic brain synapses….. Look into the technological guru’s eyes, seeing a glimpse of the other side of what you call your isolated illusion!!!! Break free of the jabbernauted crust in your under slept and over danced eyes, gaze into the lcd screen of your favorite sony, searching for the love of a cyber honey. LUST I SAY LUST for what is it all for if not to trance your self into a cult of half peeped gizmos and whirling orgasmatrons!!!! The Lord of the trance calls upon each of us at our appointed time, to shackle off these chains of reason and mundanity, SEEK YOUR UNIQUENESS it cries, NOVELTY IS ALL for conformity and homogenisis is death in itself, the stagnant and uncreative shall fall to loins of the past, steeping itself in the roadside of mass culturization. Thanks to Koan of Deeper in Zen

#2179 Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:07:43 Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:07:42 Goat Trance Goa Trance Go at trance Tuesday/Psy-Schedule 2002 (Note- venue change – not at Karma but uptown with better sound – we are aligning forces with lesbian go go dancers and midgets, read on) This Tuesday, Jan. 8th….. There’s ten reasons to come out this Tuesday 1 Multi birthday party (including yours truly) 2 the dmtski Lodge is now a go – Jan 18 our maiden weekend, every weekend for the next couple of months. Come get info! Thanks Dan de Maria for the $500!!! 3 Come be a part of the first of a new weekly Freaky Tuesday night party with Tony and Viviana! 4 New location with killer sound- Who’s on First 5 It’s been a while since you heard psy-trance after last weekend 6 Capricorns are badass – you must kiss the ring 7 There’s no trance party this coming weekend 8 Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. So come embarrass us 9 This is a Tony Trance Mission 🙂 10 We’re all gonna hook up Tuesday!! Jan 8 – Tuesday – – dski Capricorn Goatrance Birthday Celebration for everyone born from December 22-January 19 10pm-4am. Free before midnight, $3 after. 21+ only, ID a must. “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. Midgets, lesbians, fetish people, and tranceheads all under 1 roof. DJs Amnesium and Machinelf. Great energy at a great bar with a big upstairs with games etc, a chillout area downstairs with couches – all set to psytrance. Drinks are 2 for 1 for anything! and Vivianna is your bartender. Come dressed as the sign. Goats. Horns. Eat tin cans. Goatrance. Goat trance. Cuddle Puddle. Sobriety Exam. Astrological readings. Slide show by Lisa Renko. Bring slides. Honored Capricorns: Jesus, Machinelf, chameleia at aol, Lauren Kutscher’s Birthday TaharaRose at hotmail, BillnEd at aol Bill, Akasha at deserttrance, Morgan Levine, Alicia beastiegirl at quadprincess Everyone is welcome. Freaky Tuesdays at “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. See you all there! To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW dmtski LODGE!!! If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. And hey, it’s Machinelf’s End of 33 Year of the Stigmata 🙂 (e-mail questions to: Freebeer4kids at hotmail and/or . Email rocktheshow at aol about info on dski!!) Famous Capricorns web acton Elvis Presley, Ricky Martin Lord Acton web arnold Matthew Arnold web asimov Isaac Asimov web barton Clara Barton web beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir web burke Edmund Burke web cicero Cicero web marlene Marlene Dietrich web forster E.M. Forster web franklin Benjamin Franklin web goldwater Barry Goldwater web mead Margaret Mead web mickiewicz Adam Mickiewicz web poe Edgar Allan Poe web sandburg Carl Sandburg web wilson Woodrow Wilson Rev Martin Luther King, civil rights activist, Johannes Kepler, Astrologer and Astronomer, physicist and philosopher Sir Isaac Newton, former US President, Richard Nixon, singer Nat King Cole and football figures; Bryan Robson, Sir Alex Ferguson and Terry Venables. Faye Dunaway, web gzone/nixon/President Rod Serling, Richard Nixon, Donna Summer, Chuck Berry, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Voight, Henry Miller, Joseph Stalin, Cary Grant, Joan of Arc, Mao Tse-tung The deliberate Capricorn will put his or her nose to the grindstone to get the job finished. Later, as you are about to tell them what a good job they have done, they will grumble on about how no one else could have been as thorough or efficiant. Oops, if only they could have kept their trap shut. Capricorns don’t like to lose. They will keep coming back for more until they are either the victor, or everyone else has finally given up (in which case they will win by default). Likewise, Capricorns are unable to acknowledge the fact that they can lose (or that they are losers, if that’s the case). Don’t get into an argument with a Capricorn about the Vietnam war. Capricorns will stand gracefully, like a picture of ambition and superiority, until they take a step in any direction. They are terrific at tripping over themselves. Many Capricorns will fail sobriety exams even if they haven’t been drinking. Many Capricorns like to live their life like a movie script. When somthing goes wrong, they merely say to themselves, “that isn’t the way its supposed to happen. It isn’t in the script.” Sadly, they are not the ones writing the script, so they have to wait for the sequal to see if things get any better.Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. Capricorns don’t often eat “normal” foods. They believe themselves gifted with an epicurean palate, designed to sample exotic cuisine. They’re the kinds of people that get excited at the idea of eating the parts of animals best left unmentioned. Capricorns have been known to eat and enjoy scrapple. They are also notorious for making other people eat their cooking (and without being told what it is). quality web links.net/spirit/astro/sign/cardinal cardinal symbol seagoat’s horn element web links.net/spirit/astro/sign/earth earth principle passive natural sign of web links.net/spirit/astro/house/tenth tenth house ruler web links.net/spirit/astro/planet/Saturn Saturn opposite sign web links.net/spirit/astro/sign/cancer/Cancer anatomy bones, knees and teeth colours black, brown, blue-violet, gray, indigo, green, purple metal lead flowers carnation, holly, snowdrop stones white onyx, moonstone, jet, lapis lazuli, diamond, garnet incense frankincense, khus-khus musical notes A and F numbers 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 tarot cards the devil, the world key phrase I use keyword ambition Updated Psy-Trance Calendar 2002 This list includes NYC and major international psy-trance events. for north american psy-trance northamtrance OPEN (nothing scheduled) All Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 4-5 Fri & Sat Jan 11-12 Fri & Sat Jan 18 Fri Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 11 – – Spectra: Hux Flux has been CANCELLED Jan 18 dski every weekend through April!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, fiends, fun, and o yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away.. d members may email rocktheshow at aol Jan 19 – Sat – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere Jan 23 – Screening of Goa Trance movie Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Feb 12 – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Karma, 51 First Ave (3rd St) (d Aquarians May be moved to Liquids:-) 212-677-3160 All Ages, 21+ to drink The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. To paraphrase Kate, “Karmais a lovely location, it’s always been an intimate experience, get there early dance, talk, get to know the people that share the same love as you. Smoke a hooka, have a bite to eat, have a drink and share the dream. There’s lots of opportunities to travel far into oneself, this is the opportunity to bond with others. Put names to faces and exchange information, we are a travelling band and need to make the connections to keep united no matter where we travel or where we go!” Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 21 – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. June 21 Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and l In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. Ratings from Past History and Reputation Boston Chicago Los Angeles web liquidgrin/ (psytrance)web sixthsense.net (psytrance, kindof defunct)Mexico Montreal Nantucket New Orleans New York – – Barcelona Berlin Brazil Copenhagen Goa Israel Mexico City ParisSweden TokyoThis Tuesday, Jan. 8th….. There’s ten reasons to come out this Tuesday 1 Multi birthday party (including yours truly) 2 the dmtski Lodge is now a go – Jan 18 our maiden weekend, every weekend for the next couple of months. Come get info! Thanks Dan de Maria for the $500!!! 3 Come be a part of the first of a new weekly Freaky Tuesday night party with Tony and Viviana! 4 New location with killer sound- Who’s on First 5 It’s been a while since you heard psy-trance after last weekend 6 Capricorns are badass – you must kiss the ring 7 There’s no trance party this coming weekend 8 Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. So come embarrass us 9 This is a Tony Trance Mission 🙂 10 We’re all gonna hook up Tuesday!! Jan 8 – Tuesday – – dski Capricorn Goatrance Birthday Celebration for everyone born from December 22-January 19 10pm-4am. Free before midnight, $3 after. 21+ only, ID a must. “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. Midgets, lesbians, fetish people, and tranceheads all under 1 roof. DJs Amnesium and Machinelf. Great energy at a great bar with a big upstairs with games etc, a chillout area downstairs with couches – all set to psytrance. Drinks are 2 for 1 for anything! and Vivianna is your bartender. Come dressed as the sign. Goats. Horns. Eat tin cans. Goatrance. Goat trance. Cuddle Puddle. Sobriety Exam. Astrological readings. Slide show by Lisa Renko. Bring slides. Honored Capricorns: Jesus, Machinelf, chameleia at aol, Lauren Kutscher’s Birthday TaharaRose at hotmail, BillnEd at aol Bill, Akasha at deserttrance, Morgan Levine, Alicia beastiegirl at quadprincess Everyone is welcome. Freaky Tuesdays at “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. See you all there! To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW dmtski LODGE!!! If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. And hey, it’s Machinelf’s End of 33 Year of the Stigmata 🙂 (e-mail questions to: Freebeer4kids at hotmail and/or . Email rocktheshow at aol about info on dski!!) Famous Capricorns Lord Acton web arnold Matthew Arnold web asimov Isaac Asimov web barton Clara Barton web beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir web burke Edmund Burke web cicero Cicero web marlene Marlene Dietrich web forster E.M. Forster web franklin Benjamin Franklin web goldwater Barry Goldwater web mead Margaret Mead web mickiewicz Adam Mickiewicz web poe Edgar Allan Poe web sandburg Carl Sandburg web wilson Woodrow Wilson Rod Serling, Richard Nixon, Donna Summer, Chuck Berry, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Voight, Henry Miller, Joseph Stalin, Cary Grant, Joan of Arc, Mao Tse-tung The deliberate Capricorn will put his or her nose to the grindstone to get the job finished. Later, as you are about to tell them what a good job they have done, they will grumble on about how no one else could have been as thorough or efficiant. Oops, if only they could have kept their trap shut. Capricorns don’t like to lose. They will keep coming back for more until they are either the victor, or everyone else has finally given up (in which case they will win by default). Likewise, Capricorns are unable to acknowledge the fact that they can lose (or that they are losers, if that’s the case). Don’t get into an argument with a Capricorn about the Vietnam war. Capricorns will stand gracefully, like a picture of ambition and superiority, until they take a step in any direction. They are terrific at tripping over themselves. Many Capricorns will fail sobriety exams even if they haven’t been drinking. Many Capricorns like to live their life like a movie script. When somthing goes wrong, they merely say to themselves, “that isn’t the way its supposed to happen. It isn’t in the script.” Sadly, they are not the ones writing the script, so they have to wait for the sequal to see if things get any better.Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. Capricorns don’t often eat “normal” foods. They believe themselves gifted with an epicurean palate, designed to sample exotic cuisine. They’re the kinds of people that get excited at the idea of eating the parts of animals best left unmentioned. Capricorns have been known to eat and enjoy scrapple. They are also notorious for making other people eat their cooking (and without being told what it is). quality web links.net/spirit/astro/sign/cardinal cardinal symbol seagoat’s horn element web links.net/spirit/astro/sign/earth earth principle passive natural sign of web links.net/spirit/astro/house/tenth tenth house ruler web links.net/spirit/astro/planet/Saturn Saturn opposite sign web links.net/spirit/astro/sign/cancer/Cancer anatomy bones, knees and teeth colours black, brown, blue-violet, gray, indigo, green, purple metal lead flowers carnation, holly, snowdrop stones white onyx, moonstone, jet, lapis lazuli, diamond, garnet incense frankincense, khus-khus musical notes A and F numbers 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 tarot cards the devil, the world key phrase I use keyword ambition This list includes NYC and major international psy-trance events. for north american psy-trance northamtrance OPEN (nothing scheduled) All Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 4-5 Fri & Sat Jan 11-12 Fri & Sat Jan 18 Fri Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 11 – – Spectra: Hux Flux has been CANCELLED Jan 18 dski every weekend through April!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, fiends, fun, and o yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away.. d members may email rocktheshow at aol Jan 19 – Sat – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere Jan 23 – Screening of Goa Trance movie Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Feb 12 – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Karma, 51 First Ave (3rd St) (d Aquarians May be moved to Liquids:-) 212-677-3160 All Ages, 21+ to drink The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. To paraphrase Kate, “Karmais a lovely location, it’s always been an intimate experience, get there early dance, talk, get to know the people that share the same love as you. Smoke a hooka, have a bite to eat, have a drink and share the dream. There’s lots of opportunities to travel far into oneself, this is the opportunity to bond with others. Put names to faces and exchange information, we are a travelling band and need to make the connections to keep united no matter where we travel or where we go!” Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 21 – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. June 21 Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters.hmm? already open. You started without me? Fair distribution is a bitch. (oh, im just kidding, sorry ma’am) (whathefuck? – do I have rocks in my underwear? where did this baby-powder ome from? what’s that smell? rotting eggs? no, I think you look great. …oh, Mercer St. is that way 🙂 pardon, was I leaking? -okay now just the guys: “Sooooooow?” Too much galactose in your diet, cut back on the salt every moon my dear. If you doubt, but your perception is obscured, you gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaaarrtay! Don’t forget what you are not supposed to forget. Running hatred through your filter is hazardous, be sure to rinse & repeat (although i recomend sympathizing instead). freedom creeps up on you. The future so briight, I gotta wear shades. A quick whirs through your field of vision. Destiny is a roaring lion, if you pull the thorn out from his paw, he will be kind to you. I’m not all there right now. (words- dividing…) The absense is causing me to bother you. It’s not my fault..? How was I to know? How? Was. Eye? Two. No. . . . Letting time seep in like a lullaby, remembering how to remember: The serpent has a secret. The apple is called Delicious. Zero is discovering. One is atracting. Two is facing. Three is activating. Four is knowing. Five is understanding. Six is helping. Seven is participating. Eight is harmonizing. Nine is manifesting. Ten is completing. Eleven is releasing. Twelve is synchronizing. Thirteen is accepting. fourteen is embracing. . . . . … O weary Karmachanics! May you find that which are seeking, hear (here), hidden, amidst the rainforests of discoveries, and the program codes that reveal themselves humbly. Sci-Fi techno-hieroglyphs are sprouting from their nourished seeds. The reality-sysytems they ‘will’ become is not far. We are helping. The unborn unbored life is dreaming us and beckoning us back to itself. Be not afraid! there is a time for work. there is a time for rest. there is a time for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV

#2181 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:02:11 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:02:11 Fwd: tsunami 1-19-02 Can’t wait. Tsunami is back!!! Credit Tsunami with being on the vanguard of getting new people in. Credit Tsunami for bringing many of us together. Credit Tsunami with providing a safe environment. Credit Tsunami with keeping on going despite naysayers. Vibrasphere was pretty squirrelly in screwing over a local promoter, but that is the nature of the beast. Info follows:

#2182 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:04:56 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:04:55 Fwd: Omni Tribe::: Feb 1st party with Peter Didjitale

#2183 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:25:46 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:25:45 Why Omnitribe? Their location at west 26th is one of the nicest. For those with long memories it’s similar to the Metropolitan Pavilion. And enough time has passed since their geiger Room sound snafu that they can yet again be acknowledged as having the best sound for a midsize event, second only to Gavin’s Mackey armada at the Spectra parties. It’s in the basement of a fencing school owned by a really great guy named Leroy. Put it on your calendars to come check it out if you’ve never been there. The water is free, the vibe is intimate, and the price is very reasonable.

#2184 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:22:01 Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:22:01 Free Drinks at Goattrance Tuesday/Updated Psy-Schedule 2002 UPFREE DRINKS for Capricorns at the Goattrance Party on Tuesday at Who’s on First!! Everyone else has two-for-one drinks. Lesbians, midgets, and goats – how can you go wrong? Some are even dressing as Lord of the Rings extras. Orcs, I guess. The place is rocking anyways. Party hearty Tuesday nights. This is all from Wylie. It makes Hogs and heifers look like a tea party. More on Capricorns: Stern Capricorn and you astrology.msn/Horoscopes/article/capricorn.asp From December 21st thru January 20th, the Sun will be in Capricorn, the tenth sign of the Zodiac. The Goat, a metaphor for slowly plotting and planning a rags-to-riches existence, focuses us on our personal goals with regard to achievement, status and long-term projects. Capricorns certainly have their sunny side: they’re loyal friends; generous gift-givers; fashion mavens; stellar overachievers. They always seem to manage that tricky balance between faith and science. Goats have their shadow side too. They can be slaves to fashion; thin-skinned and confrontational (they can dish it out, but can they take it?); paranoid corporate climbers; bean-counting business school clones who miss out on the joys of life. What’s more, Capricorn is ruled by the planet Saturn, the solar system’s sternest source of karma. So never mess with a Goat on the way up you might meet this person again on the way down! (Note- venue change – not at Karma but uptown with better sound – we are aligning forces with lesbian go go dancers and midgets, read on) This Tuesday, Jan. 8th….. There’s ten reasons to come out this Tuesday 1 Multi birthday party (including yours truly) 2 the dmtski Lodge is now a go – Jan 18 our maiden weekend, every weekend for the next couple of months. Come get info! Thanks Dan de Maria for the $500!!! 3 Come be a part of the first of a new weekly Freaky Tuesday night party with Tony and Viviana! 4 New location with killer sound- Who’s on First 5 It’s been a while since you heard psy-trance after last weekend 6 Capricorns are badass – you must kiss the ring 7 There’s no trance party this coming weekend 8 Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. So come embarrass us 9 This is a Tony Trance Mission 🙂 10 We’re all gonna hook up Tuesday!! Jan 8 – Tuesday – – dski Capricorn Goatrance Birthday Celebration for everyone born from December 22-January 19 10pm-4am. Free before midnight, $3 after. 21+ only, ID a must. “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. Midgets, lesbians, fetish people, and tranceheads all under 1 roof. DJs Amnesium and Machinelf. Great energy at a great bar with a big upstairs with games etc, a chillout area downstairs with couches – all set to psytrance. Drinks are 2 for 1 for anything! and Vivianna is your bartender. Come dressed as the sign. Goats. Horns. Eat tin cans. Goatrance. Goat trance. Cuddle Puddle. Sobriety Exam. Astrological readings. Slide show by Lisa Renko. Bring slides. Honored Capricorns: Jesus, Machinelf, chameleia at aol, Lauren Kutscher’s Birthday TaharaRose at hotmail, BillnEd at aol Bill, Akasha at deserttrance, Morgan Levine, Alicia beastiegirl at quadprincess Everyone is welcome. Freaky Tuesdays at “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. See you all there! To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW dmtski LODGE!!! If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. And hey, it’s Machinelf’s End of 33 Year of the Stigmata 🙂 (e-mail questions to: Freebeer4kids at hotmail and/or . Email rocktheshow at aol about info on dski!!) Famous Capricorns Elvis Presley, Ricky Martin Lord Acton Matthew Arnold Isaac Asimov Clara Barton Simone de Beauvoir Edmund Burke Cicero Marlene Dietrich E.M. Forster Benjamin Franklin Barry Goldwater Margaret Mead Adam Mickiewicz Edgar Allan Poe Carl Sandburg Woodrow Wilson Rev Martin Luther King, civil rights activist, Johannes Kepler, Astrologer and Astronomer, physicist and philosopher Sir Isaac Newton, former US President, Richard Nixon, singer Nat King Cole and football figures; Bryan Robson, Sir Alex Ferguson and Terry Venables. Faye Dunaway, President Richard Nixon, General Robert E. Lee, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Rod Serling, Richard Nixon, Donna Summer, Chuck Berry, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Voight, Henry Miller, Joseph Stalin, Cary Grant, Joan of Arc, Mao Tse-tung The deliberate Capricorn will put his or her nose to the grindstone to get the job finished. Later, as you are about to tell them what a good job they have done, they will grumble on about how no one else could have been as thorough or efficiant. Oops, if only they could have kept their trap shut. Capricorns don’t like to lose. They will keep coming back for more until they are either the victor, or everyone else has finally given up (in which case they will win by default). Likewise, Capricorns are unable to acknowledge the fact that they can lose (or that they are losers, if that’s the case). Don’t get into an argument with a Capricorn about the Vietnam war. Capricorns will stand gracefully, like a picture of ambition and superiority, until they take a step in any direction. They are terrific at tripping over themselves. Many Capricorns will fail sobriety exams even if they haven’t been drinking. Many Capricorns like to live their life like a movie script. When somthing goes wrong, they merely say to themselves, “that isn’t the way its supposed to happen. It isn’t in the script.” Sadly, they are not the ones writing the script, so they have to wait for the sequal to see if things get any better.Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. Capricorns don’t often eat “normal” foods. They believe themselves gifted with an epicurean palate, designed to sample exotic cuisine. They’re the kinds of people that get excited at the idea of eating the parts of animals best left unmentioned. Capricorns have been known to eat and enjoy scrapple. They are also notorious for making other people eat their cooking (and without being told what it is). quality cardinal symbol seagoat’s horn element earth principle passive natural sign of tenth house ruler Saturn opposite sign Cancer anatomy bones, knees and teeth colours black, brown, blue-violet, gray, indigo, green, purple metal lead flowers carnation, holly, snowdrop stones white onyx, moonstone, jet, lapis lazuli, diamond, garnet incense frankincense, khus-khus musical notes A and F numbers 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 tarot cards the devil, the world key phrase I use keyword ambition Updated Psy-Trance Calendar 2002 This list includes NYC and major international psy-trance events. for north american psy-trance northamtrance OPEN (nothing scheduled) All Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 4-5 Fri & Sat Jan 11-12 Fri & Sat Jan 18 Fri Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 11 – – Spectra: Hux Flux has been inexplicably CANCELLED Jan 18 dski every weekend through March 18!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, cooking, eating, DJing, hiking, snow angel making, cuddle puddling, fiends, fun, and oh yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away, cheap.. Contribution is flexible depending on YOUR needs – some will occasionally spend an entire week there!! d members may email rocktheshow at aol . Here’s a photo of Jan 19 – Sat – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Jan 23 – Screening of Goa Trance movie Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Feb 12 – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Karma, 51 First Ave (3rd St) (d Aquarians May be moved to Liquids:-) 212-677-3160 All Ages, 21+ to drink The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. To paraphrase Kate, “Karmais a lovely location, it’s always been an intimate experience, get there early dance, talk, get to know the people that share the same love as you. Smoke a hooka, have a bite to eat, have a drink and share the dream. There’s lots of opportunities to travel far into oneself, this is the opportunity to bond with others. Put names to faces and exchange information, we are a travelling band and need to make the connections to keep united no matter where we travel or where we go!” Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 21 – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. June 21 Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and l In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. (Note- venue change – not at Karma but uptown with better sound – we are aligning forces with lesbian go go dancers and midgets, read on) This Tuesday, Jan. 8th….. There’s ten reasons to come out this Tuesday 1 Multi birthday party (including yours truly) 2 the dmtski Lodge is now a go – Jan 18 our maiden weekend, every weekend for the next couple of months. Come get info! Thanks Dan de Maria for the $500!!! 3 Come be a part of the first of a new weekly Freaky Tuesday night party with Tony and Viviana! 4 New location with killer sound- Who’s on First 5 It’s been a while since you heard psy-trance after last weekend 6 Capricorns are badass – you must kiss the ring 7 There’s no trance party this coming weekend 8 Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. So come embarrass us 9 This is a Tony Trance Mission 🙂 10 We’re all gonna hook up Tuesday!! Jan 8 – Tuesday – – dski Capricorn Goatrance Birthday Celebration for everyone born from December 22-January 19 10pm-4am. Free before midnight, $3 after. 21+ only, ID a must. “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. Midgets, lesbians, fetish people, and tranceheads all under 1 roof. DJs Amnesium and Machinelf. Great energy at a great bar with a big upstairs with games etc, a chillout area downstairs with couches – all set to psytrance. Drinks are 2 for 1 for anything! and Vivianna is your bartender. Come dressed as the sign. Goats. Horns. Eat tin cans. Goatrance. Goat trance. Cuddle Puddle. Sobriety Exam. Astrological readings. Slide show by Lisa Renko. Bring slides. Honored Capricorns: Jesus, Machinelf, chameleia at aol, Lauren Kutscher’s Birthday TaharaRose at hotmail, BillnEd at aol Bill, Akasha at deserttrance, Morgan Levine, Alicia beastiegirl at quadprincess Everyone is welcome. Freaky Tuesdays at “Who’s on First” a bar on 1st ave and 87th st. See you all there! To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW dmtski LODGE!!! If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. And hey, it’s Machinelf’s End of 33 Year of the Stigmata 🙂 (e-mail questions to: Freebeer4kids at hotmail and/or . Email rocktheshow at aol about info on dski!!) Famous Capricorns Elvis Presley, Ricky Martin Lord Acton Matthew Arnold Isaac Asimov Clara Barton Simone de Beauvoir Edmund Burke Cicero Marlene Dietrich E.M. Forster Benjamin Franklin Barry Goldwater Margaret Mead Adam Mickiewicz Edgar Allan Poe Carl Sandburg Woodrow Wilson Rev Martin Luther King, civil rights activist, Johannes Kepler, Astrologer and Astronomer, physicist and philosopher Sir Isaac Newton, former US President, Richard Nixon, singer Nat King Cole and football figures; Bryan Robson, Sir Alex Ferguson and Terry Venables. Faye Dunaway, President Richard Nixon, General Robert E. Lee, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Rod Serling, Richard Nixon, Donna Summer, Chuck Berry, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Voight, Henry Miller, Joseph Stalin, Cary Grant, Joan of Arc, Mao Tse-tung The deliberate Capricorn will put his or her nose to the grindstone to get the job finished. Later, as you are about to tell them what a good job they have done, they will grumble on about how no one else could have been as thorough or efficiant. Oops, if only they could have kept their trap shut. Capricorns don’t like to lose. They will keep coming back for more until they are either the victor, or everyone else has finally given up (in which case they will win by default). Likewise, Capricorns are unable to acknowledge the fact that they can lose (or that they are losers, if that’s the case). Don’t get into an argument with a Capricorn about the Vietnam war. Capricorns will stand gracefully, like a picture of ambition and superiority, until they take a step in any direction. They are terrific at tripping over themselves. Many Capricorns will fail sobriety exams even if they haven’t been drinking. Many Capricorns like to live their life like a movie script. When somthing goes wrong, they merely say to themselves, “that isn’t the way its supposed to happen. It isn’t in the script.” Sadly, they are not the ones writing the script, so they have to wait for the sequal to see if things get any better.Capricorns are very conscious of what other people think of them. They tend to tread lightly in delicate situations, and they try their darnedest to be polically correct. Consequently, they are easily embarrassed by their associates’ social blunders. Capricorns don’t often eat “normal” foods. They believe themselves gifted with an epicurean palate, designed to sample exotic cuisine. They’re the kinds of people that get excited at the idea of eating the parts of animals best left unmentioned. Capricorns have been known to eat and enjoy scrapple. They are also notorious for making other people eat their cooking (and without being told what it is). quality cardinal symbol seagoat’s horn element earth principle passive natural sign of tenth house ruler Saturn opposite sign Cancer anatomy bones, knees and teeth colours black, brown, blue-violet, gray, indigo, green, purple metal lead flowers carnation, holly, snowdrop stones white onyx, moonstone, jet, lapis lazuli, diamond, garnet incense frankincense, khus-khus musical notes A and F numbers 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 tarot cards the devil, the world key phrase I use keyword ambition This list includes NYC and major international psy-trance events. for north american psy-trance northamtrance OPEN (nothing scheduled) All Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 4-5 Fri & Sat Jan 11-12 Fri & Sat Jan 18 Fri Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 11 – – Spectra: Hux Flux has been inexplicably CANCELLED Jan 19 – Sat – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Jan 23 – Screening of Goa Trance movie Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Feb 12 – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Karma, 51 First Ave (3rd St) (d Aquarians May be moved to Liquids:-) 212-677-3160 All Ages, 21+ to drink The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. To paraphrase Kate, “Karmais a lovely location, it’s always been an intimate experience, get there early dance, talk, get to know the people that share the same love as you. Smoke a hooka, have a bite to eat, have a drink and share the dream. There’s lots of opportunities to travel far into oneself, this is the opportunity to bond with others. Put names to faces and exchange information, we are a travelling band and need to make the connections to keep united no matter where we travel or where we go!” Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 21 – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. June 21 Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. T –

#2185 Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:30:37 Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:30:36 Fwd: [K-OS] NYC ambient party I’m definitely going, Sheldon is a great DJ and a good source of info. Ambient is just the thing, now, and i hope to see you there. Look for the blinking glasses… directions at end of email…

#2186 Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:41:10 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Dear Friends! I want to thank everyone who support Chiletrance Wednesdays last year. And also every Dj is welcome to play, just email me at chiletrance at yahoo. This is a for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy this winter with us in this nice bar. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Our special guests Dj Chasqui(La Paz) Niko(Synthetic Sadhus) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 No cover Thanks! Love and Light Angeles

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#2188 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:29:09 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:29:09 PsyPschedule + Ambient Review/Freaky Tuesdays/dski launch PsyPschedule NYC 2002 News: -The Ego has Landed last Friday was to my experience New York’s first big ambient event. It went off well, despite a long wait at the door and Lunatarium not having its liquor license current which caused it to close at 4am. There was some off again randomness at Wylie’s afterwards, Sheldon Drake made a brief appearance. -Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First are officially on!! -We officially got the dski house!! Details below… -New PsySchedule feature: Historically, the Indians of what are now the northern and eastern United States kept track of the seasons by giving a distinctive name to each recurring full Moon, this name being applied to the entire month in which it occurred. With some variations, the same Moon names were used throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. This list includes NYC and major international psy-trance events. For north american psy-trance northamtrance OPEN DATES in JANUARY Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 18 Fri, Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 15 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 16 – Opium Den 2nd avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street Jan 18 Fri – LAUNCH PARTY dski every weekend through March 18!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, cooking, eating, DJing, hiking, snow angel making, cuddle puddling, fiends, fun, and oh yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away, cheap.. Contribution is flexible depending on YOUR needs – some will occasionally spend an entire week there!! Me personally, I will be there whenever there’s not a trance party on a given weekend evening. To join dNY paypal Machine Elf $25. d members get more info email rocktheshow at aol . Here’s a photo of the house: Jan 19 – Sat – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – OPEN – dSkiing email rocktheshow at aol Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Email him for details. Unconfirmed – Spectra: Hux Flux & Noma Feb 9 – OPEN – dski!!! Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.

; News: -The Ego has Landed last Friday was to my experience New York’s first big ambient event. It went off well, despite a long wait at the door and Lunatarium not having its liquor license current which caused it to close at 4am. There was some off again randomness at Wylie’s afterwards, Sheldon Drake made a brief appearance. -Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First are officially on!! -We officially got the dski house!! Details below… -New PsySchedule feature: Historically, the Indians of what are now the northern and eastern United States kept track of the seasons by giving a distinctive name to each recurring full Moon, this name being applied to the entire month in which it occurred. With some variations, the same Moon names were used throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. This list includes NYC and major international psy-trance events. For north american psy-trance northamtrance OPEN DATES in JANUARY Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 18 Fri, Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 15 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 16 – Opium Den 2nd avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street Jan 19 – Sat – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – OPEN – dSkiing email rocktheshow at aol Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Email him for details. Unconfirmed – Spectra: Hux Flux & Noma Feb 9 – OPEN – dski!!! Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV

# (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. Boston Chicago Los Angeles web liquidgrin/ (psytrance)web sixthsense.net (psytrance, kindof defunct)Mexico Montreal Nantucket New Orleans New York – – Barcelona Berlin Brazil Copenhagen Goa Israel Mexico CitySweden Tokyo

#2189 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:33:00 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:33:00 The New Dungeons & Dragons for the Return to the Source Set Cc: burningelf If you EVER played D&D look at this now: web ishkur/features/dnd/index

#2190 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:58:45 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:58:44 Another Meteor party ..in 2027. See ya’ll there!! There may be others between now and then. web cnn/2002/TECH/space/01/07/killer.asteroid/index

#2191 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:43:50 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:41:48 Rumour mongering… Lunatarium in trouble? DUMBO’s answer to Twilo… gone? the story i got was that there arent enuf fire exits in the building and its hazardous so theres really no way to get around it. I mean, there were like 3000 ppl [3000? WHAT WERE *YOU* ON LEV?] in there . What do you think? i heard rumors that the lunitarium is being shut down….do you have any idea whats happening? -Lev who, that’s fucked up – last weekend was busted at 4am i heard because their liquor license was two weeks past due or somthing. Cops really don’t have nothing better to do. Argue with an idiot and he will bring you down to his level, and he will win because he has a lot of practice. LONG LIVE OUTLAW PARTIES!!the story i got was that there arent enuf fire exits in the building and its hazardous so theres really no way to get around it. I mean, there were like 3000 ppl [3000? WHAT WERE *YOU* ON LEV?] in there . What do you think?

#2192 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:21:19 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:21:18 More on Lunartarium – Good Reading from AliciaBeastieGirlQuadPrincess (Ed. note – was one of the best parties i’ve been to in a while) JEFF!!! you didn’t know!!! come on.. OMG.. dude, come on.. you didn’t hear?? I bet you didn’t know about the undercover cops that were there too, huh? check it, this is truthful and as honest as I can get. now, as you know, I worked at the party as a stewardess (have photo proof, plus, well, you saw me), and I had alot of fucked up shit happen during my time at the party and I even spoke with my party “supervisor” the afternoon after to hear what was the deal, so know that everything I state, is true and I dont’ care if you post my name up with what I say.. it’s the damn truth!! Here’s the dealy.. cut and paste with what I sent to my friends about it the day afterwards.. If you didn’t hear, let me be the first to let you know.. If you know anyone at BlackKat or an organizer for the Run DMC event, I think you should inform them to call up whomever needs to be calling ASAP to get what is the deal for the future of their events.. Lunatarium.. RIP!!! Friday night was crazy, bottom line.. Party started off really great, I will admit.. I was the flight attendant at the Red Roof Inn (aka the Chill tent) most of the night, accepting sob stories or bribes from flight passengers to get a reservation, if anyone from this list was there and didn’t recognize me in my costume and wig.. anyways, at first, it was I guess normal… I mean, minus the crazed guy who got pissed that I didn’t allow him to smoke his dippy in the tent and the 1.5 hour wait others had to endure to get into the party because the freight elevator was acting up, everyone had a great time.. I mean, the deco at the place was beyond great, everyone that participated in working there as flight attendants or ground crew was working and looking great and everyone that came around to my part of the party enjoyed my bitchy speel at being selective on who got into the tent and reaped the benefits of having an Alicia-controlled enviroment. Then, things started going wacked.. at 1:30am, I guess, I was approached by an individual that there was a fire on the 6th(?) floor and we had to evacuate the building.. So, I turned to my chill room occupants, told them to leave, and they were like, whutever.. So we all ended up chilling in the tent smoking because no one else at the party seemed to be leaving and we all thought it was a joke.. Then a few minutes later, I saw FDNY guys walking around the party.. So I had to get back to my speel and try to keep things chill and the FDNY away from my tent (smell what I’m cooking here???) .. then, a few minutes later, after the 4 firetrucks and company left, the party kept on.. then a few minutes later, an undercover cop came up to me and started asking me about the Red Roof Inn and trying to get in, so I ended up getting back into character and became Glenda, the bitchy reservationist and he got a bit pissed that I didn’t let him in.. Was told later on that I bitched out a NYPD officer, so I had to give a minor prop to myself for doing that.. heh heh.. Then, after word dropped that undercovers were at the party, things got really f’ed up.. Lunatarium, to their horror, didn’t seem to have legal permits to sell alcohol (WHAT???), hence selling to underage people (WHAT???), no cabaret license (WHATT???) and with the undercovers seeing what they saw (people doing and selling K and other crazed stuff), even with the lunatarium security being around, they ended up cracking heads and shut the party down at 3:45am.. Based on what I heard directly from the co-party thrower on Saturday afternoon, after she got back from getting some props and deco from the place, Lunatarium probably will not be able to throw anymore parties in the near future. So, I don’t know.. Overall, if anyone drops any words about oh, the Lunatarium got shut down because of the organizers at the party, know this.. Lunatarium screwed themselves over, not Madagascar, not Shel, not no one who took part in that party as far as organizing and working.. I mean, Lunatarium had their own staff screw the venue over.. How hard is it to check an ID before serving alcohol or somthing? how hard is it to get proper papers to keep your shit going? You know.. Plus now people are talking about them not being able to pay their rent.. welps, tough shit, huh? But anyways, if you are looking for somthing to do on Saturday night, if Lunatarium can’t legally be open for parties anymore, you can always come to my and $mall Change’s b-day party at *cough cough*.. Hee hee Miyako hanaret Tabi no so hitori sabishiku Kisha no mado Namida kakushite Ocha ocha ocha hitotsu chodai na – Kouta by novelist Izumi Kyoka (ca. 1920)

#2193 Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:38:07 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hi Everyone!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come, enjoy with us the Trance music when is coooolllddd outside. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Isam(Symbionyc-chiletrance) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 No cover Thanks!! Love and Light Angeles

#2194 Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:55:28 Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:55:26 Fwd: H.O.T. HOSTING INFECTED MUSHROOM 01/19/02

#2195 Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:02:46 Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:02:55 PsyPschedule – Infected appearance/Spectra cancelled Feb 8 PsyPschedule NYC 2002 News – Infected Mushroom guest appearance at Home of Trance store 2-4pm Saturday Spectra canceled Feb 8 News: OPEN DATES in JANUARY Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 18 Fri, Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 16 – Opium Den 2nd avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street Jan 18 Fri – LAUNCH PARTY dski every weekend through March 18!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, cooking, eating, DJing, hiking, snow angel making, cuddle puddling, fiends, fun, and oh yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away, cheap.. Contribution is flexible depending on YOUR needs – some will occasionally spend an entire week there!! Me personally, I will be there whenever there’s not a trance party on a given weekend evening. To join dNY paypal Machine Elf $25. d members get more info email rocktheshow at aol . Here’s a photo of the house: Jan 19 – Sat 2-4pm – Infected Mushroom appearance at the Home of Trance 122 St Marks That night – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Hudson & Hubert Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – OPEN – dSkiing email rocktheshow at aol Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Email him for details. CANCELLED – Spectra: Hux Flux & Noma Feb 9 – OPEN – dski!!! Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.News – Infected Mushroom guest appearance at Home of Trance store 2-4pm Saturday Spectra canceled Feb 8 News: OPEN DATES in JANUARY Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 18 Fri, Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 16 – Opium Den 2nd avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street Jan 19 – Sat 2-4pm – Infected Mushroom appearance at the Home of Trance 122 St Marks That night – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Hudson & Hubert Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – OPEN – dSkiing email rocktheshow at aol Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Email him for details. CANCELLED – Spectra: Hux Flux & Noma Feb 9 – OPEN – dski!!! Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV love, Evan.

#2196 Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:27:11 Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:27:10 Pschedule PsyPschedule NYC 2002 News – Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It – Flyer out soon OPEN DATES in JANUARY Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 18 Fri, Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 16 – Opium Den 2nd avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street Jan 18 Fri – LAUNCH PARTY dski every weekend through March 18!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, cooking, eating, DJing, hiking, snow angel making, cuddle puddling, fiends, fun, and oh yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away, cheap.. Contribution is flexible depending on YOUR needs – some will occasionally spend an entire week there!! Me personally, I will be there whenever there’s not a trance party on a given weekend evening. To join dNY paypal Machine Elf $25. d members get more info email rocktheshow at aol . Here’s a photo of the house: Jan 19 – Sat 2-4pm – Infected Mushroom appearance at the Home of Trance 122 St Marks That night – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Hudson & Hubert Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – OPEN – dSkiing email rocktheshow at aol Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Email him for details. CANCELLED – Spectra: Hux Flux & Noma Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. News – Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It – Flyer out soon OPEN DATES in JANUARY Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays, plus these weekends: Jan 18 Fri, Jan 25 Fri The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 16 – Opium Den 2nd avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street Jan 19 – Sat 2-4pm – Infected Mushroom appearance at the Home of Trance 122 St Marks That night – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Hudson & Hubert Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – OPEN – dSkiing email rocktheshow at aol Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow is doing a private party for Jamey. Email him for details. CANCELLED – Spectra: Hux Flux & Noma Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.

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#2198 Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:12:58 Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:12:57 Philly Trance 1/25 (Ed. Note – Philly is Quality over Quantity) GAIAN MIND – Friday, January 25th, 2002 Philadelphia, PA, USA GAIAN MIND Philly’s premier Psychedelic Trance party! Special Guest: NEUM (Spiral Trax International/ACDC/Flow Records – Philadelphia) Plus: DJ ALLEN (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind

#2199 Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:20:37 Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:20:36 Pschedule Spry-Trance Pschedule NYC 2002 News – 1/25 Philly party added Lineup for Ben’s party on Feb 8 Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It – Flyer out soon Wylie looking for roomate at Trance Mission OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 18 Fri – LAUNCH PARTY dski every weekend through March 18!!! will begin on this date – be sure to join dNY and pay your dues to be elgible to join these weekends at the ski lodge for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, cooking, eating, DJing, hiking, snow angel making, cuddle puddling, fiends, fun, and oh yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away, cheap.. Contribution is flexible depending on YOUR needs – some will occasionally spend an entire week there!! Me personally, I will be there whenever there’s not a trance party on a given weekend evening. To join dNY paypal Machine Elf $25. d members get more info email rocktheshow at aol . Here’s a photo of the house: Jan 19 – Sat 2-4pm – Infected Mushroom appearance at the Home of Trance 122 St Marks That night – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Hudson & Hubert Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – GAIAN MIND – Philadelphia’s premier Psychedelic Trance party! Special Guest: NEUM (Spiral Trax International/ACDC/Flow Records – Philadelphia) Plus: DJ ALLEN (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 29 – – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. News – 1/25 Philly party added Lineup for Ben’s party on Feb 8 Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It – Flyer out soon Wylie looking for roomate at Trance Mission OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 19 – Sat 2-4pm – Infected Mushroom appearance at the Home of Trance 122 St Marks That night – – Tsunami at Vinyl – Infected Mushroom & Vibrosphere 212-439-8124 Hudson & Hubert Jan 22 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 23 – Wed – Screening of Goa Trance movie Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Jan 25 – Fri – GAIAN MIND – Philadelphia’s premier Psychedelic Trance party! Special Guest: NEUM (Spiral Trax International/ACDC/Flow Records – Philadelphia) Plus: DJ ALLEN (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 29 – – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Tony and Machinelf contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.

#2200 Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:06:15 -0800 Wednesday at Makor From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahooJanuary 23 Wednesday Pacha Mama(2001-U.S. Premiere) Like so many Israelis, Moshe Kastiel decided to travel to India after completing his military service. While in Goa, he embarks on a spiritual journey that leads him to establish a commune in Costa Rica. Pacha Mama examines the fascinating world of that commune and its attraction to followers from around the world. Director:Asaffa Peled. Runtime: 61 minutes (English subtitles). Check out trance Dj Angeles at the Makor Lounge (9p-12a) following the early film screeningNo Cover at the door!!! Love and Light Angeles

#2203 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:18:33 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:18:33 Fwd: Astral Projection Party!

#2204 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:06:56 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone This is a for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and have fun with us listening to trance music. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th element) Please check every week for our special guests. web chiletrance Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue Thanks!! Love and Light Angeles

#2205 Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:18:24 Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:18:35 Need info on Goa film screening location… send the details for the “Pacha Mama” screening to this address today only: brainmachines i emailed angeles – chiletrance but have not heard back and a lot of people are asking

#2206 Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:10:02 Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:10:02 Fwd: solstice festival

#2207 Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:18:21 Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:18:20 Pschedule Spy-France Pschedule NYC 2002 News – Summer Solstice in Colorado, Fusion, Burning Man OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 25 – Fri – dski every weekend through March 18!!! – come for CD sharing & burning, video games, music, cooking, eating, DJing, hiking, snow angel making, cuddle puddling, fiends, fun, and oh yeah… skiing and snowboarding 5 minutes away, cheap.. Contribution is flexible depending on YOUR needs – some will occasionally spend an entire week there!! Me personally, I will be there whenever there’s not a trance party on a given weekend evening. More info email rocktheshow at aol . Here’s a photo of the house: GAIAN MIND – Philadelphia’s premier Psychedelic Trance party! Special Guest: NEUM (Spiral Trax International/ACDC/Flow Records – Philadelphia) Plus: DJ ALLEN (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed: Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Unconfirmed: Tsunami Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It at the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street web lunatarium … Location unconfirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri-Sat – dmtski!! Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.News – Summer Solstice in Colorado, Fusion, Burning Man OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party GAIAN MIND – Philadelphia’s premier Psychedelic Trance party! Special Guest: NEUM (Spiral Trax International/ACDC/Flow Records – Philadelphia) Plus: DJ ALLEN (Gaian Mind – Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind Jan 26 – Sat – – Synthetic Sadhus – Astral Projection, Dino Psaras and half of Etnica – Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Unconfirmed: Omnitribe Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Baluns records – Sweden) and MUCH MORE… at 114 W 26th Street (b/w 6th & 7th Ave.) Unconfirmed: Tsunami Feb 2 – Saturday OPEN – dski!!! Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It at the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street web lunatarium … Location unconfirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri-Sat – dmtski!! Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV

#2215 Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:40:34 Chat Room Tonight From: “ismoked” Sorry for all the recent extra emails, i had openend up the list to seek the location for the screening of the goa movine and neglected to turnit off. Anyway, I have the flu, if anybody wants to chat with me and others go to groups.yahoo/group/brainmachines/chat i’ll be there until 8 or so. (maybe this is a preview of my retirement home activities)

#2216 Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:14:47 Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:14:46 Angry? Go Kick some Ass (NY Times article + quote follows) ARTS IN ACTION at WEF INFO PLEASE COPY & CIRCULATE WIDELY! ARTS IN ACTION AGAINST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Neighbors, artists, co-workers, dancers, activists, mus icians, family, affinity groups, performers, arts/performance groups and fr iends are joining together to make large scale art and theater in the- stre ets of New York City during the World Economic Forum. Join us in creating and performing positive, inspiring images, theater, music and words that ex pose how the World Economic Forum and corporate globalization hurt our comm unities, to show that a better world is possible, and to win the hearts and minds of our communities. We will be making art and puppets and doing rehe arsals all week to create a giant street theater pageant and procession for events on Thursday Jan 31, Friday Feb 1, and for the Saturday Feb 2, 12 no on Rally and March from 59th and Fifth. A global movement of resistance, cr eativity and positive alternatives is rising up to create a better world. J oin us! SCHEDULE Saturday Jan 26 * GIANT Puppet-Making/Street Art Work shop: 12-2pm: 12th Ave Space * RADICAL ROCKETTE REHERSAL: come one come all 12-2:12th Ave Space * SAMBA BAND AND TANGO DANCE REHERSAL: 3-5PM: 12th Av eSpace * ARTS-IN ACTION MEETING/THEATER BRAINSTORM: 2:00-3:30:12th Ave Spac e * Art/Puppet Making: 12Noon-12midnight: 12th Ave Space and 6-10pm:Hunter (call to confirm) Sunday Jan 27 * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-12 Midnight: 12 th Ave Space Monday Jan 28 * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-6pm: Suffolk Space * PAGEANT AND SAMBA REHEARSAL: 6-9pm: Suffolk Space Tuesday Jan 29 * Art/Pup pet Making: 10am-10pm Suffolk Space * SAMBA REHERSAL: 6-9pm: 12th Ave Space Wednesday Jan 30 * REHEARSAL: 7-10pm: 12th Ave Space * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-6pm: 12th Ave Space Thursday Jan 31 * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-4pm: 1 2th Ave Space * Rally for Global Justice, 4:30 PM at the GAP, 54th Street a nd 5th Avenue Sponsored by the AFL-CIO, NYS AFL-CIO, New York City Central Labor Council & Jobs with Justice. Friday Feb 1 * REHEARSAL: 10am-1pm: 12 th Ave Space * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-5pm: 12th Ave Space * WEF Evening Vi gil! Friday, Feb. 1, 6pm, Washington Square Park. A safe and peaceful gathe ring, that will focus on healing, empowerment, and forging our vision. Co-s ponsored by the Pagan Cluster and Another World is Possible, Saturday Feb 2 * REHEARSAL: 10:30 am at 59th and Fifth * RALLY AND MARCH: 12 noon, Anoth er World Is Possible Rally at 59th and Fifth ( South East Corner of Central Park.) Followed by 1pm march to mid-town corporate headquarters and the W EF at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. ***** LOCATIONS 12th Ave Space: 830 12th Avenue Take 1,2,3,9,A,B,C or D train to Columbu s Circle…Walk South to 57th Street…West to 12th avenue (4 big blocks).. . And North 1/2 a block to 830…ring bell Hunter Space: Thomas Hunter Hal l Room 408 Take 6 train to 68th and Lexington or B,D to 63rd and Lexington. ..Enter Building between 68th and 69th and Lexington…Take stairs in front of you to 4th floor…Look for room 408. Suffolk Space: 107 Suffolk Stree t at Rivington Take JMZ,F to Essex/Delancy Stop…walk one block North to R ivington and 2 Blocks East to Sufflok… Look for Instructions on Door for Getting in. GET INVOLVED MAKE IT HAPPEN! *MAKE ART & PUPPETS; everyon e is capable: see daily schedule above. There will be a Puppet/Street Art M aking Workshop on Saturday, Jan 26Noon-2pm at12th Ave Space (see address be low). Or make images on your own?see “Images” below for suggestions) *REHE ARSE & PERFORM: everyone is welcome and needed: see schedule below. There w ill be an Arts and Action Orientation/Theater Brainstorm/Planning Get Toget her Saturday Jan 26, 2pm at12th Ave Space (see address below) *HELP WITH N EEDS: If you have or can get any of the items below, please bring it to 12 th Avenue or Suffolk Space during art-making or rehearsal times (see addres s above) as soon as possible. * PAINT/SUPPLIES: Bright colors of red, yell ow, orange, blue, green, deep browns and black latex/acrylic water base hou se or other water base paint, paintbrushes, plastic containers (with lids). * BACKPACK FRAMES * FABRIC/SEWING: bedsheets- white, white cotton fabric white muslin, big pieces of bright color/black fabric, sewing machine to borrow. * TABLES: folding tables, 4×8 foot plywood sheets for table tops, s awhorses for tables, CARDBOARD: lots of large bike, appliance, window, etc. boxes, rigid cardboard tubes * DONATIONS; to buy supplies for this remarka ble all volunteer effort. * TRUCK/VAN for transport * BRING FOOD & DRINKS T O SHARE ******** IMAGES Here are some of the i mages we are creating for the Street Theater Pageant; People are encouraged to make these at home and bring them to join the pageant: COMMUNITY PUPP ETS: Giant Puppet Images of communities hurt by and in resistance to the WE F and corporate globalization; students, unemployed, rainforest ecosystem, etc. We are trying to use warm/fiery colors: red, yellow, orange, brown. We are mounting the puppets on cardboard tubes, as NYPD have in the past conf iscated art on wooden sticks. ANOTHER WORLD IS PAINTABLE; Flat cardboard globes with images of a better world that is possible. We are sandwiching t ogether two layer of cardboard with space for a cardboard tube to slide in. Many will have the words: “Another World is Possible/NO WEF” around the ed ge. TOOLS FOR CHANGE: Warmly Colored Giant cardboard Tools painted with w ords like “Community” & “no WEF” RADICAL ROCKETTES: A kick line dressed as Lady Liberty leading the march with a Giant Lady Liberty puppet TANGO, SA MBA, AND A GLOBAL DOMINATION/ LIBERATION COCKTAIL PARTY hosted by Reclaim t he Streets NYC! AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!! Get on the Arts in Action List serv by sending a blank e-mail to ArtsInAction-subscribe at topica. If you have trouble getting on the listserv to e-mail redscares at yahoo. CONTAC T: slxs5233 at oberlin (917) 773-1257 or (917) 807-3877 Voice mail updates /schedule (212) 502-3697 End of Forwarded Message Yvonne [ Students for Global Justice ] + yl90 at columbia + web studentsf orglobaljustice.org + vox: 646 321 5710 B3If I am not for myself, then wh o will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?B2 – Rabbi Hillel From: yl90 at columbia (Yvonne) To: yl90 at columbia (Yvonne) Hey! I’m quoted in an article i n today’s New York Times about the upcoming protests against the World Econ omic Forum (WEF). I’m involved in Students for Global Justice, a new natio nal collective that is organizing a Counter Summit Against the WEF, and Nat ional Activist and Student Mobilization at Columbia University from 1/31 to 2/3. Please see our website, web studentsforglobaljustice.org Jan uary 25, 2002 Hoping for Calm, Preparing for Strife at Economic Talks http ://web nytimes/2002/01/25/nyregion/25SECU By AL BAKER Even many of the veterans of wild protest melees at Seattle and Genoa say there would be somthing unseemly about violent protests in New York, still healing fr om the wounds of Sept. 11, when the World Economic Forum starts meeting nex t week. Despite efforts to keep demonstrations under control, both the pol ice and demonstrators say there is no way to be certain what will happen if as expected, thousands of demonstrators arrive in New York to protest the policies of the world’s industrial leaders. Although most of the opponents of global capitalism say they are committed to nonviolent protest, others are planning to turn out in helmets and riot gear and some are expecting th at some property damage could be a part of the street activities. About 3, 000 leaders of corporations and governments as well as academic, religious and cultural figures will be at the meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria in Midto wn Manhattan from Thursday to Feb. 4, discussing topics as varied as econom ic growth, foreign policy, the role of the chief corporate executive and wh at gastronomy can reveal about foreign cultures. The meeting, moved to New York from its longtime home in Davos, Switzerland, after the terrorist att acks on Sept. 11, has historically given corporation executives a chance to sit down with government officials behind closed doors for the price of a very expensive ticket. The protesters, who include mainstream student an d union groups and more radical elements, plan street demonstrations focusi ng on such issues as declaring war on poverty, racism and mass layoffs, wor kers’ rights and ways to reduce world debt. Students interviewed in New Yo rk insisted that they were not planning to confront the police directly or to crash through barricades. Instead, they said, they will use less radical tactics than those used in Genoa, Italy, last summer, when one protester w as killed during an economic summit meeting. Some also said they thought i t was more important to demonstrate opposition to economic globalization th an to ensure that public activities are subdued as a sign of respect for th e losses of Sept. 11. “If the movement can orchestrate a significant show of force in New York City right now,” one student said, “we can show the wo rld that we can do it anywhere, anytime.” As Larry Holmes, a spokesman for the International Action Center, one of the groups expected, said yesterda y, “We’re back after 9/11, more sure of our cause.” Many protest organizer s feel that the World Economic Forum, more than the World Trade Organizatio n or the economic meeting of industrialized nations called the Group of Eig ht, is a more appropriate target for protests against global capitalism bec ause it consists largely of corporate representatives and is not, at its co re, a meeting of governments. The protesters’ groups, formed out of the la bor, student and environmental movements, have names like the Workers Democ racy Network, War Is Not the Answer Coalition and the First Quarter Storm M ovement. Protesters say the nature of the demonstrations will be shaped by the nature of the police response. “A current concern that we are facing now, as we prepare to voice our concerns in the streets, is that we are not sure what type of police- enforced climate we are walking into,” said Yvon ne Liu, a Columbia University junior from Bayside, Queens, who is among the organizers of Students for Global Justice, a group formed in mid-December. The police are also keenly aware of the public relations implications of the event. “Hopefully, we will not have to arrest anybody,” said the new po lice commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly. “We recognize everyone’s right to demo nstrate peacefully, and we are going to do everything we can to see that th at happens.” The World Economic Forum’s usual meeting place, in Davos, doe s not attract the kind of attention that it is expected to draw in New York . This year, said the organization’s spokesman, Charles D. McLean, in his h eadquarters in Geneva, reporters’ requests for access to this meeting excee ded all others in the group’s 32 years. “Last year we accredited 500 journ alists,” Mr. McLean said. “This year we’ve had thousands of requests, and w e can still only accommodate a fraction of those who want to attend. It’s g oing to be shoulder to shoulder.” Because of that, and because of the afte rmath of Sept. 11, many protesters said they did not expect unrest other th an textbook forms of civil disobedience. They added that only a very slim minority of people, perhaps 200 in a group of several thousand, would ever condone property damage. “Basically, the general feeling among most people is that this is not the moment for that,” said David R. Graeber, an assist ant professor of anthropology at Yale University, who is a member of the Ne w York Direct Action Network and Another World Is Possible, an umbrella org anization for many groups. “A lot of people have said they think that woul d be terribly inappropriate because it would be insensitive and disrespectf ul to people in the city and to protesters who come from the city,” Dr. Gra eber said. He said past experience showed that any window-breakers in the crowd would not attack independent owner-operators. “Never a cafe of a smal l businessman,” he said, adding that he has never damaged any property. He added that the past also showed that violence was more likely to be directe d at large coporations: “Citibank? Sure. Starbucks? Sure. But never anyone who is actually going to be hurt by that.” People in law enforcement who h ave seen globalization protests said the demonstrators were organized and i n some cases used diversions to enable them to cause disruptions or mar pro perty elsewhere. The protesters, though, blame law enforcement for scuffles . In New York, some of the demonstrators will use props to create a sort o f street theater “for a festive kind of atmosphere that will get across the kind of world we like to see” instead of the world that the economic forum “and the groups that it is influential with are trying to create,” said Er ic Laursen, a member of Another World Is Possible. Dr. Graeber said the pr otesters would use such props as giant cardboard depictions of corn (as a r epresentation of life to many of New York City’s Hispanic immigrants) or to p hats and champagne glasses (as a representation of affluent excess).Yvonne [ Students for Global Justice, Columbia University ] + yl90 at co lumbia + web studentsforglobaljustice.org + vox: 646 321 5710 D o you know why people like me are shy about being capitalist? Well, it’s be cause for as long as we have known you, we were capital, like bales of cott on and sacks of sugar, and you were the commanding, cruel capitalist, and t he memory of this is so strong, the experience so recent, that we can’t qui te bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for w hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time ov er which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilizations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living li ke monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, wha t I became after I met you.” Jamaica Kincaid “A Small Place” Farra r, Straus & Giroux 1988 e follows) ARTS IN ACTION at WEF INFO PLEASE COPY & CIRCULA TE WIDELY! ARTS IN ACTION AGAINST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANO THER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Neighbors, artists, co-workers, dancers, ac tivists, musicians, family, affinity groups, performers, arts/performangroups and friends are joining together to make large scale art and theater in the- streets of New York City during the World Economic Foru m. Join us in creating and performing positive, inspiring images, theater, music and words that expose how the World Economic Forum and corporate globalization hurt our communities, to show that a better wor ld is possible, and to win the hearts and minds of our communities. We will be making art and puppets and doing rehearsals all week to create a giant street theater pageant and procession for events on Thursday Ja n 31, Friday Feb 1, and for the Saturday Feb 2, 12 noon Rally and March from 59th and Fifth. A global movement of resistance, creativity and p ositive alternatives is rising up to create a better world. Join us! SCHEDULE Saturday Jan 26 * GIANT Puppet-Making/Stre et Art Workshop: 12-2pm: 12th Ave Space * RADICAL ROCKETTE REHERSAL: co me one come all, 12-2:12th Ave Space * SAMBA BAND AND TANGO DANCE REHER SAL: 3-5PM: 12th AveSpace * ARTS-IN ACTION MEETING/THEATER BRAINSTORM: 2:00-3:30:12th Ave Space * Art/Puppet Making: 12Noon-12midnight: 12th A ve Space and 6-10pm:Hunter (call to confirm) Sunday Jan 27 * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-12 Midnight: 12th Ave Space Monday Jan 28 * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-6pm: Suffolk Space * PAGEANT AND SAMBA REHEAR SAL: 6-9pm: Suffolk Space Tuesday Jan 29 * Art/Puppet Making: 10am -10pm Suffolk Space * SAMBA REHERSAL: 6-9pm: 12th Ave Space Wednesd ay Jan 30 * REHEARSAL: 7-10pm: 12th Ave Space * Art/Puppet Making: 10am-6pm: 12th Ave Space Thursday Jan 31 * Art/Puppet Making: 10a m-4pm: 12th Ave Space * Rally for Global Justice, 4:30 PM at the GAP, 5 4th Street and 5th Avenue Sponsored by the AFL-CIO, NYS AFL-CIO, New Yo rk City Central Labor Council & Jobs with Justice. Friday Feb 1 * REHEARSAL: 10am-1pm: 12th Ave Space * Art/Puppet Making: 10am- 5pm: 12th Ave Space * WEF Evening Vigil! Friday, Feb. 1, 6pm, Washingto n Square Park. A safe and peaceful gathering, that will focus on healin g, empowerment, and forging our vision. Co-sponsored by the Pagan Clust er and Another World is Possible, Saturday Feb 2 * REHEARSAL: 10:3 0 am at 59th and Fifth * RALLY AND MARCH: 12 noon, Another World Is Pos sible Rally at 59th and Fifth ( South East Corner of Central Park.) &nb sp;Followed by 1pm march to mid-town corporate headquarters and the WEF at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. ***** LOCATIONS 12th Ave Space: 830 12th Avenue Take 1,2,3,9,A,B,C or D train to Columbus Circle…Walk South to 57th Street…West to 12th avenue (4 big blocks)… And North 1/2 a block to 830…ring bell Hunter Space: Thomas Hunter Hall Room 408 Take 6 train to 68th and Lexi ngton or B,D to 63rd and Lexington…Enter Building between 68th and 69 th and Lexington…Take stairs in front of you to 4th floor…Look for room 408. Suffolk Space: 107 Suffolk Street at Rivington Take JMZ, F to Essex/Delancy Stop…walk one block North to Rivington and 2 Block s East to Sufflok… Look for Instructions on Door for Getting in. GET INVOLVED MAKE IT HAPPEN! *MAKE ART & PUPP ETS; everyone is capable: see daily schedule above. There will be a Pup pet/Street Art Making Workshop on Saturday, Jan 26Noon-2pm at12th Ave S pace (see address below). Or make images on your own?see “Images” below for suggestions) *REHEARSE & PERFORM: everyone is welcome and needed: see schedule below. There will be an Arts and Action Orientati on/Theater Brainstorm/Planning Get Together Saturday Jan 26, 2pm at12th Ave Space (see address below) *HELP WITH NEEDS: If you have or can get any of the items below, please bring it to 12th Avenue or Su ffolk Space during art-making or rehearsal times (see address above) as soon as possible. * PAINT/SUPPLIES: Bright colors of red, yellow, orange, blue, green, deep browns and black latex/acrylic water base ho use or other water base paint, paintbrushes, plastic containers (with l ids). * BACKPACK FRAMES * FABRIC/SEWING: bedsheets- white, w hite cotton fabric, white muslin, big pieces of bright color/black fabr ic, sewing machine to borrow. * TABLES: folding tables, 4×8 foot plywoo d sheets for table tops, sawhorses for tables, CARDBOARD: lots of large bike, appliance, window, etc. boxes, rigid cardboard tubes * DONAT IONS; to buy supplies for this remarkable all volunteer effort. * TRUCK /VAN for transport * BRING FOOD & DRINKS TO SHARE ************* ********************* IMAGES Here are some of the images we are creating for the Street Theater Pageant; People are encouraged to make these at home and bring them to join the pageant: COM MUNITY PUPPETS: Giant Puppet Images of communities hurt by and in resis tance to the WEF and corporate globalization; students, unemployed, rai nforest ecosystem, etc. We are trying to use warm/fiery colors: red, ye llow, orange, brown. We are mounting the puppets on cardboard tubes, as NYPD have in the past confiscated art on wooden sticks. ANOT HER WORLD IS PAINTABLE; Flat cardboard globes with images of a better w orld that is possible. We are sandwiching together two layer of cardboa rd with space for a cardboard tube to slide in. Many will have the word s: “Another World is Possible/NO WEF” around the edge. TOOLS FOR CHANGE: Warmly Colored Giant cardboard Tools painted with words lik e “Community” & “no WEF” RADICAL ROCKETTES: A kick line dresse d as Lady Liberty leading the march with a Giant Lady Liberty puppet B R TANGO, SAMBA, AND A GLOBAL DOMINATION/ LIBERATION COCKTAIL PARTY hos ted by Reclaim the Streets NYC! AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!! B R Get on the Arts in Action Listserv by sending a blank e-mail to ArtsInAction-subscribe at topica. If you have trouble g etting on the listserv to e-mail redscares at yahoo. CONTACT: slxs5233 at oberlin (917) 773-1257 or (917) 807-3877 Voice mail updates/schedu le (212) 502-3697 End of Forwarded Message Yvonne [ Students for Global Justice ] + yl90 at co lumbia + web studentsforglobaljustice.org + vox: 646 321 5710 B3If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?B2 – R abbi Hillel From: yl90 at columbia (Yvonne L iu) To: yl90 at columbia (Yvonne) /I Hey! I’m quoted in an article in today’s New York Times abo ut the upcoming protests against the World Economic Forum (WEF). I’m involved in Students for Global Justice, a new national collective that is organizing a Counter Summit Against the WEF, and National Activ ist and Student Mobilization at Columbia University from 1/31 to 2/3. & nbsp;Please see our website, web studentsforglobaljustice.org B R January 25, 2002 Hoping for Calm, Preparing for Strife at E conomic Talks web nytimes/2002/01/25/nyregion/25SECU B R By AL BAKER Even many of the veterans of wild protest melee s at Seattle and Genoa say there would be somthing unseemly about viol ent protests in New York, still healing from the wounds of Sept. 11, wh en the World Economic Forum starts meeting next week. Despite efforts to keep demonstrations under control, both the police and demon strators say there is no way to be certain what will happen if, as expe cted, thousands of demonstrators arrive in New York to protest the poli cies of the world’s industrial leaders. Although most of the opponents of global capitalism say they are committed to nonviolent protest, others are planning to turn out in helmets and riot gear and some are expecting that some property damage could be a part of the street activities. B R About 3,000 leaders of corporations and governments as well as acade mic, religious and cultural figures will be at the meeting at the Waldo rf-Astoria in Midtown Manhattan from Thursday to Feb. 4, discussing top ics as varied as economic growth, foreign policy, the role of the chief corporate executive and what gastronomy can reveal about foreign cultu res. The meeting, moved to New York from its longtime home in Davo s, Switzerland, after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, has historical ly given corporation executives a chance to sit down with government of ficials behind closed doors for the price of a very expensive tick et. The protesters, who include mainstream student and union group s and more radical elements, plan street demonstrations focusing on suc h issues as declaring war on poverty, racism and mass layoffs, workers’ rights and ways to reduce world debt. Students interviewed in New York insisted that they were not planning to confront the police d irectly or to crash through barricades. Instead, they said, they will u se less radical tactics than those used in Genoa, Italy, last summer, w hen one protester was killed during an economic summit meeting. B RSome also said they thought it was more important to demonstrate oppositi on to economic globalization than to ensure that public activities are subdued as a sign of respect for the losses of Sept. 11. “If t he movement can orchestrate a significant show of force in New York Cit y right now,” one student said, “we can show the world that we can do it B Ranywhere, anytime.” As Larry Holmes, a spokesman for the Interna tional Action Center, one of the groups expected, said yesterday, “We’r e back after 9/11, more sure of our cause.” Many protest organ izers feel that the World Economic Forum, more than the World Trade Org anization or the economic meeting of industrialized nations called the Group of Eight, is a more appropriate target for protests against globa l capitalism because it consists largely of corporate representatives a nd is not, at its core, a meeting of governments. The protesters’ groups, formed out of the labor, student and environmental movements, h ave names like the Workers Democracy Network, War Is Not the Answer Coa lition and the First Quarter Storm Movement. Protesters say the na ture of the demonstrations will be shaped by the nature of the police r esponse. “A current concern that we are facing now, as we prepare to voice our concerns in the streets, is that we are not sure what type of police- enforced climate we are walking into,” said Yvonne, a C olumbia University junior from Bayside, Queens, who is among the organi zers of Students for Global Justice, a group formed in mid-December. B R The police are also keenly aware of the public relations implication s of the event. “Hopefully, we will not have to arrest anybody,” said t he new police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly. “We recognize everyone’s right to demonstrate peacefully, and we are going to do everything we c an to see that that happens.” The World Economic Forum’s usual meeting place, in Davos, does not attract the kind of attention that i t is expected to draw in New York. This year, said the organization’s s pokesman, Charles D. McLean, in his headquarters in Geneva, reporters’ requests for access to this meeting exceeded all others in the group’s 32 years. “Last year we accredited 500 journalists,” Mr. McLean sa id. “This year we’ve had thousands of requests, and we can still only a ccommodate a fraction of those who want to attend. It’s going to be sho ulder to shoulder.” Because of that, and because of the aftermath of Sept. 11, many protesters said they did not expect unrest other than textbook forms of civil disobedience. They added that only a very slim minority of people, perhaps 200 in a group of several thousan d, would ever condone property damage. “Basically, the general fee ling among most people is that this is not the moment for that,” said D avid R. Graeber, an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale Univers ity, who is a member of the New York Direct Action Network and Another World Is Possible, an umbrella organization for many groups. ” A lot of people have said they think that would be terribly inappropriate because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to people in the city and to protesters who come from the city,” Dr. Graeber said. H e said past experience showed that any window-breakers in the crowd would not attack independent owner-operators. “Never a cafe of a small bus inessman,” he said, adding that he has never damaged any property. He a dded that the past also showed that violence was more likely to be directed at large coporations: “Citibank? Sure. Starbucks? Sure. But never anyo ne who is actually going to be hurt by that.” People in law en forcement who have seen globalization protests said the demonstrators w ere organized and in some cases used diversions to enable them to cause disruptions or mar property elsewhere. The protesters, though, blame l aw enforcement for scuffles. In New York, some of the demonstrator s will use props to create a sort of street theater “for a festive kind of atmosphere that will get across the kind of world we like to see” i nstead of the world that the economic forum “and the groups that it is influential with are trying to create,” said Eric Laursen, a member of Another World Is Possible. Dr. Graeber said the protesters would u se such props as giant cardboard depictions of corn (as a representatio n of life to many of New York City’s Hispanic immigrants) or top hats a nd champagne glasses (as a representation of affluent excess). Yvonne [ Students for Global Justice, Columbia Un iversity ] + yl90 at columbia + web studentsforglobaljustic e.org + vox: 646 321 5710 Do you know why people like me are s hy about being capitalist? Well, it’s because for as long as we have B Rknown you, we were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were the commanding, cruel capitalist, and the memory of this i s so strong, the experience so recent, that we can’t quite bring oursel ves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for what we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilizations is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were livi ng like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened t o me, what I became after I met you.” Jamaica Kincaid & nbs”A Small Place” Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1988

#2217 Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:27:13 Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:27:12 Omnitribe Friday Feb 1 – and a dski afterparty Cc: omnitribe Tarvaa’s Retourney Friday Feb 1 Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring.Friday Feb 1 Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Apres-ski Afterparty

#2218 Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:52:15 Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:52:15 Astral & Dino Review plus Tsunami surprise The Synthtic Party was good. Dino Psaras did his usual hard early set and finished the morning with a groovier one. A fellow Greek in the crowd had seen me and lisa at a party several weeks ago, then went to athens. While there she was with her roomate and went to a random friend’s house, an elderly Greek painter, where they were looking through pictures and saw a picture of… LISA. Astral was great, i’m not a big fan but their new stuff was nice and hard and still melodic. Although Yahel was playing to Israelis in Brooklyn (double booking – yuck!) many still showed their strength. The crowd was heavily young and American. Tsunam- heard a crazy rumour. They will have a weekly soon with Twilo’s Phazon sound system… for those of you outside NYC, it’s said to be the best in the world. and the Manhattan location will boggle your mind. If the sound and environment is architected, it will blow away the ’96 – ’98 Tsunami reign at Vinyl. For me, it makes me feel that REAL trance will FINALLY have a chance to do its best on that system.Astral was great, i’m not a big fan but their new stuff was nice and hard and still melodic. Although Yahel was playing to Israelis in Brooklyn (double booking – yuck!) many still showed their strength. The crowd was heavily young and American.

#2219 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:51:27 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:51:26 Pschedule Psy-Trance Pschedule NYC 2002 News: Swedish trance at Omnitribe this Friday Feb 1, dski apres-ski afterparty Feb 2. Tsunami to use new Phazon system at a new weekly at a redesigned Speeed, to be called “Shelter.” It’s verified that a friend got her purse stolen at Opium Den on Wednesday. It is more crowded than in the past but unfortunately not completely wholesome so watch your belongings. OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It at the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street web lunatarium … Location unconfirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri-Sat – dmtski!! Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate wit h us go to April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan. News: Swedish trance at Omnitribe this Friday Feb 1, dski apres-ski afterparty Feb 2. Tsunami to use new Phazon system at a new weekly at a redesigned Speeed, to be called “Shelter.” It’s verified that a friend got her purse stolen at Opium Den on Wednesday. It is more crowded than in the past but unfortunately not completely wholesome so watch your belongings. OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It at the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street web lunatarium … Location unconfirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri-Sat – dmtski!! Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.

#2220 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:58:13 Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:58:12 Pschedule Psy-Trance Pschedule NYC 2002 News: Swedish trance at Omnitribe this Friday Feb 1, dski apres-ski afterparty Feb 2. Tsunami to use new Phazon system at a new weekly at a redesigned Speeed, to be called “Shelter.” It’s verified that a friend got her purse stolen at Opium Den on Wednesday. It is more crowded than in the past but unfortunately not completely wholesome so watch your belongings. OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It at the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street web lunatarium … Location unconfirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri-Sat – dmtski!! Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they s ay. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.News: Swedish trance at Omnitribe this Friday Feb 1, dski apres-ski afterparty Feb 2. Tsunami to use new Phazon system at a new weekly at a redesigned Speeed, to be called “Shelter.” It’s verified that a friend got her purse stolen at Opium Den on Wednesday. It is more crowded than in the past but unfortunately not completely wholesome so watch your belongings. OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party Jan 28 – Mon – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Wolf/Old Moon) Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It at the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street web lunatarium … Location unconfirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri-Sat – dmtski!! Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan.

#2221 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:25:55 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:25:54 Synthtic Sadhus Lineup Feb 23 Sadhus Sects: utopia.knoware.nl/users/dolfhart/sects Synthetic Lineup for Feb 23: Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx The chillout lounge is back, with the Solipse dude Shakespeare playing 9 hours Amazura utopia.knoware.nl/users/dolfhart/sects Synthetic Lineup for Feb 23: Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx The chillout lounge is back, with the Solipse dude Shakespeare playing 9 hours Amazura

#2222 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:55:58 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:55:57 Pschedule Psy-Trance Pschedule NYC 2002 News to rumours: -Swedish trance at Omnitribe this Friday Feb 1, last dski party in two weeks: Feb 2 carpool from Omnitribe at 9am Tsunami to use new smaller Phazon system (as in the one at Twilo) at a new weekly at a redesigned Speeed, to be called “Shelter.” Local DJs already sharpening their needles to to the many floors at Speeed. -It’s verified that a drunk friend got her purse stolen at Opium Den on Wednesday. It is more crowded than in the past but unfortunately not completely wholesome so watch your belongings. -Several Israelis got in trouble with the Feds for being involved with ecstacy. Between that and straight out INS deportation, the more lawless element is getting squeezed. So Fluffy says, in a high pitched, sqeaky voice, stay away from E or you too will get a call from the DEA/FBI. -Evan needs a place to live; he has $500. He wrote the poem at the end of this email. evan at shpongle. -Where is Steve-O!?! -even more on the “real” Sadhus: utopia.knoware.nl/users/dolfhart/index Send News & Rumours to newself at brainmachines STILL OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party. ANyone who hasn’t seen it is a LOSER!!! Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Fri – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Sat – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists live -Dmitri, Goblin, Liran – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It $30 at doorat the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street F to York 212-946-5687 web lunatarium … Location confirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan at shpongleTsunami to use new smaller Phazon system (as in the one at Twilo) at a new weekly at a redesigned Speeed, to be called “Shelter.” Local DJs already sharpening their needles to to the many floors at Speeed. -It’s verified that a drunk friend got her purse stolen at Opium Den on Wednesday. It is more crowded than in the past but unfortunately not completely wholesome so watch your belongings. -Several Israelis got in trouble with the Feds for being involved with ecstacy. Between that and straight out INS deportation, the more lawless element is getting squeezed. So Fluffy says, in a high pitched, sqeaky voice, stay away from E or you too will get a call from the DEA/FBI. -Evan needs a place to live; he has $500. He wrote the poem at the end of this email. evan at shpongle. -Where is Steve-O!?! -even more on the “real” Sadhus: utopia.knoware.nl/users/dolfhart/index Send News & Rumours to newself at brainmachines STILL OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Jan 30 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 8 – Fri – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow Feb 9 – Sat – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists live -Dmitri, Goblin, Liran – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It $30 at doorat the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street F to York 212-946-5687 web lunatarium … Location confirmed Feb 11 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 12 – Tue – d Aquarian Birthday Celebration January 20-February 18 FREE. Come early (8pm) to eat, later (11pm) to party. 8pm-4am Location TBA, maybe Karma or Who’s on First The energy of the music will match the energy of the crowd. Bring: bottled water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, anything flowing. Think Liquid. The venue will allow us to refill our water bottles at the bathrooms just for us. Astrological readings. Si necessito we pull back the carpet to trance dance. To encourage all our friends to come help us celebrate a most chaotic crazy quilt of which we are all strands of theoretical string. To give trance people a chance to meet d people and possibly join the congregation. If you have toys, trip toys, bring them. If you have art, bring it. If you can bring a lot of goodies for everyone, that would be swell. Bring enough to share. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Mar 1/2 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan at shpongle

#2223 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:45:47 Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:45:46 Freeky Tuesday is ON Jan 29 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium, Akin & Machinelf with a lot of new tracks courtesy of San Francisco’s DJ Thorn ID21 & over. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender.

#2224 Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:39:15 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!! This is a for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy the music with us in this winter, that actiolly is not winter, but any way welcome!! Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) See our web.web chiletrance for our special djs!!!!!!!!! Love and Light Angeles

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#2226 Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:24:53 Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:24:52 Fwd: [Suzula’s Party] R E B E L at F U N 01.30.02

#2227 Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:35:12 Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:35:11 Pschedule Psy-Trance Schedule News to rumours: -Here’s a project for those who want to see more new faces at public trance the issue comes out. Address to Bruce Tantum. He hates psy and goa trance, by the way, so you may have to be creative. But if he gets enough trance listings from different people he will see the light. * An asterisk will be placed by the “must not miss” events. GarenI do believe in go go go NYC, but just wanted to let you know that the sound system at Twilo is actually top 3 in the world (which makes it one of the best, not necessarily the best) behind a mega club in Manchester and another club in Berlin. I read about that a year or so ago. -Freaky Tuesdays getting a steady crowd. I encourage everyone to come check it out. There will be another astrology party there in February for Aquarians. -What time is it? “yugop/ver3/stuff/03/fla yugop/ver3/stuff/03/fla Send News & Rumours to news at brainmachines See everybody at Omnitribe!!! STILL OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party. ANyone who hasn’t seen it is a LOSER!!! Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking *Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe *Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd *Feb 8 – Fri – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow *Feb 9 – Sat – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists live -Dmitri, Goblin, Liran – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It $30 at doorat the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street F to York 212-946-5687 web lunatarium … Location confirmed *Feb 12 – Tue – Age of Aquarius Birthday Celebration presented by the Devotional Ministry of Trance For everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Bring: bottled water, holy water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, toys and waterproof art. Anything flowing. Bring enough to share – including you, as you are mostly water anyway. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami TBA Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – LAST dmtski SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan at shpongle -Freaky Tuesdays getting a steady crowd. I encourage everyone to come check it out. There will be another astrology party there in February for Aquarians. STILL OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays Brazilian Daime Full Moon Trance Party / check this magnificent event taking place in brazil on the full moon of january. organized by the boom production team with the daime tribe of brazil (church of ayuhuasca)…. more info at igwana12 at hotmail Feb 1 – Friday – Imbalc Winter’s Leavetaking *Tarvaa’s Retourney Peter Didjital (Digital Structures, Sweden) Kalyx (Synthetic Sadhus/Growroom, Boston) Serge (Digital Circuitry, NY) Vitalik (Omnitribe, NY) Video Projection by Rocky Atomic Juice/d 11pm-9am $15 at door 114 West 26th Street b/w 6 & 7th avenues info at omnitribe *Feb 2 – Saturday – dski Apres-ski Afterparty Minimal to absolutely fluffy psy-trance at a private isolated 3 story lodge in the forest of the Poconos mountains through Sunday!!! email rocktheshow at aol for information on dski and directions to the house. $20. Featuring the lame duck snowboarding DJs, jacuzzi, sound system, fireplace, snowball fights, psycho drama, and more. Everyone try to get Vitalik to come back out this year – I first met him at the dski house a year ago, when he showed up at 4am, out of the blizzard. He was suspiciously quiet, but I could see wheels going on behind his eyes. Must be willing to share sleep quarters with others. The biggest thing you have to concern yourself with is to get a ride. It’s a two hour drive from the city. Ski lifts are 10 minutes away. Few end up skiing. Bring blankets, video games, VHS, CDs, stuff to do – and food. There will be someone (me!) at the Omnitribe party watching over luggage in case you have a lot to bring. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd *Feb 8 – Fri – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow *Feb 9 – Sat – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists live -Dmitri, Goblin, Liran – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It $30 at doorat the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street F to York 212-946-5687 web lunatarium … Location confirmed *Feb 12 – Tue – Age of Aquarius Birthday Celebration presented by the Devotional Ministry of Trance For everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15/16 – Fri/Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Wed – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami TBA Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Mexico City

February 2002

#2228 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:26:38 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:26:37 ?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fwd:20Fellow20Trance20Elves20-20Goa20Trance? ?ISO-8859-1?Q?20FrancE9s20in20S.F.? L’elf from France – photos follow..

#2229 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:27:52 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:27:51 Fwd: German Trance Party in Sept. (Kein Thema)

#2230 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:52:32 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:52:32 Fwd: Return to the Source! Synthetic Sadhus 2/23 Wow, what a lineup. Nice mix of Israeli, UK acts. Slinky Wizard is a personal favorite. “Slinky” in England means sinister. Return to the Source will add just enough weird energy to make this a must-see… info follows…

#2231 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:59:16 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:59:15 Fwd: Goa film, Liquid Crystal Vision!

#2232 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:03:03 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:03:03 Fwd: SF Trance Club pictures: Ascension

#2233 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:30:01 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:30:00 Omnitribe/dski Review Cc: dski Omnitribe was comfortable and vibesy as usual… everyone seemed to show. Thanks to Vitalik, Dima, and the Omnitribers for putting on another good party. the amp or speakers got blown early in the evening but I didn’t notice. I think they were on warranty so that’s cool. But it did thin the crowd out midway through the evening. Sweden’s Peter Didjital was great, I hear he lives in Brooklyn. A bunch of Israelis were tripping for the first time and thought the music was in their heads. Rocky of Atomic Trance was not actually doing video, it was alphatrance’s Misha with the dancing russian bear – that really freaked me out! Kelly was literally rolling on the floor. The dski was fun. I just got back this morning. There wasn’t any snow around the house, but the house is out in the woods and the weather was crystal clear. It was fun to hibernate in the jacuzzi then run around out in the cold, steaming. The challenge as always is to get transport out there. With only 20 people there it wasn’t a big party but everyone brought plenty to share and had plenty of space, including Me, Kamal, Cheryl, some Israeli girl, Chachi, Mayoora, Mike, Shannon, Paul, Rebecca, Yacc, Stefan, and Oren. We may do this again after Ben’s Friday party in case the GMS Lunartarium thing doesn’t go down; if not that, then the following weekend looks clear. I’m hoping to get enough interest to rent a house year round, a safe house, if you will, and place where we can always go if we are homeless or just need to get out in the woods.

#2234 Mon, 4 Feb 2002 19:49:45 -0800 Re: Fun February…. From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo- Ana Dzlieri snushrx at hotmailwrote: ” size4EvolutionBox proudly present…Fun month of February… ” size2Feb. 6th / Wed. Lounge Night at Makor; 35 West 67th Street, NYC (212) *** DJ Roy Cooper accompanied by Funky Video projections… DJ Roy Cooper is an Israeli born artist that spun his way around Tel Aviv and Paris’s hot night spots, now making New York his home…The unique sound produced from dj Roy Cooper’s turn tables, is a Deep House meeting Electro, sweetly kissed by Jazz and Disco … Music and spirits …8pm-12am… NO COVER CHARGE ” size2Feb. 20th / Wed. Lounge Night at Makor; 35 West 67th Street, NYC (212) ” *** DJ Roy Cooper accompanied by funky Video projections … Music and spirits… 8pm-2am… NO COVER CHARGE Feb. 15th /Friday Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance size2DOOR: $6.00 ” size2Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, PURIM PURIM at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if Gefen …Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & aligncenter class br with MSN Hotmail. a ‘go.msn/bql/hmtag4etlEN.asp’Click Here Love and Light Angeles

#2235 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:27:37 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:27:36 Freaky Tuesdays Hello, Just a to everyone to come out to Freaky Tuesdays, Tonite at “Who’s On First” on 1st ave between 87th & 88th. Free to get in, 2 for 1 drink specials, 21+ ID a must. 10pm – 3:30am with DJs Amnesium & Manic Mekator. Free psytrance for the people! see ya there, -Tony. PLUS also come RSVP for Ben and Jaime’s partyTuesdays, Tonite at “Who’s On First” on 1st ave between 87th & 88th. Free to get in, 2 for 1 drink specials, 21+ ID a must. 10pm – 3:30am with DJs Amnesium & Manic Mekator. Free psytrance for the people! see ya there, -Tony. PLUS also come RSVP for Ben and Jaime’s party

#2236 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:33:31 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:33:31 Keepin’ it real at the Lunatarium As for the Lunatarium, AFAIK it [the trance party this Saturday] isn’t a GO so I would assume that whomever is having a function will have to find an alternative location, unless some miracle happens! Lu hasn’t been a go since Airport, minus the Run DMC event and with that… the boys that was organizing that wasn’t letting the Lunatarium crew or the city cancel their party for nothing! They did all the ground work and cover with that (along with have tons of $$$ to help them), so that was the only reason why they were allowed to get away with it.

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#2238 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:04:24 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:04:24 WEF/F2 Review [Oh my God what a bunch of assholes the NYPD were.. read on – M.e.] Dear friends, Thank you everyone for the wonderful F2 Festival on Saturday at the Frying Pan. We had a beautiful resistance, expressed through music, words and solidarity of volunteer crew and partygoers to subvert the cops that patrolled the parking lot with their six paddy wagons. Sincere and deep gratitude for the performers, artists and speakers for sharing their gifts and talents. For pouring their love, energy and vibe in creating that space on Saturday night. For letting voices on the streets be heard. For opening a moment where old hippies can sway besides ravers popping. Thank you, thank you, thank you all for creating another world made possible by the hard work and efforts of all of you. We had a few hours of joy before the pain of Sunday afternoon. 130 people were arrested on Sunday afternoon in the East Village, with violence from the police. A friend was knocked off his bike. Another was handcuffed, and the police held up his face to pepper spray directly into his face. A young person had his skull cracked. A girl of 14 was arrested, and held for 10 hours. Handcuffs were pulled so tightly on one woman’s hands that her hands turned black due to lack of circulation. In the prison, the police were insensitive and brutal. People were separated into small groups, taken into individual rooms and interrogated about their political party affiliations. Gays were bashed, immigrants had racist epithets thrown at them, a transsexual was referred to as “it.” Women were sexually harassed, and legal advice was held from them. Medications were not given to the arrested. And, vegans were given cereal and milk – expired milk – many were sick due to food poisoning. Many questions arise from the arrests and subsequent treatment of those arrested. Those arrested were charged with minor infractions that don’t qualify for detentions over 12 hours. Most were kept handcuffed for over 10 hours, in the police bus, with no access to restrooms. People were arrested for standing on the street, standing on the sidewalk, walking to the subway, walking, standing… breathing. The arrests were illegal. The violence on behalf on the police was uncalled for. And, the treatment of the arrestees will not be tolerated. The NYC Peoples Law Collective (one of the beneficiaries of the F2 festival, an anarchist law collective) is working with the National Lawyers Guild and high profile legal rockstars like Norman Siegel and Ron Kuby to file civil suits against the city. NYU students will be working with Columbia Univ. students to protest the complicity of the NYU administration with the NYPD. We know for a fact that (1) NYU closed their dorms to outside guests this weekend; (2) NYU allowed the NYPD into their buildings, access to their roofs to swoop down on protestors in the East Village on Sunday; and (3) NYU did nothing to prevent the arrests of NYU students simply standing in front of their dorms and watching the protests. One student banged on pots from her window in solidarity with the protestors. From the ground, people saw a guard enter her room to stop her. The student pasted a sign on her window: “NYU has silenced me.” Just a few remaining questions about the F2 Festival: (1) We didn’t pay Lego or Oscar Owens for sound engineer help or equipment. How do we get a hold of them (can you pass this message on to them), and how much do we owe? (2) Were there performers that didn’t get cab fare home paid for? Please let me know. (3) Estimated proceeds from the F2 festival are: $4000. All of that should be available for bail initially, when the money is returned the first largest chunk should go to NYC Peoples Law Collective (web tao.ca/nycplc/), the second to NYC Indymedia (nyc.indymedia.org) and the third to local community garden groups like More Gardens!, Earth Celebrations, Reclaim the Streets, etc. Also, tonight, healing space was made available at the Walkerspace at 56 Walker Street, led by Starhawk, web starhawk.org. On Wednesday, there will be a debriefing session at the Reclaim the Streets office space. I hope that you can all make it….(please see info below). In Solidarity, Yvonne – Forwarded message from “M. Neala Byrne” piratical7 at hotmail- Party/Debriefing/Clean-Up at 12th Ave. Wednesday Who: Reclaim the Streets and AWIP Arts In Action What: Debrief/clean-up the space/ feast & drink Where: 830 12th Ave. (57th) When: Wednesday, February 6th 7pm Why: Because we want to talk about the protests, keep in touch, talk about starting an Art & Revolution NYC, talk about storing puppets and samba band stuff for later demos, have fun, eat drink, clean up the space, unwind, figure out once and for all what the opera loving artists in the corner are going to make out of 100 foot strips of canvas How: Any train to Columbus Circle Yvonne [ Students for Global Justice ] + yl90 at columbia + web studentsforglobaljustice.org + vox: 646 321 5710 Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalist? Well, it’s because for as long as we have known you, we were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were the commanding, cruel capitalist, and the memory of this is so strong, the experience so recent, that we can’t quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for what we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilizations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.” Jamaica Kincaid “A Small Place” Farrar, Straus & GirouxDear friends, Thank you everyone for the wonderful F2 Festival on Saturday at the Frying Pan. We had a beautiful resistance, expressed through music, words and solidarity of volunteer crew and partygoers to subvert the cops that patrolled the parking lot with their six paddy wagons. Sincere and deep gratitude for the performers, artists and speakers for sharing their gifts and talents. For pouring their love, energy and vibe in creating that space on Saturday night. For letting voices on the streets be heard. For opening a moment where old hippies can sway besides ravers popping. Thank you, thank you, thank you all for creating another world made possible by the hard work and efforts of all of you. We had a few hours of joy before the pain of Sunday afternoon. 130 people were arrested on Sunday afternoon in the East Village, with violence from the police. A friend was knocked off his bike. Another was handcuffed, and the police held up his face to pepper spray directly into his face. A young person had his skull cracked. A girl of 14 was arrested, and held for 10 hours. Handcuffs were pulled so tightly on one woman’s hands that her hands turned black due to lack of circulation. In the prison, the police were insensitive and brutal. People were separated into small groups, taken into individual rooms and interrogated about their political party affiliations. Gays were bashed, immigrants had racist epithets thrown at them, a transsexual was referred to as “it.” Women were sexually harassed, and legal advice was held from them. Medications were not given to the arrested. And, vegans were given cereal and milk – expired milk – many were sick due to food poisoning. Many questions arise from the arrests and subsequent treatment of those arrested. Those arrested were charged with minor infractions that don’t qualify for detentions over 12 hours. Most were kept handcuffed for over 10 hours, in the police bus, with no access to restrooms. People were arrested for standing on the street, standing on the sidewalk, walking to the subway, walking, standing… breathing. The arrests were illegal. The violence on behalf on the police was uncalled for. And, the treatment of the arrestees will not be tolerated. The NYC Peoples Law Collective (one of the beneficiaries of the F2 festival, an anarchist law collective) is working with the National Lawyers Guild and high profile legal rockstars like Norman Siegel and Ron Kuby to file civil suits against the city. NYU students will be working with Columbia Univ. students to protest the complicity of the NYU administration with the NYPD. We know for a fact that (1) NYU closed their dorms to outside guests this weekend; (2) NYU allowed the NYPD into their buildings, access to their roofs to swoop down on protestors in the East Village on Sunday; and (3) NYU did nothing to prevent the arrests of NYU students simply standing in front of their dorms and watching the protests. One student banged on pots from her window in solidarity with the protestors. From the ground, people saw a guard enter her room to stop her. The student pasted a sign on her window: “NYU has silenced me.” Just a few remaining questions about the F2 Festival: (1) We didn’t pay Lego or Oscar Owens for sound engineer help or equipment. How do we get a hold of them (can you pass this message on to them), and how much do we owe? (2) Were there performers that didn’t get cab fare home paid for? Please let me know. (3) Estimated proceeds from the F2 festival are: $4000. All of that should be available for bail initially, when the money is returned the first largest chunk should go to NYC Peoples Law Collective (web tao.ca/nycplc/), the second to NYC Indymedia (nyc.indymedia.org) and the third to local community garden groups like More Gardens!, Earth Celebrations, Reclaim the Streets, etc. Also, tonight, healing space was made available at the Walkerspace at 56 Walker Street, led by Starhawk, web starhawk.org. On Wednesday, there will be a debriefing session at the Reclaim the Streets office space. I hope that you can all make it….(please see info below). In Solidarity, Yvonne – Forwarded message from “M. Neala Byrne” piratical7 at hotmail- Party/Debriefing/Clean-Up at 12th Ave. Wednesday Who: Reclaim the Streets and AWIP Arts In Action What: Debrief/clean-up the space/ feast & drink Where: 830 12th Ave. (57th) When: Wednesday, February 6th 7pm Why: Because we want to talk about the protests, keep in touch, talk about starting an Art & Revolution NYC, talk about storing puppets and samba band stuff for later demos, have fun, eat drink, clean up the space, unwind, figure out once and for all what the opera loving artists in the corner are going to make out of 100 foot strips of canvas How: Any train to Columbus Circle Yvonne [ Students for Global Justice ] + yl90 at columbia + web studentsforglobaljustice.org + vox: 646 321 5710 Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalist? Well, it’s because for as long as we have known you, we were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were the commanding, cruel capitalist, and the memory of this is so strong, the experience so recent, that we can’t quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for what we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilizations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.” Jamaica Kincaid “A Small Place” Farrar, Straus & Giroux

#2239 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:05:45 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:05:44 Pschedule Psy-Trance Schedule News & rumours: -Saturday’s Lunatarium GMS still finding a home (but there’s a techno party that night just in case) -Cafe Makor events added throughout Frebruary -Here’s a project for those who want to see more new faces at public trance the issue comes out. Address to Bruce Tantum. He hates psy and goa trance, by the way, so you may have to be creative. But if he gets enough trance listings from different people he will see the light. * An asterisk will be placed by the “must not miss” events. GarenI do believe in go go go NYC, but just wanted to let you know that the sound system at Twilo is actually top 3 in the world (which makes it one of the best, not necessarily the best) behind a mega club in Manchester and another club in Berlin. I read about that a year or so ago. -Freaky Tuesdays getting a steady crowd. I encourage everyone to come check it out. There will be another astrology party there in February for Aquarians. -What time is it? “yugop/ver3/stuff/03/fla yugop/ver3/stuff/03/fla Send News & Rumours to news at brainmachines See everybody at Omnitribe!!! STILL OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays The Lord of the Rings film is out!!! Go get inspired for Burning Elf’s spring woodland LOTR party. ANyone who hasn’t seen it is a LOSER!!! Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed. Lounge Night at Makor; 35 West 67th Street, NYC (212) 601-1000 DJ Roy Cooper accompanied by Funky Video projections… DJ Roy Cooper is an Israeli born artist that spun his way around Tel Aviv and Paris’s hot night spots, now making New York his home…The unique sound produced from dj Roy Cooper’s turn tables, is a convergence of Deep House meeting Electro, sweetly kissed by Jazz and Disco…Music and spirits…8pm-12am…NO COVER Later -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd *Feb 8 – Fri – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow *Feb 9 – Sat – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists live -Dmitri, Goblin, Liran – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It $30 at doorat the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street F to York 212-946-5687 web lunatarium … Location UNCONFIRMED Virus Tekno party in the L.E.S.(718) 404-3906 ext.6665 *Feb 12 – Tue – Age of Aquarius Birthday Celebration presented by the Devotional Ministry of Trance For everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Bring: bottled water, holy water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, toys and waterproof art. Anything flowing. Bring enough to share – including you, as you are mostly water anyway. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15 – Feb. 15th /Friday Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance music…9pm-4am…party…DOOR: $6.00 Feb 16 – Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami TBA Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – LAST dmtski SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solsticehmm? already open. You started without me? My resources don’t fit within my control parameters. Fair distribution is a bitch. (oh, im just kidding, sorry ma’am) (whathefuck? – do I have rocks in my underwear? where did this baby-powder ome from? what’s that smell? rotting eggs? no, I think you look great. …oh, Mercer St. is that way 🙂 pardon, was I leaking? -okay now just the guys: “Sooooooow?” Too much galactose in your diet, cut back on the salt every moon my dear. If you doubt, but your perception is obscured, you gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaaarrtay! Don’t forget what you are not supposed to forget. Running hatred through your filter is hazardous, be sure to rinse & repeat (although i recomend sympathizing instead). freedom creeps up on you. The future so briight, I gotta wear shades. A quick whirs through your field of vision. Destiny is a roaring lion, if you pull the thorn out from his paw, he will be kind to you. I’m not all there right now. (words- dividing…) The absense is causing me to bother you. It’s not my fault..? How was I to know? How? Was. Eye? Two. No. . . . nd you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Evan at shpongle Paris # Sweden-Saturday’s Lunatarium GMS still finding a home (but there’s a techno party that night just in case) -Cafe Makor events added throughout Frebruary -Freaky Tuesdays getting a steady crowd. I encourage everyone to come check it out. There will be another astrology party there in February for Aquarians. STILL OPEN: Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 6 – Wed. Lounge Night at Makor; 35 West 67th Street, NYC (212) 601-1000 DJ Roy Cooper accompanied by Funky Video projections… DJ Roy Cooper is an Israeli born artist that spun his way around Tel Aviv and Paris’s hot night spots, now making New York his home…The unique sound produced from dj Roy Cooper’s turn tables, is a convergence of Deep House meeting Electro, sweetly kissed by Jazz and Disco…Music and spirits…8pm-12am…NO COVER Later -Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd *Feb 8 – Fri – Ben at cownow light-o-maticis doing a private list only party for Jaime’s birthday. Prepay. Featuring DJ’s: Boris (Burning Elf) Shikid (OmniTribe) Chico DragonLotus (DragonTribe) Machinelf (d) Niko (Synthetic Sadhus) Jed (TranceAct) web lightomatic/party or email ben at cownow *Feb 9 – Sat – Bansi – Growling Mad Scientists live -Dmitri, Goblin, Liran – Hommega/Spun/In-Trance-It $30 at doorat the Lunatarium 10 Jay Street F to York 212-946-5687 web lunatarium … Location UNCONFIRMED *Feb 12 – Tue – Age of Aquarius Birthday Celebration presented by the Devotional Ministry of Trance For everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Feb 13 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15 – Feb. 15th /Friday Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance music…9pm-4am…party…DOOR: $6.00 Feb 16 – Sat – dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free before 10pm, $3 after, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami TBA Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)My resources don’t fit within my control parameters. Fair distribution is a bitch. (oh, im just kidding, sorry ma’am) (whathefuck? – do I have rocks in my underwear? where did this baby-powder ome from? what’s that smell? rotting eggs? no, I think you look great. …oh, Mercer St. is that way 🙂 pardon, was I leaking? -okay now just the guys: “Sooooooow?” Too much galactose in your diet, cut back on the salt every moon my dear. If you doubt, but your perception is obscured, you gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaaarrtay! Don’t forget what you are not supposed to forget. Running hatred through your filter is hazardous, be sure to rinse & repeat (although i recomend sympathizing instead). freedom creeps up on you. The future so briight, I gotta wear shades. A quick whirs through your field of vision. Destiny is a roaring lion, if you pull the thorn out from his paw, he will be kind to you. I’m not all there right now. (words- dividing…) The absense is causing me to bother you. It’s not my fault..? How was I to know? How? Was. Eye? Two. No. . . . Letting time seep in like a lullaby, remembering how to remember: The serpent has a secret. The apple is called Delicious. Zero is discovering. One is atracting. Two is facing. Three is activating. Four is knowing. Five is understanding. Six is helping. Seven is participating. Eight is harmonizing. Nine is manifesting. Ten is completing. Eleven is releasing. Twelve is synchronizing. Thirteen is accepting. fourteen is embracing. . . . . … O weary Karmachanics! May you find that which are seeking, hear (here), hidden, amidst the rainforests of discoveries, and the program codes that reveal themselves humbly. Sci-Fi techno-hieroglyphs are sprouting from their nourished seeds. The reality-sysytems they ‘will’ become is not far. We are helping. The unborn unbored life is dreaming us and beckoning us back to itself. Be not afraid! there is a time for work. there is a time for rest. there is a time for pain. there is a time for joy. there is a time for exploration. there is a time for celebration. -v^v^v^v^v^V^V^WWVVV # (that’s ‘how’.) ‘This’ is what ‘That’ needs. ‘That’ is what we want. ‘This’ is what we have. ‘That’ is what we find. (the choiceis yours) the drone is a magic lucky charm. You can’t ‘over use’ it because it might bite you in the ass. You can ‘use it over’ but it’s gears may become dull. ‘Expose’ yourself to the mandala only for healing. Otherwise you must go through it. It is a part of the living form of space & light and that includes you. To be fully alive and awake, you must be on the other side. otherwise you are asleep. But that’s okay, you’lll need your rest. Up and Down; intersect, angles, dimension, spiral. Sense Probability Intrinsically Resonates Alternal Love (S.P.I.R.A.L.) life…. ((((( N’TENGUE: This is the oldest human fossil in the world! HOMER: P! I’ve got more bones than That guy! I’m not impressed. N’TENGUE: But Mr.Simpson HOMER: (hand in N’Tengue’s face) Not! Impressed! ))))) *If you face the ground you can see the stars on the other side of the world. *If you look up you realize we are being squozen through an epistemological black-hole birth canal, caught o the wake of a cosmic tsunami about to come crashing down. *Look to the right and understand the urgency that cries for your help. *Look to the left and understand the part we must play in this temporal crisis. *Look behind you to check for encouragement. *Look forward to new life and the Water-Bearer. *Be yourself so we can love you. *Be yourself so you can love us. *Be yourself so you can disagree. *Be together to share the joy. and show your way to those who are listening. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2…. love, Chicago

#2240 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:31:11 Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:31:10 Correction – Freaky Tuesday is Free it’s time we give Liquids a run for their money!!! and there are 2 for 1 drink specials.. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. alsoand there are 2 for 1 drink specials.. Feb 5 – Tue- Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium contact 646-234-3263 ID21 & over Free 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender.

