Goa Gil
For me when I come to the party and I set up the altar and I sprinkle the Ganga water and say the mantra and make the offering to the cosmic spirit, the whole party becomes the offering, the music becomes the offering, the dance becomes the offering. The cosmic spirit should come to the place and bless all of us! The longer it goes on the more the trance comes and it comes to a point where every song is so perfect in the moment - it's timelessness. So perfect you start to get chills up your spinal column and up your skin and everybody's getting it all at once - it’s like a cosmic orgasm! Then at some point it comes like a bolt of lightning, like a shock of lightening through everybody all at once —cccchhhhh… and that’s when the seed is being planted in everyone’s subconscious that will hopefully grow and flower and make people more aware of themselves, there surroundings, the crossroads of humanity, and the needs of the planet. This is what our Goa party, our holy ritual is all about. And this is what we are trying to achieve with it!

Terrence Mc Kenna
So you take let us assume a 3rd toke, long and slow - you vaporize and you take it in and in and in, and there is a sound like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper or the crackling of a flame and a tone, a tone, a nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn and there is this cccckkkkk!

There is a cheer; the gnomes have learned a new way to say hoooooooooooooray..........

Raja Ram
This is a search to find ways of changing our own minds and triggering our inner feelings that are going to come out one way or another... If you want to be a yogi — be a yogi! If you are going to take drugs, that’s what you are going to do, if you want to be straight that’s what you are going to be! The main thing is, the whole game is to alter our consciousness to get higher and to go to those other dimensions, to fulfill our potential. And one of the ways we can do this is through music, because it’s healing and elevating, and it will take people to a higher realm of consciousness, if they let it!

Swami Chaitanya
The idol and the temple and the worship says that our intention here is the highest of the unity of human consciousness, animal consciousness and nature consciousness…………

Nagar Baba
Dying and then born again ……

Swami Chaitanya
Well; Shiva Nataraj is the form of Shiva as the dancing god - lord of the dance, and he is dancing and creating and maintaining and blessing and pin point destroying and it's a way of getting to your inner self and dancing to the rhythm of the cosmos!

Ascetic Brahma Chaitanya
The sensation of the fluctuation of the mind…

If you want to see this pure paper, this white paper, you have to remove all these lines. Isn't it? Similarly the mind too covers the real consciousness the real thing, which you are. So you have to remove all this darkness, all these lines of tainted ness, which is the mind.

Then the natural beauty of the base, the foundation is automatically observed. Isn't it? It is natural, it is always there.

So now; what do you see in this world? Only your mind! And how is this mind being seen? Does a dead man see his mind? So he must be conscious!

You are nature aren't you nature? So if you hurt any part of nature it will certainly rebound back upon you!

Nathan "Dr Spook" Vogel;
I remember there was a moment when I was by myself and I was realizing everything for a moment! I was remembering who I was and who I always will be, and getting in touch with the universal mind of the cosmos!

Joie Favier
It reminded me of the wisdom that my body has separately from my intellect in some way - this information that is encoded in my physical shape. If you think of consciousness as being the shape of my body in this hologram now.

I am sure that all of our bodies are holding incredible encoded information!

All of these things connecting at the same frequency…

System 7
………you know that radios have an fm frequency

Joie Favier
…….you can tune in this information. Like turning the radio on...

Raja Ram
……like a radio station. That little twist on the dial makes all the difference!

Joe Favier
It's on all the time!

System 7
the frequency is broadcast and then the music modulated along this frequency, now you can…

Joie Favier
………allow yourself the stillness which meditation of course has allowed me to and that’s how I feel I have tuned into this information and I’m sure that anyone who wanted to take the time to investigate their own inner realms, they would find extraordinary information there!

System 7
Certainly as a metaphor you can see music as a form of carrier wave that modulates spiritual intent!

Raja Ram
No matter how you can conceive our universe, however large it is, however infinitely expanding it is, there are these possibilities of alternative universes - one billionth of a quark away from us, and if we tune into that, we get into those other dimensions. Now; it's a long way of saying - do these dimensions exist? Of course they exist and we all experience them. How do we experience them? We experience them for instance by coincidence! Right; so something really weird happened and I’m sure it happened to you last week! A really weird thing and you think — wow! But that’s not a coincidence! That is an actual divine manifestation of the groove logy policy that is happening on alternative realities. And everybody is for us as we were saying before. We have these guardian spirits, we have these guardian planets. We have giants that are overlooking us. They may be 2000 miles tall. And they are our spirits that help us and protect us through all the universes…

Kode IV
if you strike a key, or a string is a better example, a string just a chord, a monochord, mmmmmmmmmmm……

Raja Ram
…you’ve got to be a scientist of sound!

