tribal pow-wow

99 monkeys can share an idea - but when the 100th monkey tunes in a critical consciousness is achieved that tips the scales for all . That critical mass for change depends oN YOU! You could be the 100th monkey!
(Ken Keyes Jnr, the 100th Monkey)
The TRIBAL POW-WOW is a meeting of minds to discuss the state of doof culture and where its headed, as well as its response to the rapidly militant, right-wing world around it. YOU are invited to come speak from the heart and join with other elders and participants in the Trance community on matters that are affecting our culture in this ongoing series of community building conferences. The Tribal POW-WOW is an exercise in group-mind and non-hierarchical community discussion. It hopes to raise issues and stimulate ideas and connect people together. This is the transcript of the rst 100th Monkey Pow-Wow, for more details, a live cyber-forum discussing these issues, audio transcipts, photos and more, please visit:

http://www.barrelfullofmonkeys.org/ 100thmonkey.php
This is a Barrelfull of Monkeys.org production, March, 2005. Cover photo: Ollie Dunlop/ Oli42@hotmail.com Indonesian monkey photos throughout: Tim Parish/ art@undergrowth.org All rights reserved by creators and speakers, licensed under Creative Commons

100TH MONKEY 5 TRIBAL POW-WOW OPOEIA, SAT 29TH JAN, 2005

Held at the Submerge festival (http://www.resonant-temple.com) in the lush environs of the Opoeia Eco-Arts retreat (http://www.opoeia.com) in state forest just past Geelong in Victoria, the 100th Monkey 5 event was a Tribal POW-WOW exercise in community building, communication and facilitation of cultural dreamings. Inside a modied UFO installed on the property, a group of around thirty people came together in GROUP MIND to discuss the state of counter-culture and where to go from here... Apologies to members of the crowd who participated but whose names werent know to include in this transcription; for arts sake unknown participants are listed as Monkeys. And thanks to everyone who was involved and shared their dreams and thoughts you are all the 100th Monkey!!!

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT>>>

RAK> Id like to welcome everyone to the tribal POW-WOW. Were the Barrelfull of Monkeys and we do performances and mind-bending things involving ideas that revolve around the 100th Monkey theory... which is a bit of an urban legend that has evolved over the last couple of decades about group mind and the way a communitys consciousness can come together... the theory is that 99 monkeys were on an island in an archipelago off Japan in the 1950s, and anthropologists were doing tests. Monkeys on one island learnt to wash potatoes and learn new skills that remained a skill shared between individuals. And then a critical consciousness was achieved when the 100th monkey tuned in and learnt the skill and became wired into the genetic memory or morphic eld... RAHM> Collective memory... shared mythology... sculpting our reality...yeah... RAK> And I think its really important at this time in the world, and where mainstream culture and alternative cultures going that we share our visions and share our dreams... and we come together, and we play... and we have fun. I think its time to recognise each other as a community, because everyones got a lot of the same ideas, and weve all talked around our campsites, and in our homes, and other places, but again theyre individual ideas. And when it reaches that critical mass and that 100th monkey comes together, well, thats when the fun really starts... RAHM> Ive been working with tribal elders and its the transposition between understanding how to use the technology to benet all people, or the technology used for your personal gain. So, what its come down to with my learning has all been about honouring earth based wisdom and silicon technology used to create harmony as the tribal elders teach. RAK> What do the tribal elders think about the technology?

RAHM> They embrace it, they want to shoot the lasers - light amplication, stimulated emission of radiation... like I said, we want to shoot the light out there to the people who know how to use it, otherwise its dangerous. Theres not many people responsible with the light these days. The elders have been teaching me this fusion of honouring earth based wisdom and silicon technology. RAK> I think thats it, this bridging between the elders of the old culture and the new culture... doof culture is going tribal, its going back to the earth but were bringing our technology with it. And technologys neither good or bad its just a tool to use. RAHM> But weve got to use it for the common good. And thats the difference between tribalism and capitalism. The capitalist idea promotes this whole individualism - were free - were free to do whatever we want yet we cant do what we really want, its this oxymoron. Its about independent liberation with the people on the land that have the technology of the earth.

