Reunite Psychedelia and The Avant-Garde.

i hope that helps move us along a bit. there was one other thing i thought needed clarifying, and that is monocausal thinking, one dimensional thinking and determinism. Reich's Orgasm is a good example. Mcluhan's technological determinism is another. Marx's economics. Terry Mckenna thinking drugs are the prime agent of historical and evolutionary development. Explaining all things in terms of one thing is the basic error. it's reductionist and not holistic.

the situation is always expressed in every dimension and every manifestation.

the avant-garde is now is new, the moment is unprecedented.

there are opportunities inherent in the now which have never been previously realisable.

i acknowledged the validity of your fears. if that strikes you as passive aggressive i don't know what to say. i find it useful to engage with criticism. i make a point of it. when i first encounter it my first instinct is to thrash around but later, usually the next day, i can accept it and realise that there is almost always a grain of truth in it.

i've read the black goddess. i like it a lot. i own a copy. his poetry on the other hand i think is without merit.

you struck me as panicked. i sensed a real and quite intense physical and emotional discomfort.
that could have been my imagination and of course we all like to pretend that none of this matters,
that we are perfectly disinterested and disengaged.

im inclined to assume words convey information but it's not important.

you received a psychic impression of passive-aggression i received a psychic impression of panic and distress.

only it's not psychic, it's called reading!

seems the thread is dead. some resistance encountered but mostly indifference. i'll note it down in my research log.

in the interests of transparency i'll explain my workings

these are the posts which gave me the impression of panic and distress. i discerned a shrillness which i associate with hysteria.

Have you ever ready Reich on mysticism? There's something very ungrounded about the absence of boundaries implied here, just opening up the psyche and letting rip. Notions like the collective unconscious have long been critiqued for giving a free pass to fascism.

an uncritical acceptance of every kind of cosmic idea, an inflated sense of self-importance because of occult forces ("gods" or "angels") interfering with one's life, an over-reliance on the astral plane, and a contempt for this life and the body.

what I think you're doing here - being really uncritical about a nebulously defined "consciousness-raising".

I've found the Jungian-derived models conspicuous by their absence thus my training so far

Depends on what your goal is really - great art and poetry via psychedelia meeting the avant arde or something else curative and therapeutic? Maybe I'm in the wrong place addressing the latter but there's been wild slippage towards it upthread

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i also noticed the two references to Jung. I haven't mentioned Jung. Padraig called me a crypto-Jungian when he was upset with me and I disowned the tag. Playing into it (and ignoring the irony of Reich being even more verboten than Jung in contemporary therapy circles) and bolstering it is very telling in itself. Unconscious, yes, almost certainly, but telling.

i'm being accused of an awful lot here, from insufficient orgiastic potency to schizophrenia to a contempt for this life and the body to a complete absence of boundaries.

and how are we to interpret the introduction of Redgrove? I suggest you think about what that might signal. this is all basic awareness, really the foundations of therapeutic practice.

i think it's important, as i said earlier, for you to voice concerns you may have and i'm glad to have heard them but let's not get into gaslighting territory. for my part yes, i get frustrated when i encounter resistance, as many of us do, and of course that frustration and impatience is discernible in my voice.
you dont need to be psychic to hear it, you need to be literate.

i want to revivify culture. i want artists to understand that they are exploring and building within a real space, that what they do counts, is vitally important and world-changing, that it creates the realities we come to occupy, that imagination is not the same as fantasy, but something far vaster and mysterious and awe-full. this is what i mean by reuniting the psychedelic with the avant-garde. both should inform the other. it is space exploration, the voyage to the stars. that's where we're going.

i think we can have much more fun here if we create together. that doesn't mean jettisoning all criticism it just means using critical thought in the service of building with a greater degree of structural integrity.

on the occasions i can get enough of you to play with me, on the dematerialisation thread for instance, this place works a treat. that is what i want to impose. it doesn't mean agreeing with me on everything it just means not being obstructionist or diversionary.

it means acting in good faith and giving the best of yourself. taking time to think and really extending your imagination and perception. if we can all do that, and give one another the benefit of the doubt, wherever there is doubt, then we can build the compound together.

thanks Leo, thanks Padraig
yep, mysteries as in Eleusis.