Kode IV
…every other tone that’s possible is happening within that tone.

System 7
I find it is more likely to produce spiritual energy along that metaphor.

Kode IV
…and from that octave the fifth will ring, and from the fourth, and so on and so on, twelve times, that's the cycle of fifths, twelve times, and then it will repeat to the same sound again, but this same sound is a quarter note off, but that is a total other story.

Raja Ram
….I mean look at Albert Hoffman when he got up to LSD24. - nothing worked! And then years later he went back and he brought out that thing and he worked on it until he found LSD25, and then the magic of shamanism came together through science and theology, and at that moment something transcendental happened to the consciousness of the planet.

Gregory Sams
This poster - 14 hour Technicolor dream - was the first psychedelic event that I ever went to, in this country. I went on the first weekend that I came out of hospital after breaking my back, to see if I could adjust to the outside world, and I think that definitely the world was ready for me with this happening. And the person who put this on, that organized it - Hoppy - also was responsible for taking me to my first tip party, which is my first Goa trance style party.

Music heightens our spirits; it brings people together in a coordinated body movement and coordinated mindset as well. People are in similar mental states - even people without drugs get into those mental states and through the dance and repetitive movement, which is credited by leading anthropologists as being the original basic driver of all social organizations. All social forms originated with synchronized body movements and it's something that has been dreadfully lost in society and music keeps that going and trance music raises it to new heights!

This is how it is - it’s a church of personal revelations! People share their revelations. Sometimes you wake up in the mornings and everything is crap and sometimes you wake up and you are enriched for the rest of your life by the perception you had — could be about yourself or it could be how people interact. You might have discovered… food, like for me when I first.. Took acid!

It does enable people to break out of ruts that they've been in - this is what I've always eaten, this is what I’ve always listened to, this is where my mates always work. People can't get out of those ruts! You take psychedelics and you can. You can get far enough out of your current state of existence that you can see… you can experiment with other things to be open to them and see the error of your ways sometimes, and the brilliance of your future!

Well; enjoy it and be grateful for it. I think that’s a very important part to actually send some actual gratitude and thanks back to whatever it is that enabled us to have this paradise here.

Youth
It only came together in Goa for a lot of music. It only made sense in Goa but it was made by people from different sects, and freaks from around the world.

When I went to a few parties’, I was like amazed and then I became really inspired by it! I realized that this really was the future of music in a lot of ways. It was all about the spirit and the feel of the music. It becomes a language through which you can find your own identity. I think Goa was a particularly fertile place for it to begin nurture it and to gather its strength

Dinaz
Maybe it was not un-cool, and it was planted, it was a seed in Goa and then it's flowered and spread everywhere!

Youth
That had been a long well trodden root of a long very old tree which goes back millenniums and involves the very basic elements of humanity which is dancing under the moon and stars… I found I could draw correspondences with Brahman priests and the druids, Rajasthani fiddle players and Irish fiddle players, and there were a lot of correspondences. And I think there are in all native cultures! To have them reawakened in yourself and then reinterpreted by yourself and integrated into your contemporary world - is the way forward in society. And we have to rediscover those truths of our ancestors in our own ways!

Raja Ram
And we can do this through the party's and through our dance! And that is why this is a really important thing we are involved in right now, it's not frivolous!

Goa Gil
It's not just a disco in the forest. It’s an initiation. It’s the gathering of the tribe. It’s like the sixties all over again!

System 7
In the high point of the sixties — ‘66, ’67 - a lot of it was quite dance orientated, like the London club UFO!

Hoppi
where you had films on the walls, liquid slide slows made with by big watch glass shape dishes and remissible brightly colored oils and fluids swirled around in time with the music. People playing records -they'd be called DJ's now.

System 7
A lot of the original disco party's were also very idealistic - they took acid! Actually disco grew out of psychedelia!

