On April 10th, 2009 (Good Friday) the Philadelphia Shamanista Initiative held a private party to raise funds for the coming open-air party season. The fae folk were out in full force, as evidenced by the photo below. Also notable on this spring evening was a raucous group wedding ceremony held by Winkel & Balktick.
Watch a remix of The Animatrix set to progressive psytrance by Dave Dittmer.
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A golem is an animated being created entirely from inanimate matter (usually mud). In many tales, the Golem is inscribed with magic or religious words that keep it animated. Writing the Hebrew word “Emet” on its forehead activates it. By erasing the first letter, the golem is deactivated. Golems were a creation of those who were very holy and strove to approach God, and in that pursuit would gain some of God’s wisdom and power.
Shaman Dhia’s Golem is created from light, not mud. It is the first version depicting the chakras, nadis, and aura of a healthy, living, human system, including unseen geometries extending beyond the body.
The ritual of Burning Man was disrupted by an amusing act of counterculture fundamentalism when the effigy was burned five days early by an embittered veteran Burner. The blaze began at the apex of a total lunar eclipse — stunning beautiful in the open desert — and drew an amusing mix of reactions from the [...]
A promising alliance between two of NY’s psy tribes was announced earlier this week.
In a secret midnight ceremony, 28thday producer Theo was sworn into the extended CoSM family. Details of the ritual are of course secret, but rumor has it that the sacrifice of a soy-substitute chicken is demanded, as well as certain oaths taken in the presence of patrone Alex Grey himself…
Members of the Boston psytribes assisted in the installation of a guerrilla art installation of mooninites at the start of the New Year. The following video document of the art project began circulating among the knowledgeable and well-connected in the days that followed. Now it can be watched on YouTube…
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