Ive been given the technology systems for the people to be able to communicate, taking the technology away from the people communicating the lies and giving back to the tribal elders. Were talking about the sleeping dragon of the National indigenous Media Broadcasting Services and getting a real group of people who can help facilitate that other energetic support that my indigenous brethren are asking for at this stage. Weve got a national satellite broadcasting service that we can activate. ATSIC has just been abolished, so what we need to do now is activate the indigenous media. The satellite broadcasting service covers over 100 indigenous communities but has underused facilities - no one knows how to use them, the government clusterfuck them because they dont want the independent media to have the power. Independent media is the only voice left of the people. So we need to create technological solutions that no one can control and take the power from the bureaucracy and give it back to the tribal elders. Its called a Survival Kit. You take these two series of cultural mapping tools and the technology we all create as a global community to create open source architecture. You take all the principles of the earth and that traditional cultures teach us that the West has disabandoned us from. We dont have a cultural identity here, we dont understand where we come from... My brother says to me I feel sorry for all the white people because they don;t know where theyve come from, theyve been abused and destroyed and they dont respect the earth. LUCY> Can I just say that I dont feel like that and I dont know about anyone else but I feel quite fortunate. I feel like I have a culture and a heritage...

RAHM> I respect that, but are we doing it now? How conscious are we of our shared urban mythology? About living the dream? My tribal grandfather says its time to start dancing new dances, singing new songs and activating the songlines and taking responsibility. Do you know where you come from, the storyline of where you were born? Thats important. LUCY> I know how my culture relates to my environment and how if affects me and how I see the world... RAK> Well, cultures an important thing to talk about... I guess we all come from separate backgrounds but we are all coming together as a shared culture sharing the same experiences and relearning the grounding and establishing networks with each other... LUCY> We share the same land... I think about this heaps, in relation to my dad and his homeland and the war... He was only ve years old and he was displaced because of WWII and hes never gotten over that. And Ive suffered because of that and because of the way Ive been brought up in this land of the free... RAHM> Democratic freedom (!)

LUCY> Yeah... Laid back, dont worry too much about anything... RAHM> Capitalist ideals as opposed to common values and a tribal sense of community... LUCY> But I think our parents have passed that onto us, while theyre also going through this whole sorting out thing, what you do need, what you dont need, and what you pass on and learn to recycle or whatever... RAHM> The nature of all those cultures is common ground, its all equal, we all share the same space. And all my tribal

brothers have been saying to me that you guys are worse of than we are... LUCY> Because we dont have a dreaming all together... RAK> Dreamings is a really good point to discuss, too. We might have backgrounds and shared culture and things but its so television mediated and projected from above and what you see and absorb and the choices you get are so limited... but to have a dreaming, and a really clear concept of what that is, a vision which you follow and connects you to the earth and the earths dreaming is crucial. LUCY> RAK> I think weve all got that... Weve maybe all got that here...

LUCY>

Well why dont we do that?

RAHM> Its already started. Theres the traditional way to do things and then theres the white persons way. RAK> Well what do you see?

LUCY> What do I see? Ah... I dont know, people will think Im crazy...! RAHM> Thats the whole point of this space - everyones dreams are equal. Its a blank canvas and thats the whole point of the difference between tribalism and capitalism. LUCY> Well, all right. I came from a Catholic background and the way I see the world - everything revolves around the Garden of Eden. For me, this means something we can create in the future, as weve never had an opportunity to have all the fruits of the planet in one spot... MONKEY> Genetic heritage. LUCY> Yeah, thats right. But now we do, weve got access. And especially the animals as well because theres heaps of endangered species. I think the United Nations should be petitioned to make Australia a testing ground or a biosphere so that we can develop an environments and there could be opportunities for people from other countries to come here and learn. Does anyone else... do you see what Im saying...? RAK> crazy! Denitely. And youre not

RAHM> ...but as a society do we all have that? Socially, maybe in this dome we do right now, but Im talking about the global community taking responsibility for the whole globe... LUCY> You mean, like, in Australia?