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#2243 Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:02:38 Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:02:37 The Oracle at Delphi really did use Whippets Faults Suggest a High Calling for Delphi Priestesses By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 4, 2002; Page 6 They wa rned Oedipus to stay away from his mother, told Orestes to go ahead and kill his, caused Croesus to lose to the Persians, then helped Athens defeat them. So what’s the story with the priestesses at Delphi? Did they reall y channel for Apollo, or were they just high on somthing? Scientists don’t know about Apollo, but evidence is growing that the priestesses, kn own as pythia, were ripped on hydrocarbon gases, especially ethylene, a so metime anesthetic which, taken in modest doses, can induce lively conversa tion of a somewhat incoherent nature. This is because the Temple of A pollo at Delphi sits on crisscrossing geological faults, according to a team of scientists led by archaeologist John Hale of the University of Louisville and geologist Jelle Zeilinga de Boer of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. In re-embracing the ancients’ view that intoxicants emanate d from water bubbling from a rock fissure beneath the temple, Hale said, the team is challenging a century of research that held “that the prie sts and oracle were deceiving the public and inventing stories” to boost the shrine’s importance. Instead, it appears the ancients were right. ” I thought that if there is an active fault, there were most likely gases c oming up through fissures,” Zeilinga de Boer said. And if that were tru e, traces would show up in the travertine that underpins the temple. Tra vertine is a type of limestone. And so it proved. Reporting recently in the journal Geology, the team said that tests on the Delphi rock and the waters of a nearby spring showed the presence of mthane and ethane, w hich can be intoxicating, as well as ethylene, widely used as an anesthe tic in the first half of the 20th century. “It was a great gas,” said to xicologist Henry Spiller, director of the Kentucky Regional Poison Cente r in Louisville and another member of the Delphi team. “It produces a v ery rapid onset of effects, and leaves the heart alone.” Unfortunately, ” it is also explosive [and] dangerous for the surgeon,” Spiller added, whic h is why modern medicine eventually abandoned it. Ethylene, Spiller explained, produces “stages” of anesthesia. Low doses induce “disembodie d euphoria, with periods of excitation and amnesia,” he said. But at hig her doses, “you get delirium, hysteria and a combative, agitated state,” h e added. Further along comes unconsciousness and, if one is not careful, death. All of this squares nicely with historical accounts. As a high p riest at the temple in the 1st century A.D., the biographer Plutarch not ed that the pythia delivered oracles from a tripod in a small below-gro und chamber bathed in gases carried up by underground springs. Most of the time, the priestess was conscious, clever and chatty, but on occasion she flipped out, and things got nasty. The bad trips, including a death reported by Plutarch, had led past Delphi administrators to swap out the y oung maidens they used to put in the seat for more levelheaded matrons. Today the temple ruins, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus 100 miles nor thwest of Athens, are probably the most visited place in Greece after the Acropolis, but Hale said archaeological evidence suggests the ancient G reeks probably regarded Delphi as a holy place from its founding, about 1400 B.C. The shrine’s heyday began about 800 B.C., Hale said, when Gree k colonists sought Apollo’s blessing before they set sail for Italy, Sic ily, Spain, the Black Sea and Africa. The oracle didn’t go out of busin ess until A.D. 393, when the Christian emperor Theodosius shut it down. The oracle’s warnings and advice figure prominently in Greek mythology. After the Trojan War, when Orestes asked whether he should seek vengeanc e on his mother for murdering his father, Agamemnon, the oracle gave him the green light. Told by the oracle that he would murder his father and marry his mother, Oedipus did everything possible to avoid the inevitabl e, but failed. In actual practice, however, the oracle’s chief shortcomi ng was the ambiguity of her advice. Croesus, king of Lydia, went to war against Cyrus of Persia after the oracle told him that “a great nation would fall” if he crossed the Halys River. Unfortunately, the great nation turned out to be his own. And in 480 B.C., after the Athenians rejected the oracle’s opening prediction that the invading Persians would trash them, the priestess suggested they make use of “a wall of wood.” The At henians correctly interpreted this to mean ships, and subsequently defeate d Xerxes at sea in the Battle of Salamis. Delphi’s original excavation w as performed by French archaeologists, who at first found no gas emissions beneath the temple. An article published in English in 1904 suggested the fissure idea was “all a mistake,” Hale said. “This view defined the debate” for the next 90 years, and was reinforced by mid- century resear ch suggesting that emissions of intoxicating gas were impossible without volcanic activity, Hale said. “But this was archaeologists, mainly,” s aid geologist Luigi Piccardi of Italy’s National Research Council in Flo rence, whose own research in Greece reflects many of the U.S. team’s co nclusions. “The mechanics of active faulting are somthing only recently understood.” Geologists have known for years that much of Greece is in one of the world’s most active seismological areas. Delphi sits in the m iddle of the east-west “Corinth Rift Zone,” which slices the country in h alf. In the mid-1990s, Zeilinga de Boer spotted an active east-west faul t traveling beneath the Delphi temple and challenged Hale, a believer in the no-emissions theory, to rethink his views. Together, the pair f ound a second fault running north and south beneath the temple, and discov ered that the French had indeed found fissures in the bedrock but had on ly published their results in the 1920s, long after scientists had lost interest. “The geology is very young, and you have things happening befo re your eyes,” Zeilinga de Boer said. Deep in the earth, seismic forces grind the fault edges together, building tremendous heat that causes va porized hydrocarbons to funnel upward, joining groundwater to bubble up in springs through fissures in the ground. Spring water near the temple still has plenty of gases in it, Zeilinga de Boer said. The only reason gas doesn’t permeate the temple today is because modern Delphi is chann eling most of the groundwater into reservoirs: “The gas bubbles off befor e the water goes to the municipal system,” he said. 2002 The Washington Post Company -Allison h Calling for Delphi Priestesses By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 4, 2002; Page 6 They warned Oedipus to stay away from his mother, told Oreste s to go ahead and kill his, caused Croesus to lose to the Persians, then helped Athens defeat them. So what’s the sto ry with the priestesses at Delphi? Did they really channel for Apollo, or were they just high on somthing? Scientis ts don’t know about Apollo, but evidence is growing that the priest esses, known as pythia, were ripped on hydrocarbon gases, especially &g t;ethylene, a sometime anesthetic which, taken in modest doses, can induce lively conversation of a somewhat incoherent natur e. This is because the Temple of Apollo at Delphi sits on crisscrossing geological faults, according to a team of sc ientists led by archaeologist John Hale of the University of Louisville and geologist Jelle Zeilinga de Boer of Wesleyan Univ ersity in Connecticut. In re-embracing the ancient s’ view that intoxicants emanated from water bubbling from a rock fissure beneath the temple, Hale said, the team is challenging a century of research that held “that the priests and oracle were deceiving the public and inventing stories” to boost the shrine’s importance. Instead, it appears the an cients were right. “I thought that if there is an active fault, the re were most likely gases coming up through fissures,” Zeilinga B Rde Boer said. And if that were true, traces would show up in the travertine that underpins the temple. Travertine is a type of limestone. And so it proved. Reporting recently in the journal Geology, the team said that tests on the Delp hi rock and the waters of a nearby spring showed the presence of mthane and ethane, which can be intoxicating, as well as et hylene, widely used as an anesthetic in the first half of the 20th century. “It was a great gas,” said toxicologist Henry Spiller, director of the Kentucky Regional Poisonnter in Louisville and another member of the Delphi team. “It produces a very rapid onset of effects, and leaves the heart al one.” Unfortunately, “it is also explosive [and] dangerous for the surgeon,” Spiller added, which is why modern medicine eventually abandoned it. Ethylene, Spiller ex plained, produces “stages” of anesthesia. Low doses induce > ;”disembodied euphoria, with periods of excitation and amnesia,” he said. But at higher doses, “you get delirium, hysteria an d a combative, agitated state,” he added. Further along co mes unconsciousness and, if one is not careful, death. All of this squares nicely with historical accounts. As a high priest at the temple in the 1st century A.D., the biographer Plutarch not ed that the pythia delivered oracles from a tripod in a small below-ground chamber bathed in gases carried up by unde rground springs. Most of the time, the priestess was consc ious, clever and chatty, but on occasion she flipped out, and thing s got nasty. The bad trips, including a death reported by Plutarch, had led past Delphi administrators to swap out the young maidens they used to put in the seat for more levelheaded matrons. Today the temple ruins, on the slopes of Mount Pa rnassus 100 miles northwest of Athens, are probably the mo st visited place in Greece after the Acropolis, but Hale s aid archaeological evidence suggests the ancient Greeks probably re garded Delphi as a holy place from its founding, about 140 0 B.C. The shrine’s heyday began about 800 B.C., Hale said when Greek colonists sought Apollo’s blessing before the y set sail for Italy, Sicily, Spain, the Black Sea and Afr ica. The oracle didn’t go out of business until A.D. 393, when the Christian emperor Theodosius shut it down. &g t;The oracle’s warnings and advice figure prominently in Greek mythology. After the Trojan War, when Orestes asked whether he should seek vengeance on his mother for murdering his father, Agam emnon, the oracle gave him the green light. Told by the or acle that he would murder his father and marry his mother, Oedipus did everything possible to avoid the inevitable, but failed. & gt; In actual practice, however, the oracle’s chief shortcoming was the ambiguity of her advice. Croesus, king of Lydia, went to war against Cyrus of Persia after the oracle t old him that “a great nation would fall” if he crossed the Halys River. Unfortunately, the great nation turned out to be his own. And in 480 B.C., after the Athenians rejected the oracle’s opening B Rprediction that the invading Persians would trash them, the p riestess suggested they make use of “a wall of woo d.” The Athenians correctly interpreted this to mean ships, and sub sequently defeated Xerxes at sea in the Battle of Salamis. > ;Delphi’s original excavation was performed by French archaeologists, who a t first found no gas emissions beneath the temple. An article publi shed in English in 1904 suggested the fissure idea was “all a mistake,” Hale said. “This view defined the de bate” for the next 90 years, and was reinforced by mid- ce ntury research suggesting that emissions of intoxicating gas were impossible without volcanic activity, Hale said. BR”But this was archaeologists, mainly,” said geologist Luigi Piccardi of Italy’s National Research Council in Florence, whose o wn research in Greece reflects many of the U.S. te am’s conclusions. “The mechanics of active faulting are somthing only recently understood.” Geologists have known f or years that much of Greece is in one of the world’s most active seismological areas. Delphi sits in the middle of the east-west “Corinth Rift Zone,” which slices the country in half. >In the mid-1990s, Zeilinga de Boer spotted an active east-west fa ult traveling beneath the Delphi temple and challenged Hal e, a believer in the no-emissions theory, to rethi nk his views. Together, the pair found a second fault runn ing north and south beneath the temple, and discovered that the Fre nch had indeed found fissures in the bedrock but had only published their results in the 1920s, long after scientists had los t interest. “The geology is very young, and you h ave things happening before your eyes,” Zeilinga de Boer s aid. Deep in the earth, seismic forces grind the fault edges & gt;together, building tremendous heat that causes vaporized hydroca rbons to funnel upward, joining groundwater to bubble up i n springs through fissures in the ground. Spring water nea r the temple still has plenty of gases in it, Zeilinga de Boer said. The only reason gas doesn’t permeate the temple today is because modern Delphi is channeling most of the groundwat er into reservoirs: “The gas bubbles off before the water goes to the municipal system,” he said. 2002 The Washington Post Company

#2244 Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:15:12 Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:15:12 Another Big Mexican Trance Party Thanks Olga. Wow, peter, Iboga Records, Reefer Decree… “aaaahhhh…/me drooling all over the keyboard March 21st Tulum, Mexico presented by Superfly, Digital Structures and Iboga Records: SON PAX :The Equinox A Digiboga label Party. lineup:Live Acts: SON KITE (Digital Structures) TICON (Digital Structures) TEGMA (Digital) P-WOLAND (Digital) REEFER DECREE (Iboga) BEAT BIZARRE (Iboga) FABEL (Iboga) LLOPIS (Iboga) D.j. Sets: Iboga records Emok (Fabel) Alhad (Fabel) Jeppe (Fabel) Oliver&Jiwook (Reefer Decree) Llopis anel (label dj) Digital Structures Peter Didjital (label dj) Adis (label dj) Filip (Ticon) Marcus (Son Kite) “We are workig close to this guys to bring our pool of artists web alienatedbuddha a 100% Goa Act from Malaga Spain out of Orion Italy Vazik CHaishop/Germany Spiritzone/Germany Metta/Mexico City Psy2k Quadrophonic Industrie/Houston Mexico Maybe not confirm Sam at chaishop Darma-Kshetra from MIami NOT CONFIRMED Deco Abuelo Sikodelico SF Gatherings Deco Andres Chica QUadrophonic Industrie Hope all this goes well and looking forward to see you there.. For more info please contact quadrophonic at aol”

#2245 Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:42:03 Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:42:02 Revised: Another Big Mexican Trance Party Thanks Andy: “That post only tells half the story. Post the whole informa tion, please… The actual deal is this : 03/21/2002 – 03/23/2002 SON PA X The Equinox Digiboga Label Party (open air) Mayan Riviera; Starts in Pla ya ends in Tulum.; Mexico presented by Superfly, Digital Structures and Ib oga Records. lineup:Live Acts: SON KITE (Digital Structures) TICON (Digita l Structures) TEGMA (Digital) P-WOLAND (Digital) REEFER DECREE (Iboga) BEAT BIZARRE (Iboga) FABEL (Iboga) LLOPIS (Iboga) D.j. Sets: Iboga records Emo k (Fabel) Alhad (Fabel) Jeppe (Fabel) Oliver&Jiwook (Reefer Decree) Llopis Banel (label dj) Digital Structures Peter Didjital (label dj) Adis (label dj) Filip (Ticon) Marcus (Son Kite) deco: The Equinox…..when our plan et intersects the ecliptic of the suns orbit….night and day become equal in length….thus initiating the first day of spring…e join the cel ebration of the union of two very brilliant companies; Digital Structures of Sweden and Iboga Records of Denmark. The initiation of a new sound and season. This is a 3 day festival on the only beach with a Pyramid, in the world. Beautiful people in harmony with paradise…..is what you will find at SON PAX. We look forward to serving you. info at transfly at hotmail.co m hotline: (52) (998) 850-9506 tickets: $250 pesos Music is the universal means to show grattitude towards life. It does not matter your race, reli gion or beliefs. With music we are all one. Join us in this celebration. The partry starts at the famous ecological reserve-park…Tres Rios….the n the party unfolds it’s wings and takes off to Tulum….the famous archeal ogica l site of the pyramids./transport is provided. The party goes on….. ..right next to the pyramid…..there we can camp out for ($2dls a day)! o r rent a nice beach hut/cabaF1a for ($15-20.us a day)!, We have a restau rant that serves international and vegetarian meals. Also we lwould like for you to show your stuff….so if you have a talent…or make food..or w ant to sell somthing……please do! We encourage you to set up a stand and provide interesting new ideas to share with others. We provide the sta nds and everything free of charge. SON PAX means Sounds of Peace.

#2246 Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:04:08 Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:04:07 Responses to Lunatarium/WEF F2 -My boy Big Dipper did that party [at the Lunatarium] w/ Run DMC. It was not easy pulling it off and turnout wasn’t nearly what it should have been. [ed. note – the GMS info line for this Saturday at Luna. describes the dec 15 hanukkah party at speeed, not a good sign. Moreover GMS likes to stand up promoters. Skiing, anyone? email rocktheshow at aol for info on Saturday] – I am all for being the voice of dissent. I give money to many activist groups and was at the Courthouse when the KKK marched without their masks on. I screamed my head off at those racist assholes. I signed petitions and was interviewed by the media about why I was there. No doubt some INNOCENT people were in the wrong place at the wrong time here. No doubt some people’s civil liberties were violated. HOWEVER, you have to be pretty fucking stupid not to see which way the wind was blowingafter 9/11 the cops were not going to tolerate a Seattle situation. It was also a first test for the new/old police chief and new mayor. MANY PEACEFUL AND INTELLIGENT protesters did get their message across in mid-town, though I have to admit it took a lot of balls to assemble there. I saw them on NY1, CNN and many other stations. They should be proud of themselves. However, anyone who tries to block streets in the East Village with all its past police history is pretty fucking stupid in my opinion. Not the place or the time to protest. Not unless you have 50,000 protesters…..[ed. note – the GMS info line for this Saturday at Luna. describes the dec 15 hanukkah party at speeed, not a good sign. Moreover GMS likes to stand up promoters. Skiing, anyone? email rocktheshow at aol for info on Saturday] – I am all for being the voice of dissent. I give money to many activist groups and was at the Courthouse when the KKK marched without their masks on. I screamed my head off at those racist assholes. I signed petitions and was interviewed by the media about why I was there. No doubt some INNOCENT people were in the wrong place at the wrong time here. No doubt some people’s civil liberties were violated. HOWEVER, you have to be pretty fucking stupid not to see which way the wind was blowingafter 9/11 the cops were not going to tolerate a Seattle situation. It was also a first test for the new/old police chief and new mayor. MANY PEACEFUL AND INTELLIGENT protesters did get their message across in mid-town, though I have to admit it took a lot of balls to assemble there. I saw them on NY1, CNN and many other stations. They should be proud of themselves.

#2247 Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:26:43 Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:26:42 Krishna Krishna Broke-ah Broke-ah… UMMMMMMMMMM The economy is so bad. HOW BAD IS IT? The Hare Krishnas are going BROKE… web msnbc/news/701136.asp?0dm2AN&cp11 and Paypal called off its much heralded IPO amidst problems… glad the d wasn’t mentioned :-O web techtv/cybercrime/internetfraud/story/0,23008,3370214,00 HOW BAD IS IT? The Hare Krishnas are going BROKE… web msnbc/news/701136.asp?0dm2AN&cp11 and Paypal called off its much heralded IPO amidst problems… glad the d wasn’t mentioned :-O

#2248 Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:47:27 Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:47:27 Directions to Ben’s Party Yeah, RIGHT!!!

#2249 Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:42:15 Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:42:15 Fwd: Glow Sticks unbanned in New Orleans

#2250 Sun, 10 Feb 2002 19:01:56 -0800 Re: Boundless TranceFunkyness…Feb 15th…Level X…please forward From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahooCome this Friday to a super Trance Party on Brooklyn!!!!!! EvolutionBox presents: Boundless TranceFunkyness… Friday February 15th…9pm… Venue: Level X – 107 N. 6th Street (Between Berry & White), Williamsburg BKLYN (718) 302-3313 Door Cover: $6.00 …DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D,Dj Isam… Love and Light Angeles

#2251 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:42:00 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:41:59 Trance Party Tuesday: Age of Aquarius Feb 12 – Tue – Age of Aquarius Birthday Celebration presented by the Devotional Ministry of Trance For everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs TBA from the NYC scene, Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: psy-trance Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Bring: bottled water, holy water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, toys and waterproof art. Anything flowing. Bring enough to share – including you, as you are mostly water anyway. Wylie will be there getting prepayments for his loft party Friday tba on safetdance mondayFor everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs TBA from the NYC scene, Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: psy-trance Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Bring: bottled water, holy water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, toys and waterproof art. Anything flowing. Bring enough to share – including you, as you are mostly water anyway.

#2252 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:47:32 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:47:31 More on the Big Mexican Trance Party Here are some of our Mexico pictures, there should be more coming soon: web picturetrail/gallery/view?p6&uid431983& Most of the time we stayer in Tulum, in small wooden beach huts right on the beach. We rented it from a mayan family who cooked us breakfast in the morning, let us play with a little insanely adorable fury creature named Lulu, and told us stories under the stars about Maya People coming down to Earth from Orion’s Belt and disappearing back up there after completing their mission here. Not to mention the gorgeous Carribean Sea (i’ve never seen waves this color), blue skies and bright yellow sun…every day…it was paradise One of the places we went to while in Tulum was Coba – an ancient Mayan city – one of the largest discovered to day. Most of the pictures were taken there. It’s in the middle of the jungle, half restored, mostly untouched by archeologiest and tourists. We actually had to walk through the jungle for several kilometers to get from one pyramid to another. Overall, I think Coba is over 80 sq. miles with 5 lakes. Nohoch Mul is the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan peninsula and is the main pyramid in the city dedicated to the Sun God. It is 12 stories tall,has 120 steps to the top and we actually did climb it…climbing down was much more fun…he he :)But it was all absolutely worth it, since from the top we watched the sunset (Mayan Decending God) over a magnificent span of jungle, lakes, and the ruins of ancient civilization laid out before you…it’s really not very expressible in words with the tops of other ruins reaching above the jungle the Mexican New year’s rave didn’t quiet match up after all of this, so we left the party early and went snorkeling in coral reefs in Puerto Marelos – another completely transient experience (!!!), in no way not manageable by words [Danila, thanks for recommending to try it!]. Swimming with tie-dyed colored tropical fish on the after-party-first-day-of-New-Year-morning was awesome, i managed to completely get over my phobia of water and whatever else the sea might hide, and Max even swam with a huge sea turtle, which is considered a sign of very good fortune among Mayans. Couldn’t wish for a better new year’s start… the last major stop was an in-land ancient town of Valladolid, built in 16th century by the Spanish, which impressed me with its wonderful architecture and most wonderful people … From there we went to Chichen Itza, another ancient Mayan city, but better excavated and restored,as well as frequented by tourists. It lacked the charm of the untouched ruins that Mayans left behind in Coba, where the spirit is still felt, but nevertheless was very interesting structure. it’s main pyramid Pyramid Kukulcan is the tallest of them and allows a view from the top of all Chichen Itza and is actually a 26,000 year solar calendar. It turned out, Mayans were quiet astronomers, astrologists, mathematicians, and architechts, managing to tie off of these disciplines together to create somthing very remarkable. During the Spring and Fall equinoxes, (March 21& Sept 21) the setting sun creates shadows down the steps of the Pyramid Kukulcan that resemble a snake descending. This is a popular event to see and usually draws big crowds. by the way, more info on this in the next message… ok, i’m tired and i’m not even half finished with remembering all the fun stuff we did in between of excessive substance and tequila intake…we even visited a local trance party on the beach under the full moon organized by local people. the party, people, vibe and music were so warm and comfy that i fell asleep right there in the sand in the middle of the dance floor – first time ever (!!) that happened to me… it turned out the same people who organized the party, strayed in the tents on the beach where we lived, so we had ambient playing there every night in our own private party under the stars and Orion’s belt…one night, i went into the water, and there were these bright green flourecent glowing somthings appearing and disappearing all around me ..i still can’t figure out what that was…any ideas anyone? so it was completely perfect. one word of advice for those traveling there – if possible, try to stay away and the like…you pay $30 to get in, and there is nothing really much exciting, but organized family fun. locals are a much better source of information…and ALWAYS bargain, 1/3 of a price is usually a good start ;))) till next time, Snegmore coming soon: web picturetrail/gallery/view?p6&uid431983& Most of the time we stayer in Tulum, in small wooden beach huts right on the beach. We rented it from a mayan family who cooked us breakfast in the morning, let us play with a little insanely adorable fury creature named Lulu, and told us stories under the stars about Maya People coming down to Earth from Orion’s Belt and disappearing back up there after completing their mission here. Not to mention the gorgeous Carribean Sea (i’ve never seen waves this color), blue skies and bright yellow sun…every day…it was paradise One of the places we went to while in Tulum was Coba – an ancient Mayan city – one of the largest discovered to day. Most of the pictures were taken there. It’s in the middle of the jungle, half restored, mostly untouched by archeologiest and tourists. We actually had to walk through the jungle for several kilometers to get from one pyramid to another. Overall, I think Coba is over 80 sq. miles with 5 lakes. Nohoch Mul is the tallest pyramid in the Yucatan peninsula and is the main pyramid in the city dedicated to the Sun God. It is 12 stories tall,has 120 steps to the top and we actually did climb it…climbing down was much more fun…he he :)But it was all absolutely worth it, since from the top we watched the sunset (Mayan Decending God) over a magnificent span of jungle, lakes, and the ruins of ancient civilization laid out before you…it’s really not very expressible in words with the tops of other ruins reaching above the jungle the Mexican New year’s rave didn’t quiet match up after all of this, so we left the party early and went snorkeling in coral reefs in Puerto Marelos – another completely transient experience (!!!), in no way not manageable by words [Danila, thanks for recommending to try it!]. Swimming with tie-dyed colored tropical fish on the after-party-first-day-of-New-Year-morning was awesome, i managed to completely get over my phobia of water and whatever else the sea might hide, and Max even swam with a huge sea turtle, which is considered a sign of very good fortune among Mayans. Couldn’t wish for a better new year’s start… the last major stop was an in-land ancient town of Valladolid, built in 16th century by the Spanish, which impressed me with its wonderful architecture and most wonderful people … From there we went to Chichen Itza, another ancient Mayan city, but better excavated and restored,as well as frequented by tourists. It lacked the charm of the untouched ruins that Mayans left behind in Coba, where the spirit is still felt, but nevertheless was very interesting structure. it’s main pyramid Pyramid Kukulcan is the tallest of them and allows a view from the top of all Chichen Itza and is actually a 26,000 year solar calendar. It turned out, Mayans were quiet astronomers, astrologists, mathematicians, and architechts, managing to tie off of these disciplines together to create somthing very remarkable. During the Spring and Fall equinoxes, (March 21& Sept 21) the setting sun creates shadows down the steps of the Pyramid Kukulcan that resemble a snake descending. This is a popular event to see and usually draws big crowds. by the way, more info on this in the next message… ok, i’m tired and i’m not even half finished with remembering all the fun stuff we did in between of excessive substance and tequila intake…we even visited a local trance party on the beach under the full moon organized by local people. the party, people, vibe and music were so warm and comfy that i fell asleep right there in the sand in the middle of the dance floor – first time ever (!!) that happened to me… it turned out the same people who organized the party, strayed in the tents on the beach where we lived, so we had ambient playing there every night in our own private party under the stars and Orion’s belt…one night, i went into the water, and there were these bright green flourecent glowing somthings appearing and disappearing all around me ..i still can’t figure out what that was…any ideas anyone? so it was completely perfect. one word of advice for those traveling there – if possible, try to stay away and the like…you pay $30 to get in, and there is nothing really much exciting, but organized family fun. locals are a much better source of information…and ALWAYS bargain, 1/3 of a price is usually a good start ;))) till next time,

#2254 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 03:01:42 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 03:01:42 Pschedule Psy-Trance Schedule *Feb 12 – Tue – Age of Aquarius Birthday Celebration presented by the Devotional Ministry of Trance For everyone who has a birthday on January 20 – February 18 10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Bring: bottled water, holy water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, toys and waterproof art. Anything flowing. Bring enough to share – including you, as you are mostly water anyway. *Feb 13 – Wed – Greeting all!! We’re back!!! the party will at PYRAMID {101 FLOURO DECORATIONS BY KURA DJs come and enjoy a night of music and self expression in a night of dreams! Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15 – Friday *This will be a large,high energy loft party: Private Party: Tribeca Trance Mission: Lord of the Trance at Wylie’s sweet new renovated penthouse through late Saturday morning TBA on Safetydance. Afterparty at the dmtski house. This Williamsburg one looks a but more chill: Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X at 107 N.6th in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance music…9pm-4am…party…DOOR: $6.00 Feb 16-17 Sat/Sun- dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami TBA Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – LAST dmtski SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice10pm-4am Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th ID21 & over FREE, 2 for 1 drinks all night. Aquarians get their first drink free. Think liquid. We can refill our water bottles in the poopdeck! Astrological readings. Chinese Water Torture. Pool table, downstairs chill. Crazy aquatic visuals. Viviana is the bartender; Machinelf is your captain. Captain’s crew includes Boris, Vlad, Fahd, The Rev, and Blaine DJs Amnesium and Machinelf play watered down music: Water themed Eclectic; punk rock, whale songs, goth, psy-trance. Bring: bottled water, holy water, water guns, dolphins, mermaid outfits, toys and waterproof art. Anything flowing. Bring enough to share – including you, as you are mostly water anyway. FLOURO DECORATIONS BY KURA Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 15 – Friday *This will be a large,high energy loft party: Private Party: Tribeca Trance Mission: Lord of the Trance at Wylie’s sweet new renovated penthouse through late Saturday morning TBA on Safetydance. Afterparty at the dmtski house. This Williamsburg one looks a but more chill: Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X at 107 N.6th in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance music…9pm-4am…party…DOOR: $6.00 Feb 16-17 Sat/Sun- dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm &am 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami TBA Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2255 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:13:41 Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:13:41 Worth 3,750 times its weight in gold “The other day I was thinking about the price of gold as compared to the price of an equivalent weight of ds. Here’s what I have so far. Gold is about $300/oz or $11/g. First a common d, beer. Beer retails at about $0.07/oz. Beer’s cheap, life’s short, drink hard. Marijuana, an unrefined plant that grows damn near anywhere, retails for about $200/oz for bad weed or $480/oz for really good weed. So pot is pretty much worth its weight in gold. Some tin foil, a lamp and abracadabra! you have a small gold mine in your basement. Psilocybin Fungi retail for as much as marijuana, but the wholesale is astronomically low at the price of a walk amid cows on a damp morning. When you think cow pies, think “gold seeds”. Cocaine retails for about $2240/oz. Wholesale is closer to gold’s price per ounce. mthamphetamine and K have similar price structures although wholesale for each is less making each more profitable to retail. Ecstasy (E) retails for about $5600/oz and wholesales for about $1120/oz at the phatty-boom-batty dealer level. Heroin wholesales in Pakistan for about $140/oz. By the time it gets here to the good ol’ USA it’s priced to its consumer’s at $14,000/oz. l retails for (take a deep breath) $1.1 million/oz. That makes l 3750 times more valuable than gold. Picture 311 lbs of gold and that’s how much enough l to fit in the palm of your hand is worth. At wholesale values l is $28,000/oz, still almost a hundred times more valuable than gold. The classic hallucinogen takes the prize as the single most profitable d in existence. The moral of this FYI is that if you want to get rich quick (and don’t mind the idea of being a serial horse rapist’s girlfriend for 20 to life), the federal government has been kind enough to enforce price supports on various substances so that you can do so, tax-free*. Be sure to send them a ‘thank you’ note. *Line 26 of your 1040 is for illegally obtained income” Thanks, Lojikbom!Gold is about $300/oz or $11/g. First a common d, beer. Beer retails at about $0.07/oz. Beer’s cheap, life’s short, drink hard. Marijuana, an unrefined plant that grows damn near anywhere, retails for about $200/oz for bad weed or $480/oz for really good weed. So pot is pretty much worth its weight in gold. Some tin foil, a lamp and abracadabra! you have a small gold mine in your basement. Psilocybin Fungi retail for as much as marijuana, but the wholesale is astronomically low at the price of a walk amid cows on a damp morning. When you think cow pies, think “gold seeds”. Cocaine retails for about $2240/oz. Wholesale is closer to gold’s price per ounce. mthamphetamine and K have similar price structures although wholesale for each is less making each more profitable to retail. Ecstasy (E) retails for about $5600/oz and wholesales for about $1120/oz at the phatty-boom-batty dealer level. Heroin wholesales in Pakistan for about $140/oz. By the time it gets here to the good ol’ USA it’s priced to its consumer’s at $14,000/oz. l retails for (take a deep breath) $1.1 million/oz. That makes l 3750 times more valuable than gold. Picture 311 lbs of gold and that’s how much enough l to fit in the palm of your hand is worth. At wholesale values l is $28,000/oz, still almost a hundred times more valuable than gold. The classic hallucinogen takes the prize as the single most profitable d in existence. The moral of this FYI is that if you want to get rich quick (and don’t mind the idea of being a serial horse rapist’s girlfriend for 20 to life), the federal government has been kind enough to enforce price supports on various substances so that you can do so, tax-free*. Be sure to send them a ‘thank you’ note. *Line 26 of your 1040 is for illegally obtained income”

#2256 Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:26:43 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Helloooooooo!! Quick for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come every week to enjoy the trance music in this nice bar. CHECK our web. site for special guests every week web chiletrance Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Love and Light Angeles

#2257 Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:07:38 Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:07:37 Trance Dance Party at Pyramid Wednesday Dancing is permitted here – the only legal weekly trance dance night in NYC… everything else is just a bar/lounge “Gretting all!! Where back!!!!can you please post my party on your maling FREE b4 11pm 5$ after FLOURO DECORATIONS BY KURA DJ”S wenesday February 13 come and enjoy a night of music and self expression in a night of dreams!FREE b4 11pm 5$ after FLOURO DECORATIONS BY KURA wenesday February 13 come and enjoy a night of music and self expression in a night of dreams!

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#2259 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:29:51 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:29:51 Fwd: Brazillian psy-trance Massive Mar 28-30

#2260 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 03:22:34 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 03:22:23 Pyramid Psy-Trance Wednesdays Review In a message dated 2/13/02 1:08:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, writes: Dancing is permitted here – the only legal weekly trance dance night in NYC… everything else is just a bar/lounge “Gretting all!! Where back!!!!can you please post my party on your maling FREE b4 11pm 5$ after FLOURO DECORATIONS BY KURA DJ”S wenesday February 13 come and enjoy a night of music and self expression in a night of dreams! I passed by this and met some really cool people, and interesting japanneeese trancers. had a good time, and wished they had more of a turnout………although had to be one of the coldest nights in the city all winter……. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb, fridgid…….. anyways strognly recommend this new weekly, the pyramid, is an excelllent spot for dancing and has a sick sick,m turbo sound soundsytem……. peace.charlie,. FoodStampz Al:i web virusrenegade.8k LIVING ON THE EDGE!!!!!! virusPanikLine: (718) 404-3906 x6665FREE b4 11pm 5$ after FLOURO DECORATIONS BY KURA wenesday February 13 come and enjoy a night of music and self expression in a night of dreams! I passed by this and met some really cool people, and interesting japanneeese trancers. had a good time, and wished they had more of a turnout………although had to be one of the coldest nights in the city all winter……. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb, fridgid…….. anyways strognly recommend this new weekly, the pyramid, is an excelllent spot for dancing and has a sick sick,m turbo sound soundsytem……. peace.charlie,. Al:i web virusrenegade.8k LIVING ON THE EDGE!!!!!!

#2261 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:08:08 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:08:07 Pschedule: Hux Flux/Anti, Alex Grey Pschedule Trance News – Sweden’s Hux Flux live and DJ Anti at the next Tsunami in March (we’ll SEE if they sound as good as when they did at Spectra at the Key); another Alex Grey benefit in April; lineup for Lord of the Trance this Friday; and Ben & Jamie will be having another successful party some time. Feb 15 – Friday *This will be a large,high energy private loft party that will go until the wee hours of the morning. If it is anything like the successful New Years party, it is a do-not-miss. Tribeca Trance Mission: Lord of the Trance at Wylie’s sweet newly renovated penthouse through late Saturday morning TBA on Safetydance. DJs Amnesium, Akin, Machinelf, Chico, Icy Coil, Soch. Afterparty thru Monday at the dmtski house – it’s President’s Day Weekend!! There is a another party at a lounge in Williamsburg. If you’re in a mood to chill, check it out: Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X at 107 N.6th in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance music…9pm-4am…party…DOOR: $6.00 Feb 16-18 Sat/Sun/Mon- dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami – Sweden’s Hux Flux live and DJ Anti Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – LAST dmtski SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Los Angeles web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il KParis # Rate the organizers: Ratings results from poll of list members at NYC and International DJ listings and information at web tranceam.org/djs *This will be a large,high energy private loft party that will go until the wee hours of the morning. If it is anything like the successful New Years party, it is a do-not-miss. Tribeca Trance Mission: Lord of the Trance at Wylie’s sweet newly renovated penthouse through late Saturday morning TBA on Safetydance. DJs Amnesium, Akin, Machinelf, Chico, Icy Coil, Soch. Afterparty thru Monday at the dmtski house – it’s President’s Day Weekend!! There is a another party at a lounge in Williamsburg. If you’re in a mood to chill, check it out: Boundless TranceFunkyness….Level X at 107 N.6th in BKLYN Williamsburg; DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.; Lounge Funky Trance music…9pm-4am…party…DOOR: $6.00 Feb 16-18 Sat/Sun/Mon- dmtski!! Feb 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 20 – Wed – Opium Den 2nd ave b/w 2nd & 3rd Feb 22/Feb 23 – Fri- dmtski!! *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medecine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm &am 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – Tsunami – Sweden’s Hux Flux live and DJ Anti Mar 2 – Sat – dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Los Angeles

#2262 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:39:17 Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:39:17 A new inititiate in trance Why am I sending this? He put a lot of effort into writing it. Sent w/permission. i talked to a friend that went to the birthday party last friday, and he said it was off the hook, he’s the person that introduced me to psy trance via koxbox, he was raving about some edrum pads / tribal peoples, he said it was a killer party and the vibe was amazing ect !:) i’ve known about the d since the Gwashington bridge parties, but for some reason never signed on,, then lost contact,, and now im seeking people who are on the same spiritual path(?) as me… i’ve experienced the religious awakening at my first open air event (wemf) after dancing for almost 15 hours the veil was lifted and i was walking through higher planes of consciousness. my first psy trance event however was the raja ram / logic bomb party at the roxy!!! the vibe of that party was unbelievable. i think i would have had a much better time at the roxy if had been mentally prepared (for the music), but i had no idea on how i was supposed to comprehend the music and was catapulted into sensory overLoad. i didnt get ‘it’ until the wemf. and boy did i! the first night i danced until my legs gave out midnight – 9am, i have never experience pain like that, it felt like i had hyper extended both my legs (back) and i was stuck in a half bend over position. i couldnt move! (i always do my stretches now), but some of the djs saw me and just smiled. the next night started at around 5pm w/ brainwerkz from ottawa and went until about 11am! thankfully i had regained my composure and was able to throw down yet again. lori’s set was slammin’ in the early morning. this was about the time the veil was lifted and the fires in my soul erupted… i was talking to this greek guy at the roxy the week before, and he was explaining to me how these parties were like a religion to some people and i just looked at him like, what?!? (i come from a middle class christian family so) but now these parties ARE like a religion to me. this music has sparked my very being, (you know, i cant put words to it), but i feel it. it makes me want to learn (i havent had time to read all the books on my bookshelf, but i have read some, one of my all time favorite books is the illuminati trilogy, im also exploring my dreams… i have a huge library some 150 books from various authors, c.g. jung, wilson, H.P. Blavatsky, aleister crowley, p.d.ouspensky, gurdjieff, rudolf steiner, janet and stewart farrar, books on dreams, wicca, the occult…. i was actually working at a thrift store 2 summers ago, and while i was working someone dropped off 4 boxs of these books, right about the same time i was finishing the illuminati triology… jackpot! im not that knowledgeable (yet) being that im a full time slave in college. im still a fledgling walking on the path. (the ‘correct’ path was shown to me recently in a dream, and that is why im seeking like minded people out). my mind has opened into a infinite learning circle, and i just cant wait to B w/ others that have like fires burning in their souls. i’ve done extensive research in hallucinogens, but i feel that it’s time to incorporate some kind of meditation / spirituality into my life (?? im still new to spirituality and i’ve had no formal training in meditation, but am going to a zen workshop at the zen center in rochester ny in a couple of weeks) this music was opened the gate to everything i have been longing for. 🙂 i’d love to meet and talk at SS.. well here’s a picture you can use to help identify B (my name is Brian Friedman, but my friends call me B… Brain Bri now it’s just B) my hair is unfortunately not in the samurai style anymore (i miss it!), im this big 6’4″ white kid, and i’ll B running circles around everyone at the amazura! i cut my hair that way not because i was a Kristina or anything but because i had my integrity put to the test (which was more like a psychotic experience). i was at a disco biscuits show (the wetlands), and an unfriendly was making his presence known. i was in an extremely susceptible position (i had recently eaten half a vile), and i realized that there was nothing stopping me from crushing this unfriendly. i am NOT a violent person (as in i avoid conflict at all costs), and these thoughts really scared me, fortunately i am FULLY trained in handling my mental condition and was able to hold myself back. the altercation pumped enormous amounts of adrenaline through my body. the way i see it, it was just a test, and i did the right thing by controlling my primal urges to kick that kids ass. i re-channeled all the adrenaline / energy into my dance for the evening and i had a GREAT time. at the time i thought that there would have not been that many people capable of handling themselves in my situation. somehow i made the connection to being Like a samurai by having similar mental conditioning. i was twisted to say the least… so i cut my hair to reflect that evening. now it’s just short and i wear a charlot hornet’s (it’s really a bee) baseball hat 24-7. the burning elf organizer is lollygoa at aol they do the best events. ps i saw some peeps with your brainmachines at the dec.1st party?!? shows events i’ve been to thus far: raja roxy may 25 2001 world electronic music festival 2001 sept.28th d.drum party oct.27th deedrah / space cat / SPACE TRIBE!!! synthetic party!!!! nov.21st bunk infected party dec.1st raja / hallucinogen / promtheus / total eclipse (oh yeah) dec.31st koxbox / sun project jan.19th infected mushroom (musically one of the best shows i’ve seen) and now i just cant WAIT to return to the source!!! namaste Bi talked to a friend that went to the birthday party last friday, and he said it was off the hook, he’s the person that introduced me to psy trance via koxbox, he was raving about some edrum pads / tribal peoples, he said it was a killer party and the vibe was amazing ect !:) i’ve known about the d since the Gwashington bridge parties, but for some reason never signed on,, then lost contact,, and now im seeking people who are on the same spiritual path(?) as me… i’ve experienced the religious awakening at my first open air event (wemf) after dancing for almost 15 hours the veil was lifted and i was walking through higher planes of consciousness. my first psy trance event however was the raja ram / logic bomb party at the roxy!!! the vibe of that party was unbelievable. i think i would have had a much better time at the roxy if had been mentally prepared (for the music), but i had no idea on how i was supposed to comprehend the music and was catapulted into sensory overLoad. i didnt get ‘it’ until the wemf. and boy did i! the first night i danced until my legs gave out midnight – 9am, i have never experience pain like that, it felt like i had hyper extended both my legs (back) and i was stuck in a half bend over position. i couldnt move! (i always do my stretches now), but some of the djs saw me and just smiled. the next night started at around 5pm w/ brainwerkz from ottawa and went until about 11am! thankfully i had regained my composure and was able to throw down yet again. lori’s set was slammin’ in the early morning. this was about the time the veil was lifted and the fires in my soul erupted… i was talking to this greek guy at the roxy the week before, and he was explaining to me how these parties were like a religion to some people and i just looked at him like, what?!? (i come from a middle class christian family so) but now these parties ARE like a religion to me. this music has sparked my very being, (you know, i cant put words to it), but i feel it. it makes me want to learn (i havent had time to read all the books on my bookshelf, but i have read some, one of my all time favorite books is the illuminati trilogy, im also exploring my dreams… i have a huge library some 150 books from various authors, c.g. jung, wilson, H.P. Blavatsky, aleister crowley, p.d.ouspensky, gurdjieff, rudolf steiner, janet and stewart farrar, books on dreams, wicca, the occult…. i was actually working at a thrift store 2 summers ago, and while i was working someone dropped off 4 boxs of these books, right about the same time i was finishing the illuminati triology… jackpot! im not that knowledgeable (yet) being that im a full time slave in college. im still a fledgling walking on the path. (the ‘correct’ path was shown to me recently in a dream, and that is why im seeking like minded people out). my mind has opened into a infinite learning circle, and i just cant wait to B w/ others that have like fires burning in their souls. i’ve done extensive research in hallucinogens, but i feel that it’s time to incorporate some kind of meditation / spirituality into my life (?? im still new to spirituality and i’ve had no formal training in meditation, but am going to a zen workshop at the zen center in rochester ny in a couple of weeks) this music was opened the gate to everything i have been longing for. 🙂 i’d love to meet and talk at SS.. well here’s a picture you can use to help identify B (my name is Brian Friedman, but my friends call me B… Brain Bri now it’s just B) my hair is unfortunately not in the samurai style anymore (i miss it!), im this big 6’4″ white kid, and i’ll B running circles around everyone at the amazura! i cut my hair that way not because i was a Kristina or anything but because i had my integrity put to the test (which was more like a psychotic experience). i was at a disco biscuits show (the wetlands), and an unfriendly was making his presence known. i was in an extremely susceptible position (i had recently eaten half a vile), and i realized that there was nothing stopping me from crushing this unfriendly. i am NOT a violent person (as in i avoid conflict at all costs), and these thoughts really scared me, fortunately i am FULLY trained in handling my mental condition and was able to hold myself back. the altercation pumped enormous amounts of adrenaline through my body. the way i see it, it was just a test, and i did the right thing by controlling my primal urges to kick that kids ass. i re-channeled all the adrenaline / energy into my dance for the evening and i had a GREAT time. at the time i thought that there would have not been that many people capable of handling themselves in my situation. somehow i made the connection to being Like a samurai by having similar mental conditioning. i was twisted to say the least… so i cut my hair to reflect that evening. now it’s just short and i wear a charlot hornet’s (it’s really a bee) baseball hat 24-7. the burning elf organizer is lollygoa at aol they do the best events. ps i saw some peeps with your brainmachines at the dec.1st party?!? shows events i’ve been to thus far: raja roxy may 25 2001 world electronic music festival 2001 sept.28th d.drum party oct.27th deedrah / space cat / SPACE TRIBE!!! synthetic party!!!! nov.21st bunk infected party dec.1st raja / hallucinogen / promtheus / total eclipse (oh yeah) dec.31st koxbox / sun project jan.19th infected mushroom (musically one of the best shows i’ve seen) and now i just cant WAIT to return to the source!!! namaste

#2263 Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:45:25 Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:45:25 Odissi Dance at Yoga Center A portion of the proceeds go to Project CHILD in Mumbai, India. $25 dj ch eb i sabbah &1002 Nights and Shakti Productions present “SANGAM” An Evening at the Kumbha Mela March 2, 2002 Jivamukti Yoga Center 404 Lafayette St., New York 7:00PM 212 353 0214 Jivamukti Yoga Center at web jiva muktiyoga/fms/index. Shakti Productions at web shaktipro ductions/ dj cheb i sabbah at chebisabbah/ The Maha Kumbha Mela, a spiritual fair held every twelve years in Allahabhad, India was held in January- February 2001: it was the largest gathering of peopl e recorded in human history. Tens of millions of pilgrims journeyed for a sacred dip at the Sangam or confluence of three Holy Rivers: the Ganga, Jamuna, and mythical Saraswati River. This Maha Kumbha Mela was particular ly auspicious and took place at a unique astrological alignmeone that o ccurs only once every 144 years. To honor this sacred event, dj Cheb i Sabb ah/1002 nights and Shakti Productions present: Sangam: An Evening at the Kumbha Mela.. Just as Sangam means confluence, the event will feature th ree distinct artistic and spiritual presentations, all in praise of the Div ine. The evening will commence with a short puja or prayer ceremony to Lor d Shiva and screening of the documentary, Nagas of the Kumbha Mela. An Ind ian Classical dance performance will follow with Odissi dancer Sarba Das. Sangam will culminate with music spun by outernational sound architect and legendary dj Cheb I Sabbah, (creator of the groundbreaking album Shri Durga and soon to be released Krishna Lila both on Six Degrees Records). A port ion of all proceeds will be donated to Project CHILD (Children of HIV Posit ive Individuals Living in Dignity), a 30-bed residential day care center f or the children of HIV/AIDS affected persons in Mumbai, India. Nagas of th e Kumbha Mela a documentary film Watching the remarkable footage in this film brought back to me the overwhelming experience of attending the Maha Kumbha Mela this winter. The Naga Babas uniquely express the religious ferv or of Hinduism, and their coming together at this great event is here portr ayed true to life. It is hard to put this film out of mind.C3A2E282AC 9D -Andrew Weil, M.D. on Nagas of the Kumbha Mela Nagas of the Kumbh a Mela documents the Naga, India’s most revered yogis and ascetics at the 2 001 Kumbha Mela in India. From January 9th till Shiva’s Birthday (Maha Siv a Ratri) February 16th, 50 to 70 million people pilgrammaged to the sangam or confluence of three Holy Rivers in Allahabhad in Northern Indiait was the largest recorded gathering in human history. Nagas of the Kumbha Mela is a singular spiritual odyssey, a living record of an ancient lineage of yoga, practiced for over 3000 years. The film was made during a month long stay in the Juna Akhara Camp of Sri Lalit Narayan Giri. With the blessin gs of Sri Lalit Narayangiri, my mentor, Maharaj Vijaygiri, and Maharaj Ram Giri, all Naga Babas of the Juna Akhara. I had the privilege to live in J una Akhara during the Mela. When asked (more than once) by the Nagas thems elves what our intention was in filming, we assured them this film was bein g made to explain somthing of their dharma. We hope we have fulfilled our promise. Directors: Sarthak Das and Sarba Das Producers: Sarthak Das and Sarba Das Format: (DV) Available on DVD and VHS. To be screened in Digita l Video Sarba Das, Odissi Dancer Sarba Das began studying Odissi at the te nder age of seven. Odissi is an Indian Classical Dance Form from the easte rn state of Orissa, India. This 2000 year-old temple dance originated as a divine offering in the famous shrines at Puri and Konark. In 1984, Sarba traveled to Orissa and began instruction with Sri Raghunath Dutta. In 1985 she joined the Chitralekha Dance Academy in Toronto under the supervision of Chitralekha Patnaik. In 1989, Sarba began intensive training with Guru Sri Gangadhar Pradhan, founder and principal of Orissa Dance Academy. Sinthen, she has traveled and performed extensively with her Guru and as a solo artist in such venues as The Lincoln Center (NYC), The Garden State Ar ts Center (NJ) and Harvard University. She has also trained under the lege ndary Gurus Padmavibhusan Kelucharan Mohapatra and Sri Pankaj Charan Das. Sarba has served as an instructor at Chitralekha Dance Academy, Odissi Danc e Circle (Los Angeles) and Lotus Fine Arts (NYC). The program will include brief oral explanations of the dances to be performed followed by the danc es themselves. The repertoire of Odissi Dance will include a brief introdu ction to Odissi followed by: MANGALACHARAN (Invocation Dance) Mangalachar an is an invocation dance where the dancer asks for blessings from The Moth er Earth, The Guru, and the audience. DASAVATAR (10 Incarnations of Lord V ishnu). Dasavatar is an abhinaya or expressional dance which depicts the st ory of Lord Vishnu who took ten different incarnations to redeem the world from evil. He took the form of a fish, tortoise, wild boar, half-man half lion, a dwarf, a warrior, Rama, a tiller, Buddha, and Kalki, the ultimate d estroyer who is yet to manifest. The duration of the entire Odissi program will not exceed 25 minutes. s go to Project CHILD in Mumbai, India. $25 dj cheb i sabbah &1002 Nights and Shakti Productions present “SANGAM” An Eve ning at the Kumbha Mela March 2, 2002 Jivamukti Yoga Center B R404 Lafayette St., New York 7:00PM 212 353 0214 Jivamukt i Yoga Center at web jivamuktiyoga/fm s/index. Shakti Productions at   ;web shaktiproductions/ dj cheb i sabbah at & nbschebisabbah/ The Maha Kumbha Mela a spiritual fair held every twelve years in Allahabhad, India, was h eld in January- February 2001: it was the largest gathering of peop le recorded in human history. Tens of millions of pilgrims journeyed for a sacred dip at the Sangam or confluence of three H oly Rivers: the Ganga, Jamuna, and mythical Saraswati River. This Maha Kumbha Mela was particularly auspicious and took place at a unique astrological alignmeone that occurs only once every 144 years. To honor this sacred event, dj Cheb i Sabbah/1002 nights and Shakti P roductions present: Sangam: An Evening at the Kumbha Mela.. Just as Sangam means confluence, the event will feature three distinct artistic and spiritual presentations, all in praise of the Divine. The evening will commence with a short puja or pra yer ceremony to Lord Shiva and screening of the documentary, Nagas of t he Kumbha Mela. An Indian Classical dance performance will follow with Odissi dancer Sarba Das. Sangam will culminate with music spun by outernational sound architect and legendary dj Cheb I Sabbah (creator of the groundbreaking album Shri Durga and soon to be releas ed Krishna Lila both on Six Degrees Records). A portion of all proceeds will be donated to Project CHILD (Children of HIV Positive In dividuals Living in Dignity), a 30-bed residential day care center for the children of HIV/AIDS affected persons in Mumbai, India. Nagas of the Kumbha Mela a documentary film Watching the r emarkable footage in this film brought back to me the overwhelming exp erience of attending the Maha Kumbha Mela this winter. The Naga Bab as uniquely express the religious fervor of Hinduism, and their coming together at this great event is here portrayed true to life. It i s hard to put this film out of mind.C3A2E282AC9D -And rew Weil, M.D. on Nagas of the Kumbha Mela Nagas of the Kumb ha Mela documents the Naga, India’s most revered yogis and ascetics at the 2001 Kumbha Mela in India. From January 9th till Shiva’s Birthday (Maha Siva Ratri) February 16th, 50 to 70 million people pilgr ammaged to the sangam or confluence of three Holy Rivers in Allahabhad in Northern Indiait was the largest recorded gathering in human h istory. Nagas of the Kumbha Mela is a singular spiritual odyssey, a living record of an ancient lineage of yoga, practiced for over 300 0 years. The film was made during a month long stay in the Juna Akhara Camp of Sri Lalit Narayan Giri. With the blessings of Sri Lalit Narayangiri, my mentor, Maharaj Vijaygiri, and Mahar aj Ram Giri, all Naga Babas of the Juna Akhara. I had the privile ge to live in Juna Akhara during the Mela. When asked (more t han once) by the Nagas themselves what our intention was in filming, we assured them this film was being made to explain somthing of their dh arma. We hope we have fulfilled our promise. Directors: Sarthak Das and Sarba Das Producers: Sarthak Das and Sarba Das Form at: (DV) Available on DVD and VHS. To be screened in Digital Vid eo Sarba Das, Odissi Dancer Sarba Das began studying Odissi at the tender age of seven. Odissi is an Indian Classical Dance For m from the eastern state of Orissa, India. This 2000 year-old temple dance originated as a divine offering in the famous shrines at Puri and Konark. In 1984, Sarba traveled to Orissa and began inst ruction with Sri Raghunath Dutta. In 1985, she joined the Chi tralekha Dance Academy in Toronto under the supervision of Chitralekha Patnaik. In 1989, Sarba began intensive training with Guru Sri Ga ngadhar Pradhan, founder and principal of Orissa Dance Academy. &nb sp;Since then, she has traveled and performed extensively with her Guru and as a solo artist in such venues as The Lincoln Center (NYC), The Garden State Arts Center (NJ) and Harvard University. She has also trained under the legendary Gurus Padmavibhusan Kelucharan Mohapat ra and Sri Pankaj Charan Das. Sarba has served as an instructor at Chitralekha Dance Academy, Odissi Dance Circle (Los Angeles) and Lotus Fine Arts (NYC). The program will include brief oral explana tions of the dances to be performed followed by the dances themselv es. The repertoire of Odissi Dance will include a brief introd uction to Odissi followed by: MANGALACHARAN (Invocation Dance) B RMangalacharan is an invocation dance where the dancer asks for blessi ngs from The Mother Earth, The Guru, and the audience. DASAVAT AR (10 Incarnations of Lord Vishnu). Dasavatar is an abhinaya or expres sional dance which depicts the story of Lord Vishnu who took ten di fferent incarnations to redeem the world from evil. He took the f orm of a fish, tortoise, wild boar, half-man half lion, a dwarf, a warr ior, Rama, a tiller, Buddha, and Kalki, the ultimate destroyer who is yet to manifest. The duration of the entire Odissi program will not exceed 25 minutes.

#2264 Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:38:42 -0800 Tonight at Level X…. From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo REMEMBER tonight at Williamsburg, check web chiletrance for details. EvolutionBox presents: Boundless TranceFunkyness… Friday February 15th…9pm… Venue: Level X – 107 N. 6th Street (Between Berry & White), Williamsburg BKLYN (718) 302-3313 Door Cover: $6.00 …DJ Angeles, DJ Jaiman, DJ Shai K.I.D.,Dj Isam… Love and Light Angeles mail.yahoo

#2265 Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:05:48 Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:05:47 Before Wylie’s party tonight – in same ‘hood NY Rainbow’s Potluck Dead of Winter Party/Freedom Benefit Friday, February 15, 2002 doors open 7 p.m. at 56 Walker Street New York City (between Broadway and Church St, 2 blocks south of Canal St.) Our ANNUAL DEAD OF WINTER PARTY this year will also be a Benefit and Tribute to our Sister on the eve of her incarceration for Forest Service Permit Violations. Please attend and support your Rights of Peaceful Assembly and Expression! This is a Potluck Event so bring good food to eat. There will be Live Music! Bring a Drum! Come with Family & Friends & Good Feelings. Welcome Home!! NY Rainbow P.O. Box 1554 New York, NY 10009 Lightline: 212-560-7111 “64.177.128.120/64.177.128.120 NYRainbowFamily at aol WE LOVE YOU! ‘When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow.’ Old Native American ProphecyDead of Winter Party/Freedom Benefit Friday, February 15, 2002 doors open 7 p.m. at 56 Walker Street New York City (between Broadway and Church St, 2 blocks south of Canal St.) Please attend and support your Rights of Peaceful Assembly and Expression! This is a Potluck Event so bring good food to eat. There will be Live Music! Bring a Drum! Come with Family & Friends & Good Feelings. NY Rainbow/B P.O. Box 1554 New York, NY 10009 a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again.

#2268 Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:44:04 Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:44:04 21:12, 12/21, 2112 To: zulanation at earthlink.net actually it does happen again and the next time will be on a day that might intrigue you: /MCKENNA day that might intrigue you: /MCKENNA

#2269 Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:43:49 -0800 Tue, 19 Feb 2002 19:43:48 To: dragontribe, brainmachines Bcc: Freaky Tuesdays Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:43:48 From: “anthony citro” freebeer4kids at hotmail Hello, Just reminding everyone to come out to Freaky Tuesdays, at Who’s On First, on 1st ave between 87th & 88th. Free to get in! 2 for 1 drink special. with DJs: Amnesium Manic Mekator Icy Coil + special guests. Open dj spots for anyone who wants to play! 10pm-3am, 21+ ID a must. see you all there, -Tony. Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. web hotmail

#2270 Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:34:12 Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:34:11 Update on Carnival of Mind+Body+Spirit The organizers insist the Lunatarium is far from being done: Kaya-Ananda (Carnival of Mind, Body and Spirit) kaya::ananda a carnival of mind+body+spirit, or body bliss, in Sanskrit Sunday March 17, 2002 2pm-12 midnight Here is how the event is shaping up. Below are ideas thrown out at the last meeting. Also, anyone you know who would be interested in ontributing, send them to web lunatarium/kaya/proposal.pdf Thanks again for all your pledges to help and i’ll cya there. peace carlos the lunatarium 10 jay street dumbo :: brooklyn :: nyc 646.325.7556 web lunatarium lunacy at carlosgranda web carlosgrandaHopeful Components of Event: Workshops Massage circle Yoga instructions Lectures Fire Spinning Vocalists and Group Chanting Dance Interactive Performance Art Visual art Belly dance Live Artist Auditory and olfactory experiments Drum circles Sufi whirling Bodywork sessions Complementary Medicine Information Booths Juicebar Vegetarian Feast The centerpiece of the evening will be an interactive performance uniting the five elemental energies of the universe – Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Ether – and body’s chakras, the spiritual energy centers that correspond to each element. The goal of the program is to educate the participants about these forces as we try our hardest to activate and invoke them. The Elements will be used as the visual layout of the space. Some ideas that we have had are the following: Air area… 1. Balloons 2. Bubble Machine 3. Fan 4. Trapeze artists 5. Jugglers 6. Moon Bounce 7. Trampoline Earth area… 1. Drumming 2. Sand and Rocks 3. Piles of dirt 4. Contact dancing 5. Clay Water area… 1. Walls of Water 2. Entrance of Mist 3. “Liquid” dancers 4. Kiddy pool Fire area… 1. Fire Spinners- 1337 Collective 2. Fire Circle 3. Confrontational dance Ether area… 1. Designs that give a sense of space. 2. Meditation Chamber 3. Sufi Whirling These are only some ideas, we can use many more. We wil be having a “brainstorming” session at the space this Sunday February 17th at 8pm. To make this event a reality, we need your help, such as: Teachers: Yoga, Chakra, Meditation, Dance, Complementary Medicine (this is a good place to share with a large audience the myriad modes of healing, theories, etc.) Performers Musicians Dancers Creaters Vocalist Bodyworkers (w/ tables) If you know of anyone else who would be interested in helping, please forward them this message or bring them to the meeting, or give them my phone number: Laya 917.207.2660 The Space: Lunatarium – 10 Jay Street. check out the space at Lunatarium 9th floor. Take elevator to 8th floor (or any floor whose elevator button lights up when pressed). Make a left out the elevator and go up the stairs to the top floor. F Train to York (easiest route) First stop in Brooklyn Right on Jay. Last building before the water. A,C to High Street (a longer walk, about 11 minutes) First stop in Brooklyn Exit station from exit closest to the front of train (from Manhattan) From Brooklyn- exit closest to the end of train. Cross Cadmen Plaza East (it has an island dividing traffic) Cross through the mini-park (Cadman Plaza). Make a Left once you exit the park (Washington Street) under the BQE. Make a Right on Front Street Make a Left on Jay. Last building before the water 2,3 to Clark Street (longest walk, about 13.5 minutes) First stop in Brooklyn Only one staircase, two exits on ground floor, go to Henry St. exit Make a Left on Henry Street. On the right side of the street, after 2 blocks, you will ee “courtyard” of one-story housing complex Make a right through the courtyard, and you will be at the High Street Train Station Entrance (see above) the lunatarium 10 jay street dumbo :: brooklyn :: nyc 646.325.7556 web lunatarium lunacy at carlosgranda web carlosgranda

#2271 Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:30:14 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy with us every week in this nice bar………. Crazy weather, right???….. PLEASE check web chiletrance for our special guests. dj Angeles (Chiletrance-6th Element) Love and Light Angeles

#2272 Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:28:12 Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:28:12 k-komics Cc: k-os web unitedmedia/comics/hedge/archive/hedge-20020217

#2273 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:54:06 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:54:06 Support the Republicans and GW Bush web whitehouse.org/news/2002/021502.asp why thanks phil, in this time of crisis we should do all we can!

#2275 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:30:05 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:30:05 Pschedule Psychomimetic Psy-Trance Pschedule Trance News – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Also, Wylie was told by one of the organizers that the Level X party wasn’t rea;lly a trance party so that’s why there were two events on the same night. Feb 22/Feb 24 – Fri- dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medicine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 or 2 – Fri/Sat – Tsunami – Sweden’s Hux Flux live and DJ Anti plus d Ski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – FINAL dmtski Weekend of 2002!! dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Los Angeles New York web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il KParissponsored by EarthDance Org… Also, Wylie was told by one of the organizers that the Level X party wasn’t rea;lly a trance party so that’s why there were two events on the same night. *Feb 23 – Sat – Synthetic Sadhus Oforia, Slinky Wizard, Medicine Drum, Gus Till, Ofer Dilovsky, Kalyx at the Amazura 212-533-6700 Feb 25 – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume) Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is the bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm &am 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 or 2 – Fri/Sat – Tsunami – Sweden’s Hux Flux live and DJ Anti plus dmtski Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

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#2277 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:33:24 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:33:23 Help us put an anti d war ad in USA Today Dear Libertarian: Would you like to spit in the eye of America’s biggest d Warrior? Would you like to prove to millions of Americans that the latest government d War propaganda isn’t just wrong it STINKS like a rotting fish? Would you like to garner nationwide publicity for the Libertarian Party? Perhaps even get us on the nightly news? We have an opportunity to do all that. But only if we raise $69,800 by Friday. That’s a lot of money, but the potential pay-off is huge. When you hear our bold plan and SEE what we propose I think you’ll agree. In fact, I think you’ll laugh out loud with delight. First, some background. The Office of National d Control Policy (ONDCP) has launched a new advertising campaign that attempts to link ds with terrorism. The campaign got underway with two TV ads during the Super Bowl. The cost to taxpayers: $3.4 million! One of the ads, which pretended to show terrorists buying weapons, asked: “Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy ds, some of it might come from you.” In the other ad, young people made matter-of-fact statements like, “I helped kill a judge.” The ads were so outrageous that we issued a press release calling them “Super Bowloney.” We noted: “For the Office of National d Control Policy to claim that d users are to blame for financing terrorists is like a maniac who kills his parents, and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.” We said: “The fact is, the War on ds CAUSES the very problem these ads complain about. It turns ordinary, cheap plants like marijuana and poppies into fantastically lucrative black market products. The War on ds enriches terrorists, finances violence, and makes America less safe.” Unfortunately, ONDCP bureaucrats don’t read our press releases. Or just don’t care about the truth. Last week, they rolled out the print version of the campaign, with full-page ads in 293 newspapers around the USA. One ad shows a young woman’s face. The text reads: “Last week, I washed my car, hung out with a few friends, and helped murder a family in Colombia.” The bottom of the ad says: “d money helps support terror. Buy ds and you could be supporting it too.” Unbelievable! The ad ignores the fact that the War on ds and the black markets it spawns drives up the price of illegal ds by as much as 17,000% (according to the Hoover Institution). Without the War on ds, there would be no link between ds and terrorism, and the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations would sputter to a halt. (At the end of this message, I’ll give you a link to the ONDCP ads, and you can see them for yourself. I don’t want you to think we’re exaggerating.) The ONDCP’s strategy is clear: It’s trying to take the September 11- inspired hatred of terrorists, and use it to bolster the failing War on ds. And, by implication, it’s suggesting that if you oppose the War on ds, you help terrorists. Well, we hate terrorists, too. In fact, we hate them so much we’d like to squeeze their funding down to almost ZERO. We’d like to see the $40 million the U.S. government says the Taliban raised from heroin dwindle down to a FEW PENNIES. We’d like to see the $300 million that Colombian rebels raised from cocaine shrink down to a HANDFUL OF PESOS. Can you imagine how destitute terrorists would be if marijuana sold for the same price as lettuce? If poppies were worth the same as tulips? And if cocaine-producing coca plants were no more valuable than Brussels sprouts? If the War on ds did not artificially inflate their prices by 17,000%, that’s exactly what would happen. And many terrorists would be penniless. We Libertarians understand that. We know the War on ds gives terrorists the money they use to kill Americans. But how do we get that message across? How do we reach the American people when those full-page ONDCP ads are spreading lies and distortions? Then we had a brainstorm: We’ll create our OWN ad. And that’s what we did. At first glance, it looks just like the ONDCP ad. But in OUR ad, the face of d Czar John Walters is staring out. And OUR text says… “This week, I had lunch with the President, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal d money to groups like the Taliban.” Bang. We take the d Warriors’ ad and throw it right back in their faces. At the bottom, our ad says: “The War on ds boosts the price of illegal ds by as much as 17,000% funneling huge profits to terrorist organizations. If you support the War on ds or vote for the politicians who wage it, you’re helping support terrorism.” We give a website address for more information. Can you imagine John Walters’ reaction when he sees our ad? Can you imagine the squawks of outrage from the d Warriors? The ad is ready to go. At the end of this message, I’ll give you a link so you can see it for yourself. We want to run it in two newspapers: USA Today and the Washington Times. USA Today reaches 2.1 million people. It’s the nation’s most widely read newspaper. The Washington Times has a circulation of only 105,000. But, as the capital’s “conservative” newspaper, it reaches EVERY Republican House and Senate member.In fact, it’s one of the six newspapers President George W. Bush reads each day. Can you imagine President Bush’s face when he sees our ad staring at him from the pages of the Washington Times? When the ad runs, we’ll shift into overdrive to try to leverage it into ADDITIONAL news coverage. We’ll fax copies of the ad to major media around the country. We’ll tell them: “The d War Debate Is On!” We’ll challenge journalists to ask John Walters for a comment or to debate us on talk shows. If we do it right, our ads could generate twice as much “free” media coverage as they cost to run. But the ads won’t be cheap. It will cost $60,350 to run it in USA Today. And $9,450 for the Washington Times. That’s a total of $69,800. We plan to run the ad next Tuesday, so we can capitalize on the awareness of the original ads. That’s the quickest we can rush into print which means we need to raise the money by this FRIDAY, so we can submit the ad to the newspapers for approval. (They require a two-day notice.) Now, here’s the best part of the plan. Newspapers must approve ads before they run. Our with its in-your-face message and audacious take-off of the ONDCP ad may get rejected by USA Today as “too controversial.” It may get rejected by the Washington Times because it’s in direct opposition to their pro-d War editorial stance. Great. We hope the ads get rejected. If they do, we have a chance to create a FIRESTORM of controversy. Remember the TV coverage Ralph Nader got when he ran a MasterCard spoof ad during his presidential campaign and got sued by the credit card company? Remember the media coverage PETA got when it ran billboards of nude models with the caption: “I’d rather go naked than wear fur”? Remember the slew of articles that resulted when David Horowitz’s ad arguing against slavery reparations was rejected by several college newspapers? We have a chance to do the same thing. We have an opportunity to get pundits and columnists debating OUR ad. If our ad is rejected by either newspaper, we’ll immediately get on the phone to OTHER newspapers. (They love hearing about “censorship” involving rival newspapers.) We’ll blast a press release to the major TV networks, charging the two newspapers with “suppressing political dissent.” We’ll send a copy of the rejected ad to John Walters at the Office of National d Control Policy and dare him to comment. If we can get Walters to take the bait and attack our ad or question our arguments then the firestorm will begin. It will be the Libertarians versus the d Warriors. It could land us on national television since there’s nothing the media loves more than a good, juicy controversy. Then, we’ll take the money we raised and try to run the ad in two other major newspapers. And see if we can turn that into even more attention. Can we guarantee that we’ll get mountains of media coverage? Of course not. It depends on what other news is going on, what the ONDCP does, and other factors beyond our control. But if we DON’T run the ad if we don’t take chances we’ll NEVER get that kind of national coverage. If you don’t swing for the fences, you won’t hit a home run. This nervy ad could be OUR home run. But only if we raise $69,800 by Friday. If we raise the money, we’ll submit the ads to USA Today and the Washington Times, to run on Tuesday, February 26. (Not on Monday, because Congress is off on Mondays.) If the newspapers AGREE to run it, we’ll let you know. And we’ll blast out thousands of press releases promoting the ad on Tuesday morning. If the newspapers REJECT the ads, we’ll let you know. And we’ll blast out thousands of press releases, promoting the controversy, as soon as we hear their decision. The ad is already produced, and ready to go. Click here to view it in .pdf format: web lp.org/issues/dczarad Click here to view the original ONDCP ads, so you can see what a clever satire our ad is: web mediacampaign.org/mg/print Or click here to donate immediately: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad EVERY PENNY we raise from this message will go to run the ad. We wrote, designed, and produced the ad in-house, so there are no additional fees. EVERY PENNY you donate will put our in front of 2.2 million Americans, and smack-dab in the faces of the d Warriors. EVERY PENNY you donate will send the message: The d War Debate Is On! Click here to donate: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad If everyone who gets this message donates just $10, we’ll have more than enough money to run the ad. Unfortunately, not everyone will. So, could you contribute $50? Or $100? That will help cover the cost of those who don’t donate, and put us that much closer to the $69,800 we need. In fact, since this ad doesn’t involve federal candidates, there are no contribution limits. You can legally donate any amount you want. We don’t want to pressure you. Look at the ad again. Think about what it’s worth to you to be able to buy a copy of USA Today next Tuesday and see YOUR ad. Then, donate whatever you think is appropriate. This is our chance to strike back. To raise the blood pressure of America’s most bullheaded d Warriors. And to get our message out to 2.2 million Americans. You can help. Just click here to donate: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad Thank you, Ron Crickenberger, Libertarian Party Political Director PS: Remember, if we raise the money, you’ll see the ad in USA Today next Tuesday, February 26. You’ll see the SAME ad in the SAME newspaper that will land with a thud in the White House and in the Office of National d Control Policy. Or, the newspapers may REJECT our ad. In which case, we’ll work hard to turn it into a national controversy that generates news articles, talk radio debate, and perhaps even national TV coverage. Either way, your support will make it happen. EVERY dollar you contribute goes directly to pay for the ads. Just click here: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad. Thank you! P.P.S. Please pass this message on to friends, family members, and other people you know personally who might be interested, but please don’t send it indiscriminately spam will only hurt our campaign.Would you like to spit in the eye of America’s biggest d Warrior? Would you like to prove to millions of Americans that the latest government d War propaganda isn’t just wrong it STINKS like a rotting fish? Would you like to garner nationwide publicity for the Libertarian Party? Perhaps even get us on the nightly news? We have an opportunity to do all that. But only if we raise $69,800 by Friday. That’s a lot of money, but the potential pay-off is huge. When you hear our bold plan and SEE what we propose I think you’ll agree. In fact, I think you’ll laugh out loud with delight. First, some background. The Office of National d Control Policy (ONDCP) has launched a new advertising campaign that attempts to link ds with terrorism. The campaign got underway with two TV ads during the Super Bowl. The cost to taxpayers: $3.4 million! One of the ads, which pretended to show terrorists buying weapons, asked: “Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy ds, some of it might come from you.” In the other ad, young people made matter-of-fact statements like, “I helped kill a judge.” The ads were so outrageous that we issued a press release calling them “Super Bowloney.” We noted: “For the Office of National d Control Policy to claim that d users are to blame for financing terrorists is like a maniac who kills his parents, and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.” We said: “The fact is, the War on ds CAUSES the very problem these ads complain about. It turns ordinary, cheap plants like marijuana and poppies into fantastically lucrative black market products. The War on ds enriches terrorists, finances violence, and makes America less safe.” Unfortunately, ONDCP bureaucrats don’t read our press releases. Or just don’t care about the truth. Last week, they rolled out the print version of the campaign, with full-page ads in 293 newspapers around the USA. One ad shows a young woman’s face. The text reads: “Last week, I washed my car, hung out with a few friends, and helped murder a family in Colombia.” The bottom of the ad says: “d money helps support terror. Buy ds and you could be supporting it too.” Unbelievable! The ad ignores the fact that the War on ds and the black markets it spawns drives up the price of illegal ds by as much as 17,000% (according to the Hoover Institution). Without the War on ds, there would be no link between ds and terrorism, and the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations would sputter to a halt. (At the end of this message, I’ll give you a link to the ONDCP ads, and you can see them for yourself. I don’t want you to think we’re exaggerating.) The ONDCP’s strategy is clear: It’s trying to take the September 11- inspired hatred of terrorists, and use it to bolster the failing War on ds. And, by implication, it’s suggesting that if you oppose the War on ds, you help terrorists. Well, we hate terrorists, too. In fact, we hate them so much we’d like to squeeze their funding down to almost ZERO. We’d like to see the $40 million the U.S. government says the Taliban raised from heroin dwindle down to a FEW PENNIES. We’d like to see the $300 million that Colombian rebels raised from cocaine shrink down to a HANDFUL OF PESOS. Can you imagine how destitute terrorists would be if marijuana sold for the same price as lettuce? If poppies were worth the same as tulips? And if cocaine-producing coca plants were no more valuable than Brussels sprouts? If the War on ds did not artificially inflate their prices by 17,000%, that’s exactly what would happen. And many terrorists would be penniless. We Libertarians understand that. We know the War on ds gives terrorists the money they use to kill Americans. But how do we get that message across? How do we reach the American people when those full-page ONDCP ads are spreading lies and distortions? Then we had a brainstorm: We’ll create our OWN ad. And that’s what we did. At first glance, it looks just like the ONDCP ad. But in OUR ad, the face of d Czar John Walters is staring out. And OUR text says… “This week, I had lunch with the President, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal d money to groups like the Taliban.” Bang. We take the d Warriors’ ad and throw it right back in their faces. At the bottom, our ad says: “The War on ds boosts the price of illegal ds by as much as 17,000% funneling huge profits to terrorist organizations. If you support the War on ds or vote for the politicians who wage it, you’re helping support terrorism.” We give a website address for more information. Can you imagine John Walters’ reaction when he sees our ad? Can you imagine the squawks of outrage from the d Warriors? The ad is ready to go. At the end of this message, I’ll give you a link so you can see it for yourself. We want to run it in two newspapers: USA Today and the Washington Times. USA Today reaches 2.1 million people. It’s the nation’s most widely read newspaper. The Washington Times has a circulation of only 105,000. But, as the capital’s “conservative” newspaper, it reaches EVERY Republican House and Senate member.In fact, it’s one of the six newspapers President George W. Bush reads each day. Can you imagine President Bush’s face when he sees our ad staring at him from the pages of the Washington Times? When the ad runs, we’ll shift into overdrive to try to leverage it into ADDITIONAL news coverage. We’ll fax copies of the ad to major media around the country. We’ll tell them: “The d War Debate Is On!” We’ll challenge journalists to ask John Walters for a comment or to debate us on talk shows. If we do it right, our ads could generate twice as much “free” media coverage as they cost to run. But the ads won’t be cheap. It will cost $60,350 to run it in USA Today. And $9,450 for the Washington Times. That’s a total of $69,800. We plan to run the ad next Tuesday, so we can capitalize on the awareness of the original ads. That’s the quickest we can rush into print which means we need to raise the money by this FRIDAY, so we can submit the ad to the newspapers for approval. (They require a two-day notice.) Now, here’s the best part of the plan. Newspapers must approve ads before they run. Our with its in-your-face message and audacious take-off of the ONDCP ad may get rejected by USA Today as “too controversial.” It may get rejected by the Washington Times because it’s in direct opposition to their pro-d War editorial stance. Great. We hope the ads get rejected. If they do, we have a chance to create a FIRESTORM of controversy. Remember the TV coverage Ralph Nader got when he ran a MasterCard spoof ad during his presidential campaign and got sued by the credit card company? Remember the media coverage PETA got when it ran billboards of nude models with the caption: “I’d rather go naked than wear fur”? Remember the slew of articles that resulted when David Horowitz’s ad arguing against slavery reparations was rejected by several college newspapers? We have a chance to do the same thing. We have an opportunity to get pundits and columnists debating OUR ad. If our ad is rejected by either newspaper, we’ll immediately get on the phone to OTHER newspapers. (They love hearing about “censorship” involving rival newspapers.) We’ll blast a press release to the major TV networks, charging the two newspapers with “suppressing political dissent.” We’ll send a copy of the rejected ad to John Walters at the Office of National d Control Policy and dare him to comment. If we can get Walters to take the bait and attack our ad or question our arguments then the firestorm will begin. It will be the Libertarians versus the d Warriors. It could land us on national television since there’s nothing the media loves more than a good, juicy controversy. Then, we’ll take the money we raised and try to run the ad in two other major newspapers. And see if we can turn that into even more attention. Can we guarantee that we’ll get mountains of media coverage? Of course not. It depends on what other news is going on, what the ONDCP does, and other factors beyond our control. But if we DON’T run the ad if we don’t take chances we’ll NEVER get that kind of national coverage. If you don’t swing for the fences, you won’t hit a home run. This nervy ad could be OUR home run. But only if we raise $69,800 by Friday. If we raise the money, we’ll submit the ads to USA Today and the Washington Times, to run on Tuesday, February 26. (Not on Monday, because Congress is off on Mondays.) If the newspapers AGREE to run it, we’ll let you know. And we’ll blast out thousands of press releases promoting the ad on Tuesday morning. If the newspapers REJECT the ads, we’ll let you know. And we’ll blast out thousands of press releases, promoting the controversy, as soon as we hear their decision. The ad is already produced, and ready to go. Click here to view it in .pdf format: web lp.org/issues/dczarad Click here to view the original ONDCP ads, so you can see what a clever satire our ad is: web mediacampaign.org/mg/print Or click here to donate immediately: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad EVERY PENNY we raise from this message will go to run the ad. We wrote, designed, and produced the ad in-house, so there are no additional fees. EVERY PENNY you donate will put our in front of 2.2 million Americans, and smack-dab in the faces of the d Warriors. EVERY PENNY you donate will send the message: The d War Debate Is On! Click here to donate: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad If everyone who gets this message donates just $10, we’ll have more than enough money to run the ad. Unfortunately, not everyone will. So, could you contribute $50? Or $100? That will help cover the cost of those who don’t donate, and put us that much closer to the $69,800 we need. In fact, since this ad doesn’t involve federal candidates, there are no contribution limits. You can legally donate any amount you want. We don’t want to pressure you. Look at the ad again. Think about what it’s worth to you to be able to buy a copy of USA Today next Tuesday and see YOUR ad. Then, donate whatever you think is appropriate. This is our chance to strike back. To raise the blood pressure of America’s most bullheaded d Warriors. And to get our message out to 2.2 million Americans. You can help. Just click here to donate: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad Thank you, Ron Crickenberger, Libertarian Party Political Director PS: Remember, if we raise the money, you’ll see the ad in USA Today next Tuesday, February 26. You’ll see the SAME ad in the SAME newspaper that will land with a thud in the White House and in the Office of National d Control Policy. Or, the newspapers may REJECT our ad. In which case, we’ll work hard to turn it into a national controversy that generates news articles, talk radio debate, and perhaps even national TV coverage. Either way, your support will make it happen. EVERY dollar you contribute goes directly to pay for the ads. Just click here: web lp.org/contribute?progdwarad. Thank you! P.P.S. Please pass this message on to friends, family members, and other people you know personally who might be interested, but please don’t send it indiscriminately spam will only hurt our campaign.

#2278 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:59:36 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:59:36 Important Tsunami News – Saturday Weekly Just got off the phone with John Emmanuel. It’s looking like Tsunami is back on track, every Saturday. And the first two Saturdays will be full on hard scandotrance. Time to tweak the viking getup!! mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! mar 9 – Saturday: Talamasca (Spiral Trax/Sweden) at Shelter (a refurbished Speeed, 39th between 5th and 6th), using a version of the infamous Phazon sound system from Twilo … same place, EVERY Saturday therafter. So promoters, take note: John is camping on Saturdays for a while, and given their marketing muscle, it will most probably harken back to the biweekly Vinyl reign of 97-98. For more info go to ce

#2279 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:27:07 Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:27:07 MTV spEcial last night The MTV special on MaDMAm was on again last night, and flashed yours truly being misquoted for 15 seconds, with my web site URL being flashed. Scary thing is, after all i been through, i am not concerned at this point over free speech from behind expensive sunglasses. That bygone era seems so long ago now. I wish i actually had the discretionary income to actually procure these illicit substances of which they speak; if i did have the income, I would replace the speakers conficated by the NYPD last summer.

#2282 Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:10:58 Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:10:58 Fwd: Playstation2’s WTO protester video game

#2284 Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:16:15 Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:16:13 Pschedule -Psy-Trance Pschedule- Trance News – Synthetic Sadhus’ sound on Friday was incredible – the best ever. The bass just rolled through the floor. We saved the big bubble to use at outdoor events this year. And now we have Tsunami every Saturday. So much competition these days. People will vote with their feet. Friends from London relate that there were TWELVE trance parties listed oin London last weekend – and nobody is complaining about double booking. Maybe NYC can catch up. Either way, the bar is being raised – looking forward to the next! TONIGHT – Feb. 25th / Monday PURIM, at Makor; 35 W67th St., NYC (212) 601-1000 Put on a fantasy costume this Purim and come party with us…Purim Costume Party ‘Cultura Ibiza… Straight from the Ibiza party scene of “Cafe Del Mar” -The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume). Info from from Angel from chile. Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with Psy-Trance DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm & 10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – dmtski – bus available – email rockthe show at aol for info *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! *Mar 9 – Saturday A. Omnitribe B. Tsunami A. OMNI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” party 114 W 26th Street MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (Omni Tribe, New York) Dima (Omni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By ATOMIC JUICE, YDESIGN 11PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since played at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushroom”. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers from “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a compilation for Medium records and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. ALSO B. Tsunami – Talamasca (Spiral Trax/Sweden) at Shelter (a refurbished Speeed, 39th between 5th and 6th), using a version of the infamous Phazon sound system from Twilo … same place, EVERY Saturday therafter. So promoters, take note: John is camping on Saturdays for a while, and given their marketing muscle, it will most probably harken back to the biweekly Vinyl reign of 97-98. For more info go to ce Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – FINAL dmtski Weekend of 2002!! dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Toronto Brazil web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il KParis #-The music produced by DJ Ricardo Padilla, DJ SEN4 and DJ Roy Cooper will take you to high spiritual elevations; fun, fun, fun…Don’t forget your dancing shoes… Door: $25.00 ($5.00 off if dressed in costume). Info from from Angel from chile. Feb 26 – Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First 1st avenue b/w 87th & 88th with Psy-Trance DJ Amnesium ID21 & over 2 for 1 drinks all night. Pool table, downstairs chill. Viviana is bartender. Feb 27 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Snow/Hunger Moon) Aviv Gefen…Israeli Pop Singer at Makor…2 shows…7pm &am10pm… Door fee: $25.00 Box Office (212) 601-1000 *Mar 1 – Fri – dmtski – bus available – email rockthe show at aol for info *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! *Mar 9 – Saturday A. Omnitribe B. Tsunami A. OMNI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” party 114 W 26th Street MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (Omni Tribe, New York) Dima (Omni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By ATOMIC JUICE, YDESIGN 11PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since played at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushroom”. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers from “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a compilation for Medium records and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. ALSO B. Tsunami – Talamasca (Spiral Trax/Sweden) at Shelter (a refurbished Speeed, 39th between 5th and 6th), using a version of the infamous Phazon sound system from Twilo … same place, EVERY Saturday therafter. So promoters, take note: John is camping on Saturdays for a while, and given their marketing muscle, it will most probably harken back to the biweekly Vinyl reign of 97-98. For more info go to Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info *Mar 12 – Tues – d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Possible location: 7th Avenue Sushi, Le Bernardin, or somewhere with a lot of fish aquariums March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2285 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:15:20 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:15:20 Antidwar ad appears in *today’s* USA Today From: Lojikbom at aol To: neuroatomik, Rebeccamccauley4 at cs For those of you that haven’t heard, the Libertarian Party ran a full page ad in the Washington Post and USA Today featuring d Czar John Walters that said … “This week, I had lunch with the president, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal d money to groups like the Taliban.” At the bottom the ad stated, “The War on ds boosts the price of ds by as much as 17,000%-funneling huge profits to terrorist organizations. If you support the War on ds or vote for the politicans who wage it, you’re helping support terrorism. Get the facts at web LP.org/dwar.” It’s no secret that terrorist organizations use d money to fund their operations and why not with such lucrative profits to be gained? If the d War were ended then the bottom would fall out of the black market d trade. If marijuana were as cheap as lettuce, or poppies worth as much as tulips, or coca producing plants priced like brussels sprouts, terrorist organizations would lose BILLIONS! Much like the ending of alcohol Prohibition in the 30’s drained mafia coffers, so too would the ending of the d war sap terrorist organization funding. The LP really stuck the blame where it belonged and was bold enough to implicate America’s War on d leaders as the SOURCE for terrorist funding to over 2 million Americans today. So go out and buy a USA Today and frame the ad that’s (hopefully) going to create a firestorm of controversy across the nation. d Peace 2010!!! -Lojikbom PS – Ben Franklin said to his fellows at the dawn of the Revolution, “We must all hang together or most assuredly we will hang separately.” They’ve been hanging us one by one for decades now; it’s about time we fought back!To: neuroatomik, Rebeccamccauley4 at cs For those of you that haven’t heard, the Libertarian Party ran a full page ad in the Washington Post and USA Today featuring d Czar John Walters that said … “This week, I had lunch with the president, testified before Congress, and helped funnel $40 million in illegal d money to groups like the Taliban.” At the bottom the ad stated, “The War on ds boosts the price of ds by as much as 17,000%-funneling huge profits to terrorist organizations. If you support the War on ds or vote for the politicans who wage it, you’re helping support terrorism. Get the facts at web LP.org/dwar.” It’s no secret that terrorist organizations use d money to fund their operations and why not with such lucrative profits to be gained? If the d War were ended then the bottom would fall out of the black market d trade. If marijuana were as cheap as lettuce, or poppies worth as much as tulips, or coca producing plants priced like brussels sprouts, terrorist organizations would lose BILLIONS! Much like the ending of alcohol Prohibition in the 30’s drained mafia coffers, so too would the ending of the d war sap terrorist organization funding. The LP really stuck the blame where it belonged and was bold enough to implicate America’s War on d leaders as the SOURCE for terrorist funding to over 2 million Americans today. So go out and buy a USA Today and frame the ad that’s (hopefully) going to create a firestorm of controversy across the nation. d Peace 2010!!! -Lojikbom

#2286 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:23:47 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:23:46 Cheap scare tactics on TV This misleading ad will actually increase the disbelief among young people… deaths from E are incredibly rare; equally idiotic is that the chemical makeup of the ectasy is indeterminate – it could be PMA. If a fraction of the amount of money it took to produce and distribute this ad went towards testing – rooting out the real life substances that are parroted as real E – more lives may be saved and less disinformation and disingenuousness would be circulating. E abuse can be harmful, but this “reefer madness” scare tactic is ireesponsible and ridiculous. Parents of Ecstasy Victim Take Grief Public By KEN GUGGENHEIM .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Feb. 26) – Jim Heird’s face fills the television screen. The dark background highlights his pale skin, square jaw and dark bags under his eyes. ‘I would have given anything for some warning signs,’ he says, almost shouting. ‘I would have moved. I would have locked her up, I don’t care, if there were warning signs. I would have done whatever it took.’ His voice cracks. ‘I was never given that opportunity.’ Then Heird, 61, sobs for all the world to see. His sniffles can still be heard as white letters appear on a black screen: ‘Danielle Heird died after taking two pills of Ecstasy.’ Before, the Partnership for a d-Free America made ads using fried eggs to symbolize brain damage and showing teen-agers thanking their parents for being tough with them. Now it is going for the gut in exposing the raw grief of Jim and Elsa Heird, a Nevada couple who lost their 21-year-old daughter to Ecstasy. Some say the ads overstate the substance’s dangers, making the case against its use less believable to teens. But the partnership, a coalition of communications professionals, says the ads will encourage parents to talk to children about ds. In coming months, millions of television viewers will get to know Danielle through a series of ads. They will hear the coroner read from her autopsy report. They will see her mother struggle to maintain her composure as she talks about her beautiful and vivacious Danielle. And they will watch Jim Heird weep. ‘A parent’s not supposed to survive their children,’ Heird says, dabbing his eyes with a tissue, at the end of the ad. ‘It’s not the scheme of things.’Under other circumstances, Heird says in a phone interview, he might have felt uncomfortable crying on television. Not now. ‘It may sound corny, but if I save one kid, if it saves one kid …’ ‘I gotta hope it saves a lot more than one.’ Until July 20, 2000, his family’s story was unremarkable. They lived in Henderson, Nev., just outside Las Vegas. The Heirds worked in a casino. He handled food purchasing; she was a chef. Danielle was their younger daughter. She graduated from a Roman Catholic high school and lived at home while working as a casino hostess. She planned to study radiology. She loved to Jet Ski, dance and go to lunch with her parents. On her last night, Danielle, her boyfriend and another friend went to a nightclub to celebrate her boyfriend’s birthday. A Clark County coroner’s report said she brought along six pills of Ecstasy, a d her parents later found out she had taken twice before. Ecstasy, considered both hallucinogen and amphetamine, has become increasingly popular in recent years. She gave two pills to each man and took at least one herself, the report says. At 3 a.m., she was groggy and feeling sick. The men took her to their home. She lay down on a bed and told the men to go back to the club. When they returned at 10:30 a.m., she was dead. ‘It came to us as a total surprise,’ Heird said. ‘There was never any evidence of any d use. The school never called us and said, ‘We need to talk to you. We think there’s a problem.”Within months of Danielle’s death, the Heirds began speaking at schools about Ecstasy. The partnership approached them about doing ads. The partnership says $20 million worth of airtime has been donated nationwide. Typical viewers are likely to see the ads several times during the next eight months, partnership spokesman Steve Dnistrian said. Some d policy analysts are uncomfortable using the story of Danielle. Although repeated use of Ecstasy has been linked to brain damage and kidney and heart problems, deaths like hers are relatively rare. Marsha Rosenbaum, of the d Policy Alliance, said teen-agers don’t take anti-d messages seriously because they know the risks often are overstated. She said Ecstasy is unsafe, but ‘if you choose to do it anyway, I’m going to be honest with you about how you can be safer.’ Dnistrian said the ads are aimed more at parents, to warn those who believe their children would never use ds.WASHINGTON (Feb. 26) – Jim Heird’s face fills the television screen. The dark background highlights his pale skin, square jaw and dark bags under his eyes. ‘I would have given anything for some warning signs,’ he says, almost shouting. ‘I would have moved. I would have locked her up, I don’t care, if there were warning signs. I would have done whatever it took.’ His voice cracks. ‘I was never given that opportunity.’ Then Heird, 61, sobs for all the world to see. His sniffles can still be heard as white letters appear on a black screen: ‘Danielle Heird died after taking two pills of Ecstasy.’ Before, the Partnership for a d-Free America made ads using fried eggs to symbolize brain damage and showing teen-agers thanking their parents for being tough with them. Now it is going for the gut in exposing the raw grief of Jim and Elsa Heird, a Nevada couple who lost their 21-year-old daughter to Ecstasy. Some say the ads overstate the substance’s dangers, making the case against its use less believable to teens. But the partnership, a coalition of communications professionals, says the ads will encourage parents to talk to children about ds. In coming months, millions of television viewers will get to know Danielle through a series of ads. They will hear the coroner read from her autopsy report. They will see her mother struggle to maintain her composure as she talks about her beautiful and vivacious Danielle. And they will watch Jim Heird weep. ‘A parent’s not supposed to survive their children,’ Heird says, dabbing his eyes with a tissue, at the end of the ad. ‘It’s not the scheme of things.’ – Under other circumstances, Heird says in a phone interview, he might have felt uncomfortable crying on television. Not now. ‘It may sound corny, but if I save one kid, if it saves one kid …’ ‘I gotta hope it saves a lot more than one.’ Until July 20, 2000, his family’s story was unremarkable. They lived in Henderson, Nev., just outside Las Vegas. The Heirds worked in a casino. He handled food purchasing; she was a chef. Danielle was their younger daughter. She graduated from a Roman Catholic high school and lived at home while working as a casino hostess. She planned to study radiology. She loved to Jet Ski, dance and go to lunch with her parents. On her last night, Danielle, her boyfriend and another friend went to a nightclub to celebrate her boyfriend’s birthday. A Clark County coroner’s report said she brought along six pills of Ecstasy, a d her parents later found out she had taken twice before. Ecstasy, considered both hallucinogen and amphetamine, has become increasingly popular in recent years. She gave two pills to each man and took at least one herself, the report says. At 3 a.m., she was groggy and feeling sick. The men took her to their home. She lay down on a bed and told the men to go back to the club. When they returned at 10:30 a.m., she was dead. ‘It came to us as a total surprise,’ Heird said. ‘There was never any evidence of any d use. The school never called us and said, ‘We need to talk to you. We think there’s a problem.” – Within months of Danielle’s death, the Heirds began speaking at schools about Ecstasy. The partnership approached them about doing ads. The partnership says $20 million worth of airtime has been donated nationwide. Typical viewers are likely to see the ads several times during the next eight months, partnership spokesman Steve Dnistrian said. Some d policy analysts are uncomfortable using the story of Danielle. Although repeated use of Ecstasy has been linked to brain damage and kidney and heart problems, deaths like hers are relatively rare. Marsha Rosenbaum, of the d Policy Alliance, said teen-agers don’t take anti-d messages seriously because they know the risks often are overstated. She said Ecstasy is unsafe, but ‘if you choose to do it anyway, I’m going to be honest with you about how you can be safer.’

#2287 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:21:38 -0800 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:21:38 To: dragontribe, brainmachines Bcc: Freaky Tuesdays Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:21:38 From: “anthony citro” freebeer4kids at hotmail Hello, reminding everyone to come out to “Who’s On First?” a weekly psy-trance party. on 1st ave between 87th & 88th st Free to get in, 21+ ID a must 2 for 1 drink specials! with DJs: Amnesium Manic Mekator Icy Coil 10pm-3am (trance starts at midnight) see you all there! peace&love -Tony.

