Very few of us have access to the spirit realm, but all of us have access to alchemy. Most of us use the alchemical process and don't even realize it. Take a standard recipe for lemon chicken. You take this standard recipe and tweak it with different spices over many years. Eventually that standard lemon chicken has become something new, something different. That is alchemy.
iAhuasca is an alchemy of media.
The alchemy of media first appeared in the 1920's with the cut up technique employed by the Dada movement, but wasn't popularized until the 1950's by William S. Burroughs. Today it can be found in everything. Sampling, mash-ups, and collage are a few methods, and are executed on many different technical levels, from The Dust Brothers work on Paul's Boutique to "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy,
The goal of iAhuasca is an alchemy of media that isn't as much about entertainment as it is a return to the intentions of the Dadaists and Burroughs. It seeks divinatory and healing properties. It wants to change the way you see the world around you.
iAhuasca was born out of watching Dark Side of the Rainbow, the well known method of playing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard of Oz. No one seems to know who first discovered the Dark Side of the Rainbow, but we do know that something uncanny happens when these two are combined. If nothing uncanny happened while watching it, we wouldn't be talking about it. I compare this to Finnegans Wake, another brilliant alchemical creation. We know it isn't nonsensical bullshit because people still talk about it.
Unlike ayahuasca, or Dark Side of the Rainbow, I know how The Kubrick Transformer was discovered. It was discovered during an intense alchemical experimentation of many months. There are many different combinations that evolved out of this alchemy, but the specific formula that I have shared is the cleanest product. Think of Breaking Bad and the formula for the Heisenberg Blue. It's the shit. It's pure, nothing cut into it, no cheating. And the source material is of the highest quality.
I expect over time to share some of the other products that evolved out of this work, but I also want to see if others will discover them on their own. All the materials necessary for experimentation are available, mostly everyone has a lab. Get cooking. Seriously, no excuses, it's still legal, and the Amazon is just a mouse click away.
Eventually, I will offer my opinion on why this occurs and what it all means, which for me starts with the Noosphere.
Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are responsible for introducing the concept of the Noosphere. This new environment evolves out of the geosphere and the biosphere, a sphere I visualize as an eternal human being whose flesh and bones are the internet, and whose blood is human thought. The Noosphere is in its infancy, and in the very near future, this child will want to know where it came from, where it is, who its parents are, and why?
The word itself, may have been derived from one of several sources. When ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are transmitted through Arabic, the result is “al-khem”. On the one hand, “km.t” forms the native name of Egypt, while “Chem” means “black earth”. On this basis, one derivation of the word alchemy is “Egyptian art”, or the ‘art of the black earth.” This is the suggestion that alchemy is more about soul transmutations, instead of merely working the earth for fun and profit. On the other hand, derivations from the Greek, “chemeia”, found in the writings of Diocletian, the art of making metal ingots, and “chumeia”, the art of extracting juices or infusions from plants, and thus herbal medicines and tinctures, are clearly more practically oriented.
ReplyDeleteAccording to The Alchemy Web Site one way to secure a sense of alchemy is to base it on the body of Alchemical knowledge, preserved in libraries from through-out the world. “Those who do not found their opinions and perceptions on this body of tradition, are often drawn to airy speculations and personal belief systems, which cannot be investigated and researched, but only accepted through an act of belief. This was not the way of the alchemists of previous centuries -- they did not rely merely on belief, but were constantly investigating, exploring the texts and ideas of previous generations of alchemists, and struggled in their own writings to find their own truth. We should beware of any one-dimensional interpretation or definition of alchemy.”
http://www.halexandria.org/dward452.htm
"We should beware of any one-dimensional interpretation or definition of alchemy". I agree with this, but to clarify my understanding, we should beware of one-dimensional interpretations of the goal of alchemy. There is no interpretation needed when in comes to process. The process is the process, throughout the universe. It is our own choice if we employ it for funsies or for fusion.
ReplyDeleteWhat is meant here, apparently, is an emphasis on the fact that Alchemy is by no means a pseudo-science. The scientific method is to be applied in all cases of actual Alchemy. It is also important to remember that there was far less compartmentalization during the time of the great alchemists; the fields were far more unified. Interpretation is not meant to confine, that is, unless beliefs based on theories begin to hinder objective research.
ReplyDeletethat's perfect. turning shit (Hollywood/pop-culture) into gold.
ReplyDeletehehehe ..
[not saying that Kubrick or Floyd is necessarily shit]
;)
Turn Me On Dead Man https://vimeo.com/30236366
ReplyDeleteMan its awesome just to get ideas on what this means and is.
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