RAHM> Im talking about globally, Im talking about Earth... LUCY> Its hard because theres so much going on on different continents all the time, and its like, an exception whats happening in Australia right now compared to whats happening around the rest of the world... Its no coincidence to me that this was the last continent colonised... I think we needed things like television to nd out really quickly all the things that are going on because we are an intelligent culture. RAHM> But what do we communicate? We need to use the tools... LUCY> Well thats where were at now. Were trying to work out what we need to communicate. RAHM> How do we work collectively to communicate our social mythology?

RAHM> Its like an elders network, open source code... no one can control it... no one can own it... information wants to be free...

MONKEY 2> Hey, Ive got something to say... so people arent talking over each other here maybe if someones got something to say just let the person talk and be quiet and let them talk then raise your hand so we dont talk over everybody. LUCY> What about the talking monkey (picks up the plastic toy barrel of monkeys monkey as a talking icon)? Okay, Ive been piecing it together quite a lot and Ive been thinking. Youve got desert environments so there you have desert animals and you grow desert fruits and people work those environments. Its very important to work with the rivers and the waterways rst and to work with farmers and things like that. I also envisage people traveling around the country having big parties and planting parties and applying for permission to go to peoples land and setting up like, tipi villages and go all round like the rainbow serpent energy does round the country... So thats what I can see. And so some people will choose to stay there and develop that area and some people will move on. Weve got some amazing people in Australia, like - im going to say it - like Steve Irwin, people like that who are really conscious and have heaps of money and are really connected to saving animals. I think its important to bring animals to Australia because we dont have a chance to develop that respect in other places of the world. So many Australians have four wheel drives it tells me they want to be out there, in the bush. They love the land, they want to be driving on it, I think that whole four wheel drive culture thats developing is a callout and desire to reconnect with the land... MONKEY 2> Have some fun and get out of thee corporate grind!

LUCY> Totally. I see it in people all the time. And to eliminate unsustainable consumption. We need to stop consuming on this level... MONKEY 3> there... Free NRG! Its out

LUCY> Were supporting the demand for products and services for as long as we consume... To change that means a total shut down, and if we can prove to the rest of the world that it really works, that we can do it and were happy doing it and consuming less, then its a convincing argument to the rest of the planet... RAK> I guess in terms of... its hard to know what words to put on this as theyre all labels, but doof culture, tribal culture, things like Tranceplant that feed back into the land and community are already taking positive steps. And then i guess theres a lot of people we know who are all wanting to get their own land or implementing the idea of getting an intentional community together, and if that framework continues to develop then you might have the resource base to magnetise other people who are a bit more outside our scene. Especially when the environment continues to change, and the oils running out... And the sustainability thing... someone in this culture on the Earth has got to get their shit together to get sustainable because its fraying everywhere else... LUCY> Can I say something, that reminds me of sprouting and raw living foods... Like I think about the amount of energy needed to create raw living food... Weve got to go through this healing process in our bodies as well, this cleansing cycle. Theres a hierarchy of foods, with lower order foods

that we use to cleanse our entire bodies, and then theres these other higher order foods we use to sustain ourselves. I think about the jungle, thats the optimum peak energy environment, it reproduces itself, and it will rejuvenates us, too. So trying to buckle up that belt on the world, that holds the pants of the world up... RAHM> Tofer, the industrial age, the clash of civilisations... industrial revolution has taken over from the earth based wisdom. And now weve got the third wave which is the information, again. So its no longer the people who hold the industrial might. The World Bank is not based on military goals or power anymore. The World Bank is an encrypted network with sacred numonics... with the fastest computers and all that shit in the world... Its an illusion - total illusion the whole foundation. The elders speak of shared dreams, common mythology, weve got to live the dreams, dream the dreams together to take back the power... Live the dreams together... Dance the dances, activate the storylines and the songlines, all these places are already - its all there. Its just about honouring the traditional way of things. And if you understand the sacred nature of the space youre in now [The POW-WOW is being held in a circular space inside the mock UFO] , its all in the same proportion of the universal principles that the elders teach you. LUCY> So how do we do IT? Ive got this other idea, right, of this revolution occuring and to syndicate it on cable - a syndicated revolution lmed... RAHM> Thats what has to happen for a global planetary consciousness to SHIFT... we can do that, we have the power... We just need the team of visionaries to dream the dream... The whole thing is there, its like multi-dimensional take-over of earth. Assume control of everything and let go. If we can put light in that shed [RAHM is installing the lightshow in the main shed for the party that night] , well, to me its putting