#2288 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:07:58 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:07:58 MEGA TSUNAMI COMING!!! Coming One Day Near You a Mega-Tsunami Tue Feb 26 03:01:56 2002 WOLLONGONG, Australia (Reuters) – One day, a giant wave traveling at 125 mph across open water could crash into Sydney harbor, wipe out the beaches of California or plough across the golf courses of northeast Scotland. Mega-tsunamis have happened with greater frequency than modern science would like to believe, and no coastline in the world is safe, says Canadian geologist-geographer Edward Bryant. He said he had found signs of giant waves sweeping over 425 feet high headlands in southeast Australia, roaring down the U.S. West Coast and carving into the bedrock of the Scottish coastline north of Edinburgh. “I believe St. Andrews golf course is a tsunami deposit,” Bryant, head of geosciences at Wollongong University south of Sydney, told Reuters. Over the past 2,000 years, tsunamis have officially killed 462,597 people in the Pacific region alone, with the largest toll recorded in the Japanese islands. Of the top recorded events, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 is said to have triggered a 15-meter high wave that destroyed the port of Lisbon and caused widespread destruction in southwest Spain, western Morocco and across the Atlantic in the Caribbean. Modern science blames the killer waves on earthquakes and most countries believe they are immune. But in his book, “Tsunamis The Underrated Hazard,” Bryant argues that submarine landslides, underwater volcanoes and even the potentially catastrophic scenario of a meteorite impact must also be taken into account when evaluating tsunami risk. That means a destructive tsunami moving at 250 meters per second in deep water, 85 meters per second across continental shelves and at 10 meters per second at shore could strike an unprotected coastal metropolis anywhere, killing thousands. GEOLOGICAL DABBLER TO CATASTROPHIST In 1989, Bryant was dabbling into the coastal evolution of rock platforms and sand barriers along the New South Wales coastline of eastern Australia when he noticed somthing strange. Giant boulders, some the size of boxcars and weighing almost 100 tons, were jammed 33 meters above sea level into a crevice at the top of a rock platform sheltered from storm waves. Further field work found gravel dunes on a 130-meter-high headland and other massive boulders more than 100 meters inland. Bryant then examined bedrock that had been savagely eroded and found that headlands carved into inverted toothbrushes, where a gap had been roughly gouged in the middle, existed from Cairns in the far northeast to Victoria state in the south. This could not be explained by normal wave action or storms. “But a tsunami could do this,” Bryant said. “From being a trendy process geomorphologist wrapped in the ambience of the 1960s, I had descended into the abyss of catastrophism,” Bryant writes in his book. Similar toothbrush headlands exist in northeast Scotland and gravel has been dumped up to 30 km inland in Western Australia. To the scorn of many modern scientists, Bryant says it is “naive” to base what we know about tsunamis simply on documented history. In North America and Australia, official history only goes back as far as white colonization. We may be ignoring the legends of the Indians of North America, the Aborigines of Australia or the Maoris of New Zealand at our peril, he said. ORAL LEGENDS “We ignore all oral record and it’s probably a significant oversight,” Bryant told Reuters. One Aboriginal tale tells how one of the four pillars holding up the sky collapsed in the east and the sea also fell in. The Maoris of New Zealand have long spoken of a time of fire that burned the land to a crisp. A legend told by the Kwenaitchechat people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest tells of a great shaking of the earth that led to the sea receding and then coming back in a great wall. Using dating techniques, Bryant argues there is evidence that eastern Australia was struck by a mega-tsunami around 1500, which would coincide with the Aboriginal tale of a “great white wave.” The Aboriginal accounts of fire in the sky mean a comet crashing into the South Tasman Sea could have been responsible. Carbon dating indicates a great fire ravaged New Zealand at the same time, giving further weight to the theory of a comet. And Bryant said Japanese researchers probing past tsunamis had found evidence of a massive earthquake off Oregon in January 1700 that would coincide with the Indian tales, and with a Pacific seismic zone where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate grinds under the North American plate in a process called subduction. “We now know the Oregon subduction zone goes every 300 years. 17002002?” he wonders with raised eyebrows. Bryant’s suspicions of meteor and comet impacts a relatively short time ago rile many in the scientific community who believe the chances of Earth colliding with space debris are tiny. But Bryant says computer modeling suggests a meteor would not have to be a “dinosaur killer” to cause a mega-tsunami. A chunk 100 meters in diameter moving at 20 meters per second could theoretically produce a tsunami that is 27 meters high at source. SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES Focusing on extreme scenarios such as meteorite impacts may also underestimate the risk of a mega-tsunami. Contentiously, Bryant argues that underwater landslides, which can involve thousands of cubic km (miles) of material, may have the power alone to generate the giant waves. A 1998 earthquake off northwest Papua New Guinea has been blamed for a tsunami that killed around 2,000 people near Aitape. But according to conventional scientific wisdom, the 7.1 magnitude was too small to be responsible for the 15-meter wave that at some points swept 500 meters inland. Bryant says a submarine landslide was the likely villain. Another landslide-induced tsunami may have been responsible for shaping the Scottish coastline, including the dunes of St. Andrews, 7,000 years ago. Scientists have found indications of a large submarine landslide at Storegga off the east coast of Norway that Bryant says could have sent a wave originally measuring 8-12 meters roaring into the North Sea and across the Atlantic. Worryingly, he says geologists at the University of Sydney have recently mapped around 170 submarine landslide zones off Sydney, Australia’s largest city with four million inhabitants. What’s more, he has found signs that tsunamis have struck the New South Wales coast with alarming regularity every 500 years. If you take the risk seriously, it does not take much to save human life from tsunamis. Chile, Japan and Hawaii already have warning systems and evacuation drills. Seabed sensors can send tsunami warnings via satellite triggering bells, alarms and telephones within minutes. “The only guarantee or prediction is that they will happen again, sometime soon, on a coastline near you,” Bryant concludes. “Tsunami are very much an underrated, widespread hazard. Any coast is at risk.”Mega-tsunamis have happened with greater frequency than modern science would like to believe, and no coastline in the world is safe, says Canadian geologist-geographer Edward Bryant. He said he had found signs of giant waves sweeping over 425 feet high headlands in southeast Australia, roaring down the U.S. West Coast and carving into the bedrock of the Scottish coastline north of Edinburgh. “I believe St. Andrews golf course is a tsunami deposit,” Bryant, head of geosciences at Wollongong University south of Sydney, told Reuters. Over the past 2,000 years, tsunamis have officially killed 462,597 people in the Pacific region alone, with the largest toll recorded in the Japanese islands. Of the top recorded events, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 is said to have triggered a 15-meter high wave that destroyed the port of Lisbon and caused widespread destruction in southwest Spain, western Morocco and across the Atlantic in the Caribbean. Modern science blames the killer waves on earthquakes and most countries believe they are immune. But in his book, “Tsunamis The Underrated Hazard,” Bryant argues that submarine landslides, underwater volcanoes and even the potentially catastrophic scenario of a meteorite impact must also be taken into account when evaluating tsunami risk. That means a destructive tsunami moving at 250 meters per second in deep water, 85 meters per second across continental shelves and at 10 meters per second at shore could strike an unprotected coastal metropolis anywhere, killing thousands. GEOLOGICAL DABBLER TO CATASTROPHIST In 1989, Bryant was dabbling into the coastal evolution of rock platforms and sand barriers along the New South Wales coastline of eastern Australia when he noticed somthing strange. Giant boulders, some the size of boxcars and weighing almost 100 tons, were jammed 33 meters above sea level into a crevice at the top of a rock platform sheltered from storm waves. Further field work found gravel dunes on a 130-meter-high headland and other massive boulders more than 100 meters inland. Bryant then examined bedrock that had been savagely eroded and found that headlands carved into inverted toothbrushes, where a gap had been roughly gouged in the middle, existed from Cairns in the far northeast to Victoria state in the south. This could not be explained by normal wave action or storms. “But a tsunami could do this,” Bryant said. “From being a trendy process geomorphologist wrapped in the ambience of the 1960s, I had descended into the abyss of catastrophism,” Bryant writes in his book. Similar toothbrush headlands exist in northeast Scotland and gravel has been dumped up to 30 km inland in Western Australia. To the scorn of many modern scientists, Bryant says it is “naive” to base what we know about tsunamis simply on documented history. In North America and Australia, official history only goes back as far as white colonization. We may be ignoring the legends of the Indians of North America, the Aborigines of Australia or the Maoris of New Zealand at our peril, he said. ORAL LEGENDS “We ignore all oral record and it’s probably a significant oversight,” Bryant told Reuters. One Aboriginal tale tells how one of the four pillars holding up the sky collapsed in the east and the sea also fell in. The Maoris of New Zealand have long spoken of a time of fire that burned the land to a crisp. A legend told by the Kwenaitchechat people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest tells of a great shaking of the earth that led to the sea receding and then coming back in a great wall. Using dating techniques, Bryant argues there is evidence that eastern Australia was struck by a mega-tsunami around 1500, which would coincide with the Aboriginal tale of a “great white wave.” The Aboriginal accounts of fire in the sky mean a comet crashing into the South Tasman Sea could have been responsible. Carbon dating indicates a great fire ravaged New Zealand at the same time, giving further weight to the theory of a comet. And Bryant said Japanese researchers probing past tsunamis had found evidence of a massive earthquake off Oregon in January 1700 that would coincide with the Indian tales, and with a Pacific seismic zone where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate grinds under the North American plate in a process called subduction. “We now know the Oregon subduction zone goes every 300 years. 17002002?” he wonders with raised eyebrows. Bryant’s suspicions of meteor and comet impacts a relatively short time ago rile many in the scientific community who believe the chances of Earth colliding with space debris are tiny. But Bryant says computer modeling suggests a meteor would not have to be a “dinosaur killer” to cause a mega-tsunami. A chunk 100 meters in diameter moving at 20 meters per second could theoretically produce a tsunami that is 27 meters high at source. SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES Focusing on extreme scenarios such as meteorite impacts may also underestimate the risk of a mega-tsunami. Contentiously, Bryant argues that underwater landslides, which can involve thousands of cubic km (miles) of material, may have the power alone to generate the giant waves. A 1998 earthquake off northwest Papua New Guinea has been blamed for a tsunami that killed around 2,000 people near Aitape. But according to conventional scientific wisdom, the 7.1 magnitude was too small to be responsible for the 15-meter wave that at some points swept 500 meters inland. Bryant says a submarine landslide was the likely villain. Another landslide-induced tsunami may have been responsible for shaping the Scottish coastline, including the dunes of St. Andrews, 7,000 years ago. Scientists have found indications of a large submarine landslide at Storegga off the east coast of Norway that Bryant says could have sent a wave originally measuring 8-12 meters roaring into the North Sea and across the Atlantic. Worryingly, he says geologists at the University of Sydney have recently mapped around 170 submarine landslide zones off Sydney, Australia’s largest city with four million inhabitants. What’s more, he has found signs that tsunamis have struck the New South Wales coast with alarming regularity every 500 years. If you take the risk seriously, it does not take much to save human life from tsunamis. Chile, Japan and Hawaii already have warning systems and evacuation drills. Seabed sensors can send tsunami warnings via satellite triggering bells, alarms and telephones within minutes. “The only guarantee or prediction is that they will happen again, sometime soon, on a coastline near you,” Bryant concludes. “Tsunami are very much an underrated, widespread hazard. Any coast is at risk.”

#2289 Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:04:44 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Dear Everyone!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy with us the Trance music in this nice bar. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance) Isam(Spectra) Indra(Alphatrance) check web chiletrance Love and Light Angeles

#2290 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:37:20 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:37:19 Tsunami Hux Flux/Anti Guest List this Saturday – Save $5 SAVE $$$ AT TSUNAMI Your Brainmachines email is your Tsunami Guest List (You basically save $5 off the $30.) *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! $30/$25 on list. You are on the BRAINMACHINES list, give your email address that you receive these emails on. All list proceeds will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year.Your Brainmachines email is your Tsunami Guest List (You basically save $5 off the $30.) *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need

#2292 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:42:25 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:42:24 Bark at the Brightest Full Moon of 2002 Tonight Full Moon on Wednesday to be Year’s Brightest Reuters WASHINGTON (Feb 26) – If the dog howls more than usual on Wednesday night and if lovers feel the urge to spoon, don’t be surprised, NASA said it’s the brightest full moon of the year. When the Moon is full on Wednesday night it will be just about as close to Earth as it gets in its elliptical orbit, the U.S. space agency said. As a result, it will appear 9 percent wider than normal and shine 20 percent more brightly. At the far end of its ellipse, called apogee, the moon is 252,700 miles from Earth. At the closest, the perigee, it is only 221,500 miles away. In addition, the Earth at this time of year is closer to the sun on its own elliptical orbit, and therefore the moon is as well, so it has more of the sun’s light to reflect, adding to its brightness.WASHINGTON (Feb 26) – If the dog howls more than usual on Wednesday night and if lovers feel the urge to spoon, don’t be surprised, NASA said it’s the brightest full moon of the year. When the Moon is full on Wednesday night it will be just about as close to Earth as it gets in its elliptical orbit, the U.S. space agency said. As a result, it will appear 9 percent wider than normal and shine 20 percent more brightly. At the far end of its ellipse, called apogee, the moon is 252,700 miles from Earth. At the closest, the perigee, it is only 221,500 miles away.

#2293 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:07:54 Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:07:53 Pschedule -update – Omnitribe is actually on Sat. March 16 Cc: omnitribe -Psy-Trance Pschedule- Omnitribe is actually on March 16 – not March 9 coniciding with Talamasca at Tsunami – as previously reported. I apologize for posting the wrong date and look forward to seeing everyone there. dmtski There will be more people up at the dski house this Friday. I myself will be back for Tsunami on Saturday night. The house is available only through mid-March. Buses and rides available. Email rocktheshow at aol for details. SAVE $$$ AT TSUNAMI Your Brainmachines email is your Tsunami Guest List (You basically save $5 off the $30.) *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! $30/$25 on list. You are on the BRAINMACHINES list, give your email address that you receive these emails on. All list proceeds will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year. LOOKING FOR TURNTABLES From: thenewfixxx at yahoo (silvio kustera) Im looking to put my hat back in the dj arena. If you can let me know who wants to get rid of their tables. silvio TRANCE DANCE COMPANY From: astralboy79 at hotmail (dreamy jimmy) Open Classes Friendly Admission: $6 02.14.02 – 04.30.02 For more information: web tdcny (212) 946-5363 or (917) 859-9602 Bring dance into 21st Century! Battery Dance Studio, 380 Broadway, 5 floor, New York, NY GIVE TRANCE A CHANCE !!! Desktop enhancer From: planbisco at hotmail (Infect B) a friend just sent me this link for program that’s described as a ‘psychotheraputic screensaver and desktop enhancer’ web geisswerks/drempels/ thought i’ld pass it on. B The next horoscope event for Pisces will be held on our last weekend in the Poconos, March 15-16. Feb 27 – Wednesday – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenues *Mar 1 – Fri – dmtski overnight – bus available – email rockthe show at aol for info *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! Mar 5 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 6 – Wed – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 9 Tsunami – Talamasca (Spiral Trax/Sweden) at Shelter (a refurbished Speeed, 39th between 5th and 6th), using a version of the infamous Phazon sound system from Twilo … same place, EVERY Saturday therafter. So promoters, take note: John is camping on Saturdays for a while, and given their marketing muscle, it will most probably harken back to the biweekly Vinyl reign of 97-98. For more info go to Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info Mar 12 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 13 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue *Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – FINAL dmtski Weekend of 2002!! dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info. The monthly horoscope event will be held at the house on Friday. d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire *Mar 16 – Sat – A. OMNI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” party 114 W 26th Street MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (Omni Tribe, New York) Dima (Omni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By ATOMIC JUICE, YDESIGN 11PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since played at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushroom”. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers from “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a compilation for Medium records and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. *Tsunami at Shelter Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st SPRING March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. *Mar 23 – Tsunami at Shelter Mar 27 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *Mar 29 – Synthetic Sadhus Laughing Buddha, Alien Project et al at Amazura. web synthetic-sadhius *Mar 30 – Tsunami at Shelter *April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors *April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter *April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. *April 13 – Tsunami at Shelter *April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) *April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. *Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Dallas Los Angeles New York Toronto Brazil web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il KParis #Omnitribe is actually on March 16 – not March 9 coniciding with Talamasca at Tsunami – as previously reported. I apologize for posting the wrong date and look forward to seeing everyone there. dmtski There will be more people up at the dski house this Friday. I myself will be back for Tsunami on Saturday night. The house is available only through mid-March. Buses and rides available. Email rocktheshow at aol for details. SAVE $$$ AT TSUNAMI Your Brainmachines email is your Tsunami Guest List (You basically save $5 off the $30.) *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! $30/$25 on list. You are on the BRAINMACHINES list, give your email address that you receive these emails on. All list proceeds will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year. LOOKING FOR TURNTABLES From: thenewfixxx at yahoo (silvio kustera) Im looking to put my hat back in the dj arena. If you can let me know who wants to get rid of their tables. silvio TRANCE DANCE COMPANY From: astralboy79 at hotmail (dreamy jimmy) Open Classes Friendly Admission: $6 02.14.02 – 04.30.02 For more information: web tdcny (212) 946-5363 or (917) 859-9602 Bring dance into 21st Century! Battery Dance Studio, 380 Broadway, 5 floor, New York, NY GIVE TRANCE A CHANCE !!! Desktop enhancer From: planbisco at hotmail (Infect B) a friend just sent me this link for program that’s described as a ‘psychotheraputic screensaver and desktop enhancer’ web geisswerks/drempels/ thought i’ld pass it on. B Feb 27 – Wednesday – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenues *Mar 1 – Fri – dmtski overnight – bus available – email rockthe show at aol for info *Mar 2 – Saturday – Hux Flux/Sweden Live (this time not just spinning on my confiscated Pioneer CDJ 700s), Anti/Sweden extended set. Yon-E and Joa open. 11:45pm-9am Vinyl is at Hudson & Hubert. IMPORTANT: You absolutely need an ID that says you are 18 or older or you won’t get in!! Mar 5 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 6 – Wed – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 9 Tsunami – Talamasca (Spiral Trax/Sweden) at Shelter (a refurbished Speeed, 39th between 5th and 6th), using a version of the infamous Phazon sound system from Twilo … same place, EVERY Saturday therafter. So promoters, take note: John is camping on Saturdays for a while, and given their marketing muscle, it will most probably harken back to the biweekly Vinyl reign of 97-98. For more info go to Mar 8/9 – Fri/Sat – dmtski dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info Mar 12 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 13 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue *Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – FINAL dmtski Weekend of 2002!! dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info. The monthly horoscope event will be held at the house on Friday. d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire *Mar 16 – Sat – A. OMNI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” party 114 W 26th Street MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (Omni Tribe, New York) Dima (Omni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By ATOMIC JUICE, YDESIGN 11PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since played at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushroom”. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers from “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a compilation for Medium records and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. *Tsunami at Shelter Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net *The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 27 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) *Mar 29 – Synthetic Sadhus Laughing Buddha, Alien Project et al at Amazura. web synthetic-sadhius *Mar 30 – Tsunami at Shelter *April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. *April 13 – Tsunami at Shelter *April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter *April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting *May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! *June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! *July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time *Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man *Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… Oct 31 Halloween Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start *Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. *Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. Dallas Los Angeles New York Toronto Brazil web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il KMexico City #

March 2002

#2297 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:43:42 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:43:42 Saturday evening: Angeles & Dima This looks like a good call before Tsunami: CAF’E CHILL-OUTSaturday March 9th. (9pm-2am) at MakorBringing on the vibe of eclectic Chilled-Out groovy sounds mixed into an Ambient tribal experienceFEATURING:DJ Angeles…Chiletrance Hailing from Chile, DJ Angeles is well known fro her unique style of ambient, chill-out and Goa Trance music. Angeles had been featured throughout South America and Europe for her very rich electronic musical and spiritual creativity…DJ Dima…Omni Tribe This Russian born DJ is making his debue as an up and coming Ambient and Down-Beats artist, from the Underground label of Omni Tribe…DJ Dima brings on the vibe of the fresh and eclectic sound of European Chill-Out-Out music……keeping it funky…Venue: Makor, 35 W67th Street, NYCBox Office: (212) 601-100003.09.02Time: 9pmDoor: $12.00 ($10.00 pre-sale).

#2298 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:38:33 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:38:32 Pschedule – Eclipse, Tsunami Update, ElfTranceFlashMovie Cc: – Psy-Trance Pschedule – In this blockbuster issue – Eclipse festival announced, d Speaker Update, Elf Trance Flash Movie, Slap the Raver, Tripping after 9/11, More -denotes that I will be there, up to no good! New Eclipse Party: Nov 30 Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips Tsunami/$20 List Update: I just got out of a meeting with John Emmanuel Gartmann of Tsunami. Shelter this Saturday with Talamasca is really looking good. The old club Speeed was bought by the people who ran Shelter at Vinyl back in the day. Although it maxes out at 500 people (the roof is still closed) they have completely remodeled the place. There is of course the Phazon sound system, but there is also new AC installed on the top floor. JEG envisions this weekly to attract new non-trance people, somthing Tsunami has excelled in since 1995. Mike Bindra from the old Twilo was at Vinyl Saturday checking out the scene… that progressive trance/house warrior only booked psy at Twilo THRICE!! So the Hux Flux list at Vinyl was a success, and John Emmanuel honored it. We’ll continue to do it every Saturday, until further notice, mostly at Shelter, with some dates at Vinyl. To get reduced, say BRAINMACHINES list at door, give your email address that you receive these emails on. You basically save $5 off the $25. All list proceeds ($1 per person) will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summer events so far: $110. New Links: Taking Psychedelics in the USA, post-9/11: web tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0203/article/020313c web tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0203/article/02 0313c Elf trance flash movie (wow – parallel evolution!! 🙂 web elftrance/Flash/Evolution.swfweb elftrance/Flash/Evolution.swf Slap the Raver – funny game: web eneone/tuningspork/SLAP web eneone/tuningspork/SLAP New PS2 trippy videogame synaesthetically emulates Kandinsky: Events: – TONIGHT – Mar 6 – Wed – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue – Mar 8 – Friday – dmtski dmtski!! There’s Snow!!! Buses available. Two Hour drive. Some coming back Saturday for Tsunami. Others stay through Sunday night. Email rocktheshow at aol for info. – Mar 9 – Saturday – Makor and then Tsunami MAKOR CAF’E CHILL-OUT (9pm-2am) at Makor Bringing on the vibe of eclectic Chilled-Out groovy sounds mixed into an Ambient tribal experienceFEATURING: DJ Angeles…Chiletrance Hailing from Chile, DJ Angeles is well known from her unique style of ambient, chill-out and Goa Trance music. Angeles had been featured throughout South America and Europe for her very rich electronic musical and spiritual creativity… DJ Dima…Omni Tribe This Russian born DJ is making his debut as an up and coming Ambient and Down-Beats artist, from the Underground label of Omni Tribe…DJ Dima brings on the vibe of the fresh and eclectic sound of European Chill-Out-Out music… …keeping it funky… Venue: Makor, 35 W67th Street, NYC Box Office: (212) 601-1000 03.09.02 Time: 9pm Door: $12.00 ($10.00 pre-sale). – Mar 9 Tsunami – Talamasca AKA Cederic (Spiral Trax/Sweden) at the Basement of Shelter (a refurbished Speeed, 20 West 39th between 5th & 6th), 11pm-11am(!), use separate Tsunami entrance, ID18+ (You MUST bring an ID!!!) using a version of the infamous Phazon sound system from Twilo … DJs India Drop and Ryan of Purple Oz open. Same place, EVERY Saturday therafter. So promoters, take note: John is camping on Saturdays for a while, and given their marketing muscle, it will most probably harken back to the biweekly Vinyl reign of 97-98. For more info go to ce. $25/$20 w/list. If you’re on the BRAINMACHINES list, say “Brainmachines List” at the door and give your email address to save $5; all proceeds go towards d warm weather trance festivals in the five boroughs) Mar 12 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 13 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue -Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – FINAL dmtski Weekend of 2002!! dmtski!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info. The monthly horoscope event will be held at the house on Friday. d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire – Mar 16 – Sat – A. OMNI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” party 114 W 26th Street MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (Omni Tribe, New York) Dima (Omni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By ATOMIC JUICE, YDESIGN 11PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since played at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushroom”. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers from “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a compilation for Medium records and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. Special Note: In keeping with the spirit of the Axis of Trance, there is an attached word file entitled “TwoOmstikas.” You are invited to print this page out, cut out each Om-stika and make an armband. Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that you can make one with your friend. It would look particularly good in an all black outfit, but that’s just a matter of personal “taste.” – Tsunami at Shelter $30/$25 w/list. Your Brainmachines email is your Tsunami Guest List (You basically save $5 off the $30.) Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st SPRING – March 20 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. – Mar 23 – Tsunami at Shelter Mar 27 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) – Mar 29 – Synthetic Sadhus Laughing Buddha, Alien Project et al at Amazura. web synthetic-sadhius – Mar 30 – Tsunami at Shelter – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision from across the globe will be gathering, so please come show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter – April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. – April 13 – Tsunami at Shelter – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting – May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Dallas Los Angeles New York Toronto Brazil web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il KParis #In this blockbuster issue – Eclipse festival announced, d Speaker Update, Elf Trance Flash Movie, Slap the Raver, Tripping after 9/11, More New Eclipse Party: Nov 30 Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips Tsunami/$20 List Update: I just got out of a meeting with John Emmanuel Gartmann of Tsunami. Shelter this Saturday with Talamasca is really looking good. The old club Speeed was bought by the people who ran Shelter at Vinyl back in the day. Although it maxes out at 500 people (the roof is still closed) they have completely remodeled the place. There is of course the Phazon sound system, but there is also new AC installed on the top floor. JEG envisions this weekly to attract new non-trance people, somthing Tsunami has excelled in since 1995. Mike Bindra from the old Twilo was at Vinyl Saturday checking out the scene… that progressive trance/house warrior only booked psy at Twilo THRICE!! So the Hux Flux list at Vinyl was a success, and John Emmanuel honored it. We’ll continue to do it every Saturday, until further notice, mostly at Shelter, with some dates at Vinyl. To get reduced, say BRAINMACHINES list at door, give your email address that you receive these emails on. You basically save $5 off the $25. All list proceeds ($1 per person) will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summer events so far: $110. New Links: Taking Psychedelics in the USA, post-9/11: New PS2 trippy videogame synaesthetically emulates Kandinsky: Events: MAKOR CAF’E CHILL-OUT (9pm-2am) at Makor Bringing on the vibe of eclectic Chilled-Out groovy sounds mixed into an Ambient tribal experienceFEATURING: DJ Angeles…Chiletrance Hailing from Chile, DJ Angeles is well known from her unique style of ambient, chill-out and Goa Trance music. Angeles had been featured throughout South America and Europe for her very rich electronic musical and spiritual creativity… DJ Dima…Omni Tribe This Russian born DJ is making his debut as an up and coming Ambient and Down-Beats artist, from the Underground label of Omni Tribe…DJ Dima brings on the vibe of the fresh and eclectic sound of European Chill-Out-Out music… …keeping it funky… Venue: Makor, 35 W67th Street, NYC Box Office: (212) 601-1000 03.09.02 Time: 9pm Door: $12.00 ($10.00 pre-sale). Mar 12 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 13 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire Special Note: In keeping with the spirit of the Axis of Trance, there is an attached word file entitled “TwoOmstikas.” You are invited to print this page out, cut out each Om-stika and make an armband. Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that you can make one with your friend. It would look particularly good in an all black outfit, but that’s just a matter of personal “taste.” Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Possible party at Chicen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan during spring equinox might be good… one pyramid at chichen itza is built so that a plumed serpent can be seen descending the stairs when the light hits it on this day) of course thousands of native people come to see this as well, depending on how we’re received that could be good or bad) We have the ear of the head of tourism who is open to hosting a trance event at the base of the pyramids. Looking for organizers & investors. The rewards are high but it won’t come cheap. Suggestion: Sliding scale for Mexican nationals/Indians should ideally come for next to nothing, or free; alcohol should not be served. Email andys at ezy.net Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Mar 27 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or someplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. Moment of Silence for the Twin Towers. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the coming of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welcomes his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the coming season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. Below are some suggestions I have to make your Summer Solstice Rituals complete as well as enlightening…I’ve even included some of my favorite meditations and incantations. Enjoy, and Blessed Be! Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. Autumn With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to come, whether it be corn and hay from the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year promises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not come to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the moment of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in somthing greater than him or herself. Some would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us become brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on some or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ sponsored by EarthDance Org… Smoke scorpion venom 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of tombstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips

#2299 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:06:30 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:06:30 Free Kick-your-Axis Toy Inside! Cc: omnitribe (DISCLAIMER: This email has nothing whatsoever to do with the promoters of -nitribe, Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khoemeini, Kim Jong-Il, Emperor Hirohito, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, Pink Floyd, or Idi Amin) Dear trance troops, In keeping with the spirit of the upcoming “Axis of Trance” party on March 16, there is an attached word file entitled “TwoOmstikas.” You will not violate any copywright laws by printing this page out, cutting out each – -stika to make an armband. Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that you can make one with your comrade. It would look particularly good in an all black outfit or paramilitary uniform, but that’s just a matter of personal “taste.” Hail Trance!! Again, this promotion has nothing whatsoever to do with -nitribe and any apologies to those who are offended by the references, even though some may argue that the best trance comes from fascist repetive minimal beats!! And if you’re particulary Discordian you can wear it everywhere!! As in walking 13 blocks due north to Tsunami!! (Never mind, it’s been done.) Alternately, I guess you could do somthing with an Iran/Iraq/North Korea theme. But does Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khoemeini, or Kim Jong-Ill have as good as fashion taste as the original Axis minions, the dapper and closeted Third Reich, the futurist Italian Fascists, or the Imperial Kamikaze?Dear trance troops, And if you’re particulary Discordian you can wear it everywhere!! As in walking 13 blocks due north to Tsunami!! (Never mind, it’s been done.)

#2300 Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:03:46 Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:03:46 ::::::TRANCEFORMATION:::::: TSUNAMI annonced it’s brand new SATURDAY night WEELY Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. Tsunami Presents Saturday March. 09. 2002 ::::::TRANCEFORMATION:::::: TALAMASCAspiral trax,sweden IndiadropTsunami. Purple Oz Ryan Purple Oz Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email address at the door. Proceeds go to d for festivals this summer. Raised so far: $110. *24hour hotline:212-439-8124/ceTsunami Presents Saturday March. 09. 2002 TALAMASCAspiral trax,sweden IndiadropTsunami. Purple Oz Ryan Purple Oz Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email address at the door. Proceeds go to d for festivals this summer. Raised so far: $110.

#2301 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:13:52 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:13:51 How to type the Om symbol To: omnitribe – If I was -nitribe – axis or ally – i would issue a (reefer) decree declaring it punishable by death to ever actually use the O and M when typing their name. Or, for that matter, A and U and M. That way, if the cops or anybody ever walks up all they see is a bunch of Sanskrit gobbledygook. Then they will want to know who the heck this Ni tribe is all about.

#2302 Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:15:21 Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:15:21 DJ LeStat AKA Talamasca AKA Cederic in the house Cc: Dragontribe, jeg at tsunami-trance Well, give me a dress and call me Shirley, I didn’t realize it’s DJ LeStat who is playing as Talamasca tomorrow. And he’s anxious to let everybody know that he is French and not Swedish. Bien sur! He’s at my friend’s James (Deeper in Zen) deconstructing the quintessentialness of that ephemeral “Kick.” WHO the FUCK will play after him if the place is open until 11? Ofer goes to sleep early!! Cederic seems to be really into Salvia in “the right place.” I guess that means not in the engine room of renegade tugboat on the Hudson. Talamasca is the motherhouse in London in the Vampire novels. See, I never read Anne Rice so just shoot me with a silver bullet. Hmm. this calls for a Vampire motif, no? Oh, wait, someone’s been doing that in the trance scene here since ’95. Maybe lavender liquid-filled vampire teeth? MERRICK By Anne Rice (Knopf: $26.95) web businessknowhow.net/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000001 Discuss this review “My name is David Talbot. “Do any of you remember me as the Superior General of the Talamasca, the Order of psychic detectives whose motto was ‘We watch and we are always here’? “The Talamasca has existed for over a thousand years. I don’t know how the Order began. I don’t really know all the secrets of the Order. I do know however that I served it most of my mortal life. “It was in the Talamasca Motherhouse in England that the Vampire Lestat first made himself known to me . . .” Top 10 by LeStat 1. Astrix- Kali (Sound Sorcery) 2. Talamasca, Yuman and Benji- Gold Singer (unreleased) 3. Nomad- Demons rmx (unreleased) 4. Logic Bomb- Orbit Earth 5. Absolum- Pulse (Shaffel) 6. Oforia- Alien Pump (sabotage rmx) (BNE) 7. Talamasca- Speaking Robot 8. Space Cat vs. Talamasca- Armaggedon rmx (unreleased) 9. Alien Project- UFO (unreleased) 10. Talamasca vs. Dimitri- The Missing Link (Sound Sorcery) Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. Tsunami Presents Saturday March. 09. 2002 ::::::TRANCEFORMATION:::::: TALAMASCAspiral trax,sweden IndiadropTsunami. Purple Oz Ryan Purple Oz Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email address at the door. Proceeds go to d for festivals this summer. Raised so far: $110. *24hour hotline:212-439-8124/ceTalamasca is the motherhouse in London in the Vampire novels. See, I never read Anne Rice so just shoot me with a silver bullet. Hmm. this calls for a Vampire motif, no? Oh, wait, someone’s been doing that in the trance scene here since ’95. Maybe lavender liquid-filled vampire teeth? MERRICK By Anne Rice (Knopf: $26.95) web businessknowhow.net/ubb/Forum22/HTML/000001 Discuss this review “My name is David Talbot. “Do any of you remember me as the Superior General of the Talamasca, the Order of psychic detectives whose motto was ‘We watch and we are always here’? “The Talamasca has existed for over a thousand years. I don’t know how the Order began. I don’t really know all the secrets of the Order. I do know however that I served it most of my mortal life. “It was in the Talamasca Motherhouse in England that the Vampire Lestat first made himself known to me . . .” Top 10 by LeStat 1. Astrix- Kali (Sound Sorcery) 2. Talamasca, Yuman and Benji- Gold Singer (unreleased) 3. Nomad- Demons rmx (unreleased) 4. Logic Bomb- Orbit Earth 5. Absolum- Pulse (Shaffel) 6. Oforia- Alien Pump (sabotage rmx) (BNE) 7. Talamasca- Speaking Robot 8. Space Cat vs. Talamasca- Armaggedon rmx (unreleased) 9. Alien Project- UFO (unreleased) 10. Talamasca vs. Dimitri- The Missing Link (Sound Sorcery) Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. Tsunami Presents Saturday March. 09. 2002 TALAMASCAspiral trax,sweden IndiadropTsunami. Purple Oz Ryan Purple Oz Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email address at the door. Proceeds go to d for festivals this summer. Raised so far: $110.

#2303 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:28:36 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:28:36 Mind States Jamiaca Psychedelic Conference 10/1-10/6 Ya Mon!! web erowid.org/mindstates/

#2304 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:31:02 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:31:01 Airport Trance Party i just dreamed about going to one of your parties: took place in an airport / customs area. the party was in a different country and i was waiting to get my ticket / show id to this woman that worked the custom’s window said i couldnt pass because i owed the state like some $250 dollars or somthing. you happened to be in line ahead of me and told me to take the secret entrance to the party. the custom’s woman got noticeably angered, and told me that they would follow me where ever i went so that i wouldnt be able to get into the party. i had faith however that i would be able to circumvent the check point. walking back the way i came, past an escalator i came to the ‘secret entrance’ which was just an ordinary circle grate in the floor. the customs woman was not too far behind… following at a safe distance. i kneeled down on the grate and grounded both of my hands. the customs woman ran up and was screaming somthing but i was in already in a deep trance. the grate started to raise and lower like there was gusts of wind blowing up from underneath. the woman looked at me, and then ran to get more help… as she turned and ran that was just enough time for the grate to free fall about 5 stories and nestle to the ground. there wasnt any time to waste! i quickly ran off the grate at full steam head. i was in an old 1920s like deserted subway station. i was guided in the right direction by very subtle arrows in the criss crossed tile floor. i didnt have very much time, because i knew that the customs agents would be right behind me very shortly… but they couldnt read the arrows like my mind could, and i quickly lost them. the party was in the basement of this old warehouse… (which was some strange dance floor, cause it combined the hardwood floor w/ a full working kitchen…) the dj was just coming on so i ordered an egg cheese melt. it was ON! lol. i think im going to go make that egg cheese melt now… have fun tonight.took place in an airport / customs area. the party was in a different country and i was waiting to get my ticket / show id to this woman that worked the custom’s window said i couldnt pass because i owed the state like some $250 dollars or somthing. you happened to be in line ahead of me and told me to take the secret entrance to the party. the custom’s woman got noticeably angered, and told me that they would follow me where ever i went so that i wouldnt be able to get into the party. i had faith however that i would be able to circumvent the check point. walking back the way i came, past an escalator i came to the ‘secret entrance’ which was just an ordinary circle grate in the floor. the customs woman was not too far behind… following at a safe distance. i kneeled down on the grate and grounded both of my hands. the customs woman ran up and was screaming somthing but i was in already in a deep trance. the grate started to raise and lower like there was gusts of wind blowing up from underneath. the woman looked at me, and then ran to get more help… as she turned and ran that was just enough time for the grate to free fall about 5 stories and nestle to the ground. there wasnt any time to waste! i quickly ran off the grate at full steam head. i was in an old 1920s like deserted subway station. i was guided in the right direction by very subtle arrows in the criss crossed tile floor. i didnt have very much time, because i knew that the customs agents would be right behind me very shortly… but they couldnt read the arrows like my mind could, and i quickly lost them. the party was in the basement of this old warehouse… (which was some strange dance floor, cause it combined the hardwood floor w/ a full working kitchen…) the dj was just coming on so i ordered an egg cheese melt. it was ON! lol.

#2305 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:54:49 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:54:49 Kaya Ananda Mar 17 at Lunatarium I can’t believe Lunatarium is back open! This looks like a good carnival style freak show mixed with an Alex Grey sort of vibe. I’m there! “Carnival” comes from the word for body anyway. the incredible LUNATARIUM 10 Jay Street DUMBO, Brooklyn 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. DIRECTIONS Subway: Take the F to York St or A/C to High St. Walk down Jay St, take a left on Front St and a right on Main St Car: Take Manhattan Bridge upper level, first exit onto Jay, right on Prospect and left back onto Jay, take a left on Front St and a right on Main StI can’t believe Lunatarium is back open! This looks like a good carnival style freak show mixed with an Alex Grey sort of vibe. I’m there! “Carnival” comes from the word for body anyway. 10 Jay Street DUMBO, Brooklyn Subway: Take the F to York St or A/C to High St. Walk down Jay St, take a left on Front St and a right on Main St

#2306 Sat, 9 Mar 2002 16:57:44 -0800 From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo for tonight!!!!! EvolutionBox p.s. in case u could not open the attachment: CAF’E CHILL-OUT Saturday March 9th. (9pm-2am) at Makor Bringing on the vibe of eclectic Chilled-Out groovy sounds mixed into an Ambient tribal experience FEATURING: DJ Angeles…Chiletrance Hailing from Chile, DJ Angeles is well known fro her unique style of ambient, chill-out and Goa Trance music. Angeles had been featured throughout South America and Europe for her very rich electronic musical and spiritual creativity… DJ Dima…Omni Tribe This Russian born DJ is making his debue as an up and coming Ambient and Down-Beats artist, from the Underground label of Omni Tribe…DJ Dima brings on the vibe of the fresh and eclectic sound of European Chill-Out-Out music… …keeping it funky… Venue: Makor, 35 W67th Street, NYC Box Office: (212) 601-1000 03.09.02 Time: 9pm Door: $12.00 ($10.00 pre-sale). MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword nameCafe Chill Out 3.5.02.doc Love and Light Angeles

#2307 Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:53:08 Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:53:07 Infected Mushroom taking over Mexico Look at this schedule! Isn’t it cool that Mexico is igniting with trance music that has nothing to do with the gringos? Imagine playing every night for almost two weeks in various Mexico locales to crowds whose ancestors imbibed Fungi as sacraments. From: web bne.co.il/infectour 15 Mar 2002 (Fri): Mexico – Monterrey 16 Mar 2002 (Sat): Mexico – Mexico City 17 Mar 2002 (Sun): Mexico – Tijuana 19 Mar 2002 (Tue): Mexico – Cancun (not confirmed) 20 Mar 2002 (Wed): Mexico – CUERNAVACA 21 Mar 2002 (Thu): Mexico – Puebla 22 Mar 2002 (Fri): Mexico – Guadalahara 23 Mar 2002 (Sat): Mexico – Mazatlan 24 Mar 2002 (Sun): U.S.A. – Miami 25 Mar 2002 (Mon): U.S.A. – Miami 26 Mar 2002 (Tue): U.S.A. – Miami 27 Mar 2002 (Wed): U.S.A. – Miami 29 Mar 2002 (Fri): Canada – Montreal 30 Mar 2002 (Sat): Canada – Quebec CityFrom: web bne.co.il/infectour

#2308 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:13:16 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:13:15 No Opium Den on Wednesday – instead it’s at Level X in Brooklyn From DJ IcyCoil: No Opium Den on Wednesday night. Angeles is in Chile. If you haven’t been to Level X, you need to check it out! It’s a really chill space with an *insane* soundsystem! Hope to see you all there! 🙂 Evoluti onBox E280A6The harmony in spirituality merged with an eyes wide open a pproch, believing music and art to be an expression of ones voices from wi thin evolving to significance… Presents: TranceFunkyness… March 13th at 10pm “Level X” Address: North 6th Street, between Berry & White, William sburg (Right next to “Sweet Waters” Bar) Door: $3.00 (before 12am), $5.00 (after 12am) ********* DJ Jamin…Cos mophilia Jamin started DJing in 1996 on the island of Nantucket, His style incorporates a techy-groovy sound with tribal elemen ts, and he very much likes to keep it funky and chuggin’ DJ Sh.I .K.I.D…Omni Tribe…Newly up and coming NY DJ from the Underground label of Omni Tribe…DJ Sh.I.K.I.D. brings on the vibe of the fresh and eclect ic sound of European trance DJ Icycoil…New Local, up & coming talent… Introduced to PsyGoa Trance from the old Tsunami parties at Vinyl, Spins al l different styles of PsyGoa Trance, with funky/techy assshakin’!psygroove s. keeping it Funky… No Opium Den on Wednesday night. Angeles is in Chile. If you haven’t been to Level X, you need to check it out! It’s a really chill space with an *insane* soundsystem! EvolutionBox in spirituality merged with an eyes wide open approch, believing music and art to be an expression of ones voices from within evolving to significance … Presents: “0TranceFunkyness… March 13th at 10pm “Level X” Address: North 6th St reet, between Berry & White, Williamsburg (Right next to “Sweet Wat ers” Bar) Door: $3.00 (before 12am), $5.00 (after 12am)B R ********* DJ Jamin…Cosmop hilia Jamin started DJin g in 1996 on the island of Nantucket, &n bsHis style incorporates a techy-gro ovy sound with tribal elements, &nb sand he very much likes to keep it funky and chuggin’ B R DJ Sh.I.K.I.D…Omni Tribe…Newly up and coming NY DJ from the Underground label of Omni Tribe…DJ Sh.I.K.I.D. brings on the vib e of the fresh and eclectic sound of European trance DJ Icycoil …New Local, up & coming talent… Introduced to PsyGoa Trance from the old Tsunami parties at Vinyl, Spins all different styles of P syGoa Trance, with funky/techy assshakin’!psygrooves.

#2309 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:19:15 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:19:15 Pschedule – Talamasca review, Omnitribe, DC party, Burning Man film, Wed: Lev X – For updates s end email to -denotes Elf presenc e In this issue: Tsunami Review, Preview & List Info Sacred Order of the – stika Freaky Tuesdays still on Psy-trance party in DC Burning Man film scre ening Burny Baby Burn Tsunami Review The Math – What has Tsunami always la cked? Good sound. What do they have now? A newly installed Phazon syste m. Do the math. Phazon digital sound + Low cover + 12 hour party + out of events. The crowd – The place w as packed by 2am. I estimate 300 but it still could have squeezed in 50. It was still c-fortable though. The Decor – The decorations were about as good as could be managed within the constraints of a basement location (n o space for projections, and limited wall space for expansive murals). The Sound – Nobody was used to not having to yell to be heard, even while standing in front of the speaker (this shed light on s-e who were used to anonymity). Eduardo had c-e in that day to tweak the system. There is sti ll a little tweaking to do – the guys at Phazon who knew we were doing a ” hippy party” with their system said the bass was not turned up enough – bu t the sound is still clear and pervasive. The DJs – Ryan and Ofer opene d, did a fantastic job (Ofer used to play a lot for Tsunami. He runs Purp le Oz, which distributes trance to Throb and H-e of Trance) Cederic AKA DJ LeStat of Talamasca did a long set. He started hard and eased up in the morning. Kamal came on after 8am and played through 11am. His first trac k was Deeper in Zen, fr- the upc-ing American psy-trance Soular Records c- pilation (fr- which Ofer also produced and played a track.) The Vibe – Lis a and Kelly behaved themselves this time. There were m-ents when at least 8 w-en were all chanting in unison. Consequently the crowd got into a fr enzy I haven’t seen in a long time. It’s easy to lose yourself with that c lear clean and powerful sound. On the first floor was a fantastic food lay out with cake, chocolates, fruits. The old skool Shelter crew were up on 3 rd floor with a bigger sound system, many hot and heavy gay black men. Cur iously, only the hard core of thirty or so stayed to the end. All in all it was a pr-ising start and I have faith in their ability to keep the sp ace indefinitely. It’s an unbeatable great deal for $20. The brainmachin es email list will continue. Flyers hard to get Now if H-e of Trance wil l carry their flyers as opposed to allowing the accursed Paul Oakenfold st yle flyers, everything will be Logical on Vulcan. Tsunami/$20 List Updat e: This Saturday will be DJ Purple (Transient/UK) and Yoni (History of the Future). We’ll continue to do it every Saturday, until further notice, m ostly at Shelter, with s-e dates at Vinyl. To get reduced, say BRAINMACHI NES list at door, give your email address that you receive these emails on . You basically save $5 off the $25. All list proceeds ($1 per person) wi ll go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summer events so far: $200. This Weekend: E nter The Sacred Order of the -stika DISCLAIMER: This email has nothing wha tsoever to do with the pr-oters of – nitribe, Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Kho emeini, Kim Jong-Il, Emperor Hirohito, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, George W . Bush, Martha Stewart, Pink Floyd, or Idi Amin) Dear trance troops, In ke eping with the spirit of the upc-ing “Axis of Trance” party on March 16, t here is an attached word file entitled “TwoOmstikas.” You will not violat e any copywright laws by printing this page out, cutting out each –stika to make an armband. Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that you c an make one with your c-rade. It would look particularly good in an all b lack outfit or paramilitary uniform, but that’s just a matter of personal “taste.” Hail Trance!! Again, this pr- otion has nothing whatsoever to d o with -nitribe and any apologies to those who are offended by the referen ces, even though s-e may argue that the best trance c-es fr- fascist repe tive minimal beats!! And if you’re particulary Discordian you can wear it everywhere!! As in walking 13 blocks due north to Tsunami!! (Never mind, it’s been done.) Alternately, I guess you could do s- ething with an Iran/I raq/North Korea theme. But does Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Kh-eini, or Kim Jong-Ill have as good as fashion taste as the original Axis minions, the dapper and closeted Third Reich, the futurist Italian Fascists, or the Imp erial Kamikaze? How to type -: type in backslash, then highlight and chan axis or ally – i would issue a (reefer) decree declaring it punishable by death to ever actually use the O and M when typing their name. Or, for that matter, A and U and M. That way, if the cops or anybody ever walks up all they see is a bunch of Sans krit gobbledygook. Then they will want to know who the heck this Ni tribe is all about: web stone-dead.asn.au/movies/holy-grail/scene-19 l Freaky Tuesdays is still a viable Tuesday night out, even though it’s wa y the f**k out. Opium Den is not happening Wednesday night, there is a ne w party (see below) Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th A pril – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 Events: Mar 1 2 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st Mar 1 3 – NO Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue BUT: No Opium Den on Wednesday night. Angeles is in Chile. If you haven’t been to Level X, you need to check it out! It’s a really chill space with an *insane* soundsys tem! EvolutionBox E280A6The harmony in spirituality merged with an eyes wide open approch, believing music and art to be an expression of ones voi ces fr- within evolving to significance… Presents: TranceFunkyness…Mar ch 13th at 10pm “Level X” Address: North 6th Street, between Berry & White Williamsburg (Right next to “Sweet Waters” Bar) Door: $3.00 (before 12am ), $5.00 (after 12am) DJ Jamin…Cosmophilia Jamin started DJing in 1996 o n the island of Nantucket, His style incorporates a techy-groovy sound wit h tribal elements, and he very much likes to keep it funky and chuggin’ DJ S.h.I.K.I.D…-ni Tribe…Newly up and c-ing NY DJ fr- the Underground la bel of -ni Tribe…DJ Sh.I.K.I.D. brings on the vibe of the fresh and ecle ctic sound of European trance DJ Icycoil…New Local, up & c-ing talent.. .Introduced to PsyGoa Trance fr- the old Tsunami parties at Vinyl, Spins al l different styles of PsyGoa Trance, with funky/techy assshakin’!psygroove s. keeping it Funky… -Mar 15/16 – Fri/Sat – FINAL dmtski Weekend of 20 02!! Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info. The monthly ho roscope event will be held at the house on Friday night. d Pisces Birth day Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordinaire – Mar 16 – Sat – -NI TRIBE and Tsunami (I’ll be at both; they’re only 13 blocks fr- each other) -NI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” 114 W 26th St reet MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (-ni Tribe, New York) Di ma (-ni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By AT-IC JUICE, YDESIGN 1 1PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ i n 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since pl ayed at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Ven ezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has wo n the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushr-“. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces mu sic under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side projec t called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers fr- “Sun Project”. Peter h as had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liq uid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a c-pilation for Medium reco rds and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like At mos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. Special Note: In keeping with the spirit of the Axis of Trance, there is an attached word file entitled “Two-stikas.” You are invited to print this page out, cut out each -stik a and make an armband. Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that yo u can make one with your friend. It would look particularly good in an al l black outfit, but that’s just a matter of personal “taste.” – Tsunami – Tranceformation One of Swedish Astrid’s favorite DJs, DJ Purple (Dragonfly /At-ic UK) and Yoni (History of the Future) and Joa at Tsunami in the base ment at Shelter 20 West 39th $25/$20 w/list. Your Brainmachines email is a ut-atically on the Guest List TSUNAMI continues its new weekly party TRANCEFORMATION: its brand new SATURDAY night WEEKLY Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, con sidered by many simply the best sound system in the world. Please use sep erate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission 212-439-8124/web .tsunami-trance – Mar 17 – Sunday – Kaya Ananda carnival of Mind + Bod y + Spirit web LUNATARIUM 10 Jay Street DUMBO, Brooklyn 2 p.m. to Mid night Subway: Take the F to York St or A/C to High St. Walk down Jay St, t ake a left on Front St and a right on Main St Car: Take Manhattan Bridge upper level, first exit onto Jay, right on Prospect and left back onto Jay take a left on Front St and a right on Main St Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky T uesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st SPRING – March 20 2:16 pm – Vernal Equinox Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga R ecords and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 – Mar 23 – T sunami at Shelter Also on Mar 23, Trance Party in Wash. DC PsychoKinetics and Touch Samadhi bring you: HYPNOTIC HARMONICS Psychedelic and Goa Trance Downtempo and Chillout web PsychoKinetics.org web TouchSamadhi all ages, non-alcoholic event SOUND Kri (Touc h Samadhi, NC) Blue Spectral Monkey (Touch Samadhi, NC) Michael Curran (To uch Samadhi, GA) WildBill (PsychoKinetics, DC) Cliff (PsychoKinetics, DC) Dale (Digital Yeti, PsychoKinetics, DC) $10 before 12 $12 after midnigh t Kaffa House 1212 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 web kaffahouse Full blacklight decor DIRECTIONS fr- the North: South on I-95. On the ou tskirts of D.C. follow signs to the beltway, which is 495. Take 495 West t owards “Silver Spring” (right hand exit). Go about 5 exits Take the “Georg ia Ave. South” exit (31). Head South on Georgia, get in your right lane. I n 1/4 mile take the exit for 16th Street. Follow 16th Street for about 6 m iles. Turn left on U Street. Go 2 and 1/2 blocks. We are on the right betw een 14th and 13th streets. Mar 27 – Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sa p Moon) – Mar 29 – Synthetic Sadhus Laughing Buddha, Alien Project et al at Amazura. web synthetic-sadhius – Mar 30 – Tsunami at Shelter – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soo n. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision fr- across the globe will be gathering so please c-e show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mir rors – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter – April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo.co m/group/SafetyDance/calendar Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing i nfo: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web bu rningman – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate w ill be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will b e out December 21st. – April 13 – Tsunami at Shelter ce. com – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter April 26 – F ull Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 2 7 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring ‘s Planting – May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-Ma y 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlit z Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Br ing: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeo ut Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or s -eplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Sile nce for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/S afetyDance/calendar SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physi cal energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summe r Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’ s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involvin g protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful . With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked . Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protectiv e glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength . It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Ca lendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in th e heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows y our soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples al so know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Se x Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garde n on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberr y/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22 -July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs T o enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Nam e: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location : White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birt hday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/gro up/SafetyDance/calendar Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burnin g Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-Septemb er 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday i n our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Saf etyDance/calendar -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Co rn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With on ly 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the h arvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the person al projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. T hese equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their season s, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancesto rs aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, su mmer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to f ruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerla nd. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night an d season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and c elebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m -ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater t han him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actu ally stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brigh ter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, J esus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this t ime. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivitie s. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when th e leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to y our house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put th em on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decor ative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the l eaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Alta r cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stone s gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 M ind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – DM T Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Jus tice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Some where ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by Eart hDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dyi ng Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – W inter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our ros ter and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – W hen they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries thei r stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and su cks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the sco rpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like noth ing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorp ions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse -sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the des ert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim praye rs ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abd ul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s pa rched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted t o pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. Th e graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off offici als for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over thei r heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beave r/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagi ttarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to group s.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice brainma In this issue: Tsunami Review, Preview & Li st Info Freaky Tuesdays still on Psy-trance party in DC Burning Man film screening Burny B aby Burn Tsunami Review The Math – What has Tsun ami always lacked? Good sound. What do they have now? A n ewly installed Phazon system. Do the math. Phazon digital sound + Low ents. The crowd – The place was packed by 2am. I esti table though. The Decor – The decorations were about as go od as could be managed within the constraints of a basement location (no sp ace for projections, and limited wall space for expansive murals). B R The Sound – Nobody was used to not having to yell to be hear d, even while standing in front of the speaker (this shed light on s to tweak the system. There is still a little tweaking to do – the gu ys at Phazon who knew we were doing a “hippy party” with their system said the bass was not turned up enough – but the sound is still clear and pervas ive. The DJs – Ryan and Ofer opened, did a fantastic job (Ofer used to play a lot for Tsunami. He runs Purple Oz, which d at of Talamasca did a long set. He started hard and eased up in the m orning. Kamal came on after 8am and played through 11am. His fi uced and played a track.) The Vibe – Lisa and Kelly behaved o a frenzy I haven’t seen in a long time. It’s easy to lose yourself with t hat clear clean and powerful sound. On the first floor was a fantastic food layout with cake, chocolates, fruits. The old skool Shelter crew were up o n 3rd floor with a bigger sound system, many hot and heavy gay black men. C uriously, only the hard core of thirty or so stayed to the end. ity to keep the space indefinitely. It’s an unbeatable great deal for $20. The brainmachines email list will continue. Flyers hard to get yers as opposed to allowing the accursed Paul Oakenfold style flyers, every thing will be Logical on Vulcan. Tsunami/$20 List Update: This Saturday will be DJ Purple (Transient/UK) and Yoni (History of the Future). We’ll continue to do it every Saturday, . To get reduced, say BRAINMACHINES list at door, give your email add ress that you receive these emails on. You basically save $5 off the $25.&n bsAll list proceeds ($1 per person) will go towards rebuilding the d s ound system for the bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summ er events so far: $200. This Weekend: Enter The Sacred O DISCLAIMER: This email has noth Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khoemeini, Kim Jong-Il, Emperor Hirohito, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, Pink Floyd, or Idi Amin attached word file entitled “TwoOmstikas.” You will not violate any . Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that you can make o in an all black outfit or paramilitary uniform, but that’s just a matter o f personal “taste.” Hail Trance!! Again, this pr F logies to those who are offended by the references, even though s FO tive minimal beats!! And if you’re particulary Discordian you can wear it e verywhere!! As in walking 13 blocks due north to Tsunami!! (Never min h an Iran/Iraq/North Korea theme. But does Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah iginal Axis minions, the dapper and closeted Third Reich, the futurist Ital a (reefer) decree declaring it punishable by death to ever actually use the O and M when typing their name. Or, for that matter, A and U and M.& nbsThat way, if the cops or anybody ever walks up all they see is a bunc h of Sanskrit gobbledygook. Then they will want to know who the heck this Ni tribe is all about: web stone-dead.asn.au/movies/holy-grail/ Freaky Tuesdays /Bis still a viable Tuesday night out, even though it’s way the f**k out. I Opium Den is not happening Wednesday night, there is a new party (see below) Burning Man film, Burn Baby Bur n, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8p m sharp – $10 Mar 12 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on Fir st, 87th & 1st Mar 13 – NO Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd a nd 3rd avenue BUT: “0No Opium Den on Wednesday night. Angeles is in Chile. If you haven’t be en to Level X, you need to check it out! It’s a really chill space with an *insane* soundsystem! EvolutionBox E280A6The harmony in spiritual ity merged with an eyes wide open approch, believing music and art to be an … Presents: TranceFunkyness…March 13th at 10pm “Level X” Address: North 6th Street, between Berry & White, Williamsburg (Ri ght next to “Sweet Waters” Bar) Door: $3.00 (before 12am), $5.00 (after 12am) DJ Jamin…Cosmophilia Jamin started DJing in 1996 on the island of Nantucket, His style incorporates a techy-groovy sound wit h tribal elements, and he very much likes to keep it funky and chuggin’ i Tribe…DJ Sh.I.K.I.D. brings on the vibe of the fresh and eclectic sound parties at Vinyl, Spins all different styles of PsyGoa Trance, with funky/t echy assshakin’!psygrooves. keeping it Funky… Buses available. Email rocktheshow at aol for info. The monthly horoscope event will be held at the house on Friday night. d Pisces Birthday Celebration Feb 19-March 20 Bring fish. Guest of Honor: Mark Lorenz, Aquarium Cleaner Extraordi naire To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to http NI TRIBE presents”AXIS OF TRANCE” ots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocc – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 19 89 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since pl ayed at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venez uela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He ‘s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushrd also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also ha s a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers fr FO “0 “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made im for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern V on Afrika and Paps. Special Note: In keeping with the spirit of t ere are two so that you can make one with your friend. It would look particularly good in an all black outfit, but that’s just a matter of perso nal “taste.” R lter 20 West 39th $25/$20 w/list. Your Brainmachines email is aut FO “0atically on the Guest List kly party TRANCEFORMATION: its brand new SATURDAY night WEEKLY Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by ma urs-11:00pm-11:00am admission 212-439-8124/ 17 – Sunday – Kaya Ananda carnival of Mind + Body + Spirit FO treet DUMBO, Brooklyn 2 p.m. to Midnight Subway: Take the F to York St or A /C to High St. Walk down Jay St, take a left on Front St and a right on Mai n St Car: Take Manhattan Bridge upper level, first exit onto Jay, rig ht on Prospect and left back onto Jay, take a left on Front St and a right on Main St Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st e Mar 21 – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Recor ds and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Also PsychoKinetics and Touch Samadhi bring you: HYPNOTI C HARMONICS Psychedelic and Goa Trance Downtempo and Chillout web PsychoK inetics.org web TouchSamadhi all ages, non-alcoholic event SO UND Kri (Touch Samadhi, NC) Blue Spectral Monkey (Touch Samadhi, NC) Mich ael Curran (Touch Samadhi, GA) WildBill (PsychoKinetics, DC) Cliff (PsychoK inetics, DC) Dale (Digital Yeti, PsychoKinetics, DC) $10 before 12 $12 after midnight Kaffa House 1212 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 he North: South on I-95. On the outskirts of D.C. follow signs to the beltw ay, which is 495. Take 495 West towards “Silver Spring” (right hand exit). Go about 5 exits Take the “Georgia Ave. South” exit (31). Head South on Geo rgia, get in your right lane. In 1/4 mile take the exit for 16th Street. Fo llow 16th Street for about 6 miles. Turn left on U Street. Go 2 and 1/2 blo Mar 27 – Opium Den 3rd stree t between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/S ugar/Sap Moon) Buddha, Alien Project et al at Amazura. web synthetic-sadhius

#2310 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:20:10 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:20:10 Film tonight about professors in trouble for tripping There is a cool movie tonite at 6:30 at the Film Forumat Houston and Varickre: Professors being kicked out of their institutions for doing acid

#2311 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:18:08 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:18:08 So it’s a Ram Dass movie… Hey Jeff, Are you talking about the movie about Ram Dass (Richard Alpert getting kicked out of Harvard for doing acid)? I went to see it last night- it was awesome. However it is not really about him doing acid. It is about Ram Dass, being one of the spiritual icons of the 60’s (he wrote the book Be Here Now) and now he is dealing with his life after having a stroke. He speaks of action, prayer, love and living his life now with “Fierce Grace” (as the title of the movie.) It was one of the most moving movies I have ever seen and I recommend it highly. Also last night the director, Mickey Lemly was there for Q&A after the movie wich was a delightful bonus. He may be there tonight too as it being the last day. It will be playing today at the film forum at 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, and 10:00. If anyone does not get a chance to see the movie, get the book Be Here Now It has been life changing for many. Kerith :)Are you talking about the movie about Ram Dass (Richard Alpert getting kicked out of Harvard for doing acid)? I went to see it last night- it was awesome. However it is not really about him doing acid. It is about Ram Dass, being one of the spiritual icons of the 60’s (he wrote the book Be Here Now) and now he is dealing with his life after having a stroke. He speaks of action, prayer, love and living his life now with “Fierce Grace” (as the title of the movie.) It was one of the most moving movies I have ever seen and I recommend it highly. Also last night the director, Mickey Lemly was there for Q&A after the movie wich was a delightful bonus. He may be there tonight too as it being the last day. It will be playing today at the film forum at 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, and 10:00. If anyone does not get a chance to see the movie, get the book Be Here Now It has been life changing for many. Kerith 🙂

#2312 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:19:21 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:19:20 Synthetic Sadhus Party 3/29/02 Synthetic Sadhus Party on Friday March 29 2002 Doors open from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! Line-up: LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Trax- Sweden), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! LAUGHING BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synthetic Sadhus – USA). Decoration: Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – Sweden). Chill-Out: Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). Location: AMAZURA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York Check out our website for more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding goodies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You!

#2313 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:14:31 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:14:31 Logic Bomb/Alien Project review in San Fran. In a message dated 3/12/02 6:09:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, th0rn at attbi writes: Synthetic Sadhus email nice- we had logic bomb last week, alien project this week logic bomb was really good, but there was a general complaint about them going back and forth from full on to minimal with little regard to the state of the crowd. Still, the high points were pretty incredible.Synthetic Sadhus email logic bomb was really good, but there was a general complaint about them going back and forth from full on to minimal with little regard to the

#2314 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:17:35 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:17:35 Getting too many BRAIN emails? Just want the Pschedule? Go to groups.yahoo/group/brainmachines/join and set your Message Delivery to “Only Special Notices”Go to groups.yahoo/group/brainmachines/join

#2315 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:55:25 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:55:24 Fwd: Level X Tonight! correction(s)

#2316 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:07:07 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:07:07 Don’t miss Omnitribe this Saturday -NI TRIBE presents “AXIS OF TRANCE” 114 W 26th Street MAHASUKA (Intact Instinct / Peak Pilots – Liquid Audio Soundz, Medium Recrords – GERMANY) Isam (Spectra, Morocco) Kife (-ni Tribe, New York) Dima (-ni Tribe, New York) Live Video Projections By AT-IC JUICE, YDESIGN 11PM – 9AM $15 at the door 18+ DJ Peter MAHASUKA Hollenbach started to DJ in 1989 and by 1992 he had moved over to the trance scene and has since played at all the big parties and festivals in Germany as well as many other events in Europe. Additionally he has played gigs in India, Thailand, Venezuela, Russia, Macedonia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Israel. He’s one of the most regularly booked DJs of the German trance scene and has won the “DJ of the year 1999” award of the German trance magazine “Mushr-“. Peter describes his style as “elastic techno trance” and also produces music under the name of “Intact Instinct” and “Peak Pilots” with his friend and partner Stefan Huebner, and “Disco Slickers” with his friend Sebastian Krueger (Tarsis and SBK).If this is not enough, he also has a side project called “Ouija” with the German trance rockers fr- “Sun Project”. Peter has had many releases on various labels including Spiral Trax, Naja and Liquid Audio Soundz. He has also recently made a c-pilation for Medium records and you may also know him for remixes of other artists tracks like Atmos, Quirk, Der Stern Von Afrika and Paps. Special Note: In keeping with the spirit of the Axis of Trance, there is an attached word file entitled “Two-stikas.” You are invited to print this page out, cut out each -stika and make an armband. Fasten with scotch tape. There are two so that you can make one with your friend. It would look particularly good in an all black outfit, but that’s just a matter of personal “taste.”

#2317 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:27:24 Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:27:24 Fwd: Directions for Level X Tonight! (&Opium Den has Issam) Note: Issam is spinning at Opium Den

#2318 Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:05:46 Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:05:46 Fwd: d’s Susannah at ABC NO Rio Tonight The Ides of March Cc: dny

#2319 Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:18:05 Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:18:05 Fwd: Asteroid buzzes Earth from “Blind Spot”

#2320 Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:36:28 Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:36:28 – You’re on the Brainmachines guest list at Tsunami After the tekno trance dski friday, during Omnitribe, and before Kaya Ananda (and i will attend all three) there is: Tsunami DJ Purple (Dragonfly) and Yani (History of the Future)/$20 List Update: This Saturday will be DJ Purple (Dragonfly/At-ic Records) and Yoni (History of the Future). We’ll continue to do it every Saturday, until further notice, mostly at Shelter, with s-e dates at Vinyl. To get reduced, say BRAINMACHINES list at door, give your email address that you receive these emails on. You basically save $5 off the $25. All list proceeds ($1 per person) will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for the bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summer events so far: $200. – Tsunami – Tranceformation One of Swedish Astrid’s favorite DJs, DJ Purple (Dragonfly/At-ic UK) and Yoni (History of the Future) and Joa at Tsunami in the basement at Shelter 20 West 39th $25/$20 w/list. Your Brainmachines email is aut-atically on the Guest List TSUNAMI continues its new weekly party TRANCEFORMATION: its brand new SATURDAY night WEEKLY Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. Please use seperate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission 212-439-8124/ce see you there!

#2321 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:47:49 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:47:49 If you just want the weekly Pschedule Hi, I went ahead and just started a new list called “Pschedule” that will have an updated weekly email compliled from the Brainmachines list. (This works better than using the “Special Notices” feature, which cannot send out formatted text.)

#2322 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:11:30 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:11:29 Fwd: Logic Bomb, Alien Project, Laughing Buddha…

#2323 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:06:15 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:06:15 Pschedule To get more detailed info send email to –i’ll see you ther e In this issue: SPRING STARTS TOMORROW!! -Reviews from parties last wee kend -Trance Dance Workshops -Biweekly resurrected at Pyramid -New UK Psy-T rance magazine -Many going to Mexico party this weekend – Jill, Asher, Wyli e, Stefan, the whole motley crew! Party at beach with the pyramids! Chea p airfare $400 still available. -Infected Mushroom/SUN Project at Winter Music Conference Reviews: Omnitribe Review – What a wild party! Their big gest ever. There must have been at least 250 in there with a lot of new f aces. It had a little of everything – a bubble, flea market, art by Uta, chai by Rebeccah, Rocky doing projections, slammin music, lots of people, cops showing up TWICE (a drum & bass party at that location had had a big drinking fight incident) Supposedly we were “lucky” because there is an NY PD cabaret crew that drives around looking for parties and videotapes the evidence – bottles of beer! Tsunami Review – There weren’t that many peopl e there, as Omnitribe had been planning their party for months. I feel ba d for DJ Purple, though. There were 15 people who stayed through the end. As Omnitribe was broken up at 8am, I wonder if any made it up to Shelter to round out the morning? For future reference, Shelter lets in people t hrough 9am; the brainmachines list is open through 8am. dmtski Review – We stayed until Tuesday – it snowed on Sunday. Thanks to Charlie and Xyle ne and friends of RENEGADE VIRUS who filled up the first floor with poundi ng tekno, and to all who made this a full-on weekend! My favorite moment was sitting out in the driveway in an Audi concept car with designer who showed us his rough draft playable demo on his laptop that w as more powerful than a stand alone x-box… TRANCE DANCE COMPANY Opensses Friendly Admission: $6 02.14.02 – 04.30.02 web tdcny For more inf ormation: (212) 946-5363 or (917) 859-9602 Bring dance into 21st Century ! Battery Dance Studio, 380 Broadway, 5 floor, New York, NY GIVE TRANCE A C HANCE !!! New UK Psy-Trance Magazine Send NY party pictures to new psy-tr contribute at shangri-la-la.co.uk Tsunami/$20 List Update: This Saturd ay will be Planet BEN (Flying Rhino) and Yoni (History of the Future) We’l l continue to do it every Saturday, mostly at Shelter, with s-e dates at V inyl. To get save $5 reduced off the $25, say BRAINMACHINES list at door, giving your email address that you receive these emails on. All list proc eeds ($1 per person) will go towards rebuilding the d sound system for t he bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summer events so far: $220. Infected/S.U.N Project in Miami Tsunami is doing Infected Mushroom and S.U.N. Project at the Winter Music Conference on Tuesday the 26th in Miami at Senior Frogs at 616 Collins 10pm-5am. Also, For the very first t ime in Miami Nybrands and marketing complex Presents “Rebuild” Where Fashion and music come together for a good cause. The largest warehouse s ample sale ever!! All merchandise is up to 85% OFF Polo Ralph Lauren Roca Wear Ecko Unlimited Lithium Triple Five Soul ZOO YORK Vice Plus many more Giveaways each day This is the sale of the year. Up to 85% DISCOUNTS on a ll new merchandise. Come and support the effort to rebuild New York. A por tion of the proceeds will be donated to The New York State World Trade Cen ter Relief Fund. Tuesday, March 19 to Wednesday, March 27 From 11 AM to 9 PM Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 Convention Center Drive Rebuild Sho wcases over 120 DJ’s serving up all flavors of the worlds finest DJS. O H-HIGH-OH April 13 – Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: Alienated Buddha Im frank of alienated budd ha band, now we are looking for some live act in worldwide, Can you do con tract us? If you need hear some our stuff, visit our official website, soo n update for new and more music and our best live sets. Regards Frank / Al ienated Buddha web alienatedbuddha/web alienatedbu ddha Events: Mar 19 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium & Meko r at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st; drink specials SPRING!! – March 20 – W ed – 2:16pm – Vernal Equinox Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd aven ue Mar 21 – Thur – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexi co with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-950 6 Mar 22 – Fri – OPEN – Mar 23 – Sat – Tsunami – Planet BEN, Yoni, Yon -E TRANCEFORMATION: A brand new SATURDAY night Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the b est sound system in the world. PLANET BEN (Flying Rhino) In an exclusive extended DJ set Y O N I (History of Future) Y O N – E (Tsunami) Location i s The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance…Door Open until 9am, ID 18+ Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES e mail Also on Mar 23, HYPNOTIC HARMONICS in Wash. DC PsychoKinetics and Touch Samadhi bring you: Psychedelic and Goa Trance Downtempo and Chillout web PsychoKinetics.org web TouchSamadhi all a ges, non-alcoholic event SOUND Kri (Touch Samadhi, NC) Blue Spectral Monkey (Touch Samadhi, NC) Michael Curran (Touch Samadhi, GA) WildBill ( PsychoKinetics, DC) Cliff (PsychoKinetics, DC) Dale (Digital Yeti, Psyc hoKinetics, DC) $10 before 12 $12 after midnight Kaffa House 1212 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 web kaffahouse Full blacklight decor DIR ECTIONS fr- the North: South on I-95. On the outskirts of D.C. follow sign s to the beltway, which is 495. Take 495 West towards “Silver Spring” (rig ht hand exit). Go about 5 exits Take the “Georgia Ave. South” exit (31). H ead South on Georgia, get in your right lane. In 1/4 mile take the exit for 16th Street. Follow 16th Street for about 6 miles. Turn left on U Street. Go 2 and 1/2 blocks. We are on the right between 14th and 13th streets. Mar 26 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium & Mekor at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st; drink specials ID21+ Mar 27 – Wed – -PYRAMID GREETINGS !!! all t his to imform of a FREE party at PYRAMID at 101-ave.A betw 6-7st TIME:10 pm-4am DJ”S lineup IGGY RATIONS BY:KURA,AKIM IT’s free!! please come and support your local DJ”S W e are trying to get psytrance partys to be the way they used to be!! ID18+ ALSO to anyone that would like to spin please send your E-mail address t o chicomorphius at juno or call at 718-777-7743 you must reach me before march 27 so i could book you in thanx peace Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Thur – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Cro w/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) – Mar 29 – Fri – Synthetic Sadhus Doors open from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Trax- Swe den), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! LAUGHIN G BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synthetic Sad hus – USA). Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – Sweden). Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). AMAZURA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York ID18+ Check out our website f or more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding goodies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You! By Sub way – Take E, J, Z, to Sutphin Blvd Station. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and you are in fron t of the Amazura. By Long Island Railroad – From Penn Station, 1 stop to Ja maica Station. From other points take it all the way to Jamaica stop. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and the Amazura is in front of you. By Car From Manhattan – Take th e Queensborough Bridge / 59th Street Bridge to L.I.E. to Grand Central Pkw y East, to Van Wyck Expwy South, to Hillside / Jamaica Ave. Exit, travel o n service road to Jamaica Ave on which you make a left. Go strait to 144th Place, make a right and the Amazura is at the end of the street. From Bro oklyn/Staten Island – Belt Pkwy to Van WyckExpwy towards the Withestone Br idge. Exit on AtlanticAve and make a right, follow on Jamaica Ave (andfoll ow above dir.)From Bronx and Westchester – Take the WithestoneBridge to t he Withestone Expwy to Van Wyck Expwy toJamaica / Hillside Ave Exit and fo llow the above dir.From Long Island – take the L.I.E. to Van Wyck ExpwySo uth (Kennedy Airport) to Hillside / Jamaica Ave Exitand follow the above d irections.From New Jersey/Pennsylvania & all points South – TakeNJ Turnpi ke to George Washington Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy to White Stone Bridge to White StoneExpwy to Van Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave Exitand fo llow the above directions.From Connecticut & all points from North – Take theNew England Thruway to Throgs Neck Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy heading towards the Withestone Expwy toVan Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave a nd followthe above directions…(Drive Safely!) – Mar 30 – Sat – Tsunami a t Shelter – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan (barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fir e dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up w ill be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision fr- across the globe wil l be gathering, so please c-e show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors m – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter – April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Bu rn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm shar p – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday APRIL 10 PYRAMID 101 ave.A betw 6-7st TIME 10pm-4am DJ’Slineup BY:KURA – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be o ut December 21st. – April 13 – Tsunami at Shelter OH-HIGH-OH April 13 – Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chica go) play in Columbus, OHIO: – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter web tsunam i-trance April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass /Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting – May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birth day Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REF RESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xande r, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Pro gressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Loca tion: Denim & Diamonds or s-eplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite ev ery twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite y our nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twi ns. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to http ://SUMMER – June 21 9:24am S ummer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschm id at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the h eralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, cou rage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect tim e for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holida y with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the li ght is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set af lame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is t he time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful no w. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for l ove, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, ph ysical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Su mmer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of t he year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Pa ul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involv ing protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successf ul. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evok ed. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protect ive glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned G od is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spri ng welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-in g season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon ( Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer B irthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible l ocation: Maryland Crabs -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasa d – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-Au gust 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Fusion Festival in Cali fornia -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Cel ebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. -September 21 – Full Moon (In dian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the sum mer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumn al Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around Septem ber 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wh eel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that al l things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of p olarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of lif e. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold . If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of jo y and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spir its to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and me aning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals c onnect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant parta kes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these m oments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Godd ess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. Th is festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the h erbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested n ow. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to paraf in them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in m elted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved light ly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall desig ns. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for var ious purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindsta tes/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-Octobe r 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free . Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDa nce/calendar – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for P eace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name : Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pag an) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Bi rthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 To ente r your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to grou ps.ya hoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETT A, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpio ns. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then light s the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he s aid when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, the n the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakist ani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled fiel d of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on on e side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 ye ars. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was sho t 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d mo ney. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come a nd beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junk ies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa T rance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate wi th us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Win ter Solstice Atlanta web atla ntapsytrance/ Austin web texaliens .org groups .yahoo/group/goa-boston/ web.mit/thirsty-ear/music/Krysalis / Dallas web texaliens .org Iow Los Angeles web liquidgrin/ (psyt rance) web sixthsense.net (psytrance kindof defunct) people.we.mediaone.net/tranceone/index2 (kin d of defunct) New York web spec tranyc San Fr ancisco Toronto web blacklightactivists .ca Chicago Nantucket New Orl eans Portland Quebec Seattle Brazil ww w.ypypoty web carloswh.hpg.br Israel web crime.co.il web israt rance KM exico City Paris web gaia- # send email to pschedule-s ubscribe To get more detailed info send email to b In this issue: -Trance Dance Wo rkshops -Biweekly resurrected at Pyramid -New UK Psy-Trance magazin e -Many going to Mexico party this weekend – Jill, Asher, Wylie, Stefan the whole motley crew! Party at beach with the pyramids! Chea p airfare $400 still available. -Infected Mushroom/SUN Project at Winter Music Conference Omnitribe Review – What a wild party! Their biggest ever. There must have been at least 250 in there with a lot of new faces. It had a little of everything – a bub ble, flea market, art by Uta, chai by Rebeccah, Rocky doing projections, sl ammin music, lots of people, cops showing up TWICE (a drum & bass party at that location had had a big drinking fight incident) Supposedly we were “lucky” because there is an NYPD cabaret crew that drives around looking f or parties and videotapes the evidence – bottles of beer! Tsunami Review – There weren’t that many people there, as Omnitribe had been planni ng their party for months. I feel bad for DJ Purple, though. Th ere were 15 people who stayed through the end. As Omnitribe was broke n up at 8am, I wonder if any made it up to Shelter to round out the morning ? For future reference, Shelter lets in people through 9am; the brain machines list is open through 8am. dmtski Review – We stayed unti l Tuesday – it snowed on Sunday. Thanks to Charlie and Xylene and fri ends of RENEGADE VIRUS who filled up the first floor with pounding tekno, a nd to all who made this a full-on weekend! My favorite moment w signer who showed us his rough draft playable demo on his laptop that was m MPANY Open Classes Friendly Admission: $6 02.14.02 – 04.30.02 web tdcny For more information: (212) 946-5363 or (917) 859-9602 B ring dance into 21st Century ! Battery Dance Studio, 380 Broadway, 5 floor, New York, NY GIVE TRANCE A CHANCE !!! ntribute at shangri-la-la.co.ukcontribute at shangri-la-la.co.uk This Saturday will be Planet BEN (Flying Rhino) and Yoni (History of the Future ) We’ll continue to do it every Saturday, mostly at Shelter, with s 0e dates at Vinyl. To get save $5 reduced off the $25, say BRAINMAC HINES list at door, giving your email address that you receive these emails on. All list proceeds ($1 per person) will go towards rebuilding the d s ound system for the bridge parties this year. Money raised for the d summ er events so far: $220. Infected/S.U.N Project in Miami cted Mushroom and S.U.N. Project at the Winter Music Conference on Tuesday the 26th in Miami at Senior Frogs at 616 Collins 10pm-5am. Also, For the very first time in Miami Nybrands and marketing complex Presents “R ebuild” Where Fashion and music come together for a good cause. The l argest warehouse sample sale ever!! All merchandise is up to 85% OFF Polo Ralph Lauren Roca Wear Ecko Unlimited Lithium Triple Five Soul ZOO YOR K Vice Plus many more Giveaways each day This is the sale of the year. Up to 85% DISCOUNTS on all new merchandise. Come and support the effort t o rebuild New York. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The New Yo rk State World Trade Center Relief Fund. Tuesday, March 19 to Wednesday, Ma rch 27 From 11 AM to 9 PM Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 Conventi on Center Drive Rebuild Showcases over 120 DJ’s serving up all flavors of B of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: osmictraveler/ Im frank of alienated buddha band, now we are looking for some live act in worldwide, Can you do contra ct us? If you need hear some our stuff, visit our official website, soon up date for new and more music and our best live sets. Regards Frank / Alienat ed Buddha web alienatedbuddha/web alienatedbu ddha B R Mar 19 – Tue – Fr eaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium & Mekor at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st; dr ink specials / between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 21 – Thur – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a py ramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) ( 998) 850-9506 Mar 22 – Fri – OPEN – Sat – Tsunami – Planet BEN, Yoni, Yon-E FO DAY night Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SY STEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. BPLANET BEN (Flying Rhino) In an exclusive extended DJ set Y O N I /B(History of Future) Y O N – E (Tsunami) Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance…Door Open until 9am, ID18+&nbs Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES emai Also on Mar 23, HYPNOTIC “0DC PsychoKinetics and Touch Samadhi bring you: Psychedelic a nd Goa Trance Downtempo and Chillout web PsychoKinetics.org web Touch Samadhi all ages, non-alcoholic event SOUND Kri (Touch Samadhi, N C) Blue Spectral Monkey (Touch Samadhi, NC) Michael Curran (Touch Samadhi, GA) WildBill (PsychoKinetics, DC) Cliff (PsychoKinetics, DC) Dale (Digital Yeti, PsychoKinetics, DC) $10 before 12 $12 after midnight Kaffa H ouse 1212 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 web kaffahouse Full On the outskirts of D.C. follow signs to the beltway, which is 495. Take 49 5 West towards “Silver Spring” (right hand exit). Go about 5 exits Take the “Georgia Ave. South” exit (31). Head South on Georgia, get in your right l ane. In 1/4 mile take the exit for 16th Street. Follow 16th Street for abou t 6 miles. Turn left on U Street. Go 2 and 1/2 blocks. We are on the right Mar 26 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium & Meko r at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st; drink specials ID21+ Mar at PYRAMID at 101-ave.A betw 6-7st TIME:10pm-4am DJ”S lineup I IT’s free!! please come and support your local DJ”S We are trying to get ps ytrance partys to be the way they used to be!! ID18+ ALSO to anyone t hat would like to spin please send your E-mail address to chicomorphius at jun o or call at 718-777-7743 you must reach me before march 27 so i could “0 Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Thur – Full Moon (Indian Name: F ull Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) Doors o pen from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Tr ax- Sweden), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! L AUGHING BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synt hetic Sadhus – USA). Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – S weden). Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). AMAZU RA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York ID18+ Check o ut our website for more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding go odies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You! – Take E, J, Z, to Sutphin Blvd Station. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 bloc k following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and you are in fron t of the Amazura. By Long Island Railroad – From Penn Station, 1 stop t o Jamaica Station. From other points take it all the way to Jamaica stop. W alk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and the Amazura is in front of you. By Car From Manhattan – Ta ke the Queensborough Bridge / 59th Street Bridge to L.I.E. to Grand Central Pkwy East, to Van Wyck Expwy South, to Hillside / Jamaica Ave. Exit, trave l on service road to Jamaica Ave on which you make a left. Go strait to 144 th Place, make a right and the Amazura is at the end of the street. d – Belt Pkwy to Van WyckExpwy towards the Withestone Bridge. Exit on Atlan ticAve and make a right, follow on Jamaica Ave (andfollow above dir.)Fr om Bronx and Westchester – Take the WithestoneBridge to the Withestone Expw y to Van Wyck Expwy toJamaica / Hillside Ave Exit and follow the above dir. From Long Island – take the L.I.E. to Van Wyck ExpwySouth (Kennedy Airp ort) to Hillside / Jamaica Ave Exitand follow the above directions.From New Jersey/Pennsylvania & all points South – TakeNJ Turnpike to George Washington Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy to White Stone Bridge to White Ston eExpwy to Van Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave Exitand follow the above directions.From Connecticut & all points from North – Take theNew England Thruway to Throgs Neck Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy heading towards the Withestone Expwy toVan Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave and followt he above directions…(Drive Safely!) r the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II oat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be o on the email list for Sacred Mirrors sacredmirrors-subscr il 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. Burni ng Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday AMID 101 ave.A betw 6-7st TIME 10pm-4am DJ’Slineup KAMAL{dragonlotus{dragon DECORATIONS BY:KURA stival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland el ves. The film will be out December 21st. Shelter OH-HIGH-OH April 13 – Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & ril 20 – Tsunami at Shelter April 26 – Ful l Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) y 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus A ll Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liq uor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Brin g: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive P laystation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: D No Bullshit! Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin yo u know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invit R Possible location: Twins.24am Summer Solstice hoo 888-336-3997 f Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsumme r” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar mark s this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the rength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun hi gh in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that sh adows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zeni th of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc0es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the iage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical ene rgy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solsti ce, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (Th e Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) Thi ing protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successfu l. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked . Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spri tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility f e can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. /0June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) B R July 22 akes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/ group/SafetyDance/calendar /Thunder/Hay Moon) 3-August 22 ssible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to gr oups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar Fusion Festival in California

#2324 Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:31:50 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy the trance music with us, everybody welcome! CHECK FOR UPDATE DJS web chiletrance Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Thanks! Love and Light Angeles /

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#2326 Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:40:07 Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:40:06 His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Linpa April 12-14 His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Linpa Is Teaching in New York City between April 12th – 14th of 2002. His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa is a renowned master of Vajrayana Buddhism and a Tibetan doctor. Our Venerable Guru is also known as Padma Tumdrak Duddul Dorje Rolpatsal, who possesses the supreme and unconditional compassion of the sovereign Lord Vajradhara. During this lifetime he has studied with over 150 great masters of various traditions without sectarian bias and has received instruction from all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa is one of the most revered Nyingma lineage holders and tertons (treasure revealers) of our time. He has been recognized as the incaration of the Mahasiddha Drilbupa, as Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje, one of Guru Rinpoche’s 25 disciples, as well as an emanation of Vajrapani. As the disciple of Guru Rinpoche in a former life, His Holiness has discovered in his mindstream a bounty of teachings that are condensed and particularly potent for this time of intense delusion, degeneration and busy lifestyles. Please visit: web kilaya.org/web kilaya.org SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: April 12 Friday 7:00pm Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment At Manhattan 118 West 22nd St. 6th Fl. New York, NY April 13 Saturday 10:00am – 12:00pm Dzogchen Teaching 2:00pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen Teaching At Manhattan 118 West 22nd St. 6th Fl. New York, NY Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 April 14 Sunday 11:30am Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 New York State other location teachings Contact: Pema Lhamo (845) 679-6784 Translators for all of these teachings include: Lama Sherab Dorje, English translator; Qiong Da, Chinese translator. Suggest donation per secession: $20, or $35 for Saturday whole day teaching.His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa is a renowned master of Vajrayana Buddhism and a Tibetan doctor. Our Venerable Guru is also known as Padma Tumdrak Duddul Dorje Rolpatsal, who possesses the supreme and unconditional compassion of the sovereign Lord Vajradhara. During this lifetime he has studied with over 150 great masters of various traditions without sectarian bias and has received instruction from all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa is one of the most revered Nyingma lineage holders and tertons (treasure revealers) of our time. He has been recognized as the incaration of the Mahasiddha Drilbupa, as Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje, one of Guru Rinpoche’s 25 disciples, as well as an emanation of Vajrapani. As the disciple of Guru Rinpoche in a former life, His Holiness has discovered in his mindstream a bounty of teachings that are condensed and particularly potent for this time of intense delusion, degeneration and busy lifestyles. Please visit: web kilaya.org/web kilaya.org SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: April 12 Friday 7:00pm Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment At Manhattan 118 West 22nd St. 6th Fl. New York, NY April 13 Saturday 10:00am – 12:00pm Dzogchen Teaching 2:00pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen Teaching At Manhattan 118 West 22nd St. 6th Fl. New York, NY Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 April 14 Sunday 11:30am Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 New York State other location teachings Contact: Pema Lhamo (845) 679-6784 Translators for all of these teachings include: Lama Sherab Dorje, English translator; Qiong Da, Chinese translator. Suggest donation per secession: $20, or $35 for Saturday whole day teaching.

#2327 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:52:08 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:52:08 Tsunami news, Omnitribe date announced, Special Guest Appearance last night hey jeff, You think people will show at tsunami this weekend? As it’s the only trance party this weekend, unless there is a secret conspiracy i am unaware of, i am 100% sure it will be packed like it was 2 weeks ago. Planet BEN has a following, including Prince William (see below). Plus, the ingredients are there: low cover, brainmachines list contribution to the d, phazon sound, top djs, and open until 11am. On a further note, Home of Trance is now allowing Tsunami flyers in the store. And on a final note, Omnitribe will be doing their April 12 party on a Friday so Tsunami is in the clear thus far! And, enfin, Astrid made an appearance at Opium Den last night, en route to Mexico! DJ Planet B.E.N. Planet B.E.N. is 27 years old and has been DJ-ing since 1985. He has played at clubs and parties around the world such as The Voov Experience, Shiva Moon, D-Mension, New Frontier and the Berlin Love Parade. He has released his own trance productions on TIP, Polytox, Twisted, 3rd Mind and Flying Rhino Records. He has also released techno productions on Superstition, Container and Naja. Ben has written music under the names Planet B.E.N., Organic Noise, F.A.T. and Nordreform Sys. He has completed projects with people such as Jan forthcoming album planned which will be released on Flying Rhino Records later on this year. Info on Pri*nce William and Flying Rhino at web tranceam.org/trance – Mar 23 – Sat – Tsunami – Planet BEN, Yoni, Yon-E TRANCEFORMATION: A brand new SATURDAY night Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. PLANET BEN (Flying Rhino) In an exclusive extended DJ set Y O N I (History of Future) Y O N – E (Tsunami) Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use seperate Tsunami entrance…Door Open until 9am, ID18+ Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email ceYou think people will show at tsunami this weekend? As it’s the only trance party this weekend, unless there is a secret conspiracy i am unaware of, i am 100% sure it will be packed like it was 2 weeks ago. Planet BEN has a following, including Prince William (see below). Plus, the ingredients are there: low cover, brainmachines list contribution to the d, phazon sound, top djs, and open until 11am. On a further note, Home of Trance is now allowing Tsunami flyers in the store. And on a final note, Omnitribe will be doing their April 12 party on a Friday so Tsunami is in the clear thus far! And, enfin, Astrid made an appearance at Opium Den last night, en route to Mexico! Info on Pri*nce William and Flying Rhino at web tranceam.org/trance

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#2329 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:20:08 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:20:07 One joint impairs driving less than glass of wine… web newscientist/exc/enews.jsp?idns99992063 Thanks to Dan d raver.

#2330 Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:43:00 Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:42:59 Pschedule – To get more detailed info send email to –see you there! In this issue: -Tsunami update –nitribe date announced -H-e of Trance update -Astrid in town hey jeff, You think people will show at tsunami this weekend? As it’s the only trance party this weekend, unless there is a secret conspiracy i am unaware of, i am 100% sure it will be packed. Planet BEN has a following, including Prince William (see below). Plus, the ingredients are there: low cover, brainmachines list contribution to the d, phazon sound, top djs, and open until 11am. -H-e of Trance is now allowing Tsunami flyers in the store. –nitribe will be doing their April 12 party on a Friday so Tsunami is in the clear thus far! -Swedish Astrid made an appearance at Opium Den last night, en route to Mexico! -I’m getting my token Earendil outfit in time for May, practicing my Sindarin (and Quenyan), trolling the Silmarillion for elf-immolation. Events: Mar 21 – Thur – Son Pax 3 day festival on beach with a pyramid in Mexico with Iboga Records and Son Kite transfly at hotmail (52) (998) 850-9506 Mar 22 – Fri – OPEN – Mar 23 – Sat – Tsunami – Planet BEN, Yoni, Yon-E TRANCEFORMATION: A brand new SATURDAY night Party at the new Club SHELTER with it’s top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. PLANET BEN (Spirit Zone/Flying Rhino) In an exclusive extended DJ set Y O N I (History of Future) Y O N – E (Tsunami) Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use separate Tsunami entrance…Door Open until 9am, ID18+ Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email DJ Planet B.E.N. Planet B.E.N. is 27 years old and has been DJ-ing since 1985. He has played at clubs and parties around the world such as The Voov Experience, Spirit Zone, Shiva Moon, D-Mension, New Frontier and the Berlin Love Parade. He has released his own trance productions on TIP, Polytox, Twisted, 3rd Mind and Flying Rhino Records. He has also released techno productions on Superstition, Container and Naja. Ben has written music under the names Planet B.E.N., Organic Noise, F.A.T. and Nordreform Sys. He has c-pleted projects with people such as Jan Muller fr- planned which will be released on Flying Rhino Records later on this year. Info on Prince William and Flying Rhino at web tranceam.org/trance Also on Mar 23, HYPNOTIC HARMONICS in Wash. DC PsychoKinetics and Touch Samadhi bring you: Psychedelic and Goa Trance Downtempo and Chillout web PsychoKinetics.org web TouchSamadhi all ages, non-alcoholic event SOUND Kri (Touch Samadhi, NC) Blue Spectral Monkey (Touch Samadhi, NC) Michael Curran (Touch Samadhi, GA) WildBill (PsychoKinetics, DC) Cliff (PsychoKinetics, DC) Dale (Digital Yeti, PsychoKinetics, DC) $10 before 12 $12 after midnight Kaffa House 1212 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 web kaffahouse Full blacklight decor DIRECTIONS fr- the North: South on I-95. On the outskirts of D.C. follow signs to the beltway, which is 495. Take 495 West towards “Silver Spring” (right hand exit). Go about 5 exits Take the “Georgia Ave. South” exit (31). Head South on Georgia, get in your right lane. In 1/4 mile take the exit for 16th Street. Follow 16th Street for about 6 miles. Turn left on U Street. Go 2 and 1/2 blocks. We are on the right between 14th and 13th streets. Mar 26 – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium & Mekor at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st; drink specials ID21+ -Mar 27 – Wed FREE party at PYRAMID at 101-ave.A betw 6-7st TIME:10pm-4am DJ”S lineup IT’s free!! please come and support your local DJ”S We are trying to get psytrance partys to be the way they used to be!! ID18+ ALSO to anyone that would like to spin please send your E-mail address to chicomorphius at juno or call at 718-777-7743 you must reach me before march 27 so i could book you in thanxpeace Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd and 3rd avenue Mar 28 – Thur – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) – Mar 29 – Fri – Synthetic Sadhus Doors open from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Trax- Sweden), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! LAUGHING BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synthetic Sadhus – USA). Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – Sweden). Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). AMAZURA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York ID18+ Check out our website for more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding goodies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You! By Subway – Take E, J, Z, to Sutphin Blvd Station. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and you are in front of the Amazura. By Long Island Railroad – From Penn Station, 1 stop to Jamaica Station. From other points take it all the way to Jamaica stop. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and the Amazura is in front of you. By Car From Manhattan – Take the Queensborough Bridge / 59th Street Bridge to L.I.E. to Grand Central Pkwy East, to Van Wyck Expwy South, to Hillside / Jamaica Ave. Exit, travel on service road to Jamaica Ave on which you make a left. Go strait to 144th Place, make a right and the Amazura is at the end of the street. From Brooklyn/Staten Island – Belt Pkwy to Van WyckExpwy towards the Withestone Bridge. Exit on AtlanticAve and make a right, follow on Jamaica Ave (andfollow above dir.)From Bronx and Westchester – Take the WithestoneBridge to the Withestone Expwy to Van Wyck Expwy toJamaica / Hillside Ave Exit and follow the above dir.From Long Island – take the L.I.E. to Van Wyck ExpwySouth (Kennedy Airport) to Hillside / Jamaica Ave Exitand follow the above directions.From New Jersey/Pennsylvania & all points South – TakeNJ Turnpike to George Washington Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy to White Stone Bridge to White StoneExpwy to Van Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave Exitand follow the above directions.From Connecticut & all points from North – Take theNew England Thruway to Throgs Neck Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy heading towards the Withestone Expwy toVan Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave and followthe above directions…(Drive Safely!) – Mar 30 – Sat – Tsunami presents Tranceformation featuring Dominic Lamb (Flying Rhino) at at Shelter – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, and many guest DJs & live acts. An official Flyer and line up will be out soon. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision fr- across the globe will be gathering, so please c-e show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter – April 9 – Tues – d Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday Pyramid 101 ave.A betw 6-7st TIME 10pm-4am DJ’Slineup Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue April 12 Friday 7:00pm His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment 118 West 22nd St. 6th Fl. Please visit: web kilaya.org/ web kilaya.org – April 12 Friday -nitribe – Digital Structures/Digiboga label party with Son Kite back from Mexico, live, plus sets by Llopis (Iboga records/Denmark) Markus (Digital Structures) Video Projection by Atomic Juice 11pm-9am $20 at door info at omnitribe April 13 Saturday 10:00am – 12:00pm 2:00pm – 5:00pm His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Teaching 118 West 22nd St. 6th Fl. Please visit: web kilaya.org/ web kilaya.org – April 13 Saturday Tsunami at Shelter April 13 Saturday OH-HIGH-OH Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting -May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or s-eplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter SolsticeIn this issue: -Tsunami update -Astrid in town /Bhey jeff, You think people will show at tsunami this weekend? As it’s the only trance party this weekend, unless there is a secret conspiracy i am unaware of, i am 100% sure it will be packed. Planet BEN has a following, including Prince William (see below). Plus, the ingredients are there: low cover, brainmachines list contribution to the d, phazon sound, top djs, and open until 11am. -Swedish Astrid made an appearance at Opium Den last night, en route to Mexico! -I’m getting my token Earendil outfit in time for May, practicing my Sindarin (and Quenyan), trolling the Silmarillion for elf-immolation. Mar 22 – Fri – OPEN Mar 26 – Freaky Tuesday w/DJ Amnesium & Mekor at Who’s on First, 87th & 1st; drink specials ID21+ Mar 28 – Thur – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Worm/Crow/Crust/Sugar/Sap Moon) Doors open from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Trax- Sweden), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! LAUGHING BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synthetic Sadhus – USA). Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – Sweden). Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). AMAZURA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York ID18+ Check out our website for more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding goodies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You! tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and you are in front of the Amazura. By Long Island Railroad – From Penn Station, 1 stop to Jamaica Station. From other points take it all the way to Jamaica stop. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and the Amazura is in front of you. LOCATION: Mars 2112 Guest of Honor: This dude I know named “Mars” Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship No Bullshit! Spring, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. The film will be out December 21st. Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ sponsored by EarthDance Org… Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips is dreaming us and beckoning us back to itself. Be not afraid! there

#2331 Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:55:02 Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:55:02 Fwd: PSY TRANCE REVIEWS list

#2334 Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:17:21 Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:17:21 Fwd: Infos Elefant’Om Birthday Party in Spain

#2335 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:39:22 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!! This is a for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy with us the Trance music, everybody welcome!! PLEASE CHECK web chiletrance for updates djs every week. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Thanks,gracias.. Love and Light Angeles

#2336 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:18:48 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:18:48 Fwd: Freaky Tuesdays & Wednesday at Pyramid

#2337 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:10:00 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:10:00 Fwd: Trance Open Air in April in Portugal

#2338 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:26:41 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:26:40 First words from Mexico For those of you who haven’t heard from the crew that went down to Mexico for the trance party on the beach by the pyramids, they are ALL OK AND ALIVE and if they didn’t come back it’s because they’re having the time of their lives: [annotated to protect the guilty] mexico is mystical, i have never travelled outside the U.S. so you can imagine how i was freaking out at the Tulum ruins. the gods are everywhere and give and take away as necessary. it is uncanny how fast and obvious karma plays here. the most important lesson i have learned is respect for the land and for other’s lifes and customs. I feel that the New Yorkers received some flak (i.e. elite attitudes) for being who they are, but at the same time, New Yorkers do need to learn patience, and especially in mexico, to go with the flow and forget about time and money. But, New york represented well, we are all very unique, a microcosm of the world, even if not everyone can appreciate it. the first party was more progressive, son kite being the highlight for me. In Tulum, the cats from iboga really kicked some ass and the site was beautiful. we missed the afterparty due to ‘car problems’. but no great loss there. later in the night we [hung with some of the djs.] i hope they had a good experience, i had to forgoe my first time because i caught a car to the airport. the things money forces to do… so many weird and wonderful things happened i do not have the time to recount, especially the messages from the gods in the music, the people, and the environment, sometimes good, sometimes devilish. some truly interesting and bizarre stuff. when i can get a hut on the beach with highspeed internet and ac power, please let me know. oh and it was funny when i came back… i had these army pants rolled up with a green long sleeve t-shirt, 5 day stubble, no socks and a backpack… also i made several changes to my ticket… heheh, they all thought i was a terrorist!!! i didn’t have time to clean up like i thought i would… it was funny… when i sat down this big dude next to me flexed his muscles and nudged me (several times) in the arm asking if ‘I had enough room’, two guys were waiting for me when i got out of the plane’s bathroom, i felt my brain being scanned for unusual activity. i was being spied on basically…and this is no delusion if you saw what i looked like! never mind the problem that the united states gave me in immigration…[annotated to protect the guilty] mexico is mystical, i have never travelled outside the U.S. so you can imagine how i was freaking out at the Tulum ruins. the gods are everywhere and give and take away as necessary. it is uncanny how fast and obvious karma plays here. the most important lesson i have learned is respect for the land and for other’s lifes and customs. I feel that the New Yorkers received some flak (i.e. elite attitudes) for being who they are, but at the same time, New Yorkers do need to learn patience, and especially in mexico, to go with the flow and forget about time and money. But, New york represented well, we are all very unique, a microcosm of the world, even if not everyone can appreciate it. the first party was more progressive, son kite being the highlight for me. In Tulum, the cats from iboga really kicked some ass and the site was beautiful. we missed the afterparty due to ‘car problems’. but no great loss there. later in the night we [hung with some of the djs.] i hope they had a good experience, i had to forgoe my first time because i caught a car to the airport. the things money forces to do… so many weird and wonderful things happened i do not have the time to recount, especially the messages from the gods in the music, the people, and the environment, sometimes good, sometimes devilish. some truly interesting and bizarre stuff. when i can get a hut on the beach with highspeed internet and ac power, please let me know. oh and it was funny when i came back… i had these army pants rolled up with a green long sleeve t-shirt, 5 day stubble, no socks and a backpack… also i made several changes to my ticket… heheh, they all thought i was a terrorist!!! i didn’t have time to clean up like i thought i would… it was funny… when i sat down this big dude next to me flexed his muscles and nudged me (several times) in the arm asking if ‘I had enough room’, two guys were waiting for me when i got out of the plane’s bathroom, i felt my brain being scanned for unusual activity. i was being spied on basically…and this is no delusion if you saw what i looked like! never mind the problem that the united states gave me in immigration…

#2339 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:20:05 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:20:04 Fwd: Trancefunkyness Thursday in Billy Burg!

