Why

Why Go into a Trance?

Looking to broaden your horizons? Looking for the Edge but hate the stagnant, drug-riddled club scene? You’re not alone. It’s been done. Swim upstream, then, keep growing, keep evolving In the future, everyone will be able to conduct business from their laptop. We will not be tied down by the crumbling national borders. And we will be all over the world. So start preparing yourself for the upcoming technotrancesient lifestyle.

Your Body

exercise is very good for your body. The up and down motion invigorates your limbic system and your capillaries.

The People

Older than ravers, younger than the Open Center crowd. Very international, especially Israeli, Japanese, European. The guys don’t hit on the girls as much as in bars or clubs. As there is a family atmosphere, no one wants to commit incest – or have dalliance with someone they’ll see again and again. This Victorian focus on sexual hygiene in the midst of mental tantric ecstasy (the spiritual kind) could have never happened until the AIDS epidemic, not to mention before cell phones and email.

It’s easier also because of the absence of “evil drugs.” Let’s face it, abuse of alcohol, cocaine, speed, pills and other lower-chakra body-load dopamine-detergented intoxicants all make for a synthetic, alienated and unpleasant vibe where the ideal is get “fucked up”.

String theory

The Environment

The art is amazing.

The Music is uplifting.

The Clothes

by Space Tribe , if worn at all… (see: “You Won’t Get Robbed,” below)

You Won’t Get Robbed

Just so you know, the BTS (Brooklyn Terror Squad) has been taken out by the Feds.

They even stole all this guys’ clothes – there they are, sitting, chuckling:

With robbing rave kids they killed the goose that laid the golden pills in the rave scene. The parasites ate up the corpse and there was nothing left. Their swan song was the Details article in which they put all their cards on the table for all to see.

Thugs of all stripes cannot penetrate, nor do they want to, the trance scene, as even the Israeli women have served in the military and are trained to kill with their hands. Once, a group of six cowards armed with rocks jumped an Israeli and ran off before stunned onlookers could assemble and respond. In many ways they are similar to Nazi skinheads. But now with the leaders in jail or on parole the group has scattered. They are welcome in the trance scene as long as they don’t hurt anyone else.

Where’s my clothes? Ahh… never mind

The Vibe

TRANCE MAGICK
Eris told me to do this
The music is the origin, the pumping lifeblood and soulfire. Psychedelics and sound are a powerful combination, and when dance, vibration and movement are introduced, we are suddenly communicating with ourselves in very challenging ways, as well as with an infinite myriad of other energies, entities, ideas and emotions.

Trance may seem to be such a personal and selfish activity on the surface but in actuality there are many layers of communicating happening on various levels among diverse entities, human and beyond.

The essence of the experience involves the secret “language” of sound, psychedelics and movement, and the tacit realization that the dance ritual is the interstellar conduit for such happenings.

We are creating a Temporary Autonomous Zone for our minds to investigate the mysteries of the universe, as we once again, like our distant ancestors, cajole the spirits of the trees and the sky, the earth and the cosmos to come out to play – as one. Ancient earth drums dance in symbiotic merriment with the metallic intergalactic beats as the circles of sound expand and astound our imagination with vibratory awareness.

In this changeling world of chance, shapeshifters from distant corners find themselves sharing these profound wonders, and learning the empowerment of the mystical dance space. There is a pulsating awareness of sharing archaic understandings, reviving lost traditions, particularly unwritten traditions, and which are all invested with new technological innovation.

The sounds are the new epic poetry of this century, and the modern wandering minstrels are fine tuning their harmonious and transcendental harps. We are returning to a relationship with ourselves and others which is removed from written language, and which undermines our absolute reliance on finding meaning within the world of words.

The emerging magicians of imagination understand the realm of re-evolutionary connectedness, and that these experiences are not the property or production of a single person or corporation, but rather the combined manifestation of the community of sweaty heads. The knowledge is beyond consumerism and materialism, and the associated disaffected, alienated and generally self-destructive style of the industrial being. We are whirling the energy together, as one, rather than battling the forces alone. We’re each a ripple, expanding ever outward, and learning how to recreate wondrous tales together.

Our convenient industrial cultures have practically negated our direct relationship with the earth and its seasons and cycles, and it seems that there is less and less reason to rely on, let alone investigate our instinctual being. Our experiences with sound, psychedelics and the dance ritual are the stirrings of communicating via the ebb and flow of the earth’s rhythms and letting it seep into our collective emotions. It is a simple exercise in the tremendous “power” of a group mind.

The resulting aspects of this form of communication can be life changing. The heartfelt rhythm of trance dance ritual is often one of the most liberating methods of communication and self-exploration that many Westerners have discovered. Mindblowing interactions happen through movement and into that intense white light of psychedelic shamanism which may tip us over into mysterious realms of animal spirits and alien possession.

