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Anrei posted his photos of the Spectra party on April 28. Featured above is Shane Gobi, whose set closed the night.

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Spectra partypics

A few months back we reported on the Ayahuasca Monologues, a panel presentation hosted by culture mag souldish. Now, culture editor Jon Levin uplinked the video footage of the monologues for our consumption.
Watch the other Monologues:
Johnathan Phillips
Bill Kennedy
Jaime Waxman
Daniel Pinchbeck
all on one page
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Source via souldish

The cultural symposium at this month’s Entheocentric Salon will focus on methods of artistic production for an audience focused on expanded consciousness.
8-10pm in CoSM
Participants:
Alex Grey
Eli Morgan
Mikio Kennedy
William Etundi
Jonathan Phillips
Joann Jimenez

The salon itself continues until 5am, and will feature live art by Andrew Jones:

view the Entheocentric Salon

A photo expressing the energy of the trance dance, a moment captured by a combination of expert timing and technique.

A bit of local trance history.
Before the Current Era (2005 – ?) chronicled so diligently here at di.onys.us, in the first years of the new millennium it was the Spectra and Omnitribe collectives that best served underground psychedelic trance music to the NY community.
“The two crews worked both together and independently – bringing such acts [...]

On April 19th, 1943 at 4:20 pm Dr. Albert Hofmann, chemist for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland, swallowed the first deliberately ingested LSD.

Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.

Late in the evening my wife returned from Lucerne. Someone had informed her by telephone that I was suffering a mysterious breakdown. She had returned home at once, leaving the children behind with her parents. By now, I had recovered myself sufficiently to tell her what had happened.

Exhausted, I then slept, to awake next morning refreshed, with a clear head, though still somewhat tired physically. A sensation of well-being and renewed life flowed through me. Breakfast tasted delicious and gave me extraordinary pleasure. When I later walked out into the garden, in which the sun shone now after a spring rain, everything glistened and sparkled in a fresh light. The world was as if newly created. All my senses vibrated in a condition of highest sensitivity, which persisted for the entire day.

Thus went the world’s first acid trip.

The world-walking NY trancer Rebecca Patience Roman writes in from her current tour:

Hellow peeps,
Greetings and salutations long time. Thought you might like to know that Reid (Wave’s brother from the Frying Pan) finally embarks on his 3 year journey on his schooner around the planet to break the world record. His launch party is today [...]

Saturday the 14th of April will see a full night at CoSM, seperated into three discrete events:

First is an Introduction to Alchemical Divination by Ralph Metzner.
At 8pm Alex Grey will join Ralph for a conversation on Alchemy, Entheogens, and the Visionary Experience.
Rounding out the evening in unusual fashion unusual will be the Divine Balance Trinity [...]

Eiwe Lingefors of Alienswede shared his latest mix with the psyNY community. He played here in New York this past Wednesday at the weekly Activate party held in the Sapphire Lounge.

The mix is available for download.

Heaven above, heaven below; stars above, stars below;
all that is above, thus also below; understand this and
be blessed.

That which is below is like that which is on high, and that which is on high is like that which is below; by these things are made the miracles of one thing.