#2340 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 03:33:52 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 03:33:51 Now we can have quiet secret trance parties web newscientist/exc/enews.jsp?idns99992094

#2341 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:09:00 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:08:59 TRANCEFORMATION saturday Tsunami Presents March. 30. 2002,NYC ::::::TRANCEFORMATION:::::: DOMINIC LAMB (Flying Rhino. UK) In an exclusive extended DJ set INDIADROP (Purple Oz) Y O N E (TSUNAMI) Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.NYC,USA please use separate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 on the Brainmachines List by giving your brainmachines email at the door, all proceeds going to rebuildong the d Sound System for this summer. *24hour hotline:212-439-8124/ce::::::TRANCEFORMATION:::::: DOMINIC LAMB (Flying Rhino. UK) In an exclusive extended DJ set INDIADROP (Purple Oz) Y O N E (TSUNAMI) Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.NYC,USA please use separate Tsunami entrance… Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 on the Brainmachines List by giving your brainmachines email at the door, all proceeds going to rebuildong the d Sound System for this summer. *24hour hotline:212-439-8124/ce

#2342 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:12:34 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:12:33 For everyone going to Tsunami this Saturday be sure to mention your brainmachines address to save $5 or the d won’t get my cut which is $1.

#2343 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:37:23 Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:37:23 More on Mexico random things heard from those returning from the festival in Tulum Son Kite, others from Swden DJing hammocks beach Perrier flavored air sunrises sunsets Mexico City jet setters hot nubile scantily clad young girls & boys pyramids snorkeling John Lilly style (WHAT?) cheap everything many pushing return tickets back …we missed out!Son Kite, others from Swden DJing hammocks beach Perrier flavored air sunrises sunsets Mexico City jet setters hot nubile scantily clad young girls & boys pyramids snorkeling John Lilly style (WHAT?) cheap everything many pushing return tickets back

#2344 Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:06:10 Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:06:09 Fwd: Transolar Festival in South Africa info & update Eitan of Spiritual Beings, now in Israel patying withour beloved commander Orit, is DJIng!!

#2345 Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:59:50 Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:59:50 Fwd: SubtleChaos at Synthetic Sadhus this Friday

#2346 Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:49:08 Fri, 29 Mar 2002 19:49:08 : Tonight: Synthetic Sadhus, Tomorrow, Tsunami – Mar 29 – Fri – Synthetic Sadhus Doors open from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Trax- Sweden), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! LAUGHING BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synthetic Sadhus – USA). Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – Sweden). Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). AMAZURA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York ID18+ Check out our website for more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding goodies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You! By Subway – Take E, J, Z, to Sutphin Blvd Station. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and you are in front of the Amazura. By Long Island Railroad – From Penn Station, 1 stop to Jamaica Station. From other points take it all the way to Jamaica stop. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and the Amazura is in front of you. By Car From Manhattan – Take the Queensborough Bridge / 59th Street Bridge to L.I.E. to Grand Central Pkwy East, to Van Wyck Expwy South, to Hillside / Jamaica Ave. Exit, travel on service road to Jamaica Ave on which you make a left. Go strait to 144th Place, make a right and the Amazura is at the end of the street. From Brooklyn/Staten Island – Belt Pkwy to Van WyckExpwy towards the Withestone Bridge. Exit on AtlanticAve and make a right, follow on Jamaica Ave (andfollow above dir.)From Bronx and Westchester – Take the WithestoneBridge to the Withestone Expwy to Van Wyck Expwy toJamaica / Hillside Ave Exit and follow the above dir.From Long Island – take the L.I.E. to Van Wyck ExpwySouth (Kennedy Airport) to Hillside / Jamaica Ave Exitand follow the above directions.From New Jersey/Pennsylvania & all points South – TakeNJ Turnpike to George Washington Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy to White Stone Bridge to White StoneExpwy to Van Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave Exitand follow the above directions.From Connecticut & all points from North – Take theNew England Thruway to Throgs Neck Bridge to CrossIsland Expwy heading towards the Withestone Expwy toVan Wyck Expwy to Jamaica / Hillside Ave and followthe above directions…(Drive Safely!) – Mar 30 – Sat – Tsunami presents Tranceformation featuring Dominic Lamb (Flying Rhino) at at Shelter TRANCEFORMATION: A brand new SATURDAY night Party at the new Club SHELTER with its top of the line, PHAZON SYSTEM, considered by many simply the best sound system in the world. Location is The BASEment at the new club Shelter 20 west 39th streetbetween 5th and 6th ave.please use separate Tsunami entrance…Door Open until 9am, ID18+ Hours-11:00pm-11:00am admission $25/20 by giving your BRAINMACHINES email Info on Prince William and Flying Rhino at web tranceam.org/trance Doors open from 11pm till 8am. Free Breakfast! LOGIC BOMB (TIP Records – Spiral Trax- Sweden), LIVE! ALIEN PROJECT (TIP Records – Phonokol – Israel), LIVE! LAUGHING BUDDHA(TIP Records – Flying Rhino – l – UK), KEN & ISAM (Synthetic Sadhus – USA). Fluoro Psychestetic Environment By: NOS (Toxomniac – Sweden). Chill-Out Psychedelic Funky Lounge by SUBTLE CHAOS (NYC). AMAZURA BALLROOM 91-12 144th Place, Jamaica, Queens New York ID18+ Check out our website for more info, photos, the flyer and other mind-expanding goodies: Love, Peace and Warm Hugs for all of You! tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and you are in front of the Amazura. By Long Island Railroad – From Penn Station, 1 stop to Jamaica Station. From other points take it all the way to Jamaica stop. Walk down Archer Ave for 1/2 block following the tracks to 144th Place. Make a right and the Amazura is in front of you.

#2347 Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:41:17 Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:41:17 Wow- right now – Synthetic mini review, tonight and tomorrow Just woke up from Omnitribe’s after-,and somewhat on the way to Tsunami where last night’s star Yani will play a lot of his new crazy unreleased tracks. Synthetic was a new bar with the taut scando music and artwork in sync. Logic Bomb, Laughing Buddha and Yani more than picked up the slack. Don’t forget also that Sunday night will be a free bring-your-own video trance party at Korova Mike Bar.Synthetic was a new bar with the taut scando music and artwork in sync. Logic Bomb, Laughing Buddha and Yani more than picked up the slack.

#2348 Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:27:50 Sat, 30 Mar 2002 22:27:50 Synthetic Review from the upstate NY guy last night’s show was amazing! logic bomb tore up many tracks off of twisted’s unusual suspects disc, along with alien project’s first revelation off the mystery of the thirteen crystal skull. i got to the party really early, at like 11:45 when there was about 25 peeps there… the opening dj started it off right. usually get to these parties at like 1am. this party was the deffinition of full on (i know i said last month’s party was the full on, but i was gravely mistaken, this party was believable… too bad it had to come to an end 8am 🙁 … this party was so good that all i wanted to do was dance more, so i did… checked out an afterhours party and danced… the amazura was radiant in condensed chaos… beautiful free human expression. everyone i encountered on this strange pilgrimage to the holy city to have positive implacations on my life 8-). yoni spun some of his unreleased track that were just dont right psy sickness… so good… looking forward to seeing him again tonight at tsunami

April 2002

#2350 Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:29:12 Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:29:11 Fwd: [DRAGONTRIBE] South Africa Solar Festival Tickets

#2351 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 02:55:16 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 02:55:15 Comet Tuesday night plus Meteor Shower April 22 “I’d normally wait until later in the month to send out this message about the Lyrids, but I wanted to alert you to a rare visitor to our skies, Comet Ikeya-Zhang. Ikeya-Zhang is a comet that you can spot from dark skies with your naked eye, but it’s even better in binoculars if you have some. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, Ikeya-Zhang can been seen low in the NW about the time Venus is setting. Venus will be the brightest object you can see in the west. Look for a fuzzy patch of light to the right and a bit above Venus. I’ve created a JPG of the sky surrounding the comet as it will appear tomorrow evening for someone near 35 degrees north latitude. You can find this image at: web geocities/starwanderer/meteor Just go to the page and click on the Current Visible Comets link. I’ll update the image often during the next few weeks. April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set.about the Lyrids, but I wanted to alert you to a rare visitor to our skies, Comet Ikeya-Zhang. Ikeya-Zhang is a comet that you can spot from dark skies with your naked eye, but it’s even better in binoculars if you have some. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, Ikeya-Zhang can been seen low in the NW about the time Venus is setting. Venus will be the brightest object you can see in the west. Look for a fuzzy patch of light to the right and a bit above Venus. I’ve created a JPG of the sky surrounding the comet as it will appear tomorrow evening for someone near 35 degrees north latitude. You can find this image at: web geocities/starwanderer/meteor Just go to the page and click on the Current Visible Comets link. I’ll update the image often during the next few weeks. April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by

#2352 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:28:05 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:28:04 Fwd: Freaky Tuesdays & Wednesday night info

#2353 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:36:39 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:36:38 How to prevent theft at a party part VII plus this weekend If you go to a party where there is someone there you dion’t know, a good policy is to check your valuables at coat check. I used to leave stuff laying around and even would bike lock with a cord to a pole, but it’s rare that $3 can go such a long way towarsd peace of mind. Stuff never disappears from coat check, and if everybody used it then the thief(ves) wouldn’t come anymore because it’s too expensive to come otherwise. Or just give it to me for safekeeping and I’ll hock it ‘for the cause.’ Make sense? Both parties this weekend were sparsely attended and I attune that to the Passover and Easter. (I didn’t make it to Mandala on Sunday). Although seeing Patti LaBelle singing the Lord’s Prayer on the third floor at Shelter on Saturday was a guilty pleasure. This weekend we have the Alex Grey benefit at the Frying Pan on Friday with Kalyx and others, and Ysunami on Saturday. See you there! Futons for sale From: leylak604 at yahoo (leyla k) To: hey jeff i know this list is about trance and all but it if it please the elf and conforms with whatever etiquette applies here could you post? 3 double futons for sale 80$ a piece all less than 5 months old and price is very negotiable (917) 667 -4253 thanks peace leylaBoth parties this weekend were sparsely attended and I attune that to the Passover and Easter. (I didn’t make it to Mandala on Sunday). Although seeing Patti LaBelle singing the Lord’s Prayer on the third floor at Shelter on Saturday was a guilty pleasure. This weekend we have the Alex Grey benefit at the Frying Pan on Friday with Kalyx and others, and Ysunami on Saturday. See you there! Futons for sale From: leylak604 at yahoo (leyla k) To: hey jeff i know this list is about trance and all but it if it please the elf and conforms with whatever etiquette applies here could you post? 3 double futons for sale 80$ a piece all less than 5 months old and price is very negotiable (917) 667 -4253 thanks peace leyla

#2354 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:56:31 -0800 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hi!!!!!!!!!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. This week Dj Isam(Spectra) Thanks!! Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue Love and Light Angeles

#2355 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:26:44 Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:26:44 Pschedule – To get more detailed info send email to –see you there! In this issue: -More ALex Grey info this Friday, His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa time and date change; Meteor Shower April 22 Events: April 2 Tuesday – Amnesium, Melkor at Who’s on First 1st avenue between 87th & 88th ID21+ April 3 Wednesday – Vadim of Subtle Chaos & Issam at Opium Den 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ID21+ – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II See the beautiful flyer at web alexgrey/party Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, Indiadrop, Kalyx, Yare, Asu, Jamin, Coy-Koi.. and many guest DJs & live acts. 8pm-4am. $20. ID21+. 23rd and 12th avenue on the pier. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision fr- across the globe will be gathering, so please c-e show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter Artist TBA on this list – April 9 – Tues – Safetydance Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: TBA Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday Pyramid 101 ave.A betw 6-7st TIME 10pm-4am DJ’Slineup Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue – April 12 Friday -nitribe – Digital Structures/Digiboga label party with Son Kite back from Mexico, live, plus sets by Llopis (Iboga records/Denmark) Markus (Digital Structures) Video Projection by Atomic Juice 11pm-9am $20 at door info at omnitribe – April 13 Saturday Tsunami at Shelter April 13 Saturday OH-HIGH-OH Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: April 13 Saturday His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment web kilaya.org/web kilaya.org 10:00am – 12:00pm Dzogchen Teaching 2:00pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen Teaching Location: At Chinatown – 62 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 Email: pemayangchen at aol April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter -April 22 – Monday – Meteor Shower April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting -May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or s-eplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring around this time, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice In this issue: April 3 Wednesday – Vadim of Subtle Chaos & Issam at Opium Den 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ID21+ See the beautiful flyer at web alexgrey/party LOCATION: TBA Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship No Bullshit! Spring around this time, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ sponsored by EarthDance Org… Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips

#2356 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:33:01 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:33:01 Transformation Saturday – $10! TSUNAMI presents TRANCEFORMATION Celestail Trance on the world’s finest sound system Saturday, April 6th, 2002 11pm – 11am $10 before 1am $15 thereafter Downstairs at the new SHELTER (use seperate TSUNAMI entrance) YONI (History of the Future) DJ UNKNOWN DJ JOA DJ AGMIS and much more! Saturday, April 13th: Same party, different DJs, same prices! Saturday, April 20th: ALIEN PROJECT!presents TRANCEFORMATION Celestail Trance on the world’s finest sound system Saturday, April 6th, 2002 11pm – 11am $10 before 1am $15 thereafter Downstairs at the new SHELTER (use seperate TSUNAMI entrance) YONI (History of the Future) DJ UNKNOWN DJ JOA DJ AGMIS and much more! Saturday, April 13th: Same party, different DJs, same prices! Saturday, April 20th: ALIEN PROJECT!

#2357 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:48:24 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:48:23 Pschedule To get more detailed info send email to –see you there! In this issue: -Tsunami info, updated Brazillian links Events: April 3 Wednesday – Vadim of Subtle Chaos & Issam at Opium Den 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ID21+ – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II See the beautiful flyer at web alexgrey/party Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, Indiadrop, Kalyx, Yare, Asu, Jamin, Coy-Koi.. and many guest DJs & live acts. 8pm-4am. $20. ID21+. 23rd and 12th avenue on the pier. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision fr- across the globe will be gathering, so please c-e show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter TSUNAMI presents TRANCEFORMATION Celestial Trance on the world’s finest sound system Saturday, April 6th, 2002 11pm – 11am $10 before 1am $15 thereafter Downstairs at the new SHELTER (use seperate TSUNAMI entrance) YONI (History of the Future) DJ UNKNOWN DJ JOA DJ AGMIS and much more! Saturday, April 13th: Same party, different DJs, same prices! Saturday, April 20th: ALIEN PROJECT! – April 9 – Tues – Safetydance Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: TBA Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday Pyramid 101 ave.A betw 6-7st TIME 10pm-4am DJ’Slineup Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue – April 12 Friday -nitribe – Digital Structures/Digiboga label party with Son Kite back from Mexico, live, plus sets by Llopis (Iboga records/Denmark) Markus (Digital Structures) Video Projection by Atomic Juice 11pm-9am $20 at door info at omnitribe – April 13 Saturday Tsunami at Shelter April 13 Saturday OH-HIGH-OH Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: April 13 Saturday His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment web kilaya.org/web kilaya.org 10:00am – 12:00pm Dzogchen Teaching 2:00pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen Teaching Location: At Chinatown – 62 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 Email: pemayangchen at aol April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter -April 22 – Monday – Meteor Shower April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting -May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or s-eplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring around this time, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice In this issue: See the beautiful flyer at web alexgrey/party presents TRANCEFORMATION Celestial Trance on the world’s finest sound system Saturday, April 6th, 2002 11pm – 11am $10 before 1am $15 thereafter Downstairs at the new SHELTER (use seperate TSUNAMI entrance) YONI (History of the Future) DJ UNKNOWN DJ JOA DJ AGMIS and much more! Saturday, April 13th: Same party, different DJs, same prices! Saturday, April 20th: ALIEN PROJECT! LOCATION: TBA Bring guns and swords. Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman April 10 – Wednesday Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship No Bullshit! Spring around this time, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ sponsored by EarthDance Org… Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips

#2358 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:46:05 Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:46:05 My bad – Alex Grey is 18 and up See you this Friday…

#2359 Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:35:49 Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:35:49 Thanks Atomic Juice, DNA Dan, DanceSafe! I forgot last week to thank AtomicJuice and the sacred geometry dude DNA Dan for creating the wonderful video pyramid installation in the chillout room at Synthetic Sadhus. Also thanks to the nice kids at NYU for setting up a booth at Tsunami for DanceSafe, even though the Shelter people were skittish about d literature being distributed at their venue. (I think presence at private non-club spaces like Vor-tech’s and Omnitribe’s and Hommega’s events may go off more smoothly, in that order; these venues also generally pack more people in!) These guys were the same group as who donated use of their speakers for the dski house. You guys rock!

#2360 Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:51:10 Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:51:10 New from Brainmachines yeah right 🙂 Electronic smart glasses that refill on demand web newscientist/news/news.jsp?idns99992123Electronic smart glasses that refill on demand web newscientist/news/news.jsp?idns99992123

#2361 Fri, 5 Apr 2002 03:14:50 Fri, 5 Apr 2002 03:14:50 What’s up with Tsunami.. They are doing just local DJs for the next 2 weeks and charging only $10 – that’s just a dollar an hour, wow. No guest list, just Yoni and others playing their best shit at rock-bottom bargain basement prices. After two weeks John has some good out of town talent that I’m not at liberty to discuss, but it involves aliens and l %-D Is anybody else getting freaked out by the warm weather?After two weeks John has some good out of town talent that I’m not at liberty to discuss, but it involves aliens and l %-D

#2362 Fri, 5 Apr 2002 03:37:52 Fri, 5 Apr 2002 03:37:51 (no subject) This was last year’s best party – and it’s for a good cause. The vibe was so heavy girls were practically taking off their clothes, in a good way. My favorite painting of Alex’ was used with permission on my web site at web tranceam.org/dv It depicts Jesus Christ on d (my interpretation 🙂 Come early – it starts at 8pm. – April 5 – Friday – Alex Grey’s Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors Benefit II See the beautiful flyer at web alexgrey/party Universal Spirit will turn the Frying-Pan(barge & boat) into a sacred space, with Alex’s art, video projection, fire dancers, Indiadrop, Kalyx, Yare, Asu, Jamin, Coy-Koi.. and many guest DJs & live acts. 8pm-4am. $20. ID21+. 23rd and 12th avenue on the pier. Supporters of Alex Grey’s Vision fr- across the globe will be gathering, so please c-e show your support. To get on the email list for Sacred Mirrors Funds will also be collected for the upcoming ayuhuasca ceremony in may.The vibe was so heavy girls were practically taking off their clothes, in a good way. My favorite painting of Alex’ was used with permission on my web site at web tranceam.org/dv It depicts Jesus Christ on d (my interpretation 🙂 See the beautiful flyer at web alexgrey/party

#2363 Fri, 5 Apr 2002 03:42:26 Fri, 5 Apr 2002 03:42:26 Gila Monster venom, anyone? Remember that fat fuck Rush Limbaugh who made erroneously fun of the freaks who licked toads to get off? Well guess what, if Rush’ hero Ronald Reagan would have been drinking Gila Monster venom maybe he would remember where the Iran/Contra money went, Is this the true Snake Oil that we tall tales-tellin’ cattle rustlin’ smokes and mirrors fly by night Texan cowboys are famous fer? You betcha! (showing your age, jeff, showing your age) Gila Monster Spit May Yield Alzheimer’s d By Toni Clarke and Ben Hirschler Reuters NEW YORK/LONDON (April 4) – An experimental d derived from the saliva of the venomous Gila monster is one of a growing crop of new ds that are being developed to improve memory and learning. The bite of the Gila monster a native lizard to the southwest United States and Mexico can be deadly but its saliva also contains a chemical which acts on a previously unknown receptor pathway in the brain that affects memory. The findings were presented on Thursday at the 7th International Geneva/Springfield Symnposium on Advances in Alzheimer Therapy in Switzerland. New York-based biotechnology company Axonyx Inc., which is developing the d, Gilatide, plans to start human trials with it as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease later this year. A growing number of companies are probing the mechanisms of memory formation, hoping to find ds that can help offset memory loss in patients with diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to depression, schizophrenia, stroke, Parkinson’s and AIDS. There are 500 million people in the world’s major markets with diseases whose symptoms include memory loss, a market representing billions of dollars, according to industry estimates. There are millions more whose memory is impaired simply because of advancing age. One of the leaders in developing memory-enhancing ds is Memory Pharmaceuticals, a privately held U.S. company founded by Eric Kandel, 72, a Columbia University researcher who won the Nobel Prize in 2000. Kandel began his experiments into memory with the Aplysia sea slug. Memory Pharmaceuticals has discovered several compounds that show promise in counteracting memory loss in animals and is hoping to start testing at least one in humans within a year. Memory’s aim is not to root out the cause of diseases such as Alzheimer’s – the most common form of dementia – but to treat the symptom of memory loss. “What we have are broader range ds that would work in different diseases,” said Tony Scullion, the company’s chief executive. The race to develop a memory-enhancing elixir is one that big pharmaceuticals companies are determined also to be a part of, with Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Inc. hoping their Alzheimer’s ds Reminyl and Aricept may also prove effective as memory ds. But the small biotechnology companies are leading the way. Privately held Helicon Therapeutics, based in Farmingdale, New York and founded by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researcher Timothy Tully, is hoping to enter its compounds into human trials within two years. Tully’s tests showed that fruit flies genetically engineered to produce more of a molecule known as CREB were able to remember a smell connected with an electric shock much longer than those genetically engineered to produce less CREB. A company traded on the American Stock Exchange, Cortex Pharmaceuticals Inc., is working on a class of compounds shown to increase the production in the brain of neurotrophin BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor), a substance apparently deficient in Alzheimer’s patients. On Wednesday Cortex announced it has begun enrolling patients with mild cognitive impairment in a study to test its Ampakine compound. As many as 80 percent of patients with cognitive impairment go on to develop Alzheimer’s over a five-year period, the company said. “The mechanism of action is totally different from that of the acetylcholinesterase class of ds, the only FDA-approved treatment for Alzheimer’s disease,” said Vincent Simmon, chief executive of Cortex. The company’s Ampakine compounds work to increase the strength of signals at connections between brain cells.(showing your age, jeff, showing your age) Gila Monster Spit May Yield Alzheimer’s d NEW YORK/LONDON (April 4) – An experimental d derived from the saliva of the venomous Gila monster is one of a growing crop of new ds that are being developed to improve memory and learning. The bite of the Gila monster a native lizard to the southwest United States and Mexico can be deadly but its saliva also contains a chemical which acts on a previously unknown receptor pathway in the brain that affects memory. The findings were presented on Thursday at the 7th International Geneva/Springfield Symnposium on Advances in Alzheimer Therapy in Switzerland. New York-based biotechnology company Axonyx Inc., which is developing the d, Gilatide, plans to start human trials with it as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease later this year. A growing number of companies are probing the mechanisms of memory formation, hoping to find ds that can help offset memory loss in patients with diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to depression, schizophrenia, stroke, Parkinson’s and AIDS. There are 500 million people in the world’s major markets with diseases whose symptoms include memory loss, a market representing billions of dollars, according to industry estimates. There are millions more whose memory is impaired simply because of advancing age. One of the leaders in developing memory-enhancing ds is Memory Pharmaceuticals, a privately held U.S. company founded by Eric Kandel, 72, a Columbia University researcher who won the Nobel Prize in 2000. Kandel began his experiments into memory with the Aplysia sea slug. Memory Pharmaceuticals has discovered several compounds that show promise in counteracting memory loss in animals and is hoping to start testing at least one in humans within a year. Memory’s aim is not to root out the cause of diseases such as Alzheimer’s – the most common form of dementia – but to treat the symptom of memory loss. “What we have are broader range ds that would work in different diseases,” said Tony Scullion, the company’s chief executive. The race to develop a memory-enhancing elixir is one that big pharmaceuticals companies are determined also to be a part of, with Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Inc. hoping their Alzheimer’s ds Reminyl and Aricept may also prove effective as memory ds. But the small biotechnology companies are leading the way. Privately held Helicon Therapeutics, based in Farmingdale, New York and founded by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researcher Timothy Tully, is hoping to enter its compounds into human trials within two years. Tully’s tests showed that fruit flies genetically engineered to produce more of a molecule known as CREB were able to remember a smell connected with an electric shock much longer than those genetically engineered to produce less CREB. A company traded on the American Stock Exchange, Cortex Pharmaceuticals Inc., is working on a class of compounds shown to increase the production in the brain of neurotrophin BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor), a substance apparently deficient in Alzheimer’s patients. On Wednesday Cortex announced it has begun enrolling patients with mild cognitive impairment in a study to test its Ampakine compound. As many as 80 percent of patients with cognitive impairment go on to develop Alzheimer’s over a five-year period, the company said. “The mechanism of action is totally different from that of the acetylcholinesterase class of ds, the only FDA-approved treatment for Alzheimer’s disease,” said Vincent Simmon, chief executive of Cortex. The company’s Ampakine compounds work to increase the strength of signals at connections between brain cells.

#2364 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:24:01 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:24:00 Trance in San Diego? Could anybody help this guy out? From what I hear San Diego is afflicted by the prevailing winds of house from Los Angeles blowing through SoCal… Hello Jeff, I have a question for you. Do you know anything about a trance scene in San Diego, California? We are trying to perhaps start somthing there, or continue if it already exists. I would appreciate any info you can give me, in terms of people down there, or perhaps if there were any parties that were already done down there. Thank you, hope to hear from you soon SergeyHello Jeff, I have a question for you. Do you know anything about a trance scene in San Diego, California? We are trying to perhaps start somthing there, or continue if it already exists. I would appreciate any info you can give me, in terms of people down there, or perhaps if there were any parties that were already done down there. Thank you, hope to hear from you soon

#2365 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:02:12 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:02:12 Pschedule To get more detailed info send email to –see you there! In this issue: -Tsunami info, updated Brazillian & Mexico links, directions to Omnitribe, -Tsunami is $10 before 1am for the next 2 weeks, local DJs -Scientists make first cyborg cnn.technology.emailthis.clickability/et/emailThis?clickMapviewThi s &etMailToID357971147 Events: – April 6 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter TSUNAMI presents TRANCEFORMATION Celestial Trance on the world’s finest sound system Saturday, April 6th, 2002 11pm – 11am $10 before 1am $15 thereafter Downstairs at the new SHELTER (use seperate TSUNAMI entrance) YONI (History of the Future) DJ UNKNOWN DJ JOA DJ AGMIS and much more! Saturday, April 13th: Same party, different DJs, same prices! Saturday, April 20th: ALIEN PROJECT! – April 9 – Tues – Burning Man film, Aries party later Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman Later that night: Safetydance Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Who’s on First, 87th and 1st avenue. Various psy-trance DJs.. with DJs: Amnesium Manic Mekator & open tables for anyone who wants to spin! Free to get in, 21+ ID a must 10pm-3am Bring guns and swords. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Happy birthday to Dhea, Akashah, Foxy42480, Valerio from New Orleans scene, Alex from Avannaproductions, Gerg D… Free first drink for Aries, bring your ID April 10 – Wednesday Pyramid 101 ave.A betw 6-7st TIME 10pm-4am DJ’Slineup Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue – April 12 Friday -nitribe – Digital Structures/Digiboga label party with Son Kite back from Mexico, live, plus sets by Llopis (Iboga records/Denmark) Markus (Digital Structures) Video Projection by Atomic Juice 11pm-9am $20 at door info at omnitribe Directions by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave, cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block. – April 13 Saturday Tsunami at Shelter April 13 Saturday OH-HIGH-OH Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: April 13 Saturday His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment web kilaya.org/web kilaya.org 10:00am – 12:00pm Dzogchen Teaching 2:00pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen Teaching Location: At Chinatown – 62 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 Email: pemayangchen at aol April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 – April 20 – Tsunami at Shelter -April 22 – Monday – Meteor Shower April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting -May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or s-eplace with a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – The outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be in the Spring around this time, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar (in High Elven Quenyan) – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice In this issue: -Scientists make first cyborg cnn.technology.emailthis.clickability/et/emailThis?clickMapviewThis&etMailToID357971147 presents TRANCEFORMATION Celestial Trance on the world’s finest sound system Saturday, April 6th, 2002 11pm – 11am $10 before 1am $15 thereafter Downstairs at the new SHELTER (use seperate TSUNAMI entrance) YONI (History of the Future) DJ UNKNOWN DJ JOA DJ AGMIS and much more! Saturday, April 13th: Same party, different DJs, same prices! Saturday, April 20th: ALIEN PROJECT! Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman Later that night: Safetydance Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Who’s on First, 87th and 1st avenue. Various psy-trance DJs.. with DJs: Amnesium Manic Mekator & open tables for anyone who wants to spin! Free to get in, 21+ ID a must 10pm-3am Bring guns and swords. Happy birthday to Dhea, Akashah, Foxy42480, Valerio from New Orleans scene, Alex from Avannaproductions, Gerg D… Free first drink for Aries, bring your ID April 10 – Wednesday Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave, cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block. April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship No Bullshit! Spring around this time, with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar (in High Elven Quenyan) Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ sponsored by EarthDance Org… Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips New York Toronto K Mexico City #

#2366 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:49:57 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 19:49:56 Newsflash: Alex Grey Benefit raging success Cc: sacredmirrors All the DJs were great but the dancers made the energy skyrocket. We were all on a journey on the ship of the imagination. Both the dock and boat were packed with beautiful natural people, bigger than a trance crowd, the vibe was intense. Lisa says “lots of sacred Rainbow energy, shiny eyes. God bless…” On the docks, which were covered, the main floor had tapestries by Alex Grey and some by Eli Morgan. On the boat, the dungeon engine room had sensual electric wizardry and horizontal video screens projected from above. Alex Grey had a room in the aft with art and books and the Mindfold, a device that enables to to keep you eyes open and see complete blackness, and comes with earplugs. And the fire dancers on top of the boat – wow! Many new faces and many old ones. Many new connections. Looking forward to the next one. *** Trance has greater meaning when its not just a “party.” (Not to confuse psychedelic sensuality or even sensuousness with pure spirituality, which spirals out of the senses. The biggest lesson from the psychedelic sixties i think was that people confused the realm of the senses with spirituality. This path led to the descent into speed and coke in the 70s. The End of Meaning for me at clubs like Twilo happened when i felt that it had become just a holding pen for people on ds) Here’s a nice spectrum of action, from most mundane to most transcendental, from outer cold technological space to the inner reaches of your soul, from the realm of mass media to the felt presence of conatct with Goddess energy: Mainstream media Vanity concerts with a performer separate from the people Listening to trance at home Party in club with DJ Party in warehouse or private space/Party somewhere atypical Underground gatherings/Outdoor Festivals/Rainbow/Burning Man/Benefit with a Mission encompassing art, science, multidisplinarian cooperation (YB1?) /High Meditation/Sacred Native Shamanistic Rituals Quality of sound seems to help but is not crucial. The intention of everyone seems to be key, the sword that can cut the Gordian knot of trying to live and heal in New York in 2002. Love, Jisa & LeffOn the docks, which were covered, the main floor had tapestries by Alex Grey and some by Eli Morgan. On the boat, the dungeon engine room had sensual electric wizardry and horizontal video screens projected from above. Alex Grey had a room in the aft with art and books and the Mindfold, a device that enables to to keep you eyes open and see complete blackness, and comes with earplugs. And the fire dancers on top of the boat – wow! Many new faces and many old ones. Many new connections. Looking forward to the next one. *** Trance has greater meaning when its not just a “party.” (Not to confuse psychedelic sensuality or even sensuousness with pure spirituality, which spirals out of the senses. The biggest lesson from the psychedelic sixties i think was that people confused the realm of the senses with spirituality. This path led to the descent into speed and coke in the 70s. The End of Meaning for me at clubs like Twilo happened when i felt that it had become just a holding pen for people on ds) Here’s a nice spectrum of action, from most mundane to most transcendental, from outer cold technological space to the inner reaches of your soul, from the realm of mass media to the felt presence of conatct with Goddess energy: Mainstream media Vanity concerts with a performer separate from the people Listening to trance at home Party in club with DJ Party in warehouse or private space/Party somewhere atypical Underground gatherings/Outdoor Festivals/Rainbow/Burning Man/Benefit with a Mission encompassing art, science, multidisplinarian cooperation (YB1?) /High Meditation/Sacred Native Shamanistic Rituals Quality of sound seems to help but is not crucial. The intention of everyone seems to be key, the sword that can cut the Gordian knot of trying to live and heal in New York in 2002. Love,

#2367 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:08:32 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:08:31 Interview with Raja Ram in Brazillian “audio” In the new DVD “Liquid Crystal Vision” Raja Ram says Goa cheese has aged like old limburger (or somthing) and that new places aroud the world are arouting up with new energy… He’s been down in Brazil experimenting with new rhtyms -a lot of which Yoni from History of the Future brought back and has played at SS and Tsunami – and will tonight! web chaishop/realaudio/interviews/rajaram.ramweb chaishop/realaudio/interviews/rajaram.ram

#2368 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:17:51 Sat, 6 Apr 2002 23:17:51 Preventing theft at a party In a message dated 04/02/2002, writes: If you go to a party where there is someone there you dion’t know, a good policy is to check your valuables at coat check. I used to leave stuff laying around and even would bike lock with a cord to a pole, but it’s rare that $3 can go such a long way towarsd peace of mind. Stuff never disappears from coat check, and if everybody used it then the thief(ves) wouldn’t come anymore because it’s too expensive to come otherwise. This is unfortunately not true. A friend of mine once had his coat stolen out of coat check with his car keys in the pocket, which led to his CAR also being stolen at the party! I have been to a number of parties before where I have seen upset people at the end whose coats were stolen out of the coat check. Thieves can and do break into coat checks, too. Your best bet is really to leave anything that doesn’t fit in your pockets at home, or buy those velcro stuff-holders that strap onto your legs under your pants to secure any valuables in. I also often use safety pins to secure important items into my pockets (put everything inside a sandwich baggie, then pin through the bag) so that you can be sure nothing falls out of your pocket while dancing. stEph 212.330.8146 webThis is unfortunately not true. A friend of mine once had his coat stolen out of coat check with his car keys in the pocket, which led to his CAR also being stolen at the party! I have been to a number of parties before where I have seen upset people at the end whose coats were stolen out of the coat check. Thieves can and do break into coat checks, too. Your best bet is really to leave anything that doesn’t fit in your pockets at home, or buy those velcro stuff-holders that strap onto your legs under your pants to secure any valuables in. I also often use safety pins to secure important items into my pockets (put everything inside a sandwich baggie, then pin through the bag) so that you can be sure nothing falls out of your pocket while dancing.

#2369 Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:57:13 Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:57:12 Fwd: Hux Flux et al at Phoenix Festival in Oregon in July

#2370 Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:41:49 Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:41:48 Fwd: [planet-crew] Crossing Bridges Festival 2002 in Kosova

#2371 Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:45:06 Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:45:05 Michael Bloomberg and pot Today in the news.. When asked if he ever smoked marijuana, he said “You bet I did and I enjoyed it!!!”

#2372 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:20:56 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:20:54 Fwd: :::::TRANCEFORMATION::::::Saturday April 13

#2373 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:29:41 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:29:40 Tonight- Burning Man film & Aries Party – April 9 – Tues – Burning Man film, Aries party later Burning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman Later that night: Aries Party/Freaky Tuesday Safetydance Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Who’s on First, 87th and 1st avenue. Various psy-trance DJs.. with DJs: Amnesium, Manic Mekator, Machinelf & open tables for anyone who wants to spin! Free to get in, 21+ ID a must 10pm-3am Bring guns and swords. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Happy birthday to Dhea, Akashah, Foxy42480, Valerio from New Orleans scene, Alex from Avannaproductions, Gerg D… Free first drink for Aries, bring your IDBurning Man film, Burn Baby Burn, screeing info: 9th April – New York – Spa, 76 East 13th st. – 8pm sharp – $10 web burningman Later that night: Aries Party/Freaky Tuesday Safetydance Arian Birthday Celebration March 21-April 19 LOCATION: Who’s on First, 87th and 1st avenue. Various psy-trance DJs.. with DJs: Amnesium, Manic Mekator, Machinelf & open tables for anyone who wants to spin! Free to get in, 21+ ID a must 10pm-3am Bring guns and swords. Happy birthday to Dhea, Akashah, Foxy42480, Valerio from New Orleans scene, Alex from Avannaproductions, Gerg D… Free first drink for Aries, bring your ID

#2374 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:39:12 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:39:12 What’s up with part II It’s Ladies Night! Yeahhhhhh baby! Ladies in free until 1am! You got that right! We gonna pack it in! Last Saturday was the bomb. We had a wide assortment of trance heads, techno heads, people who haven’t been out of their house in a while. The $10 cover works! TSUNAMI continues it’s Saturday’s Night weekly parties :::::TRANCEFORMATION:::::: Saturday, April 13th Y O N I (History of the Future) Y O N – E (Tsunami) DJ JOA DRAGONLOTUS at the new SHELTER pleases use separate TSUNAMI entrance 20 West 39th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)-NYC 11pm till 11am Visuals and Decor by UTA This special invitations entitles you to the following admission prices: Ladies free till 1am $10 thereafter Gentlemen $10 till 1 am $15 thereafter For more information: 212 439-8124 or ce Saturday, April 20th: For the first time in America DJ ASTRIX (Hom-Mega, Israel)

#2375 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:34:49 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:34:49 CHANGE: new Burning Man screening location TONIGHT Hey all, I just ran into the promoter last night and the Burning Man film is at Remote (next to CBGBs). Free film showing tonight at 8:30pm.

#2376 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:42:38 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:42:37 Updated Omnitribe Info Fun-o-Rama is a great place for a party… Parasense came there early last year… Friday April 12 2002 NY, NY OMNI TRIBE ..presents.. Digiboga Label Party Live Act: SON KITE (Digital Structures, Sweden) DJ Set: Llopis (Iboga Records, Denmark) Marcus (Son Kite, Digital Structures, Sweden) 11PM – 8AM $20 at the door at FUN-O-RAMA 608 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Directions : by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block.

#2377 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:57:07 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:57:06 Fwd: [infornography] 4/13 Madagascar’s Festival of the Hurting Come be my Bondage Bitch.. see below… Madagascar is always off the hook

#2378 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:10:48 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:10:47 Another Mexico story – from Asher The spirit of Mexico rises from the earth and grabs you forcing you to look to the heavens for guidance. The sun wakes you and reminds you that our bodies are only flesh, bone and vessels for a little piece of God’s energy. As I treached through densely karmatic land I was blessed to walk into amazing reincarnates of the spirits that helped the Mayans through there turbulant times. The food and drink of this land is rich in love and soul. It’s holy guacomole and the chiles will make you a virgin again. The party in Tres Rios was so far into the jungle that you couldn’t here a beat until you reached the beach. As Jill, Astrid, Stina, Serena, Richard the monkey, Grady the washup and I entered the party was alive with Son Kite in front of us the beach behind. We danced and laughed until sunrise when I joined Jamin And Gavin on the pier with the Gaian Mind crew to watch the first mind blowing return of KINICH (the face of the sun). Within minutes I was on the floor with my beautiful wife talking about how I don’t deserve this from life and how I have done nothing to receive this grace of God (as Astrid and Stina sang “we liked to watch ponographic MOVIES”). Within 2 hours she reminds me that this is why we are here and to surrender. As we walk off the pier, Ticon is taking this beautiful morning to an afternoon we will never forget. Then we find my aura or aka Mayoora very upset about the fact that I never picked him up from the airport. After introductions to the Swedes we all danced for hours as family – it was truly amazing! When the party ended there was a nice creek where we all went swimming as Wylie taught the side stroke mthod using take the condom from the mahine and put it on the penis. next part 2: Tulum aka ZAMA – The city of dawn

#2379 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:16:02 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:16:01 Wednesday FREE at Pyramid Wednesday, April 10th at Pyramid Presented by the Unknown Shrooms, bi-weekly psytrance (soon to be weekly!) with DJs: Fumi Dragonlotus DJ Soch lineup changes every week, and its FREE! decoration by Akin & Kura. It was great last week, good sound good people, lots of fun. 18 to party, 21 to drink 11pm – 4am. see you all there! peace&love -TonyPresented by the Unknown Shrooms, bi-weekly psytrance (soon to be weekly!) with DJs: Fumi Dragonlotus DJ Soch lineup changes every week, and its FREE! decoration by Akin & Kura. It was great last week, good sound good people, lots of fun. 18 to party, 21 to drink 11pm – 4am. see you all there! peace&love -Tony

#2380 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:14:12 Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:14:12 Wednesday FREE at Pyramid Wednesday, April 10th at Pyramid Presented by the Unknown Shrooms, bi-weekly psytrance (soon to be weekly!) with DJs: Fumi Dragonlotus DJ Soch lineup changes every week, and its FREE! decoration by Akin & Kura. It was great last week, good sound good people, lots of fun. 18 to party, 21 to drink 11pm – 4am. see you all there! peace&love -TonyPresented by the Unknown Shrooms, bi-weekly psytrance (soon to be weekly!) with DJs: Fumi Dragonlotus DJ Soch lineup changes every week, and its FREE! decoration by Akin & Kura. It was great last week, good sound good people, lots of fun. 18 to party, 21 to drink 11pm – 4am. see you all there! peace&love -Tony

#2381 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:19:10 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello !!!!!!!!!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy the trance music in this nice bar….Welcome everybody!!! Isam(Symbionyc-Spectra) Special guest……… Opium Den 29 East 3rd street at 2nd avenue Love and Light Angeles

#2382 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:33:40 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:33:39 Thursday Night – EvolutionBox EvolutionBox Presents: TranceFunkyness…April 11th, 10pm. Mixed Drinks Specials ($4.00 Margarita, Lemon Dropp and $6.00 Cosmopolitan) at “Level X” Address: North 6th Street (BTWN Berry & Wythe), Williamsburg 1 Stop off the Williamsburg Bridge – L Train to Bedford Ave. ********* Jamin…Cosmophilia Shai K.I.D…OmniTribe & DJ Icycoil…EvolutionBOx All different styles of Psy, Goa Trance, with funky/techy assshakin’!psygrooves. ********** $3.00 before 11:00pm, $5.00 after 11:30 …keeping it Funky… ********** EvolutionBox…The harmony in spirituality merged with an eyes wide open approch, believing music and art to be an expression of ones voices from within evolving to significance…TranceFunkyness…April 11th, 10pm. Mixed Drinks Specials ($4.00 Margarita, Lemon Dropp and $6.00 Cosmopolitan) at “Level X” Address: North 6th Street (BTWN Berry & Wythe), Williamsburg 1 Stop off the Williamsburg Bridge – L Train to Bedford Ave. ********* Jamin…Cosmophilia Shai K.I.D…OmniTribe & DJ Icycoil…EvolutionBOx All different styles of Psy, Goa Trance, with funky/techy assshakin’!psygrooves. ********** $3.00 before 11:00pm, $5.00 after 11:30 …keeping it Funky… ********** EvolutionBox…The harmony in spirituality merged with an eyes wide open approch, believing music and art to be an expression of ones voices from within evolving to significance…

#2383 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:50:51 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:50:51 Music from Black Holes thanks aphex mike for info on the flash movie and to lev for this one about music emanating from Black Holes (god bless the russkies): web msnbc/news/736296.asp?0dmL18MT

#2384 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:49:16 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:49:15 Flashback Hoffman/d Flash Movie w1.736.telia/u73602493/flashback

#2385 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 05:37:17 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 05:37:16 Marijuana does not dent IQ permanently Marijuana does not dent IQ permanently 17:50 08 April 02 NewScientist news service Smoking marijuana does not have a long-term effect on intelligence, say researchers in Canada who have followed volunteers from before birth to early adulthood. Heavy pot smokers did experience a dip in their intelligence quotient (IQ). But people who had once smoked heavily and then given up were right back up to normal, the study found. Light smokers appeared no different from non-smokers. What the researchers do not know is if decades of pot-smoking could have a more lasting impact. Looking at long-term users in their 30s or 40s could show different results, admits Peter Fried, at Carleton University in Ottawa, who led the study. “Perhaps the nervous system isn’t as flexible then,” he says. “You can’t argue with what they’re saying,” says William Campbell, President of the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. “It doesn’t surprise me or disappoint me.” Urine test Fried and his team followed 70 middle-class kids from the womb. IQ tests were taken at around age 10 and then again between 18 and 20. As adults, the participants were asked about a range of behaviours, including pot smoking. They also under went urine analysis to check their answers. At the time of the second questionnaire, nine had been heavy users in the past but had not smoked for over three months. Fifteen were still smoking cannabis heavily – at least five joints a week and nine were current light users who smoked a few joints weekly. The rest of the volunteers had never been regular users, so had either never smoked marijuana or had done so less than once a week. Only the heavy current users had experienced a decline in their IQ scores over the 10-year period – about four points. Light users, former users and abstainers all saw their IQ scores climb between two and six points. Fried concedes that while IQ may be spared, memory and attention may be harder hit and is examining the effect now: “The most-often stated reason for quitting was they felt their short-term memory was affected.”Smoking marijuana does not have a long-term effect on intelligence, say researchers in Canada who have followed volunteers from before birth to early adulthood. Heavy pot smokers did experience a dip in their intelligence quotient (IQ). But people who had once smoked heavily and then given up were right back up to normal, the study found. Light smokers appeared no different from non-smokers. What the researchers do not know is if decades of pot-smoking could have a more lasting impact. Looking at long-term users in their 30s or 40s could show different results, admits Peter Fried, at Carleton University in Ottawa, who led the study. “Perhaps the nervous system isn’t as flexible then,” he says. “You can’t argue with what they’re saying,” says William Campbell, President of the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. “It doesn’t surprise me or disappoint me.” Urine test Fried and his team followed 70 middle-class kids from the womb. IQ tests were taken at around age 10 and then again between 18 and 20. As adults, the participants were asked about a range of behaviours, including pot smoking. They also under went urine analysis to check their answers. At the time of the second questionnaire, nine had been heavy users in the past but had not smoked for over three months. Fifteen were still smoking cannabis heavily – at least five joints a week and nine were current light users who smoked a few joints weekly. The rest of the volunteers had never been regular users, so had either never smoked marijuana or had done so less than once a week. Only the heavy current users had experienced a decline in their IQ scores over the 10-year period – about four points. Light users, former users and abstainers all saw their IQ scores climb between two and six points. Fried concedes that while IQ may be spared, memory and attention may be harder hit and is examining the effect now: “The most-often stated reason for quitting was they felt their short-term memory was affected.”

#2386 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:10:31 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:10:30 From Serena in Mexico Serena used to be the barteneder at Opium Den.. Subj: Re: brain Another Mexico story – from Asher 4/11/02 6:55:35 PM hello everyone… its serena….still in mexico….unable to leave this beautiful place…..found so much peace here…miss you all in new york sooo much….i send you good vibes and warm sun and hugs and kisses… love serena p.s. miss you asher and gill, mayoora, wilie, gavin…Subj: Re: brain Another Mexico story – from Asher 4/11/02 6:55:35 PM hello everyone… its serena….still in mexico….unable to leave this beautiful place…..found so much peace here…miss you all in new york sooo much….i send you good vibes and warm sun and hugs and kisses… love serena

#2387 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:15:30 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:15:29 Fwd: Arabs und Trance OK, let’s forget for a second that Issam is the only Muslim Psy-Trance DJ in existence, as far as we know.. but read on about goings-on in Bremen, Germany..

#2388 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:37:42 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:37:42 Pschedule –see you there! Come to Omnitribe tonight at Fun-o-Rama, Tsunami Satur day is $10 before 1am/ladies in free before 1am In this issue: -Tsunami info (ladies in free before 1am!!!), updated Brazillian & Mexico links, di rections to Omnitribe -Scientists make first cyborg cnn.technol s &etMailToI -Idiot Savants hard wired atsavant TONIGHT’s events: – April 12 Friday -nitribe – Digital Str uctures/Digiboga label party with Son Kite back from Mexico, live, plus se ts by Llopis (Iboga records/Denmark) Markus (Digital Structures) Video Pro jection by Atomic Juice 11pm-9am $20 at door info at omnitribe Direction s by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonal d Ave, cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw Eas t, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means yo u have passed the location go back one block. Also that night, Hom-mega r ecords is doing a label party at the lush Tribeca Grand Hotel. DJ Liran a nd others. Promises to be full on ecstatic Israeli trance energy. $25 I believe. – April 13 Saturday TSUNAMI continues its Saturday’s Night week ly parties TRANCEFORMATION Saturday, April 13th Y O N I (History of the F uture) Y O N – E (Tsunami) DJ JOA DRAGONLOTUS at the new SHELTER ple ases use separate TSUNAMI entrance 20 West 39th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) 11pm till 11am Visuals and Decor by UTA This special invitations entitles you to the following admission prices: Ladies free till 1a m $10 thereafter Gentlemen $10 till 1 am $15 thereafter For more information: 212 439-8124 or ce.c om/ce Saturday, April 20th: For the first time i n America DJ ASTRIX (Hom-Mega, Israel) April 13 Saturday OH-HIGH-OH Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill (DC) & Derby (Chicago) play in Columbus, OHIO: April 13 Saturday His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Vaj rasattva Empowerment web kilaya.org/web kilaya.o rg 10:00am – 12:00pm Dzogchen Teaching 2:00pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen T eaching Location: At Chinatown – 62 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 CHINES E COMMUNITY CENTER Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718 ) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 Email: pemayangchen at aol Apri l 13 – From: “Jeff Stark” jstark at salon The Madagascar Institute pres ents: The Festival of the Hurting Being: A celebration of the irreducible core of surprise and fear and sensation and exhilaration; pain, suffering, and discomforts mild and major. For without darkness there can be no light without pain no pleasure, without tension no release, and without a boo-b oo no reason for a kiss. Or: Comedy is when tragedy happens to other peopl e. With: Music spun by DJs and played by bands; big, elaborate carnival ri des handcrafted by ill-trained but heavily disciplined helper monkeys; a sl ew of the Hurting-themed art installations, games, and machines created by the ArtStars of the Madagascar Institute; multitudes of really, really good looking and in most cases available and sometimes even interesting people who know that the Madagascar Institute throws the best parties and events i n New York, and by extension, the world; and many, many opportunities to pa rt with your hard-earned money, all for a worthy cause so the Madagascar Institute can go to NotAmerica. All in a virgin space that is truly enormo us (60,000 square feet) and very conveniently located. Our promise: No bon dage crap. Featuring: Breaks, beats, house, hip hop, dancehall, techno, 2- step, ambient, and downtempo by DJs LLoop (theAgriculture, WE); Jameson (t heAgriculture, Ocean Acoustics); Sheldon Drake (Undercity); Spinoza (WNYU, Undercity); $mall A2hange & Gerald McBoingBoing (WFMU); Shakey (APESH!T); kleverVice (Madagascar Institute, Grounded); Firehorse (evolrevol); Cruzmis sile (Madagascar Institute, Grounded); Girl DJ, aka Sporkchops (Spacelounge Madagascar Institute); Sean B & Riain (Freeskool); Arrow Chrome (Blackkat ); on warehouse systems provided by Havoc, theAgriculture / Openair. Additi onal sound and film/video from Amoeba Technology. Plus: Live performances by the Hungry March Band (New York’s finest); hot girl-on-girl oil wrestlin g by Pug; the nefarious half-chicken, half-skunk, all-evil Chunk (web cheng win); Sxip (double-harmonica demon-folk blues); Pirate Brian’s Painfull y Bad Puppet Theater; Torture Job (punk rock noize), featuring musical chai rs; Kill Precious Kill Kill (nature’s game of chance); Bitch Fu (all-girl p unk rock); Uncle Fucker (bluegrass punk); variety acts and the Continuing A dventures of the Jolly Ship the Whiz-Bang puppet show by Bindlestiff Cirkus roadies Nick Jones, Raja Azar, and Michael Saab; live video mixing by Maje stic 12. Wear: A costume, because life and parties are more interesting if you put some thought into them dentist, EMS worker, accountant, my mom, nurse, 12 empty packs of cigarettes, a hangover, suntan pantyhose with whi te pumps, Wile E Coyote, saguaro cactus, safety gear, car accident vampire, Band Aid. Anything painful. Anything that hurts. April 13, 2002 The Madag ascar Institute presents The Festival of the Hurting 351 Butler Street, bet ween 3rd and 4th avenues, Gowanus, Brooklyn NRW1245QM trains to Atlantic/Pa cific station 10p-5a; $10, or $20 in bondage gear web madagascarinst itute/hurting From: “Jeff Stark” jstark at salon Being: A celebratio n of the irreducible core of surprise and fear and sensation and exhilarati on; pain, suffering, and discomforts mild and major. For without darkness t here can be no light, without pain no pleasure, without tension no release, and without a boo-boo no reason for a kiss. Or: Comedy is when tragedy hap pens to other people. With: Music spun by DJs and played by bands; big, ela borate carnival rides handcrafted by ill-trained but heavily disciplined he lper monkeys; a slew of the Hurting-themed art installations, games, and ma chines created by the ArtStars of the Madagascar Institute; multitudes of r eally, really good looking and in most cases available and sometimes even i nteresting people who know that the Madagascar Institute throws the best pa rties and events in New York, and by extension, the world; and many, many o pportunities to part with your hard-earned money, all for a worthy cause so the Madagascar Institute can go to NotAmerica. All in a virgin space th at is truly enormous (60,000 square feet) and very conveniently located. Ou r promise: No bondage crap. Featuring: Breaks, beats, house, hip hop, dance hall, techno, 2-step, ambient, and downtempo by DJs LLoop (theAgriculture, WE); Jameson (theAgriculture, Ocean Acoustics); Sheldon Drake (Undercity); Spinoza (WNYU, Undercity); $mall A2hange & Gerald McBoingBoing (WFMU); Sh akey (APESH!T); kleverVice (Madagascar Institute, Grounded); Firehorse (evo lrevol); Cruzmissile (Madagascar Institute, Grounded); Girl DJ, aka Sporkch ops (Spacelounge, Madagascar Institute); Sean B & Riain (Freeskool); Arrow Chrome (Blackkat); on warehouse systems provided by Havoc, theAgriculture / Openair. Additional sound and film/video from Amoeba Technology. Plus: Liv e performances by the Hungry March Band (New York’s finest); hot girl-on-gi rl oil wrestling by Pug; the nefarious half-chicken, half-skunk, all-evil C hunk (web chengwin); Sxip (double-harmonica demon-folk blues); Pirate B rian’s Painfully Bad Puppet Theater; Torture Job (punk rock noize), featuri ng musical chairs; Kill Precious Kill Kill (nature’s game of chance); Bitch Fu (all-girl punk rock); Uncle Fucker (bluegrass punk); variety acts and t he Continuing Adventures of the Jolly Ship the Whiz-Bang puppet show by Bin dlestiff Cirkus roadies Nick Jones, Raja Azar, and Michael Saab; live video mixing by Majestic 12. Wear: A costume, because life and parties are more interesting if you put some thought into them dentist, EMS worker, accou ntant, my mom, nurse, 12 empty packs of cigarettes, a hangover, suntan pant yhose with white pumps, Wile E Coyote, saguaro cactus, safety gear, car acc ident vampire, Band Aid. Anything painful. Anything that hurts. April 13 – Paris birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/ elefantom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa do es Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mike Koo (914) 713- 7270 April 16 Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First on 1st ave b/ w 87 & 88 with DJ Amnesium, Akin, open decks email freebeer4kids at aol April 17 Wed Opium Den 3rd street b/w 2nd & 3rd ave with the ONLY Muslim p sy-trance DJ, Issam from Morocco April 19 Fri HEALING MUSIC CEREMONY Ther e will be a healing music ceremony on Friday April 19th, 8:00 pm at 22 E. 89th St., Apt 6C, in Manhattan. The performance will be given by THE LISTE NERS, a New York based group of instrument makers and musicians who study craft and music as integrative disciplines. This is a rare performance of trance inducing music, based on core principles of traditional shamanic he aling rituals. The New York Times called them “fascinating and unique medi tative improvisers.” Admission is on a pay-what-you-wish basis. Please a rrive aware of your own needs. The ceremony functions as a doorway betwee n our inner and outer selves. The concert will consist of a series of impr ovised pieces on ancient world instruments. The event will last about two hours. Please arrive by 8 pm. (212) 831-9048. The Listeners will also ap pear live on WBAI FM 99.5 on the preceding Monday, April 15, at 8 pm, on K athy Davis’ “Heart of Mind” show. For more information on the Listeners a nd related events, go to: thepurposeofmusic/ thepurposeofmusic/ – April 20 – Tsunami back with international DJs and the brainmachines guest list, at Shelter wi th DJ Astrix -April 22 – Monday – Meteor Shower April has one major meteo r shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be bet ween the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fa irly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as da wn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year fo r the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminat ed and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours bef ore dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set. April 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter – May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting -May 14 – Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Taurus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Ma lt Liquor Bull Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bulls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation Wipeout Ga me with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & Diamonds or s-eplawith a mechanical bull No Bullshit! – May 24-26 The weekend long outd oor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be with trance Sin darin woodland elves. Don’t miss the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar (in High Elven Quenyan). As it’s limited to 200 people you must RSV P to this not-to-be missed eveevent by same organizers as Burning Elf last year. – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/M ilk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil t win, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to SUMMER – Ju ne 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Col orado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of S ummer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, p rotection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is t he perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsumme r” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar mar ks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c -ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know t hat this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic i s powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding o f a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magi cal energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the lo ngest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St . Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light ar e readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time whe n the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legen d tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertilit y for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby peop le. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -A ug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebrat ion July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King o f the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate wi th us go to Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Gre en Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birt hday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summe r, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at th e Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated aroun d September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the evertu rning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that t he bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their op posites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flo w of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still re connect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch the m unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through tim es of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing th eir spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpos e and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. R ituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing sea son and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expans iveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even t he most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebra nt partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Pow er. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods t hat are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an exc ellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last o f the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harv ested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quic kly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carv ed lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should b e brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fa ll designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org /mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 2 3-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Par ty for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Ind ian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Win ter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Sco rpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pit s” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, th en lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh ye s,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorp ion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and othe r Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Que tta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-fil led field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown mol ded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slo pe on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friend s spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more th an 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away fr om the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them wi ll get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says R aza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the polic e come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakist ani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – F ull Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solare clips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22- December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and cel ebrate with us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8 :15pm Winter Solstice a, Tsunami Saturday is $10 before 1am/ladies in free before 1am / in free before 1am!!!), updated Brazillian & Mexico links, directions to Omnitribe cyborg cnn.technology.emailthis.clickability/et/emailT -Idiot Sava B lus sets by Llopis (Iboga records/Denmark) Markus (Digital Structures) Vide “0tribe F train t o Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave, cross Neptu ne Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will p ut you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cros s the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have pas sed the location go back one block. Also that night, Hom-mega rec ords is doing a label party at the lush Tribeca Grand Hotel. DJ Liran and others. Promises to be full on ecstatic Israeli trance energy. & nbsp;$25 I believe. sfree till 1am &nbs nbsp;or ce/ce/ April 13 Saturday OH-HIGH-OH Allen of Gaian Mind, Wild Bill ( April 13 Saturday His Holiness Orgy en Kusum Lingpa does Dzogchen Vajrasattva Empowerment web pm – 5:00pm Dzogchen Teaching Location: At Chinatown – 62 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER Contact: Lou Barlow (212) 979-0795, Tong Quan (718) 361- 8155, Lama Kunga ( 718) 941-1508 Email: pemayangchen at aol April 13 – From: “Jeff Star k” jstark at salon The Madagascar Institute presents: The Festival of the Hurting Being: A celebration of the irre ducible core of surprise and fear and sensation and exhilaration; pain, suffering, and discomforts mild and major. For without darkness there can be no light, without pain no pleasure, without tension no release, and without a boo-boo no reason for a kiss. Or: Comedy is when tragedy happens to other people. With: Music spun by DJs and play ed by bands; big, elaborate carnival rides handcrafted by ill-trained b ut heavily disciplined helper monkeys; a slew of the Hurting-themed art installations, games, and machines created by the ArtStars of the Mada gascar Institute; multitudes of really, really good looking and in most cases available and sometimes even interesting people who know that th e Madagascar Institute throws the best parties and events in New York, and by extension, the world; and many, many opportunities to part with your hard-earned money, all for a worthy cause so the Madagascar Institute can go to NotAmerica. All in a virgin space that is truly en ormous (60,000 square feet) and very conveniently located. Our pro mise: No bondage crap. Featuring: Breaks, beats, house, hip hop, d ancehall, techno, 2-step, ambient, and downtempo by DJs LLoop (theAgric ulture, WE); Jameson (theAgriculture, Ocean Acoustics); Sheldon Drake (Undercity); Spinoza (WNYU, Undercity); $mall A2hange & Gerald McB oingBoing (WFMU); Shakey (APESH!T); kleverVice (Madagascar Institute, G rounded); Firehorse (evolrevol); Cruzmissile (Madagascar Institute, Gro unded); Girl DJ, aka Sporkchops (Spacelounge, Madagascar Institute); Se an B & Riain (Freeskool); Arrow Chrome (Blackkat); on warehouse sys tems provided by Havoc, theAgriculture / Openair. Additional sound and film/video from Amoeba Technology. Plus: Live performances by the Hungry March Band (New York’s finest); hot girl-on-girl oil wrestli ng by Pug; the nefarious half-chicken, half-skunk, all-evil Chunk (web chengwin); Sxip (double-harmonica demon-folk blues); Pirate Brian’s Painfully Bad Puppet Theater; Torture Job (punk rock noize), featuring musical chairs; Kill Precious Kill Kill (nature’s game of chance); Bit ch Fu (all-girl punk rock); Uncle Fucker (bluegrass punk); variety acts and the Continuing Adventures of the Jolly Ship the Whiz-Bang puppet s how by Bindlestiff Cirkus roadies Nick Jones, Raja Azar, and Michael Sa ab; live video mixing by Majestic 12. Wear: A costume, because life and parties are more interesting if you put some thought into the m dentist, EMS worker, accountant, my mom, nurse, 12 empty packs of cigarettes, a hangover, suntan pantyhose with white pumps, Wile E Coyot e, saguaro cactus, safety gear, car accident vampire, Band Aid. Anythin g painful. Anything that hurts. April 13, 2002 The Madagasc ar Institute presents The Festival of the Hurting 351 Butler Street between 3rd and 4th avenues, Gowanus, Brooklyn NRW1245QM trains to At lantic/Pacific station 10p-5a; $10, or $20 in bondage gear w ww.madagascarinstitute/hurting From: “Jeff Stark” jstark at salon. com Being: A celebration of the irreducible core of surprise and fe ar and sensation and exhilaration; pain, suffering, and discomforts mil d and major. For without darkness there can be no light, without pain n o pleasure, without tension no release, and without a boo-boo no reason for a kiss. Or: Comedy is when tragedy happens to other people. B RWith: Music spun by DJs and played by bands; big, elaborate carnival rides handcrafted by ill-trained but heavily disciplined helper monkeysa slew of the Hurting-themed art installations, games, and machines c reated by the ArtStars of the Madagascar Institute; multitudes of reall y, really good looking and in most cases available and sometimes even i nteresting people who know that the Madagascar Institute throws the bes t parties and events in New York, and by extension, the world; and many many opportunities to part with your hard-earned money, all for a wor thy cause so the Madagascar Institute can go to NotAmerica. All in a virgin space that is truly enormous (60,000 square feet) and very conv eniently located. Our promise: No bondage crap. Featuring: Breaks, beats, house, hip hop, dancehall, techno, 2-step, ambient, and downtemp o by DJs LLoop (theAgriculture, WE); Jameson (theAgriculture, Ocean Ac oustics); Sheldon Drake (Undercity); Spinoza (WNYU, Undercity); $mall A2hange & Gerald McBoingBoing (WFMU); Shakey (APESH!T); kleverVice (Madagascar Institute, Grounded); Firehorse (evolrevol); Cruzmissile ( Madagascar Institute, Grounded); Girl DJ, aka Sporkchops (Spacelounge, Madagascar Institute); Sean B & Riain (Freeskool); Arrow Chrome (Bl ackkat); on warehouse systems provided by Havoc, theAgriculture / Opena ir. Additional sound and film/video from Amoeba Technology. Plus: L ive performances by the Hungry March Band (New York’s finest); hot girl -on-girl oil wrestling by Pug; the nefarious half-chicken, half-skunk, all-evil Chunk (web chengwin); Sxip (double-harmonica demon-folk bl ues); Pirate Brian’s Painfully Bad Puppet Theater; Torture Job (punk ro ck noize), featuring musical chairs; Kill Precious Kill Kill (nature’s game of chance); Bitch Fu (all-girl punk rock); Uncle Fucker (bluegrass punk); variety acts and the Continuing Adventures of the Jolly Ship th e Whiz-Bang puppet show by Bindlestiff Cirkus roadies Nick Jones, Raja Azar, and Michael Saab; live video mixing by Majestic 12. Wear: A c ostume, because life and parties are more interesting if you put some t hought into them dentist, EMS worker, accountant, my mom, nurse, 12 empty packs of cigarettes, a hangover, suntan pantyhose with white pump s, Wile E Coyote, saguaro cactus, safety gear, car accident vampire, Ba nd Aid. Anything painful. Anything that hurts. April 13 – Pari s birthday party, somthing aout TIp records web chill-out.nu/elefan tom April 14 Sunday 11:30am His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa does Fish Release: location at Queens Meadow Lake – Flushing Meadows- Corona Park. Detail instruction please see Fish Release flyer. Contact: Mik e Koo (914) 713- 7270 April 16 Freaky Tuesdays at Who’s on First on 1st ave b/w 87 & 88 with DJ Amnesium, Akin, open decks email freebee r4kids at aol April 17 Wed Opium Den 3rd street b/w 2nd & 3rd ave with the ONLY Muslim psy-trance DJ, Issam from Morocco April There will be a healing music ceremony on Friday April 19th, 8:00 pm at 2 2 E. 89th St., Apt 6C, in Manhattan. The performance will be given by THE L ISTENERS, a New York based group of instrument makers and musicians who stu dy craft and music as integrative disciplines. This is a rare performa nce of trance inducing music, based on core principles of traditional shama nic healing rituals. The New York Times called them “fascinating and unique meditative improvisers.” Admission is on a pay-what-you-wish basis. Please arrive aware of your own needs. The ceremony functions a s a doorway between our inner and outer selves. The concert will consi st of a series of improvised pieces on ancient world instruments. The event will last about two hours. Please arrive by 8 pm. (212) 831-9048. &n bsp;The Listeners will also appear live on WBAI FM 99.5 on the preceding Mo nday, April 15, at 8 pm, on Kathy Davis’ “Heart of Mind” show. For mo re information on the Listeners and related events, go to: http: th international DJs and the brainmachines guest list, at Shelter web tsuna mi-trance with DJ Astrix eor Shower the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, A pril 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hou rs of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approa ches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comf ortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can app ear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probabl y be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year fo r the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminate d and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for th is shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before me: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) pril 27 – Tsunami at Shelter May 1 – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting Tues – d Tauran Birthday Celebration April 20-May 20 Taurus All Tau rus get a free Red Bull REFRESHMENTS: Red Bull, Schlitz Malt Liquor Bu ll Special Guest: Suzula, Xander, Gary Toro, Cata Toro Bring: Bul ls. Horns. Whips. Rawhide. Music: Progressive Playstation W ipeout Game with Red Bull sponsorship Possible Location: Denim & D No Bullshit ! e Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be with trance Sindarin wood land elves. Don’t miss the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar (in H igh Elven Quenyan). As it’s limited to 200 people you must RSV P to this not-to-be missed eveevent by same organizers as Burning Elf l ast year. oon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) FO Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. &nbsfor the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/ Summer Solstice l in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many r love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The S ummer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of t he year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Pau l’s Day) This celebration of the when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by t he Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the ti me when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowe werful now. In many cultures, the r is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protec tion, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the per fect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or ” Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c FO gy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the he avens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your s oul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples als o know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His ma presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip thr g season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster /Hot Moon) elebration June 22-July 22 y people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our r oster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance /calendar oon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) g 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 sible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Aug Fusion Festival in California eon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man mber 22 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to gr oups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar ey Moon) inox cts and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses t he equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harve st festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magni es. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as wel l as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their sea sons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym requi re that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancest ors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, sp ring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever movi ng flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c d sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits t o pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cy cle. 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#2390 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:10:29 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:10:29 Dancesafe Benefit Sure, it coincides with Tsunami but Dancesafe was ejected from Shelter so if you got extra $$$, go! Sass and Ass Productions presents: aww yeah! A Benefit for Dancesafe NYC web dancesafe.org Saturday April 13th, 2002 10 pm – ??? Featuring: jungle/hip hop Christian Bruna (NYC) 50/50 Productions, Camouflage Kech (NYC) Stuck On Earth, Camouflage Hoogs w/ MC Braka-D (Buffalo, NY) a mix of old and new school jungle and dancehall as well as many new and original dubplates Perceptor (Buffalo, NY) Trypticon unit / underground|FM Skeem (Buffalo, NY) Handlaz Crew Will Creeley (NYC) hip hop Your Mom (Buffalo, NY) rollerrink house/breaks Paradigm (New Jersey) Boogie Knights/Fused funky.chunky.house.music web djparadigm.org Major Malfunction (Niagara Falls, NY) Snert / Substance / Grooveshop / wnysor.net booty house Johnny Pal (Buffalo, NY) Boogie Knights deep house Morgan Wilson (NYC) UFI house Diesel Weasel (Buffalo, NY) Cream of Beat / Goodwitch house thomas jay (Rochester, NY) breaks/house Location: Pseudo 600 Broadway (SE corner of Broadway and Houston) 6th floor Bar will be provided for those over 21 with ID Cost: $10 before 12am, $15 after.The Rev [Underground Funk Initiative] aka Gene Bonannella grb213 at nyu AOLIM: AnomalyFTSSass and Ass Productions presents: aww yeah! A Benefit for Dancesafe NYC web dancesafe.org Saturday April 13th, 2002 10 pm – ??? Featuring: jungle/hip hop Christian Bruna (NYC) 50/50 Productions, Camouflage Kech (NYC) Stuck On Earth, Camouflage Hoogs w/ MC Braka-D (Buffalo, NY) a mix of old and new school jungle and dancehall as well as many new and original dubplates Perceptor (Buffalo, NY) Trypticon unit / underground|FM Skeem (Buffalo, NY) Handlaz Crew Will Creeley (NYC) hip hop Your Mom (Buffalo, NY) rollerrink house/breaks Paradigm (New Jersey) Boogie Knights/Fused funky.chunky.house.music web djparadigm.org Major Malfunction (Niagara Falls, NY) Snert / Substance / Grooveshop / wnysor.net booty house Johnny Pal (Buffalo, NY) Boogie Knights deep house Morgan Wilson (NYC) UFI house Diesel Weasel (Buffalo, NY) Cream of Beat / Goodwitch house thomas jay (Rochester, NY) breaks/house Location: Pseudo 600 Broadway (SE corner of Broadway and Houston) 6th floor Bar will be provided for those over 21 with ID Cost: $10 before 12am, $15 after. – The Rev [Underground Funk Initiative] aka Gene Bonannella grb213 at nyu AOLIM: AnomalyFTS

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#2392 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:18:41 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:18:41 Nevada phases out laws Cc: Lojikbom at aol Thanks Lojikbom – i had to delay b/c you’re also getting the door prize, a NY psy-trance compilation out tomorrow TBA here Only America’s Finest News Source gives us cutting edge coverage like this. Note the bong that Governor Guinn is holding in his left hand. ) web theonion/onion3813/nevadatophaseout Click here: Nevada To Phase Out Laws Altogether web theonion/onion3813/nevadatophaseout Only America’s Finest News Source gives us cutting edge coverage like this. Note the bong that Governor Guinn is holding in his left hand. ) web theonion/onion3813/nevadatophaseout Click here: Nevada To Phase Out Laws Altogether

#2393 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:15:19 Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:15:18 Why do German trancers love David Hasselhoff? web hellonetwork/demo/toysclub/video.asp?speedhook300

#2394 Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:43:38 Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:43:38 Son Kite review/Tsunami preview afetydance Just woke up, Son Kite at Fun-o-Rama was off the hook. Everyone came out of the woodwork for this one, the Tulum Mexico crew, the Philly and Mass and CT crew. Many trancers got lost and twisted in the indoor playground structure set up. This morning I had msgs from Wiley at the nearby outdoor afterparty that they were rocking in the sun and everybody was there. Will someone please buy some paint and paint Wiley’s VW van with intelligent psychedelic day glo motifs already? It seriously needs some work! I was alseep all day at me casa with my woman being responshible and all that, having d dreams about robotic doll houses with the option of becoming the dolls, Alice in Wonderland style (that happens to your dreams if you’ve even smoked it just once); besides she has all my music at her house, the schemer. But the party needs of the manyoutweigh the party needs of a few, and by the Utiltarian Spock logic today was mighty efficient. Uh, no idea how Liran’s Hommega party at Tribeca Grand Hotel went, let’s just say there was a nice contingent of Israelis at Son Kite and we’ll leave it at that. Just a for the remainder – Ladies free at Tsuanmi at Shelter tonight before 1am, $10 for guys. No guest list this week. ID 18+ a must, everyone come hear. It was packed last week, I am sure it will be again. Yanni from History of the Future is back again after jamming with Raja Ram in Brazil, if you haven’t experienced his hard set, don’t miss it!I was alseep all day at me casa with my woman being responshible and all that, having d dreams about robotic doll houses with the option of becoming the dolls, Alice in Wonderland style (that happens to your dreams if you’ve even smoked it just once); besides she has all my music at her house, the schemer. But the party needs of the manyoutweigh the party needs of a few, and by the Utiltarian Spock logic today was mighty efficient. Uh, no idea how Liran’s Hommega party at Tribeca Grand Hotel went, let’s just say there was a nice contingent of Israelis at Son Kite and we’ll leave it at that.

#2395 Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:52:03 Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:52:03 Global trance group To: If you’re a true traveller, great lurker list for global events, not moderated, not mine, a bunch of worldwide trancers. Be nice.

#2396 Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:03:57 Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:03:57 Big Brother takes hit – X10 video camera hackable by cheap receiver Cc: trancemission (P.S. I called them and don’t really have a fix… Haha, makes me wanna ge t a ‘cheap receiver’. Score Minus One for Big Brother) April 14, 2002 Na nny-Cam May Leave a Home Exposed By JOHN SCHWARTZ housands of people who have installed a popular wireless video camera, intending to increase the security of their homes and offices, have instead unknowingly opened a wi ndow on their activities to anyone equipped with a cheap receiver. The wir eless video camera, which is heavily advertised on the Internet, is intend ed to send its video signal to a nearby base station, allowing it to be vi ewed on a computer or a television. But its signal can be intercepted from more than a quarter-mile away by off-the-shelf electronic equipment costin g less than $250. A recent drive around the New Jersey suburbs with two se curity experts underscored the ease with which a digital eavesdropper can peek into homes where the cameras are put to use as video baby monitors an d inexpensive security cameras. The rangy young driver pulled his truck ar ound a corner in the well-to-do suburban town of Chatham and stopped in fr ont of an unpretentious house. A window on his laptop’s screen that had be en flickering suddenly showed a crisp black-and-white video image: a livin g room, seen from somewhere near the floor. Baby toys were strewn across t he floor, and a woman sat on a couch. After showing the nanny-cam images, t he man, a privacy advocate who asked that his name not be used, drove on, scanning other houses and finding a view from above a back door and of an empty crib. A laptop computer equipped to intercept wireless signals displayed images sent by a camera used as a baby monitor in Chath am, N.J. A hacker captured the image of a woman in a New Jersey home.An employee at a Staples store in Madison, N.J., viewed by a hacker who in tercepted images from a wireless camera system in the store. One expert on eavesdropping said such digital peeping is apparently legal. In the n earby town of Madison, from the parking lot of a Staples store, workers co uld be observed behind the cash register. The driver walked into the store and pointed up at a corner of the room. “Take a look,” he said. Above the folded-back steel security shutters was a nubbin of technology: a barely perceptible video camera looking down on the employees. “I can only imagine driving around the Bay Area with one of these,” said Aviel D. Rubin, a se curity researcher at AT&T Labs, which identified the problem. Around San Francisco, high-technology toys like security cameras are likely to be far more common. Mr. Rubin tries to help the business world recognize securit y threats and address them. Although there is no evidence that video snoop ing is widespread, it is so easy and the opportunity to do it is so great that it is a cause for concern, said Mr. Rubin, who was along for the ride . Such digital peeping is apparently legal, said Clifford S. Fishman, a law professor at the Catholic University of America and the author of a leadi ng work on surveillance law, “Wiretapping and Eavesdropping.” When told of the novel form of high-technology prying, Professor Fishman said, “That i s astonishing and appalling.” But he said that wiretap laws generally appl ied to intercepting sound, not video. Legal prohibitions on telephone eave sdropping, he said, were passed at the urging of the telecommunications in dustry, which wanted to make consumers feel safe using its products. “Ther e’s no corresponding lobby out there protecting people from digital survei llance,” he said. Some states have passed laws that prohibit placing surrep titious cameras in places like dressing rooms, but legislatures have gener ally not considered the legality of intercepting those signals. Nor have t hey considered that the signals would be intercepted from cameras that peo ple planted themselves. “There’s no clear law that protects us,” Professor Fishman said. “You put it all together, the implications are pretty horri fying.” With no federal law and no consensus among the states on the legal ity of tapping video signals, Professor Fishman said, “The nanny who decid ed to take off her dress and clean up the house in her underwear would pro bably have no recourse” against someone tapping the signal. Police officer s with search warrants could use the technology for investigative purposes as well, he suggested. Surveillance has been a growing part of American life, especially since Sept. 11. Video cameras have been installed on city streets, and some cities and airports have tried to tie cameras into faci al recognition systems, with mixed results. Privacy advocates argue that t he benefit to security is questionable and the intrusiveness is high. But the cameras continue to proliferate E28094 with many people buying them for personal use. Surveillance cameras have also sprouted at intersection s to catch drivers who speed or run red lights and as a part of many voyeu r-oriented pornographic Web sites. Ads for the “Amazing X10 Camera” have b een popping up all over the World Wide Web for months. The ads for the dev ice, the XCam2, carry a taste of cheesecake E28094 usually a photo of a glamorous-looking woman in a swimming pool or on the edge of a couch. But in fact, many people have bought the cameras for far more pedestrian pur poses. “Frankly, a lot of it is kind of dull,” and most of the women being surreptitiously observed are probably nannies, said Marc Rotenberg, the e xecutive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washingt on. He calls the X10 ads “one of the weird artifacts of the Internet age.” The company that sells the cameras, X10 Wireless Technology Inc. of Seattl e, was created in 1999 by an American subsidiary of X10 Ltd., a Hong Kong company. It is privately held and does not release sales figures. A spoke sman, Jeff Denenholz, said the company had no comment for this article. Fil ings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public sto ck offering that was later withdrawn provide some figures, however. X10 lo st $8.1 million on revenue of $21.3 million for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2000, and said that 52 percent of its revenue came from wireless came ra kits. At the camera’s current retail price of about $80, that would tra nslate to sales of more than 138,000 cameras in those nine months alone. R ob Enderle, an analyst at the Giga Information Group, a technology consult ing business, said he was a big fan of X10 E28094 which sells the most popular wireless cameras on the consumer market E28094 and its wares. “T heirs is the least expensive option out there, and they actually do a good job,” he said. Mr. Enderle was surprised to hear of the cameras’ lack of security, but said he did not see a cause for great concern. “Clearly, if you are pointing that at areas like your bathroom or shower, there may be people enjoying that view with you,” he said. “But fundamentally, you shou ldn’t be pointing it that way anyway.” The vulnerability of wireless produ cts has been well understood for decades. The radio spectrum is crowded, a nd broadcast is an inherently leaky medium; baby monitors would sometimes receive signals from early cordless phones (most are scrambled today to pr event monitoring). A subculture of enthusiasts grew up around inexpensive scanning equipment that could pick up signals from cordless and cellular p hones, as former Speaker Newt Gingrich discovered when recordings of a 199 6 conference call strategy session were released by Democrats. More recent ly, with the advent of wireless computer networks based on the increasingl y popular technology known as WiFi, yet another new subculture has emerged : people known as “war drivers” who enter poorly safeguarded wireless netw orks while driving or walking around with laptops. In the case of the XCam2 the cameras transmit an unscrambled analog radio signal that can be pick ed up by receivers sold with the cameras. Replacing the receiver’s small a ntenna with a more powerful one and adding a signal amplifier to pick up t ransmissions over greater distances is a trivial task for anyone who knows his way around a partners.nytimes/redirect/marketwat Pro ducts intended for the consumer market rarely include strong security, sai d Gary McGraw, the chief technology officer of Cigital, a software risk-ma nagement company. That is because security costs money, and even pennies o f added expense eat into profits. “When you’re talking about a cheap thing that’s consumer grade that you’re supposed to sell lots and lots of copie s of, that really matters,” he said. Refitting an X10 camera with encryptio n technology would be beyond the skills of most consumers. It is best for manufacturers to design security features into products from the start, be cause adding them afterward is far more difficult, Mr. McGraw said. The ca meras are only the latest example of systems that are too insecure in thei r first versions, he said, and cited other examples, including icrosoft’s Windows operating system. “It’s going to take a long time f or consumer goods to have any security wedged into them at all,” he said. Another wireless camera, the DCS-1000W from D-Link Systems Inc., does offe r encrypted transmission and ties into standard WiFi networks E28094 bu t it costs at least $350. As a security expert, Mr. Rubin said he was conc erned about the kinds of mischief that a criminal could carry out by subst ituting one video image for another. In one scenario, a robber or kidnappe r wanting to get past a security camera at the front door could secretly r ecord the video image of a trusted neighbor knocking. Later, the robber co uld force that image into the victim’s receiver with a more powerful signa l. “I have my computer retransmit these images while I come by,” he said, explaining the view of a would-be robber. Far-fetched, perhaps. That is th e way security experts think. But those who use the cameras and find out a bout the security hole seem to grasp the implications quickly. Back at the Staples store in Madison, employees said they did not know that they were being watched by security monitors. The manager of the store, when asked whether he knew that his cameras were broadcasting to the outside world, s eemed somewhat shaken, and excused himself to go into his office, he said, to put down the small display carousel he was carrying. He did not return. nd don’t really have a fix… Haha, makes me wanna get a ‘cheap recei ver’. Score Minus One for Big Brother) April 14, 2002 By JOHN SCHWARTZ sands of people who have installed a popular wireless video camera, intendi ng to increase the security of their homes and offices, have instead unknow ingly opened a window on their activities to anyone equipped with a cheap r eceiver. The wireless video camera, which is heavily advertised on the Internet, is intended to send its video signal to a nearby base station, al lowing it to be viewed on a computer or a television. But its signal can be intercepted from more than a quarter-mile away by off-the-shelf electronic equipment costing less than $250. A recent drive around the New Jersey suburbs with two security experts underscored the ease with which a digita l eavesdropper can peek into homes where the cameras are put to use as vide o baby monitors and inexpensive security cameras. The rangy young drive r pulled his truck around a corner in the well-to-do suburban town of Chath am and stopped in front of an unpretentious house. A window on his laptop’s screen that had been flickering suddenly showed a crisp black-and-white vi deo image: a living room, seen from somewhere near the floor. Baby toys wer e strewn across the floor, and a woman sat on a couch. After showing th e nanny-cam images, the man, a privacy advocate who asked that his name not be used, drove on, scanning other houses and finding a view from above a b ack door and of an empty crib. IM ntercept wireless signals displayed images sent by a camera used as a baby monitor in Chatham, N.J. A hacker captured the image of a woman in a New Je n Madison, N.J., viewed by a hacker who intercepted images from a wireless camera system in the store. One expert on eavesdropping said such digital p In the nearby town o f Madison, from the parking lot of a Staples store, workers could be observ ed behind the cash register. The driver walked into the store and pointed u p at a corner of the room. “Take a look,” he said. Above the folded-back st eel security shutters was a nubbin of technology: a barely perceptible vide o camera looking down on the employees. “I can only imagine driving aro und the Bay Area with one of these,” said Aviel D. Rubin, a security resear cher at AT&T Labs, which identified the problem. Around San Franci sco, high-technology toys like security cameras are likely to be far more c ommon. Mr. Rubin tries to help the business world recognize security threat s and address them. Although there is no evidence that video snooping is wi despread, it is so easy and the opportunity to do it is so great that it is a cause for concern, said Mr. Rubin, who was along for the ride. Such digital peeping is apparently legal, said Clifford S. Fishman, a law profes sor at the Catholic University of America and the author of a leading work on surveillance law, “Wiretapping and Eavesdropping.” When told of the novel form of high-technology prying, Professor Fishman said, “That is asto nishing and appalling.” But he said that wiretap laws generally applied to intercepting sound, not video. Legal prohibitions on telephone eavesdroppin g, he said, were passed at the urging of the telecommunications industry, w hich wanted to make consumers feel safe using its products. “There’s no cor responding lobby out there protecting people from digital surveillance,” he said. Some states have passed laws that prohibit placing surreptitious cameras in places like dressing rooms, but legislatures have generally not considered the legality of intercepting those signals. Nor have they consi dered that the signals would be intercepted from cameras that people plante d themselves. “There’s no clear law that protects us,” Professor Fishman sa id. “You put it all together, the implications are pretty horrifying.” With no federal law and no consensus among the states on the legality of t apping video signals, Professor Fishman said, “The nanny who decided to tak e off her dress and clean up the house in her underwear would probably have no recourse” against someone tapping the signal. Police officers with sear ch warrants could use the technology for investigative purposes, as well, h e suggested. Surveillance has been a growing part of American life, esp ecially since Sept. 11. Video cameras have been installed on city streets, and some cities and airports have tried to tie cameras into facial recognit ion systems, with mixed results. Privacy advocates argue that the benefit t o security is questionable and the intrusiveness is high. But the cameras c ontinue to proliferate E28094 with many people buying them for personal use. Surveillance cameras have also sprouted at intersections to catch driv ers who speed or run red lights and as a part of many voyeur-oriented porno graphic Web sites. Ads for the “Amazing X10 Camera” have been popping up all over the World Wide Web for months. The ads for the device, the XCam 2, carry a taste of cheesecake E28094 usually a photo of a glamorous-loo king woman in a swimming pool or on the edge of a couch. But, in fact, many people have bought the cameras for far more pedestrian purposes. “Fran kly, a lot of it is kind of dull,” and most of the women being surreptitiou sly observed are probably nannies, said Marc Rotenberg, the executive direc tor of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. He calls th e X10 ads “one of the weird artifacts of the Internet age.” The company that sells the cameras, X10 Wireless Technology Inc. of Seattle, was creat ed in 1999 by an American subsidiary of X10 Ltd., a Hong Kong company. It i s privately held and does not release sales figures. A spokesman, Jeff Dene nholz, said the company had no comment for this article. Filings with t he Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering that was later withdrawn provide some figures, however. X10 lost $8.1 milli on on revenue of $21.3 million for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2000, an d said that 52 percent of its revenue came from wireless camera kits. At th e camera’s current retail price of about $80, that would translate to sales of more than 138,000 cameras in those nine months alone. Rob Enderle, an analyst at the Giga Information Group, a technology consulting business, said he was a big fan of X10 E28094 which sells the most popular wirele ss cameras on the consumer market E28094 and its wares. “Theirs is the l east expensive option out there, and they actually do a good job,” he said. Mr. Enderle was surprised to hear of the cameras’ lack of security, bu t said he did not see a cause for great concern. “Clearly, if you are point ing that at areas like your bathroom or shower, there may be people enjoyin g that view with you,” he said. “But fundamentally, you shouldn’t be pointi ng it that way anyway.” The vulnerability of wireless products has been well understood for decades. The radio spectrum is crowded, and broadcast is an inherently leaky medium; baby monitors would sometimes receive signal s from early cordless phones (most are scrambled today to prevent monitorin g). A subculture of enthusiasts grew up around inexpensive scanning equipme nt that could pick up signals from cordless and cellular phones, as former Speaker Newt Gingrich discovered when recordings of a 1996 conference call strategy session were released by Democrats. More recently, with the ad vent of wireless computer networks based on the increasingly popular techno logy known as WiFi, yet another new subculture has emerged: people known as “war drivers” who enter poorly safeguarded wireless networks while driving or walking around with laptops. In the case of the XCam2, the cameras transmit an unscrambled analog radio signal that can be picked up by receiv ers sold with the cameras. Replacing the receiver’s small antenna with a mo re powerful one and adding a signal amplifier to pick up transmissions over greater distances is a trivial task for anyone who knows his way around a partners.nytimes/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW Products intended for the consumer market rarely include strong security, said Gary McGraw, the chief technology officer of Cigital, a software risk-management company . That is because security costs money, and even pennies of added expense e at into profits. “When you’re talking about a cheap thing that’s consumer g rade that you’re supposed to sell lots and lots of copies of, that really m atters,” he said. Refitting an X10 camera with encryption technology wo uld be beyond the skills of most consumers. It is best for manufacturers to design security features into products from the start, because adding them afterward is far more difficult, Mr. McGraw said. The cameras are only the latest example of systems that are too insecure in their first versions, h e said, and cited other examples, including partners.nyti ws operating system. “It’s going to take a long time for consumer goods to have any security wedged into them at all,” he said. Another wireless camera, the DCS-1000W from D-Link Systems Inc., does offer encrypted transm ission and ties into standard WiFi networks E28094 but it costs at least $350. As a security expert, Mr. Rubin said he was concerned about the kinds of mischief that a criminal could carry out by substituting one video image for another. In one scenario, a robber or kidnapper wanting to get p ast a security camera at the front door could secretly record the video ima ge of a trusted neighbor knocking. Later, the robber could force that image into the victim’s receiver with a more powerful signal. “I have my compute r retransmit these images while I come by,” he said, explaining the view of a would-be robber. Far-fetched, perhaps. That is the way security expe rts think. But those who use the cameras and find out about the security ho le seem to grasp the implications quickly. Back at the Staples store in Madison, employees said they did not know that they were being watched by security monitors. The manager of the store, when asked whether he knew tha t his cameras were broadcasting to the outside world, seemed somewhat shake n, and excused himself to go into his office, he said, to put down the smal l display carousel he was carrying. He did not return.

#2397 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:16:14 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:16:14 Sunday night “Share” at Open Air written up in Wired Songs in the Key of F12 First software turned the laptop into a musical in strument. Now who’s in control: the machine or the musician? By Erik Davis It’s Sunday night at Open Air, a small, sleek lounge in downtown Manhatta n. A couple dozen musicians, DJs, and bedroom hackers huddle around the ba r or relax on couches. Many are toting computers. The atmosphere is trendy but soothing: Exposed wood conjures a California vibe that counterbalance s the space-station chill; sunsets and moonscapes float across a wall of f lat-panel displays. Everyone’s paying more attention to their laptop scree ns than to the art on the walls – making the scene more home-brew computer club than East Village bohemia. Everybody’s here for Share, a weekly gathering that began last summer as a swap meet focused on the ap plications, macros, and plug-ins available to musicians working with PCs. Most of the goods were soon traded, and the party evolved into a combinati on jam session and mutual support line. Share co-honcho Rich Panciera, a s cruffy Brooklynite who records under the handle lloop, explains: “The musi c people play here is a prototype for the music of the future.” The music as you might guess, is electronica. And though the stuff at Share sounds rather avant-garde, with its edgy textures and squirrelly beats, it’s als o strangely familiar. After all, electronic music is ubiquitous these days the sonic backdrop in restaurants, retail shops, and TV commercials. Its signature moves are used by everyone from Timbaland to Radiohead, BjF6rk to Moby. In a larger sense, nearly all of the music you hear today, both recorded and live, is electronic. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s digital – many studio engineers and artists remain fervently attached to a nalog hardware, with its arguably greater warmth and richness. But the com puter is inextricably woven into all stages of the modern recording proces s: Even acoustic music such as string quartets and bluegrass is spliced an d diced with all-purpose mixing software like Pro Tools and Logic. The wan dering tones of mediocre (but marketable) singers are routinely treated wi th pitch-correcting programs like Antares Auto-Tune. And no one balks at d rum machines anymore. No one balks at sampled voices anymore. These da ys, Milli Vanilli seem like prophets, not cheats. Most mainstream m usic production relegates the computer to a behind-the-scenes player. The digital processes that help create the sense of presence and authenticity are smoothed out and kept in check. The Share crowd wants to let those tec hniques loose. For them, the PC is no longer simply a playback device or a n inexpensive home studio. It has become an instrument in its own right. An explosion of scattershot beats emerges from the next room. The sounds b elong to Geoff Matters, a slight 24-year-old who sports a wispy Fu Manchu, earrings, and long blond hair stuffed inside a beige stocking cap. Besides helping to organize Share, Matters is one of the lead programmers for GDA M, which stands for Geoff and Dave’s Audio Mixer. An open source digital D J rig that’s “perpetually in beta,” GDAM cuts and mixes MP3s like a vinyl DJ gone cyborg. Photo by Lucas Thorpe Keiko Uenishi jams at Share, a mo nthly software swap meet in NYC Matters unfolds a 4-foot-square mat tha t looks like a ticktacktoe gameboard and has the phrase STAY COOL! emblazo ned in the center. Officially, the device belongs to Dance Dance Revolutio n, the PlayStation version of an insanely popular Japanese arcade game tha t leads players through hyperactive dance routines. Instead of dictating m oves, Matters’ rejiggered pad lets him drive the music. Stepping on differ ent squares controls an array of beats and effects, allowing him to scratc h virtual records with his feet. “It’s not about re-creating vinyl,” Matte rs explains. “It’s about performance.” As Matters hops around in his fat, floppy socks, the evening’s featured performer settles down on a nearby co uch and pops open her PowerBook. Keiko Uenishi, aka O.blaat, is a Japanese artist best known for wiring up Ping-Pong games with mikes and modulating the resulting audio. Without fanfare, she begins unleashing an enchanted sea of sound: Fuzzed-out birdcalls flit through submarine drones, and scra tchy beats crackle like a thousand records skipping as one. Uenishi’s set is great; however, like most laptop musicians, she’s boring to watch. Cal ling up audio files and filters with a QWERTY keyboard lacks the visual pu nch of a guitar solo or a drumroll, and often there isn’t even a visible l ink between a keypunch and a specific change in sound. Is it live or is it Memorex? No one at Share seems to care, and for all I know, Uenishi might have spent her time playing The Sims. B anhattan. A couple dozen musicians, DJs, and bedroom hackers huddle around the bar or relax on couches. Many are toting computers. The atmosphere is t rendy but soothing: Exposed wood conjures a California vibe that counterbal ances the space-station chill; sunsets and moonscapes float across a wall o f flat-panel displays. Everyone’s paying more attention to their laptop scr eens than to the art on the walls – making the scene more home-brew compute 1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/12h/static.wired/news/images/spacer.gif” W ing that began last summer as a swap meet focused on the applications, macr os, and plug-ins available to musicians working with PCs. Most of the goods were soon traded, and the party evolved into a combination jam session and mutual support line. Share co-honcho Rich Panciera, a scruffy Brooklynite who records under the handle lloop, explains: “The music people play here i”0The music, as you might guess, is electronica. And though the stuff at Share sounds rather avant-garde, with its edgy textures and squirrelly beat s, it’s also strangely familiar. After all, electronic music is ubiquitous these days, the sonic backdrop in restaurants, retail shops, and TV commerc ials. Its signature moves are used by everyone from Timbaland to Radiohead, arly all of the music you hear today, both recorded and live, is electronic . This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s digital – many studio engineers a nd artists remain fervently attached to analog hardware, with its arguably greater warmth and richness. But the computer is inextricably woven into al l stages of the modern recording process: Even acoustic music such as strin g quartets and bluegrass is spliced and diced with all-purpose mixing softw are like Pro Tools and Logic. The wandering tones of mediocre (but marketab le) singers are routinely treated with pitch-correcting programs like Antar B to a behind-the-scenes player. The digital processes that help create the s ense of presence and authenticity are smoothed out and kept in check. The S hare crowd wants to let those techniques loose. For them, the PC is no long er simply a playback device or an inexpensive home studio. It has become an on of scattershot beats emerges from the next room. The sounds belong to Ge off Matters, a slight 24-year-old who sports a wispy Fu Manchu, earrings, a nd long blond hair stuffed inside a beige stocking cap. Besides helping to organize Share, Matters is one of the lead programmers for GDAM, which stan ds for Geoff and Dave’s Audio Mixer. An open source digital DJ rig that’s ” perpetually in beta,” GDAM cuts and mixes MP3s like a vinyl DJ gone cyborg. nfolds a 4-foot-square mat that looks like a ticktacktoe gameboard and has MALL/SMALLemblazoned in the center. Officially, the device belongs to IDance Dance Revolution, the PlayStation version of an insanely popula r Japanese arcade game that leads players through hyperactive dance routine s. Instead of dictating moves, Matters’ rejiggered pad lets him drive the m usic. Stepping on different squares controls an array of beats and effects, allowing him to scratch virtual records with his feet. “It’s not about re- vening’s featured performer settles down on a nearby couch and pops open he r PowerBook. Keiko Uenishi, aka O.blaat, is a Japanese artist best known fo r wiring up Ping-Pong games with mikes and modulating the resulting audio. Without fanfare, she begins unleashing an enchanted sea of sound: Fuzzed-ou t birdcalls flit through submarine drones, and scratchy beats crackle like shi’s set is great; however, like most laptop musicians, she’s boring to wa tch. Calling up audio files and filters with a QWERTY keyboard lacks the vi sual punch of a guitar solo or a drumroll, and often there isn’t even a vis ible link between a keypunch and a specific change in sound. Is it live or is it Memorex? No one at Share seems to care, and for all I know, Uenishi m /SMA

#2398 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:02:18 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:02:18 The first American Psy-Trance CD compilation When I first saw this I said ‘where is Kri from NC’ but then I realized this is a Very Full On compilation, and also more New York than American.. Rarely if ever do I recommend buying CDs, but this is worth it! “Soular records emerges onto the psychedelic trance scene with a debut compilation featuring cutting-edge beats and mind-bending synthesizers, delivered to you direct from some of New York City’s top-secret sound labs. Supercharged sonic wizards mix up a batch of tripped-out tracks, running the range from full-on dancefloor killers to chilled out minimalistic stompers. Like the city from which these tracks were born, this powerful packet of digital vibrations offers up a multidimensional world that even the most ardent follower of spiritual psychedelic trance dance will appreciate.” “AWAKENING” Track Listing 1. Deeper in Zen – The Calling 2. Mind Warped – Dark Matter 3. Deeper in Zen vs. Mind Warped – Liquid Dimensions 4. Deeper in Zen – Ponder on This 5. Creamsicle – First Flight 6. Onnomon – Tower of Babel 7. Mind Warped – Psychic Underground 8. IndiaDrop – 2Face 9. D-Space – Hoedown Number Nine 10. IndiaDrop vs. Deeper in Zen – Subtle Energy BUY IT ONLINE AT web trancetrax/web trancetrax or locally at THROB record store 14th Street!!!!! web soularrecords/web soularrecords

#2399 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:03:41 Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:03:41 Fwd: 4/20 asheville nc

#2400 Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:19:40 Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:19:39 Re: brain The first American Psy-Trance CD compilation OK OK it wasn’t the first. but it’s the first out of old lame-o new york, and it’s good too, so support your local scene! Babylon needs it! Thanks Amy, Aaron, and Kamal..’ From: amy at alienmassive (amy) To: Along those lines, it is worth noting that Spectral Concepts, based out of the bay area, also released an American compilation last winter (well, North American anywaythere’s some Canadians in there) called “American Rotation.” (see long url: web spectralpsy/sp/Shopping/Catalog/productdetail.asp?ItemNumberS CCD01&Catcds&OBArtistName&GroupP-Z) track listing: 1. IndiaDrop – Superfudge Chunk 2. Penta – Zeynep 3. Wormfood – Ug 4. Bufo – Smokin’ Feet 5. Nuclear Ramjet – Evolution 3.3 6. Phosphene – Axiomatic 7. Data Entry – Grey Area 8. Tendril – Changeling 9. Minimlaniml – Close the Line They’re also releasing a couple of twelve inches here really soon. Ceiba, also based out of SF, has released a handful of compilations with some American psy over the years as well. Their most recent is Language of Light vol. 3… American psytranceprimarily San Francisco, though. tracklisting: 1. Shakatura – All Hallows Morning 2. Waterjuice – Almost Spooky 3. Tesarect – Space Shower 4. Bufo – 1st Light 5. Shaff Puff – MPT 6. Biodegradable – Kumbalela 7. Ocelot – Bust 8. UV13 – Holotropic Generator 9. Kode IV – Visions Anyway, it is absolutely *fantastic* to finally see some American psytrance being released on, uh, like American labels. (and yeah, I’m from SFcan you tell? But I get out to NYC pretty regularly and as such, want to know what’s up when I’m out there… hence I’m on this list) peace, amy From: aaron at chaishop (Aaron Peacock) To: first? ahhh no. there have been many. the most recent to claim “first” was SPectral Concepts “American Rotation” featuring Penta, Ghreg on Earth, Data Entry, Nuclear Ramjet, etc… all north american artists… Hey As far as I know the first american psytrance was from spectra concepts called and it was called american rotationThanks Amy, Aaron, and Kamal..’ From: amy at alienmassive (amy) To: Along those lines, it is worth noting that Spectral Concepts, based out of the bay area, also released an American compilation last winter (well, North American anywaythere’s some Canadians in there) called “American Rotation.” (see long url: web spectralpsy/sp/Shopping/Catalog/productdetail.asp?ItemNumberSCCD01&Catcds&OBArtistName&GroupP-Z) track listing: 1. IndiaDrop – Superfudge Chunk 2. Penta – Zeynep 3. Wormfood – Ug 4. Bufo – Smokin’ Feet 5. Nuclear Ramjet – Evolution 3.3 6. Phosphene – Axiomatic 7. Data Entry – Grey Area 8. Tendril – Changeling 9. Minimlaniml – Close the Line They’re also releasing a couple of twelve inches here really soon. Ceiba, also based out of SF, has released a handful of compilations with some American psy over the years as well. Their most recent is Language of Light vol. 3… American psytranceprimarily San Francisco, though. tracklisting: 1. Shakatura – All Hallows Morning 2. Waterjuice – Almost Spooky 3. Tesarect – Space Shower 4. Bufo – 1st Light 5. Shaff Puff – MPT 6. Biodegradable – Kumbalela 7. Ocelot – Bust 8. UV13 – Holotropic Generator 9. Kode IV – Visions Anyway, it is absolutely *fantastic* to finally see some American psytrance being released on, uh, like American labels. (and yeah, I’m from SFcan you tell? But I get out to NYC pretty regularly and as such, want to know what’s up when I’m out there… hence I’m on this list) peace, amy From: aaron at chaishop (Aaron Peacock) To: first? ahhh no. there have been many. the most recent to claim “first” was SPectral Concepts “American Rotation” featuring Penta, Ghreg on Earth, Data Entry, Nuclear Ramjet, etc… all north american artists… Hey As far as I know the first american psytrance was from spectra concepts called and it was called american rotation

#2401 Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:30:50 Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:30:50 K-veterans (vets?) get paid over $500 to get their brains mapped brainmachines Cc: k at btinternet Have you done a lot of K? Need $500? Do you have three days to spare? Researchers at Columbia Presbyterian are studying K as a model for schizophrenia and are mapping the brains of those you have used a lot of PCP or K. Call Leyla at 212-543-6104 and tell her Jeff sent you. I’m doing it; it is a pleasant edifying experience. First you get a phone interview done Then you come in for a screening (physical and blood/urine/hair analysis once those results come in they ask you to come in to be admitted into the psych ward for 3-5 days, where you’re gonna get your MRI and PET scan done. You can bring books, laptops, etc. If you want you can get actual slides of your brain, too. They look great on my windows at home. It turns out that almost all their subjects have done K rather than PCP.