Youth
You have a culture, or collective society spirit that allows people to come together and do those things together, and communicate it together. Because the location was Goa, which is India, you still had a kind of collective consciousness which made the old ancient gods there alive to the majority of the population — Shiva, the Hindu gods and even the Buddha and the other religions. Because the context was there, people were opening up in a very big way!

Goa Gil
Getting down with the family and nature, getting down with mother earth!

Youth
You meet people who are individuals that carve their own niche in their own way and create their own realities. You see people as examples of doing exactly what they want to do - creating their own realities, carving their own niche and creating a better world! Collectively that gets stronger and stronger and becomes a message of …… love.

Raja Ram
Goa! It went commercial and now it’s just gone fetid like an old cheese that has been left too long in the cupboard. The spirit has gone, the blue rinse tourists have arrived, the flea market has exploded into Regent Street. I suggest to everybody; find new pastures the world is out there!

Sue Hall
Back in the sixties we had the inspiration of Marshall McLuhan and his idea of the global village. That was what we were aiming for. We could see it coming but now we live in it!

Bruce Eisner
Hermann Hesse wrote about a future society in which people would play a crystal bead game where all the different media, arts and sciences would come together. We are starting to see these kinds of tapestries being woven on the web!

Sue Hall
The other side of it of course globalization!

Mark Heley
A small group largely of men who are controlling a vast majority of the worlds resources are holding on as much as they possibly can do.

Sue Hall
But the case is not to complain, but more to try to intervene by communications, by showing people other ways of living their lives and doing things that are more fun, that are more positive from everyone’s point of view rather than just saying this is absolutely awful - you must change! But if people say; look at this! This is a really interesting way of doing something. Would you like to try it, I'll show you how it all works. And that is a totally other way of delivering actually the same message that is; why don't you change your behavior and try doing it like this for a bit?

Mark Heley
You have to ask yourself the question; why are all these wars happening? Why is there B.S.E? Why is there genetically modified food?

Sue Hall
You have to act in whatever way you conceive, whether it's by making a video, or whether it's by taking direct action in the streets. If you have a point of view that someone else is doing something maybe dangerous, it’s your responsibility in a modern society to go out and get that point of view heard!

Helen de Mat
A complete restructuring of society based on a true secure brotherhood and sisterhood, cooperative Eden farming and culture! Happy tribal homes working and sharing to create heaven on earth with full help from our government!

To have their tear stained faces kissed with generosity, surrounding them with the grace of flower decked rainbows instead of hells droning bombers, butterflies to dazzle their learning eyes - this is not idealistic -this is common sense!

Singing
Summer solstice
We come together
Reunite the stones of our ancestors
Summer solstice
We come together
Reunite the stones of our ancestors
Celebrate the summer
We come together
Reunite the stones of our ancestors
Summer solstice
We come together
Reunite the stones of our ancestors

Alex Grey
This piece is about ten years old. It's called Theologue - the union of human and divine consciousness weaving the fabric of space and time in which the self and its surroundings are embedded. That’s the subtitle... Rather long...

What I try to do in the work is to show the interpenetration between the physical dimension and the more metaphysical dimensions. In the body it shows up as the acupuncture meridians points and chakras auras and halos and things like that. This particular painting is one of my favorites because it came from an experience I had some time ago, it was a high dose LSD experience and I was wearing a blindfold seated in a lotus posture. I was staring into this… it was a device I invented called a mind fold. It's just a light type blindfold with space to open your eyes, so you look into total darkness, but somehow I was seeing an electric grid that was all along the horizon - just this incredible kind of perspective grid. And it seemed that I was projecting this at the same time as I was seeing it outside, but I was in my head, so it was very confusing, but I felt like this is the loom of space and time. This is like when you dream! You are dreaming in space and so you are always creating space. Somehow our mind is creating the space that we are surrounded by, so how to visualize that? It was solved by putting this kind of seated Buddha there and having the horizon line - the vanishing point of the horizon line of the perspective be synonymous with the cone of perception that’s spreading out. It’s appearing to project the space that he is seated in.

Nathan "Dr Spook" Vogel
Welcome to the purple house! We have the computer lab right away... Come into my lab! Welcome home!

How to organize the thoughts of so many? How to take the sum collective total of all of our consciousness and turn it into a useable tool, to save our planet and then to go the next step - to evolve our minds and to evolve our beings, to use the information that exists and has existed, to turn our planet into Eden!

