dprogram • Jah Wobble & The Inspiration of William Blake


Home > 1 > 2 View Video Clip Extract from dprogram Volume 1 Jah Wobble got his stage name from his friend Sid Vicious and developed into one of Punk Rock's most colourful characters. He founded Public Image Limited with John (Rotten) Lydon in 1978 and became famous for his wild man exploits. Since then he has gained wide respect for his solo albums and creative collaborations with artists like Brian Eno, U2's The Edge, Holger Czukay, Bjork, Primal Scream, The Orb, Massive Attack and the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. His CD 'The Inspiration of William Blake' combines his own unique blend of radical percussion, dub bass and world music sounds with the words of the 18th century mystic and poet. The Illusion Clears Jah Wobble Being optimistic or pessimistic means going "doink doink" between extremes, whereas everything mixes in for me now. So it's not a question of "Oh I'm really optimistic - everything's great!" or "I'm really pessimistic everything's down" it just flows - dark flows to light and just what is, is, and you do your duty. You do the things you've got to do and somehow when you do the things you've got to do, for the right reasons, for the joy of living and the joy of being, then the illusion clears, hopefully. I'm not saying we should all go quickly and sit in a cave and meditate for eighteen hours a day because I think that by going into life and being a human being and having worldly experience... that's not carte blanche to go and do exactly what you want, to follow every desire, because it just doesn't work like that... but by having worldly experience and basically honouring and being present to life, then I think a feeling comes that you don't have to be like a pinball. The world is the way it is, but then we go and do our thing, our duty and the hard work is finding "What should I work at? What should my work be? What should I do in life?" and then we follow our duty and commit actions based on the right motives, without thinking just of ourselves, actually working to pass something good on, while protecting ourselves. I ain't Mother Teresa, I haven't got that, but I can do a bit, and hopefully if I can do a bit then eventually I can open up and do more. This is how the world changes, I believe. Rather than standing on soap boxes, because that can become just another posture. I don't want to go pointing my finger at people, because a lot of that goes on, "Those people over there are really bad", because they're people, I'm people, so what they're doing bad, I must have the seeds of in me as well. I'm careful about finger-pointing too much, because people will point their fingers at me, and there's a lot in my life you could point a finger at me for! God I think its a post-modernist thing, this thing of everybody being afraid to speak of God - its OK to be 'Spiritual, Man' but its not good to talk of God. I haven't got a problem with the word 'God'. There isn't time to debate semantics, you go with the feeling. Call it God, Allah, Jehovah. I don't mind. And this argument that some religions have got lots of gods, well you've got one God with many aspects. And the Divine Mother with many aspects. If God is everywhere then there's nowhere that God isn't - you can worship the sun if you like because God is in the sun. God is beyond thought, totally cognizant and totally personal - you know, "Hello John, how're you doing?" God is also in the trees...everywhere. Totally knowing and pertaining to emptiness in a good way, pertaining to being clear and not full of rubbish. Home > 1 > 2 email • mail order credits © dprogram 1996>2008
	Originally broadcast on UK television's Channel 4, dprogram is an award winning, mind expanding trip featuring rare and exclusive interviews with leading edge personalities from areas like cyber culture, consciousness research, parapsychology, music and art. Volume 1 includes: • Dan Mapes CEO of San Francisco's leading edge virtual reality design company SynergyLabs on the metaphysics of VR. • Jah Wobble Musician and founder member of Public Image Limited on Cockney mystics, creativity and the inspiration of William Blake. • Dr Sara Parker UC Berkeley scholar on the New Age 'colonisation' of Native American spirituality. • Bishop Joey Head of the First Church of the Last Laugh - the worlds fastest growing snack relgion! • Burning Man A unique four day experience exploring creativity and consciousness in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. • Willis Harman Former president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences on their 'conventional research into unconventional areas'. • Dr Edgar Mitchell Founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and Apollo 14 astronaut on parapsychology experiments in space. • Nick Pope of the British Ministry of Defence on why he had to change his mind about the UFO phenomenom. • Peter Russell Author, on the global brain, spirituality on the net and our part in the evolution of the planet. • Ann & Alexander Shulgin Pioneer researchers into psychedelics and the mind, on the politics of ecstacy. And more... Running time: 70 mins. £19.99 plus Post & Packing. Post & Packing rates: For the UK add £3.00 For Europe add £4.00 For the United States and the Rest of the World add £6.00 ORDER ONLINE Snail Mail Orders: Make a Cheque, Postal Order or International Money Order payable to Digital Media Labs and send to: Digital Media Labs 8 Manson House 16-17 Manson Place London SW7 5LT United Kingdom Customer Service Helpline: +44 (0) 20 7225 0861 Please Note dprogram is only available on VHS PAL. To play this tape in the US you must use a multi-region video machine capable of playing PAL format tapes. We are currently working to provide dprogram on DVD. If you would like to be notified when this becomes available enter your email address below.