#2402 Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:52:24 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello!! for tonight at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Dj Isam(Spectra) Gavin (Spectra) Opium Den 29 east 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue Thanks!!!!!!!!! Love and Light Angeles

#2403 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:40:55 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:40:55 Spectra May 4 Spectra presents…. May 4th at the Frying Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hopefiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm Spectra will be providing a complete sound system.May 4th at the Frying Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hopefiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm

#2404 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:08:15 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 05:08:15 Tsunami Saturday Back to International DJs… TSUNAMI continues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: Saturday, April 20th, 2002 For the first time in America DJ A S T R I X (Hom-Mega, Israel) Avi is the new sensation on the international trance circuit, and he is going to give us a taste of what all the noise is about, with an exclusive extended DJ set. YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadily becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. PSYCHODOG AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. ID18 & up 11pm till 11am Admission: $25 / $20 by giving your brainmachines email address at the door 24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 ce Saturday, April 27th: ALIEN PROJECT! SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well the TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records in stores everywhere!TSUNAMI :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: For the first time in America DJ A S T R I X (Hom-Mega, Israel) Avi is the new sensation on the international trance circuit, and he is going to give us a taste of what all the noise is about, with an exclusive extended DJ set. YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadily becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. PSYCHODOG AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. ID18 & up 11pm till 11am Admission: $25 / $20 by giving your brainmachines email address at the door 24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 ce Saturday, April 27th: ALIEN PROJECT! SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well the TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records in stores everywhere!

#2405 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:47:40 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:47:39 LaSaDa Missile Silo Party Old news for some…but required reading for all! Case still pending AFAIK Ladies and Gentleman, I Have A New Hero By web pigdog.org/auto/substancerecreation/link/authors/MrBad Mr. Bad William Leonard Pickard, Jr. is this well-known d policy expert from UCLA. He is like this big knowledgeable fellow about the Russian d trade and all the bad things they did, and he’s written papers and organized huge conferences and shit.Well, let me change the tense here: he was a policy expert, that is, until his grant ran out last fall. Then, he went on a RAMPAGE! He (allegedly) bought this crazy ABANDONED NUCULAR MISSILE SILO in KANSAS and made it into a gigantic l lab. He was putting out 10 million doses a month! (Allegedly) He converted the nucular silo into luxurious Mac Daddy ACID DEALER LOVE PAD, with a Jacuzzi and Italian marble!Allegedly.And THEN he got raided in November by the DEA, but he got away! He ran into the woods of Kansas, and evaded police for 18 hours! With like all these bloodhounds and INFRARED HELIOCOPTERS and gillions of big dumb DEA cops running after him. But then he got busted when some HAYSEED found him in a truck and turned him in. [By the way, fuck you, you fucking goody-goody KANSAS FARMER NOBODY! You don’t deserve to kiss William Pickard’s unwiped ass, much less turn him in. Gar!]And THEN, he got all arraigned this month, and he got all these letters of support from crazy freaks around the globe. Like, the Zen Center of and SF DA Terrence Hallinan wrote letters of support for him. And these wacko English Noblepersons Lord and Lady Neidpath, best known for their advocacy of web pigdog.org/auto/weirdscience/link/189 trephination and such. They both have big drilled heads, and they love William Pickard! He is beloved by all!This is just such a great story in so many ways. It’s really what journalism is all about, covering the INTERNATIONAL NUCULAR SILO PLAYBOY ZEN TREPANATION d DEALER PROFESSORS and their lifestyles and antics. It’s a must-read for everybody: l Trafficking Suspect Has Intriguing Backers D.A. Terence Hallinan and British aristocrats The Bay Area man accused of running a huge l lab at a decommissioned nuclear weapons silo in Kansas is a nonsmoking, marathon-running vegetarian, a Harvard graduate and deputy director of a University of California program that tracked illegal ds. And he won support from San Francisco’s district attorney. After William Leonard Pickard Jr.’s arrest in what the d Enforcement Administration calls one of the nation’s biggest l cases, Pickard produced letters backing his release on bail from District Attorney Terence Hallinan on official letterhead and from a British lord and lady known for trepanation having holes drilled in their skulls to expand consciousness. Pickard, 55, of Mill Valley and his alleged accomplice, Clyde Apperson, 45, a Mountain View computer consultant, are charged with conspiracy to distribute l. A DEA affidavit says the two had enough raw material to produce 10 million or more doses monthly. Pickard evaded hounds, helicopters with infrared searchlights and more than 50 law enforcement officials for 18 hours after he sprinted into the thick Kansas woods when police stopped his rented van Nov. 7, said Pottawatomie County Sheriff Anthony Metcalf. Officers went door to door to check some 250 homes, said Metcalf, but a farmer found Pickard resting in a truck and turned him in. D.A. BACKS PICKARD Hallinan’s letter was one of several recommending Pickard’s release on bail. The entire letter said: “When I was in private practice I represented Leonard Pickard on some legal matters. I always found him to be an honorable person who kept his word.” In one of those matters, Pickard admitted that in 1985 he applied for a passport under a false name. In another, he admitted that in 1988 he was involved with an l lab in Mountain View. Hallinan’s use of office stationery for a private matter apparently conflicts with ethics rules recommended by the California District Attorney’s Association, which say: “Using official stationery for personal objectives is improper.” Rod Leonard, a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles who specializes in professional responsibility, declined to comment on any specific case but said his office policy states: “Letterhead should not be used for matters not related to office business.” Governmental stationery implies an official message, he said. Hallinan said he saw no conflict between his role as San Francisco’s top prosecutor and using office stationery to vouch for Pickard. His office has no rule on the use of letterhead, he said. “There’s no way you could imply that letter was the official position of the D.A.’s office. It was like a personal reference by me,” Hallinan said. “I am confident that if he (Pickard) is released on bail he will show up. He was a conscientious guy and made his court appearances on time.” HOLES IN THEIR HEADS Lord James and Lady Amanda Neidpath of Beckley Park, Oxford, also vowed Pickard was trustworthy. They are renowned for having undergone trepanation, a centuries-old practice of drilling holes in the head that gained a small following in the 1960s. Proponents say it decreases depression and boosts creativity; the medical establishment calls it nonsense. Lord Neidpath, the second son of the Earl of Wemyss, was an Oxford professor who taught international relations to Bill Clinton. Lord Neidpath told the Washington Post in 1998 that the hole in his head “seemed to be very beneficial.” Lady Neidpath ran for Parliament in the 1970s on a platform of “Trepanation for the National Health.” She told London’s Express that the bloody procedure – – which she administered herself and recorded on film left her feeling permanently “drunk on sherry.” The Neidpaths’ letter to the court said Pickard had helped them plan conferences on “ds and Society” at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle. “We find it difficult to believe . . . he can be involved in anything criminal,” it said. “He has always been kindly, reliable and extremely helpful. He is also well known in the academic community.” For the past two years, Pickard has been deputy director of the d Policy Analysis Program at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he helped track the emergence of new street ds in Russia, said director Mark Kleiman. Pickard’s salary came from a private grant that ran out this summer, said Kleiman, and he was not on UCLA’s payroll when arrested. “He had contacts in the (Russian) health ministry and the security agency and with some of the bad guys,” said Kleiman. “He’d hang out in the nightclubs. He also had social contacts with some of the elite users. He knew what ds the millionaires were doing in St. Petersburg.” Despite the credentials, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered Pickard held without bail, ruling that he might flee or endanger the community. Rogers released Apperson after he posted $200,000 bond. Pickard and Apperson have pleaded not guilty. A hearing on pretrial motions is set for tomorrow. The alleged clandestine chemists set up an l lab inside an old Atlas missile silo, the DEA affidavit says. The silo had been sold as government surplus to a Tulsa man who was arrested in another l case and became a government informant, according to the affidavit. The silo had its own wells, a filtered air system and was remodeled with a Jacuzzi, Italian marble tile and $85,000 audio speakers, said the sheriff and another man who had been inside. William Rork, Pickard’s Topeka lawyer, said that his client was framed and “the evidence will show there was never an l lab in operation there.” Mark L. Bennett Jr., Apperson’s lawyer, did not return a phone call seeking comment. l is the most powerful hallucinogen known. Northern California has long been a center of l production and distribution, the DEA says, mostly by small groups that have evaded police for years. To be sure, Pickard researched the international underworld of d trafficking. But whether he crossed the line in Kansas from observer to participant and whether he participated as cop or criminal will be decided in court. In interviews with past and present associates, Pickard emerges as a kind of flashback to San Francisco’s 1960s hippie scene. Tall and thin, he has long gray hair. He doesn’t smoke, drink or eat meat. Pickard runs marathons, meditates and practices yoga, and several years ago lived at the Zen Center on Page Street. “He was polite and somewhat reserved,” said center director Jeffrey Schneider. “He always had an air of mystery,” said Kleiman. “He was a character out of a Pynchon novel.” Pickard has played several roles in the world of mind-altering molecules, according to his resume, associates and court records. In the early 1970s, he studied social ds at State University, according to his professor, the well-known psychedelic researcher Alexander Shulgin. PREVIOUS l ARREST In 1976, Pickard was busted by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department for making l. A few months later, while a San Jose State University chemistry student, he was convicted of setting up a d lab and served 18 months in custody. And in 1980, he was arrested in Florida for selling MDA, a hallucinogenic like Ecstasy. In the 1985 false passport case, a federal judge in sentenced him to six months in jail and five years’ probation. In 1988, Pickard was picked up as he left a Mountain View warehouse used as an l lab. He faced 20 years in prison if convicted, but the d charge was dropped because he had been an informant, the affidavit says. By 1993, Pickard was at University of California at Berkeley, studying advanced neurobiology under professor David E. Presti, who also teaches on the treatment of d addiction. Pickard helped identify “new ds of abuse,” said Presti in a letter to the Kansas court. “This work is profoundly useful to society and to the development of government policy in this area.” Presti and Pickard were co-authors of a poster summarizing their research on the rise of a new street d. The poster was presented at the College on Problems of d Dependence, a professional group of scientists from government, industry and academia, Presti said. In 1994, Pickard began work as a research associate in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions. In 1997, he got a master’s in public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Pickard’s paper was on emerging d problems in Russia, said Kleiman. Pickard saw Russia as ripe for trafficking in new psychotropics because of its impoverished chemists. Kleiman gave the paper to Robert S. Gelbard, then assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs. Gelbard was impressed, Kleiman said, which helped Pickard win a 1994 Harvard fellowship to study d policy and addiction. “The guy is obviously a superbrilliant chemist,” Kleiman said. “People at Harvard were pretty impressed.” Pickard told the Kansas judge that his research at the Kennedy School was “sponsored by the State Department.” Harvard representatives confirmed that Pickard was a research associate and got a master’s degree, but they said they found no information on such sponsorship of his work. Neither Gelbard, now U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, nor State Department officials returned calls asking for comment. Last year, Pickard’s academic career peaked when he became deputy director of the d Policy Analysis Program, at UCLA’s School of Public Policy and Social Research. He continued his research on ds in Russia, said program director Kleiman, and took several trips there. Pickard himself told the Kansas court he had been a DEA informant since 1973 and had had periodic contact with senior DEA officials on “international cases” since 1992. If released on bail, Pickard promised, “I would immediately proceed to report to the federal building, (and) cooperate even aggressively with DEA in any matters that they wish.” DEA officials declined to comment on Pickard. But Lord and Lady Neidpath said he had been key to arranging conferences on d policy that featured British Home Secretary Jack Straw and British d Czar Keith Hellawell. “He could not have been more helpful, putting us in contact with the top experts in the field in the United States,” their letter said. “He has always shown himself to be reliable . . . and we have all grownBy web pigdog.org/auto/substancerecreation/link/authors/MrBad Mr. Bad l Trafficking Suspect Has Intriguing Backers D.A. Terence Hallinan and British aristocrats D.A. BACKS PICKARD Hallinan’s letter was one of several recommending Pickard’s release on bail. The entire letter said: “When I was in private practice I represented Leonard Pickard on some legal matters. I always found him to be an honorable person who kept his word.” In one of those matters, Pickard admitted that in 1985 he applied for a passport under a false name. In another, he admitted that in 1988 he was involved with an l lab in Mountain View. Hallinan’s use of office stationery for a private matter apparently conflicts with ethics rules recommended by the California District Attorney’s Association, which say: “Using official stationery for personal objectives is improper.” Rod Leonard, a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles who specializes in professional responsibility, declined to comment on any specific case but said his office policy states: “Letterhead should not be used for matters not related to office business.” Governmental stationery implies an official message, he said. Hallinan said he saw no conflict between his role as San Francisco’s top prosecutor and using office stationery to vouch for Pickard. His office has no rule on the use of letterhead, he said. “There’s no way you could imply that letter was the official position of the D.A.’s office. It was like a personal reference by me,” Hallinan said. “I am confident that if he (Pickard) is released on bail he will show up. He was a conscientious guy and made his court appearances on time.” HOLES IN THEIR HEADS Lord James and Lady Amanda Neidpath of Beckley Park, Oxford, also vowed Pickard was trustworthy. They are renowned for having undergone trepanation, a centuries-old practice of drilling holes in the head that gained a small following in the 1960s. Proponents say it decreases depression and boosts creativity; the medical establishment calls it nonsense. Lord Neidpath, the second son of the Earl of Wemyss, was an Oxford professor who taught international relations to Bill Clinton. Lord Neidpath told the Washington Post in 1998 that the hole in his head “seemed to be very beneficial.” Lady Neidpath ran for Parliament in the 1970s on a platform of “Trepanation for the National Health.” She told London’s Express that the bloody procedure – – which she administered herself and recorded on film left her feeling permanently “drunk on sherry.” The Neidpaths’ letter to the court said Pickard had helped them plan conferences on “ds and Society” at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle. “We find it difficult to believe . . . he can be involved in anything criminal,” it said. “He has always been kindly, reliable and extremely helpful. He is also well known in the academic community.” For the past two years, Pickard has been deputy director of the d Policy Analysis Program at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he helped track the emergence of new street ds in Russia, said director Mark Kleiman. Pickard’s salary came from a private grant that ran out this summer, said Kleiman, and he was not on UCLA’s payroll when arrested. “He had contacts in the (Russian) health ministry and the security agency and with some of the bad guys,” said Kleiman. “He’d hang out in the nightclubs. He also had social contacts with some of the elite users. He knew what ds the millionaires were doing in St. Petersburg.” Despite the credentials, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered Pickard held without bail, ruling that he might flee or endanger the community. Rogers released Apperson after he posted $200,000 bond. Pickard and Apperson have pleaded not guilty. A hearing on pretrial motions is set for tomorrow. The alleged clandestine chemists set up an l lab inside an old Atlas missile silo, the DEA affidavit says. The silo had been sold as government surplus to a Tulsa man who was arrested in another l case and became a government informant, according to the affidavit. The silo had its own wells, a filtered air system and was remodeled with a Jacuzzi, Italian marble tile and $85,000 audio speakers, said the sheriff and another man who had been inside. William Rork, Pickard’s Topeka lawyer, said that his client was framed and “the evidence will show there was never an l lab in operation there.” Mark L. Bennett Jr., Apperson’s lawyer, did not return a phone call seeking comment. l is the most powerful hallucinogen known. Northern California has long been a center of l production and distribution, the DEA says, mostly by small groups that have evaded police for years. To be sure, Pickard researched the international underworld of d trafficking. But whether he crossed the line in Kansas from observer to participant and whether he participated as cop or criminal will be decided in court. In interviews with past and present associates, Pickard emerges as a kind of flashback to San Francisco’s 1960s hippie scene. Tall and thin, he has long gray hair. He doesn’t smoke, drink or eat meat. Pickard runs marathons, meditates and practices yoga, and several years ago lived at the Zen Center on Page Street. “He was polite and somewhat reserved,” said center director Jeffrey Schneider. “He always had an air of mystery,” said Kleiman. “He was a character out of a Pynchon novel.” Pickard has played several roles in the world of mind-altering molecules, according to his resume, associates and court records. In the early 1970s, he studied social ds at State University, according to his professor, the well-known psychedelic researcher Alexander Shulgin. PREVIOUS l ARREST

#2406 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:49:46 Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:49:46 More on the silo from a west coast friend so people were tripping thanks to Uncle Sam! How ’bout that! yeah but did you read the kansas newspaper article? i searched it out when this all happened. Those fucking morons were being watched from DAY ONE. you move into a freekin missle silo and have people arriving in trucks late at night. it all sounds cool until you realize they totally set themselves up. they were surveilled for 2 years! the only reason they were allowed to do what they did for so long is they led the cops to many many other people- everyone who showed up got followed- six months later people were still going down in connection with all this- those idiots screwed a lot of people- everyone who didnt go down with them is in hiding- hence the present situation. .yeah but did you read the kansas newspaper article? i searched it out when this all happened. Those fucking morons were being watched from DAY ONE. you move into a freekin missle silo and have people arriving in trucks late at night. it all sounds cool until you realize they totally set themselves up. they were surveilled for 2 years! the only reason they were allowed to do what they did for so long is they led the cops to many many other people- everyone who showed up got followed- six months later people were still going down in connection with all this- those idiots screwed a lot of people- everyone who didnt go down with

#2407 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:55:49 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:55:48 Ecstasy fears basedon ‘flawed tests’ Note, the MTV special with the girl with the brain scan does not show actual deterioration of brain tissue – but redirection of neural pathways. Chronic use ‘does’ have a significant effect, but the jury is still out whether it is deleterious or not. Ecstasy fears based on ‘flawed tests’ By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent (Filed: 18/04/2002) MUCH of the scientific evidence showing that ecstasy damages the brain is fundamentally flawed and has been mistakenly used by politicians to warn the public of the dangers of the d, a report said yesterday. The inquiry by New Scientist found that many of the findings on ecstasy published in respected journals could not be trusted. It said it was an “open secret” that some researchers who failed to find impairment in ecstasy users had trouble getting their findings published. “Our investigation suggests the experiments are so irretrievably flawed that the scientific community risks haemorrhaging credibility if it continues to let them inform public policy,” the report said. It found there were serious flaws in brain scans which allegedly show that ecstasy destroys nerve cells involved in the production and transport of serotonin, a vital brain chemical involved in a range of functions including memory, sleep, sex, appetite and mood. In 1998, George Ricaurte and Una McCann at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore web telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml;$sessionid$J5BBF4QAABJGXQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?html/archive/1998/10/30/necs30 published a paper in The Lancet that seemed to provide the first evidence that ecstasy use led to lasting brain damage. The research involved brain scans with a radioactively tagged chemical probe that latched on to the serotonin transporter proteins that ecstasy targets. The thinking was that brains damaged by ecstasy would give off less radioactive ‘glow’ than those where the serotonin cells were intact. The scan pictures, which showed the brains of ecstasy users did on average glow less, were used in public information campaigns. In America they strongly influenced harsher penalties for ecstasy offences. But two independent experts told New Scientist there was a key flaw. They said the way brains reacted to this kind of scan varied enormously with or without ecstasy. Some healthy brains glowed up to 40 times brighter than others and even a number of ecstasy users’ brains outshone ecstasy-free brains by factors of 10 or more. web telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$J5BBF4QAABJGXQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml/news/2001/11/30/wxtc30.xmlAnother study by Dutch scientists led by Liesbeth Reneman and Gerard den Heeten at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam was similarly flawed. New Scientist said it found that “despite the poster depiction of ‘your brain on ecstasy’ there never was – and never has been – a typical scan showing the typical brain of a long-term ecstasy user”. Stephen Kish, a neuro-pathologist at the Center for Addiction and Health in Toronto, said: “There are no holes in the brains of ecstasy users. And if anyone wants a straightforward answer to whether ecstasy causes any brain damage, it’s impossible to get one from these papers.” Marc Laruelle, an expert on brain scanning at Columbia University, New York City, said: “All the papers have very significant scientific limitations that make me uneasy.” Similar uncertainty surrounds evidence that ecstasy impairs mental performance. In the majority of tests of mental agility, ecstasy users performed as well as non-users. Andrew Parrott, a psychologist at the University of East London, found that ecstasy users outperformed non-users in tests requiring them to rotate complex shapes in their mind’s eye.

Ecstasy fears based on ‘flawed tests’ By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent (Filed: 18/04/2002) MUCH of the scientific evidence showing that ecstasy damages the brain is fundamentally flawed and has been mistakenly used by politicians to warn the public of the dangers of the d, a report said yesterday. The inquiry by New Scientist found that many of the findings on ecstasy published in respected journals could not be trusted. It said it was an “open secret” that some researchers who failed to find impairment in ecstasy users had trouble getting their findings published. “Our investigation suggests the experiments are so irretrievably flawed that the scientific community risks haemorrhaging credibility if it continues to let them inform public policy,” the report said. It found there were serious flaws in brain scans which allegedly show that ecstasy destroys nerve cells involved in the production and transport of serotonin, a vital brain chemical involved in a range of functions including memory, sleep, sex, appetite and mood. In 1998, George Ricaurte and Una McCann at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore web telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml;$sessionid$J5BBF4QAABJGXQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?html/archive/1998/10/30/necs30 published a paper in The Lancet that seemed to provide the first evidence that ecstasy use led to lasting brain damage. The research involved brain scans with a radioactively tagged chemical probe that latched on to the serotonin transporter proteins that ecstasy targets. The thinking was that brains damaged by ecstasy would give off less radioactive ‘glow’ than those where the serotonin cells were intact. The scan pictures, which showed the brains of ecstasy users did on average glow less, were used in public information campaigns. In America they strongly influenced harsher penalties for ecstasy offences. But two independent experts told New Scientist there was a key flaw. They said the way brains reacted to this kind of scan varied enormously with or without ecstasy. Some healthy brains glowed up to 40 times brighter than others and even a number of ecstasy users’ brains outshone ecstasy-free brains by factors of 10 or more. web telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$J5BBF4QAABJGXQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml/news/2001/11/30/wxtc30.xmlAnother study by Dutch scientists led by Liesbeth Reneman and Gerard den Heeten at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam was similarly flawed. New Scientist said it found that “despite the poster depiction of ‘your brain on ecstasy’ there never was – and never has been – a typical scan showing the typical brain of a long-term ecstasy user”. Stephen Kish, a neuro-pathologist at the Center for Addiction and Health in Toronto, said: “There are no holes in the brains of ecstasy users. And if anyone wants a straightforward answer to whether ecstasy causes any brain damage, it’s impossible to get one from these papers.” Marc Laruelle, an expert on brain scanning at Columbia University, New York City, said: “All the papers have very significant scientific limitations that make me uneasy.” Similar uncertainty surrounds evidence that ecstasy impairs mental performance. In the majority of tests of mental agility, ecstasy users performed as well as non-users. Andrew Parrott, a psychologist at the University of East London, found that ecstasy users outperformed non-users in tests requiring them to rotate complex shapes in their mind’s eye.

#2408 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:14:26 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:14:25 Goa Gil & XP… Cc: are coming and we are looking for an outdoors venue for concert this spring/summer.. Goa Gil needs no intro; XP from Russia & Goa is Parasenses’s producer. We have the backing of a major concert producer. We are looking to get upwards of a thousand people over 2 or 3 days. One idea is to do it like they do in Bombay and get two barges attached with a boat ferrying people to and fro and call it a “Ground Zero” party.. XP wants to be at theruins of the WTC but he doesn’t know the impossibility of that! And Wylie’s is toosmall:-) The legality of using barges is being looked at now; however I want to send out a request for anyone who nows of a diamond in the rough legal outdoor venue… So far there is Randall’s Island and the Intrepid. Let’s all come together to hear Goa Gil again – and have it in our backyard so as to get three times asmany people who came for the festival 2 years ago in the Catskills.We have the backing of a major concert producer. We are looking to get upwards of a thousand people over 2 or 3 days. One idea is to do it like they do in Bombay and get two barges attached with a boat ferrying people to and fro and call it a “Ground Zero” party.. XP wants to be at theruins of the WTC but he doesn’t know the impossibility of that! And Wylie’s is toosmall:-) The legality of using barges is being looked at now; however I want to send out a request for anyone who nows of a diamond in the rough legal outdoor venue… So far there is Randall’s Island and the Intrepid.

#2409 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:03:50 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:03:49 Boo this Saturday at Randall’s Island Huge rave. Techno madness. Randall’s Island, daytime. web clubplanet/mailer/2002/boo6/

#2410 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:13:09 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:13:08 Fwd: Rolling Stone article on the Silo

#2411 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:01:02 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:01:02 Party promoters may soon be jailbound Federal mth Bill Provision Would Send Promoters to Prison for d Use at Events web drcnet.org/wol/233 #federalmthbill A bill quietly working its way through Congress garbed as an anti-mthamphetamine measure contains a stealth provision that could lead to prison sentences for promoters of events where illegal d use occurs. Following recent congressional fashion, H.R. 3782 is cutely named the CLEAN-UP mthamphetamine Act of 2002, with the acronym standing for “Clean, Learn, Educate, Abolish, and Undermine Production.” But there is nothing cute about the bill’s Section 305, which would insert the following language into section 416 (21 USC 856) of the Controlled Substances Act: “Whoever knowingly promotes any rave, dance, music, or other entertainment event, that takes place under circumstances where a promoter knows or reasonably should know that a controlled substance will be used or distributed in violation of federal law or the law of the place where the event is held, shall be fined under Title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than nine years, or both.” The Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund (web emdef.org), a group created to defend the industry against attack from politicians unable or unwilling to differentiate between the rave culture and d use, has raised the alarm about H.R. 3782. Saying it is “extremely concerned,” EMDEF noted that “this law could be used to prosecute the promoters of any well- attended entertainment event, whether it be a rave, a concert, a major league sports game, or even a high school dance.” The organization also pointed out that the bill could have a negative impact on on-site harm reduction efforts, such as those done by DanceSafe (web dancesafe.org), a group that provides pill- testing and safety information to rave-goers. “This legislation would make event promoters less likely to allow d prevention organizations and harm reduction groups to distribute their information inside an event for fear of self-incrimination,” wrote EMDEF in a prepared statement. H.R. 3782 is sponsored by Rep. Doug Ose (R-CA) and already has 42 cosponsors, including such usual d war suspects as Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA), Rep. Ben Gilman (D-NY), Rep. John Mica (R-FL), and Rep. Mark Souder (R- IN), the author of the Higher Education Act’s infamous anti-d provision, who is currently in a primary fight for his political life. The bulk of the bill is devoted to tightening the screws on mth producers by increasing penalties against laboratory operators and providing grants to law enforcement for training and equipment acquisition for clean-ups. But Section 305 doesn’t even mention mthamphetamine; instead it refers to “a controlled substance,” meaning that even marijuana use at rock concerts a commonplace occurrence since the mid-1960s could be enough to indict and convict promoters under the bill. While the bill explicitly targets the rave culture, opportunities for prosecutions under the bill could well extend to county fairs, NBA games, high school proms, and just about any music event except, perhaps, performances by Attorney General Ashcroft’s choral group.Prison for d Use at Events web drcnet.org/wol/233 #federalmthbill A bill quietly working its way through Congress garbed as an anti-mthamphetamine measure contains a stealth provision that could lead to prison sentences for promoters of events where illegal d use occurs. Following recent congressional fashion, H.R. 3782 is cutely named the CLEAN-UP mthamphetamine Act of 2002, with the acronym standing for “Clean, Learn, Educate, Abolish, and Undermine Production.” But there is nothing cute about the bill’s Section 305, which would insert the following language into section 416 (21 USC 856) of the Controlled Substances Act: “Whoever knowingly promotes any rave, dance, music, or other entertainment event, that takes place under circumstances where a promoter knows or reasonably should know that a controlled substance will be used or distributed in violation of federal law or the law of the place where the event is held, shall be fined under Title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than nine years, or both.” The Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund (web emdef.org), a group created to defend the industry against attack from politicians unable or unwilling to differentiate between the rave culture and d use, has raised the alarm about H.R. 3782. Saying it is “extremely concerned,” EMDEF noted that “this law could be used to prosecute the promoters of any well- attended entertainment event, whether it be a rave, a concert, a major league sports game, or even a high school dance.” The organization also pointed out that the bill could have a negative impact on on-site harm reduction efforts, such as those done by DanceSafe (web dancesafe.org), a group that provides pill- testing and safety information to rave-goers. “This legislation would make event promoters less likely to allow d prevention organizations and harm reduction groups to distribute their information inside an event for fear of self-incrimination,” wrote EMDEF in a prepared statement. H.R. 3782 is sponsored by Rep. Doug Ose (R-CA) and already has 42 cosponsors, including such usual d war suspects as Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA), Rep. Ben Gilman (D-NY), Rep. John Mica (R-FL), and Rep. Mark Souder (R- IN), the author of the Higher Education Act’s infamous anti-d provision, who is currently in a primary fight for his political life. The bulk of the bill is devoted to tightening the screws on mth producers by increasing penalties against laboratory operators and providing grants to law enforcement for training and equipment acquisition for clean-ups. But Section 305 doesn’t even mention mthamphetamine; instead it refers to “a controlled substance,” meaning that even marijuana use at rock concerts a commonplace occurrence since the mid-1960s could be enough to indict and convict promoters under the bill. While the bill explicitly targets the rave culture, opportunities for prosecutions under the bill could well extend to county fairs, NBA games, high school proms, and just about any music event except, perhaps, performances by Attorney General Ashcroft’s choral group.

#2412 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 01:07:09 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 01:07:09 Use state land for outdoor parties From: fxdemolisher at att.net (Gennadiy Shafranovich) Hey man, at one point some of my friends were looking into a venue upstate. What we found out is that you can rent state park land for almost free. All you got to do is get the permits and insurance (totaled about a few thousand i think). We are talking about HUGE fields in the middle of nowhere (but with access roads). If you want i can get you links to how to get the stuff going.Hey man, at one point some of my friends were looking into a venue upstate. What we found out is that you can rent state park land for almost free. All you got to do is get the permits and insurance (totaled about a few thousand i think). We are talking about HUGE fields in the middle of nowhere (but with access roads). If you want i can get you links to how to

#2413 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 03:10:17 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 03:10:16 Call for Artists for Collaboration at Burning Man Event at Lunatarium Cc: sacredmirrors 1) Art of Burning Man (lecture) Location: White Columns Gallery Friday April 26 at 7PM. It’s a slide show of Burning Man art back to 1992. The day after: “this lady from the SEAL org called me. “She’s working with Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man, on an event on the 27th at Lunatarium. She wants to use some of my paintings and some YB1’s for the event. She also wants me to coordinate a huge live action painting live on the spot.(she heard from LOVESPHERE people about past performances) I’m gunna do Y.B.1. at the next Burning Man event that artists wanting to participate should contact me as soon as possible. lisarenko at msn YB1 In the early nineties I was heavily involved with a collaborative art project called Y.B.1. At its peak there where about 70 artists involved(mostlypainters). Many large scale paintings where created,some long term meticulous works,some spontaneous works created performance-like on the streets of New York or in the clubs.Through trial and error I developed several approaches to be able to involve large numbers of artists with maximum freedom for each to do what they want artistically. Observing the communal spirit of many of the trance events, and the interest expressed at the Alex Grey benefit for new innovative approaches to art,my interest in reviving this art project renewed.This is an inclusive as opposed to exclusive approach to art-making with serious intention towards the sacred,yet not excluding the profane as a possible sacred form of truth. My experience is that the more people expressing their individual creativity in a communal setting, the higher the energy. Anyone out there? Love Lisa (Lisa Renko) For dialogue contact:”groups.yahoo/group/JeffMachinelf/post?protectID034176066237127198172067065248124088000048234051197lisarenko at msnLocation: White Columns Gallery Friday April 26 at 7PM. It’s a slide show of Burning Man art back to 1992. The day after: “this lady from the SEAL org called me. “She’s working with Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man, on an event on the 27th at Lunatarium. She wants to use some of my paintings and some YB1’s for the event. She also wants me to coordinate a huge live action painting live on the spot.(she heard from LOVESPHERE people about past performances) I’m gunna do Y.B.1. at the next Burning Man event that artists wanting to participate should contact me as soon as possible. lisarenko at msn YB1 In the early nineties I was heavily involved with a collaborative art project called Y.B.1. At its peak there where about 70 artists involved(mostlypainters). Many large scale paintings where created,some long term meticulous works,some spontaneous works created performance-like on the streets of New York or in the clubs.Through trial and error I developed several approaches to be able to involve large numbers of artists with maximum freedom for each to do what they want artistically. Observing the communal spirit of many of the trance events, and the interest expressed at the Alex Grey benefit for new innovative approaches to art,my interest in reviving this art project renewed.This is an inclusive as opposed to exclusive approach to art-making with serious intention towards the sacred,yet not excluding the profane as a possible sacred form of truth. My experience is that the more people expressing their individual creativity in a communal setting, the higher the energy. Anyone out there? Love Lisa (Lisa Renko)

#2414 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:36:51 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:36:51 Redneck view of the Silo nice article – here’s the one i mettioned, also saw another that was talking about the guy now selling the silo through another company and that he (skinner) is also being charged with mansltr for an od on site l lab as scary as missile site Many in Wamego found goings-on at missile silo ‘weird.’ The Capital-Journal WAMEGO Wendy Briggs said she and her husband watched seven years ago as military personnel dismantled the missile that had been just outside their back yard and loaded it onto three flatbed trucks. The thought that they had been living so near a weapon of mass destruction terrfied them. She had no idea that seven years later, d Enforcement Administration officials would dismantle a d laboratory in the otherwise empty missile silo that could have been equally lethal to her family. “I was here when they took the missile out we watched them do that,” Briggs said Tuesday. “Now I’m scared to death to even think that one of the biggest labs in the United States was right in my back yard.” Two men who had been living at the silo, William Leonard Pickard, 55, and Clyde Apperson, 45, were picked up by DEA agents two weeks ago. They were indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and dispense l. DEA investigators spent the past several days in Pottawatomie County collecting evidence from the silo, which may have contained one of the largest l manufacturing labs in the world. On Monday, a DEA spokeswoman said officials had found chemicals that could have made between 36 million and 60 million doses of the d. Neighbors said they were shocked to hear that the silo had been used as an illicit d lab. However, few were surprised that somthing illegal had been going on. Al Seele’s 27 acres are adjacent to land surrounding the old silo. He said heavy traffic late at night convinced him that the neighbors might not be legitimate businessmen. “It was either going to be l or mthamphetamine,” Seele said. “It was pretty obvious with this road right by our house.” Neighbor Sherry Wilson said she had always questioned whether the occupants of the silo actually had been running a legitimate business. Although she had been told the occupants were manufacturing springs for the government, she said she thought the idea of a spring factory “seemed kind of weird.” “I knew one woman who had worked up there and she said they made springs of all sizes,” Wilson said. “If it was a front, I guess it was a good one.” Linda Lada, who lives and works about half a mile from the site, said she had heard rumors from customers of her hair styling shop. She said even though there hadn’t been any legal trouble on the property, other activity had raised her curiosity. “For years we’ve all been suspicious,” Lada said. “We had a dog we’d take out late at night and you’d see Ryder trucks. It just was not right. Even the UPS guy was suspicious.” Lada said she was inside the silo about seven years ago before the present owners purchased it. A system of tunnels deep underground led to living and office spaces. Seele, who said he was in the silo three years ago when the owners showed interest in purchasing his property, said he saw only padlocked doors when he went underground. Rod Etienne said he lived about a quarter of a mile from the silo and had worked for the property owner, Gordon Toddmtskinner, several years ago. Skinner hasn’t been charged with any crime related to the l laboratory. However, he pleaded guilty in June to presenting a false Interpol identification card at Harrah’s Prairie Band Casino near Mayetta in January. Skinner, 36, was sentenced in federal court to pay a $10,000 fine. Etienne said he had seen actual springs that allegedly were manufactured within the depths of the silo. Curious neighbors and employees were told the springs were being made under a government contract. Etienne said he thought Skinner was a survivalist intent on living underground if an emergency arose. “They were strange-acting, but I figured they came from different parts,” he said. “I didn’t think they’d be doing what they were doing.” Etienne said the l lab had garnered his town attention that the missile silo never did. “It kind of puts Wamego on the map,” he said. “This is amazing.”

#2415 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:00:39 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:00:39 site back up, and more on the silo it was down for a week and several people inquired. And it wouldn’t be a complete day without more commentary on the Silo Saga from a Zen Buddhist Kansas boy- Sounds like to me that the Skinner guy was a sleaze and tried to save his own ass by setting up Pickard. When probably Skinner obviously invited and probably funded Pickard to do things at his Silo. Probably begged Pickard to do, promising him everything. But when he got in trouble at the Casino and who knows what else he decided to turn his chemist buddy in. He had obviously entrapped someone else years earlier by begging them to buy 30 lbs of Pot from him and when the guy finally said yes to Skinner, the ever faithful DEA swooped and grabbed the guy willing to take the pot off Skinners hands (can we say entrapment). Skinner was driving Porshe’s, going to Casino’s, shooting off his mouth. However Pickard should have been smarter in wanting to associate with such a character…… people like Skinner generally spell trouble when they where their ego’s on their sleeve.it was down for a week and several people inquired. And it wouldn’t be a complete day without more commentary on the Silo Saga from a Zen Buddhist Kansas boy-

#2416 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:00:35 Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:00:34 A note on worm viruses on trance lists Several are going around today on various north american trance lists, one says “A Special Powerful Tool” that was sent to me for approval on the Safetydance list and one that says “Color” on the psy-trance list, which is weird because they don’t allow attachments and I’m not a member. Two members of the brainmachines list sent me viruses – that’s 2 out of 910. I checked brainmachines (which is announcement only) and there are no messages on the list; however, someone said they saw somthing suspicious. Also, I moderate several unmoderated lists. So to be 100% safe: .gif) unless you double check with the sender!Two members of the brainmachines list sent me viruses – that’s 2 out of 910. I checked brainmachines (which is announcement only) and there are no messages on the list; however, someone said they saw somthing suspicious. Also, I moderate several unmoderated lists. So to be 100% safe:

#2417 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:30:29 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:30:29 Earthquake in NY Saturday morning “I was getting out of the shower and the mirror was shaking. The whole house was shaking,” said Darlene Conklin, who lives in Hopewell Junction, about 60 miles north of New York City. “My husband was watching TV, and he felt the couch shaking. You could see the doors shaking, the walls trembling.”

#2418 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:59:15 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:59:15 Meteor Shower EARLY Monday morning From meteorshowers: April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by that time the Moon will have set.April has one major meteor shower, the Lyrids. This year the Lyrids are scheduled to peak on Monday morning, April 22nd and the best viewing time for this shower will be between the hours of moonset and dawn. The radiant of the shower is still fairly low at midnight and it will rise higher in the northeastern sky as dawn approaches. With this shower, you will want to skip observing on Sunday night and arise two or three hours before dawn on Monday. Find yourself a comfortable chair and look toward the northeastern sky. Although Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky, most of the activity from this shower will probably be concentrated in the northeast. 2002 is a fairly good year for the Lyrids despite the phase of the Moon. The Moon will be 74% illuminated and it will not set until a few hours before dawn, but the radiant for this shower rises late and it is only at its best during the few hours before dawn anyway and by

#2419 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:35:26 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:35:26 Larry Harvey of Burning Man lecture/slides Thursday So you wanna be an armchair Burner… Did anybodyknow thatLarry Harvey started Burning Man years ago in Cali when he burnt his ex-girlfriend’s new boy friend in effigy on a beach? See? Good things can come from hate! (But is the corollary also true – Bad things can come from love?) 7 pm | 4/25 | $15 students Burning man founder Larry Harvey speaks at COOPER UNION, Great Hall 7 East 7 st, 3 ave I hear space is limited…for tickets go to web sealspace.org/web sealspace.org.Did anybodyknow thatLarry Harvey started Burning Man years ago in Cali when he burnt his ex-girlfriend’s new boy friend in effigy on a beach? See? Good things can come from hate! (But is the corollary also true – Bad things can come from love?) 7 pm | 4/25 | $15 students Burning man founder Larry Harvey speaks at COOPER UNION, Great Hall 7 East 7 st, 3 ave I hear space is limited…for tickets go to web sealspace.org/web sealspace.org.

#2420 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:37:25 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:37:25 Fwd: And after the Burning Man slide show Thursday… Planet mag party

#2421 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:11:48 Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:13:19 small party now sunday night i’m in the west village with lisa and some of her realllllly crazy and lusty artist friends – if you get this now and live around calll 212-645-8753

#2422 Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:33:28 Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:33:28 Pschedule –see you there! Links: Art collective fuses art with activism… The B eehive Collective at … beehivecollective.org/ Trance tried to bring peace to Middle East Unfortunately the situation is in an escalatingphase; you would only reach Jews and Arabs outside the conflict areas. Ifrabbin would not have been killed years ago the cards would be good for a partyin Israel/Palestine. Lets make good wishes for it 2 come true… Well, actua lly Asher Haviv, the closest thing to the Israeli trance tribe chief tried to organize a trance peace festival in Jericho a few years ago (when thin gs were much better and peace was around the corner). It was all set and supported by the governments, till they understood we’re talking about tra nce here and canceled it immediately. One day, one day. Events: April 23 – Tue – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue betw een 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly g uest DJs. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. April 24 – Wed – Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-tranDJ Isam. April 26 – Fri – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting G rass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter ce.c om April 28th – Sunday: Afrika Bombabtta et al at Free May Day Rally Part y at tompkins square park Blackkat Collective NYC proudly presentsE280A6. MAYDAY 2002 The 16th annual FREE festival and dance party celebration in Tompkins Square Park!! Sunday, April 28th 2002 FeaturingE280A6. The ori ginal old school founding father of electro and hip-hop himselfE280A6. The Godfather of beats founder of Zulu NationE280A6. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA! Plus, one of the most notorious innovators of NYC’s dance music culture w ho have been so deeply influential in shaping our scene over the yearsE2 80A6.. Sonic Groove founder, FRANKIE BONES!! And from Hipstep Massive, T C IZLAM (Zulu Nation) Plus the crew that makes it all happenE280A6. Bla ckkat’s ownE280A6 DJ CHROME (Tech-step d-n-b) JASON BK (Maximal tekno) and POW POW (Dancehall reggae) PlusE280A6. Circus, visual, and performan artists of all types, art showings, info booths, giveaways and much mor eE280A6E280A6 2 to 6 pm *FREE* Tompkins Square Park (Ave. A, bet. 7t h and 10th St.) Lower East Side/East village NYC (raindate; may 5th) This year promises to be the best MAYDAY celebration ever for many reasons. Fir stly, because of the stellar line-up. Second, Blackkat is just coming off our best year ever for party’s, including the legendary Lunatarium series . And, third we are hoping to bring out a lot more than just the music such as performances, art shows, info-booths and vending etc. to increase the festival aspect of the event. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in any way in this event, please contact us and lets make th is a historical and inspiring festival. As always, Strength and love, The Blackkat Family 212-714-4987 web blackkat.org April 30 – Freaky Tuesday a t Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. – May 1 – Wed – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy- trance DJ Isam. May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Frida y, May 3rd at the Open Center. web opencenter.org/ancientandean – May 4 – Sat – Mark Allen at Spectra Spectra presents…. Frying Pan, N YC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hopefiend) UK -Jamin (spect ra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd an d West Side Highway. Sound by Spectra. May 7 – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the mu sic always full on and new. May 8 – Wed – Unknown Shrooms at Pyramid HELLO everyone the party at PYRAMIDS is ON!!! sorry for the trouble. i know som e people wondered what happened but itwas out of my control. BUT this may 8 we will bring you the best of local dj’s Location: Pyramid 101 Avenue A B etween 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: Decorations:Kura-Akin Come And Enjoy The Hyper Frequencies!!!! Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. – May 24-26 Lord of the Rings The weekend long outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the blackmetal band New Orc on Friday and the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar on Saturday, in Quenyan. There will be multiple theme villages. As it’s limited to 200 p eople you must RSVP to this not-to-be missed eveevent by same organizer s as Burning Elf last year. Do not RSVP to me. – May 26 – Full Moon (Ind ian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 11 – Tues – d Gem ini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of S ilence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birth day in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/grou p/SafetyDance/calendar SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21 -24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-39 97 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for l ove, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, ph ysical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Su mmer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of t he year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Pa ul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics invol ving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most success ful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evo ked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protec tive glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spr ing welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, th e c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendshi p, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and stren gth. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also call ed “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebrati on of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadow s your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of H is manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a ga rden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful b lue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as w ell as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawb erry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian N ame: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Locati on: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your bi rthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona http ://web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moo n (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Ma n -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 2 2 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyD ance/calendar -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/B arley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harve st yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal p rojects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun cros ses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate th e magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, a nd that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require tha t all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors a ligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruit ion we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and se ason has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the cha racter and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our liv es, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celeb ration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. T he frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the le aves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them o n wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorativ e jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leave s. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cl oths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones ga thered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Li bral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewher e ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Satu rday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDanOrg… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying G rass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winte r’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23- November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/cale ndar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When t hey’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their sti ngers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks t he smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpion s make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing t o me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoo t up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-size d mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert c laws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ri ng out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a buil ding, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Ha i, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than crim inalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In t he cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an o pen grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pai n killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The gra veyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials f or peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Close r to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their hea ds, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Fro st Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittar ian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To ente r your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.ya hoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Ful l Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Links: Art collective fuses art with activism… T he Beehive Collective at … beehivecollective.org/ Tranc e tried to bring peace to Middle East Unfortunately the situation is in an escalatingphase; you would only reach Jews and Arabs outside the confli ct areas. Ifrabbin would not have been killed years ago the cards would be good for a partyin Israel/Palestine. Lets make good wishes for it 2 come tr ue… Well, actually Asher Haviv, the closest thing to the Israeli trance t ribe chief tried to organize a trance peace festival in Jericho a few years ago (when things were much better and peace was around the corner). It was all set and supported by the governments, till they understood we’re talking about trance here and canceled it immediately. One day, one day. eaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th &am 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. April 24 – Wed – Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd av me: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) pril 27 – Tsunami at Shelter ve NYC proudly presentsE280A6. MAYDAY 2002 The 16th annual FREE festival and dance party celebration in Tompkins Square Park!! Sunday, April 28 th 2002 FeaturingE280A6. The original old school founding father of elec tro and hip-hop himselfE280A6. The Godfather of beats founder of Zulu Na tionE280A6. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA! Plus, one of the most notorious inno vators of NYC’s dance music culture who have been so deeply influential in shaping our scene over the yearsE280A6.. Sonic Groove founder, FRANKIE B ONES!! And from Hipstep Massive, TC IZLAM (Zulu Nation) Plus the crew that makes it all happenE280A6. Blackkat’s ownE280A6 DJ CHROME (Tech-step d-n-b) JASON BK (Maximal tekno) and POW POW (Dancehall reggae) PlusE280 A6. Circus, visual, and performance artists of all types, art showings, in fo booths, giveaways and much moreE280A6E280A6 2 to 6 pm *FREE* Tompk ins Square Park (Ave. A, bet. 7th and 10th St.) Lower East Side/East villag e NYC (raindate; may 5th) This year promises to be the best MAYDAY celebrat ion ever for many reasons. Firstly, because of the stellar line-up. S econd, Blackkat is just coming off our best year ever for party’s, includin g the legendary Lunatarium series. And, third we are hoping to bring ou t a lot more than just the music such as performances, art shows, info-boot hs and vending etc. to increase the festival aspect of the event. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in any way in this event, please contact us and lets make this a historical and inspiring festival. A s always, Strength and love, The Blackkat Family 212-714-4987 web blackkat. org orts bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amne sium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the mu ng May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Open C enter. web opencenter.org/ancientandean esents…. Frying Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to t he source, Hopefiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (sp ectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany &nb sp;Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Si de Highway. Sound by Spectra. esday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. & the trouble. i know some people wondered what happened but itwas out of my control. BUT this may 8 we will bring you the best of local dj’s Locat ion: Pyramid 101 Avenue A Between 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: S.H.I.K.I h the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. 26 Lord of the Rings The weekend long outdoor Lord of the Rings psy -trance festival upstate will be with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the blackmetal band New Orc on Friday and the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar on Saturday, in Quenyan. There will be mult iple theme villages. As it’s limited to 200 people you must RS VP to this not-to-be missed eveevent by same organizers as Burning Elf last year. Do not RSVP to me. FO n) tion May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one dri Possible location: Twin s. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to h1-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-39 97 eralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, cour age, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday wi th “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy an d clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul c an be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also kno w that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifes ence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c dship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and st rength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also ca lled “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebrati ection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anythi ng that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. & nbsp;Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is a t the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for th can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. : Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To ente r your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yah oo/group/SafetyDance/calendarhe Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate w ith us go to Fusion F estival in California ian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man tion August 23-September 22 Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate wit h us go to ll Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) “0Autumn 2:56 am Autumnal Equinox eft in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to cr the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. Wh en the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year p ays of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all t hings have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polar ity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On t hese days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. B R As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnec t with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfol ough times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allo wing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special charact er. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expa nsiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even e actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us becPan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that ar e to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the he rbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now . Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved li Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the su mmer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ MT Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 s free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your b irthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to ct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… spons ored by EarthDance Org… ndian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) F / 3-November 21 🙂 Junkies and Get Hi gh in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grin eep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The p lace where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the s outhwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the mai ed mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the des ert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayer s ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a b e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. Mo re disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic li fe of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical e ngineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becomin g addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, t hey say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled ov er their heads, in an open gutter. l Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/s olareclips hday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter you r birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo.co m/group/SafetyDance/calendar (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2423 Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:07:44 Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:07:44 Next on the Simpsons Mr. Burns starts cooking up acid in the missile silo next to Springfield -but “only the Brown Acid muhahahah”, with the help of the comic book store owner, the bus driver, and the two hippies. Homer inadvertently releases the gaseous cloud over Springfield and everyone thinks he is the Second Coming. But the Real God gets angry – “Oh no, the Old Testament God! the Old Testament God!!” and everyone comes down and he has to go back to being a mortal. It’s a testament to the quality of the show that I have to tell you I made this up!Homer inadvertently releases the gaseous cloud over Springfield and everyone thinks he is the Second Coming. But the Real God gets angry – “Oh no, the Old Testament God! the Old Testament God!!” and everyone comes down and he has to go back to being a mortal.

#2424 Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:38:45 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everybody! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. This week Dj Isam(Spectra-Symbionyc)+ special guests. Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 Thanks! Love and Light Angeles

#2425 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 05:54:27 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 05:54:27 Sunday – Mandala Hey everyone! We’re doing another MANDALA party on Sunday, April 28th at the Korova Milk Bar. Big thanks to all the shiney, happy people who brought themselves out to the last one (on Easter in the pouring rain no less!) and made the night such a thriving success! Looking forward to seeing you there! MANDALA PSYGOA TRIBAL TRANCE LOCATION DATE THE KOROVA MILK BAR APRIL 28TH, 2002 200 AVE A. BETWEEN 12/13ST, NYC 9P-4A DJ’S ICYCOIL ** ECOFUNKOLOGICAL O NILS 🙂 GUEST DJ: FUMI :] FREE ADMISSION 21+ W/ ID $5 Cosmopolitans $4 Red Stripes 2$Kamikaze shots ART BY: SUSANNAH (SUENITE) JOSH RUBIN There will be visuals pumped through 13 TV Screens! Come after the May Day party. Korova is right down the block from Tompkins Square Park! :)We’re doing another MANDALA party on Sunday, April 28th at the Korova Milk Bar. Big thanks to all the shiney, happy people who brought themselves out to the last one (on Easter in the pouring rain no less!) and made the night such a thriving success! Looking forward to seeing you there! /B THE KOROVA MILK BAR APRIL 28TH, 2002 200 AVE A. BETWEEN 12/13ST, NYC 9P-4A 21+ W/ ID $5 Cosmopolitans $4 Red Stripes 2$Kamikaze shots JOSH RUBIN Come after the May Day party. Korova is right down the block from Tompkins Square Park! 🙂

#2426 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:32:43 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:32:43 Lord of the Rings open enrollment now closed From two weeks ago on 2/15: Keep in mind you have to RSVP, and not to me… Limited to 200 people and spaces are going fast – probably by the time you get this, if you don’t check yer email often there will may only a few spaces left.. open enrollment now closed… they’re being major tight with this to keep everyone safe. At its core, this is a private birthday party amongst friends. This is not a time for the organizers to make new friends, there have been many opportunities in the past for acquaintance making. Preference AFAIK was given to those who went last year. Please don’t ask me to get you in, if you aren’t in, and I was never the RSVP dude. To make you feel better, this won’t be the last installment, you would have probably been raped by a coed band of Orcs had you have gone, and you would have paid dearly for the privilege. There is a Northeast Burning Man event in Maryland that same weekend, and Tsunami will be raging on Saturday.Keep in mind you have to RSVP, and not to me… Limited to 200 people and spaces are going fast – probably by the time you get this, if you don’t check yer email often there will may only a few spaces left.. open enrollment now closed… they’re being major tight with this to keep everyone safe. At its core, this is a private birthday party amongst friends. This is not a time for the organizers to make new friends, there have been many opportunities in the past for acquaintance making. Preference AFAIK was given to those who went last year. Please don’t ask me to get you in, if you aren’t in, and I was never the RSVP dude.

#2427 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:41:56 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:41:56 Pschedule –see you there! New additions: June 7th eat static & growling mad scie ntists in nyc Lord of the Rings Open Enrollment is closed Burning Man lectu re slideshow this Thursday Mandala this Sunday News: Opium-Inspired Ad Exe cutive Composes Epic Tums Jingle CHICAGO An eight-hour opium binge resulted in a towering work of advertising Sunday, when DDB Needham copywriter Bri an Lisi gave birth to an epic 400-line radio jingle for Tums. “When Vulcan ‘s fires spout and rage / within a roiling acid sea / let work the soothin g tablet Tums / The Hell-sear’d forge within becomes / sweet alkaloid espr it,” the jingle begins before detouring into iceberg imagery believed to r epresent Tums’ new “Cool Relief” flavor. The ad, which begins production i n June, is expected to run nearly 90 minutes. Events: April 24 – Wed – Op ium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Is am. April 25 – Thur – 7 pm | 4/25 | $15 students Burning man founder Larr y Harvey speaks at COOPER UNION, Great Hall 7 East 7 st, 3 ave I hear spais limited…for tickets go to web sealspace.org. April 26 – Fri – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Tsunami at Shelter April 28th – Sunday: Afri ka Bombabtta et al at Free May Day Rally Party at tompkins square park Blac kkat Collective NYC proudly presentsE280A6. MAYDAY 2002 The 16th annual FREE festival and dance party celebration in Tompkins Square Park!! Sund ay, April 28th 2002 FeaturingE280A6. The original old school founding f ather of electro and hip-hop himselfE280A6. The Godfather of beats foun der of Zulu NationE280A6. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA! Plus, one of the most notor ious innovators of NYC’s dance music culture who have been so deeply influ ential in shaping our scene over the yearsE280A6.. Sonic Groove founder FRANKIE BONES!! And from Hipstep Massive, TC IZLAM (Zulu Nation) Plus th e crew that makes it all happenE280A6. Blackkat’s ownE280A6 DJ CHROM E (Tech-step d-n-b) JASON BK (Maximal tekno) and POW POW (Dancehall reggae ) PlusE280A6. Circus, visual, and performance artists of all types, art showings, info booths, giveaways and much moreE280A6E280A6 2 to 6 p m *FREE* Tompkins Square Park (Ave. A, bet. 7th and 10th St.) Lower East S ide/East village NYC (raindate; may 5th) This year promises to be the best MAYDAY celebration ever for many reasons. Firstly, because of the stellar line-up. Second, Blackkat is just coming off our best year ever for part y’s, including the legendary Lunatarium series. And, third we are hoping t o bring out a lot more than just the music such as performances, art shows info-booths and vending etc. to increase the festival aspect of the even t. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in any way in this event, please contact us and lets make this a historical and inspiri ng festival. As always, Strength and love, The Blackkat Family 212-714-498 7 web blackkat.org MANDALA PSYGOA TRIBAL TRANCE H ey everyone! We’re doing another MANDALA party on Sunday, April 28th at the Korova Milk Bar. Big thanks to all the shiney, happy people who brought themselves out to the last one (on Easter in the pouring rain no less!) and made the night such a thriving success! Looking forward to seeing you the re! THE KOROVA MILK BAR 200 AVE A. BETWEEN 12/13ST, NYC 9P-4A DJ’S ICYCOIL ** FREE ADMIS SION 21+ W/ ID $5 Cosmopolitans $4 Red Stripes 2$Kamikaze shots ART BY: S USANNAH (SUENITE) JOSH RUBIN There will be visuals pumped through 13 TV Sc reens! Come after the May Day party. Korova is right down the block from T ompkins Square Park! 🙂 April 30 – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a spo rts bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and M anic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the music always ful l on and new. – May 1 – Wed – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Ope n Center. web opencenter.org/ancientandean – May 4 – Sat – Mar k Allen at Spectra s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hopefiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosm ophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- G ermany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Si de Highway. Sound by Spectra. May 7 – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the music alwa ys full on and new. May 8 – Wed – Unknown Shrooms at Pyramid HELLO every one the party at PYRAMIDS is ON!!! sorry for the trouble. i know some peop le wondered what happened but itwas out of my control. BUT this may 8 we w ill bring you the best of local dj’s Location: Pyramid 101 Avenue A Betwee n 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: Decorations:Kura-Akin Come And EnjoyThe H yper Frequencies!!!! Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. – May 24-26 Lord of the Rings The weekend l ong outdoor Lord of the Rings psy-trance festival upstate will be with tr ance Sindarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the blackmetal band New Orc on Fr iday and the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar on Saturday, in Qu enyan. There will be multiple theme villages. List is closed. – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 7th ea t static & growling mad scientists in nyc – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Bi rthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for on e drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Safe tyDance/calendar SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-24 So lstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 I n many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the yea r. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s D ay) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving p rotection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. W ith the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. A nything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective g low. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring we lc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-in g of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, bea uty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. I t is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Mi dsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calend ar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, ener gy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the h eavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His man ifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex M agic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden o n Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue co lor of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Ro se/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-Jul y 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To ente r your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.y ahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Fu ll Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tu es – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: Whi te Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Sa fetyDance/calendar Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indi an Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Se pt 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virg in bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roste r and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ca lendar -September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley M oon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more m onths left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harves t festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magni ficant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equin oxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and tha t none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and au tumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, w e make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every e vent in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season ha s its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giv ing them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of pow er and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more p owerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the ta king of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbr ead cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The fros t will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves tu rn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house d ecorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax p aper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar w ith a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Co lors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths c an be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Bir thday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blin d. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downs cale.’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to – Oct 12 – Saturday – I nternational Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org.. . – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moo n) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Star t – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our roster and cele brate with us go to Ju nkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make h im high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” T he place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is t he main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out a cross the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Ra za and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchi stan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemet ery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grav e. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he start ed down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killer s years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard a ddicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace . When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubri ous den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in a n open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birt hday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your b irthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/ group/SafetyDance/calendar – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/L ong Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice New additions: & growling mad scientists in nyc pen Enrollment is closed Burning Man lecture slideshow this Thursday B RMandala this Sunday News: Opium-Inspired Ad Executive Com poses Epic Tums Jingle CHICAGO An eight-hour opium binge resulted i n a towering work of advertising Sunday, when DDB Needham copywriter Brian Lisi gave birth to an epic 400-line radio jingle for Tums. “When Vulcan’s f ires spout and rage / within a roiling acid sea / let work the soothing tab let Tums / The Hell-sear’d forge within becomes / sweet alkaloid esprit,” t he jingle begins before detouring into iceberg imagery believed to represen t Tums’ new “Cool Relief” flavor. The ad, which begins production in June, is expected to run nearly 90 minutes. ing man founder Larry Harvey speaks at COOPER UNION, Great Hall 7 East 7 st, 3 ave I hear space is limited…for tickets go to web sealspace.org./Egg/Fish Moon) ww.tsunami-trance Afrika Bombabtta et al at Free May Day Rally Party at tompkins square park Blackkat Collective NYC proudly presentsE2 80A6. MAYDAY 2002 The 16th annual FREE festival and dance party celebrati on in Tompkins Square Park!! Sunday, April 28th 2002 FeaturingE280 A6. The original old school founding father of electro and hip-hop himself E280A6. The Godfather of beats founder of Zulu NationE280A6. AFRIKA B AMBAATAA! Plus, one of the most notorious innovators of NYC’s dance m usic culture who have been so deeply influential in shaping our scene over the yearsE280A6.. Sonic Groove founder, FRANKIE BONES!! And from Hipstep Massive, TC IZLAM (Zulu Nation) Plus the crew that makes it all happenE2 80A6. Blackkat’s ownE280A6 DJ CHROME (Tech-step d-n-b) JASON BK (Maxim al tekno) and POW POW (Dancehall reggae) PlusE280A6. Circus, visual, and performance artists of all types, art showings, info booths, giveaways and much moreE280A6E280A6 2 to 6 pm *FREE* Tompkins Square Park (Ave. A, bet. 7th and 10th St.) Lower East Side/East village NYC (raindate; may 5th ) This year promises to be the best MAYDAY celebration ever for many reason s. Firstly, because of the stellar line-up. Second, Blackkat is just coming off our best year ever for party’s, including the legendary Lunatari um series. And, third we are hoping to bring out a lot more than just the music such as performances, art shows, info-booths and vending etc. to increase the festival aspect of the event. If you or someone you know is in terested in participating in any way in this event, please contact us and l ets make this a historical and inspiring festival. As always, Strength and r MANDALA party on Sunday, April 28th at the Korova Milk Bar. Big thanks to all the shiney, happy people who brought themselves out to the last one (o n Easter in the pouring rain no less!) and made the night such a thriving s uccess! Looking forward to seeing you there! THE KOROVA MILK BAR &nbs p;200 AVE A. BETWEEN 12/13ST, NYC  9P-4A DJ’S ICYCOIL ** &nb sNILS 🙂 GUEST DJ: FUMI :] FREE ADMISSION 21+ W/ ID $5 Cosmopolitans $4 Red Stripes 2$Kamikaze shots ART BY: SUSANNAH (SUENITE) JOSH RUBIN There will be v isuals pumped through 13 TV Screens! Come after the May Day party. Korova i s right down the block from Tompkins Square Park! 🙂 bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and M anic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the music always 0 May 1 – Wed – Beltainne – Spring’s Planting ium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Intere sting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Open Center. web opencenter.org /ancientandean at Spectra .. Frying Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hop efiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Is am (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Side Highway. Sound by Spectra. a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but th LLO everyone the party at PYRAMIDS is ON!!! sorry for the trouble. i know s ome people wondered what happened but itwas out of my control. BUT this may 8 we will bring you the best of local dj’s Location: Pyramid 101 Aven trance DJ Isam. s ndarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the blackmetal band New Orc on Friday and the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar on Saturday, in Quenyan. Th “0 ian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June 7th eat stati c & growling mad scientists in nyc Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 ilence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. groups.yahoo. am Summer Solstice 97 age, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical ener gy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstic e, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most suc cessful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s prot ective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the H orned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess o ing of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for F ire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “S he light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear si ght will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powe rs of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that thi s is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power an x Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fert F ne 22-July 22 sible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and cel ebrate with us go to B e: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) – Harvest Time Celebration July 23-August 22 White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your bi rthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/gr oup/SafetyDance/calendar Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance Fusion Festival in California Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 hday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/grou p/SafetyDance/calendar mber 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon)F e planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celeb rated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that re great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things b e balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselv es in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and aut ng flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c d sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits t o pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cy cle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that witho ut ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritu ter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Je sus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is asso ciated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festi vities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you c an put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lig Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the su mmer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ l Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 ng scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Safet yDance/calendar turday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by Ea rthDance Org… : Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 To en ter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.y ahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes sco rpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then li him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” T he place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in t he southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the se-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of t he desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S F bsp;More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, ca pital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chao tic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechan ical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after b ecoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 ti mes by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. The y pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat t hem, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide a way in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pul led over their heads, in an open gutter. – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Trans ica Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclip tarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. T o enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to grou ps.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2428 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:15:11 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:15:10 Psychedelic Terrorism We need to act aginst these subversives! This echoes an article sent after 9/11 on Elfreehab at web alternet.org/story ?StoryID12940 Is Taking Psychedelics an Act of Sedition? Charles Hayes, Tikkun Magazine April 23, 2002 The disturbances of Sept. 11 have sent us reeling, driving many to seek relief from anxiety and depression through socially sanctioned psychotropics such as Prozac, Xanax, and alcohol. But some of the so-called psychedelic ds (cannabis, l, peyote, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and E or Ecstasy), targets of America’s deeply misguided war on ds, could have a more profound and healthful effect, if used responsibly. The very idea of going off on a psychedelic “head trip” in this hour of national crisis might be seen as self-indulgent folly, or worse, an act of cerebral sedition. Yet a cold and sober look through the smoldering smoke of Ground Zero leads me to believe that, depending on individual circumstances, of course, there are now even more compelling reasons to sanction the practice of judicious psychedelic use. If combat readiness is an issue, if your function is to evacuate a building in a hurry, screen airline passengers, detect the presence of microscopic pathogens, analyze forensic evidence that could lead to the apprehension of culpable or would-be terrorists, or execute a commando raid on an Afghan mountain, this is probably not the season for psychedelics. But if you’re not sure who the real enemy is, if you’re inclined to ask more questions about the nature of the reality that’s just swung out into a broad new arc, or if you’re seeking solace and healing from trauma or debilitating stress, it could well be the time to venture out into new psychical frontiers by means of certain time-tested plants and chemicals. In fact, for some especially scarred, it might even be foolish not to, given that there might not be as much time to lose as we thought we had. Perturbing the Brain Granted, a state of war, or any other condition in which physical security is under threat, is not the ideal circumstance to explore inner realms. The removal of base concerns for food, shelter, and bodily safety has been a key factor in the evolution of human consciousness from such immediate distractions to plans for future (inner and outer) space exploration. To paraphrase Terence McKenna, the late shamanologist and outspoken champion of psychedelic consciousness, if you remove stress and threat, add a lot of alkaloids, and perturb the brain, it will transcend three-dimensional space and unfold into a four-dimensional matrix. In an era in which Terror and the War Against It are being waged, the safe and supportive setting long advanced by psychedelic gurus and pundits would seem harder to provide. But let us not suppose that psychedelics are only for the serene and that their impact on the psyche is purely pacific and unobtrusive. Because they dissolve boundaries to cognitive, emotional, and spiritual understanding, there is, in fact, somthing uniquely destructive about them, particularly the sort that effectively “kills” the ego through a symbolic death that blows the hatch on one’s clinging obsessions and deconstructs one’s entire perception of reality*a nuclear fission of the psychological world with impacts not unlike some of the far-flung effects of Sept. 11. Aldous Huxley’s proposed invocation for psychedelic sessions includes the admonition: “Your ego and the [fill in your name] game are about to cease.” Deployed with ill intent, along psychotomimetic lines (the first use of l and mescaline earmarked by the scientific community), such an assault could wreak havoc on individuals and populations. The CIA tested l as a weapon for immobilizing enemies and extracting secrets from them. Conversely, hashish was allegedly used to induce visions of paradise and thereby stoke the courage of a secret order of Muslim guerrillas called the People of the Old Man of the Mountain, which terrorized Christians during the Crusades by stealthily killing their leaders; hence the term “assassins” from the Arabic Hashshashin for “hashish smokers.” the wrong input, the vulnerability of the psychedelicized mind can be grossly abused. History is rife with such examples of the perversion of technology or magic. Still, the CIA and the Saracen assassins were onto somthing, albeit in the most unwholesome of ways. Psychedelics are a weapon of war, the war of perceptions, priorities, and values. More readily than the reverse, they can be used to erode the will to use military force, so long as survival isn’t at stake. How many thousands of Americans in the Sixties, tripping out on acid, grass, Fungi, or mescaline, got a heightened sense of the utter absurdity of killing Vietnamese in their own country? Anti-war activists declared openly that l was a guerrilla weapon of pacifist resistance, and one that ultimately helped to end that war. For Paul Krassner, a cofounder of the Yippies, taking acid was a political act, somthing he did on the occasion of his testifying at the Chicago Conspiracy trial. His new book, Psychedelic Trips for the Mind (High Times Books), celebrates the synchronicity of the crystallizing counterculture, a profusion of spontaneous acts of elation kindled by psychedelics that helped to consolidate the unified mind of a generation. “The CIA originally envisioned l as a means of control,” says Krassner, “but millions of young people became explorers of their own inner space with it instead. Acid was serving as a vehicle to help deprogram themselves from a civilization of inhumane priorities. Rand Corporation researchers speculated that l might be an antidote to political activism, but the CIA’s scenario backfired.” The Great Beyond If death is another name for the process of undoing to which all of our doings must and do lead, then the psychedelic experience is most certainly concerned with death, with endings that, if we could only see, become beginnings in other forms. McKenna once wrote that psychedelics anticipate the dying process, and just four month’s from his own passage, he told a group at Esalen, “If psychedelics don’t prepare you for the Great Beyond, I don’t know what really does.” In revealing that the emperor wears no clothes, that things fall apart, psychedelics decrypt the death bound into things and offer us a chance to capture or recover the rapture of union, to snap out of the trance that sustains the illusion of our separateness. There is a diaphanous quality to things seen on the psychedelic, a sympathetic blurring of the lines, an overdrape of molecular fabric that suggests that we are a part of everything. Such a vision proved to be the stuff of psychic liberation for the late Israeli Holocaust survivor Yehiel De-Nur, who tells, in Shivitti (Gateways Books and Tapes) of a miraculous breakthrough during a 1976 l-assisted psychotherapy session in Leiden, Holland with Dr. Jan Bastiaans, the psychiatrist who identified Concentration Camp Syndrome. During the session, De-Nur relived the hell of Auschwitz and then saw his own face over that of his tormenter, deducing that all of humanity including himself was complicit in the Nazi horror, that it could have been him on the other side of the dynamic, herding people into the ovens, that there was a collective burden of guilt for all to share. Far from being a “bad trip” in which he recoiled at identifying with a fiendish executioner, the epiphany catalyzed a redemptive rebirth for his stricken soul, dissolving the victim/perpetrator dichotomy. Israeli Raves A 30-year belief in the power of psychedelics to confer such transformations spurred Rick Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS; see web maps.org) to submit an historic protocol for E-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of patients afflicted with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) brought on by criminal deeds. The protocol, approved by the Food and d Administration (FDA) on November 2, 2001, surprisingly with no snags over the issue of neurotoxicity, will be used for the first U.S. study ever to evaluate if E can have actual mental health benefits. The FDA ruling may clear the way for an Israeli study of the efficacy of E-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of PTSD caused by terrorism or war. E manufactured by Israeli syndicates is used in raves and clubs there, as well as by a growing colony of disaffected young army veterans and other Israeli escapists settling in Goa, India. The d Enforcement Administration (DEA) suspects the Israeli mafia of being, along with dealers in Holland, behind the spike in worldwide E production, some of it smuggled as “Ecstasy” tablets often by Hassidic couriers into the United States, hence the Israelis’ hesitation to proceed with E research until the United States approved a protocol for it first. Now, however, according to Jorge Gleser, Deputy Director of Mental Health Services at the Israeli Ministry of Health, the Ministry will welcome the submission of a slightly revised version of the MAPS protocol. If approved, the study will probably be supervised by Dr. Moshe Kotler, former chief of psychiatry for the Israeli Defense Forces. Doblin was in Tel Aviv fresh from meetings with Gleser and Kotler when he learned of the Sept. 11 attacks. News of the disaster brought home his sense of “Zionist duty to bring psychedelics to Israel,” a nation he sees as a traumatized society where a succession of shocks over the last century has left many of the people “frightened and unable to trust, even when trust should be given.” Declares Doblin, “I honestly believe that psychedelics used sensibly and therapeutically can help bring peace to the Middle East, by reducing both personal and social conflicts.” Those in power who could take hemispheric strides toward peace and accommodation if they surrendered their armor and reactionary impulses are not likely to use E, l, or other psychedelics, in therapy or otherwise. But Doblin holds out the hope that they can learn by example, by seeing that more and more people can go through the psychedelic ego death and rebirth without losing touch with their cultures. Dr. Charles Grob, a child psychiatrist at UCLA, who in 1994 conducted the first FDA-approved study of the effects of E on human volunteers, asserts that E’s capacity to promote empathy could have a powerful impact on geopolitical affairs. “Well, you’re not going to get Sharon and Arafat to take E together,” he grants, “but let their children get together one day to do it in a medical setting and have a mutually empathetic experience, seeing the humanity of the other side.” Grob thinks that E could have a healing effect on Americans rocked to varying degrees by the Sept. 11 attacks, by fostering empathy for the families of victims, and, less directly, for the bereft and disenfranchised anywhere in the world. E has already proven to be a bonding agent on a vast scale, within the rave movement, which is international in scope, and pacific, empathic, and celebratory in nature. Just as l was a bedrock for the Yippie ethos nearly two generations ago, Ecstasy could well become the social glue for a new activism, should an urgent and well-articulated need arise. E dissolves boundaries for the individual’s immersion into a communal group mind, according to author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff in an essay entitled “Ecstasy: Prescription for a Cultural Renaissance” (included in Ecstasy: The Complete Guide by Dr. Julie Holland, Inner Traditions). “On E, lies are inefficient,” he writes, “and the peculiarities and weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.” Hence the doors of perception are cleansed, but without blowing them off their hinges. E is unique among so-called psychedelics for leaving the ego unthreatened by inducing a pervasive sense of peace and trust that enables fruitful self-inventory, therapeutic healing, and a powerful feeling of appreciation for one’s fellows. Ironies of the d War Prior to Sept. 11, the nation was beginning to enjoy an increasingly rich dialogue about the role of psychoactive ds and the impact of the War on ds, led most notably by Bill Maher of ABC’s “Politically Incorrect,” whose comic quips roasting government d policy complemented the dignified propriety of calls for reform by the Republican Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson. Nick Bromell, author of Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press), observed, optimistically, in a June 2001 essay on the “New Cultural Assent to d Use” in The Chronicle of Higher Education that “more and more Americans are unwilling to take a hard line against ds if that means simplistically refusing to consider why people actually take them.” The ironies of the d war are everywhere today. “If [Sept. 11 hijacker] Mohammed Atta had been a dope dealer,” Grob complains, “we would have been on him. Since he was only suspected of terrorism, he eluded our watch. Our preoccupation with illegal ds has contributed to our head being in the sand. Last spring we gave $43 million in food aid to the Taliban for suppressing poppy production. It’s affected our value system, our ethics, our intelligence-gathering ability. The government could tax ds to subsidize its war on terrorism.” Grob, who objects to Ecstasy use at raves and clubs, says he does not advocate an open market for all ds, but notes, “Controlled ds are completely out of control! Anybody can do them under any circumstance, whereas trained professionals can’t. Who’s being controlled?” Recent trends in medicine are redrawing the map of human consciousness as an interaction of specific biochemical agents and processes. The new study of neurotheology is examining the causal relationship between brain chemistry and spirituality. Dr. Rick Strassman, author of the briskly selling d: The Spirit Molecule (Inner Traditions; see web rickstrassman) focuses the search for a biochemical catalyst for spirituality on a single endogenous compound, d, the most powerful hallucinogen known. In the early 90s, he conducted FDA-approved research on human subjects with the material. In his book, he posits the theory that blasts of resident d from the pineal gland at key moments of stress, including birth and death, are responsible for spiritual awakenings. Contemplation of the grisly carnage of September 11 has strengthened his belief that upon death, bodies should not be disturbed, so that this process is able to play out and facilitate the soul’s transfer to a noncorporeal state. Funnily enough, in a May 2001 cover story that examined “How We’re Wired for Spirituality” (“This is your brain on God”) Newsweek managed to dance around the issue of psychedelic ds as mediators of mystic states. The magazine’s religion editor, Kenneth Woodward, strained reason when he wrote that the emotions of “losing oneself in prayer * have nothing to do with how well we communicate with God.” Such a dismissal of peak experiences is tantamount to saying that the flush of joy felt by a child in the realization of his parents’ love could never translate into a deepened understanding and appreciation of life. Recently, no less an authority on religion than Huston Smith has said, “If religion cannot be equated with religious experiences, neither can it long survive their absence.” As he and others, including myself, have documented, extraordinary changes in brain chemistry induced by psychotropic substances can, under the proper circumstances, occasion such experiences. The going may be rough, of course, though that, says Smith, is no reason to discount the results. In Cleansing the Doors of Perception (Council on Spiritual Practices; see web csp.org), he points out that religious experiences in general have fearsome properties. Those brought on by psychedelics are no different. “The d experience,” he writes, “can be like having forty-foot waves crash over you for several hours while you cling desperately to a life raft which may be swept from under you at any moment.” Thus, he refutes the claim that the expansive relief from ordeal that some psychedelic experients feel is an invalid path to religion, because we do, after all, accept battlefield conversions and those made in the throes of physical crises. Peak Experiences Nor should we discount d-abetted awakenings because they’re one-time affairs. Echoing the great religion scholar William James, Smith notes that the ephemeral nature of peak experiences sparked by psychedelics makes them no different from any other sort of mystic encounter with the mysterium tremendum. Such soul-rocking events are indelible in spite of their transient nature, whether you’re a born-again Christian or an acid mystic turned Buddhist monk. But the degree to which they will affect you over time, and the tenacity of your newfound conviction, depend on how well you integrate the often alien or otherly vision into your daily life. So long as such stormings of heaven are outlawed and dismissed, the greater the likelihood for relapse from the cosmic consciousness they engender to the coarse materialist outlook that is consensus reality. It takes a prolonged commitment to mindfulness to prevent the sort of recidivism epitomized by Yippie Jerry Rubin’s high-profile conversion to yuppiedom, just as it will require high vigilance and honesty to ensure that profiteering doesn’t befoul the surging waters of heart-felt patriotism, as has already begun to occur just weeks after Sept. 11. With religion-inspired hatred on the loose, many see religion itself as a culprit for the Sept. 11 troubles, and point to psychedelics or entheogens, divine-generating agents as a means of bypassing religion to get to the wellspring of spirituality. Because they produce the primary experience on which faith is inspired, “entheogens prove that no intermediary is necessary,” states Clark Heinrich, author of God Without Religion (yet unpublished) and Strange Fruit (to be published in the US by Inner Traditions), a speculative history about the role of the Amanita muscaria mushroom in several world religions. After his own d-induced awakening, the late British Ecstasy advocate, Nicholas Saunders (see web ecstasy.org), surmised that religions may very well have been invented to explain entheogenic experiences. Still another nondenominational yet transcendental usage seen for psychedelics is as a tool of hyper-ratiocinative perception, a means to deconstruct media charades and help the intellect to cope with ambiguity and uncertainty, according to Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic + Mysticism in the Age of Information (Three Rivers Press). “I wouldn’t necessarily want to trip in the aftermath of Sept. 11,” concedes Davis, “but I can now use my psychedelic training for coping with the epistemological cyclone of a cataclysm such as this. I grew up in the cushiest reality in the history of the planet. Now I see demons pouring over the lip of my existence, but I’ve learned through psychedelics how to breathe through it and not believe its story.” Orchestrated Cataclysm In a subtle sense, Sept. 11 has had the effect of a virtual psychedelic experience, breaking up the world and reorganizing it. In this respect, says Krassner, the event was “an instant ‘trip’ for many who are now face to face with what to do with their lives, what their concept of God is.” In the wake of the attacks, we have witnessed that a cataclysm can have a positive outcome. A tangible new sense of tighter community has come into being, woven from the supplest fibers of the human spirit rebounding from the obliteration of the old order. For those with the courage to trust, the psychedelic experience can orchestrate a sort of manageable in-house cataclysm wreaking only epistemological havoc, not mortal carnage and one that can heal by enlivening these same regenerative psychical tissues. Used wisely, psychedelics can thus open the heart to compassion and enable the mind to decouple itself from neurotic or burdensome patterns. Because of this potential for unsettling the already shakable self, if only temporarily, the tool of psychedelic consciousness is certainly not an imperative, and not for everyone; it must be utilized, managed, and regulatedmtskillfully. In order to fill the sensorium with as much preternatural light as can be metabolized, and liberate the psychedelic experience from the underworld darkness of proscription, the practice should be sacramentalized and institutionalized under the administration of the scientists, doctors, psychologists, and spiritual leaders most knowledgeable about its propensities and potentials. Psychedelic sessions would then be structured and guided by the collective wisdom generated from centuries of shamanic ritual, as well as from modern clinical research and lessons learned from more informal practices. Select, certifiably pure psychedelics could then be placed once again in the service of private therapy for individuals, couples counseling, and the treatment of d or alcohol dependency, depression, and other mental maladies. And they could also be shared in settings for congregational worship, as the Native American Church uses peyote and the Santo Daime and Uniao de Vegetal churches in Brazil use ayahuasca. On a more massive scale, I can envision devoting a single day in the near future on which, say, five million people worldwide took a good healthful dose of E (or hashish, psilocybin) and opened up their hearts and minds to each other and to the universe. Such a rite of pure Dionysian grace, involving communal song, dance, and invocations of prayer, would strum the invisible wires of the emergent global consciousness network, striking a harmonious chord from Chicago to Bangkok, Sydney to Sao Paolo, London to Delhi, Durban to Tehran. What immediate effect this would have on our disposition toward the war would most certainly not be a tauter clench on lethal weaponry but rather a quickened pulse in the bond of human kinship we’ve begun to feel more acutely in the wake of Sept. 11. Such a communal connection, kicked home by a deep, soul-tickling intoxication with the Breath of (all, nonpartisan) Life, would strengthen the resolve to oppose terror in all of its guises, not just those our respective governments don’t like. The weapon that psychedelic consciousness brings to the War on Terrorism is as a perceptual laser that dissolves the blind rage of which it is a symptom, dispelling the rumor of our disparateness. By deploying psychedelics sensibly, not for jaunts of recreational escape but for mindful meditations, more and more people would come to appreciate the treasure of life here and now, in a time and place of war or not and know, as William Blake observed, that such “gratitude is heaven itself.” Humanity’s failure to exploit such opportunities for life’s gratuitous graces will only prolong the condition of war.Charles Hayes, Tikkun Magazine April 23, 2002

#2429 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:46:55 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:46:55 Fwd: TRANCEDANCE BRAZIL Oh my God… look at that lineup and you tell me Brazil is not ON FUCKING FIRE

#2430 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:50:58 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:50:58 Fwd: PLEASUREDOME not trance but if yer looking for a fun friday this looks to be it!

#2431 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:51:43 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:51:42 Fwd: GAIAN MIND at LaTazza 108: Friday, April 26th, 2002 – Philadelphia, USA… brazil, buffalo, philly… man, shit’s just hitting the fan everywhere huh.

#2432 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:52:27 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:52:27 Fwd: FUN! FUN! FUN!!!!!!! love, miss sarah k…….. for all you loser tsunami haters here’s an alternative by thecrazy japanese!

#2433 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:49:44 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:49:44 Fwd: Analog Pussy in Buffalo what? in buffalo? read on..

#2434 Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:28:13 Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:28:13 Fwd: Trancefunkyness at LevelX Tonight Thursday!

#2435 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:32:08 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:32:08 Organizer seeks photos from 12/8 Alex Grey Hello every one….. I’m looking for any one that has photos of the Transfiguration: 12/8/2001 Alex Grey benefit party at PSEUDO. Please contact me if you do. psythos at earthlink.net Peace & unity12/8/2001 Alex Grey benefit party at PSEUDO. Please contact me if you do. psythos at earthlink.net Peace & unity

#2436 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:26:02 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:26:02 Japan to ban Psilocybin Fungi from Japan, no longer the third coolest country in the industrialized world (after the NL and the UK). I wonder if this will put a dent in Organix’s art: Japan Moves to Ban ‘Magic’ Fungi Reuters TOKYO (April 26) – Japan’s Health Ministry said on Friday it would outlaw hallucinogenic “magic” Fungi from June, plugging a legal loophole that has allowed the mind-altering fungi to be openly sold without penalty. Sales and possession of Fungi containing hallucinogenic elements will be prohibited from June 6, a ministry official said. “There have been concerns of abuse,” he said. “Cases of young people doing harm to their health have been on the rise.” Due to a bizarre legal twist, psilocybin the chemical that gives the fungi their “magic” properties is illegal in Japan, but the Fungi themselves are not. This has allowed vendors to hawk them from sidewalk stands and via the Internet. Magazines can also run s for such exotica as Hawaiian toadstools without facing trouble. In recent years, chains of “head shops” with names like Herb on Air and Whoopee! have spouted up in big cities, offering substances that would be considered Class A narcotics in many countries. In a society known for some of the toughest d laws in the industrialized world, such laxity is the exception to the norm. d control is so strict in Japan that even some over-the-counter foreign cold medicines are routinely seized by customs officers because of the stimulants they contain. The Health Ministry will issue an official notification on May 7 to inform stores and the public of the ban, the official said. “That gives them about a month for disposal.” The branch manager of Psychedelic Garden, a head shop in Tokyo’s Nishi-Shinjuku district, said the ban came as little surprise. “There’s been talk of this for some time,” he said. “We’ll end sales on May 20. It’s disappointing but it can’t be helped.” In addition to Fungi imported from Europe and Hawaii, the basement bazaar stocks pipes, bongs, T-shirts and books on alternative culture. Vendors currently walk a fine legal line. Although they cannot be arrested for dealing of the Fungi themselves, they are sometimes nabbed for other violations, such as selling pharmaceuticals without a license. Japan’s most high-profile d bust was the 1980 arrest of former Beatle Paul McCartney at Tokyo international airport for possession of 7.7 ounces of marijuana. He was held in jail for nine days before being released and deported. If convicted, he could have faced seven years in prison.Japan Moves to Ban ‘Magic’ Fungi TOKYO (April 26) – Japan’s Health Ministry said on Friday it would outlaw hallucinogenic “magic” Fungi from June, plugging a legal loophole that has allowed the mind-altering fungi to be openly sold without penalty. Sales and possession of Fungi containing hallucinogenic elements will be prohibited from June 6, a ministry official said. “There have been concerns of abuse,” he said. “Cases of young people doing harm to their health have been on the rise.” Due to a bizarre legal twist, psilocybin the chemical that gives the fungi their “magic” properties is illegal in Japan, but the Fungi themselves are not. This has allowed vendors to hawk them from sidewalk stands and via the Internet. Magazines can also run s for such exotica as Hawaiian toadstools without facing trouble. In recent years, chains of “head shops” with names like Herb on Air and Whoopee! have spouted up in big cities, offering substances that would be considered Class A narcotics in many countries. In a society known for some of the toughest d laws in the industrialized world, such laxity is the exception to the norm. d control is so strict in Japan that even some over-the-counter foreign cold medicines are routinely seized by customs officers because of the stimulants they contain. The Health Ministry will issue an official notification on May 7 to inform stores and the public of the ban, the official said. “That gives them about a month for disposal.” The branch manager of Psychedelic Garden, a head shop in Tokyo’s Nishi-Shinjuku district, said the ban came as little surprise. “There’s been talk of this for some time,” he said. “We’ll end sales on May 20. It’s disappointing but it can’t be helped.” In addition to Fungi imported from Europe and Hawaii, the basement bazaar stocks pipes, bongs, T-shirts and books on alternative culture. Vendors currently walk a fine legal line. Although they cannot be arrested for dealing of the Fungi themselves, they are sometimes nabbed for other violations, such as selling pharmaceuticals without a license. Japan’s most high-profile d bust was the 1980 arrest of former Beatle Paul McCartney at Tokyo international airport for possession of 7.7 ounces of marijuana.