My answer, one of my favorite tools at the moment, is the loom. The digital loom being something for everything - your animation, your video, your audio, your graphics, your inter activity, your communication tools - all woven together - that is for me right now the most epic tool for conforming your imagination into an understandable packet.

Soon the technology will exist to allow us to sculpt graphics and sound together. Simplified interfaces that are so deep that you don't have to think about them, but you can just think fluently in them as a language. So you can actually speak or think in the language of creation.

The same shapes occurring, the same concepts occurring throughout nature, the same spirals and the trees and the patterns of nature reoccurring. All the same patterns come naturally through the religions, from the tribes to the biggest religious cults.

The natural, core tribal essence of the spirit that would drive someone just to go and paint or carve or sculpt the epic art that we find in the ruins. Our dreams are the most important thing and we should follow those and that if you do follow your bliss people will seek you out to make sure you can do the things that are meant for you to do, but only if you follow your bliss, otherwise compromising even a little bit with your soul mission makes it all just fizzle away and if you really go for it, there is nothing that can stop you.

Often times when you close you eyes, you get the graphics that would never have been possible on any computer screen, or any video projector. It just happens naturally with the human mind.

Naturally...

Sample
So again we dance...

System 7
One particular area we have been interested in since the middle seventies is what used to be called biofeedback, which is basically the study of the relationship between various brain rhythms and states of mind.

They divide the rhythms of brain activity into four bands; beta, alpha, theta and delta. And basically; all these rhythms are happening at the same time, but if you close your eyes and go into a sort of dream state - the alpha will become stronger and the beta will go down. If you get agitated, or try to do some sort of complex mental arithmetic, the beta will rise. And if you go into a state of deep meditation, the feta will rise. And if you can produce some kind of stimulus running in the rhythms, the brain will sort of follow it. Rather like if you set off a tuning fork in a room full of acoustic guitars, they'll all vibrate to the note of the tuning fork.

The alpha frequency is the one we are particularly interested in and that happens to be in the band of seven to twelve cycles per second, which corresponds to the sixteenth note of most dance music tempo.

Dateldateldateldatel…and….

There’s the basis for some form of psycho-spiritual voyage.

And then you have the hemi sync one and they link both brains together.

Kode IV
There is this oneness also. This solid repetition of something, like the idea that in one everything is. Like when you hear one drum going -boom, boom - you can imagine any variation in your mind!

Raja Ram
It's all sound! Sound is the most powerful thing in the universe. In the beginning was the word, the word was sound. The whole planet is built on sound. Everything’s molecular. Everything is vibrating. This flute, the table, we! We are just a cluster of electrons and molecules vibrating on electrical energy, spinning round on this planet

Simon Posford
Sounds are just a different frequency of resonance.

Raja Ram
Exactly! It’s like infrared, or different parts of the spectrum, and then you have sound, which has its frequency. Now; within that sound and within those frequencies there are certain mystical frequencies that heal and bind the human mind, body and spirit.

Sue Hall
You can get to your final goal by following many different paths.

Youth
So people have to define their own paths and define their own religion!

Gregory Sams
You don't have to read strange books and listen to people in funny outfits to have religion. It’s just a direct hardwire connection with the world, universe, and god. And it's been missing in our culture for so many centuries - any sense of being part of a world as opposed to dominating and running it!

Raja Ram…. I kept drawing the things he was seeing on DMT.

I felt this group of 2000, 20,000 people together expressing their gratitude for existence, their joy at living again in a synchronized manner, but doing this on the earth and I very strongly felt that this is like medicine to the earth, it's acupuncture, it's natural healing to get this message back to the earth that yes, some of us do love living here, love living on the earth and sharing its benefits, sharing its fruits! And this possibly goes to offset some of the pollution and the degradation of the earth that’s going on in a much vaster scale in other places, but I think if there is a gaya consciousness here weighing up the future of this species, the more gratitude we express for existence, the more we are going to keep the balance in our favor.

And with the parties… there are more people going to parties every weekend than there ever were before. More people taking psychedelic drugs every weekend and the more laws they pass against it, the more it seems to happen, so you could almost argue a cause and effect that the laws are encouraging this to happen.

That doesn't mean I’m in favor of the laws though!