the information wave where it needs to go... Its all that clash of civilisations again... The rst wave, industrial civilisation and other waves are clashing, so the real thing going on is not socialism or capitalism its the wave of civilisations clashing. Earth based. Industrial. Information. The clashes of the Technosphere... Now its about how we as a global community create and manage that clash. Its about people waking up and plugging in... RAK> Thats really important because the mainstream culture is under the spell and the illusion of media. Its the rst couple of generations of the Global Village and its all controlled by Hollywood. Hollywoods the eye in the pyramid... RAHM> The art of illusion, the picture that tells a thousand lies... Mass media is a consensus reality shaper of the dominant paradigm... RAK> Yeah, theyve co-opted and appropriated the global cultural Dreaming into a Hollywood Dreaming... RAHM> Exactly. Thats the fantasy were left with in the vestiges of industrial society. Six packs and fuckin urban sprawl. LUCY> But the problem is thats all a lot of people have access to... RAHM> key... Thats why medias the

RAK> If weve got the infrastructure of our own to communicate with ourselves and others like us, and to see that reection, it will speed up and magnetise... RAHM> Whos taking responsibility for it? My tribal elders have

been for the last 40,000 years and some other fuckers have fucked some shit up. And now were sitting in some fucking spaceship trying to gure some shit out. (laughter) Were all lost. Its a Hollywood spaceship - the art of illusion, yknow. So to me its about learning the technology of the earth, putting our hands on the ground, learning the stories of where you come from. The land where you belong - were all Tribe. The shared urban mythology we create - were all dreaming now. We are the new Tribes. So I thank everyone within this space for drawing the circle and being conscious. Bom. RAK> Bom bom.

keep the frequency, the 100th monkey consciousness going, and everything else will follow. PHOEBE> My idea is parties. Like, raising money through parties - were all here doing it so why cant we get some land and start putting into it... RAK> The power of networks...

HANS> I had these series of dreams, it wouldve been about ten years ago, and in the dream I was in this Council in this ying saucer like this one... (general laughter and commentary) RAHM> Galactic central! Do you know what I mean - we dont wait for an invitation! Is anyone else waiting for the world to nish? MONKEY 5> Oh, its is. Totally. MONKEY 6> Were waiting for Hans to nish his dream story! HANS> They chose me, they told me I was the chosen one... (lots of laughter and cheers) RAK> They say that to us all, Hans!

MONKEY 2> Can I just say something? I think a lot of us are on the path learning about land and learning from our elders and maybe getting a bit more in touch with our organic nature. But I think a lot of us dont understand where our technology comes from. Like its an important key... RAHM> (interrupting) Crystalline technology... its about light, and thats what the show were doing tonight is all about - light. MONKEY 2> Theres all this technology but it really comes down to self, and you radiating that, no matter where. So the people you talk to and the reections in the peoples eyes that you see share that energy, too.. RAHM> Its magick, its consciousness... thats why were here in this spaceship... MONKEY 4> from here? So where do we go

HANS>` And they were showing the people how to experiment with light and transform everyone. Its the same as the lesson of the dolphins - the dolphins get into our minds and teach us to transform light and transform people. RAHM> Crystalline technology - thats the foundation of all our technology: crystals. Not industrial might or gold or military power. So you remove the capitalist system -MONKEY 5> Hang on, Hans, have you nished speaking?

RAK> I think its important that we dont put too much pressure on ourselves, like, we are all here now in a shared consciousness and the key is to

Were all dreaming now. We are the new Tribes.