The sounds and jewel-drenched rhythms produced by trance tekno artists seem to be more and more profound in their ability to communicate the most extraordinary thoughts, feelings and deeply resonating primal understandings. It’s the rediscovered “language” of transcendence which transports us to many “places” within and outside oneself, some pleasant, some frightening, but always enlightening. In the thrall of dark possession, the sounds may take on “physical” forms as the possibilities of personal spectacle are revealed as boundless.

From Gothic subterranean Vampyric cathedrals through to tacky eerie 1970s lollypop spiral lands, and beyond the divide of time to the re-evolutionary chants of the Dreamtime of our ancestors, we shimmy and shake through a kaleidoscope of bizarre and boundless scenes.

In forest settings this magickal transcendence is very potent, as the energies are charging and morphing and zinging around people and the ether. We may become little “animals” investigating the primal, orgiastic, instinctual aspects of our nature. We may find ourselves in swirling vortexes and see people moving as one with each other – completely tranced out and sharing some unknown luv.

Swings between ‘light’ and ‘dark’ in the music show that the sonic wizards are in tune with a universal life journey – the cycle of birth and death. Here is the “coming of age” ritual which Western culture has long forgotten. Here is the rich manifestation of the cycle of life and death and rebirth, and we’re creating and sharing this together. It is about learning the joys of numinous contemplation, and sharing the lust of awareness with others. This is such a powerful way to investigate the heart of darkness, and we should be passionate in letting it flourish! It’s the taboos and secrets that give energy to the “sicknesses” and imbalance.

In creating spaces of mystery and providing points of departure and return for exploration, the sounds can be “blasting off” as well as “grounding” points. One may feel incredibly “aged” after such experiences, but not necessarily in terms of lost physical vitality and exuberance, but rather the process of the “exhumation” of the ultimate reality can leave one feeling exposed to the understandings and underbelly of all the crones who have come before, or may exist elsewhere.

Western communities are very happy to challenge and stretch themselves physically – in fact, this is considered a very healthy and acceptable activity – but investigating the depths of the mind in a similarly extreme way can be considered illegal, if not heretical. However, one could consider this rhythmic transcendentalism as the “bungey” jump of the mind.

It’s liberating and self-expansive to explore all the ways in which our consciousness can interact with ultimate reality. Psychedelics like darkness, intensity and movement to activate the supernatural transmissions, and these gatherings often seem to provide that. It’s important, too, to find the psychedelic tekno parties. Tekno is not a homogenous culture.

Seek out the gatherings held by and populated by your fellow freaks, and once you’ve found the psy parties, you then need to find the gatherings where most of the people there are using psychedelics (and I’m not including ecstasy here) with the intent to explore this very illuminating method of trance magick. It’s this exchange of collective “high” energy which may prove to be outstandingly potent in the manifestation of the “group mind”, and the higher people are prepared to vibrate, the “madder” and more diverse, the resulting energies can be.

Tekno anarcho-activists understand the power of the gnosis of trance, and may use lots of tricks and techniques to “direct” the energy of the dance in a certain direction. Sound, as discussed above, is the most obvious one in initiating inner-knowledge and journeying, but artists have also buried crystals under dance areas, used static visual art or computer-generated visuals, and in particular, there are investigations into the symbology and iconography of ancient magickal and spiritual traditions. Very recently, I found myself dancing on a black floor covered in a 22 pointed star – the artist is perhaps a Qabbalist – and I soon found myself gyrating in sweat-drenched orgiastic communion with the other trancers.

These gatherings may also provide a space for the exploration of geometric designs and how they may affect the consciousness of humans and their environment. There are often “healing” areas as well including yoga, massage, brain machines, aromatherapy and so on. Meditative rituals, drumming sessions and chanting often open and close gatherings.

Let’s celebrate this newfound awareness, and continue to lovingly co-create such psychedelic playgrounds – the alien circus has come to town – where the playfully serious explorers, all possessed by the sounds, writhing and shaking wildly in unison, have suddenly found their minds in the same sonic whirlpool. We’re all “seeing” or “understanding” the experience in many and varied ways but there are many moments when powerful energies – lifeforces and spirits and understandings – are created and exchanged with those around. A vibe of openness and friendliness is the least that these gatherings can achieve – that’s the bottom line. Socializing in the conventional sense is not really necessary.

One psychonaut’s mind is good but a lot of them coming together in this vibratory symbiosis can be a potent experience when exploring those indescribable states of being

The Micro- and Macrophysical Domain of Trance

Beyond having the psy-trance community influenced by DMT culture, it is my belief that we are unified by our auditory experience at trance parties. While people might be looking at different things or having wildly different visual effects, we are all more or less hearing the same music. If this were not the case, trance music would not “work.” In other words, one would trance out, stop hearing the music which was inducing the trance, and the trance would be broken. This is the opposite of trance-inducing optical stimuli.

For example if one is using the frequency followed response of flashing lights of a mindmachine, you are only in a trance as long as you are not aware that you are looking at flashing lights. As soon as you catch yourself, and realize you are merely staring into a pair of goggles, you revert to beta state. The same applies to meditating with your eyes closed or staring at the sky. This does not seem to be the case with music.