Dolphine
Dancing is such a beautiful way of celebrating. It’s a way of freeing ourselves and elevating ourselves so so. And connecting!

Kode IV
When we dance together with the body language, the way of our vibration — this is how we communicate!

Swami Chaitanya
You’re so in tune with the music and there’s no distances, no distinction between you, the music and everyone else dancing that you are actually lifted up as on a wave and carried and you don't get tired you just are in the music, and dancing along and you feel you are almost not touching the ground.

Robufo
There is a kind of transcendental experience you can get by pushing your body to its limits!

Michael Gosney
Religious, ritual, singing and dancing events have gone on for millenniums in human society. And I do think it's our collective signal - it's a certain quality of our collective signal that touches god.

Mark Heley
What you've got is you've got people dancing which is an expression of the body and when you bring the body and the mind together you get a heart opening!

Santosh
Understanding right now is all about unity and that’s how we can achieve great things as a human race, when we come together in unity. It really breaks down all the borders of color, of creed, of wealth. I mean we are all the same on the dance floor. We are all just having a good time!

Sue Hall
You can create communal lift situation where everybody becomes high. It doesn't matter whether they've taken drugs or not - that’s not really the point. The point is they are sharing the experience of raising each other’s consciousness live at that moment on the dance floor in a shamanic way.

Nick Crayson
Definitely the psychedelic experience, dance, trance and getting into yourself enables you to get out of yourself and see really what’s going on. And we've all seen stuff, that we can't deny, is definitely going on, and once you've seen that, there’s no way you can possibly return to the world as you saw it before.

Nicki Lastretto
The trance for me is a lot like meditation

Mark Heley
It’s not enough just to elevate your own frequency and the frequency of the people around you - you need to do it in tune with the earth. And if you do that, then it gets really interesting. So I'm hoping for an evolution in the trance culture, that we will move towards large solar sound systems and explicitly bringing in these consciousness keys into the music and you are seeing it in the visuals and the backdrops. Everyone is wearing sacred symbols, everyone is tuning into sacred geometry and it’s happening! So, I think there is an enormous potential and it’s just one step away from something, which is really transformative. And not just for people who are involved - for the planet!

Sue Hall
No one is free until everyone is free and that really is a modern version if Buddhism. You can't really enjoy your life while other people are trapped in shit in front of you. You should try to help them if you possibly can.

Nick Crayson
And we are living in a dying world. And we have to do our job. And if you simply go off and smash your brain up every weekend and don’t contribute and don't learn from that experience and see really what the real situation is and try to make your life so complex that you can't even deal with it, then you have failed to be you!

Mark Heley
Because what we have to take responsibility for is being co-creators of reality.

Ascetic Brahma Chaitanya
But it's an evolution - nature is always evolving and we are all evolving with nature as nature.

Filmmaker Torsten Klimmer
All as one!

Ascetic Brahma Chaitanya
All is one... There's no doubt about it!

Mark Heley
Once we make that breakthrough and we see that we are actually a part of the earth’s evolutionary process. We are not separate from it and our destinies are completely intertwined.

Ascetic Brahma Chaitanya; you will see actually feel and experience the unity in all this apparent diversity.

Raja Ram
What have we learnt, Si? What has our society, what have we learnt? We've crawled out of the reptilian swamp; here we are, 60 billion years later, what have we learnt? What have we learnt if all the elders of the universe came down and spoke to us now, what could they tell us? What does that baba that you knew tell us? What is everybody trying to tell us? They are trying to tell us — love! And how do we love?

Cause we've got to love ourselves that’s how we love. If we love ourselves then we can love everybody we can share everything, but if we don't love ourselves we've got nothing. We are a dead battery adrift in the desert, but just saying the word love makes you feel good. I’m going to say it now for everybody! L-o-v-e! Ahhhh - what a word! Man those four letters are better than other four letters words.

Think love

Act love

Be loving

And don't make a show of it, just be an internal lover! Love humanity, love animals, love insects and everything. You can' t go wrong. You'll be loved in turn! You'll just turn into a giant ball of floppy love floating like a thistle in outer space.

Credits

Simon Posford
What do you think is the most amazing thing in the universe?

Raja Ram
You tell me, Si!

Simon Posford
Consciousness…

Ascetic Brahma Chaitanya
This consciousness, which is this liveliness is what we call

God!