MONKEY 6> I didnt come here just to hear you talk, Rahm. You talk a lot about tribal wisdom and tribal knowledge yet you have the ability to just talk over everybody. RAHM> Okay, sorry, Ill shut up.

coincidences - its transdimensional doorways... and understanding the Mayan Galactic calendar and activation from one dimension to ve dimensions and taking responsibility for your genetic heritage. Theres a whole lot of things going on. RAK> Does anyone else have any dreams theyd like to talk about? LUCY> Can I tell you about this whacky idea that Ive had? About building a pirate ship and sailing to different continents in these ships, old fashioned in full costumes and stuff and taking this full on magickal circus dreaming show all around the world... (yayyyyss from the group) I mean, imagine that, if you had amazing jugglers and freaks and - right were here - the party has arrived! MONKEY 2> I think rst we should do it through Australia, through the desert and everywhere... RAK> Earthdream does that...

MONKEY 2> But its great, youre great, you put out great ideas... RAHM> Full respect...

HANS> Now its like, were here in this space... And Ive been doing it for ten years - the Theatre of Transformation and tonight we will once again transform... RAK> What did they say in the dream again, that they chose you? HANS> They gave me a gift, and it was the gift of colourful transformation... To transform all the elements around me... earth, air, re, water.... LUCY> Its the only way, yknow... Its not about raising money or anything its about raising our consciousness... RAK> Raising money feeds the system...

LUCY> I had a dream a week ago and I remembered it when she spoke up... MONKEY 7> Collective Dreaming... 100th Monkey...! LUCY> And I was thinking at the same time its not about raising money... RAK> about? LUCY> RAK> And what was your dream This is it. Really? The UFO???

RAHM> Theres intergalactic symmetry at play... JESS> I wanted to say something. I reckon that the time on this world - the clock is ticking. Were all in this clock and weve all got about seven years RAHM> Dimensional doorway...

JESS> Excuse me... Weve all got seven years to really work hard spiritually, consciously, and its not going to happen individually its got to happen on a huge consciousness level with a lot of people... MONKEY 8> No offense, but you cant relax in seven years, too - if you wait to wake in seven years - you wont.

RAHM> Its a dream Ive had as well, yeah. Its not like a coincidence. Theres no

JESS> I dont know, Im just saying at that point where the clock is running out - I dont know where weve got to be but thats what weve got to work out. A whole group of people have to be in one special spot on the earth, or a few special crystalline spots on the earth. And weve got to work out where weve got to be with what kind of people, because... MONKEY 6> Were doing that. here we all are from all over, in a meeting place. RAHM> But how do we share what we know with the rest of the world? Thats the basic question I ask everybody here. RAK> Well, through technology - were recording this here today and will put it on the net [http://www.barrelfullofmonkeys. org]... But some people dont want to share, theyre caught up in their little worlds and their illusions... It comes down to all these underlying energetic principles, like attracts like and energy attracts energy... And with oil prices rising and water levels rising and global warming and the planet changing, everythings changing, and consciousness is the same. Everyones on their own levels but you could make generalisations that people here have experienced more context or see things the way more mainstream people havent. But, the times are changing and if you get into the whole Mayan thing and the 26,000 year cycle were going through on this planet, going back to Hunab Ku and Galactic centre, the consciousness from the galactic centre and the suns and

the energy coming at us is raising the vibrational levels. And all the people on the different levels in the mainstream are waking up, too. And I think its really important for everybody who is already awake to reach out and help those people as they awaken... its the whole 100th Monkey thing - joining arm in arm - because the times are coming around. So nd your focus, keep your focus, magnetise the others towards you and you to them - and everythings going to just synchronise... RAHM> Activating your multidimensional self... were all multidimensional beings, we all have a spiritual connection to the earth... we are all amazing people... sitting in a spaceship hanging off the edge of the planet...! MONKEY 9> I reckon it starts... a few people have been saying self awareness and stuff... and theres a lot of fear in this room today... everyone can probably feel a weird sensation yeah? (yeps) It starts with connection, yeah? Eye contact... sunglasses on blocks the contact [RAHM is wearing sunnies] Just walking around, it starts here with us, yknow. Im travelling Australia and I walk around all the time, and Im always trying to make eye contact with people passing me, yeah? But here, since Ive been here, since yesterday, theres only maybe 20% that will actually look. Like Im here to meet people and make friends and connect but its not always easy. LUCY> Sometimes it takes a while for people to be able to negotiate a space... MONKEY 9> Yeah, but its just an eye connection, yknow - how you doin, good to be here, yeah. Self awareness of yourself and everything and everyone around you. MONKEY 10> maybe everyones still dazed a bit after Rainbow [Rainbow Serpent festival held the weekend before]... (laughter)