#2437 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:57:20 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:57:20 Goa’s DJ Huessein from Anjuna de Paraiso in New York/Golfing/Workshop/Crystals 1 DJ from Goa in town 2 Fun with Golfing 3 Trance Dance Workshop 4 Crystal Palace 1 From: apurvemehra at hotmail (Apurve Mehra) “Hussein, the resident dj from Anjuna de Paraiso in Goa just got into NY. This guy rivals any of the local Psy trance DJ’s and can play a wide variety of music. Lets see if we can organize some nights or events.” For booking email apurvemehra at hotmail (Apurve Mehra) 2 Fun with Golfing /pga/gallery/20020421/1019436850lpgalongsdsrcp107 3 Greetings my friend, I will be in NYC for one evening to conduct a Soul Hunting Ritual on Friday, May 31. The location will be the Children’s Aid Society in Greenwich Village. I am in need of assistance in promoting this event so if you have any input, ideas etc please do refer them to me. The preliminary details of this ritual is listed on my website: TranceDance. I’m looking forward to working again in NYC… and I hope you will be able to attend. -Presented By : Wilbert Alix Soul Hunting Ritual May 31, 2002 Soul Hunting Ritual Location: Greenwich Village Center 219 Sullivan St. (Between West 3rd and Bleeker) New York City, New York Cost : $40.00 Pay Now! For More Information Contact: Wilbert Alix (512) 708-8888 info at TranceDance Soul Hunting Ritual The Soul Hunting Ritual Evening is a 3-4 hour evening ritual program that is designed to provide a deep spiritual healing experience. The Soul Hunting Ritual will focus on one (1) of the following: 1). The ‘Physical’ body. 2). The ‘Mental’ body. 3). The ‘Emotional’ body. 4). The ‘Sexual’ body. Each time we encounter “power” (an overwhelming authority figure, rape, severe emotional depression, physical abuse, etc) we sacrifice a vital piece of our ‘soul’ in order to survive the trauma. This ‘spiritual damage’ is just being recognized as the origin of many of our societal problems, such as severe alcoholism, chronic depression, and rage. It’s important to know that these types of illnesses are ‘spiritual’ in their very nature…and that psychological approaches to correcting these problems, although somewhat effective, seem to never get to the root or ‘source’ of the issue…let alone foster as significant healing. Soul Hunting, for thousands of years, has provided just such a result. The Soul Hunting Ritual is a sacred journey into ‘non-ordinary realities’…the places where wounded souls retreat for solace and repentance. Through Soul Hunting it becomes possible to ‘re-visit’ the place where these soul parts originally separated. Although it’s not a ‘linear’ process…meaning that the experience defies ‘logic’…the end result is that participants frequently report that long standing, chronic problems become clearer and easier to solve. The Soul Hunting process is conducted by Wilbert Alix…who has worked successfully with thousands of persons seeking this type of transformational experience. Groups vary in size, but the high quality of the healing journey is consistent for everyone. Most Soul Hunting journey includes an experience of Trance Dance also: During Trance Dance participants will: 1st: Choose an intention for the evening, which mentally prepares participants and focuses on the specific aspect of life that the dancer wishes to illuminate. 2nd: Spiritual breathing, which energizes the body and opens the dancer to a broader spiritual experience. 3rd: Dance to various rhythms and music specifically written and recorded for Trance Dance. 4th: After 1-2 hours of ‘inner movement’ participants recover by resting in a prone position. It is during this phase of the ritual that significant ‘inner wisdom’ is witnessed, as well as the deep integration of the original intent of the Trance Dance journey. There will be a informal Q & A opportunity at the end of each ritual for anyone seeking more information about the ritual itself. … With Passion & Respect, Wilbert Alix TranceDance Crystal Palace Whoa we interrupt this email to bring you this bulletin .. I’m writing this bit after the original bits as I just found the URL to this place, it took some doing. Going to go see if there are pics on the site, catch ya later. “The Swarovski Crystal Worlds are also the center for a number of cultural events. The range of events is as diverse as the schedule of readings, performances, concerts, etc. We will be glad to make reservations at your request.” URL is here : web swarovski-crystalworld/ first bits follow The video I saw of this place on Discovery were amazing. The center room is among the trippiest things I have seen (What is truly spectacular is the Crystal Dome, a unique room with 590 mirrors, that is meant to represent the conflict of the outside world.) ) Excerpt Below: To commemorate 100 years of the company’s existence, the family decided to build a Kristallwelten or Crystal World, at Wattens. It was created by master artist Andre Heller within a period of 18 months. The outside facade is a hill (actually a topiary) shaped into a massive giant’s head. A gushing waterfall spouts from the mouth of the giant to fall into a placid lake below, while off to one side is a large, hand-shaped maze modelled after Andre Heller’s left hand. This colossus has two huge crystal eyes which glow and change colour with the light. Inside, the Kristallwelten is subterranean, a series of six caverns leading from one to the other. The main hall is a wonder by itself, with a crystal wall 11 m high and 42 m across, packed with 12 tonnes of glittering crystal! Placed to one side you can see a horse encrusted with jewels, a replica of the piece that was ordered by a maharaja from Rajasthan for his only son’s wedding. Set in a showcase on the wall are massive glass bracelets inscribed with love poems in English and German, said to have been ordered by one John Brekke, a man of many loves, who would gift these items to his lady friends on the conclusion of their affair! And in the very centre of the room rests the world’s largest crystal stone, weighing 62 kg, equivalent to 3,10,000 carats. It is a spectacular tribute to the company’s unparalleled technological expertise. The ‘Swarovski Centenar’ has 100 facets to mark the hundrh milestone and, for this distinction, has found a place in The Guinness Book of Records. Right beside it, measuring barely 8 mm across, yet, with 17 perfectly cut facets, you can find what is the world’s smallest crystal. The other rooms are given over to more sparkle and shine, bejewelled pierrots, femme fatales, the works including one that serves as an exhibition hall for internationally known artists (there was an exhibition of Salvador Dali in February). What is truly spectacular is the Crystal Dome, a unique room with 590 mirrors, that is meant to represent the conflict of the outside world. A special ancient Egyptian perfume called Blue Flower wafts gently across the expanse of the room.2 Fun with Golfing 3 Trance Dance Workshop 4 Crystal Palace 1 From: apurvemehra at hotmail (Apurve Mehra) “Hussein, the resident dj from Anjuna de Paraiso in Goa just got into NY. This guy rivals any of the local Psy trance DJ’s and can play a wide variety of music. Lets see if we can organize some nights or events.” For booking email apurvemehra at hotmail (Apurve Mehra) 2 Fun with Golfing /pga/gallery/20020421/1019436850lpgalongsdsrcp107 3 Greetings my friend, I will be in NYC for one evening to conduct a Soul Hunting Ritual on Friday, May 31. The location will be the Children’s Aid Society in Greenwich Village. I am in need of assistance in promoting this event so if you have any input, ideas etc please do refer them to me. The preliminary details of this ritual is listed on my website: TranceDance. I’m looking forward to working again in NYC… and I hope you will be able to attend. -Presented By : Wilbert Alix Soul Hunting Ritual May 31, 2002 Soul Hunting Ritual Location: Greenwich Village Center 219 Sullivan St. (Between West 3rd and Bleeker) New York City, New York Cost : $40.00 Pay Now! For More Information Contact: Wilbert Alix (512) 708-8888 info at TranceDance Soul Hunting Ritual The Soul Hunting Ritual Evening is a 3-4 hour evening ritual program that is designed to provide a deep spiritual healing experience. The Soul Hunting Ritual will focus on one (1) of the following: 1). The ‘Physical’ body. 2). The ‘Mental’ body. 3). The ‘Emotional’ body. 4). The ‘Sexual’ body. Each time we encounter “power” (an overwhelming authority figure, rape, severe emotional depression, physical abuse, etc) we sacrifice a vital piece of our ‘soul’ in order to survive the trauma. This ‘spiritual damage’ is just being recognized as the origin of many of our societal problems, such as severe alcoholism, chronic depression, and rage. It’s important to know that these types of illnesses are ‘spiritual’ in their very nature…and that psychological approaches to correcting these problems, although somewhat effective, seem to never get to the root or ‘source’ of the issue…let alone foster as significant healing. Soul Hunting, for thousands of years, has provided just such a result. The Soul Hunting Ritual is a sacred journey into ‘non-ordinary realities’…the places where wounded souls retreat for solace and repentance. Through Soul Hunting it becomes possible to ‘re-visit’ the place where these soul parts originally separated. Although it’s not a ‘linear’ process…meaning that the experience defies ‘logic’…the end result is that participants frequently report that long standing, chronic problems become clearer and easier to solve. The Soul Hunting process is conducted by Wilbert Alix…who has worked successfully with thousands of persons seeking this type of transformational experience. Groups vary in size, but the high quality of the healing journey is consistent for everyone. Most Soul Hunting journey includes an experience of Trance Dance also: During Trance Dance participants will: 1st: Choose an intention for the evening, which mentally prepares participants and focuses on the specific aspect of life that the dancer wishes to illuminate. 2nd: Spiritual breathing, which energizes the body and opens the dancer to a broader spiritual experience. 3rd: Dance to various rhythms and music specifically written and recorded for Trance Dance. 4th: After 1-2 hours of ‘inner movement’ participants recover by resting in a prone position. It is during this phase of the ritual that significant ‘inner wisdom’ is witnessed, as well as the deep integration of the original intent of the Trance Dance journey. There will be a informal Q & A opportunity at the end of each ritual for anyone seeking more information about the ritual itself. … With Passion & Respect, Wilbert Alix TranceDance Crystal Palace Whoa we interrupt this email to bring you this bulletin .. I’m writing this bit after the original bits as I just found the URL to this place, it took some doing. Going to go see if there are pics on the site, catch ya later. “The Swarovski Crystal Worlds are also the center for a number of cultural events. The range of events is as diverse as the schedule of readings, performances, concerts, etc. We will be glad to make reservations at your request.” URL is here : web swarovski-crystalworld/ first bits follow The video I saw of this place on Discovery were amazing. The center room is among the trippiest things I have seen (What is truly spectacular is the Crystal Dome, a unique room with 590 mirrors, that is meant to represent the conflict of the outside world.) ) Excerpt Below: To commemorate 100 years of the company’s existence, the family decided to build a Kristallwelten or Crystal World, at Wattens. It was created by master artist Andre Heller within a period of 18 months. The outside facade is a hill (actually a topiary) shaped into a massive giant’s head. A gushing waterfall spouts from the mouth of the giant to fall into a placid lake below, while off to one side is a large, hand-shaped maze modelled after Andre Heller’s left hand. This colossus has two huge crystal eyes which glow and change colour with the light. Inside, the Kristallwelten is subterranean, a series of six caverns leading from one to the other. The main hall is a wonder by itself, with a crystal wall 11 m high and 42 m across, packed with 12 tonnes of glittering crystal! Placed to one side you can see a horse encrusted with jewels, a replica of the piece that was ordered by a maharaja from Rajasthan for his only son’s wedding. Set in a showcase on the wall are massive glass bracelets inscribed with love poems in English and German, said to have been ordered by one John Brekke, a man of many loves, who would gift these items to his lady friends on the conclusion of their affair! And in the very centre of the room rests the world’s largest crystal stone, weighing 62 kg, equivalent to 3,10,000 carats. It is a spectacular tribute to the company’s unparalleled technological expertise. The ‘Swarovski Centenar’ has 100 facets to mark the hundrh milestone and, for this distinction, has found a place in The Guinness Book of Records. Right beside it, measuring barely 8 mm across, yet, with 17 perfectly cut facets, you can find what is the world’s smallest crystal. The other rooms are given over to more sparkle and shine, bejewelled pierrots, femme fatales, the works including one that serves as an exhibition hall for internationally known artists (there was an exhibition of Salvador Dali in February). What is truly spectacular is the Crystal Dome, a unique room with 590 mirrors, that is meant to represent the conflict of the outside world. A special ancient

#2438 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:28:45 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:28:45 Call for Israeli trance DJ for Israel party Cc: As they probably don’t need the black metal Orc band Nu Orc, I am sending this to you… From: PZivian at WWNORTON (Zivian, Penni) To: (‘) Dear DJ’s, Zionists of America Organization, which supports the idea that Israel has a right to exist (outside or inside the 1967 borders) is having a party to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut at the Leopard Lounge at 248 E. 5th (NEW YORK) on May 12. We are looking for an Israeli trance goa DJ to spin (or any other techno brand DJ to spin). If anyone you know is interested please contact me. Thanks lots-) peace, Penni Zivian Photo Researcher W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Ave. NY, NY 10110 Tele: (212) 790-4348 Fax: (212) 869-0856From: PZivian at WWNORTON (Zivian, Penni) To: (‘) Dear DJ’s, Zionists of America Organization, which supports the idea that Israel has a right to exist (outside or inside the 1967 borders) is having a party to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut at the Leopard Lounge at 248 E. 5th (NEW YORK) on May 12. We are looking for an Israeli trance goa DJ to spin (or any other techno brand DJ to spin). If anyone you know is interested please contact me. Thanks lots-) peace,

#2439 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:07:02 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:07:02 Tsunami – Alien Project TSUNAMI continues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: Saturday, April 27th, 2002 ALIEN PROJECT (PHONOKOL, Israel) YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. CHAI AGMIS PSYCHODOG VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Admission: $20 TILL 1AM, $25 after… OR $20 all night with BRAINMACHINES email 24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce:::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: ALIEN PROJECT (PHONOKOL, Israel) YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. CHAI AGMIS PSYCHODOG VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Admission: $20 TILL 1AM, $25 after… OR $20 all night with BRAINMACHINES email 24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce

#2440 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:06:45 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:06:44 Pschedule – Alien Project confirmed, Zion Party, Marijuana March this Sunday –see you there! News: Tsunami with Alien Project CONFIRMED (he’s here in his hotel, waiting for Goa groupies 🙂 Finally a new poem every week by Kakulja at end of email Zionist Trance Party May 12 needs Israeli DJs c all Penni at 212 790-4348 Million Marijuana March this Sunday AKA Mayday E vents: April 26 – Fri – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/ Egg/Fish Moon) – April 27 – Alien Project at Tsunami at Shelter web tsun ami-trance, $20 if you’re on the BRAINMACHINES list (give your email a t door) TSUNAMI continues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: ALIEN PROJECT (PHONOKOL, Israel) YONI (History o f the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on tranc e DJ in the US. CHAI AGMIS PSYCHODOG VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at th e new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate T SUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Admission: $20 TILL 1AM, $25 after… O R $20 all night with BRAINMACHINES email *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANC E!24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 ce – April 28th – Sunday: Afrika Bombabtta et al at Free May Day Rally Party at tompkins square park Blackkat Collective NYC proudly presentsE280A6. MA YDAY 2002 The 16th annual FREE festival and dance party celebration in Tom pkins Square Park!! Sunday, April 28th 2002 FeaturingE280A6. The origin al old school founding father of electro and hip-hop himselfE280A6. The Godfather of beats founder of Zulu NationE280A6. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA! Plu s, one of the most notorious innovators of NYC’s dance music culture who have been so deeply influential in shaping our scene over the yearsE280 A6.. Sonic Groove founder, FRANKIE BONES!! And from Hipstep Massive, TC I ZLAM (Zulu Nation) Plus the crew that makes it all happenE280A6. Blackk at’s ownE280A6 DJ CHROME (Tech-step d-n-b) JASON BK (Maximal tekno) and POW POW (Dancehall reggae) PlusE280A6. Circus, visual, and performance artists of all types, art showings, info booths, giveaways and much more E280A6E280A6 2 to 6 pm *FREE* Tompkins Square Park (Ave. A, bet. 7th and 10th St.) Lower East Side/East village NYC (raindate; may 5th) This y ear promises to be the best MAYDAY celebration ever for many reasons. Firs tly, because of the stellar line-up. Second, Blackkat is just coming off our best year ever for party’s, including the legendary Lunatarium series. And, third we are hoping to bring out a lot more than just the music such as performances, art shows, info-booths and vending etc. to increase the festival aspect of the event. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in any way in this event, please contact us and lets make th is a historical and inspiring festival. As always, Strength and love, The Blackkat Family 212-714-4987 web blackkat.org Also that day – the Millio n Marijuana March web cures-not-wars.org -MANDALA PSY GOA TRIBAL TRANCE Hey everyone! We’re doing another MANDALA party on Sund ay, April 28th at the Korova Milk Bar. Big thanks to all the shiney, happy people who brought themselves out to the last one (on Easter in the pouri ng rain no less!) and made the night such a thriving success! Looking forw ard to seeing you there! THE KOROVA MILK BAR 200 AVE A. BETWEEN 12/13ST, NYC 9P-4A DJ’S ICYCOIL ** ST DJ: FUMI :] FREE ADMISSION 21+ W/ ID $5 Cosmopolitans $4 Red Stripes 2$ Kamikaze shots ART BY: SUSANNAH (SUENITE) JOSH RUBIN There will be visua ls pumped through 13 TV Screens! Come after the May Day party. Korova is r ight down the block from Tompkins Square Park! 🙂 April 30 – Freaky Tues day at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th stre ets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crow ded but the music always full on and new. – May 1 – Wed – Beltainne – Spr ing’s Planting Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Open Center. web opencenter.org/ancientande an – May 4 – Sat – Mark Allen at Spectra ts…. Frying Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hopefien d) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spect ra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Side Highway. Sound by Spectra. May 7 – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. -May 8 – Wed – Unknown Shr ooms at Pyramid HELLO everyone the party at PYRAMIDS is ON!!! sorry for th e trouble. i know some people wondered what happened but itwas out of my c ontrol. BUT this may 8 we will bring you the best of local dj’s Location: Pyramid 101 Avenue A Between 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: S.H.I.K.I.D{Omnit Decorations:K ura-Akin Come And EnjoyThe Hyper Frequencies!!!! Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. -May 12 – Zionis t Trance to celebrate Party Yom Haatzmaut at the Leopard Lounge at 248 E. 5th – May 24-26 Lord of the Rings The weekend long outdoor Lord of the Ri ngs psy-trance festival upstate will be with trance Sindarin woodland elv es. Don’t miss the blackmetal band New Orc on Friday and the sacred commun ion with the Council of Eldar on Saturday, in Quenyan. There will be multi ple theme villages. List is closed. – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: F ull Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June Trance Party in Mexico! June 7t h eat static & growling mad scientists in nyc – June 11 – Tues – d Gemi ni Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two f or one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Si lence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthda y in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/ SafetyDance/calendar SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice June 21-2 4 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for lov e, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, phys ical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summ er Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul ‘s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involvin g protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful . With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked . Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protectiv e glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc- es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c -ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength . It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Cal endar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, e nergy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in th e heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows y our soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples al so know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Se x Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garde n on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry /Rose/Hot Moon) -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22- July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To e nter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to group s.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthd ay in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group /SafetyDance/calendar August Three-day open air festival, happening in C anada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Ful l Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody ma ries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebr ate with us go to -Se ptember 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autum n – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left i n the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whet her it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals t hat we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balanthat the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are grea t s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of sum mer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be ba lanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our p lans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. W e pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older on es die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is rich in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own sp ecial character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of t he year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit o f each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a d epth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would nev er achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and chang e, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ours elves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes an d cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit s oon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your a rea, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When t he leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used fo r candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made o f material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the su mmer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica http ://web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebr ation September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Wat chers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To e nter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups .yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 3 1 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke s corpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with u s go to Junkies and Ge t High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, G hulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun an d grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “W hen I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place wh ere Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwe stern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cem etery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a st eep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the ci ty on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a doz en addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundre ds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan provinc e, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometim es one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are s afe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg o r steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of t own, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. The y huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutte r. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse ht tp://come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celeb ration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Safe tyDance/calendar – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Tsunam i with Alien Project CONFIRMED (he’s here, in his hotel, waiting for Goa gr oupies 🙂 Finally a new poem every week by Kakulja at end of email Zionist Trance Party May 12 needs Israeli DJs call Penni at 212 790-4348 Million Marijuana March this Sunday AKA Mayday oon (Indian Name: Full Pink/Sprouting Grass/Egg/Fish Moon) ce, $20 if you’re on the BRAINMACHINES list (give your email at door) ALIEN PROJECT (PHONOKOL, Israel) YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. CH AI AGMIS PSYCHODOG VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6t h Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am & nbsp;Admission: $20 TILL 1AM, $25 after… OR $20 all night with BRAI NMACHINES email *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE!24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 &n bs ce / ay Rally Collective NYC proudly presentsE280A6. MAYDAY 2002 The 16th annual FREE festival and dance party celebration in Tompkins Square Park!! Sunday April 28th 2002 FeaturingE280A6. The original old school founding fath er of electro and hip-hop himselfE280A6. The Godfather of beats founder of Zulu NationE280A6. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA! Plus, one of the most noto rious innovators of NYC’s dance music culture who have been so deeply influ ential in shaping our scene over the yearsE280A6.. Sonic Groove founder, FRANKIE BONES!! And from Hipstep Massive, TC IZLAM (Zulu Nation) Plus the crew that makes it all happenE280A6. Blackkat’s ownE280A6 DJ CHROME ( Tech-step d-n-b) JASON BK (Maximal tekno) and POW POW (Dancehall reggae) Pl usE280A6. Circus, visual, and performance artists of all types, art show ings, info booths, giveaways and much moreE280A6E280A6 2 to 6 pm *FRE E* Tompkins Square Park (Ave. A, bet. 7th and 10th St.) Lower East Side/Eas t village NYC (raindate; may 5th) This year promises to be the best MAYDAY celebration ever for many reasons. Firstly, because of the stellar line-up. Second, Blackkat is just coming off our best year ever for party’s, including the legendary Lunatarium series. And, third we are hoping to bring out a lot more than just the music such as performances, art shows, info-booths and vending etc. to increase the festival aspect of the event. If you or someone you know is interested in participating in any way in thi s event, please contact us and lets make this a historical and inspiring fe stival. As always, Strength and love, The Blackkat Family 212-714-4987 web oing another MANDALA party on Sunday, April 28th at the Korova Milk Bar. Bi g thanks to all the shiney, happy people who brought themselves out to the last one (on Easter in the pouring rain no less!) and made the night such a thriving success! Looking forward to seeing you there! THE KOROVA MI LK BAR 200 AVE A. BETWEEN 12/13ST, NYC 9P-4A DJ’S ICYCOIL ** & nbsNILS 🙂 GUEST DJ: FUMI :] FREE ADMISSION 21+ W/ ID $ 5 Cosmopolitans $4 Red Stripes 2$Kamikaze shots ART BY: SU SANNAH (SUENITE) JOSH RUBIN There will be visuals pumped through 13 TV Scre ens! Come after the May Day party. Korova is right down the block from Tomp kins Square Park! 🙂 – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest D May 3 – Anci ent Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Open Center. web opencenter.org/ancientandean May 4 – Sat – Mark Allen at Spectra n (return to the source, Hopefiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Mo a- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Side Highway. Sound by Spectra. Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 8 8th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs trouble. i know some people wondered what happened but itwas out of my con trol. BUT this may 8 we will bring you the best of local dj’s Location : Pyramid 101 Avenue A Between 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: S.H.I.K.I.D{ 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. y 12 – Zionist Trance to celebrate Party Yom Haatzmaut at the Leopard Loung e at 248 E. 5th B -trance festival upstate will be with trance Sindarin woodland elves. Don’t miss the blackmetal band New Orc on Friday and the sacred communion with the Council of Eldar on Saturday, in Quenyan. There will be multiple tr/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) June Trance Party in Mexico! June 7th eat static & growling mad scientists in nyc ion May 21- June 21 bsp;Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nem Poss ible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate wi th us go to June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice olstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 B riendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, an d strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, als o called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Chris ngth, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shad ows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan c ouples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith “0es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the age, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical ener gy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstic e, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This ving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successf ul. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoke d. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protectiv e glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spr end tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertili is stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awaren dian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to g of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celeb val, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Tranc F Fusion Festival in California gust 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man T Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 0Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDan ce/calendar s that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator a nd heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balan uinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the hea dy days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and th at none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer ver moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some d f joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their s ch in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the yea r and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achiev ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other food s that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an e Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to par afin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightl Colors used for ca ndles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of mat erial with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer c an empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mi nd States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ hday Celebration September 23-October 22 les 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Pos sible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your birthday in our r oster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance /calendar ay – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthD ance Org… ll Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) B FO ov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 B To ent er your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.ya hoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” Q UETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scor pions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lig the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is lik e nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke do pe or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place FO rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws it s way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out a cross the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raz dul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’ s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the ci ty. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop in to an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted t o pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off official s for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Clo ser to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even les s salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their hea ds, in an open gutter. an Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon)

#2441 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:22:19 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:22:19 Fwd: The Revenge of SuperBarrio Man

#2442 Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:31:01 Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:31:01 – get your ass to the free party at Lunatarium today 2-7 bring weird clothes and costumes and such

#2443 Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:16:44 Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:16:43 CORRECTION – Mill. Marij. March is May 4 Sorry for the days ‘n confusion!

#2444 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:14:35 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:14:33 weekend review The place was pumping and packed. Alien Project was good – better than he was in SF. The night is finally hitting its stride. I showed up late with the list – around 330am or so. Sorry for those of you who had to pay an extra $5. It won’t happen again, but if you want to make sure bring a printout. I was late because i was at The Lunatarium all day and was already nursing a hangover… that party was great as well and went into the wee hours. There was a lot of painting, body painting, weird stuff going on. We really put on a good show for Lee Harvey (Oswald!) the founder of Burning Man. In case ya’ll didn’t here due to legality thew lord of the rings will not happen as scheduled. BUT there is a east coast party in maryland that weekend, tba on safetydance.I showed up late with the list – around 330am or so. Sorry for those of you who had to pay an extra $5. It won’t happen again, but if you want to make sure bring a printout. I was late because i was at The Lunatarium all day and was already nursing a hangover… that party was great as well and went into the wee hours. There was a lot of painting, body painting, weird stuff going on. We really put on a good show for Lee Harvey (Oswald!) the founder of Burning Man.

#2445 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:24:57 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:24:57 Mail order – Soular Records Psy-Trance Compilation Cc: safetydance, dny I have plenty of copies right here and can send it to you at a bigass discount, cheaper than buying anywhere else! d members – $9 Safetydance members – $10 Brainmachines Members – $11 General Public – $12 To get a copy mailed to you send me the amount plus $2 shipping and handling. You can find me at a party or send it to me via Paypal, use my name Machine Elf and my email . You’ll get it in 2-3 days. $1 from each order will go to d outdoor events this summer. “Soular records emerges onto the psychedelic trance scene with a debut compilation featuring cutting-edge beats and mind-bending synthesizers, delivered to you direct from some of New York City’s top-secret sound labs. Supercharged sonic wizards mix up a batch of tripped-out tracks, running the range from full-on dancefloor killers to chilled out minimalistic stompers. Like the city from which these tracks were born, this powerful packet of digital vibrations offers up a multidimensional world that even the most ardent follower of spiritual psychedelic trance dance will appreciate.” “AWAKENING” Track Listing 1. Deeper in Zen – The Calling 2. Mind Warped – Dark Matter 3. Deeper in Zen vs. Mind Warped – Liquid Dimensions 4. Deeper in Zen – Ponder on This 5. Creamsicle – First Flight 6. Onnomon – Tower of Babel 7. Mind Warped – Psychic Underground 8. IndiaDrop – 2Face 9. D-Space – Hoedown Number Nine 10. IndiaDrop vs. Deeper in Zen – Subtle Energyd members – $9 Safetydance members – $10 Brainmachines Members – $11 General Public – $12 To get a copy mailed to you send me the amount plus $2 shipping and handling. You can find me at a party or send it to me via Paypal, use my name Machine Elf and my email . You’ll get it in 2-3 days. $1 from each order will go to d outdoor events this summer.

#2446 Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:44:27 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Dear Everyone!!!! After not many parties in New York, come every Wednesday night at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy the trance music with differents djs every week, Welcome!!!!!!!! Isam(Symbionyc-Spectra) Fx Mike(Alphatrance) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 Thanks!!, Gracias Love and Light Angeles

#2447 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:44:52 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:44:51 Fwd: SRange at Starscape – 06.08.02 Ultraworld goes Scando Psy-trance June 8th!!!

#2448 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:47:42 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:47:41 DUMBO Arts Expo To: personalbest Good morning, friends and family, I am pleased to announce the launch of web dumboartexpo, and to invite you to come and see what a little DUMBO can do for you! Well, today we’re just a lucky 7 days away from the Expo. Click the link below for a special invitation, as well as a map to the proceedings. You can also surf to web dumboartexpo from the invitation, and explore the progress that has been accomplished by our team since your last visit. As ever, thanks for tuning in. web dumboartexpo/InvisibleJet All the best, Jan oooooooooooooo DUMBO Art Expo Jan Larsen ART Ten Jay Street DUMBO|Brooklyn :718|797-2557:I am pleased to announce the launch of web dumboartexpo, and to invite you to come and see what a little DUMBO can do for you! Well, today we’re just a lucky 7 days away from the Expo. Click the link below for a special invitation, as well as a map to the proceedings. You can also surf to web dumboartexpo from the invitation, and explore the progress that has been accomplished by our team since your last visit. As ever, thanks for tuning in. web dumboartexpo/InvisibleJet All the best, Jan oooooooooooooo DUMBO Art Expo Jan Larsen ART Ten Jay Street DUMBO|Brooklyn :718|797-2557:

#2449 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:05:12 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:05:12 Soular Records is up Cc: dny I can’t stop listening to this CD. Please send to everyone you know who lis tens to psy-trance: Lowest prices online… now you know what these guys ha ve been hibernating for for the past year. James/Alex/Dan Covan of Deeper in Zen, Dean (Ommonon), Ofer of India Drop, Kent Friedman, someone else i can’t ID, graphics by Eli Morgan Needless to say, every track rocks. Ka mal got it and so should you. You really don’t have a choice in this matte r. web tranceam.org/soularrecords The first psychedelic t rance compilation from New Yorks top-secret underground psy-tranc e labs web ccnow/cgi-local/cart.cgi?jeffMachinelfsoul arweb tranceam.org/machines Compact Disc, $11 plus $2 sh ipping and handling, allow 2-3 days. $1 from each order will go to d outdoor events this summer in New York. “Soular records emerges onto the psychedelic trance scene with a debut compilation featuring cutting-edge beats and mind-bending Synthesizers. Supercharged sonic wizards mix up a batch of tripped- out tracks, running the range from full-on dancefloor killers to chilled out minimalistic stompers. Like the city from which t hese tracks were born, this powerful packet of digital vibrations offer s up a multidimensional world that even the most ardent follower of spirit ual psychedelic trance dance will appreciate.” AWAKENING Track Listing 1. Deeper in Zen – The Calling 2. Mind Warped – Dark Matter 3. Deeper in Zen vs. Mind Warped – Liquid Dimensions 4. Deeper in Zen – Ponder on This 5. Creamsicle – First Flight 6. Onnomon – Tower of Babel 7. Mind Warped – Psychic Underground 8. IndiaDrop – 2Face 9. D-Space – Hoedown Number Ni ne 10. IndiaDrop vs. Deeper in Zen – Subtle Energy o this CD. Please send to everyone you know who listens to psy-trance: Lowest prices online… now you know what these guys have been hibernat ing for for the past year. James/Alex/Dan Covan of Deeper in Zen, Dea n (Ommonon), Ofer of India Drop, Kent Friedman, someone else i can’t ID, gr aphics by Eli Morgan Needless to say, every track rocks. Kamal g ot it and so should you. You really don’t have a choice in this matter. web tranceam.org/soularrecords The first psyched elic trance compilation from New Yorks top-secret underground psy-trance labs web ccnow/cgi-local/cart.cgi?jef fMachinelfsoularweb tranceam.org/machines Compact Disc, $11 plus $2 shipping and handling, allow 2-3 days. $1 from each or der will go to d outdoor events this summer in New York. “Soular records emerges onto the psychedelic trance scene with a debut compilation featuring cutting-edge beats and mind-bending Synthesizers. Supercharged sonic wizards mix up a batc h of tripped- out tracks, running the range from full-on dancefloor killers to chilled out minimalistic stompers. Like the city from which these tracks were born, this powerful packet of & nbsp;digital vibrations offers up a multidimensional world that even the mo st ardent follower of spiritual psychedelic trance dance will appreciate.” AWAKENING Track Listing 1. Deeper in Zen – Th e Calling 2. Mind Warped – Dark Matter 3. Deeper in Zen vs. Mind Warped – Liquid Dimensions 4. Deeper in Zen – Ponder on This 5. C reamsicle – First Flight 6. Onnomon – Tower of Babel 7. Mind Warp ed – Psychic Underground 8. IndiaDrop – 2Face 9. D-Space – Hoedow n Number Nine 10. IndiaDrop vs. Deeper in Zen – Subtle Energy /

#2450 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:08:56 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:08:56 MayDay postponed to next Sunday coinciding with the Million Marijuana March… hmmm. what to do, what to d o…. i guess everybody will be really fucking stoned that day! MAYDAY PAR TY in Tompkins POSTPONED AFTER-PARTY at CONTINENTAL STILL ON!!! Ok, everyone, we had to postpone the MayDay Party because of the rain. We will be out partying in the park NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 5th. Be sure to check y our email or the website for more info on next weekend’s party. It’ll be r ockin… The OFFICIAL MAYDAY BENEFIT PARTY is STILL ON!! Featurin g DJs; EMPRESS FFLOOD SASKAI SEAN B XYLENE SATAMILE CHROME JASON BK POW POW & more TBA 6pm till late 18 to enter, 21 to drin k $10 suggested donation at historic punk clubE280A6 CONTINENTAL Third Ave at St. Marks NYC As always, Strength and love, The Black kat Family 212-714-4987 web blackkat.org ion Marijuana March… hmmm. what to do, what to do…. i guess everybody w ill be really fucking stoned that day! MAYDAY PARTY in Tompkins PO STPONED AFTER-PARTY at CONTINENTAL STILL ON!!! BR Ok, everyone, we had to postpone the MayDay Party because of the ra in. We will be out partying in the park NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 5th. Be sure to check your email or the website for m ore info on next weekend’s party. It’ll be rockin… The OFFICIAL MAYDAY BENEFIT PARTY is STILL ON!! Featuring DJs; EMPRESS FFLOOD SASKAI SE AN B XYLENE SATAMILE CHROME JASON BK B R POW POW & more TBA 6pm till late 18 to enter, 21 to drink $10 suggested donation at hi storic punk clubE280A6 CONTINENTAL Third Ave at St. Mar ks NYC As always, Strength and love, B R The Blackkat Family 212-714-4987 web blackkat.org

#2451 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:42:57 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:42:57 CORRECTION: MayDay is SATURDAY not Sunday everything connected to the Million Marijuana March is making me forgetful..and hungry. to reiterate, the Mayday Blakkat thing is Saturday the Million Marijuana March is Sunday like a 2 day bake and wake confused? so am I. pray for no rain!to reiterate, the Mayday Blakkat thing is Saturday the Million Marijuana March is Sunday like a 2 day bake and wake confused? so am I.

#2452 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:49:58 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:49:57 Corrected Correction: Blakkat Sunday, MMM saturday I am too sober for this right now… too many stoned people emailing me about this. this is what happens when i send out non trance events, whcih are logical and ordered 🙂

#2453 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:48:52 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:48:51 Saturday – Tsunami Although i will be at two parties Saturday, Tsunami will have the Brainmachines guest list by 11pm. I will be there around 4am – when the Spectra party at Frying Pan winds down. TSUNAMI continues it’s Saturday Night Weekly Parties T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N Saturday, May 4th, 2002 Surprise Guest DJ from TWISTED, UK Further: Y O N I (TSUNAMI / History of the Future) YONI is quickly becoming the most sought after US based Trance DJ, will be giving us one of his trade-mark full-on extended sets. YON-E (TSUNAMI) AGMIS CHAI Downstairs at the new Club SHELTER 20 West 39th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) Please use separate TSUNAMI Entrance Hours: 11pm till 11am Admission: Ladies $10 / Gentlemen: $15 till 1am $20 / $15 with flyer or this brainmachines print-out thereafter For more information: 212 439-8124 or ce/ce SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well as TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records, in stores everywhere!

#2454 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:11:21 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:11:20 Fwd: trance party at Pyramid wednesday this is a full on alternative to opium den, which is quite chill..

#2455 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:52:17 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:52:16 Fwd: June 15 Mexico trance plastik park, suset rec. Cc:

May 2002

#2456 Wed, 01 May 2002 17:36:52 Re: Fwd: SRange at Starscape – 06.08.02 From: “digitalyeti” daleg at elemental.org- In brainmachines at y…, Ismoked at a… wrote: Ultraworld goes Scando Psy-trance June 8th!!! Swedish Space Invader Will Land In DC June 8, 2002 Aye! Well, actually, Ft. Armistead is in Baltimore, off of Exit 1 on the beltway here (I-695) The psy area will be on the beach section of the park, with a perfect view of the sunrise over the chesapeake bay. We here at Psychokinetics are planning some other-worldly deco to go along with the sounds and hope some NYC peoples can come down and beam out your good energy with us! /elektronkind

#2457 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:52:31 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:52:05 To: Re: brain Call for Israeli trance DJ for Israel party 168.cc0e892.29fab00d at aolFrom: Edward Potter ejp at wellhi, “trance goa DJ to spin (or any other techno brand DJ to spin)” THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!! a techno brand DJ is NOT a GOA DJ….. i think music is cool and all, but please don’t put GOA in there. Us into GOA trance, and who actually have spent sometime in India, know that true devotes of GOA trance ARE light years beyond things like 1967 borders, countries, and the like. Most of us [OF ALL backgrounds] into the scene are more focused on Rishi philosophies from 5000 BC. We look at the bad vibes happening in the middle east, sit back and say “I wonder if they’ll ever get it.” Countries and borders, HAVE no connection with the GOA movement. ITS SO FAR BEYOND that…. jai ma, jai mother…. you are a vibrating wave form dude, that’s reality… YOU ARE ME, I AM U 🙂 Spend a day reading some Jain philosophy, i think it will blow your mind. hanuman…. The Love Party ps… good luck, love… wrote: As they probably don’t need the black metal Orc band Nu Orc, I am sending this to you… From: PZivian at WWNORTON (Zivian, Penni) To: (‘) Dear DJ’s, Zionists of America Organization, which supports the idea that Israel has a right to exist (outside or inside the 1967 borders) is having a party to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut at the Leopard Lounge at 248 E. 5th (NEW YORK) on May 12. We are looking for an Israeli trance goa DJ to spin (or any other techno brand DJ to spin). If anyone you know is interested please contact me. Thanks lots-) peace, Penni Zivian Photo Researcher W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Ave. NY, NY 10110 Tele: (212) 790-4348 Fax: (212) 869-0856 Too many emails? Just want the Pschedule? Email psy-trance, neuronautic, cyberdelic events in NYC to by Monday noon to be listed. To edit your delivery settings to to digest-only or web-only go to groups.yahoo/mygroups?edit1. For ratings and info on NYC psy-trance organizers go to For contact info for DJs go to This is a wide open list that describes above ground, and commercial events. There is another list called SafetyDance that delivers information on more secret and intimate (read: better) events. If you know someone on that list describing who you know (include their email address) or how you can be vouched for.

#2458 Wed, 1 May 2002 15:01:59 Wed, 1 May 2002 15:01:59 note RE: s-range from psomeone in psan franpsysco dude ghreg on earth- he’s very cool, good friend of my girlfriend, s range was also quite killer when he was here.

#2459 Thu, 2 May 2002 11:48:35 Thu, 2 May 2002 11:48:35 Fwd: Triiped Out Art Gallery Opening Saturday Naoto did the art that was on the d’s home page In a message dated 5/2/02 8:02:22 AM, NaotoHattori writes: My show’s opening is this Saturday! Hope to see you there!! Naoto Hattori/NYC 2002 Recent paintings and prints Opening reception: Saturday, May 4, 7pm – 10pm Location: Fuse Gallery, 93 Second Avenue (between 5 & 6 Streets), NYC 10003 web wwwcomcom/web wwwcomcomIn a message dated 5/2/02 8:02:22 AM, NaotoHattori writes: My show’s opening is this Saturday! Hope to see you there!! Naoto Hattori/NYC 2002 Recent paintings and prints Opening reception: Saturday, May 4, 7pm – 10pm Location: Fuse Gallery, 93 Second Avenue (between 5 & 6 Streets), NYC 10003

#2460 Thu, 2 May 2002 19:03:00 Thu, 2 May 2002 19:03:00 Sat May 11 – Cosmosis and Mumbo Jumbo at Vinyl (Tsunami) Instead of Shelter that week – More to come!

#2461 Thu, 2 May 2002 19:26:55 Thu, 2 May 2002 19:26:54 Pschedule To get th To ge t this plus more detailed info send email to at yahoo groups NewsFlash- W e Interrupt this Program for an Important Announcement It’s getting warm, Beltainne spring planting is upon us, and psychedelic trance culture is onagain metastasizing in Babylon. Trust me on this. Or don’t trust me, just come out an see for yourself. Tripping is believing. The brainmachin es list hit an all time “high” with 925 members. Rock on! I’m not sure wh ere the Marijuana March is being held Saturday, but go. If I hear of wher e it is I will post it. One million armchair rastas can’t be wrong. I as sume the Tompkins Square May Day thing on Sunday is ago is still on. It s eems to be in the email Blakkat sent out about their afterparty. Although flyers went out, Synthetic Sadhus ain’t happening this Friday. But they’r e more than making it up on June 8th with GMS and more.. see below. Next w eek on May 11 Tsunami will have Cosmosis and Mumbo Jumbo. INFECTED MUSHROO M will not be in the US… Tsunami was originally doing it on that date, so that Duvdev (half of the INFECTED ones) could prove that he has to be a broad, so escape his military service duty of 2 1/2 weeks. Instead they a dvised him that he will not be allowed to leave the county. All the plan ets are aligned at sunset through May science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2 002/24aprrelax Soular Records compilation available online at /soularrecords Events: – May 1 – Wed – Beltain ne – Spring’s Planting Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the onl y Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Open Center. web opencenter.org/anc ientandean May 4 – Sat – -The Million Marijuana March probably aroun d Battery Park web cures-not-wars.org -Mark Allen at Spectra Spectra pr esents…. Frying Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hope fiend) UK -Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (s pectra) NYC Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm The Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Side Highway. Sound by Spectra. (Ed Note – Get there early – Frying Pan ain’t open all night!) -Tsunami at Shelter go es through late morning, ce, $20 if you’re on the BRAI NMACHINES list (give your email at door) SURPRISE GUEST FROM TWISTED UK + YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought aft er full-on trance DJ in the US. CHAI AGMIS VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use sepa rate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Admission: $20 TILL 1AM, $25 afte r… OR $20 all night with BRAINMACHINES email or this printout *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! 24 hours info-line: 212 439-8124 web tsunami-tr ance -May 5 – Sunday: May Day Rally AFTER-PARTY at CONTINENTAL STILL ON!!! Ok, everyone, we had to postpone the MayDay Party because of the rai n. We will be out partying in the [Tompkins] Park NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 5th. Be sure to check your email or the website [Blakkat] for more info on nex t weekend’s party. It’ll be rockin… The OFFICIAL MAYDAY BENEFIT PARTY i s STILL ON!! Featuring DJs; EMPRESS FFLOOD SASKAI SEAN B XYLENE SATAMILE CHROME JASON BK POW POW & more TBA 6pm till late 18 to enter, 21 to drin k $10 suggested donation at historic punk clubE280A6 CONTINENTAL Third Ave at St. Marks NYC May 7 – Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports b ar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your bartender. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Considering the venue, regulars, a nd nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then they are definitely psychedelic. -May 8 – Wed – Unknown Shrooms at Pyramid – Biggest Night There yet HELLO everyone t he party at PYRAMIDS is ON!!! sorry for the trouble. i know some people wo ndered what happened but itwas out of my control. BUT this may 8 we will b ring you the best of local dj’s Location: Pyramid 101 Avenue A Between 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: Decorations:Kura-Akin Come And EnjoyThe Hyper Frequencies!!!! Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Musl im psy-trance DJ Isam. -May 11 – Sat – Tsunami – Cosmosis and Mumbo Jumb o at Vinyl -May 12 – Zionist Trance to celebrate Party Yom Haatzmaut at t he Leopard Lounge at 248 E. 5th -May 18 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter; Sham anistas -May 25 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Nam e: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) -June 8th Synthetic Sadhus Eat St atic & Growling Mad Scientists To all trancers, movers & groovers : The SY NTHETIC SADHUS party of Friday May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have the pleasure to announce that we are moving to an am azing new venue for our next event! On SATURDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SA DHUS are proud to present : TIP RECORDS LABEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STA TIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Re cords – Spun Records -ITALY) Live !! RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Growling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-M ega Records – ISRAEL) ! YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art b y : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) !! & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Ou t By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Sub tle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTI in the main room !& 10 Kilos AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY !! ALL Ages EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full fl yer coming out soon EVERYWHERE !! More Detailed INFOS to be announced on t his site VERY SOON !! IN TRANCE WE TRUST !The Sadhus June 8 Swedish Space Invader Will Land In DC at Ultraworld’s Starscape Festival 2002 (Ft.Armiste ad Park, Maryland) he’s headlining the new Psytrance stage (brought to yo u by Psychokinetics): SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg On Earth – Spectral Concepts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – B razil Wild Bill – Psychokinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Balt imore Cyzum (aka DJ Hybrid) web eastcoasthappy $40 (get them in adv. b /c they WILL sell out) for more info visit web ultraworld.net/SS2k2 traworld: web ultraworld.net SRange: web s-range – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin y ou know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To ente r your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.ya hoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar June 14 – -nitribe? June 15 Trance P arty in Mexico! web psycraft site up May 6 SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Su mmer Solstice In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Mag ic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longes t day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Pe ter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when mag ics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the mos t successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are re adily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun ‘s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when th e Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Gode ss of Spring welc- es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cul tures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The C hristian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Su n high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything th at shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Paga n couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the ze nith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip thr ough a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The p eaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical ferti lity as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southe rn Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 -June 24 – Full Moon (Indi an Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Viny l INFECTED Mushroom and TICON -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebr ation June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryl and Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Ti me -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possi ble Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To ent er your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.y ahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona ww w.chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (In dian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man – Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Vi rgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our ros ter and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ calendar -“September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barle y Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 mor e months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest y et to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal proje cts and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the har vest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the ma gnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These eq uinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the he ady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that al l things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors ed themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition w e try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is ri ch in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and litt le dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the characte r and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, g iving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebratio n we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of p ower and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him o r herself. S-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stan d outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Corn bread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The fr ost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to d ry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathere d over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind State s Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral B irthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is bl ind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘dow nscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org … – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass M oon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s St art – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-Novemb er 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’ re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stinger s in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the s moke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions ma ke him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me .” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mo unds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring o ut across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. S-e, like Abdul Hai, h ave been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminal ized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Bal uchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the c emetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he s tarted down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain ki llers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveya rd addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for p eace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less sal ubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost M oon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 s olar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittaria n Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yaho o/group/SafetyDance/calendar – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice B B It’s getting warm, Beltainne spring planting is upon us, and psyched elic trance culture is once again metastasizing in Babylon. Trust me on this. Or don’t trust me, just come out an see for yourself. The br ainmachines list hit an all time “high” with 925 members. Rock on! B R I’m not sure where the Marijuana March is being held Saturday, but g o. If I hear of where it is I will post it. One million armchai I as sume the Tompkins Square May Day thing on Sunday is ago is still on. It seems to be in the email Blakkat sent out about their afterparty. Sadhus ain’t happening this Friday. But they’re more than making it up on June 8th with GMS and more.. see below. / umbo. INFECTED MUSHROOM will not be in the US… Tsunami was originally &nb sp;doing it on that date, so that Duvdev (half of the INFECTED ones) could prove that he has to be abroad, so escape his military service duty of &nbs p;2 1/2 weeks. Instead they advised him that he will not be allowed to leav are aligned at sunset through May science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/2 4aprrelax ation available online at web tranceam.org/soularrecords / “0 g May 3 – Ancient Andean Wisdom – Interesting lecture Friday, May 3rd at the Open Center. web opencenter.org/ancientandean May 4 – Sa n at Spectra Pan, NYC DJ’s: -Mark Allen (return to the source, Hopefiend) UK &nbs p;-Jamin (spectra, cosmophilla) NYC -Gavin (spectra) NYC -Isam (spectra) NY C Deco: Mae & Moa- Germany Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm Th e Frying Pan boat is at 23rd and West Side Highway. Sound by Spectra.   ;(Ed Note – Get there early – Frying Pan ain’t open all night!) rough late morning, ce, $20 if you’re on the BRAINMACHI NES list (give your email at door) TWISTED UK + YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming th e most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. CHAI AGMIS VISUALS B Y UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am &n bsAdmission: $20 TILL 1AM, $25 after… OR $20 all night with BRAINMACHINES email or this printout *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! 24 Rally everyone, we had to postpone the MayDay Party because of the rain. We wil l be out partying in the [Tompkins] Park NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 5th. Be sure to check your email or the website [Blakkat] for more info on next weekend’s party. It’ll be rockin… The OFFICIAL MAYDAY BENEFIT PARTY is STILL ON!! Featuring DJs; EMPRESS FFLOOD SASKAI SEAN B XYLE NE SATAMILE CHROME JASON BK POW POW & more TBA 6pm till lat e 18 to enter, 21 to drink $10 suggested donation at historic punk clubE2 80A6 CONTINENTAL Third Ave at St. Marks NYC bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your barten der. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Consid ering the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then they are defini F May 8 – Wed – Unknown Shrooms at Pyramid – Biggest Night There yet for the trouble. i know some people wondered what happened but itwas out o f my control. BUT this may 8 we will bring you the best of local dj’s Locat ion: Pyramid 101 Avenue A Between 6-7 10pm-4am Dj’s Lineup: S.H.I.K.I tions:Kura-Akin Come And EnjoyThe Hyper Frequencies!!!! Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. mbo at Vinyl t Trance to celebrate Party Yom Haatzmaut at the Leopard Lounge at 248 E. 5 th s lanting/Milk Moon) US party of Friday May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have the pleasure to announce that we are moving to an amazing new venu e for our next event! On SATURDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SADHUS are proud to present : TIP RECORDS LABEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Reco rds -ITALY) Live !! RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Grow ling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAE L) ! YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Reco rds – UK) !! & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) D ECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTIONS Featuring : 50 IE Sound under the stars ! NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY !! ALL A ges EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full flyer coming out soo n EVERYWHERE !! More Detailed INFOS to be announced on this site VERY SOON !! IN TRANCE WE TRUST !The Sadhus June 8 S wedish Space Invader Will Land In DC ld’s Starscape Festival 2002 (Ft.Armistead Park, Maryland) he’s headlining the new Psytrance stage (brought to you by Psychokinetics) : SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg O n Earth – Spectral Concepts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – Brazil Wild Bil l – Psychokinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Baltimore Cyzum (ak $40 (get them in adv. b/c they WILL sell out) for more info visit w elebration May 21- June 21 now. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with u s go to June 15 Tranc e Party in Mexico! web psycraft site up May 6 “0SUMMER B is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protect ion, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perf ect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “L itha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this h oliday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the cgy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the he avens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your s oul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples als o know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His ma presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c dship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and st rength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also ca lled “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebrati ection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anythi ng that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. & nbsp;Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is a t the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for th can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo.co m 888-336-3997 l Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) “0July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Vinyl INFECTED Mushroom and TICON F “0 er Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 . Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birt hday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/grou p/SafetyDance/calendar 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 bsp;Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 n bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calen dar tember 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) F eft in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to cr the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. Wh en the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year p ays of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all t hings have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polar ity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On t d flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witche s still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and ain. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the old er ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in d season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the c haracter and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our li ves, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celeb that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and t and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however y This festival is ass ociated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the fest ivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Dependin g on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and ad d them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a hu ge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s FO Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaic a web erowid.org/mindstates/ F September 23-October 22 is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: To enter your birthday in o ur roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyD ance/calendar rday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by Eart hDance Org… Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to Junkies and Get High in the P its” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smoke s scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, th ed if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies sm oke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good placeunds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert c laws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers rin g out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a buildi like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More d isdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of P akistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life o f the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engin eer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming ad dicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by pol ice. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over t heir heads, in an open gutter. 0 Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse com ay in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/ SafetyDance/calendar 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2462 Fri, 3 May 2002 10:34:29 Fri, 3 May 2002 10:34:28 Subtlechaos at Battery Park for the Million Marijuana March I guess this clears the confusion! Last year was really full on, edgey st uff. Havoc brought their sound system and combined them with the d’s Ma ckeys. This year promises more of the same. Yep Saturday from 1pm(depen ding on the cozzers) probably get to start around 2pm till 7pm(again depen ding on the cozzers) Jason vadim gavin and jamin followed by after party at frying pan with MARK ALLEN then Sunday we have tompkin sq with BLACKKAT On Sunday and if this is Jeff u are a asshole for not staying in touch:O) Hope to see you there man E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6 E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E2 80A6E280A6 FUCK THE SYSTEM Jas on SUNBTLECHAOS / K7 RECORDS s this clears the confusion! Last year was really full on, edgey stuf f. Havoc brought their sound system and combined them with the d’s Mackeys. This year promises more of the same. Yep Saturd ay from 1pm(depending on the cozzers) probably get to start around 2p nbsp;Jason vadim gavin and jamin followed by after party at frying pan with A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6E280A6 bsFUCK THE SYSTEM bsJason SUNBTLECHAO

#2463 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:37:44 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:37:44 The Medical Marijuana March details Thanks as always to Yvonne for the info!

#2464 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:42:31 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:42:30 Israeli Day Parade Sunday Subj: For those of you joining us . . . 5/3/02 6:47:56 PM From: Golan6 at aol To: Golan6 at aol . . . in marching in the Israel Day Parade this Sunday, please meet us at 2:30 PM sharp on E.53rd St between 5th and Madison. The Israel Concert in the park begins at 3 PM. We appreciate all those of you attending printing out copies of our flyers for our May 12th Yom Ha’atzmaut party and promoting same event at the concert. thank you, YLD Board5/3/02 6:47:56 PM From: Golan6 at aol To: Golan6 at aol . . . in marching in the Israel Day Parade this Sunday, please meet us at 2:30 PM sharp on E.53rd St between 5th and Madison. The Israel Concert in the park begins at 3 PM. We appreciate all those of you attending printing out copies of our flyers for our May 12th Yom Ha’atzmaut party and promoting same event at the concert. thank you,

#2465 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:42:42 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:42:42 Fwd: [infornography] 5/4 HERE is the info on Medical Marijuana March From: Paul Gilman Saturday March 4, Medical Marijuana March this Saturday, March 4, 11:00 am the annual Cures Not Wars Medical Marijuana Parade, Ibogaine Rally Broadway & Houston, the march goes to Battery Park. there will be bands and speakers. Dana Beal Randy Credico, and myself (you’ve been warned) will be amongst the speakers. for more information: call Cures Not Wars at (212) 677 – 7180 or, web cures-not-wars.org/mmm Yvonne + yvonne at riseup.net + web infornography.org + vox: 646 321 5710 “I advocate revolutionary changes…an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.” Assata ShakurSaturday March 4, Medical Marijuana March this Saturday, March 4, 11:00 am the annual Cures Not Wars Medical Marijuana Parade, Ibogaine Rally Broadway & Houston, the march goes to Battery Park. there will be bands and speakers. Dana Beal Randy Credico, and myself (you’ve been warned) will be amongst the speakers. for more information: call Cures Not Wars at (212) 677 – 7180 or, web cures-not-wars.org/mmm Yvonne + yvonne at riseup.net + web infornography.org + vox: 646 321 5710 “I advocate revolutionary changes…an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.” Assata Shakur

#2466 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:44:51 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:44:50 And the surprise guest DJ at Tsunami tomorrow night is… Simon H, head of Twisted records. He banged it up at the last Twisted party atVinyl.

#2467 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:57:30 Fri, 3 May 2002 22:57:29 Survival Research Laboratories SUNDAY These guys do the fighting robots in the desert!! All men’s dream… Mark Pauline in person and a screening of SRL web srl.org/shows/berkeley/Berkeley Show and other short videos in New York City on Sunday, 5 May 2002 6:00pm Remotelounge 327 Bowery New York City web srl.orgMark Pauline in person and a screening of SRL web srl.org/shows/berkeley/Berkeley Show and other short videos in New York City on Sunday, 5 May 2002 6:00pm Remotelounge 327 Bowery New York City

#2468 Fri, 3 May 2002 23:29:21 Fri, 3 May 2002 23:29:21 Print this out for this whole weekend’s events There are so many I decided to put it all on a word document. Trance, marches, maydays, art openings, battling robots, boats, I am so there. The tripping volume has been set to 11 for 2 days only. If anybody actually attends every one of the attached events, then you get a special prize (use this printout with check marks as proof! who needs crystal mth! Basically from now until late Sunday there is mad craziness going on. And if you knew what I knew then you’d realize this is just a reverse Indian Summer and it’s going to get bigger the further in we go.

#2471 Mon, 6 May 2002 14:48:11 Mon, 6 May 2002 14:48:10 Zionism on Brainmachines Politics and religion… here are (anonymous) responses I got to posting Zionist oriented events on brainmachines. Thanks for reminding me that trance is apolitical but may be appropriated by MTV in Brazil or Zionists with Victory Trance or whomever. We won’t get into the Omstikas.. “this is, i believe, the second message that has been sent out to assist the organization of a pro-zionist event. despite the obvious strong connection between israelis and the trance scene (and the equally obvious fact that you send out all kinds of stuff) i’m just writing to let you know that i think its really inappropriate to use connections established through a mutual interest in trance to serve the networking of zionist events, or indeed any kind of nationalist activity. its hard to think of anything more diametrically opposed to the trance scene than nationalism, or support of military agression. maybe its just my experience, but most of the israelis i have met at trance parties would be horrified at the kind of atrocities we have witnessed in the west bank over the past month. i have been inspired by the particularly non-partisan approach that they have taken to the issue. in other words, i dont think its fair to give the list or anything to do with trance a zionist – or any kind of nationalist – flavor: zionism is not necessarily a cause that one agrees with simply by being israeli or jewish. i agree with the guy who wrote a reply to the first mailout saying that nationalism is the kind of bullshit that trance is is supposed to transcend. but of course i realize that you built up the list and should use it as you see fit. most of the time i enjoy what you send, but if you plan on continuing to send out zionist stuff, maybe you should just announce that you are now promoting 2 kinds of events, so that people like me who hate that SNIP “Since we are talking about the Israeli day parade…. It simply amazes me that such a list would include politcal messages, especially in relation to one country Israel. I guess the spirit of the events promoted on this list is lost on some of its members. But since we are at it. Since this seems to be fine, I would like to invite members who are interested in peace in the middle east to join me for a counter protest that is being held on the same day. This Sunday May 5th. The protest will take place on 5th ave, between 58th and 59th st. It will start at 10 AM. We are demonstrating for Peace in the Middle East. For a free Palestine. Against Isaeli atrocities, especially in the last month. Against the masacres in Jenin. Against the destuction of Palestinian towns. We are protesting for an end to the brutal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people which has continued since 1967. An occupation which has left millions as refugees for 35 years, killed thousands of Palestinians, and left generations of Palestinians with no hope for a better future. So many Palestinians that I know would also like to party, to dance and to focus their energies and thoughts on peace. Unfortunately when they are treated like animals, When they see their lands confiscated, their homes demolished to make way for settlers coming from overseas, when they see their brothers, sisters or friends tortured by Israeli soldiers, when they see their children shot and killed. When they see their towns demolished by Apache helicopters and tank shells. When they see all this they turn their energies and thoughts towards resistance and violance. I am sorry for this message that might be strange to most of its recipients. I understand this is not the forum for it and i don’t plan to send any more messages like this one.u But if any of you decides to join in the Israeli day parade. I hope that while you are marching, chanting, singing or dancing on Sunday that you would spare a thought for the other side of this story. For a group of defenceless people who have been dealt a very bad hand on this planet. Love and peace Max”this is, i believe, the second message that has been sent out to assist the organization of a pro-zionist event. despite the obvious strong connection between israelis and the trance scene (and the equally obvious fact that you send out all kinds of stuff) i’m just writing to let you know that i think its really inappropriate to use connections established through a mutual interest in trance to serve the networking of zionist events, or indeed any kind of nationalist activity. its hard to think of anything more diametrically opposed to the trance scene than nationalism, or support of military agression. maybe its just my experience, but most of the israelis i have met at trance parties would be horrified at the kind of atrocities we have witnessed in the west bank over the past month. i have been inspired by the particularly non-partisan approach that they have taken to the issue. in other words, i dont think its fair to give the list or anything to do with trance a zionist – or any kind of nationalist – flavor: zionism is not necessarily a cause that one agrees with simply by being israeli or jewish. i agree with the guy who wrote a reply to the first mailout saying that nationalism is the kind of bullshit that trance is is supposed to transcend. SNIP “Since we are talking about the Israeli day parade…. It simply amazes me that such a list would include politcal messages, especially in relation to one country Israel. I guess the spirit of the events promoted on this list is lost on some of its members. But since we are at it. Since this seems to be fine, I would like to invite members who are interested in peace in the middle east to join me for a counter protest that is being held on the same day. This Sunday May 5th. The protest will take place on 5th ave, between 58th and 59th st. It will start at 10 AM. We are demonstrating for Peace in the Middle East. For a free Palestine. Against Isaeli atrocities, especially in the last month. Against the masacres in Jenin. Against the destuction of Palestinian towns. We are protesting for an end to the brutal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people which has continued since 1967. An occupation which has left millions as refugees for 35 years, killed thousands of Palestinians, and left generations of Palestinians with no hope for a better future. So many Palestinians that I know would also like to party, to dance and to focus their energies and thoughts on peace. Unfortunately when they are treated like animals, When they see their lands confiscated, their homes demolished to make way for settlers coming from overseas, when they see their brothers, sisters or friends tortured by Israeli soldiers, when they see their children shot and killed. When they see their towns demolished by Apache helicopters and tank shells. When they see all this they turn their energies and thoughts towards resistance and violance. I am sorry for this message that might be strange to most of its recipients. I understand this is not the forum for it and i don’t plan to send any more messages like this one.u But if any of you decides to join in the Israeli day parade. I hope that while you are marching, chanting, singing or dancing on Sunday that you would spare a thought for the other side of this story. For a group of defenceless people who have been dealt a very bad hand on this planet. Love and peace Max

#2473 Thu, 9 May 2002 20:16:54 Thu, 9 May 2002 20:16:53 Cosmosis Saturday at Vinyl TSUNAMI BRAINMACHINES LIST INFO FOR SATURDAY moves for Saturday, May 11th back to VINYL! :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: Saturday, May 11th, 2002 COSMOSIS, live (Transient, UK) Billy is since years one of the most watched and respected trance producers in the world. He will be introducing his brandk-new material to be released in a few months, as well as some of his singature re-remixes. MUMBO-JUMBO, live (Transient, UK) Mitch and Billy wil be sterring up a storm of their famous live act. DJ sets by: BILBO BAGGINZ (Cosmosis / Mumbo-Jumbo) KUMA (Mambo-Jumbo) YONI (TSUNAMI / History of the Future) Yoni has grown in recent months into the most followed US based trance DJ) YON-E (TSUNAMI) DJ UNKNOWN Seperate ambient SHPONGLE Room. Club VINYL 6 Hubert Street (corner with Hudson Street / 3 blocks below Canal) (trains A,C,E to Canal / 1/9 to Franklin) Hours: 11.45pm till 9am Tickets: $25 in advance $30 at the door / reduced with flyer this BRAINMACHINES print-out Tickets in advance available at: HOME OF TRANCE, 122 St. Marks Place 212 477-4440 THROB, 211 East 14 Street (12/9) SATELLITE, 259 Bowery, 212 995-1744 Boston 617 536-5482 CAFFEINE, Long Island 516 797-7198 Saturday, May 18th TSUNAMI is back at the new Club SHELTER with TRANCEFORMATION! *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well the TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records in stores everywhere!:::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: (Transient, UK) Billy is since years one of the most watched and respected trance producers in the world. He will be introducing his brandk-new material to be released in a few months, as well as some of his singature re-remixes. (Transient, UK) Mitch and Billy wil be sterring up a storm of their famous live act. BILBO BAGGINZ (Cosmosis / Mumbo-Jumbo) KUMA (Mambo-Jumbo) YONI (TSUNAMI / History of the Future) Yoni has grown in recent months into the most followed US based trance DJ) YON-E (TSUNAMI) DJ UNKNOWN Seperate ambient SHPONGLE Room. Club VINYL 6 Hubert Street (corner with Hudson Street / 3 blocks below Canal) (trains A,C,E to Canal / 1/9 to Franklin) Hours: 11.45pm till 9am Tickets: $25 in advance $30 at the door / reduced with flyer this BRAINMACHINES print-out /B Tickets in advance available at: HOME OF TRANCE, 122 St. Marks Place 212 477-4440 THROB, 211 East 14 Street (12/9) SATELLITE, 259 Bowery, 212 995-1744 Boston 617 536-5482 CAFFEINE, Long Island 516 797-7198 Saturday, May 18th TSUNAMI is back at the new Club SHELTER with TRANCEFORMATION! *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well the TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records in stores everywhere!

#2474 Thu, 9 May 2002 21:13:56 Thu, 9 May 2002 21:13:55 Dennis Miller on a crack induced rant I owe that crackhead Dennis Miller money for a d/hooker deal gone bad, and I am broke so to pay him back i am forced to redistribute his crackpot bomb throwing ideas: “Dennis Miller’s rant on the Middle East crisis. You gottalove the guy.. A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don’t get it, I now offer you thestory of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don’t thank me. I’m a giver. Here we go: The Palestinians want their own country. There’s just onething about that: There are no Palestinians. It’s a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like “Wiccan,” “Palestinian” sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Beforethe Israelis won the land in war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, and there were no “Palestinians” then, and the West Bank was owned by Jordan, and there were no “Palestinians” then. As soon as the Jews took over andstarted growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the “Palestinians” weeping for their deep bond with their lost “land” and “nation.” So for the sake of honesty, let’s not use the word “Palestinian” any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they’re being taped. Instead, let’s call them what they are: “Other Arabs Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal StruggleAnd Death.” I know that’s a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: “Adjacent Jew-Haters.” Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country.Oops, just one more thing. No, they don’t. They could’ve had their own countryany time in the last thirty years, especially two years ago at Camp David. Butif you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out someway to make a living. That’s no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course-that’swhere the real fun is-but mostly they want Israel. Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel-or “The Zionist Entity” as their textbooks call it-for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they’re the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on G-d’s Earth, and if you’ve ever been aroundG-d’s Earth, you know that’s really saying somthing. It makes me roll my eyesevery time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and cultureof the Muslim Mideast. Unless I’m missing somthing, the Arabs haven’t givenanything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one. Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred millionArabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field,and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate thetiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding. My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day:Just reverse the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshalling every fiber and force at their disposal forgenerations to drive a tiny Arab state into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children – or the Arabs plotting 9/11? Disgusting. No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death. Mr. Bush, G-d bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it’s in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, that can’t be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels who’ve just had their ds taken away. However, in any big-picture strategy, there’s always adanger of losing moral weight. We’ve already lost some. After September 11 our Presidenttold us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months of having theequivalent of an Oklahoma City every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint. If America were beingattacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan. (Hey, wait a minute, that’s actually not such a bad id . . . uh, that is, what a horrible thought, yeah, horrible.”Dennis Miller’s rant on the Middle East crisis. You gottalove the guy.. A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don’t get it, I now offer you thestory of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don’t thank me. I’m a giver. Here we go: The Palestinians want their own country. There’s just onething about that: There are no Palestinians. It’s a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like “Wiccan,” “Palestinian” sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Beforethe Israelis won the land in war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, and there were no “Palestinians” then, and the West Bank was owned by Jordan, and there were no “Palestinians” then. As soon as the Jews took over andstarted growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the “Palestinians” weeping for their deep bond with their lost “land” and “nation.” So for the sake of honesty, let’s not use the word “Palestinian” any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they’re being taped. Instead, let’s call them what they are: “Other Arabs Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal StruggleAnd Death.” I know that’s a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: “Adjacent Jew-Haters.” Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country.Oops, just one more thing. No, they don’t. They could’ve had their own countryany time in the last thirty years, especially two years ago at Camp David. Butif you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out someway to make a living. That’s no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course-that’swhere the real fun is-but mostly they want Israel. Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel-or “The Zionist Entity” as their textbooks call it-for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they’re the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on G-d’s Earth, and if you’ve ever been aroundG-d’s Earth, you know that’s really saying somthing. It makes me roll my eyesevery time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and cultureof the Muslim Mideast. Unless I’m missing somthing, the Arabs haven’t givenanything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one. Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred millionArabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field,and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate thetiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding. My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day:Just reverse the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshalling every fiber and force at their disposal forgenerations to drive a tiny Arab state into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children – or the Arabs plotting 9/11? Disgusting. No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death. Mr. Bush, G-d bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it’s in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, that can’t be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels who’ve just had their ds taken away. However, in any big-picture strategy, there’s always adanger of losing moral weight. We’ve already lost some. After September 11 our Presidenttold us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful.

#2475 Fri, 10 May 2002 12:31:19 Fri, 10 May 2002 12:31:19 Give m.e. enough rope to get hanged in the Middle East I got two responses from Dennis Miller haters. Disclaimer: I am not Jewish. I tune in with the tree gods whenever I can. Both sides have been expressed in an email each on this list and I have to stop but this is my list and if I want to have a soap box politically just once please indulge me just this once, you’ll find we don’t disagree.. I’m not taking sides, but let’s be honest: it boils down to reactionary vs liberal ideologies, of which every religion has its peanut galleries… none of you would be able to do what you do in a hard core Muslim state (even a softcore secularist Turkey wouldn’t be a cake walk). We live in a predominantly Christian state and we are just barely able to do what we do. The Israelis live in a jewish state and they get away with a lot more. I know that ideally there is no predominant religion and everything could be like Amsterdam, a cosmo mecca in a Christian state, but I can’t get this out of my mind: Machinelf would last about five minutes in a hardcore Islamic nation. The Islamic struggle is infectious because it is very emotional. They’ve even got my girlfriend going. She fantasizes about living with a veil, where there is a closeness to God yadda yadda. I say, she would die from alcohol withdrawal before she got burned at the stake as a witch (and she would be) We are at a crossroads. The gay anti-immigration Dutch politician gets assasinated; he was warning about the influx of foreigners who were virulently opposed to Holland’s liberal policies. Rabbis are getting beaten on the streets. Europe is on a anti-american anti-semitic bandwagon. An even keel undergirded with principles is the only way out of this mess. I for once am in admiration of U.S. leadership. Now, the trance experience in Morocco in 2000 (thanks Amin!) proved that a way into tripping in the Middle East, or at least Noth Africa, does indeed exist. It involves getting the miltary stoned 🙂 Once that is done, we are not home free but at least have the window of opportunity to party and learn from the local peoples, whose trance and Sufi awareness gave DJ Anti a run for his money. So how can we get a big global trance movement going on with people of all colors, all stripes, all persuasions, all proclivities, all income groups? How can China and the non Israeli Middle East be infiltrated by the psychedelic mindset without being cast off like Yankee Imperialist dogs? There are myriad hash smokers who listen to Sufi music, I think the Middle East is going to come around in its own brand of trancers screaming God is Great to spiralling drum tracks and belly dancers, it has already, just without an electric plug and CD burners.. Maybe China will be the last non trance bastion… Confucius doesn’t want to be confused… Trance has sprouted everywhere else. All hail Psychedelic Imperialism!! Oh yeah, Arafat is a bisexual, i got that from a good source (left wing radical sympathetic to the Pan Arabic cause) I’m sure that given half a chance he would be in the chillout room/tent doing bumps of K wearing blinking glasses fondling whoever was around. But if anyone can find a cogent, intelligent and humorous/ironic rant similar to Dennis Miller’s that is not factually innacurate – if it exists or is even possible – i would be glad to post it! hi jeff, this has been doing the rounds on the net for the past few days, but it’s actually NOT by dennis miller web snopes2/inboxer/outrage/miller web weeklystandard/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/161yaihr.asp This is disgusting ignorant bullshit.Disclaimer: I am not Jewish. I tune in with the tree gods whenever I can. Both sides have been expressed in an email each on this list and I have to stop but this is my list and if I want to have a soap box politically just once please indulge me just this once, you’ll find we don’t disagree.. I’m not taking sides, but let’s be honest: it boils down to reactionary vs liberal ideologies, of which every religion has its peanut galleries… none of you would be able to do what you do in a hard core Muslim state (even a softcore secularist Turkey wouldn’t be a cake walk). We live in a predominantly Christian state and we are just barely able to do what we do. The Israelis live in a jewish state and they get away with a lot more. I know that ideally there is no predominant religion and everything could be like Amsterdam, a cosmo mecca in a Christian state, but I can’t get this out of my mind: Machinelf would last about five minutes in a hardcore Islamic nation. The Islamic struggle is infectious because it is very emotional. They’ve even got my girlfriend going. She fantasizes about living with a veil, where there is a closeness to God yadda yadda. I say, she would die from alcohol withdrawal before she got burned at the stake as a witch (and she would be) We are at a crossroads. The gay anti-immigration Dutch politician gets assasinated; he was warning about the influx of foreigners who were virulently opposed to Holland’s liberal policies. Rabbis are getting beaten on the streets. Europe is on a anti-american anti-semitic bandwagon. An even keel undergirded with principles is the only way out of this mess. I for once am in admiration of U.S. leadership. Now, the trance experience in Morocco in 2000 (thanks Amin!) proved that a way into tripping in the Middle East, or at least Noth Africa, does indeed exist. It involves getting the miltary stoned 🙂 Once that is done, we are not home free but at least have the window of opportunity to party and learn from the local peoples, whose trance and Sufi awareness gave DJ Anti a run for his money. So how can we get a big global trance movement going on with people of all colors, all stripes, all persuasions, all proclivities, all income groups? How can China and the non Israeli Middle East be infiltrated by the psychedelic mindset without being cast off like Yankee Imperialist dogs? There are myriad hash smokers who listen to Sufi music, I think the Middle East is going to come around in its own brand of trancers screaming God is Great to spiralling drum tracks and belly dancers, it has already, just without an electric plug and CD burners.. Maybe China will be the last non trance bastion… Confucius doesn’t want to be confused… Trance has sprouted everywhere else. All hail Psychedelic Imperialism!! Oh yeah, Arafat is a bisexual, i got that from a good source (left wing radical sympathetic to the Pan Arabic cause) I’m sure that given half a chance he would be in the chillout room/tent doing bumps of K wearing blinking glasses fondling whoever was around. But if anyone can find a cogent, intelligent and humorous/ironic rant similar to Dennis Miller’s that is not factually innacurate – if it exists or is even possible – i would be glad to post it! hi jeff, this has been doing the rounds on the net for the past few days, but it’s actually NOT by dennis miller web snopes2/inboxer/outrage/miller web weeklystandard/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/161yaihr.asp

#2476 Fri, 10 May 2002 12:50:22 Fri, 10 May 2002 12:50:21 Stanley Cohen and Psychedelic Terrorism Oh yeah, last year when i got in trouble big time with the NYPD, I interviewed with several lawyers and Stanley Cohen the “Crazy Jew” was one of them, the one who is behind the story of the fake Dennis Miller diatribe. He also represented the blind Muslim cleric who tried to blow up the Twin Towers in ’91. Even though ole Stan was well within my war chest, as was another battle hardened d lawyer, I decided on the high road, the head of the NY Criminal Bar. I figured that was a better route than someone known for defending terrorists, even though I was one by current US propaganda… Now $7500 and almost a year later I am free but still waiting on getting my possessions back. “This diatribe is actually part of a column by humorist Larry Miller which appeared in web snopes2/inboxer/outrage/ #millerThe Daily Standard on 22 April 2002. It is a reaction piece to a 10 April 2002 FOX News Network interview conducted by Greta van Susteren with Ishmael Abu-Shanab, spokesman for the Hamas political wing in the Gaza strip, and American attorney Stanley Cohen, who has represented the head of Hamas. ” 205.180.85.40/w/pc.cgi?mid11206&sid1796″This diatribe is actually part of a column by humorist Larry Miller which appeared in web snopes2/inboxer/outrage/

#2477 Fri, 10 May 2002 13:23:45 Fri, 10 May 2002 13:23:45 Turkish Trance An Israeli dude named Avi was planning on joining a trance community in Turkey last year… He spoke about the beach resorts and the fertile ground for hynotic music. I haven’t seen him since! Many speculalate that Anatolia was the cradle of civilzation. From: dreamstate78 at yahoo (kerem savasci) To: Come to Turkey, party here, and u will not believe how we party here in Istanbul buddy.From: dreamstate78 at yahoo (kerem savasci) To: Come to Turkey, party here, and u will not believe how we party here in Istanbul buddy.

#2478 Sat, 11 May 2002 17:41:02 Sat, 11 May 2002 17:41:01 Spectra May 18 with Emok from Iboga Records (Ed. note – that’s a tough night… Deeper in Zen, one of the guys on the psy-trance complation with Kent Friedman et al, is playing at Tsunami. Last weekend was good all around at both venues though. When I find out when Deeper in Zen is playing I’ll let you know. Thank God i will be on the shamanista retreat that weekend) Spectra presents…. Vision May 18th at the Frying Pan (directions below and on website) EMOK (iboga records – denmark) GAVIN (spectra, nyc/amherst) JAMIN (spectra, nyc/nantucket) ISAM (spectra) nyc/morocco Deco: Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm $20 DIRECTIONS TO THE FRYING PAN PIER 63, NORTH RIVER MANHATTAN, NY The Lightship “Frying Pan” is located at Pier 63 in Manhattan. Pier 63 is at the end of West 23rd Street at the Westside Highway on the Hudson River. It is just one pier north of the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex. The ship is located at the north end of Pier 63, behind Basketball City. Entrance by car to the access road serving Pier 63 and Chelsea Piers is made at West 24th Street and the Westside Highway. On site parking is available at additional charge. We are conveniently served by the M23 bus and the nearest subway is the C & E line at 8th Avenue and 23rd StreetSpectra presents…. Vision May 18th at the Frying Pan (directions below and on website) EMOK (iboga records – denmark) GAVIN (spectra, nyc/amherst) JAMIN (spectra, nyc/nantucket) ISAM (spectra) nyc/morocco Deco: Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm $20 DIRECTIONS TO THE FRYING PAN PIER 63, NORTH RIVER MANHATTAN, NY The Lightship “Frying Pan” is located at Pier 63 in Manhattan. Pier 63 is at the end of West 23rd Street at the Westside Highway on the Hudson River. It is just one pier north of the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex. The ship is located at the north end of Pier 63, behind Basketball City. Entrance by car to the access road serving Pier 63 and Chelsea Piers is made at West 24th Street and the Westside Highway. On site parking is available at additional charge. We are conveniently served by the M23 bus and the nearest subway is the C & E line at 8th Avenue and 23rd Street

#2479 Sat, 11 May 2002 17:56:00 Sat, 11 May 2002 17:55:59 More about Emok from Iboga Records Heis a believer in iboga, as in the curative d ibogaine. African healing psychedelic plant that cures addiction. Very heavy. Look it up. As for Emok, he and Stefan really tore up the place at Wylie’s abandoned building last year… he and some intrepid New Yorkers did a lot of preliminary demolition. Like him, his music ROCKS!

#2480 Sat, 11 May 2002 18:58:13 Sat, 11 May 2002 18:58:12 May 14 – Five planets still aligned after sunset Mercury set to exit dance of planets By Richard Stenger CNN| CNN The closest planet to the sun will soon fade from sight, but celestial watchers still have time to spot it along with all the other four naked-eye planets in a rare twilight display. For weeks to come, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will keep together in close formation shortly after sunset in Western skies. But during that time, the first planet will gradually drop from the dance, hidden by the glare of the sun, while the latter four continue moving around each other into the summer. The dancing planets form picturesque displays. On Monday, Mars, Saturn and Venus made a close-knit triangle. On Friday, Venus and Mars will hover within one-third of a degree of each other. To compare, the tip of a finger extended at arm’s length is two times as wide. Perhaps the most anticipated show comes May 14 and includes an entirely different performer. Venus will pass within a fraction of a degree of the moon. At the time the moon will appear as a slender crescent, but the dark portion will glow with “earthshine,” or sunlight reflected off our planet. The Venus-Moon duet is “a sight you will never forget,” wrote Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Planetarium, on his Web site: web jackstargazer “If you have any way of photographing this event please do so because it’s simply the kind of celestial picture that will take your breath away.” A close line-up of the five naked-eye planets like this one happens only once every generation or so. A similar planetary grouping will not take place until 2040, according to Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine. To view the show, Beatty suggests looking in the direction of where the sun sets about 45 minutes later. To see Mercury, which hangs extremely low in the sky, a clear view to the Western horizon is necessary. Binoculars can help to compensate for sun glare. CNN| CNN The closest planet to the sun will soon fade from sight, but celestial watchers still have time to spot it along with all the other four naked-eye planets in a rare twilight display. For weeks to come, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will keep together in close formation shortly after sunset in Western skies. But during that time, the first planet will gradually drop from the dance, hidden by the glare of the sun, while the latter four continue moving around each other into the summer. The dancing planets form picturesque displays. On Monday, Mars, Saturn and Venus made a close-knit triangle. On Friday, Venus and Mars will hover within one-third of a degree of each other. To compare, the tip of a finger extended at arm’s length is two times as wide. Perhaps the most anticipated show comes May 14 and includes an entirely different performer. Venus will pass within a fraction of a degree of the moon. At the time the moon will appear as a slender crescent, but the dark portion will glow with “earthshine,” or sunlight reflected off our planet. The Venus-Moon duet is “a sight you will never forget,” wrote Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Planetarium, on his Web site: web jackstargazer “If you have any way of photographing this event please do so because it’s simply the kind of celestial picture that will take your breath away.” A close line-up of the five naked-eye planets like this one happens only once every generation or so. A similar planetary grouping will not take place until 2040, according to Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine. To view the show, Beatty suggests looking in the direction of where the sun sets about 45 minutes later. To see Mercury, which hangs extremely low in the sky, a clear view to the Western horizon is necessary. Binoculars can help to compensate for sun glare.

#2481 Sat, 11 May 2002 19:46:50 Sat, 11 May 2002 19:46:50 The list is in order for Cosmosis tonight at Vinyl Give your email at the door and say Brainmachines to get $5 off… TSUNAMI BRAINMACHINES LIST INFO FOR SATURDAY moves for Saturday, May 11th back to VINYL! :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: Saturday, May 11th, 2002 COSMOSIS, live (Transient, UK) Billy is since years one of the most watched and respected trance producers in the world. He will be introducing his brandk-new material to be released in a few months, as well as some of his singature re-remixes. MUMBO-JUMBO, live (Transient, UK) Mitch and Billy wil be sterring up a storm of their famous live act. DJ sets by: BILBO BAGGINZ (Cosmosis / Mumbo-Jumbo) KUMA (Mambo-Jumbo) YONI (TSUNAMI / History of the Future) Yoni has grown in recent months into the most followed US based trance DJ) YON-E (TSUNAMI) DJ UNKNOWN Seperate ambient SHPONGLE Room. Club VINYL 6 Hubert Street (corner with Hudson Street / 3 blocks below Canal) (trains A,C,E to Canal / 1/9 to Franklin) Hours: 11.45pm till 9am Tickets: $25 in advance $30 at the door / reduced with flyer this BRAINMACHINES print-out Tickets in advance available at: HOME OF TRANCE, 122 St. Marks Place 212 477-4440 THROB, 211 East 14 Street (12/9) SATELLITE, 259 Bowery, 212 995-1744 Boston 617 536-5482 CAFFEINE, Long Island 516 797-7198 Saturday, May 18th TSUNAMI is back at the new Club SHELTER with TRANCEFORMATION! *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well the TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records in stores everywhere! :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: (Transient, UK) Billy is since years one of the most watched and respected trance producers in the world. He will be introducing his brandk-new material to be released in a few months, as well as some of his singature re-remixes. (Transient, UK) Mitch and Billy wil be sterring up a storm of their famous live act. BILBO BAGGINZ (Cosmosis / Mumbo-Jumbo) KUMA (Mambo-Jumbo) YONI (TSUNAMI / History of the Future) Yoni has grown in recent months into the most followed US based trance DJ) YON-E (TSUNAMI) DJ UNKNOWN Seperate ambient SHPONGLE Room. Club VINYL 6 Hubert Street (corner with Hudson Street / 3 blocks below Canal) (trains A,C,E to Canal / 1/9 to Franklin) Hours: 11.45pm till 9am Tickets: $25 in advance $30 at the door / reduced with flyer this BRAINMACHINES print-out /B Tickets in advance available at: HOME OF TRANCE, 122 St. Marks Place 212 477-4440 THROB, 211 East 14 Street (12/9) SATELLITE, 259 Bowery, 212 995-1744 Boston 617 536-5482 CAFFEINE, Long Island 516 797-7198 Saturday, May 18th TSUNAMI is back at the new Club SHELTER with TRANCEFORMATION! *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! SHPONGLE’s “Tales of the Inexpressible” and “Are you Shpongled?” as well the TSUNAMI compilation on KINETIC Records in stores everywhere!

#2482 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:00:57 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:00:57 Omnitribe – Flow Records – June 14 -nitribe at it again! OMNI TRIBE ..presents.. Friday June 14th, 2002 FLOW Label Party DJ Acts by Pena – Flow records, Portugal Tone factory – Flow records, Portugal FX MIKE – Omni Tribe, NY Kife – Alphatrance, NY Sh.I.K.I.D – Omni Tribe, NY – special Birthday DJ set Live Act by Faktor D – flow records, Portugal 11PM – 8AM (after-hours open-air location announced at the party) COVER: $20 at the door – FREE CD from Flow Records for the first 150 sold tickets Location: FUN-O-RAMA, 608 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Live Video Projections By YDESIGN, ATOMIC JUICE Visual Effects by Ben light-o-matic Label Link: web flow-records Directions : by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block. OMNI TRIBE ..presents.. Friday June 14th, 2002 FLOW Label Party DJ Acts by Pena – Flow records, Portugal Tone factory – Flow records, Portugal FX MIKE – Omni Tribe, NY Kife – Alphatrance, NY Sh.I.K.I.D – Omni Tribe, NY – special Birthday DJ set Live Act by Faktor D – flow records, Portugal 11PM – 8AM (after-hours open-air location announced at the party) COVER: $20 at the door – FREE CD from Flow Records for the first 150 sold tickets Location: FUN-O-RAMA, 608 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Live Video Projections By YDESIGN, ATOMIC JUICE Visual Effects by Ben light-o-matic Label Link: web flow-records Directions : by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block.

#2483 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:07:38 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:07:38 Crossing Bridges this Summer in the Balkans From: conni303 at yahoo (constanze maly) To: planet-crew Hello! Okay, about Crossing Bridges! I send to you some informations about participation in the Crossing Bridges Festival and activities during this summer. We are looking for various styles of music. For interested interested in net-working, I recommend the crossing bridges meeting in June which will take place in Pristina and Scopje. We also are koordinating a crossing bridges music floor at Expo 2002 and are looking for interested live-acts, Djs, performing artists ect. Musicstyles: Psytrance, Techno and House… Balcan Fusion Sound Systems for example Crossover between traditional and electronic music. We are checking out/koordinating several transport possibilities from the bigger cities like Zagreb, Belgrad,Scopje, Ljubljana, Peje/Pristina. On thing: Still we dont know peole involved in Partyscene and electronic music from Bosnia. Maybe you can help by forwarding this mail and informations to people you know there. so long Ciao Conni To: planet-crew

#2484 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:12:04 Mon, 13 May 2002 12:12:03 PersonalBest industry list only $25 one-time fee to join Personalbest is basically where I send all my good party info that (a) is notpsy-trance related and (b) cannot be sentout to the general public. They are usually a good “scoop” have open bar and are art- or fashion-related,sometimes industry events. The price to join used to be $50 per year, now it is $25 one-time charge.

