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Technoshamanism
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think Technoshamenism is a really delightful term because it grounds
technology into the most delightful practise that any human being
can take part in, which is Shamanism. We have still alive with
us on the planet traditional Shamans living in the rain forest
in the Amazon - they're absolutely wonderful creatures and maybe
the most valuable resource alive on the planet today. More valuable,
maybe than the plants in the rain forest but they're just living
embodiments of pure consciousness flow. And if you get near them
and you take part of their assembling you will experience extraordinary
experiences which turn out to be a natural state of consciousness
for every living human being but very few ever get to touch it
as Shamans are still wild, rare, strange creatures at this moment
in time.
Technoshamenism says we honour that heritage. We come from that.
That is the most valuable way of experiencing reality. And we
are going to dance the Shamenistic dance in a new moment in time,
in a new place with new toys. But it's actually got its roots
in the Shamans original dance. Now we're just going to take these
new toys that we've created, these new inventions that we made,
under hypnosis, cameras, guns, airplanes, computers and we're
going to grind them up with our new Shaman's pestle into an interesting
brew and we're going to drink that brew and we're going to dance
the technology dance - with the full Shamanic mind.
So Technoshamenism to me means, here we are in this moment in
time and Shamans who are alive today and being born at this time
are forced to be Technoshamens just because technology to us is
what the rain forest was to a Shaman in that time. These are the
plants, these are the leaves, these are the jungle animals but
now they're missiles and computers, now they're virtual reality
worlds, now they're psychedelic music videos, now they're all-night
DJ events with tremendous pumping sound. This is the jungle we're
living in right now, and a Shamen uses the tools and the parts
of its environment to share that kind of insight with his fellow
beings.
Sufi Insights
There was a wonderful philosopher around the 12th Century, his
name was Ibn Al 'Arabi and he wrote a fantastic treatise called
the Fûsus al-Hikam. In it he talks about the play of the
dream really being an elucidation of the range of possible states
that can take place. And consciousness, through its divine play,
through the creative expression of bringing people and worlds
and events to life, is actually expressing itself. And through
that process, coming to appreciate itself and know itself.
So these were actually in Ibn Al 'Arabi's thinking, these were
something he called the "quiddities" or the essential
elements of existence, that can only be discovered through the
play of life. Otherwise they're in potential, they're within consciousness.
So the divine cell gives itself up to the play of existence in
whatever form it takes - because, why? Because it is self-discovery.
And so therefore, anything that happens is fine. It can be UFO's,
it can be world wars, it can be two planets colliding. All of
these are expressing states of consciousness that are possible.
Interview by British film maker
Tim Coleman:
e-mail TCole7777@aol.com
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