KING RICHARD> Can I say... Ive got a theory... well not really a theory... its based around the way a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) works, where you get a gathering of people coming together for a short amount of time and then dissipating again. We currently are in a very early phase of what would be a TAZ experience... Its only Day One, really... but theres going to be a moment thats going to happen at this gathering this weekend, where the ower opens up, or the boil gets lanced, or something happens - Im just using metaphor analogy here, and then youre going to nd what your disappointment now is [eye contact/ group awareness] will shift... Im just trying to make the point that its probably a little bit early now... people are still trying to gure out their environments and whats going on... MONKEY 8> And if everyones too open too soon its too much, and every individual person here has a huge story, and sometimes youve just gotta go on your own mission and not hook up with too many other stories too soon... it opens up a whole world... If you look someone straight in the eye you can see too much, so a lot of people... MONKEY 9> Yeah, and thats where Im talking about self-awareness - unless you emotionally balance yourself youre going to be useless... RAHM> Thats how we transcend global consciousness, through activating the minds of the people... MONKEY 8> I think youve got to activate yourself rst from the heart... RAHM> Totally. Mass self-organisation leading by example. KING RICHARD> Just to nish

what I was saying... by this time Sunday there might be a different vibe... therell be a shift up from this very powerful gathering... after this, amongst everybody in this enclosure, theres going to be a vibe when we walk around and see each other afterwards... MONKEY 10> (laughter) Hug a stranger today!

MONKEY 11> I believe that things are intertwined. So with all connections and looking people in the eye and saying gday, that helps intertwine everyones spirit... RAK> One thing Id like to raise is when we talk about community and unity... and with the danceoor being such an important fulcrum for peoples energies and when that group mind really does come together, if youve experienced it, its just a really transcendental moment. And its something thats obviously been around in tribal culture for a long time and this culture has rediscovered it and is re-energising it. And doof cultue is getting more ritualistic and more into the use of sacred geometry and understanding those underlying principles, and I think its magnifying that energy and that group consciousness more. Or at least the potential is there for that to happen, and thats a really exciting thing with were we are at with that stage. MONKEY 10> Thats for sure!

LUCY> Denitely. And Id say moving away from the whole drug culture and towards a more organic, clearer headspace is where its going... Speaking for myself, thats where I get most of my insights... when Im a lot clearer, and sprouting and juicing and doing craft and yoga and being a good girl... I did too much too soon, as well, and went a little bit ... cuckoo... (laughter) and couldnt relate to anybody... I thought I was the shit and no one else could work it out... And then I thought

noooo.... weve all got to get there TOGETHER... and we dont get there unless everyone else gets there as well... RAHM> Tribe... Its the new family, the new

MONKEY 2> Its nding that common ground and we nd it on the danceoor... Those interactions between people... MONKEY 7> How does it work with so many monkeys??? RAK> Well... .... they organise themselves eventually... LUCY> Animals have got better systems because they dont need to communicate vocally like humans... RAK> Thats the thing, if a cultures going to get along its got to nd its own balance and rhythm or it just destroys itself... ROLAND> Id just like to say we talked about building that awareness... Weve got to BELIEVE that its happening right now... That everyone of us here - and even Johnny Howard [Australias PM] its happening to him... LUCY> It is...