#2485 Mon, 13 May 2002 13:59:59 Mon, 13 May 2002 13:59:58 Pschedule News Goa Gil ‘s protege Hussein from the Paraiso megaclub in Goa is in town and is avai lable for booking. Call him at 212-945-3359 Tsunami had a good old skool party at Cosmosis and Mumbo Jumbo at Vinyl last Saturday. By 2am it was p acked and it felt like old times with Astrid et al in the house. Synthet ic Sadus flyers are out with details on their awesome new location with ou tdoor chillout. Spoke with Gilles for several hours Sunday and he’s going to take it all to the next level. Wiley’s Tribeca Trance Mission will be flying its flag again very soon! Someone tell him to paint his VW van, al ready. Omnitribe has a new event on June 14th, see below. Seems like the tugboat is back with everything in order. Soular Records kicking NYC compi lation available online at web tranceam.org/soularrecords The d will be back up this year and we are recruiting. No events will be published on this list. If you attended the events for the past two y ears you know you won’t want tomiss them. To join us and be able to recei ve information on our gatherings please send $35 via paypal to Mr. Mac hine Elf, . I will be out of town the next two weekends but the Brainmachines guest list is still in effect for Tsunami and I will be here during the week. Events: May 14 – Tuesday – Mercury s et to exit dance of planets| CNN The closest planet to the sun will so on fade from sight, but celestial watchers still have time to spot it alon g with all the other four naked-eye planets in a rare twilight display. F or weeks to come, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will keep toget her in close formation shortly after sunset in Western skies. But during t hat time, the first planet will gradually drop from the dance, hidden by t he glare of the sun, while the latter four continue moving around each oth er into the summer. The dancing planets form picturesque displays. On Mond ay, Mars, Saturn and Venus made a close-knit triangle. On Friday, Venus an d Mars will hover within one-third of a degree of each other. To compare, the tip of a finger extended at arm’s length is two times as wide. Perhaps the most anticipated show comes May 14 and includes an entirely different performer. Venus will pass within a fraction of a degree of the moon. At the time the moon will appear as a slender crescent, but the dark portion will glow with “earthshine,” or sunlight reflected off our planet. The Ven us-Moon duet is “a sight you will never forget,” wrote Jack Horkheimer, di rector of the Miami Planetarium, on his Web site: web jackstargazer “If you have any way of photographing this event please do so because it’s simply the kind of celestial picture that will take your breath away .” A close line-up of the five naked-eye planets like this one happens on ly once every generation or so. A similar planetary grouping will not take place until 2040, according to Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Te lescope Magazine. To view the show, Beatty suggests looking in the direct ion of where the sun sets about 45 minutes later. To see Mercury, which ha ngs extremely low in the sky, a clear view to the Western horizon is neces sary. Binoculars can help to compensate for sun glare. Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is you r bartender. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Consider ing the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s li ke a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then they are definitely p sychedelic. – May 15 – Wed -Opium Den – 3rd between 2nd & 3rd ave. With the only NYC Muslim psy-trance DJ Isam. -May 18 – Sat 11pm-Sunday mor ning – Tsunami at Shelter with Deeper in Zen (Ed. note – that’s a tough nig ht… Deeper in Zen, one of the guys on the psy-trance complation with Ken t Friedman et al, is playing at Tsunami. Last weekend was good all arou nd at both venues though. When I find out when Deeper in Zen is playing I ‘ll let you know. Thank God i will be on the shamanista retreat that week end) 10pm-4am Spectra presents…. Vision at the Frying Pan EMOK (iboga records – denmark) GAVIN (spectra, nyc/amherst) JAMIN (spectra, nyc/nan tucket) ISAM (spectra) nyc/morocco Deco: Jamin- NYC doors at 10pm $20 w ww.spectranyc DIRECTIONS TO THE FRYING PAN PIER 63, NORTH RIVER MANHA TTAN, NY The Lightship “Frying Pan” is located at Pier 63 in Manhattan. P ier 63 is at the end of West 23rd Street at the Westside Highway on the Hu dson River. It is just one pier north of the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entert ainment Complex. The ship is located at the north end of Pier 63, behind B asketball City. Entrance by car to the access road serving Pier 63 and Che lsea Piers is made at West 24th Street and the Westside Highway. On site p arking is available at additional charge. We are conveniently served by th e M23 bus and the nearest subway is the C & E line at 8th Avenue and 23rd Street -Shamanistas Weekend Retreat -May 25 – Sat – Tsunami at Shelter Goa Gil in Brazil! Daime Tribe and Boom Festival interweave again to brin g Goa Gil Full Moon Pooja – May 25th 2002 – Brasil – SE3o Paulo By the fi rst time in south america! in a paradisic place. infos: web klatu.br – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) – June 8th Synthetic Sadhus Eat Static & Growling Mad Scientists To all tran cers, movers & groovers : The SYNTHETIC SADHUS party of Friday May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have the pleasure to anno unce that we are moving to an amazing new venue for our next event! On SAT URDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SADHUS are proud to present : TIP RECORDS LA BEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -ITALY) Live !! RAJA R AM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Growling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAEL) ! YONI (Home Of Tranc e – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) !! & SYNTHETI C SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Sy nthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND nd NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY !! ALL Ages EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full flyer coming out soon EVERYWHERE !! More Deta iled INFOS to be announced on this site VERY SOON !! IN TRANCE WE TRUST !T he Sadhus June 8 Swedish Space Invader Will Land In DC at Ultraworld’s S tarscape Festival 2002 (Ft.Armistead Park, Maryland) he’s headlining th e new Psytrance stage (brought to you by Psychokinetics): SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg On Earth – Spectral Conce pts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – Brazil Wild Bill – Psychokinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Baltimore Cyzum (aka DJ Hybrid) web eastc oasthappy $40 (get them in adv. b/c they WILL sell out) for more info visit web ultraworld.net/SS2k2traworld: web ultraworld.net SR ange: web s-range – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Y our evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celeb rate with us go to Ju ne 14 – -nitribe? June 15 Trance Party in Mexico! web psycraft site u p May 6 SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the c ng of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, be auty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “M idsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calen dar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, ene rgy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His man ifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex M agic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the herald ing of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is t he longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday wit h “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will b e the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of lig ht are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame b y the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flower ing Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and l egend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fert ility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336 -3997 -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Vinyl INFECTED Mushroom and TICON -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabb y people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDan ce/calendar -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon ) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthdaylebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebr ate with us go to Aug ust Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Tranc e festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in Califo rnia -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Mo on) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celeb ration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. T o enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to gr oups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar -“September 21 – Full Moon (Ind ian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summ er months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumna l Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around Septemb er 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Whe el of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of po larity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life . As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect w ith the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spiri ts to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is ri ch in purpose and mea ning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals co nnect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and d o magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness t hat without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most h umble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partak -e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside o urselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful a nd we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however y ou see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of c orn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hi t soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for wint er use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in you r area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decoration s. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. Whe n the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sig il of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be mad e of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Cel ebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ T o enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to – Oct 12 – Saturday – Internatio nal Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oc t 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smok e scorpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate w ith us go to Junkies a nd Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in seas on, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the s un and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him hig h. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The plawhere Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the so uthwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of roc ks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across t he city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been c oming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan p rovince, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, s ometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started dow n the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers year s ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the cente r of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious de n. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar ecli pse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birth day in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/grou p/SafetyDance/calendar – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice B in from the Paraiso megaclub in Goa is in town and is available for boo king. Call him at 212-945-3359 Tsunami had a good old skool party at Cosmosis and Mumbo Jumbo at Vinyl last Saturday. By 2 am it was packed and it felt like old times with Astrid et al in the house. Synthetic Sadus flyers are out with details on their awes ome new location with outdoor chillout. Spoke with Gilles for several hours Sunday and he’s going to take it all to the next level. Wil ey’s Tribeca Trance Mission will be flying its flag again very soon! Someone tell him to paint his VW van, already. Omnitribe has a new event on June 14th, see below. Seems like the tu gboat is back with everything in order. Soular Records kicking NYC compilation available online at web tranceam.org/so will be back up this year and we are recruiting. No events will be published on this list. If you attended the events for the past two y ears you know you won’t want tomiss them. To join us and be able to r eceive information on our gatherings please send $35 via paypal to Mr. Machine Elf, . I will be out of town th e next two weekends but the Brainmachines guest list is still in effect for Tsunami and I will be here during the week.May 14 – Tu esday – Mercury set to exit dance of planets| CNN The closest planet to the sun will soon fade from sight, but celestial watchers still have time to spot it along with all the other four naked-eye planets in a rare twilight display. For weeks to come, Mer cury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will keep together in close formation shortly after sunset in Western skies. But during that time, the first pla net will gradually drop from the dance, hidden by the glare of the sun, whi le the latter four continue moving around each other into the summer. The d ancing planets form picturesque displays. On Monday, Mars, Saturn and Venus made a close-knit triangle. On Friday, Venus and Mars will hover within on e-third of a degree of each other. To compare, the tip of a finger extended at arm’s length is two times as wide. Perhaps the most anticipated show co mes May 14 and includes an entirely different performer. Venus will pass wi thin a fraction of a degree of the moon. At the time the moon will appear a s a slender crescent, but the dark portion will glow with “earthshine,” or sunlight reflected off our planet. The Venus-Moon duet is “a sight you will never forget,” wrote Jack Horkheimer, director of the Miami Planetarium, o n his Web site: web jackstargazer “If you have any way of p hotographing this event please do so because it’s simply the kind of celest ial picture that will take your breath away.” A close line-up of the five naked-eye planets like this one happens only once every generation or so. A similar planetary grouping will not take place until 2040, according to Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine. To view the show, Beatty suggests looking in the direction of where the sun s ets about 45 minutes later. To see Mercury, which hangs extremely low in th e sky, a clear view to the Western horizon is necessary. Binoculars can hel p to compensate for sun glare. at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th stre ets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your bartender. Never crowded but the music always f ull on and new. Considering the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then FO 11pm-Sunday morn ing – Tsunami at Shelter with Deeper in Zen – that’s a tough night… Deeper in Zen, one of the guys on the psy-trance complation with Kent Friedman et al, is playing at Tsunami. &nb sp;Last weekend was good all around at both venues though. When I fin d out when Deeper in Zen is playing I’ll let you know. Thank God i wi ll be on the shamanista retreat that weekend) m-4am Spectra presents…. Vision at the Frying Pan EMOK (iboga records – denmark) GAVIN (spectra, nyc/amherst) &nbs p;JAMIN (spectra, nyc/nantucket) ISAM (spectra) nyc/morocco Deco: Jam in- NYC doors at 10pm $20 DIRECTIO NS TO THE FRYING PAN PIER 63, NORTH RIVER MANHATTAN, NY The Lightship “Frying Pan” is located at Pier 63 in Manhattan. Pier 63 is at the e nd of West 23rd Street at the Westside Highway on the Hudson River. It is j ust one pier north of the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex. The ship is located at the north end of Pier 63, behind Basketball City. E ntrance by car to the access road serving Pier 63 and Chelsea Piers is made at West 24th Street and the Westside Highway. On site parking is available at additional charge. We are conveniently served by the M23 bus and the ne arest subway is the C & E line at 8th Avenue and 23rd Street FO 0 Weekend Retreat Tribe and Boom Festival interweave again to bring Goa Gil Full Moon Pooja – May 25th 2002 – Brasil – SE3o Paulo By the first time in south america! i n a paradisic place. infos: web klatu.br ay 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/Milk Moon) ncers, movers & groovers : The SYNTHETIC SADHUS party of Friday May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have the pleasure to a our next event! On SATURDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SADHUS are proud to pre sent : TIP RECORDS LABEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STATIC (Tip Records – Mes moBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -I TALY) Live !! RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Growling M ad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAEL) ! Y ONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) !! & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPR ESSION (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTIONS Featuring : 50 Kilos nd under the stars ! NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY !! ALL Ages EV ENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full flyer coming out soon EVER YWHERE !! More Detailed INFOS to be announced on this site VERY SOON !! IN val 2002 (Ft.Armistead Park, Maryland) he’s headlining th e new Psytrance stage (brought to you by Psychokinetics): SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg On Earth – Spectral Concepts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – Brazil Wild Bill – Psychokinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Baltimore Cyzum (aka DJ Hybrid) web e adv. b/c they WILL sell out) for more info visit web ultraworld.net 21 ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To en ter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.y ahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar June 15 Trance Party in Mexico! web p sycraft site up May 6 a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Mag ic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Pete t is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight wil l be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of l ight are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is th e time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the f r is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protec tion, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the per fect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or ” Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c FO gy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the he avens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your s oul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest nce. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a on. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physic al fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Fe stival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 rawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) e 22-July 22 ible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and cele brate with us go to : Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) – Harvest Time Celebration July 23-August 22 White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your bi rthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/gr August Three-day ope n air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festiva l in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in Califor nia rgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man tember 22 ith us go to al projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun c rosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of t he harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate t the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The l aw of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their oppo sites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb an by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our n we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are bo rn, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Ever y, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to bo th the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to trans form our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritua l and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the Go e touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you se This festival is associat ed with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festiviti es. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add the m to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and p ut them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, d e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall desig ns. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for vari ous purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ ember 23-October 22 ind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somew To enter your birthday in our ro ster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ calendar – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDanc e Org… Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) FON ov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 B T o enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to grou ps.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pi ts” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, the d if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin i s like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smo nd corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale di rt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Som e, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned a nd drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical eng ineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by p olice. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay of f officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, the y say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in a n even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. / birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/ group/SafetyDance/calendar Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2486 Mon, 13 May 2002 15:36:32 Mon, 13 May 2002 15:36:32 Reponses to the Middle East emailsfrom two friends A gracious friend from Morocco who made the Morocco 2001 festival happen, a nd a Ukrainian friend, sent me this info. Dear Dad written by Sarah Shiel ds [Sarah is an associate professor of Middle East history at UNC Chapel Hi ll] wwwmondreams.org/views02/0410-01 Dear Dad, It was an en ormously heavy responsibility you raised me with. You taught me that the Je ws have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that the holocaust coul d only happen because the Germans were silent. You taught me that Jews must never, never, never be silent when injustice occurs, because our silence m akes us complicit. You taught me about history, and you taught me by your actions. As a rabbi, you preached against racism in the south, and had to l eave a pulpit in Louisiana when they threatened to kill our family. You wor ked for open housing laws, insisting that there should be no ghettos in Ame rica like the ones your parents had lived in Europe. You counseled Jewish k ids who were conscientious objectors, eliciting the hostility of many who believed that the Vietnam war was a valiant struggle for justice in our tim e. It is a heavy responsibility I carry now. Because now I am complicit. I have not stood in front of the tanks that are killing other mothers’ child ren in refugee camps. I have not ridden in ambulances to help them get past checkpoints so that the injured could be cured. I have not laid in front o f the bulldozers to prevent their destroying a family’s shelter. What can I do about this injustice? You taught me Judaism’s universal message. “I am a Jew because in all places where there are tears and suffering the Jew we eps.” I believed Edmond Fleg’s words, “I am a Jew because Israel places man and his unity above nations and above Israel itself.” Dad, we have become the oppressors. One rabbinic student told me years ago when I lived in Isr ael that this was the meaning behind the warning to remember that we were s laves in the land of Egypt. We were warned to remember, because sometimes s laves want to become masters. We are the oppressors, and we are also the v ictims. Jews are being killed, and at the same time, the moral imperative t hat you taught me was part of being Jewish seems to be vanishing. I believe that Jews are being used by an American administration to accomplish its o wn ends, ends that have nothing to do with the ideals of Jews. We need to s hout aloud that 80% of the billions that the US gives Israel in aid must be spent on weapons, and that more than half of those weapons are built in Te xas. And Jews are being used by an Israeli government that has no interest except territorial expansion. Sharon is the ideological heir to Jabotinsky. Land for peace was never in that ideology. War makes conquest possible, an d all the people of Israel and Palestine are being drawn, tragically and to gether, into that war. We must act, and we must act immediately. Jews are being used to legitimize the slaughter of Palestinians. Please, Dad, tell me how to be like you taught me to be. How do I stop being complicit? I l ove you. Sarah Shields [Sarah is an associate professor of Middle East hist ory at UNC Chapel Hill] wwwmondreams.org/views02/0410-01 – UNITED STATES writte n by Theo Simon, 2002. performed by Seize The Day . downloadable at web seizetheday.org/UnitedStates It could’ve been Manhattan on the d ay the market fell And it could’ve been a candy-store in Kandahar as well A nd she might have been a moslem, but it’s kind’ve hard to tell When your bo dy’s ground to zero and your skin’s been fried to hell So tell me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice was no t for peace, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – Just when it hit you – There’s other people hurt as much as you. And grief is no excuse for what you do. High-flyers at the corporation’s daisy-cutting edge They hold each other’s hands and plummet from the window ledge And the monitors have melted on th e coffee-deal which meant 5000 farmers wondering where their livelihood jus t went. America, my family, the whole world feels your pain And before thi s war is over, you’ll make sure we do again. Even as the tower tumbled on t hat fire-fighting team We wondered who you’d barbecue for puncturing your d ream So tell me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice does not bring peace, then it was not worth making. Seem s to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – But it still don’t it hit you – There’s other people feel as much as you . And freedom’s no excuse for what you do. I am not an Islamicist, religio n’s not my thing, But they’re friendlier than Christians and I like the way they sing, And I want my sisters free to burn the burkha if they choose Th en lie awake and calculate what weight they need to lose So tell me it’s t he war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice don’ t change the world, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – When will it hit you – There’s other people need as much as you. And greed is no excuse for what y ou do. You’re beautiful, big-hearted, and in many ways you’re free And you ‘re smart enough to get the world how you want it to be So it’s hard for me to tell you what you shouldn’t have to hear: Your nation is that terrorist most human beings fear – Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia and Nam, Cambodi a, Grenada, Chile, and Afghanistan, Palestinian and Iraqi, and some more yo u never knew – United states of people who deserved as much as you So tell me that you don’t support this war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this song of mine don’t change your heart, then it was not worth singing. But I believe you did your best, chasing life and happiness, Never wondered never guessed, how the news had been suppressed Of a never-ending killing-fest, rip the kid from the Mama’s breast, Shrapnel thru her daddy’s chest while w e’re all singing “Glory Hallelujah!” – I’m talking to ya – Somebody made a killing in your name. So take your power back, or take the blame. Theo Sim on The Solution is the Problem The US Presents Itself as the Peace-Broker in the Middle East. The Reality is Different by Noam Chomsky A year ago, the Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling observed that “wh at we feared has come true – War appears an unavoidable fate”, an “evil co lonial” war. His colleague Ze’ev Sternhell noted that the Israeli leadersh ip was now engaged in “colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by th e white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks in South Africa dur ing the apartheid era”. Both stress the obvious: there is no symmetry betw een the “ethno-national groups” in this conflict, which is centered in ter ritories that have been under harsh military occupation for 35 years. The Oslo “peace process”, begun in 1993, changed the modalities of the occupat ion, but not the basic concept. Shortly before joining the Ehud Barak gove rnment, historian Shlomo Ben-Ami wrote that “the Oslo agreements were foun ded on a neo-colonialist basis, on a life of dependence of one on the othe r forever”. He soon became an architect of the US-Israel proposals at Camp David in 2000, which kept to this condition. At the time, West Bank Pales tinians were confined to 200 scattered areas. Bill Clinton and Israeli pri me minister Barak did propose an improvement: consolidation to three canto ns, under Israeli control, virtually separated from one another and from t he fourth enclave, a small area of East Jerusalem, the center of Palestinia n communications. The fifth canton was Gaza. It is understandable that map s are not to be found in the US mainstream. Nor is their prototype, the Ba ntustan “homelands” of apartheid South Africa, ever mentioned. No one can seriously doubt that the US role will continue to be decisive. It is cruci al to understand what that role has been, and how it is internally perceiv ed. The version of the doves is presented by the editors of the New York T imes, praising President Bush’s “path-breaking speech” and the “emerging v ision” he articulated. Its first element is “ending Palestinian terrorism” immediately. Some time later comes “freezing, then rolling back, Jewish s ettlements and negotiating new borders” to allow the establishment of a Pa lestinian state. If Palestinian terror ends, Israelis will be encouraged t o “take the Arab League’s historic offer of full peace and recognition in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal more seriously”. But first Palestinian leaders must demonstrate that they are “legitimate diplomatic partners”. T he real world has little resemblance to this self-serving portrayal – virt ually copied from the 1980s, when the US and Israel were desperately seeki ng to evade PLO offers of negotiation and political settlement. In the rea l world, the primary barrier to the “emerging vision” has been, and remain s, unilateral US rejectionism. There is little new in the current “Arab Le ague’s historic offer”. It repeats the basic terms of a security council r esolution of January 1976 which called for a political settlement on the i nternationally recognized borders “with appropriate arrangements … to gu arantee … the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independ ence of all states in the area”. This was backed by virtually the entire w orld, including the Arab states and the PLO but opposed by Israel and veto ed by the US, thereby vetoing it from history. Similar initiatives have si nce been blocked by the US and mostly suppressed in public commentary. Not surprisingly, the guiding principle of the occupation has been incessant humiliation. Israeli plans for Palestinians have followed the guidelines f ormulated by Moshe Dayan, one of the Labour leaders more sympathetic to th e Palestinian plight. Thirty years ago Dayan advised the cabinet that Isra el should make it clear to refugees that “we have no solution, you shall c ontinue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave”. When challenged, he responded by citing Ben-Gurion, who said that “whoever approaches the Zionist problem from a moral aspect is not a Zionist”. He could have also cited Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, who held that the fate of the “several hundred thousand negroes” in the Jewish homeland “is a matte r of no consequence”. The Palestinians have long suffered torture, terror, destruction of property, displacement and settlement, and takeover of bas ic resources, crucially water. These policies have relied on decisive US s upport and European acquiescence. “The Barak government is leaving Sharon’ s government a surprising legacy,” the Israeli press reported as the trans ition took place: “the highest number of housing starts in the territories since Ariel Sharon was minister of construction and settlement in 1992 be fore the Oslo agreements” – funding provided by the American taxpayer. It is regularly claimed that all peace proposals have been undermined by Arab refusal to accept the existence of Israel (the facts are quite different) and by terrorists like Arafat who have forfeited “our trust”. How that t rust may be regained is explained by Edward Walker, a Clinton Middle East adviser: Arafat must announce that “we put our future and fate in the hand s of the US” – which has led the campaign to undermine Palestinian rights for 30 years. The basic problem then, as now, traces back to Washington, w hich has persistently backed Israel’s rejection of a political settlement in terms of the broad international consensus. Current modifications of US rejectionism are tactical. With plans for an attack on Iraq endangered, t he US permitted a UN resolution calling for Israeli withdrawal from the ne wly-invaded territories “without delay” – meaning “as soon as possible”, s ecretary of state Colin Powell explained at once. Powell’s arrival in Isra el was delayed to allow the Israeli Defense Force to continue its destruct ive operations, facts hard to miss and confirmed by US officials. When the current intifada broke out, Israel used US helicopters to attack civilian targets, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, hardly in self-defe nse. Clinton responded by arranging what the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz ca lled “the largest purchase of military helicopters by the Israeli Air Forc e in a decade”, along with spare parts for Apache attack helicopters. A fe w weeks later, Israel began to use US helicopters for assassinations. Thes e extended last August to the first assassination of a political leader: A bu Ali Mustafa. That passed in silence, but the reaction was quite differen t when Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze’evi was killed in retaliation. Bush is now praised for arranging the release of Arafat from his dungeon i n return for US-UK supervision of the accused assassins of Ze’evi. It is i nconceivable that there should be any effort to punish those responsible f or the Mustafa assassination. Further contributions to enhancing terror to ok place last December, when Washington again vetoed a security council re solution calling for dispatch of international monitors. Ten days earlier, the US boycotted an international conference in Geneva that once again co ncluded that the fourth Geneva convention applies to the occupied territor ies, so that many US-Israeli actions there are “grave breaches”, hence ser ious war crimes. As a “high contracting party”, the US is obligated by sol emn treaty to prosecute those responsible for such crimes, including its o wn leadership. Accordingly, all of this passes in silence. But the US has not officially withdrawn its recognition that the conventions apply to the occupied territories, or its censure of Israeli violations as the “occupy ing power”. In October 2000 the security council reaffirmed the consensus, “call[ing] on Israel, the occupying power, to abide scrupulously by its l egal obligations…” The vote was 14-0. Clinton abstained. Until such matt ers are permitted to enter mainstream discussion in the US, and their impl ications understood, it is meaningless to call for “US engagement in the p eace process”, and prospects for constructive action will remain grim. The Bush II Era: Year 1 By David A. Sprintzen February 24, 2002 {Note from ZNet: Of course Bush II is mostly known, reviled, and/or revered for reinvigorating the War on Terrorism themes that his father and Ronald Reagan sought to make central to U.S. foreign policy two decades ago, and of course for bombing Afghanistan “from rubble to dust,” while ignoring t he probable cost in the form of a million or more starved Afghan civilians . But Bush II has been busy at home also, as Sprintzen’s research makes ab undantly on field-testing of genetically engineered crops. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million. Cut $35 million in fun ding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training. Cut by 5 0% funding for research into renewable energy sources. Revoke d rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water. Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer b ilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a candidat e who would readily fire up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would- be Hispanic voters. Proposed to eliminate new marine protecti ons for the Channel Islands of California and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii. Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more e fficient cars and trucks. Suspended rules that would have str engthened the government’s ability to deny contracts to companies that vio late workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. O K’d Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oi l and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. Appointed Joh n Negroponte a high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations ambassador. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 milli on in rain forest conservation. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics, and providers of care for pe ople without insurance. Rescinded a proposal to increase publ ic access to information about the potential consequences resulting from c hemical plant accidents. Suspended rules that would require h ard rock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. Cu t $60 million from a Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America program for public housing. Proposed to eliminate a federal program (used succes sfully in Seattle) designed to help communities prepare for natural disast ers. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agree ment. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property. Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as t hey move from welfare to work. Cut a program that provided pr escription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pa ys for Viagra). Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing. Appointed Otto Reich a high-level Iran Con tra figure to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to ge t an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for cent ral air conditioners and heat pumps. Repealed workplace ergon omic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. Aban doned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas that contributes to global warming. Banned federal aid to interna tional family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds. Closed White House Office for Women’s Heal th Initiatives and Outreach. Nominated David Lauriski ex-mini ng company executive to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safe ty and Health. O.K.’d Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go fo rth with a controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts of f the coast eastern of Florida. Announced intention to open up Montana’s Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling. Proposed re-drawing the boundaries of national monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling “outside” of national monuments. Gutted the White House AIDS Office. Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate safeguards for the environme nt and workers’ rights. Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association on federal judiciary appointments. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior. Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environment al Quality. Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services prog ram. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen -led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wil derness. Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell r esearch projects. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor d users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium slag heap in Utah. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government’s tob acco company lawsuit. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to a handful of the wealthiest of Americans. Sig ned a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file fo r bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills. Sel ected as his Vice President a man who said on Meet the Press, “If you want to do somthing about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build n uclear power plants.” Appointed Diana (“There is no gender ga p in pay”) Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. Appointe d Kay Cole James an opponent of affirmative action to direct the Office of Personnel Management. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards. Proposed elimination of the “Reading is Fundamental” program th at gives free books to poor children. Is pushing for developm ent of small nuclear weapons to attack deeply buried targets; which weapon s would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Proposes t o nominate Jeffrey Sutton attorney responsible for the recent case weakeni ng the Americans with Disabilities Act to federal appeals court judgeship. Proposes to reverse regulations protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. Eliminated funding for the “We the People” education program which taught schoolchild ren about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship. Appointed John Bolton who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the U.N . to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Nominated Linda Fisher an executive with Monsanto to the num ber two slot at the Environmental Protection Agency. Nominate d Michael McConnell leading critic of the doctrine of separation of church and state to a federal judgeship. Nominated Terrence Boyle a rdent opponent of civil rights to a federal judgeship. Cancel ed 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high-mileage cars. Nominated Harvey Pitts lawyer for teen sex video distributor to head EC. Nominated John Walters strong opponent of prison d treatment programs to be d Czar. Nominated J. Steven Giles an oil and coal lobbyist to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Nominated Bennett Raley who advocates repealing the Endangered Species act to be Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves during WWII. Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and d abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not secular equival ents. Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program f or low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills. Nominated Ted Olson who has repeatedly lied about his involvement wit h the Scaiffe-funded “Arkansas Project” to bring down Bill Clinton to be S olicitor General. Nominated Terrance Boyle foe of civil right s to a federal judgeship. Proposes to ease permit process inc luding environmental considerations for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectri c dam construction. Proposes to give government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for power lines. Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable energ y come from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildli fe Reserve. Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck, and appointed a timber industry lobbyist As President Bush toured Asia la st week, some world leaders worried publicly that the war on terrorism was starting to look suspiciously like the last great American campaign E2 8094 against Communism.It is hard to miss the cold war echoes. Once agai n America’s allies are being told that the world is divided starkly into z ones of good and evil, darkness and light, and that “the United States and only the United States can see this effort through to victory,” as Vice P resident Dick Cheney told a gathering at the Council on Foreign Relations two weeks ago.America’s discovery of an enemy who is not merely an enemy, but “evil,” has impeccable historical credentials. In a long history of re sponding to real and perceived threats, it seems clear that this large, he terogenous country defines itself in part through its nemeses.The language Mr. Bush and others have used to describe Al Qaeda terrorists sometimes s ounds as though it could have been written by Cotton Mather. Ever since the Puritans arrived in New England, civic and political leaders have often issued the same warning: sinister conspirators are spreading invisibly thr ough the land, a cabal of evil and dangerous men who are bent on subvertin g this shining city on a hill. As Attorney General John Ashcroft put it re cently: “A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world . Civilization cannot afford to ignore the wrongs that have been done.”Thi s is by no means to suggest that the terrorists who struck on Sept. 11, or who kidnapped and murdered the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, aren’t evil, or that it is not necessary to say so. But when the nation’s enemies are used as highly emotional political symbols, it becomes easy t o lose touch with the reality of their acts and motives E28094 and thus fail to better understand how to defeat or influence them. It is not hard to see in Mr. Ashcroft’s language traces of what the historian Richard Hof stadter famously described as “the paranoid style in American politics.” I n this regard, the frequent portrayal of the Sept. 11 terrorists as both m ore and less than human, a blend of supreme cunning and radical evil, clos ely resembles the way Americans were taught to regard the Japanese during World War II.”We tend to see them as supermen or barbarians, but never hum an like ourselves,” John W. Dower, a historian at the Massachusetts Instit ute of Technology and author of “War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.” After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese E28094 who had until then been seen by Americans as “little men” in every sense E2 8094 became terrifying supermen, Professor Dower said. “It’s quite simil ar to the terrorists: before 9/11 they were seen as incapable of pulling o ff anything sophisticated, and now we figure they can do anything, at any time.”And to the extent that those enemies are seen as evil, America can r egard itself as good, a desire rooted in the Puritan vision of establishin g a new Eden in a fallen world. While all nations regard their causes as j ust, and all demonize their enemies, the combination of American might and its longstanding self-image as uniquely virtuous irritates even its allie s. Europeans, for example, have largely tended to use more pragmatic langu age and embrace realpolitik in foreign policy matters. “Why has that phras e, ‘axis of evil,’ crystallized so much anti-American sentiment around the world?” Professor Dower said. “Because the country sees itself as nothing but good and innocent, and that infuriates people.”It is an outlook roote d in two distinctive American traditions, said Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University. The country’s religious roots and its continuing high level of religious faith make Americans more likely to see enemies not ju st as opponents but as evil. Linked to that is the belief that America is the world’s last best hope of liberty, so that those who oppose America be come the enemies of freedom.In the 1770’s, colonial pamphleteers described King George III of England as a vicious tyrant who was secretly spreading Catholicism in the land, said Edmund S. Morgan, a professor emeritus of h istory at Yale University. But by the late 1790’s, America had turned on t he French, their former allies against the British, and were calling them underground papists too, “devil-like creatures and the most abominable wic ked people,” according to one newspaper account. Those fears of foreign in fluence helped lead to a crackdown on civil liberties as far back as the A lien and Sedition Acts, passed in 1798. They allowed for the deportation o f suspicious foreigners and barred the publication of ungrounded or malici ous attacks on the president or Congress.In the 1830’s, the popular Protes tant preacher Lyman Beecher warned against Catholic subversion, in a strai n that was to be repeated throughout the century: “Three-fourths of the fo reign emigrants whose accumulating tide is rolling in upon us, are, through the medium of their religion and priesthood, entirely accessible to the control of the potentates of Europe, as if they were an army of soldiers, enlisted and officered, and spreading through the land.”LATER, the country reacted similarly to the “red scare” prompted by a terrorist bombing of A ttorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home in 1919. Federal agents arrested 6,000 immigrants. None were convicted, but more than 500 were deported for their political associations. One visiting British journalist wrote that the nation in 1919 “was hag-ridden by the specter of Bolshevism. It was li ke a sleeper in a nightmare, enveloped by a thousand phantoms of destructi on.”And of course, the 1950’s brought the renewed Communist menace, “a con spiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man,” in the words of Senator Joseph McCarthy.The McCarthy yea rs in some ways were eerily similar to the present moment. For example, Sa muel Stouffer, a Harvard sociologist doing research on attitudes toward Co mmunism in the early 1950’s, found a generalized anxiety that the country was under attack by unseen enemies bent on global domination. “All the pla ne wrecks we have E28094 there couldn’t be that many without a reason,” said one of Professor Stouffer’s respondents, a Pennsylvania housewife. ” He had a foreign camera and took so many pictures of the New York bridges, ” another woman said about a neighbor she found suspicious.There are of co urse crucial differences between Al Qaeda and the Soviets, who represented a much broader military and political threat but did not practice terrori sm against American civilians. And the added vigilance of recent months ma y well have prevented other attacks. But it remains true that like the ter rorists today, and the Catholics in the 19th century, Communists were ofte n conceived as moral monsters whose deviousness and unwavering dedication to their faith made them capable of almost anything. Whittaker Chambers, w ho saw in Communism “the concentrated evil of our time,” wrote in his sic cold war memoir, “Witness”: “Their power, whose nature baffles the res t of the world, because in large measure the rest of the world has lost th at power, is the power to hold convictions and act on them. It is the same power that moves mountains; it is also an unfailing power to move men.”In one sense, the discovery of a new source of “concentrated evil” comes as somthing of a relief, said John Gaddis, a professor of political science at Yale University who has been discussing the cold war parallel with his students since Sept. 11. “All of a sudden there’s somthing worse than Ame rican hegemony out there,” he said. “That throws a new light on complaints about American unilateralism, and makes it easier for us to act internati onally.”Others worry that this new fight will carry a heavy price. “The na rrowing of dissent that occurred during the McCarthy period seems to be re curring now,” “It is an unfortunate recurring pattern in American history, ” Professor Foner said. “We have a tendency in times of war to adopt a Man ichaean vision … More at NYT “A Nation Defined by its Enemies” 2/24/ 02 2001 festival happen, and a Ukrainian friend, sent me this info. D ear Dad written by Sarah Shields [Sarah is an associate professor of Mi ddle East history at UNC Chapel Hill] wwwmondreams.org/v iews02/0410-01 Dear Dad, It was an enormously heavy respon sibility you raised me with. You taught me that the Jews have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that the holocaust could only ha ppen because the Germans were silent. You taught me that Jews must neve r, never, never be silent when injustice occurs, because our silenc e makes us complicit. You taught me about history, and you taught me by your actions. As a rabbi, you preached against racism in the south, and had to leave a pulpit in Louisiana when they threatened to k ill our family. You worked for open housing laws, insisting that there should be no ghettos in America like the ones your parents had live d in Europe. You counseled Jewish kids who were conscientious obj ectors, eliciting the hostility of many who believed that the Vietnam w ar was a valiant struggle for justice in our time. It is a hea vy responsibility I carry now. Because now I am complicit. I have not s tood in front of the tanks that are killing other mothers’ children in refugee camps. I have not ridden in ambulances to help them get pas t checkpoints so that the injured could be cured. I have not laid in fr ont of the bulldozers to prevent their destroying a family’s shelter. What can I do about this injustice? You taught me Judaism’s uni versal message. “I am a Jew because in all places where there are tears and suffering the Jew weeps.” I believed Edmond Fleg’s words, “I a m a Jew because Israel places man and his unity above nations and above Israel itself.” Dad, we have become the oppressors. One rabbinic student told me years ago when I lived in Israel that this was the meaning behind the warning to remember that we were slaves in the land of Egypt. We were warned to remember, because sometimes slaves want to become masters. We are the oppressors, and we are also the vic tims. Jews are being killed, and at the same time, the moral impera tive that you taught me was part of being Jewish seems to be vanishing. I believe that Jews are being used by an American administration to ac complish its own ends, ends that have nothing to do with the ideals of Jews. We need to shout aloud that 80% of the billions that the US g ives Israel in aid must be spent on weapons, and that more than half of those weapons are built in Texas. And Jews are being used by an Is raeli government that has no interest except territorial expansion. Sha ron is the ideological heir to Jabotinsky. Land for peace was never in that ideology. War makes conquest possible, and all the people of I srael and Palestine are being drawn, tragically and together, into that war. We must act, and we must act immediately. Jews are being used to legitimize the slaughter of Palestinians. Please, D ad, tell me how to be like you taught me to be. How do I stop being complicit? I love you. Sarah Shields [Sarah is an associa te professor of Middle East history at UNC Chapel Hill] web commondreams.org/views02/0410-01 UNITED STATES written by Theo Simon 2002. performed by Seize The Day . downloadable at web seizetheday.org/UnitedStates It could’ve been Manhattan on the day the market fell And it could’ve been a candy-store in Kandahar as well And she might have been a moslem, but it’s kind’ve hard to tell When your body’s ground to zero and your skin’s been fried to hell So tell me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice was not for peace, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hor net-nest that bit you – Just when it hit you – There’s other pe ople hurt as much as you. And grief is no excuse for what you do. High-flyers at the corporation’s daisy-cutting edge They hold each other’s hands and plummet from the window ledge And the monitors ha ve melted on the coffee-deal which meant 5000 farmers wondering whe re their livelihood just went. America, my family, the whole w orld feels your pain And before this war is over, you’ll make sure we d o again. Even as the tower tumbled on that fire-fighting team W e wondered who you’d barbecue for puncturing your dream So tel l me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice does not bring peace, then it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – But it still don’t it hit you – There’s other people feel as much as you. And freedom’s no excuse for what you do. I am not an Islamicist, religion’s not my thing, But they’re friendlie r than Christians and I like the way they sing, And I want my siste rs free to burn the burkha if they choose Then lie awake and calcul ate what weight they need to lose So tell me it’s the war to e nd all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice don’t c hange the world, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – When w ill it hit you – There’s other people need as much as you. And gree d is no excuse for what you do. You’re beautiful, big-hearted, and in many ways you’re free And you’re smart enough to get the world how you want it to be So it’s hard for me to tell you what you shouldn’t have to hear: Your nation is that terrorist most human be ings fear – Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia and Nam, Cambodia, Gre nada, Chile, and Afghanistan, Palestinian and Iraqi, and some more you never knew – United states of people who deserved as much as you So tell me that you don’t support this war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this song of mine don’t change your heart, then it was not worth singing. But I believe you did your best, chasing life and h appiness, Never wondered never guessed, how the news had been suppr essed Of a never-ending killing-fest, rip the kid from the Mama’s b reast, Shrapnel thru her daddy’s chest while we’re all singing “Glo ry Hallelujah!” – I’m talking to ya – Somebody made a killing in yo ur name. So take your power back, or take the blame. Theo Simo n The US Presents Itself as the Peace-Broker in the Middle East. The Realit y is Different ling observed that “what we feared has come true – War appears an unavoidab le fate”, an “evil colonial” war. His colleague Ze’ev Sternhell noted that the Israeli leadership was now engaged in “colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by the white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks i n South Africa during the apartheid era”. Both stress the obvious: there is no symmetry between the “ethno-national groups” in this conflict, which is centered in territories that have been under harsh military occupation for 35 years. The Oslo “peace process”, begun in 1993, changed the modalities of the occupation, but not the basic concept. Shortly before joining the Eh ud Barak government, historian Shlomo Ben-Ami wrote that “the Oslo agreemen ts were founded on a neo-colonialist basis, on a life of dependence of one on the other forever”. He soon became an architect of the US-Israel proposa ls at Camp David in 2000, which kept to this condition. At the time, West B ank Palestinians were confined to 200 scattered areas. Bill Clinton and Isr aeli prime minister Barak did propose an improvement: consolidation to thre e cantons, under Israeli control, virtually separated from one another and from the fourth enclave, a small area of East Jerusalem, the center of Pale stinian communications. The fifth canton was Gaza. It is understandable tha t maps are not to be found in the US mainstream. Nor is their prototype, th e Bantustan “homelands” of apartheid South Africa, ever mentioned. No one c an seriously doubt that the US role will continue to be decisive. It is cru cial to understand what that role has been, and how it is internally percei ved. The version of the doves is presented by the editors of the New York T imes, praising President Bush’s “path-breaking speech” and the “emerging vi sion” he articulated. Its first element is “ending Palestinian terrorism” i mmediately. Some time later comes “freezing, then rolling back, Jewish sett lements and negotiating new borders” to allow the establishment of a Palest inian state. If Palestinian terror ends, Israelis will be encouraged to “ta ke the Arab League’s historic offer of full peace and recognition in exchan ge for an Israeli withdrawal more seriously”. But first Palestinian leaders must demonstrate that they are “legitimate diplomatic partners”. The real world has little resemblance to this self-serving portrayal – virtually cop ied from the 1980s, when the US and Israel were desperately seeking to evad e PLO offers of negotiation and political settlement. In the real world, th e primary barrier to the “emerging vision” has been, and remains, unilatera l US rejectionism. There is little new in the current “Arab League’s histor ic offer”. It repeats the basic terms of a security council resolution of J anuary 1976 which called for a political settlement on the internationally recognized borders “with appropriate arrangements … to guarantee … the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all state s in the area”. This was backed by virtually the entire world, including th e Arab states and the PLO but opposed by Israel and vetoed by the US, there by vetoing it from history. Similar initiatives have since been blocked by the US and mostly suppressed in public commentary. Not surprisingly, the gu iding principle of the occupation has been incessant humiliation. Israeli p lans for Palestinians have followed the guidelines formulated by Moshe Daya n, one of the Labour leaders more sympathetic to the Palestinian plight. Th irty years ago Dayan advised the cabinet that Israel should make it clear t o refugees that “we have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave”. When challenged, he responded by citing Ben -Gurion, who said that “whoever approaches the Zionist problem from a moral aspect is not a Zionist”. He could have also cited Chaim Weizmann, first p resident of Israel, who held that the fate of the “several hundred thousand negroes” in the Jewish homeland “is a matter of no consequence”. The Pales tinians have long suffered torture, terror, destruction of property, displa cement and settlement, and takeover of basic resources, crucially water. Th ese policies have relied on decisive US support and European acquiescence. “The Barak government is leaving Sharon’s government a surprising legacy,” the Israeli press reported as the transition took place: “the highest numbe r of housing starts in the territories since Ariel Sharon was minister of c onstruction and settlement in 1992 before the Oslo agreements” – funding pr ovided by the American taxpayer. It is regularly claimed that all peace pro posals have been undermined by Arab refusal to accept the existence of Isra el (the facts are quite different), and by terrorists like Arafat who have forfeited “our trust”. How that trust may be regained is explained by Edwar d Walker, a Clinton Middle East adviser: Arafat must announce that “we put our future and fate in the hands of the US” – which has led the campaign to undermine Palestinian rights for 30 years. The basic problem then, as now, traces back to Washington, which has persistently backed Israel’s rejectio n of a political settlement in terms of the broad international consensus. Current modifications of US rejectionism are tactical. With plans for an at tack on Iraq endangered, the US permitted a UN resolution calling for Israe li withdrawal from the newly-invaded territories “without delay” – meaning “as soon as possible”, secretary of state Colin Powell explained at once. P owell’s arrival in Israel was delayed to allow the Israeli Defense Force to continue its destructive operations, facts hard to miss and confirmed by U S officials. When the current intifada broke out, Israel used US helicopter s to attack civilian targets, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, hardly in self-defense. Clinton responded by arranging what the Israeli new spaper Ha’aretz called “the largest purchase of military helicopters by the Israeli Air Force in a decade”, along with spare parts for Apache attack h elicopters. A few weeks later, Israel began to use US helicopters for assas sinations. These extended last August to the first assassination of a polit ical leader: Abu Ali Mustafa. That passed in silence, but the reaction was quite different when Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze’evi was killed in retaliation. Bush is now praised for arranging the release of Arafat from h is dungeon in return for US-UK supervision of the accused assassins of Ze’e vi. It is inconceivable that there should be any effort to punish those res ponsible for the Mustafa assassination. Further contributions to enhancing terror took place last December, when Washington again vetoed a security co uncil resolution calling for dispatch of international monitors. Ten days e arlier, the US boycotted an international conference in Geneva that once ag ain concluded that the fourth Geneva convention applies to the occupied ter ritories, so that many US-Israeli actions there are “grave breaches”, hence serious war crimes. As a “high contracting party”, the US is obligated by solemn treaty to prosecute those responsible for such crimes, including its own leadership. Accordingly, all of this passes in silence. But the US has not officially withdrawn its recognition that the conventions apply to the occupied territories, or its censure of Israeli violations as the “occupyi ng power”. In October 2000 the security council reaffirmed the consensus, ” call[ing] on Israel, the occupying power, to abide scrupulously by its lega l obligations…” The vote was 14-0. Clinton abstained. Until such matters are permitted to enter mainstream discussion in the US, and their implicati ons understood, it is meaningless to call for “US engagement in the peace p rocess”, and prospects for constructive action will remain grim. te from ZNet: Of course Bush II is mostly known, reviled, and/or revered fo r reinvigorating the War on Terrorism themes that his father and Ronald Rea gan sought to make central to U.S. foreign policy two decades ago, and of c ourse for bombing Afghanistan “from rubble to dust,” while ignoring the pro bable cost in the form of a million or more starved Afghan civilians. But B ush II has been busy at home also, as Sprintzen’s research makes abundantly ederal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking perso ns. This, from a candidate who would readily fire up his Spanish-speaking s ew marine protections for the Channel Islands of California and the coral r rengthened the government’s ability to deny contracts to companies that vio nterior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state offic ials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and g high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations ambassador.”0Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million in rain forest conse tals, clinics, and providers of care for people without insurance. F scinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the poten rules that would require hard rock miners to clean up sites on Western publ ed successfully in Seattle) designed to help communities prepare for natura ogram to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare Otto Reich a high-level Iran Contra figure to Assistant Secretary of State in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.cinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations fo mpaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas that contribu

#2487 Mon, 13 May 2002 15:46:24 Mon, 13 May 2002 15:46:24 So that’s it – no more off-topic Middle East postings I just wish it would all go away so that all the Israelis will come back to New York. Our scene can barely survive without them.

#2488 Mon, 13 May 2002 15:46:58 Mon, 13 May 2002 15:46:58 Reponses to the Middle East emailsfrom two friends A gracious friend from Morocco who made the Morocco 2001 festival happen, a nd a Ukrainian friend, sent me this info. Dear Dad written by Sarah Shiel ds [Sarah is an associate professor of Middle East history at UNC Chapel Hi ll] wwwmondreams.org/views02/0410-01 Dear Dad, It was an en ormously heavy responsibility you raised me with. You taught me that the Je ws have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that the holocaust coul d only happen because the Germans were silent. You taught me that Jews must never, never, never be silent when injustice occurs, because our silence m akes us complicit. You taught me about history, and you taught me by your actions. As a rabbi, you preached against racism in the south, and had to l eave a pulpit in Louisiana when they threatened to kill our family. You wor ked for open housing laws, insisting that there should be no ghettos in Ame rica like the ones your parents had lived in Europe. You counseled Jewish k ids who were conscientious objectors, eliciting the hostility of many who believed that the Vietnam war was a valiant struggle for justice in our tim e. It is a heavy responsibility I carry now. Because now I am complicit. I have not stood in front of the tanks that are killing other mothers’ child ren in refugee camps. I have not ridden in ambulances to help them get past checkpoints so that the injured could be cured. I have not laid in front o f the bulldozers to prevent their destroying a family’s shelter. What can I do about this injustice? You taught me Judaism’s universal message. “I am a Jew because in all places where there are tears and suffering the Jew we eps.” I believed Edmond Fleg’s words, “I am a Jew because Israel places man and his unity above nations and above Israel itself.” Dad, we have become the oppressors. One rabbinic student told me years ago when I lived in Isr ael that this was the meaning behind the warning to remember that we were s laves in the land of Egypt. We were warned to remember, because sometimes s laves want to become masters. We are the oppressors, and we are also the v ictims. Jews are being killed, and at the same time, the moral imperative t hat you taught me was part of being Jewish seems to be vanishing. I believe that Jews are being used by an American administration to accomplish its o wn ends, ends that have nothing to do with the ideals of Jews. We need to s hout aloud that 80% of the billions that the US gives Israel in aid must be spent on weapons, and that more than half of those weapons are built in Te xas. And Jews are being used by an Israeli government that has no interest except territorial expansion. Sharon is the ideological heir to Jabotinsky. Land for peace was never in that ideology. War makes conquest possible, an d all the people of Israel and Palestine are being drawn, tragically and to gether, into that war. We must act, and we must act immediately. Jews are being used to legitimize the slaughter of Palestinians. Please, Dad, tell me how to be like you taught me to be. How do I stop being complicit? I l ove you. Sarah Shields [Sarah is an associate professor of Middle East hist ory at UNC Chapel Hill] wwwmondreams.org/views02/0410-01 – UNITED STATES writte n by Theo Simon, 2002. performed by Seize The Day . downloadable at web seizetheday.org/UnitedStates It could’ve been Manhattan on the d ay the market fell And it could’ve been a candy-store in Kandahar as well A nd she might have been a moslem, but it’s kind’ve hard to tell When your bo dy’s ground to zero and your skin’s been fried to hell So tell me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice was no t for peace, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – Just when it hit you – There’s other people hurt as much as you. And grief is no excuse for what you do. High-flyers at the corporation’s daisy-cutting edge They hold each other’s hands and plummet from the window ledge And the monitors have melted on th e coffee-deal which meant 5000 farmers wondering where their livelihood jus t went. America, my family, the whole world feels your pain And before thi s war is over, you’ll make sure we do again. Even as the tower tumbled on t hat fire-fighting team We wondered who you’d barbecue for puncturing your d ream So tell me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice does not bring peace, then it was not worth making. Seem s to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – But it still don’t it hit you – There’s other people feel as much as you . And freedom’s no excuse for what you do. I am not an Islamicist, religio n’s not my thing, But they’re friendlier than Christians and I like the way they sing, And I want my sisters free to burn the burkha if they choose Th en lie awake and calculate what weight they need to lose So tell me it’s t he war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice don’ t change the world, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – When will it hit you – There’s other people need as much as you. And greed is no excuse for what y ou do. You’re beautiful, big-hearted, and in many ways you’re free And you ‘re smart enough to get the world how you want it to be So it’s hard for me to tell you what you shouldn’t have to hear: Your nation is that terrorist most human beings fear – Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia and Nam, Cambodi a, Grenada, Chile, and Afghanistan, Palestinian and Iraqi, and some more yo u never knew – United states of people who deserved as much as you So tell me that you don’t support this war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this song of mine don’t change your heart, then it was not worth singing. But I believe you did your best, chasing life and happiness, Never wondered never guessed, how the news had been suppressed Of a never-ending killing-fest, rip the kid from the Mama’s breast, Shrapnel thru her daddy’s chest while w e’re all singing “Glory Hallelujah!” – I’m talking to ya – Somebody made a killing in your name. So take your power back, or take the blame. Theo Sim on The Solution is the Problem The US Presents Itself as the Peace-Broker in the Middle East. The Reality is Different by Noam Chomsky A year ago, the Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling observed that “wh at we feared has come true – War appears an unavoidable fate”, an “evil co lonial” war. His colleague Ze’ev Sternhell noted that the Israeli leadersh ip was now engaged in “colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by th e white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks in South Africa dur ing the apartheid era”. Both stress the obvious: there is no symmetry betw een the “ethno-national groups” in this conflict, which is centered in ter ritories that have been under harsh military occupation for 35 years. The Oslo “peace process”, begun in 1993, changed the modalities of the occupat ion, but not the basic concept. Shortly before joining the Ehud Barak gove rnment, historian Shlomo Ben-Ami wrote that “the Oslo agreements were foun ded on a neo-colonialist basis, on a life of dependence of one on the othe r forever”. He soon became an architect of the US-Israel proposals at Camp David in 2000, which kept to this condition. At the time, West Bank Pales tinians were confined to 200 scattered areas. Bill Clinton and Israeli pri me minister Barak did propose an improvement: consolidation to three canto ns, under Israeli control, virtually separated from one another and from t he fourth enclave, a small area of East Jerusalem, the center of Palestinia n communications. The fifth canton was Gaza. It is understandable that map s are not to be found in the US mainstream. Nor is their prototype, the Ba ntustan “homelands” of apartheid South Africa, ever mentioned. No one can seriously doubt that the US role will continue to be decisive. It is cruci al to understand what that role has been, and how it is internally perceiv ed. The version of the doves is presented by the editors of the New York T imes, praising President Bush’s “path-breaking speech” and the “emerging v ision” he articulated. Its first element is “ending Palestinian terrorism” immediately. Some time later comes “freezing, then rolling back, Jewish s ettlements and negotiating new borders” to allow the establishment of a Pa lestinian state. If Palestinian terror ends, Israelis will be encouraged t o “take the Arab League’s historic offer of full peace and recognition in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal more seriously”. But first Palestinian leaders must demonstrate that they are “legitimate diplomatic partners”. T he real world has little resemblance to this self-serving portrayal – virt ually copied from the 1980s, when the US and Israel were desperately seeki ng to evade PLO offers of negotiation and political settlement. In the rea l world, the primary barrier to the “emerging vision” has been, and remain s, unilateral US rejectionism. There is little new in the current “Arab Le ague’s historic offer”. It repeats the basic terms of a security council r esolution of January 1976 which called for a political settlement on the i nternationally recognized borders “with appropriate arrangements … to gu arantee … the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independ ence of all states in the area”. This was backed by virtually the entire w orld, including the Arab states and the PLO but opposed by Israel and veto ed by the US, thereby vetoing it from history. Similar initiatives have si nce been blocked by the US and mostly suppressed in public commentary. Not surprisingly, the guiding principle of the occupation has been incessant humiliation. Israeli plans for Palestinians have followed the guidelines f ormulated by Moshe Dayan, one of the Labour leaders more sympathetic to th e Palestinian plight. Thirty years ago Dayan advised the cabinet that Isra el should make it clear to refugees that “we have no solution, you shall c ontinue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave”. When challenged, he responded by citing Ben-Gurion, who said that “whoever approaches the Zionist problem from a moral aspect is not a Zionist”. He could have also cited Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, who held that the fate of the “several hundred thousand negroes” in the Jewish homeland “is a matte r of no consequence”. The Palestinians have long suffered torture, terror, destruction of property, displacement and settlement, and takeover of bas ic resources, crucially water. These policies have relied on decisive US s upport and European acquiescence. “The Barak government is leaving Sharon’ s government a surprising legacy,” the Israeli press reported as the trans ition took place: “the highest number of housing starts in the territories since Ariel Sharon was minister of construction and settlement in 1992 be fore the Oslo agreements” – funding provided by the American taxpayer. It is regularly claimed that all peace proposals have been undermined by Arab refusal to accept the existence of Israel (the facts are quite different) and by terrorists like Arafat who have forfeited “our trust”. How that t rust may be regained is explained by Edward Walker, a Clinton Middle East adviser: Arafat must announce that “we put our future and fate in the hand s of the US” – which has led the campaign to undermine Palestinian rights for 30 years. The basic problem then, as now, traces back to Washington, w hich has persistently backed Israel’s rejection of a political settlement in terms of the broad international consensus. Current modifications of US rejectionism are tactical. With plans for an attack on Iraq endangered, t he US permitted a UN resolution calling for Israeli withdrawal from the ne wly-invaded territories “without delay” – meaning “as soon as possible”, s ecretary of state Colin Powell explained at once. Powell’s arrival in Isra el was delayed to allow the Israeli Defense Force to continue its destruct ive operations, facts hard to miss and confirmed by US officials. When the current intifada broke out, Israel used US helicopters to attack civilian targets, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, hardly in self-defe nse. Clinton responded by arranging what the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz ca lled “the largest purchase of military helicopters by the Israeli Air Forc e in a decade”, along with spare parts for Apache attack helicopters. A fe w weeks later, Israel began to use US helicopters for assassinations. Thes e extended last August to the first assassination of a political leader: A bu Ali Mustafa. That passed in silence, but the reaction was quite differen t when Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze’evi was killed in retaliation. Bush is now praised for arranging the release of Arafat from his dungeon i n return for US-UK supervision of the accused assassins of Ze’evi. It is i nconceivable that there should be any effort to punish those responsible f or the Mustafa assassination. Further contributions to enhancing terror to ok place last December, when Washington again vetoed a security council re solution calling for dispatch of international monitors. Ten days earlier, the US boycotted an international conference in Geneva that once again co ncluded that the fourth Geneva convention applies to the occupied territor ies, so that many US-Israeli actions there are “grave breaches”, hence ser ious war crimes. As a “high contracting party”, the US is obligated by sol emn treaty to prosecute those responsible for such crimes, including its o wn leadership. Accordingly, all of this passes in silence. But the US has not officially withdrawn its recognition that the conventions apply to the occupied territories, or its censure of Israeli violations as the “occupy ing power”. In October 2000 the security council reaffirmed the consensus, “call[ing] on Israel, the occupying power, to abide scrupulously by its l egal obligations…” The vote was 14-0. Clinton abstained. Until such matt ers are permitted to enter mainstream discussion in the US, and their impl ications understood, it is meaningless to call for “US engagement in the p eace process”, and prospects for constructive action will remain grim. The Bush II Era: Year 1 By David A. Sprintzen February 24, 2002 {Note from ZNet: Of course Bush II is mostly known, reviled, and/or revered for reinvigorating the War on Terrorism themes that his father and Ronald Reagan sought to make central to U.S. foreign policy two decades ago, and of course for bombing Afghanistan “from rubble to dust,” while ignoring t he probable cost in the form of a million or more starved Afghan civilians . But Bush II has been busy at home also, as Sprintzen’s research makes ab undantly on field-testing of genetically engineered crops. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million. Cut $35 million in fun ding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training. Cut by 5 0% funding for research into renewable energy sources. Revoke d rules that reduced the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water. Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer b ilingual assistance to non-English speaking persons. This, from a candidat e who would readily fire up his Spanish-speaking skills in front of would- be Hispanic voters. Proposed to eliminate new marine protecti ons for the Channel Islands of California and the coral reefs of northwest Hawaii. Cut funding by 28% for research into cleaner, more e fficient cars and trucks. Suspended rules that would have str engthened the government’s ability to deny contracts to companies that vio late workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. O K’d Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oi l and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. Appointed Joh n Negroponte a high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations ambassador. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 milli on in rain forest conservation. Reduced by 86% the Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics, and providers of care for pe ople without insurance. Rescinded a proposal to increase publ ic access to information about the potential consequences resulting from c hemical plant accidents. Suspended rules that would require h ard rock miners to clean up sites on Western public lands. Cu t $60 million from a Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America program for public housing. Proposed to eliminate a federal program (used succes sfully in Seattle) designed to help communities prepare for natural disast ers. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agree ment. Cut $200 million of work force training for dislocated workers. Eliminated funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property. Cut program to provide childcare to low-income families as t hey move from welfare to work. Cut a program that provided pr escription contraceptive coverage to federal employees (though it still pa ys for Viagra). Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing. Appointed Otto Reich a high-level Iran Con tra figure to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Cut Environmental Protection Agency budget by $500 million. Proposed to curtail the ability of groups to sue in order to ge t an animal placed on the Endangered Species List. Rescinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for cent ral air conditioners and heat pumps. Repealed workplace ergon omic rules designed to improve worker health and safety. Aban doned campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas that contributes to global warming. Banned federal aid to interna tional family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds. Closed White House Office for Women’s Heal th Initiatives and Outreach. Nominated David Lauriski ex-mini ng company executive to post of Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safe ty and Health. O.K.’d Interior Secretary Gale Norton to go fo rth with a controversial plan to auction oil and gas development tracts of f the coast eastern of Florida. Announced intention to open up Montana’s Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling. Proposed re-drawing the boundaries of national monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling “outside” of national monuments. Gutted the White House AIDS Office. Renegotiating free trade agreement with Jordan to eliminate safeguards for the environme nt and workers’ rights. Will no longer seek guidance from The American Bar Association on federal judiciary appointments. Appointed recycling foe Lynn Scarlett as Undersecretary of the Interior. Took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environment al Quality. Cut the Community Oriented Policing Services prog ram. Allowed Interior Secretary Gale Norton to shelve citizen -led grizzly bear re-introduction plan scheduled for Idaho and Montana wil derness. Continues to hold up federal funding for stem cell r esearch projects. Makes sure convicted misdemeanor d users cannot get financial aid for college, though convicted murderers can. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium slag heap in Utah. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government’s tob acco company lawsuit. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut, of which 43% will go to a handful of the wealthiest of Americans. Sig ned a bill making it harder for poor and middle-class Americans to file fo r bankruptcy, even in the case of daunting medical bills. Sel ected as his Vice President a man who said on Meet the Press, “If you want to do somthing about carbon dioxide emissions, then you ought to build n uclear power plants.” Appointed Diana (“There is no gender ga p in pay”) Roth to the Council of Economic Advisers. Appointe d Kay Cole James an opponent of affirmative action to direct the Office of Personnel Management. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect. Helped kill a law designed to make it tougher for teenagers to get credit cards. Proposed elimination of the “Reading is Fundamental” program th at gives free books to poor children. Is pushing for developm ent of small nuclear weapons to attack deeply buried targets; which weapon s would violate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Proposes t o nominate Jeffrey Sutton attorney responsible for the recent case weakeni ng the Americans with Disabilities Act to federal appeals court judgeship. Proposes to reverse regulations protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building. Eliminated funding for the “We the People” education program which taught schoolchild ren about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship. Appointed John Bolton who opposes nonproliferation treaties and the U.N . to Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Nominated Linda Fisher an executive with Monsanto to the num ber two slot at the Environmental Protection Agency. Nominate d Michael McConnell leading critic of the doctrine of separation of church and state to a federal judgeship. Nominated Terrence Boyle a rdent opponent of civil rights to a federal judgeship. Cancel ed 2004 deadline for automakers to develop prototype high-mileage cars. Nominated Harvey Pitts lawyer for teen sex video distributor to head EC. Nominated John Walters strong opponent of prison d treatment programs to be d Czar. Nominated J. Steven Giles an oil and coal lobbyist to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Nominated Bennett Raley who advocates repealing the Endangered Species act to be Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. Is seeking the dismissal of class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. against Japan by Asian women forced to work as sex slaves during WWII. Earmarked $4 million in new federal grant money for HIV and d abuse prevention programs to go only to religious groups and not secular equival ents. Reduced by 40% the Low Income Home Assistance Program f or low-income individuals who need assistance paying energy bills. Nominated Ted Olson who has repeatedly lied about his involvement wit h the Scaiffe-funded “Arkansas Project” to bring down Bill Clinton to be S olicitor General. Nominated Terrance Boyle foe of civil right s to a federal judgeship. Proposes to ease permit process inc luding environmental considerations for refinery, nuclear and hydroelectri c dam construction. Proposes to give government the authority to take private property through eminent domain for power lines. Proposes that $1.2 billion in funding for alternative renewable energ y come from selling oil and gas lease tracts in the Alaska National Wildli fe Reserve. Forced out Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck, and appointed a timber industry lobbyist As President Bush toured Asia la st week, some world leaders worried publicly that the war on terrorism was starting to look suspiciously like the last great American campaign E2 8094 against Communism.It is hard to miss the cold war echoes. Once agai n America’s allies are being told that the world is divided starkly into z ones of good and evil, darkness and light, and that “the United States and only the United States can see this effort through to victory,” as Vice P resident Dick Cheney told a gathering at the Council on Foreign Relations two weeks ago.America’s discovery of an enemy who is not merely an enemy, but “evil,” has impeccable historical credentials. In a long history of re sponding to real and perceived threats, it seems clear that this large, he terogenous country defines itself in part through its nemeses.The language Mr. Bush and others have used to describe Al Qaeda terrorists sometimes s ounds as though it could have been written by Cotton Mather. Ever since the Puritans arrived in New England, civic and political leaders have often issued the same warning: sinister conspirators are spreading invisibly thr ough the land, a cabal of evil and dangerous men who are bent on subvertin g this shining city on a hill. As Attorney General John Ashcroft put it re cently: “A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world . Civilization cannot afford to ignore the wrongs that have been done.”Thi s is by no means to suggest that the terrorists who struck on Sept. 11, or who kidnapped and murdered the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, aren’t evil, or that it is not necessary to say so. But when the nation’s enemies are used as highly emotional political symbols, it becomes easy t o lose touch with the reality of their acts and motives E28094 and thus fail to better understand how to defeat or influence them. It is not hard to see in Mr. Ashcroft’s language traces of what the historian Richard Hof stadter famously described as “the paranoid style in American politics.” I n this regard, the frequent portrayal of the Sept. 11 terrorists as both m ore and less than human, a blend of supreme cunning and radical evil, clos ely resembles the way Americans were taught to regard the Japanese during World War II.”We tend to see them as supermen or barbarians, but never hum an like ourselves,” John W. Dower, a historian at the Massachusetts Instit ute of Technology and author of “War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.” After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese E28094 who had until then been seen by Americans as “little men” in every sense E2 8094 became terrifying supermen, Professor Dower said. “It’s quite simil ar to the terrorists: before 9/11 they were seen as incapable of pulling o ff anything sophisticated, and now we figure they can do anything, at any time.”And to the extent that those enemies are seen as evil, America can r egard itself as good, a desire rooted in the Puritan vision of establishin g a new Eden in a fallen world. While all nations regard their causes as j ust, and all demonize their enemies, the combination of American might and its longstanding self-image as uniquely virtuous irritates even its allie s. Europeans, for example, have largely tended to use more pragmatic langu age and embrace realpolitik in foreign policy matters. “Why has that phras e, ‘axis of evil,’ crystallized so much anti-American sentiment around the world?” Professor Dower said. “Because the country sees itself as nothing but good and innocent, and that infuriates people.”It is an outlook roote d in two distinctive American traditions, said Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University. The country’s religious roots and its continuing high level of religious faith make Americans more likely to see enemies not ju st as opponents but as evil. Linked to that is the belief that America is the world’s last best hope of liberty, so that those who oppose America be come the enemies of freedom.In the 1770’s, colonial pamphleteers described King George III of England as a vicious tyrant who was secretly spreading Catholicism in the land, said Edmund S. Morgan, a professor emeritus of h istory at Yale University. But by the late 1790’s, America had turned on t he French, their former allies against the British, and were calling them underground papists too, “devil-like creatures and the most abominable wic ked people,” according to one newspaper account. Those fears of foreign in fluence helped lead to a crackdown on civil liberties as far back as the A lien and Sedition Acts, passed in 1798. They allowed for the deportation o f suspicious foreigners and barred the publication of ungrounded or malici ous attacks on the president or Congress.In the 1830’s, the popular Protes tant preacher Lyman Beecher warned against Catholic subversion, in a strai n that was to be repeated throughout the century: “Three-fourths of the fo reign emigrants whose accumulating tide is rolling in upon us, are, through the medium of their religion and priesthood, entirely accessible to the control of the potentates of Europe, as if they were an army of soldiers, enlisted and officered, and spreading through the land.”LATER, the country reacted similarly to the “red scare” prompted by a terrorist bombing of A ttorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home in 1919. Federal agents arrested 6,000 immigrants. None were convicted, but more than 500 were deported for their political associations. One visiting British journalist wrote that the nation in 1919 “was hag-ridden by the specter of Bolshevism. It was li ke a sleeper in a nightmare, enveloped by a thousand phantoms of destructi on.”And of course, the 1950’s brought the renewed Communist menace, “a con spiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man,” in the words of Senator Joseph McCarthy.The McCarthy yea rs in some ways were eerily similar to the present moment. For example, Sa muel Stouffer, a Harvard sociologist doing research on attitudes toward Co mmunism in the early 1950’s, found a generalized anxiety that the country was under attack by unseen enemies bent on global domination. “All the pla ne wrecks we have E28094 there couldn’t be that many without a reason,” said one of Professor Stouffer’s respondents, a Pennsylvania housewife. ” He had a foreign camera and took so many pictures of the New York bridges, ” another woman said about a neighbor she found suspicious.There are of co urse crucial differences between Al Qaeda and the Soviets, who represented a much broader military and political threat but did not practice terrori sm against American civilians. And the added vigilance of recent months ma y well have prevented other attacks. But it remains true that like the ter rorists today, and the Catholics in the 19th century, Communists were ofte n conceived as moral monsters whose deviousness and unwavering dedication to their faith made them capable of almost anything. Whittaker Chambers, w ho saw in Communism “the concentrated evil of our time,” wrote in his sic cold war memoir, “Witness”: “Their power, whose nature baffles the res t of the world, because in large measure the rest of the world has lost th at power, is the power to hold convictions and act on them. It is the same power that moves mountains; it is also an unfailing power to move men.”In one sense, the discovery of a new source of “concentrated evil” comes as somthing of a relief, said John Gaddis, a professor of political science at Yale University who has been discussing the cold war parallel with his students since Sept. 11. “All of a sudden there’s somthing worse than Ame rican hegemony out there,” he said. “That throws a new light on complaints about American unilateralism, and makes it easier for us to act internati onally.”Others worry that this new fight will carry a heavy price. “The na rrowing of dissent that occurred during the McCarthy period seems to be re curring now,” “It is an unfortunate recurring pattern in American history, ” Professor Foner said. “We have a tendency in times of war to adopt a Man ichaean vision … More at NYT “A Nation Defined by its Enemies” 2/24/ 02 2001 festival happen, and a Ukrainian friend, sent me this info. D ear Dad written by Sarah Shields [Sarah is an associate professor of Mi ddle East history at UNC Chapel Hill] wwwmondreams.org/v iews02/0410-01 Dear Dad, It was an enormously heavy respon sibility you raised me with. You taught me that the Jews have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that the holocaust could only ha ppen because the Germans were silent. You taught me that Jews must neve r, never, never be silent when injustice occurs, because our silenc e makes us complicit. You taught me about history, and you taught me by your actions. As a rabbi, you preached against racism in the south, and had to leave a pulpit in Louisiana when they threatened to k ill our family. You worked for open housing laws, insisting that there should be no ghettos in America like the ones your parents had live d in Europe. You counseled Jewish kids who were conscientious obj ectors, eliciting the hostility of many who believed that the Vietnam w ar was a valiant struggle for justice in our time. It is a hea vy responsibility I carry now. Because now I am complicit. I have not s tood in front of the tanks that are killing other mothers’ children in refugee camps. I have not ridden in ambulances to help them get pas t checkpoints so that the injured could be cured. I have not laid in fr ont of the bulldozers to prevent their destroying a family’s shelter. What can I do about this injustice? You taught me Judaism’s uni versal message. “I am a Jew because in all places where there are tears and suffering the Jew weeps.” I believed Edmond Fleg’s words, “I a m a Jew because Israel places man and his unity above nations and above Israel itself.” Dad, we have become the oppressors. One rabbinic student told me years ago when I lived in Israel that this was the meaning behind the warning to remember that we were slaves in the land of Egypt. We were warned to remember, because sometimes slaves want to become masters. We are the oppressors, and we are also the vic tims. Jews are being killed, and at the same time, the moral impera tive that you taught me was part of being Jewish seems to be vanishing. I believe that Jews are being used by an American administration to ac complish its own ends, ends that have nothing to do with the ideals of Jews. We need to shout aloud that 80% of the billions that the US g ives Israel in aid must be spent on weapons, and that more than half of those weapons are built in Texas. And Jews are being used by an Is raeli government that has no interest except territorial expansion. Sha ron is the ideological heir to Jabotinsky. Land for peace was never in that ideology. War makes conquest possible, and all the people of I srael and Palestine are being drawn, tragically and together, into that war. We must act, and we must act immediately. Jews are being used to legitimize the slaughter of Palestinians. Please, D ad, tell me how to be like you taught me to be. How do I stop being complicit? I love you. Sarah Shields [Sarah is an associa te professor of Middle East history at UNC Chapel Hill] web commondreams.org/views02/0410-01 UNITED STATES written by Theo Simon 2002. performed by Seize The Day . downloadable at web seizetheday.org/UnitedStates It could’ve been Manhattan on the day the market fell And it could’ve been a candy-store in Kandahar as well And she might have been a moslem, but it’s kind’ve hard to tell When your body’s ground to zero and your skin’s been fried to hell So tell me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice was not for peace, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hor net-nest that bit you – Just when it hit you – There’s other pe ople hurt as much as you. And grief is no excuse for what you do. High-flyers at the corporation’s daisy-cutting edge They hold each other’s hands and plummet from the window ledge And the monitors ha ve melted on the coffee-deal which meant 5000 farmers wondering whe re their livelihood just went. America, my family, the whole w orld feels your pain And before this war is over, you’ll make sure we d o again. Even as the tower tumbled on that fire-fighting team W e wondered who you’d barbecue for puncturing your dream So tel l me it’s the war to end all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice does not bring peace, then it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – But it still don’t it hit you – There’s other people feel as much as you. And freedom’s no excuse for what you do. I am not an Islamicist, religion’s not my thing, But they’re friendlie r than Christians and I like the way they sing, And I want my siste rs free to burn the burkha if they choose Then lie awake and calcul ate what weight they need to lose So tell me it’s the war to e nd all war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this sacrifice don’t c hange the world, it was not worth making. Seems to me, you did your best to put your hand in the hornet-nest that bit you – When w ill it hit you – There’s other people need as much as you. And gree d is no excuse for what you do. You’re beautiful, big-hearted, and in many ways you’re free And you’re smart enough to get the world how you want it to be So it’s hard for me to tell you what you shouldn’t have to hear: Your nation is that terrorist most human be ings fear – Nicaragua, El Salvador, Columbia and Nam, Cambodia, Gre nada, Chile, and Afghanistan, Palestinian and Iraqi, and some more you never knew – United states of people who deserved as much as you So tell me that you don’t support this war, or don’t tell me nothin’ ‘Cos if this song of mine don’t change your heart, then it was not worth singing. But I believe you did your best, chasing life and h appiness, Never wondered never guessed, how the news had been suppr essed Of a never-ending killing-fest, rip the kid from the Mama’s b reast, Shrapnel thru her daddy’s chest while we’re all singing “Glo ry Hallelujah!” – I’m talking to ya – Somebody made a killing in yo ur name. So take your power back, or take the blame. Theo Simo n The US Presents Itself as the Peace-Broker in the Middle East. The Realit y is Different ling observed that “what we feared has come true – War appears an unavoidab le fate”, an “evil colonial” war. His colleague Ze’ev Sternhell noted that the Israeli leadership was now engaged in “colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by the white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks i n South Africa during the apartheid era”. Both stress the obvious: there is no symmetry between the “ethno-national groups” in this conflict, which is centered in territories that have been under harsh military occupation for 35 years. The Oslo “peace process”, begun in 1993, changed the modalities of the occupation, but not the basic concept. Shortly before joining the Eh ud Barak government, historian Shlomo Ben-Ami wrote that “the Oslo agreemen ts were founded on a neo-colonialist basis, on a life of dependence of one on the other forever”. He soon became an architect of the US-Israel proposa ls at Camp David in 2000, which kept to this condition. At the time, West B ank Palestinians were confined to 200 scattered areas. Bill Clinton and Isr aeli prime minister Barak did propose an improvement: consolidation to thre e cantons, under Israeli control, virtually separated from one another and from the fourth enclave, a small area of East Jerusalem, the center of Pale stinian communications. The fifth canton was Gaza. It is understandable tha t maps are not to be found in the US mainstream. Nor is their prototype, th e Bantustan “homelands” of apartheid South Africa, ever mentioned. No one c an seriously doubt that the US role will continue to be decisive. It is cru cial to understand what that role has been, and how it is internally percei ved. The version of the doves is presented by the editors of the New York T imes, praising President Bush’s “path-breaking speech” and the “emerging vi sion” he articulated. Its first element is “ending Palestinian terrorism” i mmediately. Some time later comes “freezing, then rolling back, Jewish sett lements and negotiating new borders” to allow the establishment of a Palest inian state. If Palestinian terror ends, Israelis will be encouraged to “ta ke the Arab League’s historic offer of full peace and recognition in exchan ge for an Israeli withdrawal more seriously”. But first Palestinian leaders must demonstrate that they are “legitimate diplomatic partners”. The real world has little resemblance to this self-serving portrayal – virtually cop ied from the 1980s, when the US and Israel were desperately seeking to evad e PLO offers of negotiation and political settlement. In the real world, th e primary barrier to the “emerging vision” has been, and remains, unilatera l US rejectionism. There is little new in the current “Arab League’s histor ic offer”. It repeats the basic terms of a security council resolution of J anuary 1976 which called for a political settlement on the internationally recognized borders “with appropriate arrangements … to guarantee … the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all state s in the area”. This was backed by virtually the entire world, including th e Arab states and the PLO but opposed by Israel and vetoed by the US, there by vetoing it from history. Similar initiatives have since been blocked by the US and mostly suppressed in public commentary. Not surprisingly, the gu iding principle of the occupation has been incessant humiliation. Israeli p lans for Palestinians have followed the guidelines formulated by Moshe Daya n, one of the Labour leaders more sympathetic to the Palestinian plight. Th irty years ago Dayan advised the cabinet that Israel should make it clear t o refugees that “we have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave”. When challenged, he responded by citing Ben -Gurion, who said that “whoever approaches the Zionist problem from a moral aspect is not a Zionist”. He could have also cited Chaim Weizmann, first p resident of Israel, who held that the fate of the “several hundred thousand negroes” in the Jewish homeland “is a matter of no consequence”. The Pales tinians have long suffered torture, terror, destruction of property, displa cement and settlement, and takeover of basic resources, crucially water. Th ese policies have relied on decisive US support and European acquiescence. “The Barak government is leaving Sharon’s government a surprising legacy,” the Israeli press reported as the transition took place: “the highest numbe r of housing starts in the territories since Ariel Sharon was minister of c onstruction and settlement in 1992 before the Oslo agreements” – funding pr ovided by the American taxpayer. It is regularly claimed that all peace pro posals have been undermined by Arab refusal to accept the existence of Isra el (the facts are quite different), and by terrorists like Arafat who have forfeited “our trust”. How that trust may be regained is explained by Edwar d Walker, a Clinton Middle East adviser: Arafat must announce that “we put our future and fate in the hands of the US” – which has led the campaign to undermine Palestinian rights for 30 years. The basic problem then, as now, traces back to Washington, which has persistently backed Israel’s rejectio n of a political settlement in terms of the broad international consensus. Current modifications of US rejectionism are tactical. With plans for an at tack on Iraq endangered, the US permitted a UN resolution calling for Israe li withdrawal from the newly-invaded territories “without delay” – meaning “as soon as possible”, secretary of state Colin Powell explained at once. P owell’s arrival in Israel was delayed to allow the Israeli Defense Force to continue its destructive operations, facts hard to miss and confirmed by U S officials. When the current intifada broke out, Israel used US helicopter s to attack civilian targets, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, hardly in self-defense. Clinton responded by arranging what the Israeli new spaper Ha’aretz called “the largest purchase of military helicopters by the Israeli Air Force in a decade”, along with spare parts for Apache attack h elicopters. A few weeks later, Israel began to use US helicopters for assas sinations. These extended last August to the first assassination of a polit ical leader: Abu Ali Mustafa. That passed in silence, but the reaction was quite different when Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze’evi was killed in retaliation. Bush is now praised for arranging the release of Arafat from h is dungeon in return for US-UK supervision of the accused assassins of Ze’e vi. It is inconceivable that there should be any effort to punish those res ponsible for the Mustafa assassination. Further contributions to enhancing terror took place last December, when Washington again vetoed a security co uncil resolution calling for dispatch of international monitors. Ten days e arlier, the US boycotted an international conference in Geneva that once ag ain concluded that the fourth Geneva convention applies to the occupied ter ritories, so that many US-Israeli actions there are “grave breaches”, hence serious war crimes. As a “high contracting party”, the US is obligated by solemn treaty to prosecute those responsible for such crimes, including its own leadership. Accordingly, all of this passes in silence. But the US has not officially withdrawn its recognition that the conventions apply to the occupied territories, or its censure of Israeli violations as the “occupyi ng power”. In October 2000 the security council reaffirmed the consensus, ” call[ing] on Israel, the occupying power, to abide scrupulously by its lega l obligations…” The vote was 14-0. Clinton abstained. Until such matters are permitted to enter mainstream discussion in the US, and their implicati ons understood, it is meaningless to call for “US engagement in the peace p rocess”, and prospects for constructive action will remain grim. te from ZNet: Of course Bush II is mostly known, reviled, and/or revered fo r reinvigorating the War on Terrorism themes that his father and Ronald Rea gan sought to make central to U.S. foreign policy two decades ago, and of c ourse for bombing Afghanistan “from rubble to dust,” while ignoring the pro bable cost in the form of a million or more starved Afghan civilians. But B ush II has been busy at home also, as Sprintzen’s research makes abundantly ederal agencies to offer bilingual assistance to non-English speaking perso ns. This, from a candidate who would readily fire up his Spanish-speaking s ew marine protections for the Channel Islands of California and the coral r rengthened the government’s ability to deny contracts to companies that vio nterior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state offic ials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and g high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations ambassador.”0Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million in rain forest conse tals, clinics, and providers of care for people without insurance. F scinded a proposal to increase public access to information about the poten rules that would require hard rock miners to clean up sites on Western publ ed successfully in Seattle) designed to help communities prepare for natura ogram to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare Otto Reich a high-level Iran Contra figure to Assistant Secretary of State in order to get an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.cinded rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations fo mpaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2), the waste gas that contribu

#2489 Tue, 14 May 2002 21:26:20 Tue, 14 May 2002 21:26:20 Highly recommended – Deeper in Zen at Tsunami Deeper in Zen is moving to – see them LIVE while you can this Saturday… Womyn in free, men $10 (see below) NYC compilation available at web tranceam.org/soularrecords TSUNAMI continues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: Saturday, May 18th, 2002 DEEPER IN ZEN (SOULAR RECORDS) JAMES will introduce an exclusive live set from soular records new album ‘Awakening’. YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. DJ SH.I.K.I.D. (OMNITRBE) DJ APOK-NOV VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Before 1am Ladies in FREE-Gentlemen 10.00 Thereafter Ladies 10.00- Gentlemen 15.00 Tickets also available in advance at HOMEOF TRANCE for 10.00 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce//212-439-8124 TSUNAMI :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: JAMES will introduce an exclusive live set from soular records new album ‘Awakening’. YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. DJ SH.I.K.I.D. (OMNITRBE) DJ APOK-NOV VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Before 1am Ladies in FREE-Gentlemen 10.00 Thereafter Ladies 10.00- Gentlemen 15.00 Tickets also available in advance at HOMEOF TRANCE for 10.00 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE!

#2490 Tue, 14 May 2002 23:38:14 Tue, 14 May 2002 23:38:13 Fwd: Solstice in Croatiasummer trance festival21/22/06/2002

#2491 Wed, 15 May 2002 16:12:14 Question From: “ismoked” Does anyone have a place that 10 of us can watch a video in on a VCR this Thursday? Umm, we’ll “hook you up” whatever that means. We want to watch a 2 hour video of the Kogi Indians and a 1 hour Terrence McKenna video. That’s it. Also, does anyone know the best place in NYC to purchase a didgeridoo? Or know someone who plays it and is free this weekend?

#2492 Wed, 15 May 2002 12:35:09 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hellooooooo!!! Beautiful night will be tonight for Opium Den. Come and enjoy with us the music with differents djs every week. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th element) Vadim (Subltechaos production) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue Love and Light Angeles

#2493 Wed, 15 May 2002 21:51:23 Wed, 15 May 2002 21:51:23 Review of the K study I did the study, all was kosher, nothing like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. So if you have been a heavy user of ketamnine or PCP go donate your brain to science for three days – and get paid $580. PS I think some from this list are mistaking “PCP” for “Dippies.” If you are a Dippy smoker then understand that for the last several years it is formaldehyde – embalming fuid – that you have been smoking, not PCP. You may know this and not give a shit, but it won’t get you in, it will (NOT) show up in hair tests. It’s funny that some may try to lie about d use and get their cover blown in a d test – but 180 degrees from what we are used to. AFAIK, this study will ascertain whether heavy Phenylcyclidine(sp?) use depletes a certain type dopamine receptor. K-veterans (vets?) get paid over $500 to get their brains mapped Have you done a lot of K? Need $560? Do you have three days to spare? Researchers at Columbia Presbyterian are studying K/PCP as a model for schizophrenia and are mapping the brains of heavy users. Call Leyla at 212-543-6104 and tell her Jeff sent you. I’m doing it; it is a pleasant edifying experience. First you get a phone interview done Then you come in for a screening (physical and blood/urine/hair analysis once those results come in they ask you to come in to be admitted into the psych ward for 3-5 days, where you’re gonna get your MRI and PET scan done. You can bring books, laptops, etc. If you want you can get actual slides of your brain, too. They look great on my windows at home. It turns out that almost all their subjects have done K rather than PCP. PS I think some from this list are mistaking “PCP” for “Dippies.” If you are a Dippy smoker then understand that for the last several years it is formaldehyde – embalming fuid – that you have been smoking, not PCP. You may know this and not give a shit, but it won’t get you in, it will (NOT) show up in hair tests. It’s funny that some may try to lie about d use and get their cover blown in a d test – but 180 degrees from what we are used to. AFAIK, this study will ascertain whether heavy Phenylcyclidine(sp?) use depletes a certain type dopamine receptor. K-veterans (vets?) get paid over $500 to get their brains mapped Have you done a lot of K? Need $560? Do you have three days to spare? Researchers at Columbia Presbyterian are studying K/PCP as a model for schizophrenia and are mapping the brains of heavy users. Call Leyla at 212-543-6104 and tell her Jeff sent you. I’m doing it; it is a pleasant edifying experience. First you get a phone interview done Then you come in for a screening (physical and blood/urine/hair analysis once those results come in they ask you to come in to be admitted into the psych ward for 3-5 days, where you’re gonna get your MRI and PET scan done. You can bring books, laptops, etc.

#2494 Thu, 16 May 2002 06:48:22 Thu, 16 May 2002 06:48:21 Deeper in Zen is coming on at 3am Saturday This may very well be your last chance to hear Deeper in Zen play in NY before they move to – if you go to Iboga at Frying Pan, hurry your ass over to Shelter by 3am – see them while you can this Saturday… Womyn in free, men $10 (see below) NYC compilation available at web tranceam.org/soularrecords I’ll be out being a synthetic shaman this weekend!! Have fun!!. TSUNAMI continues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: Saturday, May 18th, 2002 DEEPER IN ZEN (SOULAR RECORDS) JAMES will introduce an exclusive live set from soular records new album ‘Awakening’. YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. DJ SH.I.K.I.D. (OMNITRBE) DJ APOK-NOV VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Before 1am Ladies in FREE-Gentlemen 10.00 Thereafter Ladies 10.00- Gentlemen 15.00 Tickets also available in advance at HOMEOF TRANCE for 10.00 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce//212-439-8124 TSUNAMI :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: JAMES will introduce an exclusive live set from soular records new album ‘Awakening’. YONI (History of the Future) YONI is steadely becoming the most sought after full-on trance DJ in the US. DJ SH.I.K.I.D. (OMNITRBE) DJ APOK-NOV VISUALS BY UTA AND MUCH MORE! at the new SHELTER 20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am Before 1am Ladies in FREE-Gentlemen 10.00 Thereafter Ladies 10.00- Gentlemen 15.00 Tickets also available in advance at HOMEOF TRANCE for 10.00 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE!

#2495 Mon, 20 May 2002 15:13:39 Mon, 20 May 2002 15:13:38 Nicotine kills brain cells, retards cell growth Nicotine stops new brain cells forming 17:05 15 May 02 NewScientist news service Nicotine can kill brain cells and stop new ones forming in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory, says a French team. The finding might explain the cognitive problems experienced by many heavy smokers during withdrawal, they say. The team allowed rats to self-administer doses of nicotine daily for six weeks. At blood nicotine levels comparable to those found in smokers, they found the creation of new neurons in the dentate gyrus in the hippocampus was cut by up to 50 per cent. Cell death also increased. The implications for smokers and for those using nicotine gum or patches to help them give up are unclear, says Pier Piazza of France’s National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Bordeaux, who was involved in the research. He thinks the loss of “neuronal plasticity” could cause cognitive problems, but the team did not test this in the rats. “That is the next step. But the hippocampus is involved in memory and neurogenesis seems to be involved in memory, so we might expect there would be an effect,” he told New Scientist. Masking effect Short-term cognitive problems in smokers trying to kick the habit are well documented. “But there has been no good explanation for this,” Piazza says. “It could be that while they are smoking, the stimulant effect of nicotine masks the loss in neuronal plasticity. When they stop smoking, these deficiencies remain.” But Sue Wonnacott, an expert on nicotine at the University of Bath, UK, says: “There is a lot of redundancy in the brain and such deficits may or may not be sufficient to account for memory impairments. An alternative view is that memory impairments result from the subject feeling dreadful in the withdrawn state.” Exactly how nicotine kills cells is not clear. Previous research on fetal exposure suggest it can induce apoptosis – programmed cell death – in immature cells. Piazza says it is possible that nicotine can kill cells elsewhere in the brain. But the dentate gyrus is one of only two regions known to form new – and so immature – neurons in the adult brain. Previous research has suggested that smoking might actually be beneficial for patients with a variety of diseases associated with brain cell loss. This is thought to be because nicotine can attach to receptors for acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in memory. “I don’t want to argue with findings that acetylcholinergic agonists – like nicotine – can be beneficial for Alzheimer’s,” says Piazza. “But now we have found that nicotine can also kill brain cells.” Journal reference: Journal of Neuroscience (vol 22, p 3656) Nicotine can kill brain cells and stop new ones forming in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory, says a French team. The finding might explain the cognitive problems experienced by many heavy smokers during withdrawal, they say. The team allowed rats to self-administer doses of nicotine daily for six weeks. At blood nicotine levels comparable to those found in smokers, they found the creation of new neurons in the dentate gyrus in the hippocampus was cut by up to 50 per cent. Cell death also increased. The implications for smokers and for those using nicotine gum or patches to help them give up are unclear, says Pier Piazza of France’s National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Bordeaux, who was involved in the research. He thinks the loss of “neuronal plasticity” could cause cognitive problems, but the team did not test this in the rats. “That is the next step. But the hippocampus is involved in memory and neurogenesis seems to be involved in memory, so we might expect there would be an effect,” he told New Scientist. Masking effect Short-term cognitive problems in smokers trying to kick the habit are well documented. “But there has been no good explanation for this,” Piazza says. “It could be that while they are smoking, the stimulant effect of nicotine masks the loss in neuronal plasticity. When they stop smoking, these deficiencies remain.” But Sue Wonnacott, an expert on nicotine at the University of Bath, UK, says: “There is a lot of redundancy in the brain and such deficits may or may not be sufficient to account for memory impairments. An alternative view is that memory impairments result from the subject feeling dreadful in the withdrawn state.” Exactly how nicotine kills cells is not clear. Previous research on fetal exposure suggest it can induce apoptosis – programmed cell death – in immature cells. Piazza says it is possible that nicotine can kill cells elsewhere in the brain. But the dentate gyrus is one of only two regions known to form new – and so immature – neurons in the adult brain. Previous research has suggested that smoking might actually be beneficial for patients with a variety of diseases associated with brain cell loss. This is thought to be because nicotine can attach to receptors for acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter involved in memory. “I don’t want to argue with findings that acetylcholinergic agonists – like nicotine – can be beneficial for Alzheimer’s,” says Piazza. “But now we have found that nicotine can also kill brain cells.” Journal reference: Journal of Neuroscience (vol 22, p 3656)

#2496 Mon, 20 May 2002 19:23:52 Mon, 20 May 2002 19:23:51 Pschedule New York is in mourning as the female side of the Synthetic Sadhus dies in Plane Crash Many of you have heard the tragic news that Kristina Veigh who had been the co-organizer of Synthetic Sadhus died in a four seater plane crash en route to a trance party in Hungary. Kristina was the at the doo r at Amazura and the one who gave out chai at the end of the Sadhus events . She also crafted many of the emails that went out. She will be sorely missed for her love, her grace, and her spirit. Much condolences to Gille s Clement and Kristina’s loved ones. – web brai nmachines/pschedule To get this weekly email psc The Om symbol – indicate s I will see you there! Events: Tuesday May 21 Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your bartend er. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Considering the ve nue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then they are definitely psychedelic . – Wednesday May 22 GREETINGS ALL this is to inform that next party on PY RAMIDS will be MAY 22 with a great dj lineup last party was a success than k you all who came and help make this possible also this party is FREE!!! so come and dance the night away!! LOCATION: PYRAMID 101 AVE. A BETW 6-7 D Unk FLOURO DECO:BY P SYTHON this party is absolutely FREE!!!is 18 to party 21 to drink ID a mus t PS:I’m correctly working in brining a dj that probably will come to spin for me i will keep you inform on who this dj is a big surprise!! thanxxx c hico Opium Den 3rd Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenue -May 25 – Sat – Tsunam i at Shelter Goa Gil in Brazil! Daime Tribe and Boom Festival interweave again to bring Goa Gil Full Moon Pooja – May 25th 2002 – Brasil – SE3o P aulo By the first time in south america! in a paradisic place. infos: web klatu.br – May 26 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Flower/Corn Planting/ Milk Moon) -June 8th Synthetic Sadhus Eat Static & Growling Mad Scientist s To all trancers, movers & groovers : The SYNTHETIC SADHUS party of Frida y May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have the ple asure to announce that we are moving to an amazing new venue for our next event! On SATURDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SADHUS are proud to present : T IP RECORDS LABEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -ITALY) Live !! RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Growling Mad Sc ientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAEL) ! YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) !! & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featu ring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPRESSIO N (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTIONS Featuring : 50 Kilos powe red by E-V Sound r the stars ! NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY !! ALL Ages EVENT, D oors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full flyer coming out soon EVERYWHER E !! More Detailed INFOS to be announced on this site VERY SOON !! IN TRANWE TRUST !The Sadhus June 8 Swedish Space Invader Will Land In DC at Ultraworld’s Starscape Festival 2002 (Ft.Armistead Park, Maryland) he’s headlining the new Psytrance stage (brought to you by Psychokinetics): SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg On Earth – Spectral Concepts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – Brazil Wild Bill – Psych okinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Baltimore Cyzum (aka DJ Hyb rid) web eastcoasthappy $40 (get them in adv. b/c they WILL sell out) for more info visit web ultraworld.net/SS2k2traworld: web ultra world.net SRange: web s-range – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthda y Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one dri nk specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for th e Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our ro ster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance /calendar June 14 – -nitribe? June 15 Trance Party in Mexico! web psycr aft site up May 6 SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many c ultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriag e, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energ y, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstic e, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (Th e Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) Th is celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protecti on, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. P agan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc- es h is presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Su mmer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, pr otection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-in g of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and c lear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul ca n be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Pow er and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is p owerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha n ight ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of th e Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at y ahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gathering i n Croatia 21-22/06/2002web trancepleme.cjb.net -June 24 – Full Moon (Ind ian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Vin yl INFECTED Mushroom and TICON -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celeb ration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Mary land Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go t o -July 24 – Full Moo n (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest T ime -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Poss ible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To en ter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups. yahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona ww w.chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (In dian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man – Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Vi rgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our ros ter and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ calendar -“September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barle y Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 mor e months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest y et to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal proje cts and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the har vest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the ma gnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These eq uinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the he ady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that al l things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors ed themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition w e try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is ri ch in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and litt le dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the characte r and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, g iving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebratio n we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of p ower and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him o ts of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This f estival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addi tion to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin t hem and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melte d parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly o n s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, ora nge, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Po ssible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace. .. sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Ful l Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthda y Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights t he powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then t he heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a go od place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field o f t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from th e pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one s ide while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the mid dle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend the ir days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 year s. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, c apital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the ch aotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get ve ry stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a me chanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds af ter becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d mon ey. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come an d beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junki es hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon ( Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa T rance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate w ith us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Wi nter Solstice e female side of the Synthetic Sadhus dies in Plane Crash ad been the co-organizer of Synthetic Sadhus died in a four seater plane cr ash en route to a trance party in Hungary. Kristina was the at the do or at Amazura and the one who gave out chai at the end of the Sadhus events . She also crafted many of the emails that went out. She will b e sorely missed for her love, her grace, and her spirit. Much condole nces to Gilles Clement and Kristina’s loved ones. com/pschedule To get this weekly email pschedule To get this plus more detailed info send em ail to Tuesday May 21 BFreaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly g uest DJs. Viviana is your bartender. Never crowded but the musi c always full on and new. Considering the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJ s have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic / GREETINGS ALL this is to inform that next party on PYRAMIDS will be MAY 22 with a great dj lineup last par ty was a success thank you all who came and help make this possible also th is party is FREE!!! so come and dance the night away!! LOCATION: PYRAMID 10 1 AVE. A BETW 6-7 MAY 22 TIME 10pm-4am DJ LINEUP: “J” PRIMETT{pri FLOURO DECO:BY PSYTHON this party is absolutely FREE!!!is 18 to p arty 21 to drink ID a must PS:I’m correctly working in brining a dj tha t probably will come to spin for me i will keep you inform on who this dj i Opium Den 3rd Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenue il Full Moon Pooja – May 25th 2002 – Brasil – SE3o Paulo By the first time in south america! in a paradisic place. infos: web klatu.br /Milk Moon) “0To all trancers, movers & groovers : The SYNTHETIC SADHUS party of Friday May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have g new venue for our next event! On SATURDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SADHU S are proud to present : TIP RECORDS LABEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -ITALY) Live !! RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Growling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Rec ords – ISRAEL) ! YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art by : BRAH MA (Tip Records – UK) !! & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Ch aos – NYC) DECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTIONS Fea ered by MACKIE Sound under the stars ! NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the C ITY !! ALL Ages EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full flyer co ming out soon EVERYWHERE !! More Detailed INFOS to be announced on this sit ‘s Starscape Festival 2002 (Ft.Armistead Park, Maryland) he’s headlining the new Psytrance stage (brought to you by Psychokinetics): SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg O n Earth – Spectral Concepts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – Brazil Wild Bil l – Psychokinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Baltimore Cyzum (ak $40 (get them in adv. b/c they WILL sell out) for more info visit wn May 21- June 21 p;Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M : Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to June 15 Trance Party in Mexico! web psycraft site up May 6 SUMMER s the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protectio n, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfec t time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Lit ha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this hol “0ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heave ns, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also k now that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manif esence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the chip, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and stre ngth. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also call ed “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian C alendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration ection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anythi ng that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. P agan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the cworn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888- 336-3997 June 22 SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gathering in Croa tia 21-22/06/2002web trancepleme.cjb.net t Moon) FO ryland Crabs “0 under/Hay Moon) uly 23-August 22 wardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDanc August Three-day open air festival happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California n Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equa tor and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest fest ivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things h ave their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these da of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch t We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older o nes die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life ason has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the chara cter and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebrati on we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m F s of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess wieg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Po This festival is associated with the tak ing of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbrea d cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost w ill hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar w he leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and s tream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid. org/mindstates/ r 22 hers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘ F To enter your birthday in our roster and celebr ate with us go to Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… /Dying Grass Moon) – Samhain – Winter’s Start T Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 To enter your birt hday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/grou p/SafetyDance/calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakis tan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He sa ys he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powd s make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot ounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ri ng out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a build ing, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than c riminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parch ed Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an o pen grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says h e started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The gravey ard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for p eace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salub rious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. ll Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsola ica Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclip 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 / er and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ca lendar (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon)

#2497 Tue, 21 May 2002 15:54:36 Tue, 21 May 2002 15:54:36 Trance Metal Orcs practice set tonight at Who’s on First To: trancemetalorcs burningelf Not in costume, we will play through our goth/industrial/metal/trance set at 10pm-1am tonight at Who’s on First: Tuesday May 21 Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your bartender. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Considering the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then they are definitely psychedelic.

#2498 Tue, 21 May 2002 16:21:50 Tue, 21 May 2002 16:21:49 Fwd: Eli Morgan’s artwork at Pyramid on Wednesday Alex Grey’s protege Eli Morgan will be showing his art and selling small versions of it at Pyramid on Wednesday night.. (see attached) Hyper Frequency at Pyramid (101 ave A bet 6th & 7th st) Presented by the Unknown Shrooms. this wednesday, May 22nd 11pm-4am. with DJs: Dark Shroom (unknown shrooms) DJ Unknown (unknown shrooms/tsunami) Jason (primett/sublte chaos) Amnesium vs Manic Mekator (unknown shrooms) deco by psytos Free to get in! 21+ ID a must. $2 beer all night. thanks, peace&love, -Tony.

#2499 Tue, 21 May 2002 16:51:24 Tue, 21 May 2002 16:51:23 Fwd: Fw: Tranceformation flyer 5/25 I won’t be there this Saturday – but you can print this out for a reduced price! have fun! Trust me, the official psy-trance season is upon us. You will be seeing more numbers on the dance floor with smiling faces. Yoni, Yani-E, DJ Unknown, Dragonlotus Ladies free before 1am, men $10 before 1am, $15 thereafter/$10 with printout Tsunami is downstairs at Shelter 20 West 39th 11pm-11am Yoni, Yani-E, DJ Unknown, Dragonlotus Ladies free before 1am, men $10 before 1am, $15 thereafter/$10 with printout

#2500 Wed, 22 May 2002 07:52:29 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hi,hi,hi!!! Tonight at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Come and enjoy with us the Trance Music in this summerrrrrrrrrr…. Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Isam (Symbionyc-spectra) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 Love and Light Angeles

#2501 Wed, 22 May 2002 10:07:25 Chiletrance Wednesdays, Special Dj from Bulgaria!! From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello my friends!!! TONIGHT at Opium Den with Dj Angeles we have the honor to have a special Top Dj from Bulgaria, come and enjoy with us………. Our special guest Dj Alex Memetchez (Bulgaria) No Cover!! Thanks and see you tonight. Love and Light Angeles

#2502 Wed, 22 May 2002 13:58:16 Wed, 22 May 2002 13:58:16 Fwd: [DRAGONTRIBE] Correction on the Pyramid wed the 22nd e-mail….

#2503 Wed, 22 May 2002 14:14:34 Wed, 22 May 2002 14:14:34 My codependent codefendant Is everyone going to Pyramid tonight? good. Eric was my codependent co-defendant last year in the squatting case. He’s a brilliant engineering ex-stoner who has “watched my back” in many high-risk bridge/squat situations… If you have five minutes to get mindfucked and confused and don’t have any d laying around try reading this treatise of global terrorism: oh, spomeone actually said it…atleast to the first part…blah blah blha as for the algebra thats where it get confusing…it is usefull of couse there was math before greece and that was hebrew and culture is only a reflection of god’s glorious creation in us…and the flaws our seperation from god…god’s creation being the most perfect or rather the only perfection anyway…you have a bunch of crazy people on a ball…it is a ball so you can subdevide it infinitely and forgoing erotion and major catastrophes natural or unatural you can even subdevide it infinitely even with a finite set of subdevitions…hold on an orange the size of a base ball that sounds a bit small to me…we can do allot better and I’m not even talking about getting the scalples out and mutilating some researchers till they mutilate a gene with the same scaple ….lets try this you have an orange the size of the moon then you take a bunch of these and stack them in such a way that you make a house of cards out of them(being iregular spheres this is increadibly possible)ok so you have a house of cards now you manipulate them till you have an orange sphere made up of planet sized oranges, and this orange sphere happens to have infinite surface area because its iregular and you can re grow them when they root or fall off a tree its so iregular cause its actually a house of cards made of oranges blah blah blah anyway on this orange you have a bunch of crazy people colapsing the orange using really big cuisinarts lubricated with petroleum oil…since they couldn’t find any more oil in there pistacio trees. anyway…I love pistacios with oranges yummy…just thought of somthing well you could let the oranges oil be used as lubrication for the cuisinarts juicing the oranges where was I going with this ok so…this one small place on the orange has a high propability of resisting cuisinarts and unfortunatly allot of the pistacios and oranges and even the cattle don’t like the idea of people not using cuisinarts or algebra for that matter instead they switch it with not switching this thing for that thing and instead actually dealling with the problem at hand be cause we are not theoretical but actually oranges all…without the orange and the orange that made us all we are just well juiced squeezed of all life and scattered over the cosmos to feed a new star that looks allot like a new orange well that all nice but what bout the fact that we had to obliterate this orange just to get a new one that we will never see and most definately if we can’t stope squeezing then we won’t have the opportunity to even get to see a new orange and instead we will get recompressed into a new form that does not deal with oranges or pistacios or cattle but rather simply somthing totally different and less dynamic but all together stable cause it does nothing just sits there dead weight anyway here it goes there is a state again and this non cuisinart state can keep the orange but only if the eat it whole which means that the death stops and life begins space expands and god’s light shines another day instead of sending the dead out to fester in the streets, trust me europe saw it during the black death cossy name…back when there was some culture and elightenment “brewing” in the minds of those “few” who controlled everything of couse the brew thinned out and the black death didn’t go away completely, we just got used to it. we got used to throwing our dead out into the street cause we didn’t respect them or ourselves and we desided perhaps we shouldn’t be so open about telling people that we do this…so…here we are the plauge has s[read…the majority of people though a few bodies out into the streets every year…we forget that dead bodies feaster and make great soup for rats and fleas…and were left with increasing numbers of dead bodies being thrown into the street and cause of all the plauge we have shorter lives and have to reproduce faster to fill the place of the body tossers eventually we become single minded on tossing bodies and people accept better ways of tossing bodies… here today body tosser 2000 blood lust for everybody…:O) now theres god’s way where everybody gets the ever expanding orange and then theres bllod lust…the easiest way to deal with those lusting for blood IS TO KILL THEM SELVES and then they can take some infidels with them unfortuately the support of this procedure is not god’s way and happens to be a for of blood lust as well so karma being what it is…god send blessed oranges to thin out the infideals to cause true causulties for the lusters so that soon those supporting lusters killing themselves die from lack of blessings and people to bless them with food water air…god turns away until the blessed deside to bless the blood lusters that are trying to kill themslves and until the blessings spread to everybody to those who are dieing cause they support blood lusters killing themselves… now Bless you all Peace With You Eric oh, spomeone actually said it…atleast to the first part…blah blah blha as for the algebra thats where it get confusing…it is usefull of couse there was math before greece and that was hebrew and culture is only a reflection of god’s glorious creation in us…and the flaws our seperation from god…god’s creation being the most perfect or rather the only perfection anyway…you have a bunch of crazy people on a ball…it is a ball so you can subdevide it infinitely and forgoing erotion and major catastrophes natural or unatural you can even subdevide it infinitely even with a finite set of subdevitions…hold on an orange the size of a base ball that sounds a bit small to me…we can do allot better and I’m not even talking about getting the scalples out and mutilating some researchers till they mutilate a gene with the same scaple ….lets try this you have an orange the size of the moon then you take a bunch of these and stack them in such a way that you make a house of cards out of them(being iregular spheres this is increadibly possible)ok so you have a house of cards now you manipulate them till you have an orange sphere made up of planet sized oranges, and this orange sphere happens to have infinite surface area because its iregular and you can re grow them when they root or fall off a tree its so iregular cause its actually a house of cards made of oranges blah blah blah anyway on this orange you have a bunch of crazy people colapsing the orange using really big cuisinarts lubricated with petroleum oil…since they couldn’t find any more oil in there pistacio trees. anyway…I love pistacios with oranges yummy…just thought of somthing well you could let the oranges oil be used as lubrication for the cuisinarts juicing the oranges where was I going with this ok so…this one small place on the orange has a high propability of resisting cuisinarts and unfortunatly allot of the pistacios and oranges and even the cattle don’t like the idea of people not using cuisinarts or algebra for that matter instead they switch it with not switching this thing for that thing and instead actually dealling with the problem at hand be cause we are not theoretical but actually oranges all…without the orange and the orange that made us all we are just well juiced squeezed of all life and scattered over the cosmos to feed a new star that looks allot like a new orange well that all nice but what bout the fact that we had to obliterate this orange just to get a new one that we will never see and most definately if we can’t stope squeezing then we won’t have the opportunity to even get to see a new orange and instead we will get recompressed into a new form that does not deal with oranges or pistacios or cattle but rather simply somthing totally different and less dynamic but all together stable cause it does nothing just sits there dead weight anyway here it goes there is a state again and this non cuisinart state can keep the orange but only if the eat it whole which means that the death stops and life begins space expands and god’s light shines another day instead of sending the dead out to fester in the streets, trust me europe saw it during the black death cossy name…back when there was some culture and elightenment “brewing” in the minds of those “few” who controlled everything of couse the brew thinned out and the black death didn’t go away completely, we just got used to it. we got used to throwing our dead out into the street cause we didn’t respect them or ourselves and we desided perhaps we shouldn’t be so open about telling people that we do this…so…here we are the plauge has s[read…the majority of people though a few bodies out into the streets every year…we forget that dead bodies feaster and make great soup for rats and fleas…and were left with increasing numbers of dead bodies being thrown into the street and cause of all the plauge we have shorter lives and have to reproduce faster to fill the place of the body tossers eventually we become single minded on tossing bodies and people accept better ways of tossing bodies… here today body tosser 2000 blood lust for everybody…:O) now theres god’s way where everybody gets the ever expanding orange and then theres bllod lust…the easiest way to deal with those lusting for blood IS TO KILL THEM SELVES and then they can take some infidels with them unfortuately the support of this procedure is not god’s way and happens to be a for of blood lust as well so karma being what it is…god send blessed oranges to thin out the infideals to cause true causulties for the lusters so that soon those supporting lusters killing themselves die from lack of blessings and people to bless them with food water air…god turns away until the blessed deside to bless the blood lusters that are trying to kill themslves and until the blessings spread to everybody to those who are dieing cause they support blood lusters killing themselves… now Bless you all Peace With You Eric Eric was my codependent co-defendant last year in the squatting case. He’s a brilliant engineering ex-stoner who has “watched my back” in many high-risk bridge/squat situations… If you have five minutes to get mindfucked and confused and don’t have any d laying around try reading this treatise of global terrorism: oh, spomeone actually said it…atleast to the first part…blah blah blha as for the algebra thats where it get confusing…it is usefull of couse there was math before greece and that was hebrew and culture is only a reflection of god’s glorious creation in us…and the flaws our seperation from god…god’s creation being the most perfect or rather the only perfection anyway…you have a bunch of crazy people on a ball…it is a ball so you can subdevide it infinitely and forgoing erotion and major catastrophes natural or unatural you can even subdevide it infinitely even with a finite set of subdevitions…hold on an orange the size of a base ball that sounds a bit small to me…we can do allot better and I’m not even talking about getting the scalples out and mutilating some researchers till they mutilate a gene with the same scaple ….lets try this you have an orange the size of the moon then you take a bunch of these and stack them in such a way that you make a house of cards out of them(being iregular spheres this is increadibly possible)ok so you have a house of cards now you manipulate them till you have an orange sphere made up of planet sized oranges, and this orange sphere happens to have infinite surface area because its iregular and you can re grow them when they root or fall off a tree its so iregular cause its actually a house of cards made of oranges blah blah blah anyway on this orange you have a bunch of crazy people colapsing the orange using really big cuisinarts lubricated with petroleum oil…since they couldn’t find any more oil in there pistacio trees. anyway…I love pistacios with oranges yummy…just thought of somthing well you could let the oranges oil be used as lubrication for the cuisinarts juicing the oranges where was I going with this ok so…this one small place on the orange has a high propability of resisting cuisinarts and unfortunatly allot of the pistacios and oranges and even the cattle don’t like the idea of people not using cuisinarts or algebra for that matter instead they switch it with not switching this thing for that thing and instead actually dealling with the problem at hand be cause we are not theoretical but actually oranges all…without the orange and the orange that made us all we are just well juiced squeezed of all life and scattered over the cosmos to feed a new star that looks allot like a new orange well that all nice but what bout the fact that we had to obliterate this orange just to get a new one that we will never see and most definately if we can’t stope squeezing then we won’t have the opportunity to even get to see a new orange and instead we will get recompressed into a new form that does not deal with oranges or pistacios or cattle but rather simply somthing totally different and less dynamic but all together stable cause it does nothing just sits there dead weight anyway here it goes there is a state again and this non cuisinart state can keep the orange but only if the eat it whole which means that the death stops and life begins space expands and god’s light shines another day instead of sending the dead out to fester in the streets, trust me europe saw it during the black death cossy name…back when there was some culture and elightenment “brewing” in the minds of those “few” who controlled everything of couse the brew thinned out and the black death didn’t go away completely, we just got used to it. we got used to throwing our dead out into the street cause we didn’t respect them or ourselves and we desided perhaps we shouldn’t be so open about telling people that we do this…so…here we are the plauge has s[read…the majority of people though a few bodies out into the streets every year…we forget that dead bodies feaster and make great soup for rats and fleas…and were left with increasing numbers of dead bodies being thrown into the street and cause of all the plauge we have shorter lives and have to reproduce faster to fill the place of the body tossers eventually we become single minded on tossing bodies and people accept better ways of tossing bodies… here today body tosser 2000 blood lust for everybody…:O) now theres god’s way where everybody gets the ever expanding orange and then theres bllod lust…the easiest way to deal with those lusting for blood IS TO KILL THEM SELVES and then they can take some infidels with them unfortuately the support of this procedure is not god’s way and happens to be a for of blood lust as well so karma being what it is…god send blessed oranges to thin out the infideals to cause true causulties for the lusters so that soon those supporting lusters killing themselves die from lack of blessings and people to bless them with food water air…god turns away until the blessed deside to bless the blood lusters that are trying to kill themslves and until the blessings spread to everybody to those who are dieing cause they support blood lusters killing themselves… now Bless you all Peace With You Eric oh, spomeone actually said it…atleast to the first part…blah blah blha as for the algebra thats where it get confusing…it is usefull of couse there was math before greece and that was hebrew and culture is only a reflection of god’s glorious creation in us…and the flaws our seperation from god…god’s creation being the most perfect or rather the only perfection anyway…you have a bunch of crazy people on a ball…it is a ball so you can subdevide it infinitely and forgoing erotion and major catastrophes natural or unatural you can even subdevide it infinitely even with a finite set of subdevitions…hold on an orange the size of a base ball that sounds a bit small to me…we can do allot better and I’m not even talking about getting the scalples out and mutilating some researchers till they mutilate a gene with the same scaple ….lets try this you have an orange the size of the moon then you take a bunch of these and stack them in such a way that you make a house of cards out of them(being iregular spheres this is increadibly possible)ok so you have a house of cards now you manipulate them till you have an orange sphere made up of planet sized oranges, and this orange sphere happens to have infinite surface area because its iregular and you can re grow them when they root or fall off a tree its so iregular cause its actually a house of cards made of oranges blah blah blah anyway on this orange you have a bunch of crazy people colapsing the orange using really big cuisinarts lubricated with petroleum oil…since they couldn’t find any more oil in there pistacio trees. anyway…I love pistacios with oranges yummy…just thought of somthing well you could let the oranges oil be used as lubrication for the cuisinarts juicing the oranges where was I going with this ok so…this one small place on the orange has a high propability of resisting cuisinarts and unfortunatly allot of the pistacios and oranges and even the cattle don’t like the idea of people not using cuisinarts or algebra for that matter instead they switch it with not switching this thing for that thing and instead actually dealling with the problem at hand be cause we are not theoretical but actually oranges all…without the orange and the orange that made us all we are just well juiced squeezed of all life and scattered over the cosmos to feed a new star that looks allot like a new orange well that all nice but what bout the fact that we had to obliterate this orange just to get a new one that we will never see and most definately if we can’t stope squeezing then we won’t have the opportunity to even get to see a new orange and instead we will get recompressed into a new form that does not deal with oranges or pistacios or cattle but rather simply somthing totally different and less dynamic but all together stable cause it does nothing just sits there dead weight anyway here it goes there is a state again and this non cuisinart state can keep the orange but only if the eat it whole which means that the death stops and life begins space expands and god’s light shines another day instead of sending the dead out to fester in the streets, trust me europe saw it during the black death cossy name…back when there was some culture and elightenment “brewing” in the minds of those “few” who controlled everything of couse the brew thinned out and the black death didn’t go away completely, we just got used to it. we got used to throwing our dead out into the street cause we didn’t respect them or ourselves and we desided perhaps we shouldn’t be so open about telling people that we do this…so…here we are the plauge has s[read…the majority of people though a few bodies out into the streets every year…we forget that dead bodies feaster and make great soup for rats and fleas…and were left with increasing numbers of dead bodies being thrown into the street and cause of all the plauge we have shorter lives and have to reproduce faster to fill the place of the body tossers eventually we become single minded on tossing bodies and people accept better ways of tossing bodies… here today body tosser 2000 blood lust for everybody…:O) now theres god’s way where everybody gets the ever expanding orange and then theres bllod lust…the easiest way to deal with those lusting for blood IS TO KILL THEM SELVES and then they can take some infidels with them unfortuately the support of this procedure is not god’s way and happens to be a for of blood lust as well so karma being what it is…god send blessed oranges to thin out the infideals to cause true causulties for the lusters so that soon those supporting lusters killing themselves die from lack of blessings and people to bless them with food water air…god turns away until the blessed deside to bless the blood lusters that are trying to kill themslves and until the blessings spread to everybody to those who are dieing cause they support blood lusters killing themselves… now Bless you all Peace With You

