Terence McKenna - “I believe that the lost secret of human emergence..the undefined catalyst that took a very bright monkey and turned that species into a self-reflecting dreamer..that catalyst has to be sought in these alkaloids in the food chain that were catalyzing higher states of intellectual activity.”
Any interest in a regular (weekly or bi-weekly) Drum Circle Gathering in the Boulder area, possibly Nederland in the Spring? I've got a bunch of drums, Djembes, Congas, etc.
I woke up on World Water Day, made a cup of coffee (I would learn later in the day from Huffington Post that it takes 37 gallons of water to make a cup of coffee) and immediately got to work on a newsletter for BARKA Foundation’s 2000 water activist subscribers…
We are at a solemn moment, the moment when colonialism is not dead, alas, but at any rate already knows itself to be mortal. Colonialism is still able to crush and oppress, perhaps more savagely than ever. One thing is sure, however: It is mortally wounded, it knows it is perishable and has lost its historical assurance.
It’s been a week since witnessing the mind-blowing performance by Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba at the Getty in Los Angeles. And still, finding the words to describe the experience is a challenge.
In his book Black Athena, Prof. Bernal convincingly indicts 19th-century scholars for constructing a racist "cult of Greece" based upon a purely Aryan origin for Western culture. He accuses these classicists of suppressing the numerous connections between African and Near Eastern cultures and early Greek myth and art.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