#2504 Wed, 22 May 2002 22:15:56 Wed, 22 May 2002 22:15:55 Burning Man Update these west coast yuppy wusses have NOTHING on the orcs and burning elves! – Forwarded Message: Subj: BManUpV6: #20:05.22.02 D ate: 5/22/02 9:35:05 PM From: jackrabb itspeaks at burningman (Andie Grace) To: bman-announce at burningman JRS/6:20/05.22.02 95 Days until the Playa!! Jack Rabbit Speaks: from our (big) ears to your eyes. This weekend we learned somthing new: how great this community looks in blue. The Blue Ball was a smash! An afternoon of st rolling musicians and barbecue on the lawn was enjoyed by burners and their families, and at night, the Glass Palace was alive with ballroom waltzes, lovely operatic divas, bubbles, undersea art, fire performance, a singer wh o carved a Tiki god with an axe while his band performed, and many wonderfu l old friends and new faces. Thanks to the FlambC3A9 Lounge team and ever yone who chipped in to make it a truly memorable event. Today, we remind y ou to REGISTER YOUR THEME CAMP, and we bring you news about DRAKA THE DRAGO N from the work ranch in Nevada. CENTER CAMP CAFC389 says hello; we remin d you to VOTE IN THE WEBBIES; ask for your expertise for the SF OFFICE; an d we bring you news about Regional events and resources, and a Theme Camp fundraiser in SF. Hopefully, the new format is easy to read. Comments alwa ys welcome to jackrabbitspeaks at burningman. )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( “Once, twice… thrice, remember to bring spare keys to the playa!” BRC Playa Info Lock Out Team ) ‘( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( ***THEME CAMP REGISTRATION – Get On The Ball! ***DRAKA ENCOUNTERS A SERIO US CASE OF HEARTBURN ***GREETINGS FROM THE CENTER CAMP CAFC389 ****REMIND ER: VOTE FOR BURNINGMAN WEBBY ***OFFICE REQUEST: Sliding Walls? *****BO STON TRUCK SHARE AND WEEKLY MEETINGS ***: PLAYA DEL FUEGO is this w eekend! *****FLIPSIDE: Austin Burn: SOLD OUT! ****bianca*s FUNDRAISER IN SF ***ADMIN ON AND OFF )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )’ ( THEME CAMP REGISTRATION – Get On The Ball! Theme Campers – Have you fil led out your questionnaire for placement yet? If not,now is the time! Spac e is filling up and the questionnaire will be pulled from the web site on J une 15th. After that time no more submissions will be accepted. The person who fills the questionnaire out should be able to speak for your group, an d act a contact person between us and your group, before and on the playa. Please read all of the instructions first, preview the questionnaire, think about your answers and then fill it out. We place camps by the informati on given. The more accurate you are, the better we can assist you! Visit www2.burningman/tc/ to fill out your questionnaire. If you have questions, send them to themecamps at burningman. Thank you all! Harley )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( ) ‘( DRAKA ENCOUNTERS A SERIOUS CASE OF HEARTBURN (From Lisa Nigro, Ze Drago n Lady) What could have been just a small welding accident quickly turned into a blazing belly-o-fire for Draka last Tuesday evening, May 14th, just before dusk at Black Rock Station. Maybe the planetary alignment was to bla me? Live by the Fire, Die by the Fire? What ever the case may be, a spark i nspired Draka to transform herself once again. But the phoenix-from-the-fi re wishes to continue her flight. Draka is now accepting donations of any k ind. Please contact Lisa, zedragonlady at hotmail, to obtain a copy of her wish list or to volunteer to help in her resurrection. Also, check out pic s of Draka burning at brc-dpw.org/who/metric/020514-dragon. DRAKA 2 002 WISH LIST (Editor’s Note: Previously, Draka received partial funding f rom Burning Man. This year, Draka’s on her own, and is turning toward the c ommunity that loves her to fulfill her many needs to keep her alive. Here’s a long list of Dragon Wishes:) 1 ton box or flatbed Truck, Back Hoe, Fire Extinguishers (6), Fire Blankets, Plywood (1/4E2809Dx4x8E280 99), Cedar Shingles, Rugs, Polyurethane (semi-gloss), .030 & .035 Wire (for welding machines), Oxygen & Acetylene (for dragon repairs), Steel r od & Flat stock, Steel plate (1/2E2809D thick or less), Square tubing Boat Wynch(s), Pulleys, Rope (50-100 feet.1/2E2809D -1E2809D thic k), 6kw-Generator, Blood Red Paint, Green Paint, Spray Paint (Gold, Sil ver, Red, Blue and Green), Fabric Paint, Red Shimmery Fabric (for overhea d sun protection), Fabric (for curtains & bench skirting), Fabric (for fl ags), Tarps, Black Faux FUR, Cushions & Pillows, Lights (for interior & exterior), Sound System, Propane (for flame-thrower), Radios or CBs, B ull Horn, First Aid Kits, Safety Gear, Uniforms & Goggles, Fire Retarda nt Supplies, Tune-Up Supplies (oil, filters, points, plugs, belts, etc.), Automotive Battery, Battery Charger, Batteries (deep cycle marine for li ghting system), Control panel (for lighting system), 12v-DC Lights, wire & inverter, Kerosene, Smoke Bombs, L-Wire. (JRS wishes the Draka and th e Dragon all the best as she emerges from the flames!) )'( )'( )'( ) ‘( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( GREETINGS FROM THE CENTER CAMP CAFC389 Thanks to all the wonderful people pouring in to volunteer and help with the CafC3A9. Every year we expand the scope and vision of the CafC3A9 project and every year new families of artists and volunteers come together to make it happen. New and exciting plans are on t he rise at the CafC3A9 this year. If you are interested in volunteering at the largest temporary cafC3A9 in the world please contact cafC3A9-vo lunteers at burningman or check out web burningman/participate/ cafe for more information. Last year artist David Best created the fa bulous decoration that graced the coffee counters at the CafC3A9. This y ear we are looking for someone who will conceive, plan and create the artwo rk for the front of the CafC3A9 Coffee Counters. If you interested or hav e ideas please contact liv at burningman for more information. Our Spoken Word stage is looking for performers to put on short plays related to the event themes: water, navigation, the known vs. the unknown. Do these themes spark your creative verbal juices? Have you always wished to create and p resent an abbreviated, 3-person interpretation of The Tempest? Somthing el se original and appropriate? Contact cafe-spoken at burningman for more i nformation. Less than 100 days until we make it happen, CafC3A9 Crew )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( WEBBY AWARD: The People’s Voice – be heard! We’d like to remind you o nce more to take a moment to go vote for Burningman in the People’s VoiWebby Award! The deadline for voting is approaching on June 7. We think Burningman is at the heart of much of what we all do in Black Rock Cit y, and the wonderful webteam deserves a round of appreciation for their tir eless dedication to keeping it up-to-date and interesting. So please, consi der taking a moment to register and cast your vote: web webbyawards /peoplesvoice/ )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( BURNING MAN OFFICE: SEEKING SLIDING WALLS There’s a corner of the Zocalo (our central space in the new Burning Man digs) that w e’d like to transform. It would be a perfect spot for viewing videos (media clips and such), or having small side-meetings without dominating the whol e space. What we need to make that happen is temporary walls. We’ve seen th ese before – sliding walls that offer some soundproofing and separation to create a “room” where none existed before. However, we can’t seem to find a ny distributors! Know somthing about this thing we seek, and where to fin d them? Maybe your company has got some stacked up, ripe to donate? Write t o jackrabbitspeaks at burningman! )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )’ ( )'( )'( )'( *****BOSTON TRUCK SHARE AND WEEKLY MEETINGS****** *Mass achusetts *Every Wednesday *(Regional rideshare/resource) The BostonBurn group is organizing a round trip truck from Boston to BRC. If you live in t he New England area and need to get your stuff West, check out: bur ningtruck.chaoshacker.org/ for details and sign up. We also host a weekly Meet ‘n’ Greet gathering for the region. If you live in the area or just passing through, we would love to have you join us. You can find out the d ate and location of the next Wednesday gathering at: chaoshacker.or g/wiki/wiki.pl?MeetNGreet -wagner wagner at chaoshacker.org JRS reminds you: Visit the new Regionals Section at web burningman/blackrockcity tml and click on your own locat ion to find out more about connecting with other burners in your area.) )’ ( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( : PLAYA DEL FUEGO is this weekend! *****PLAYA DEL FUEGO: East Coast Community!****** *Delaware *Friday May 24th – Monday May 27th *(regional g athering) Playa Del Fuego is here! The eleventh gathering of the East Coa st Burning Man community offers “feasting, burning art, burning company, an d general craziness!” Advance tickets sales are done, but tickets will be available at the entrance of PDF on Friday, May 24 at noon when PDF starts. $35 bucks covers four days of playa vibe – a bargain! Playa del Fuego is burners camping and a way to spend your long full Memorial Day weekend, on land operated by folks who have served this country. Burners and Veterans mingle around the fire. Specifics, pictures, directions, exhortations, and celebrations are available from the pages within web playadelfuego. org. P A R T I C I P A T E ! Again, JRS reminds you: Visit the new Region als Section at web burningman/blackrockcityyearround/contacts/r tml and click on your own location to find out more ab out connecting with other burners in your area.) )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( *****FLIPSIDE: Austin B urn: SOLD OUT!***** *Texas *Friday May 24th – Monday May 27th *(Regional Ga thering) Burning Flipside 2002: Down the Rabbit Hole May 23-27, Dripping S prings, Texas We’re sold out! There just aren’t any more tickets left. We are excited by how our community has grown, but very regretful that we must limit the size of the event. Alas, Recreation Plantation can only support so many campers. Please do not travel out to the site if you aren’t a tick etholder; it would be a shame to disappoint you. It’s going to be tight as it is! web burnaustin.org Again, JRS reminds you: Visit the new Regionals Section at web burningman/blackrockcityyearround/contacts/regi tml and click on your own location to find out more abou t connecting with other burners in your area.) )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( *****bianca*s fundraiser* **** **Saturday May 25 *(Theme Camp fundraiser) bianca’s Bri ng May Flowers Saturday, May 25 8 pm ’till morning 2211 Mission at 18th, $15 presale-only tickets (find ’em at bianca.org/events/t ickets/) Invitation at bianca.org/upcoming/ bianca loves you. she r ealizes that it’s been a long, cold winter, and that summer’s warm nights a re on their way. she’s decided that May’s the time for her very first gath ering of the year. Time for all her friends to come together and share the ir love, make art, and of course shake lots of booty to plenty of shackgroo ve and grilled cheese. Get tickets soon bianca only has room for a few of her friends. Come bring a little love, and take more with you. )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( Tha nks, all (and especially new JRS bunny Suzie Robertson, who is helping to m ake sure your subscription requests don’t get lost in the shuffle. Welcome aboard and many thanks, Suzie!) See you next week! Your Wednesday girl, * AG* {Soundtrack to this JRS: Patty Griffin “1000 Kisses”; Sheldon Drake “S panglemad”….and a mixCD from last year someone sent to the office marked “FOR YOUR LISTENING ENJOYMENT (HOPEFULLY!)”. Who sent this? It’s a rad mix of old and new, perfect for working. Thank you, jackrabbitspeaks at burningman.c om (for questions and post requests) old rabbits: web burningman/black rockcityyearround/jrs/ On and off this ride – DIY: SUBSCRIBE: bman-announce-subscribe at burningm an You’ll get an email to which you must respond to complete the reque st. Andie Grace, Actiongrl Office of the Jack Rabbit web burningman “WE BURN IT SO WE CAN BUILD IT AGAIN!” usses have NOTHING on the orcs and burning elves! Forwarded Message: Subj: BManUpV6: #20:05.22.02 Da te: 5/22/02 9:35:05 PM From: jackrabbitspeaks at burningman (Andie Grace) To: &nb sbman-announce at burningman JRS/6:20/05.22.02 95 Days until the Playa!! Jack Rabbit Speaks: from our (big) ears to your eyes. This weekend we learned somthing new: how grea t this community looks in blue. The Blue Ball was a smash! An afternoon of strolling musicians and barbecue on the lawn was enjoyed by burners and their families, and at night, the Glass Palace was alive with ball room waltzes, lovely operatic divas, bubbles, undersea art, fire pe rformance, a singer who carved a Tiki god with an axe while his band pe rformed, and many wonderful old friends and new faces. Thanks to the Fl ambC3A9 Lounge team and everyone who chipped in to make it a truly me morable event. Today, we remind you to REGISTER YOUR THEME CAMP, a nd we bring you news about DRAKA THE DRAGON from the work ranch in Neva da. CENTER CAMP CAFC389 says hello; we remind you to VOTE IN THE WEBB IES; ask for your expertise for the SF OFFICE; and we bring you news a bout Regional events and resources, and a Theme Camp fundraiser in SF. Hopefully, the new format is easy to read. Comments always we lcome to jackrabbitspeaks at burningman. )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &nb sp;)'( “Once, twice… thrice, remember to bring spare keys to the playa!” BRC Playa Info Lock Out Team )'( )'( &nbs p;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( & nbsp;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )’ ( ***THEME CAMP REGISTRATION – Get On The Ball! ***DRAKA ENCOUNTERS A SERIOUS CASE OF HEARTBURN ***GREETINGS FROM THE CENTER CAM P CAFC389 ****: VOTE FOR BURNINGMAN WEBBY ***OFFICE R EQUEST: Sliding Walls? *****BOSTON TRUCK SHARE AND WEEKLY MEETINGS ***: PLAYA DEL FUEGO is this weekend! *****FLIPSIDE: Austin Bur n: SOLD OUT! ****bianca*s FUNDRAISER IN SF ***ADMIN ON AND OFF t;& lt; ;BURNING NEWS&l t; ; )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &nb s)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( T HEME CAMP REGISTRATION – Get On The Ball! Theme Campers – Have you filled out your questionnaire for placement yet? If not,now is t he time! Space is filling up and the questionnaire will be pulled from the web site on June 15th. After that time no more submissions will be accepted. The person who fills the questionnaire out should be ab le to speak for your group, and act a contact person between us and you r group, before and on the playa. Please read all of the instructions f irst, preview the questionnaire, think about your answers and then fill it out. We place camps by the information given. The more accurate you are, the better we can assist you! Visit www2.burningman/tc/ to fill out your questionnaire. If you have questions, send them to themecamps at burningman. Thank you all! Harley )'( )'( )'( )’ ( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'(   ;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( DRAKA ENC OUNTERS A SERIOUS CASE OF HEARTBURN (From Lisa Nigro, Ze Dragon Lady) What could have been just a small welding accident quickly turned into a blazing belly-o-fire for Draka last Tuesday evening, May 14th, B Rjust before dusk at Black Rock Station. Maybe the planetary alignment was to blame? Live by the Fire, Die by the Fire? What ever the case ma y be, a spark inspired Draka to transform herself once again. But the phoenix-from-the-fire wishes to continue her flight. Draka is now a ccepting donations of any kind. Please contact Lisa, zedragonlady at hotma il, to obtain a copy of her wish list or to volunteer to help in he r resurrection. Also, check out pics of Draka burning at brc-dpw .org/who/metric/020514-dragon. DRAKA 2002 WISH LIST (Edit or’s Note: Previously, Draka received partial funding from Burning Man. This year, Draka’s on her own, and is turning toward the community tha t loves her to fulfill her many needs to keep her alive. Here’s a long list of Dragon Wishes:) 1 ton box or flatbed Truck, Back Hoe, Fire Extinguishers (6), Fire Blankets, Plywood (1/4E2809Dx4x8 ), Cedar Shingles, Rugs, Polyurethane (semi-gloss), . 030 & .035 Wire (for welding machines), Oxygen & Acetylene (fo r dragon repairs), Steel rod & Flat stock, Steel plate (1/2E280 9D thick or less), Square tubing, Boat Wynch(s), Pulleys, Rope (50 -100 feet.1/2E2809D -1E2809D thick), 6kw-Generator, Blood Red Paint Green Paint, Spray Paint (Gold, Silver, Red, Blue and Green), Fabric Paint, Red Shimmery Fabric (for overhead sun protection), Fabr ic (for curtains & bench skirting), Fabric (for flags), Tarps, B lack Faux FUR, Cushions & Pillows, Lights (for interior & ext erior), Sound System, Propane (for flame-thrower), Radios or CBs, B ull Horn, First Aid Kits, Safety Gear, Uniforms & Goggles, Fire Retardant Supplies, Tune-Up Supplies (oil, filters, points, plugs, be lts, etc.), Automotive Battery, Battery Charger, Batteries (deep cyc le marine for lighting system), Control panel (for lighting system), 12v-DC Lights, wire & inverter, Kerosene, Smoke Bombs, L-Wire. (JRS wishes the Draka and the Dragon all the best as she emerges fr om the flames!) )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( GREET INGS FROM THE CENTER CAMP CAFC389 Thanks to all the wonderful pe ople pouring in to volunteer and help with the CafC3A9. Every year we expand the scope and vision of the CafC3A9 project and every year ne w families of artists and volunteers come together to make it happen. N ew and exciting plans are on the rise at the CafC3A9 this year. If you are interested in volunteering at the largest temporary cafC3 A9 in the world please contact cafC3A9-volunteers at burningman or check out web burningman/participate/cafe for more information. Last year artist David Best created the fabulous deco ration that graced the coffee counters at the CafC3A9. This yea r we are looking for someone who will conceive, plan and create the art work for the front of the CafC3A9 Coffee Counters. If you interested or have ideas please contact liv at burningman for more information. Our Spoken Word stage is looking for performers to put on short pla ys related to the event themes: water, navigation, the known vs. the B Runknown. Do these themes spark your creative verbal juices? Have yo u always wished to create and present an abbreviated, 3-person inte rpretation of The Tempest? Somthing else original and appropriate? &nb sp;Contact cafe-spoken at burningman for more information. Less t han 100 days until we make it happen, CafC3A9 Crew )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'(   ;)'( WEBBY AWARD: The People’s Voice – be heard! We’d lik e to remind you once more to take a moment to go vote for Burningman.co m in the People’s Voice Webby Award! The deadline for voting is approac hing on June 7. We think Burningman is at the heart of much of what we all do in Black Rock City, and the wonderful webteam deserves a round of appreciation for their tireless dedication to keeping it up- to-date and interesting. So please, consider taking a moment to registe r and cast your vote: web webbyawards/peoplesvoice/ )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &nb sp;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( BURNING MAN OFFICE: SEEKING SL IDING WALLS There’s a corner of the Zocalo (our central space in t he new Burning Man digs) that we’d like to transform. It would be a per fect spot for viewing videos (media clips and such), or having small si de-meetings without dominating the whole space. What we need to make th at happen is temporary walls. We’ve seen these before – sliding walls t hat offer some soundproofing and separation to create a “room” where no ne existed before. However, we can’t seem to find any distributors! Know somthing about this thing we seek, and where to find them? Maybe your company has got some stacked up, ripe to donate? Write to ja ckrabbitspeaks at burningman! )'( )'( )'(  )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &n bs)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( ;&l t; ONAL EVENTS &g gt; )'( )'( )'( )'( &nb sp;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( *****BOSTON TR UCK SHARE AND WEEKLY MEETINGS****** *Massachusetts *Every Wednesday *(Regional rideshare/resource) The BostonBurn group is organi zing a round trip truck from Boston to BRC. If you live in the Ne w England area and need to get your stuff West, check out: burningtruck.chaoshacker.org/ for details and sign up. W e also host a weekly Meet ‘n’ Greet gathering for the region. If you live in the area or just passing through, we would love to have you join us. You can find out the date and location of the next Wedne sday gathering at: chaoshacker.org/wiki/wiki.pl?MeetNGreet -wagner wagner at chaoshacker.org JRS reminds you: Visit the new Regionals Section at web burningman/blackrockcityy and click on your own location to find out more about connecting with other burners in yo ur area.) )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( ) ‘( )'( )'( )'( : PLAYA DEL F UEGO is this weekend! *****PLAYA DEL FUEGO: East Coast Community!****** *Delaware *Friday May 24th – Monday May 27th *(regional gather ing) Playa Del Fuego is here! The eleventh gathering of t he East Coast Burning Man community offers “feasting, burning art, burn ing company, and general craziness!” Advance tickets sales are do ne, but tickets will be available at the entrance of PDF on Friday, May 24 at noon when PDF starts. $35 bucks covers four days of playa vibe – a bargain! Playa del Fuego is burners camping and a way to spend your long full Memorial Day weekend, on land operated by folks wh o have served this country. Burners and Veterans mingle around the fire . Specifics, pictures, directions, exhortations, and celebrations are available from the pages within web playadelfuego.org. P A R T I C I P A T E ! Again, JRS reminds you: Visit the new Regionals Section at web burningman/blackrockcityyearround and click on your own location to fin d out more about connecting with other burners in your area.) )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &nb sp;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( *****FLIPSIDE: Austin Burn: SOLD OUT!*** ** *Texas *Friday May 24th – Monday May 27th *(Regional Gatheri ng) Burning Flipside 2002: Down the Rabbit Hole May 23-27, Dri pping Springs, Texas We’re sold out! There just aren’t any mor e tickets left. We are excited by how our community has grown, but very regretful that we must limit the size of the event. Alas, Recrea tion Plantation can only support so many campers. Please do not travel out to the site if you aren’t a ticketholder; it would be a shame to di sappoint you. It’s going to be tight as it is! web burnaustin. org Again, JRS reminds you: Visit the new Regionals Section at ts and click on your own location to find out more about con necting with other burners in your area.) )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( ) ‘( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &nbs p;)'( *****bianca*s fundraiser***** **Saturd ay May 25 *(Theme Camp fundraiser) bianca’s Bring May Flowers Saturday, May 25 8 pm ’till morning 2211 Mission at 18th, San Fr ancisco $15 presale-only tickets (find ’em at bianca.org/events/ tickets/) Invitation at bianca.org/upcoming/ bianca lov es you. she realizes that it’s been a long, cold winter, and that s ummer’s warm nights are on their way. she’s decided that May’s the time for her very first gathering of the year. Time for all her friends to come together and share their love, make art, and of cou rse shake lots of booty to plenty of shackgroove and grilled cheese. B R Get tickets soon bianca only has room for a few of her friend s. Come bring a little love, and take more with you. )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( &n bsp;)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( Thanks, all (and especially new JR S bunny Suzie Robertson, who is helping to make sure your subscription requests don’t get lost in the shuffle. Welcome aboard and many thanks, Suzie!) See you next week! Your Wednesday girl, *AG* {Soundtrack to this JRS: Patty Griffin “1000 Kisses”; Sheldon Dra ke “Spanglemad”….and a mixCD from last year someone sent to the offic e marked “FOR YOUR LISTENING ENJOYMENT (HOPEFULLY!)”. Who sent this? B RIt’s a rad mix of old and new, perfect for working. Thank you, whoeve lt; t; ; jackrabbitspeaks at burningman (for questions and post requests) old rabbits: web burningman/ blackrockcityyearround/jrs/ On and off this ride – DIY: UNSUB SUBSCRIBE: bman-announ ce-subscribe at burningman You’ll get an email to which you must respond to complete the request. Andie Grace, Actiongrl Office of the Jack Rabbit web bu rningman “WE BURN IT SO WE CAN BUILD IT AGAIN!”

#2505 Thu, 23 May 2002 14:35:24 Thu, 23 May 2002 14:35:24 Fwd: [infornography] 5/24-26, Loseada Festival of Arts

#2506 Thu, 23 May 2002 15:29:55 Thu, 23 May 2002 15:29:54 Fwd: :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: I will be audi – print flyer for reduced

#2507 Thu, 23 May 2002 17:29:55 Thu, 23 May 2002 17:29:55 Fwd: free techno party, open bar Saturday 2 good 2 b true?

#2508 Tue, 28 May 2002 06:21:50 Tue, 28 May 2002 06:21:50 Synthetic Sadhus June 8 Saturday, June 8th NY, NY Synthetic Sadhus presents: EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -ITALY) Live RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) BANZI (Growling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY) LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAEL) YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTIONS NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY ALL Ages EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am / NY, NY Synthetic Sadhus presents: EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -ITALY) Live RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) BANZI (Growling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY) LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAEL) YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND SYSTEMS By MUSIC FIRST PRODUCTIONS NEW AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY ALL Ages EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am /

#2509 Tue, 28 May 2002 06:23:29 Tue, 28 May 2002 06:23:29 Fwd: Philadelphia Friday GAIAN MIND at LaTazza 108 May 30

#2510 Tue, 28 May 2002 13:51:30 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Helloooooo!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests in this summer. Come and enjoy with us…. everybody welcome!!!! Dj Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Isam(Symbionyc-Spectra) Jamin(Spectra) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 Thanks!! Love and Light Angeles fifaworldcup.yahoo

#2511 Thu, 30 May 2002 11:56:47 Thu, 30 May 2002 11:56:46 Pschedule NEWS Lord of the Rings was successful, refreshingly free of lurkers.. We decked the d Bubble out with a disco light. But the Orcs didn’t get to play because the CDJs were missing on Friday – so they will be playing at an underground psy-trance party TBA on the Safetydance list. Vinyl changing name to Club ARC (what does THAT stand for?) Roof now open at Shelter New List Policy There will be absolutely only psy-trance events on Brainmachines/Pschedule. Non psy-trance events which are above ground/commercial will be posted on PersonalBest. $25/year. Underground events of all sorts are posted on Safetydance. Free but restricted to those we know. Events: 5/31 FRIDAY -NYC – Wylie probably doing an underground party but not at his house – location will be announced on the SafetyDance list Philly – G A I A N M I N D Monthly Philly’s Premier Psychedelic Trance Party! Resident DJs: ALLEN (Gaian Mind/Metropolis Records, Philadelphia) HATARI (Gaian Mind, Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND Fluorowear by MEGHAN & ANDY Friday, May 31st, 2002 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind (coming soon…) June 1 Saturday -TSUNAMI continues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: YONI (History of the Future)from 2am-6am WITH HIS FULL-ON EUPHORIC TRANCE THAT HAS MADE HIM THE MOST BELOVED US TRANCE DJ. Dj Unknown PSYCHODOG Cool down and chill on the SHELTER Roof! at the new SHELTER -20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am ADMISSION:$20/$15 WITH FLYER OR PRINT OUT OF THIS BRAINMACHINES INVITE! Tickets also available in advance at HOMEOF TRANCE- 122 ST.MARKS PLACE for 13.00 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce//212-439-8124 June 4 Freaky Tuesday at Who’s on First, a sports bar on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your bartender. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Considering the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if the tracks are psychedelic here, then they are definitely psychedelic. June 5 Wednesday -PYRAMID GREETINGS ALL!!! thank you to all who came at PYRAMID on may 22 it wouldn’t be possible without you!! this coming june we bring you more of our local talen this time we have for you….. LOCATION PYRAMIDS 101 AVE.A BET 6-7 DJ’S LINE OPEN AT 10PM-4AM 18 TO PARTY 21 TO DRINK +ID It’s a FREE!!!party but we also acept donations anything you could give will be appreciated……peace PS: we have for june 19 a good line up i will keep you all posted… Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd ave -June 8th Synthetic Sadhus Eat Static & Growling Mad Scientists To all trancers, movers & groovers : The SYNTHETIC SADHUS party of Friday May 03 was been cancelled due to technical problems. But we have the pleasure to announce that we are moving to an amazing new venue for our next event! On SATURDAY JUNE 08 2002, SYNTHETIC SADHUS are proud to present : TIP RECORDS LABEL PARTY !! Featuring : EAT STATIC (Tip Records – MesmoBeat – UK) Live !! GROWLING MAD SCIENTISTS (Tip Records – Spun Records -ITALY) Live !! RAJA RAM (Tip Records – Cyberbabas – UK) !! BANZI (Growling Mad Scientists – Tip Records -ITALY)!! LIRAN (Ohm-Mega Records – ISRAEL) ! YONI (Home Of Trance – ISRAEL) ! Psychedelic Art by : BRAHMA (Tip Records – UK) !! & SYNTHETIC SADHUS (NYC) OUTDOOR Chill-Out By : SYNTHETIC SADHUS Featuring: KEN (Synthetic Sadhus – NYC) JASON (Subtle Chaos – NYC) DECOMPRESSION (NYC) SOUND AMAZING VIRGIN LOCATION in the CITY !! ALL Ages EVENT, Doors : 10pm – 8am ! Watch out for the full flyer coming out soon EVERYWHERE !! More Detailed INFOS to be announced on this site VERY SOON !! IN TRANCE WE TRUST !The Sadhus June 8 Swedish Space Invader Will Land In DC at Ultraworld’s Starscape Festival 2002 (Ft.Armistead Park, Maryland) he’s headlining the new Psytrance stage (brought to you by Psychokinetics): SRange – Spiral Trax – Sweden – Performing Live with DJs: Ghreg On Earth – Spectral Concepts – SF Valerio Zhyin – PsyClone – Brazil Wild Bill – Psychokinetics – DC Elektronkind – Psychokinetics – Baltimore Cyzum (aka DJ Hybrid) web eastcoasthappy $40 (get them in adv. b/c they WILL sell out) for more info visit web ultraworld.net/SS2k2traworld: web ultraworld.net SRange: web s-range – June 11 – Tues – d Gemini Birthday Celebration May 21- June 21 Invite every twin you know. Two for one drink specials. Your evil twin, Invite your nemesis. M-ent of Silence for the Twin Towers. Possible location: Twins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to June 14 – -nitribe? June 15 – Saturday – Trance Party in Mexico! web psycraft site up May 6 COSMIC TRAVELER Presents A B D U C T I O N A Journey into Another Dimension… Come Explore a Musical Evolution, the Realm of Goa and Psy-Trance! Featured Acts: HATARI – Gaian Mind, Philadelphia DERBY – PTLF, Touch Samadhi, Chicago 604NAUT – PTLF, Chicago Psychedelic UV scenery! 10pm until… $10 18+ w/ ID Columbus, OH, USA Info: (614)-470-3974 Directions: web cosmictraveler Please come with a positive attitude … Hare Hare Mahadev, Ohm Namah Shivaya! SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc- es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gathering in Croatia 21-22/06/2002web trancepleme.cjb.net -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) -July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Vinyl INFECTED Mushroom and TICON -July 9 – Tues – d Cancer Birthday Celebration June 22-July 22 Crab cakes. Crabby people. Possible location: Maryland Crabs To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to -“September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in life is ri ch in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. SFACE”Wingdings” LANG”0-e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Lord of the Rings was successful, refreshingly free of lurkers.. We decked the d Bubble out with a disco light. But the Orcs didn’t get to play because the CDJs were missing on Friday – so they will be playing at an underground psy-trance party TBA on the Safetydance list. Vinyl changing name to Club ARC (what does THAT stand for?) Roof now open at Shelter New List Policy There will be absolutely only psy-trance events on Brainmachines/Pschedule. 5/31 FRIDAY Philly – G A I A N M I N D Monthly Philly’s Premier Psychedelic Trance Party! Resident DJs: ALLEN (Gaian Mind/Metropolis Records, Philadelphia) HATARI (Gaian Mind, Philadelphia) UV Decor by GAIAN MIND Fluorowear by MEGHAN & ANDY Friday, May 31st, 2002 9pm-2am $7 cover ($5 before 11pm) 21+ w/ ID at LaTazza 108 108 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA, USA web Gaian-Mind (coming soon…) June 1 Saturday YONI (History of the Future)from 2am-6am WITH HIS FULL-ON EUPHORIC TRANCE THAT HAS MADE HIM THE MOST BELOVED US TRANCE DJ. Dj Unknown PSYCHODOG Cool down and chill on the SHELTER Roof! at the new SHELTER -20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. 11pm till 11am ADMISSION:$20/$15 WITH FLYER OR PRINT OUT OF THIS BRAINMACHINES INVITE! Tickets also available in advance at HOMEOF TRANCE- 122 ST.MARKS PLACE for 13.00 *SPECIAL THANKS TO HOME OF TRANCE! ce//212-439-8124 June 5 Wednesday It’s a FREE!!!party but we also acept donations anything you could give will be appreciated……peace PS: we have for june 19 a good line up i will keep you all posted… June 15 – Saturday – Trance Party in Mexico! web psycraft site up May 6 COSMIC TRAVELER Presents A B D U C T I O N A Journey into Another Dimension… Come Explore a Musical Evolution, the Realm of Goa and Psy-Trance! Featured Acts: HATARI – Gaian Mind, Philadelphia DERBY – PTLF, Touch Samadhi, Chicago 604NAUT – PTLF, Chicago Psychedelic UV scenery! 10pm until… $10 18+ w/ ID Columbus, OH, USA Info: (614)-470-3974 Directions: web cosmictraveler Please come with a positive attitude … Hare Hare Mahadev, Ohm Namah Shivaya! June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gathering in Croatia 21-22/06/2002web trancepleme.cjb.net August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California Labor Day – Burning Man This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ sponsored by EarthDance Org…

#2512 Thu, 30 May 2002 22:35:19 Thu, 30 May 2002 22:35:19 Fwd: West Virginia – correction – Maataa Mandaara 2002 Cc: tranceamericas

#2513 Fri, 31 May 2002 00:19:17 Fri, 31 May 2002 00:19:17 Fwd: location of synthetic sadhus Party Saturday june 8th 2002!

#2515 Fri, 31 May 2002 12:44:38 Fri, 31 May 2002 12:44:37 Fwd: Outside House Music Sunday in Billyburg

#2516 Fri, 31 May 2002 12:46:42 Fri, 31 May 2002 12:46:41 Fwd: summer outdoor activities in NYC…. not a virus, an “above ground” list of outdoor non-trance events

June 2002

#2517 Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:32:25 Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:32:25 Fwd: interesting music Monday tonite at jivamukti yoga…

#2519 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:19:34 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:19:34 Fwd: Synthetic Sadhus TIP records label Party Saturday june 8th 2002!

#2520 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:25:48 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:25:47 Tsunami Saturday it’s all the info I have!

#2521 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:03:24 Chiletrance Wednesdays, Goodbye Party for ISAM!! From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. This Wednesday nights we are doing a “Goodbye Party” for our Resident Dj,friend, Party dancer, etc……..Isam. And for this night we have a Special trance “DJ” coming from Atlanta.!!!!!!! Is going to be a great night with all this other djs…e don’t miss this.! Djs Angeles(Chiletrance) Gavin(Spectra) Nick(Synthetic Sadhus) Isam(Spectra-Symbionyc) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 No Cover. Thanks! Love and Light Angeles fifaworldcup.yahoo

#2522 Tsunami Saturday Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:12:59 From: “Jed Lewis” jed at jednetHey Everyone; I’m Jed and new to the group. FYI I run web tranceact and post the Tsunami info weekly. This week’s event is here: web tranceact/index.cfm?sid7&aid25&eventid1704 Thanks and have fun!! Jed.

#2523 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:03:56 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:03:56 Salvia in the Streets in Nueva York i went down to the new mexican deli today on church avenue and was pleasantly surprised to see SALVIA as one of the many esoteric indigenous herbs….. smells right, big bag two dollars… whether it’s really salvia divinorum or a salvia herb(?), we shall see with the tea!

#2524 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:06:01 Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:06:01 Fwd: [MeteorShowers] June 15/16 Meteors – The Arietids

#2525 Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:51:13 Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:51:12 Trance in Bulgaria August link web xpo2002/

#2526 Wed, 22 May 2002 21:49:08 burn the bridges of the past….there is no god……. From: “jonpayer604” jonpayer at hotmailbeyond freedom and everything now…. rid yourself of all lables: identities, nationalities, religions free the mind…. silencio there is a new activity that comes from the silencing of the mind the beginning of true spirituality we are beings of perception learn to perceive with your entire body eliminate the interpretation mechanism of the mind learn to perceive the unknown – reinterpret the flow of energy with your complete being – intend it when people run in circles its a very very mad world (as illustrated by waring religious states etc…) the mind which should have only a limitted roll in interpreting the flow of energy in the universe has been over-emphasised… the mind (the past) is the known – reinterpret the flow (the unknown) without the mind – this is the beginning of freedom and beyond…. 911 was not an attack against “America” it is the number for emergency see beyond the (ir)rationality of the erroneous politcal dialog between countries and leaders with damaged minds… they are badly wired robots trapped in their own dogmas and ideologies running circles thru the programs of the past your true kitty, LuciferSamSiamCat meow meow meow quack..:

#2528 Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:12:46 Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:12:46 Tsunami is OUT for two weeks “Due to construction we are not doing TRANCEFORMATION on June8th or 15th. Flyer for TRANCEFORMATION June 22nd as well as for INFECTED MUSHROOM on Wednesday, July 3rd at the new Club ARC (former Vinyl) with it’s new generation of Phazon sound system and much more, will be out in two days.”

#2529 Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:18:04 Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:18:04 Greece in July Hey there!!! Just wanted to let you know about a super festival taking place this summer in Greece!! Could you please put this on your events calander, or forward to your mailing list?? Sola Luna Festival 2002 26-29th JULY 2002 Camping Mt Olympus, Skotina Pierias Greece 3 Stages hosting to psytrance, tech-trance/techno, tech-funk/ambient, freestyle music. And held in the ancient home of the 12 Greek gods! This year the trance stage will be 4 days of non-stop music! Tickets are on sale now!! Please check out the website of more information- web solalunafestival thanks so much big smiles to ya SLT ))) Just wanted to let you know about a super festival taking place this summer in Greece!! Could you please put this on your events calander, or forward to your mailing list?? Sola Luna Festival 2002 26-29th JULY 2002 Camping Mt Olympus, Skotina Pierias Greece 3 Stages hosting to psytrance, tech-trance/techno, tech-funk/ambient, freestyle music. And held in the ancient home of the 12 Greek gods! This year the trance stage will be 4 days of non-stop music! Tickets are on sale now!! Please check out the website of more information- web solalunafestival thanks so much big smiles to ya SLT )))

#2530 Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:33:44 Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:33:43 Pschedule NEWS Lurkers beware – There’s been a lot of weekend activity that is too underground f or this list. Synthetic Sadhus put on a great show at the new location. Ou t of necessity people are tripping off on the vibe itself… wow. The Zodi ac monthly events have been postponed for several months now, until certai n things are taken care of. As of this writing there is nothing going on t his weekend, unless Omnitribe goes ahead with one on Friday. Events: Jun e 15 – Saturday – Mexico – web psycraft Ohio – COSMIC TRAVELER Prese nts A B D U C T I O N A Journey into Another Dimension… Come Explore a M usical Evolution, the Realm of Goa and Psy-Trance! Featured Acts: HATARI – Gaian Mind, Philadelphia DERBY – PTLF, Touch Samadhi, Chicago 604NAUT – P TLF, Chicago Psychedelic UV scenery! 10pm until… $10 18+ w/ ID Columbus OH, USA Info: (614)-470-3974 Directions: web cosmictraveler Please come with a positive attitude … Hare Hare Mahadev, Ohm Namah Shivaya! June 19 Wednesday PYRAMID 101 AVE.A BET 6-7ST DJ’S LINEUP:…MIKE SOCH{BURN DECORATION BY::PSYTHON {psython is one of the most promesing artis around his art has been seen at alex gray benefit,pyramid 10PM-4AM 18 TO PARTY 21 TO DRINK +ID, $3 COVER, $2BEER ALL NIGHT!! SUMMER – June 21 9:24am Summer Solstice In many cultu res, the coming of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, f riendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, a nd strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, a lso called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Ch ristian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This c elebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything tha t shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zen ith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc- es his p resence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protec tion, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the pe rfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks thi s holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that thi s is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power a nd the flowering Godess of Spring welc-es his presence. Sex Magic is power ful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season. The peaceful blue color of the La pis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as well as psychic awar eness. June 21st – On Friday, 7:30 p.m. at NYC’s Open Center there will b e an evening lecture given by Alex Grey… “The Art of Alex Grey: Transfi gurations”… Join internationally renowned artist, Alex Grey, for a vision ary journey through the anatomy of the Soul… Grey is best known for his paintings of iple layers of reality and reveal the complex integration of body, mind, s oul and spirit… Transfiguration is the process of the body/mind becoming translucent to the light of Spirit, or transparent to the sacred groun of being… This occurence of beholding and becoming “the light” or “sacred ground” is a phenomenon that exists in all mystical traditions… To crea te a picture of the process of transfiguration is somthing which Grey has been engaged in for the past twenty three years… Grey will discuss his performance work and the paintings which comprise his books ‘Sacred Mirror s’, ‘The Mission of Art’ and ‘Transfigurations’… June 21-24 Solstice Fe stival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 Ts unami at Shelter, DJ Miko (California Sunshine) and Yoni and Shijtec 212-4 39-8124 SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gathering in Croatia 21-22/06/200 2web trancepleme.cjb.net -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawber ry/Rose/Hot Moon) June 29 Hungary Boom Records, Neurosmic Records & Cosmi cord presents in cooperation with DNS: Nature is calling – A psychedelic t rance experience 29/06/2002 – Garancsi lake, 25 km from Budapest Live on S tage: Rastaliens (BNE, Ger) Quadra (Neurosmic Rec., USA) Metronome (Neuros mic Rec., SWE) Quantum State (Boom Rec., HU) Raven (Binary Network, HU) Dj ‘s spin the world: Matt Boom (Boom Rec., NL) B[al]ence (Neurosmic Rec., HU )Danger (Procyon Rec., HU) MCG vs Danee (Cosmicord, HU) Chill & Chai: Bara ka Live MCG Mood Oleg BB303 Deko: ArTrance Deko DNS Special Installs Palo (SK) – live performance (Realtime painting) Live VJ Set by Perplex (CZ)+ C sigateahE1z, SpaceBar Come and celebrate with us on this beautiful locatio n, feel what you like to feel! “Live in harmony with the nature, believe t he power of your thought…” Infoline: +3620 490 17 62 More info & flyer: web goa.hu/nature Boooooooom Shankar, Danee -July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Vinyl INFECTED Mushroom and TICON July 12 – 14 MAATAA MANDAARA 2002 in We st Virginia You are invited to join us in a beautiful field in the Apalachi an Mountains of West Virginia for a full weekend of psychedelic trance. Co me and enjoy great music, fresh air, a Sunday afternoon vegetarian feast a nd West Virginia’s only Palace of Gold! DJs/Artists ALLEN – Gaian Mi nd/Metropolis Records, Philadelphia, PA KRI – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville NC HATARI – Gaian Mind, Philadelphia, PA DERBY – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi/PTLF, Chicago, IL ELECTRIC MAYHEM – Sidetrakkt Productions, Pittsburgh, PA FUSE – M-Labs, Philadelphia, PA (Live PA) Fire and Performance Tranceform Venus – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC Sound, Deco & Lighting Ga ian Mind Location New Vrindaban, North America’s largest Hare Krishna community, near Moundsville, WV. Please respect the community’s rules: -n o meat eating: if you bring your own food, please do not bring meat. -no i ntoxication: please do not smoke in the temple area. -no illicit sexual r elations -no gambling Everyone is welcome to come to New Vrindaban early or stay late. You can: -take a tour of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold -visit the Goshalla and learn how to milk a cow -visit the temple and see the Darsha n (deities) -buy organic food or browse Krishna’s Attic: A Transcendental thrift store for more info: web newvrindaban Price $30 event ent rance/one night’s stay in an on-site Guest Lodge with full bathrooms (addi tional nights $15 per night, children $10, infants free) OR $20 event entra nce/camping. Please note there are no restroom facilities available for ca mpers. Meals Vegetarian Indian meals are available at the temple. Pl ease make a suitable donation. Stay until Sunday afternoon and join the fe ast! RSVP Please RSVP to lavouivre at yahoo with full names of every one coming (for the security list). You will get a confirmation with direc tions/arrival info. -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder /Hay Moon) Juny 26-29 Greece Sola Luna Festival 2002 Camping Mt Olympus, Skotina Pierias Greece 3 Stages hosting to psytrance, tech-trance/techno tech-funk/ambient, freestyle music. And held in the ancient home of the 12 Greek gods! This year the trance stage will be 4 days of non-stop music ! Tickets are on sale now!! Please check out the website of more informati on- web solalunafestival -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location : White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyin’ To enter your birt hday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/gro up/SafetyDance/calendar August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.n u Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Fu ll Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man -Sept 10 – Tue s – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-September 22 Virgin bloody m aries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celeb rate with us go to -” September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon) Aut umn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With only 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, wh ether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator a nd heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festival s, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrate the magnificant bal ance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are gr eat s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of s ummer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none wil l last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselve s in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to fruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older o nes die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerland. Every event in lif e is ri ch in purpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own s pecial character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would ne ver achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m-ent of power and chan ge, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater than him or herself. SF we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec -e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is as sociated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the f estivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other pl ants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending o n when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, a nd put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a hu ge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and str eam stones gathered over the summer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ – Oct 8 – T ues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible locati on: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebr ate with us go to – O ct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Tr avel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Sam hain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpion Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Sa fetyDance/calendar Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reu ters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he d ries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ve n- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes,” he said when asked i f the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smok e dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quetta is a good place to f ind scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-filled field of t-bstones a nd corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molded from the pale dirt o f the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Mus lim prayers ring out across the city on the other. In the middle, in the r uins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disd ained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pak istan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Raza, a mechanical engi neer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party t imed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solareclips – Dec 10 – Tu es – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22-December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice the Realm of Goa and Psy-Trance! Featured Acts: HATARI – Gaian Mind, Phil adelphia DERBY – PTLF, Touch Samadhi, Chicago 604NAUT – PTLF, Chicago Psych edelic UV scenery! 10pm until… $10 18+ w/ ID Columbus, OH, USA Info : (614)-470-3974 Directions: web cosmictraveler Please come with a positive attitude … Hare Hare Mahadev, Ohm Namah Shivaya! June 19 Wednesday DECORATI ON BY::PSYTHON {psython is one of the most promesing artis around his art h M 18 TO PARTY 21 TO DRINK +ID, $3 COVER, $2BEER ALL NIGHT!! 21 9:24am Summer Solstice rriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical e nergy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Sols tice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. ( The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) T volving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most succe ssful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily ev oked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protec tive glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Hor ned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magi cal energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the long est day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. P ight is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers o f light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set afla me by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the t ime when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flow owerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha ni ue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as wel l as psychic awareness. 7:30 p.m. at NYC’s Open Center there will be an evening lecture given by Alex Grey… “The Art of Alex Grey: Transfigurations”… rney through the anatomy of the Soul… Grey is best known for his painting rs of reality and reveal the complex integration of body, mind, soul and sp irit… Transfiguration is the process of the body/mind becoming translucen t to the light of Spirit, or transparent to the sacred groun of being… &n bsp;This occurence of beholding and becoming “the light” or “sacred ground” is a phenomenon that exists in all mystical traditions… To create a pict ure of the process of transfiguration is somthing which Grey has been enga ged in for the past twenty three years… Grey will discuss his performance work and the paintings which comprise his books ‘Sacred Mirrors’, ‘The MisJune 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 Tsunami at Shelter, DJ Miko (Calif ornia Sunshine) and Yoni and Shijtec 212-439-8124 SOLSTITIUM tranc e summer beach gathering in Croatia 21-22/06/2002web trancepleme.cjb. net ian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) 29 Hungary osmicord presents in cooperation with DNS: Nature is calling – A psychedeli c trance experience 29/06/2002 – Garancsi lake, 25 km from Budapest Liv e on Stage: Rastaliens (BNE, Ger) Quadra (Neurosmic Rec., USA) Metronome (N eurosmic Rec., SWE) Quantum State (Boom Rec., HU) Raven (Binary Network, HU ) Dj’s spin the world: Matt Boom (Boom Rec., NL) B[al]ence (Neurosmic Rec., HU)Danger (Procyon Rec., HU) MCG vs Danee (Cosmicord, HU) Chill & Chai : Baraka Live MCG Mood Oleg BB303 Deko: ArTrance Deko DNS Special Installs Palo (SK) – live performance (Realtime painting) Live VJ Set by Perplex (CZ )+ CsigateahE1z, SpaceBar Come and celebrate with us on this beautiful loc ation, feel what you like to feel! “Live in harmony with the nature, believ e the power of your thought…” Infoline: +3620 490 17 62 More info & f B RYou are invited to join us in a beautiful field in the Apalachian Mountai ns of West Virginia for a full weekend of psychedelic trance. Come and enjo y great music, fresh air, a Sunday afternoon vegetarian feast and West Virg inia’s only Palace of Gold! DJs/Artists ALLEN – Gaian Mind/Metrop olis Records, Philadelphia, PA KRI – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC HATARI – Gaian Mind, Philadelphia, PA DERBY – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi/PTLF, Chicago, IL ELECTRIC MAYHEM – Sidetrakkt Productions, Pittsburgh, PA FUSE – M-Labs, Philadelphia, PA (Live PA) Fire and Performance Trancefo rm Venus – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC Sound, Deco & Light ing Gaian Mind Location New Vrindaban, North America’s largest Hare Krishna community, near Moundsville, WV. Please respect the commu nity’s rules: -no meat eating: if you bring your own food, please do not br ing meat. -no intoxication: please do not smoke in the temple area. -n o illicit sexual relations -no gambling Everyone is welcome to come to New Vrindaban early or stay late. You can: -take a tour of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold -visit the Goshalla and learn how to milk a cow -visit the temple and see the Darshan (deities) -buy organic food or browse Krishn a’s Attic: A Transcendental thrift store for more info: web newvrindaban.co m Price $30 event entrance/one night’s stay in an on-site Guest L odge with full bathrooms (additional nights $15 per night, children $10 infants free) OR $20 event entrance/camping. Please note there are no restroom facilities available for campers. Meals Vegetarian Ind ian meals are available at the temple. Please make a suitable donation. Sta y until Sunday afternoon and join the feast! RSVP Please RSVP to lavouivre at yahoo with full names of everyone coming (for the securit y list). You will get a confirmation with directions/arrival info. (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) Juny 26-29 Greece Sola Luna Festival 2002 erias Greece 3 Stages hosting to psytrance, tech-trance/techno, tech- funk/ambient, freestyle music. And held in the ancient home of the 12 Greek gods! This year the trance stage will be 4 days of non-stop music! Ti ckets are on sale now!! Please check out the website of more information- & nbsp;web solalunafestival Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Ly in’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to http:/ August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-1 7 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California ndian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burnin g Man ration August 23-September 22 ster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/SafetyDance/ calendar September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/Corn/Barley Moon)hs left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c ds or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months . When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we a s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all things be balance d by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned themselves in the r and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass in nd meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special character. Ritua ls connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the grea ter life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season an d do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even the most e would say that in these moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside our re powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, Go This fes tival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melt ed parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on Colors used for candle s should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of materia l with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can e mpowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind S tates Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ Celebration September 23-October 22 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possibl To enter your b irthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to ct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party for Peace… spons ored by EarthDance Org… ndian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) F Junkies and G et High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, G hulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pak ded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slop e on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. I n the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends s pend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies i n Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away f rom the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them wi ll get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says Ra za, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of d rugs after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he wa s shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their dru g money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police com e and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakistani ju nkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter.

#2531 Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:50:03 Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:50:02 Closer to understanding why Smart ds work this also explains why you can’t take smart ds on an ongoing basis – overexcitation. from web cosmicuniverse New Insight into Function of Memory Enhancing ds May 16, 2002 8:40 CDT Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have come one step closer to understanding how experimental, memory-enhancing ds affect the brain on a molecular level. The researchers published their results in the May 16 issue of Nature. The finding provides an important insight into the mechanisms that regulate the sensitivity of brain cells to neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that the cells use to communicate with one another. “Learning how neurons respond to neurotransmitters is important not only to understanding basic brain functioning, but also may one day lead to new insight into a variety of new therapies,” said Duane Alexander, Director of the NICHD. Like a key fits into a lock, neurotransmitters fit into specific sites, or receptors, studding the surface of brain cells. In an elaborate relay system, a cell that is excited by one neurotransmitter will, in turn, release neurotransmitters of its own. These affect still other cells, which, in turn, release more neurotransmitters, and so on. In this way, messages are transmitted throughout the brain’s various mental circuits. The researchers studied one of the glutamate receptors, found throughout the brain and involved in numerous learning and memory processes. Whether in the brain or in laboratory cultures, many receptors show reduced activity when exposed to higher-than-normal amounts of a neurotransmitter, a process called desensitization. Essentially, the cells become less sensitive to the effects of neurotransmitters. According to an NICHD author of the paper, Mark Mayer, head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, the researchers biochemically isolated one part of the glutamate receptor and determined its structure at the atomic level. They then designed altered, or mutant, receptors and determined their atomic structures as well. By observing how the ds interacted with both mutant and normal receptors, the researchers could gain more insight into how the ds interact with the receptor, and into the process of desensitization. They found that experimental ds, known as allosteric modulators, regulate desensitization by binding to a second site on the receptor separate from the binding site for glutamate itself. Receptors that had chemically bonded with allosteric modulators were more likely to also bond with glutamate molecules. The researchers hope that future efforts to understand the molecular action of additional classes of allosteric modulators may lead to novel insights into both the receptors themselves and the design of potential new treatments for disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. The NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health, the biomedical research arm of the federal government. The Institute sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation. NICHD publications, as well as information about the Institute, are available from the NICHD Web site, web nichd.nih.gov/web nichd.nih.gov, or from the NICHD New Insight into Function of Memory Enhancing ds May 16, 2002 8:40 CDT The finding provides an important insight into the mechanisms that regulate the sensitivity of brain cells to neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that the cells use to communicate with one another. “Learning how neurons respond to neurotransmitters is important not only to understanding basic brain functioning, but also may one day lead to new insight into a variety of new therapies,” said Duane Alexander, Director of the NICHD. Like a key fits into a lock, neurotransmitters fit into specific sites, or receptors, studding the surface of brain cells. In an elaborate relay system, a cell that is excited by one neurotransmitter will, in turn, release neurotransmitters of its own. These affect still other cells, which, in turn, release more neurotransmitters, and so on. In this way, messages are transmitted throughout the brain’s various mental circuits. The researchers studied one of the glutamate receptors, found throughout the brain and involved in numerous learning and memory processes. Whether in the brain or in laboratory cultures, many receptors show reduced activity when exposed to higher-than-normal amounts of a neurotransmitter, a process called desensitization. Essentially, the cells become less sensitive to the effects of neurotransmitters. According to an NICHD author of the paper, Mark Mayer, head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, the researchers biochemically isolated one part of the glutamate receptor and determined its structure at the atomic level. They then designed altered, or mutant, receptors and determined their atomic structures as well. By observing how the ds interacted with both mutant and normal receptors, the researchers could gain more insight into how the ds interact with the receptor, and into the process of desensitization. They found that experimental ds, known as allosteric modulators, regulate desensitization by binding to a second site on the receptor separate from the binding site for glutamate itself. Receptors that had chemically bonded with allosteric modulators were more likely to also bond with glutamate molecules. The researchers hope that future efforts to understand the molecular action of additional classes of allosteric modulators may lead to novel insights into both the receptors themselves and the design of potential new treatments for disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

#2532 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:02:59 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:02:59 Fwd: Freaky Tuesdays & other weekday info (Neva!?) Neva is back again for Thursdays, read on

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#2538 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:10:53 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hi,HI, Everyone!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Announcement:….There was a girl selling clothes and other stuff from Goa and Bali on Synthetic Sadhus Party on Saturday, so if anybody is interesting to buy things, she is going to be tomorrow at Opium, just ask me, Angeles please. Angeles(Chiletrance-6th Element) Fx Mike(Alphatrance) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 No Cover Love and Light Angeles fifaworldcup.yahoo

#2539 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:25:36 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:25:36 Omnitribe Friday June 14 Details OMNI TRIBE ..presents.. Friday June 14th, 2002 FLOW Label Party Psychedelic Trance Party DJ Acts by Pena – Flow records, Portugal Tone factory – Flow records, Portugal FX MIKE – Omni Tribe, NY Kife – Alphatrance, NY Sh.I.K.I.D – Omni Tribe, NY – special Birthday DJ set Live Act by Faktor D – flow records, Portugal 11PM – 8AM (after-hours open-air location announced at the party) COVER: $20 at the door – FREE CD from Flow Records for the first 150 sold tickets Location: FUN-O-RAMA, 608 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Live Video Projections By YDESIGN, ATOMIC JUICE Visual Effects by Ben light-o-matic Label Link: web flow-records Directions : by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block. ..presents.. Friday June 14th, 2002 FLOW Label Party Psychedelic Trance Party DJ Acts by Pena – Flow records, Portugal Tone factory – Flow records, Portugal FX MIKE – Omni Tribe, NY Kife – Alphatrance, NY Sh.I.K.I.D – Omni Tribe, NY – special Birthday DJ set Live Act by Faktor D – flow records, Portugal 11PM – 8AM (after-hours open-air location announced at the party) COVER: $20 at the door – FREE CD from Flow Records for the first 150 sold tickets Location: FUN-O-RAMA, 608 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Live Video Projections By YDESIGN, ATOMIC JUICE Visual Effects by Ben light-o-matic Label Link: web flow-records Directions : by Train : F train to Neptune Ave, continue along the train on MacDonald Ave cross Neptune Ave, pass McDonalds on the right, another 300 ft ( 100m ) will put you right in front of Fun-O-Rama. by Car : Belt Pkw East, take Ocean Pkw South exit (7S), make right on first light, continue 2 blocks, make another right on Neptune Ave, continue another 2 blocks until you cross the train line( McDonalds Ave). If you cross West 8 it means you have passed the location go back one block.

#2540 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:22:39 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:22:39 Anticriminalization article in The Economist web economist/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?storyid1168010web economist/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?storyid1168010 Copyright: 2002 The Economist Newspaper Limited dS: IT’S ALL IN THE PRICE The street price of illegal ds in Britain has never been lower. The message should be clearprohibition has failed IF THE government is looking for evidence about how it is faring in the battle to stop illegal ds flooding Britain’s streets, it need look no further than what is happening to prices. When Home Office officials and police chiefs meet next month for crisis talks about the exploding use of crack cocaine, they will have to confront the fact that the ds they most fear have never been cheaper or more plentiful. The threat of crack, the most dangerous and unpredictable of illegal ds, has been fuelled by the easy availability of cocaine. During the past ten years, the street prices of both hard and soft ds have fallen sharply. Cocaine and heroin have declined by nearly a third, while ecstasy has dropped by more than half ( see chart ). In real terms, the figures, compiled by the National Criminal Intelligence Service ( NCIS ), represent an even sharper fall. While whisky and beer prices have doubled and cigarettes almost tripled in price over the decade, illegal ds are now often cheaper than a night out in a pub. The cost of l, a hallucinogenic d, is less than a packet of cigarettes. These figures confirm that the increasing resources employed to disrupt the illegal ds trade are having little impact. Over the past five years, heroin seizures have more than doubled and cocaine seizures have increased five-fold. But Customs and Excise officials accept that they are intercepting only a fraction, probably less than 10%, of the ds coming into the country. Terry Byrne, director of law enforcement at Customs and Excise, acknowledges that the street prices of ds have never been lower. He also admits there is no evidence that the efforts of his and other agencies are “reducing availability or increasing the price of illegal ds”. Neither Customs and Excise nor NCIS are willing to discuss the forces driving the market. But Home Office officials say that events in Afghanistan have had a key role in boosting heroin supply. The increasing use of cocaine appears linked to the West Indies. Large amounts are being brought in by West Indian “d mules”, often women who agree to swallow packets of cocaine and smuggle them in at high risk for a couple of thousand dollars. Given that the streets are awash and that buying of both hard and soft ds has never been easier, the government’s national anti-ds strategy set out four years ago looks increasingly like a work of fantasy. One of the government’s main targets, to reduce the availability of Class A ds by 25% by 2005 and by 50% by 2008, is so far adrift that an increase in availability is more likely to be recorded than a fall. The Association of Chief Police Officers says bleakly that if existing ds policy is to be judged “by measurable reductions of people who use ds and the amount of crime committed to get money to buy ds”, then it is failing. The Home Affairs select committee said in a report, published last month, that the government should concentrate its efforts in treating the estimated 250,000 hard-core addicts rather than pursuing criminal penalties. It called for “safe injecting houses” for addicts to be set up together with a large-scale trial of heroin prescribing. It also wants ecstasy to be downgraded to a Class B d. Predictably, this is all too radical for the government. But the home secretary, David Blunkett, has moved a long way from the policy of his predecessor who, two years ago, dismissed a demand by a distinguished committee of medical, legal, police and d specialists for reform of Britain’s archaic d laws. A revised national ds strategy is to be published next month which is likely to back many of the committee’s recommendations. Mr Blunkett has already announced that he plans to downgrade cannabis to a Class C d, which means the penalties for possession becoming nominal. He is also sympathetic to strictly monitored trials of heroin prescribing. The new strategy is likely to focus on treatment rather than enforcement. A new approach is badly needed but whether this shift towards treatment will work is uncertain. One problem is cost. Prescribing heroin to hard-core addicts could cost more than ?250m ( $363m ) a year. But Transform, a pressure group in favour of legalisation, claims that the current regime costs at least ?10 billion a year, if the burden of dealing with d-related crime and prisons are included in the calculation. Almost two-thirds of those who are arrested test positive for ds. Doing nothing may be politically safe but it is not a cheap option. The Background: Illegal ds With retail sales of around $150 billion, the trade in illegal ds is in the same league as consumer spending on legal ds like tobacco and alcohol. Cannabis is produced in both rich and poor countries. Opium cultivation continues to spread in Asia, while coca is a major export of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. A growing sideline is in ds such as mthamphetamine and ecstasy, which are made from simple chemicals. Governments haven’t always cracked down on these substances. Indeed, some countries tolerate them today. But most governments invest in costly anti-ds policies, none more so than America. Supporters of such policies highlight the harm ds cause to individuals and society. Yet the resulting ds war is being waged ( and lost in Britain ) at perhaps an even greater cost. Not only are lives lost, but corruption and misguided ds policies are encroaching on civil liberties. Legalising the possession of and trade in ds would probably increase the number of users. But it might also reduce crime and poverty, and solve many other problems. Copyright: 2002 The Economist Newspaper Limited

#2541 Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:32:13 Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:32:02 Giant nuke may run Earth’s Magnetic Field/d Elves watching GW Bush? Giant Nuke May Run Earth’s Magnetic Field United Press International PHIL BERARDELLI, UPI Deputy Science and Technology Editor 06/06/2002 Jun 05, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) Thousands of miles beneath our feet, a giant nuclear reactor seems to be at work deep within Earth’s core, and preliminary research suggests it may be the mysterious power source behind the planet’s magnetic field and thermal energy, upon which all life on the planet depends for its survival, scientists told United Press International. New data analyzed by J. Marvin Herndon, geoscientist and president of Transdyne Corporation, of San Diego, Calif., and Daniel F. Hollenback, a nuclear engineer and criticality expert at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., show the reactor a ball of uranium about five miles in diameter and located at the center of the core may have been operating nearly since the formation of the planet. Herndon told UPI he has been searching for evidence of the deep-Earth reactor for more than a decade. In 1992, he published a series of papers on planet-sized nuclear reactors based on the discovery, 20 years earlier, of the remnants of a large, natural reactor located at the Oklo uranium mine in the Republic of Gabon in western Africa. French scientists had discovered the Oklo reactor and determined it had operated for tens of thousands of years some two billion years ago, Herndon said, “but at the time of its discovery there were too many pieces missing to know what that really meant.” Nuclear reactors operating inside planetary cores might explain some mysteries that have puzzled scientists for years, Herndon said. For example, since the 1960s, astronomers have known Jupiter radiates nearly twice the energy it receives from the Sun. But up to now, they have not been able to explain the phenomenon in a way that makes sense, he said. Earth’s magnetic field is an even bigger mystery. Some mechanism obviously generates the field, and many scientists think the field is formed from fluid iron in Earth’s main outer core acting like a giant electric dynamo, or motor. The geomagnetic field, as it is called, shuts down periodically and sometimes reverses its polarity with the North and South poles exchanging their magnetic charges. The energy sources previously thought to power the dynamo are unable to decrease and then increase again, Herndon explained, so scientists have had to resort to assuming the dynamo mechanism is inherently unstable. But a nuclear reactor can decrease power output and even shut itself down and come back to life again, increasing to its full operating power, he said. Current knowledge of the structure of Earth’s interior is derived mainly from seismic data and chemical analyses of common meteorites, Herndon continued. Based on that data, scientists estimate about 30 percent of Earth’s mass comprises an outer core, he said, which is thought to consist of iron and maybe one or more lighter elements such as sulfur. The solid inner core is much smaller less than 2 percent of Earth’s mass. Still, current popular geophysical models cannot explain, from an energy standpoint, a planet-sized magnetic field that operates like Earth’s with its varying power levels and periodic shutdowns, Herndon said. Herndon said he received a major insight when he studied a different type of meteorite. Enstatite chondrite meteorites, as they are called, have chemical compositions similar to Earth’s interior. Unlike more common meteorites, enstatite chondrite meteorites contain most of their uranium in the part of the meteorite that corresponds to Earth’s core. It was one of the clues Herndon needed, he said. Uranium is the heaviest natural element. It makes sense that, over time, solid uranium particles would rain out from Earth’s fluid core at high temperatures. Because of their high density, they could collect at the very center of the Earth. After enough uranium collected together, a nuclear reaction would begin, and that appears to be what happened very soon after the formation of the planet. In 1997, Herndon teamed up with Hollenbach at Oak Ridge. The laboratory has unique computer programs that can analyze the performance of different types of nuclear reactors. “Dan showed me those numerical simulation programs could be applied to a nuclear reactor at the center of the Earth,” Herndon said. “We used data about the uranium content from the meteorite discoveries to generate simulations at varying power levels.” A highly persuasive clue arrived in the form of physical evidence of a nuclear reactor at Earth’s core. Recently analyzed samples of lava rock from deep-source volcanic “hot spots” in Hawaii and Iceland contained tiny amounts of the isotopes helium-3 and helium-4. Although scientists have known about the helium-3 for some time, they have thought it was left over from Earth’s formation some four-and-a-half billion years ago. But no known physical process could produce helium-3 except for nuclear fission, Herndon said, and the proportion of the two helium isotopes matches the prediction of the Oak Ridge simulation. This is strong evidence that the geo-reactor is at work, he said. Based on the simulations, and the helium evidence, Herndon and Hollenbach theorize a five-mile-wide ball of uranium has been operating as a nuclear reactor for about 4.5 billion years. Its output is an awesome 4 million megawatts. Much of the energy it produces is heat, and that might be what powers the mechanism that produces the geomagnetic field, Herndon said. Perhaps more interesting, the Oak Ridge programs suggest the reactor is a breeder that is, it actually produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes, which is why it has been able to operate over a time frame that spans nearly the entire existence of the planet. In addition, the reactor’s power level varies in intensity over time and it shuts down periodically. A nuclear reactor continuously produces lighter elements, such as strontium or barium, as the uranium fuel fissions or splits apart. Those fission fragments would begin to absorb neutrons the subatomic particles naturally emitted by the fissioning uranium and responsible for the chain reaction thereby preventing them from splitting other atoms. “One might imagine instances in which the rate of production of fission products exceeds their rate of removal by gravitationally driven diffusion,” Herndon wrote in a recent paper on the subject. If so, he explained, “the power output of the geo-reactor would decrease and the reactor might eventually shut down, thereby diminishing and ultimately shutting down the Earth’s magnetic field.” Over time, as the lighter elements moved away from the uranium core, the reactor would restart. The research is “certainly going to be a major contribution to geophysics,” Hatten S. Yoder, Jr., director emeritus of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., told UPI. “They have developed an explanation for (Earth’s) magnetic field and the fact that you can turn it on and off.” One of the most remarkable aspects of the planetary core reactor, Yoder said, is “it only takes a (five-mile) ball of uranium. That’s only 65 percent of all the uranium on Earth.” The reactor’s existence, if proven, solves the problem of delayed geothermal cooling and explains the observed heat flow, Yoder said. Without a continuing power source, he said, the heat dissipation would have ended long ago. But “if you have a ball of uranium at the center, it would continue to put out heat.” Herndon said he next plans to search lava samples for traces of radioactive elements that might have been produced by the geo-reactor and be light enough to have escaped the core and reach Earth’s surface. Lithium, beryllium, boron and neon are possibilities, he said. “It’s not an easy task because both rock data and nuclear data are needed, but it certainly is important,” Herndon said. Yoder agreed. “High-temperature and high-pressure experiments are needed to test the composition and melting characteristics of the core,” he said. web.tampabay.rr/mega/images/bushorb.gifWhite House Silver Sphere “It looks like Bush II may have had a co-star when he jumped in front of the cameras last night for a little nationally-televised post 9.11 damage control. I didn’t catch the speech, but I’ve seen dozens of reports that the object appeared to be ‘shape-shifting’ for the camera. Anyone who’s studied the phenomena will recognize that as a trademark behavorial characteristic of these Pinballs of the Gods (and not tele-prompters). web tranceam.org/dv “It looks like Bush II may have had a co-star when he jumped in front of the cameras last night for a little nationally-televised post 9.11 damage control. I didn’t catch the speech, but I’ve seen dozens of reports that the object appeared to be ‘shape-shifting’ for the camera. Anyone who’s studied the phenomena will recognize that as a trademark behavorial characteristic of these Pinballs of the Gods (and not tele-prompters).

#2542 Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:20:00 OM party – Sat,June 15th – A meditation party… ahaja-yoga, jayadevsyogashack, Abulafia, wtc911, thesexydestinyschild, thelatinpartyplace, wesupportjoeyandkelly, brainmachines, nyc-raves at egroups, A-New-York-Indi-Film, NEWYORKPAGANSandWITCHES, adamsandler, bambabyitsallmatt, cnytaichiandqigong From: NY Events holisticevents at yahoo0-1915413353-1023920400:34698 Alok Holistic Health and Reiki with Tarana and Nirala Present: OM PARTY – NYC Saturday, JUNE 15, 2002 A Meditation Party East meets West Yogis meet Ravers Meditation meets Celebration World and Trance Music Active Meditations Yoga Movie Screenings Chai Shop – Organic+Vegan Vegan Food Healing Sessions Live Drumming Circle Live Music MORE MORE MORE Let’s gather for a fusion of the East and West. No previous background in meditation or yoga is needed. All are welcome! In respect to the place and meditations, this is a shoes-off, smoke- & alcohol-free party. Door price: $25 Guest list price: $20 To be on the guest list: OmParty at AlokHealth or (212)388-1516 Please include your full name as well as where you heard about the party. Party Location: 320 W. 37 St., 10th Floor Bet. 8th & 9th Avenues New York City Doors open at 7 PM Party until 2 AM You’re invited to visit the party sponsors’ sites: Alok Holistic Health – web AlokHealth Reiki with Tarana and Nirala – web HealingOasis/Reiki ********** *********************** Also… there are still a few spaces for our Reiki 1 workshop this coming weekend, Sat-Sun. 15-16th from 9:30am-3:30pm. $175 or $50 for those of you that have already did a Reiki 1 workshop with us! For more workshop information: Workshops much love and see you at the party! Tarana and Nirala Sign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup 0-1915413353-1023920400:34698 web alokhealth/” targetblankAlok Holistic Health and web healingoasis/Reiki” targetblankReiki with Tarana and Nirala Present: rd.yahoo/welcome/*fifaworldcup.yahoo/fc/en/splSign-up for Video Highlights of 2002 FIFA World Cup 0-1915413353-1023920400:34698

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#2545 Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:55:25 Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:55:24 Cannabinoids in the brains of d addicted mutants Common gene mutation linked to d addiction 22:00 10 June 02 NewScientist news service A common mutation in a gene that controls the breakdown of the brain’s natural cannabinoids contributes to d abuse and addiction, new US work suggests. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, California, questioned more than 1000 people attending a medical clinic on their d use, including use of nicotine and alcohol. They found that people who reported abusing illegal ds were four times more likely to have two copies of the mutated gene than people without d or alcohol problems. About 3.7 per cent of the people in the study had this double mutation, the team says. The gene encodes an enzyme called fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). This enzyme is responsible for inactivating endogenous cannabinoids – which act on the same neuroreceptors as the psychoactive component of marijuana. Previous work has suggested that the enzyme is involved in reward and addiction pathways in the brain. The common mutation in the gene causes a build-up of natural cannabinoids. Roger Pertwee, professor of neuropharmacology at Aberdeen University, suggests that people with the mutated gene might need to take a greater amount of a particular d to achieve the same “high”, because the neural pathways the ds act on are blocked by endogenous cannabinoids. But because these people take more, they are more likely to class themselves d abusers. Genetic factors are estimated to account for 40-60 per cent of the risk of d abuse and addiction. Reduced inhibitions DNA analysis showed that two copies of the mutated gene showed up in 16 per cent of people who declared abusing street ds or alcohol, but in a smaller percentage of people addicted to alcohol alone. Just four per cent of those with no d or alcohol problems had two copies of the gene. “Although these findings are provocative in that they offer a potential link between functional alterations in the endogenous cannabinoid system and a predisposition to illegal d use, alternative interpretations are also possible,” the team write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Pertwee agrees: “The fact that the correlation has only been found for illegal ds and the mutated gene suggests that a higher concentration of endogenous cannabinoid in the brain may have the effect of reducing a person’s inhibitions about taking illegal ds in the first place,” Pertwee suggests. The Scripps team hopes the work might lead to a test to identify people at high risk of d abuse. Jack Sipe, who led the research, told New Scientist: “We are currently working with human subjects to determine if the FAAH 385 mutation is linked to any specific ds of abuse, such as marijuana, cocaine, and opoids, and, therefore, if the mutation could be a risk factor for individuals at higher risk for d abuse or dependence.” A common mutation in a gene that controls the breakdown of the brain’s natural cannabinoids contributes to d abuse and addiction, new US work suggests. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, California, questioned more than 1000 people attending a medical clinic on their d use, including use of nicotine and alcohol. They found that people who reported abusing illegal ds were four times more likely to have two copies of the mutated gene than people without d or alcohol problems. About 3.7 per cent of the people in the study had this double mutation, the team says. The gene encodes an enzyme called fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). This enzyme is responsible for inactivating endogenous cannabinoids – which act on the same neuroreceptors as the psychoactive component of marijuana. Previous work has suggested that the enzyme is involved in reward and addiction pathways in the brain. The common mutation in the gene causes a build-up of natural cannabinoids. Roger Pertwee, professor of neuropharmacology at Aberdeen University, suggests that people with the mutated gene might need to take a greater amount of a particular d to achieve the same “high”, because the neural pathways the ds act on are blocked by endogenous cannabinoids. But because these people take more, they are more likely to class themselves d abusers. Genetic factors are estimated to account for 40-60 per cent of the risk of d abuse and addiction. Reduced inhibitions DNA analysis showed that two copies of the mutated gene showed up in 16 per cent of people who declared abusing street ds or alcohol, but in a smaller percentage of people addicted to alcohol alone. Just four per cent of those with no d or alcohol problems had two copies of the gene. “Although these findings are provocative in that they offer a potential link between functional alterations in the endogenous cannabinoid system and a predisposition to illegal d use, alternative interpretations are also possible,” the team write in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Pertwee agrees: “The fact that the correlation has only been found for illegal ds and the mutated gene suggests that a higher concentration of endogenous cannabinoid in the brain may have the effect of reducing a person’s inhibitions about taking illegal ds in the first place,” Pertwee suggests. The Scripps team hopes the work might lead to a test to identify people at high risk of d abuse. Jack Sipe, who led the research, told New Scientist: “We are currently working with human subjects to determine if the FAAH 385 mutation is linked to any specific ds of abuse, such as marijuana, cocaine, and opoids, and, therefore, if the mutation could be a risk factor for individuals at higher risk for d abuse or dependence.”

#2546 Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:48:16 Chiletrance Wednesdays From: angeles garay chiletrance at yahoo Hello Everyone!! for every Wednesday nights at Opium Den with Dj Angeles+Guests. Djs Angeles(Chiletrance) Dima(Omnitribe) Vitalik(Omnitribe) Opium Den 29 East 3rd Street at 2nd Avenue 10-4 Love and Light Angeles fifaworldcup.yahoo

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Opium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue, free SUMMER June 21 9: 24am Summer Solstice In many cultures, the coming of Summer is the heraldi ng of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is th e longest day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of ligh t are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flower ing Godess of Spring welc- es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now. In many cultures, the c-ing of Summer is the heralding of a time for love, ma rriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer So lstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year . (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Da y) This celebration of the c-ing of the light is when magics involving pro tection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. Wit h the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily evoked. Any thing that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protective glo w. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of Spring welc- es his presence. Sex Magic is powerful now and legend tells that a naked s kip through a garden on Litha night ensures fertility for the c-ing season . The peaceful blue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physica l fertility as well as psychic awareness. June 21st – On Friday, 7:30 p.m . at NYC’s Open Center there will be an evening lecture given by Alex Grey … “The Art of Alex Grey: Transfigurations”… Join internationally reno wned artist, Alex Grey, for a visionary journey through the anatomy of the Soul… Grey is best known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human reality and reveal the complex integration of body, mind, soul and spirit… Transfiguration is t he process of the body/mind becoming translucent to the light of Spirit, o r transparent to the sacred groun of being… This occurence of beholding and becoming “the light” or “sacred ground” is a phenomenon that exists i n all mystical traditions… To create a picture of the process of transfi guration is somthing which Grey has been engaged in for the past twenty t hree years… Grey will discuss his performance work and the paintings whi ch comprise his books ‘Sacred Mirrors’, ‘The Mission of Art’ and ‘Transfig urations’… June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island – It suck ed last year after the sponsors came in and destroyed it… web con eyisland/mermaid.shtml June 22 Tsunami at Shelter, DJ Miko (California Sunshine) and Yoni and Shijtec 212-439-8124 TSUNAMI continues its Saturd ay Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N::::: MIKO (CALI FORNIA SUNSHINE) YONI (History of the Future) DJ SHYTEC at the new SHELTER -20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entra nce. SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gathering in Croatia 21-22/06/2002web .trancepleme.cjb.net we have changed location for SOLSTITUM festival 21-22 /06/2002. for new infos pls check out: web trancepleme.cjb.net -June 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) June 29 Hungary Boom Records, Neurosmic Records & Cosmicord presents in cooperation with DN S: Nature is calling – A psychedelic trance experience 29/06/2002 – Garanc si lake, 25 km from Budapest Live on Stage: Rastaliens (BNE, Ger) Quadra (Neurosmic Rec., USA) Metronome (Neurosmic Rec., SWE) Quantum State (Boom Rec., HU) Raven (Binary Network, HU) Dj’s spin the world: Matt Boom (Boom Rec., NL) B[al]ence (Neurosmic Rec., HU)Danger (Procyon Rec., HU) MCG vs D anee (Cosmicord, HU) Chill & Chai: Baraka Live MCG Mood Oleg BB303 Deko: A rTrance Deko DNS Special Installs Palo (SK) – live performance (Realtime p ainting) Live VJ Set by Perplex (CZ)+ CsigateahE1z, SpaceBar Come and cel ebrate with us on this beautiful location, feel what you like to feel! “Li ve in harmony with the nature, believe the power of your thought…” Infol ine: +3620 490 17 62 More info & flyer: web goa.hu/nature Boooooooom Shank ar, Danee -July 3 Wednesday Tsunami at Vinyl INFECTED Mushroom and TICON July 12 – 14 MAATAA MANDAARA 2002 in West Virginia You are invited to jo in us in a beautiful field in the Apalachian Mountains of West Virginia fo r a full weekend of psychedelic trance. Come and enjoy great music, fresh air, a Sunday afternoon vegetarian feast and West Virginia’s only Palace o f Gold! DJs/Artists ALLEN – Gaian Mind/Metropolis Records, Philadelp hia, PA KRI – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC HATARI – Gaian Mind, Phila delphia, PA DERBY – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi/PTLF, Chicago, IL ELECTRIC MAYHEM – Sidetrakkt Productions, Pittsburgh, PA FUSE – M-Labs, Philadelphia, PA (L ive PA) Fire and Performance Tranceform Venus – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC Sound, Deco & Lighting Gaian Mind Location New Vrindaban, North America’s largest Hare Krishna community, near Moundsvi lle, WV. Please respect the community’s rules: -no meat eating: if you bri ng your own food, please do not bring meat. -no intoxication: please do no t smoke in the temple area. -no illicit sexual relations -no gambling Eve ryone is welcome to come to New Vrindaban early or stay late. You can: -ta ke a tour of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold -visit the Goshalla and learn how to milk a cow -visit the temple and see the Darshan (deities) -buy organi c food or browse Krishna’s Attic: A Transcendental thrift store for more i nfo: web newvrindaban Price $30 event entrance/one night’s stay in an on-site Guest Lodge with full bathrooms (additional nights $15 per night, children $10, infants free) OR $20 event entrance/camping. Please note there are no restroom facilities available for campers. Meals Vegetarian Indian meals are available at the temple. Please make a suitabl e donation. Stay until Sunday afternoon and join the feast! RSVP Ple ase RSVP to lavouivre at yahoo with full names of everyone coming (for t he security list). You will get a confirmation with directions/arrival inf o. -July 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Buck/Thunder/Hay Moon) July 23-25 Fullmoon-Festival in Germany Organizer: Fullmoon-Crew Line Up: SRang e, Vatos Locos, Space Tribe, Alien Project, Element, SBK, M.A.C.K., Shiva Chandra, Massimo Santucci, Nick Doof, Celli Firmini, DJane Tati, BIM, Dars hanM.Lopez, V.O.R., Xavier Fux, Sediment 4, Syncron, Lala, CJ Viruz & Toni m all, Iguana,Orange & Friends, Flint, Boscow, Chillum Babas Deko: Cosm ic Walkers & Fullmoon-Crew Location: A24-Herzsprung between Antaris & VooV a fantastic big location just 5 – 10 minutes from the autobahn. from Antar is app. 40km away and till VooV app. 40km between Berlin-Hamburg Info: llmoon-Festival…an experience of international electronic art & culture. An extraordinary festival is strarting at an unusual time. Although this will be between Lovefield-Festival, Antaris-Project and VooV-Experience, i t won’t be an afterhouror warm up. Inspired by the Fullmoonparties on Koh Phangan, we returned from Thailand and decided to emulated the spirit of these Fullmoonparties and to organize a Fullmoon-Festival in Europe. Of c ourse we can’t offer an exotic palm beach, but we can offer the travellers from all over the world that will be staying in Germany a really internat ional Line Up, a fantastic location and an excellent 8-point sound system and a round stage in between the dancing crowd. Many will ask themselves, ” Why in the middle of the week?” but unfortunately or maybe even luckily th e moon doesn’t go by the weekends. Let’s experience the magic of the Full Moon. schippe at fullmoon-festival July 26-29 Greece Sola Luna Festival 2002 Camping Mt Olympus, Skotina Pierias Greece 3 Stages hosting to psytr ance, tech-trance/techno, tech-funk/ambient, freestyle music. And held in the ancient home of the 12 Greek gods! This year the trance stage will be 4 days of non-stop music! Tickets are on sale now!! Please check out the website of more information- web solalunafestival -Aug 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time August 5-11 in Bulgaria “the line-up is amazing!!! every s ingle DJ you can possibly think of will play there. you must check the we b site to understand what an even this is going to be. web xpo2002/web xpo2002 this is somthing that you have to e xperience. -Aug 13 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 Possible Location: White Lion. Cowardly Lion. King of the Jungle. Lyi n’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to August Three-day open air f estival, happening in Canada. Aug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California -August 22 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burnin g Man -Sept 10 – Tues – d Virgan Birthday Celebration August 23-Septemb er 22 Virgin bloody maries. Sacrificial virgins. To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Saf etyDance/calendar -“September 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Harvest/C orn/Barley Moon) Autumn – September 23 12:56 am Autumnal Equinox With o nly 3 more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harvest yet to c-e, whether it be corn and hay fr- the fields or the perso nal projects and goals that we planned for the summer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autumnal Equinox, the second o f the harvest festivals, (celebrated around September 21) we again celebrat e the magnificant balance that the everturning Wheel of the Year pr-ises. These equinoxs are great s that the bleak days of winter as well a s the heady days of summer are temporary, that all things have their seaso ns, and that none will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym requir e that all things be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancest ors aligned themselves in the ebb and flow of life. As winter, spring, su mmer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever moving flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c-e to f ruition we try again. We pass through times of joy and sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to pass into Summerla nd. Every event in life is ri ch in purpose and meaning. Each day, night an d season has its own special character. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing season and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expansiveness that without ritual and c elebration we would never achieve. Even the most humble ritual helps the m -ent of power and change, and the celebrant partakes in s-ething greater t ese moments of ecstasy we actually stand outside ourselves and the God and Goddess within us bec-e brighter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, Jesus, God, however you see the Divine Power. This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that are to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excell ent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of t he herbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvest ed now. Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved lightly on s-e or all of the leaves. Colors used for candles should be b rown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the summer can empowered fo r various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/min dstates/ – Oct 8 – Tues – d Libral Birthday Celebration September 23-Oc tober 22 Bring scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. Possible location: Somewhere ‘downscale.’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Safe tyDance/calendar – Oct 12 – Saturday – International Global Dance Party f or Peace… sponsored by EarthDance Org… – Oct 21 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) – Oct 31 Halloween Winter (Pagan) – Nov 1 – Samhain – Winter’s Start – Nov 12 – Tues – d Scorpio n Birthday Celebration October 23-November 21 Smoke scorpion ven- 🙂 Junkies and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in season, Ghulam Raza smokes s corpions. He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery ven- and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs. “Oh yes, ” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke scorpio n, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and other Pakistani junkies smoke dope or shoot up in the southwestern city of Quett a is a good place to find scorpions. It is the main cemetery, a dust-fille d field of t-bstones and corpse-sized mounds of rocks. A shantytown molde d from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountain slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the other. I n the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict friends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more tha n 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of junkies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away fr om the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of them wi ll get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” says R aza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slope of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for their d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the police come and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakista ni junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. – Nov 19 – Fu ll Moon (Indian Name: Full Beaver/Frost Moon) Nov 30 – Transsolar South Africa Trance Party timed to the Dec 4 solar eclipse come.to/solar eclips – Dec 10 – Tues – d Sagittarian Birthday Celebration November 22 -December 21 Centaur hunters. To enter your birthday in our roster andlebrate with us go to – Dec 19 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Cold/Long Nights Moon) – Dec 21 8:15pm Winter Solstice Creative geniuses close to insane – htt Newfollows Jun e 18 on 1st avenue between 87th & 88th streets. With DJs Amnesium and Manic Mekator and weekly guest DJs. Viviana is your bartender. Never crowded but the music always full on and new. Considering the venue, regulars, and nabe, the DJs have to be really good. It’s like a test – if / D ECORATION BY::PSYTHON {psython is one of the most promesing artis around hi 10PM-4AM 18 TO PARTY 21 TO DRINK +ID, $3 COVER, $2BEER ALL NIGHT!! B ROpium Den 3rd street between 2nd & 3rd avenue, free 21 9:24am Summer Solstice rriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magical energy, physical e nergy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Sols tice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the longest day of the year. ( The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. Peter and Paul’s Day) T volving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most succe ssful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers of light are readily ev oked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set aflame by the Sun’s protec tive glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the time when the Hor ned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flowering Godess of of a time for love, marriage, friendship, beauty, protection, courage, magi cal energy, physical energy, and strength. It is the perfect time for Fire Magic! The Summer Solstice, also called “Midsummer” or “Litha”, is the long est day of the year. (The Christian Calendar marks this holiday with “St. P ight is when magics involving protection, strength, energy and clear sight will be the most successful. With the Sun high in the heavens, the powers o f light are readily evoked. Anything that shadows your soul can be set afla me by the Sun’s protective glow. Pagan couples also know that this is the t ime when the Horned God is at the zenith of His manifest Power and the flow owerful now and legend tells that a nakedmtskip through a garden on Litha ni ue color of the Lapis stone can be worn to foster physical fertility as wel l as psychic awareness. 7:30 p.m. at NYC’s Open Center there will be an evening lecture given by Alex Grey… “The Art of Alex Grey: Transfigurations”… rney through the anatomy of the Soul… Grey is best known for his painting rs of reality and reveal the complex integration of body, mind, soul and sp irit… Transfiguration is the process of the body/mind becoming translucen t to the light of Spirit, or transparent to the sacred groun of being… &n bsp;This occurence of beholding and becoming “the light” or “sacred ground” is a phenomenon that exists in all mystical traditions… To create a pict ure of the process of transfiguration is somthing which Grey has been enga ged in for the past twenty three years… Grey will discuss his performance work and the paintings which comprise his books ‘Sacred Mirrors’, ‘The Mis FO June 21-24 Solstice Festival in Southern Colorado gregschmid at yahoo 888-336-3997 June 22 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island – It sucked last year after the sponsors came in and destroyed it… w ww.coneyisland/mermaid.shtml June 22 Tsunami at Shelter, DJ Mi ko (California Sunshine) and Yoni and Shijtec 212-439-8124 TSUNAMI con tinues its Saturday Night Weekly parties :::::T R A N C E F O R M A T I O N ::::: MIKO (CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE) YONI (History of the Future) DJ SHYTEC at the new SHELTER -20 West 39 Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues) -Use separate TSUNAMI entrance. SOLSTITIUM trance summer beach gatherin g in Croatia 21-22/06/2002web trancepleme.cjb.net we have changed loca tion for SOLSTITUM festival 21-22/06/2002. for new infos pls check out: web trancepleme.cjb.net ne 24 – Full Moon (Indian Name: Full Strawberry/Rose/Hot Moon) / urosmic Records & Cosmicord presents in cooperation with DNS: Nature is calling – A psychedelic trance experience 29/06/2002 – Garancsi lake, 25 k m from Budapest Live on Stage: Rastaliens (BNE, Ger) Quadra (Neurosmic Rec., USA) Metronome (Neurosmic Rec., SWE) Quantum State (Boom Rec., HU) R aven (Binary Network, HU) Dj’s spin the world: Matt Boom (Boom Rec., NL) B[ al]ence (Neurosmic Rec., HU)Danger (Procyon Rec., HU) MCG vs Danee (Cosmico rd, HU) Chill & Chai: Baraka Live MCG Mood Oleg BB303 Deko: ArTrance De ko DNS Special Installs Palo (SK) – live performance (Realtime painting) Li ve VJ Set by Perplex (CZ)+ CsigateahE1z, SpaceBar Come and celebrate with us on this beautiful location, feel what you like to feel! “Live in harmony with the nature, believe the power of your thought…” Infoline: +3620 490 17 62 More info & flyer: web goa.hu/nature Boooooooom Shankar, Danee/ You are invited to join us in a beautiful field in the Apalachian Mountains of West Virginia for a full weekend of psyched elic trance. Come and enjoy great music, fresh air, a Sunday afternoon vege tarian feast and West Virginia’s only Palace of Gold! DJs/Artists ALLEN – Gaian Mind/Metropolis Records, Philadelphia, PA KRI – T.O.U. C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC HATARI – Gaian Mind, Philadelphia, PA DERB Y – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi/PTLF, Chicago, IL ELECTRIC MAYHEM – Sidetrakkt Produ ctions, Pittsburgh, PA FUSE – M-Labs, Philadelphia, PA (Live PA) Fi re and Performance Tranceform Venus – T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Asheville, NC Sound, Deco & Lighting Gaian Mind Location New Vr indaban, North America’s largest Hare Krishna community, near Moundsvi lle, WV. Please respect the community’s rules: -no meat eating: if you brin g your own food, please do not bring meat. -no intoxication: please do not smoke in the temple area. -no illicit sexual relations -no gambling Everyone is welcome to come to New Vrindaban early or stay late. You B Rcan: -take a tour of Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold -visit the Goshalla and learn how to milk a cow -visit the temple and see the Darshan (deities ) -buy organic food or browse Krishna’s Attic: A Transcendental thrift stor e for more info: web newvrindaban Price $30 event entrance/o ne night’s stay in an on-site Guest Lodge with full bathrooms (additio nal nights $15 per night, children $10, infants free) OR $20 event ent rance/camping. Please note there are no restroom facilities available for c ampers. Meals Vegetarian Indian meals are available at the templ e. Please make a suitable donation. Stay until Sunday afternoon and join th e feast! RSVP Please RSVP to lavouivre at yahoo with full names of everyone coming (for the security list). You will get a confirmati oon) s Locos, Space Tribe, Alien Project, Element, SBK, M.A.C.K., Shiva Chandra, Massimo Santucci, Nick Doof, Celli Firmini, DJane Tati, BIM, DarshanM.Lope z, V.O.R., Xavier Fux, Sediment 4, Syncron, Lala, CJ Viruz & Toni m all Iguana,Orange & Friends, Flint, Boscow, Chillum Babas Deko: Co smic Walkers & Fullmoon-Crew Location: A24-Herzsprung between Antar is & VooV a fantastic big location just 5 – 10 minutes from the autobah n. from Antaris app. 40km away and till VooV app. 40km between Berlin-Hambu rg Info: web fullmoon-festival/web fullmoon-fes tival Fullmoon-Festival…an experience of international electronic art & culture. An extraordinary festival is strarting at an unusual ti me. Although this will be between Lovefield-Festival, Antaris-Project and V ooV-Experience, it won’t be an afterhouror warm up. Inspired by the Ful lmoonparties on Koh Phangan, we returned from Thailand and decided to emula ted the spirit of these Fullmoonparties and to organize a Fullm oon-Festival in Europe. Of course we can’t offer an exotic palm beach, but we can offer the travellers from all over the world that will be stayin g in Germany a really international Line Up, a fantastic location and an ex cellent 8-point sound system and a round stage in between the dancing crowd . Many will ask themselves, “Why in the middle of the week?” but unfort unately or maybe even luckily the moon doesn’t go by the weekends. Let’s ex perience the magic of the Full Moon. Thanx and best wishes m July 26-29 Greece Sola Luna Festival 2002 erias Greece 3 Stages hosting to psytrance, tech-trance/techno, tech- funk/ambient, freestyle music. And held in the ancient home of the 12 Greek gods! This year the trance stage will be 4 days of non-stop music! Ti ckets are on sale now!! Please check out the website of more information- w ww.solalunafestival g 1 – Lugnasad – Harvest Time Bulgaria you can possibly think of will play there. you must check the web si te to understand what an even this is going to be. web xpo2002/web xpo2002 this is somthing that you have to experience. 3 – Tues – d Leo Birthday Celebration July 23-August 22 nbsp;Lyin’ To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to B R August Three-day open air festival, happening in Canada. A ug 15-17 Psy-Trance festival in Barcelona web chill-out.nu Fusion Festival in California Moon (Indian Name: Full Sturgeon/Red/Green Corn Moon) Labor Day – Burning Man ay Celebration August 23-September 22 n our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.yahoo/group/Safe tyDance/calendar Autumn more months left in the Celtic summer, pagan folk work hard for the harves 0 the fields or the personal projects and goals that we planned for the s ummer months. When the sun crosses the equator and heads south at the Autum nal Equinox, the second of the harvest festivals, (celebrated around Septem ber 21) we again celebrate the magnificant balance that the everturning s are great s that the bleak days of winter as well as the heady da ys of summer are temporary, that all things have their seasons, and that no ne will last forever. The law of polarity and rythym require that all thing s be balanced by their opposites. On these days our ancestors aligned thems ing, summer and autumn pass by, Witches still reconnect with the ever movin g flow of life, we make our plans and watch them unfold. If some do not c/ sorrow; little ones are born, the older ones die allowing their spirits to urpose and meaning. Each day, night and season has its own special characte r. Rituals connect us to both the big and little dramas of the year and of the greater life cycle. We unite the character and spirit of each passing s eason and do magic to transform our lives, giving them a depth and an expan siveness that without ritual and celebration we would never achieve. Even t hter, more powerful and we touch the All; eg, the Lord Pan and Lady Gaia, J This festival is associated with the taking of corn and other foods that ar e to be harvested at this time. Cornbread cakes and cider are an excellent addition to the festivities. The frost will hit soon, so the last of the he rbs and other plants you wish to dry for winter use should be harvested now . Depending on when the leaves turn in your area, you may wish to parafin them and add them to your house decorations. Dip the leave quickly in melted parafin, and put them on wax paper. When the leaves are dry you can put them in a huge, decorative jar with a sigil of protection carved li Colors used for candles should be brown, orange, gold or red. Altar cloths can be made of material with fall designs. River and stream stones gathered over the su mmer can empowered for various purposes. Oct 1-6 Mind States Jamaica web erowid.org/mindstates/ l Birthday Celebration September 23-October 22 ng scales 😀 Justice is blind. Wight Watchers. Machinelf is free. To en ter your birthday in our roster and celebrate with us go to groups.y ahoo/group/SafetyDance/calendar F sponsored by EarthDance Org… ll Moon (Indian Name: Full Hunter’s/Travel/Dying Grass Moon) F ctober 23-November 21 To enter your birthday in our roster and celebrate w ith us go to Junkie s and Get High in the Pits” QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – When they’re in se ason, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions. He says he dries their stingers in the yes,” he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. “When I smoke sco rpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me.” The place where Raza and oth wn molded from the pale dirt of the desert claws its way up a steep mountai n slope on one side while Muslim prayers ring out across the city on the ot her. In the middle, in the ruins of a building, Raza and a dozen addict fri ends spend their days. Some, like Abdul Hai, have been coming here for more than 20 years. More disdained than criminalized, the hundreds of jun kies in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s parched Baluchistan province, gather away from the chaotic life of the city. In the cemetery, sometimes one of t hem will get very stoned and drop into an open grave. “We are safe here,” s ays Raza, a mechanical engineer, who says he started down the slippery slop e of ds after becoming addicted to pain killers years ago when, he says, he was shot 18 times by police. The graveyard addicts beg or steal for the ir d money. They pay off officials for peace. When they forget, the policome and beat them, they say. Closer to the center of town, other Pakist ani junkies hide away in an even less salubrious den. They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter. r/Frost Moon)

#2548 Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:53:11 colorado…yes or know? From: “tonyturbotorn” tonytorn at hotmailBeing in Boulder at the moment…might want to drive down to check out the solstice festival at great sand dunes national monument… but the last detailed info was posted in JANUARY…none of the phone or emaill addresses respond… would love to know that somthing is there before the 4 hour drive out… anybody know anything?

#2549 Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:23:39 Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:23:39 Swedish Midsummer Celebration in Central Park today 4:45 web nycmidsummer/ see you there

#2550 Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:57:22 Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:57:21 Weekend preview Today – Midsummer Swedish Party in Central Park Tonight – Alex Grey at the Open Center Swedish Midsummer Afterparty Tomorrow – Mermaid Parade Tsunami Sunday -Omnitribe DJs in tribeca Tonight – Alex Grey at the Open Center Swedish Midsummer Afterparty Tomorrow – Mermaid Parade Tsunami

#2551 Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:52:56 Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:52:55 Get the Israelis jumping! Cc: web tranceam.org/havanaquila.mp3 A sure-fire dance floor stomper that will radically re-alter their neurochemistry when they come BACK stateside, that is… this can be their victory dance when they come back to New York – victory for staying alive. artist: Party Animals A sure-fire dance floor stomper that will radically re-alter their neurochemistry when they come BACK stateside, that is… this can be their victory dance when they come back to New York – victory for staying alive. artist: Party Animals

#2552 Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:26:52 Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:26:51 Fwd: Tsuyoshi Suzuki/July 4th 2002 at ARC Tsuyoshi fell off the psy-trance bandwagon a long time ago…

#2553 Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:01:01 Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:01:00 Fwd: SubtleChaos joins forces with the enemy!! MATTER/:FORM Friday June 28th

#2555 Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:03:46 Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:03:46 Omnitribe in Ottawa web fulltiltboogie.ca/lineupse

#2556 Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:05:11 Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:05:11 Fwd: MANDALA: Sunday June 30th

#2557 Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:30:20 Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:30:20 Can we rent one for the next d event or trance party? VR hallucinations used to treat schizophrenia 19:00 26 June 02 Exclusive from New Scientist web newscientist/inprintPrint Edition A virtual reality environment that conjures up the terrifying sounds and sights of a patient’s own hallucinations has been designed to help treat people with schizophrenia. (Photo: Photonica) Psychiatrists plan to use the virtual environment to convince patients that their hallucinations are not real experiences, and that they suffer from an illness that requires treatment. They also hope that confronting patients with their own psychoses in this way will help when d therapy fails, teaching them to ignore hallucinations in real life, just as virtual reality is already helping patients with phobias about spiders or heights. During psychotic episodes, patients with schizophrenia can experience a wide range of hallucinations such as hearing their TV sets instructing them to kill themselves or seeing inanimate objects morphing into faces or people. One in ten people with the illness is eventually driven to suicide. “Any attempt to help people to monitor, recognise and create strategies to deal with their hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms in a controlled environment is good,” says David Castle of the Mental Health Research Institute in Melbourne. To do this, a team led by Peter Yellowlees, a psychiatrist at the University simulation that shows a typical living room projected onto a wrap-around screen. The virtual setting can be modified to mimic common hallucinations by making the walls appear to be closing in, photographs of one person’s face morph into another’s, and straight lines such as the edge of picture frames wobble. At the same time, a soundtrack gives an abusive running commentary, which is typical of many schizophrenic hallucinations. Tailored hallucinations The prototype is already helping doctors and relatives of people with schizophrenia get a better understanding of the disorder. “It’s early days. Some of the psychosis depicted is not as florid and as lucid as some people see, but it helps you realise what a person with mental illness is going through,” says Peter Darling, president of the Schizophrenia Fellowship of South Queensland in Brisbane. Last week, Yellowlees’s team started recreating the hallucinations that had been experienced by a woman whose schizophrenia is now under control. The next step will be to use virtual reality in a treatment programme for patients. Yellowlees admits that some patients might find the virtual hallucinations frightening. But from his experience of using videoconferencing to treat people with schizophrenia in remote parts of Australia he is optimistic that many will be able to distinguish between real hallucinations and the virtual ones. Eventually, the researchers plan to model the hallucinations on environments that are familiar to individual patients. “They would bring us a few photos and we would build a virtual model of their sitting room or a hospital environment,” says team member Andy Dennison. A virtual reality environment that conjures up the terrifying sounds and sights of a patient’s own hallucinations has been designed to help treat people with schizophrenia. Psychiatrists plan to use the virtual environment to convince patients that their hallucinations are not real experiences, and that they suffer from an illness that requires treatment. They also hope that confronting patients with their own psychoses in this way will help when d therapy fails, teaching them to ignore hallucinations in real life, just as virtual reality is already helping patients with phobias about spiders or heights. During psychotic episodes, patients with schizophrenia can experience a wide range of hallucinations such as hearing their TV sets instructing them to kill themselves or seeing inanimate objects morphing into faces or people. One in ten people with the illness is eventually driven to suicide. “Any attempt to help people to monitor, recognise and create strategies to deal with their hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms in a controlled environment is good,” says David Castle of the Mental Health Research Institute in Melbourne. The virtual setting can be modified to mimic common hallucinations by making the walls appear to be closing in, photographs of one person’s face morph into another’s, and straight lines such as the edge of picture frames wobble. At the same time, a soundtrack gives an abusive running commentary, which is typical of many schizophrenic hallucinations. Tailored hallucinations The prototype is already helping doctors and relatives of people with schizophrenia get a better understanding of the disorder. “It’s early days. Some of the psychosis depicted is not as florid and as lucid as some people see, but it helps you realise what a person with mental illness is going through,” says Peter Darling, president of the Schizophrenia Fellowship of South Queensland in Brisbane. Last week, Yellowlees’s team started recreating the hallucinations that had been experienced by a woman whose schizophrenia is now under control. The next step will be to use virtual reality in a treatment programme for patients. Yellowlees admits that some patients might find the virtual hallucinations frightening. But from his experience of using videoconferencing to treat people with schizophrenia in remote parts of Australia he is optimistic that many will be able to distinguish between real hallucinations and the virtual ones. Eventually, the researchers plan to model the hallucinations on environments that are familiar to individual patients. “They would bring us a few photos and we would build a virtual model of their sitting room or a hospital environment,” says team member Andy Dennison.

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