ROLAND> Its not going to happen unless we do it - everyone...

activate yourself rst from the heart

RAK> Its that critical mass thats going to take everyone to achieve... Has anyone else got any Dreamings theyd like to share...? MONKEY 6> Ive been having this vision for a while of starting a cosmic circus... and go travelling round Australia working with adolescent teenagers... I had fund-

ing three years ago from Coca-Cola from a drugs charity I was working for, but at the time the community I was in decided not to take it because the money was from CocaCola... But now weve decided it mightve been a good idea... And in fact it doesnt matter where the fundings come from, even if these multinationals are offering us money to do a really good cause... Looking back now and thinking the last three years, what could we have done with the suicide rate in Northern Australia, travelling around in this cosmic circus, teaching Mayan calendar and other conscious activities... RAK> Its all energy, its like judo, youve just got to use the multinationals energy, switch it over, and use it for a good thing. MONKEY 6> I realise that now, maybe over the last seven months, but at the time we just couldnt, we just werent interested in taking it... But were still fully into starting a cosmic circus, theres about seven of us that are into it already... RAK> Yeah, get the message out to the young kids... Theyve got the receptiveness still... MONKEY 6> Just coming to town, yknow, imagine the cosmic circus coming to town... we teach Mayan calendar and stuff, and all of a sudden this suicidal teenager isnt just John hes a Blue Cosmic Knight, yknow... (laughter) RAHM> Can I say something here? Ive developed a new media education program. I work for the Brisbane Indigenous Media Services, and weve got a custom built program that treats as tribal elders for their own cultural mapping. The tribal elder network has a global freebase software to cocreate the system architecture for the planetary survival... The key to it all is to link in all the international elder networks - who has the wisdom and how do we communicate it? We need to use new media to com-

who has the wisdom and how do we communicate it?

municate the vision of the earth, honouring earth based wisdom and silicon technology for harmony and a sustainable planet and the future of society. Thats what the elders have asked me to help co-create... to work with the leaders of tomorrow and to help train their indigenous people ... Ive got indigenous people who have got cultural mapping on tribal boundaries on my tribal land... I work in Cape York with all my tribal grandfathers... and that syndicate of tribal elders around the globe is very conscious... They want to know whos taking responsiblility for the Rainbow Tribes... This is a new Dreaming occuring - whos taking responsibility for that shared urban mythology? And thats what were doing now and I respect everybody in that process... MONKEY 2> Its would be good to extend this process further... what you are saying about the ower opens, etc, you need a longer extended period to actually nut ideas out and make them clear... RAHM> I think the global sustainability on the architecture level of information - satellites and where information is held and all that , its a ne balance between earth based technology and control. The Status Quo - the balance of power. Its all about honouring the earth and each other equally. MONKEY 10> Just to talk about your idea of the circus and the boat and pirates... Ive got some friends in Germany that own an ocean going boat that is also a performance vessel... and they want to take it to the Middle East... my idea is to bring it to Australia... MONKEY 11> LUCY> Yo! Well help with that!

the connections happen... the six degrees - its like two degrees of separation... all the bits of the puzzle are there, its just putting it out there and positively manifesting it. RAHM> Can I just nish the question over here...? Weve got six wheel drive army trucks, Ive got a thirty foot bus, and another army truck Im xing up in Cape York at the moment, and its called a Survival Kit. Its about urban cultural technology. RAK> How do we nd out more about this Rahm, do you have a website? RAHM> Ahh... no, thats what we need... I dont have any support... I work with the tribal elders... and Ive got support from the global community out there, the Rainbow Tribes, who are really standing honouring the earth and taking responsibility... do you know where you come from... Most people can tell you brand names but they cant tell you three languages of their own country or their own tribal names... They cant even tell you three native species but they know over 100 corporate logos... Logos, the art of illusion... MONKEY 12> I know a ship in Amsterdam with a similar story... they already want to come over here but they didnt make it... (laughter) I was on the Earthdream caravan for a bit ve years ago, and I met Robin [Cooke, of Mutoid Waste Co. and Earthdreams initiator] and he was trying to make the ship arrive in Port Augusta but it didnt happen, but now there are new plans for it... ROLAND> Ive got a friend of a friend who was telling me something similar... He was living here in Australia for a year and he went to visit a guy who had a ship called the Stubnitz...

Yo ho ho!

RAK> This is the power of the Network - you put your dreams out there and

MONKEY 2> sian...?

Sound German...or Rus-

ROLAND> Could be... its a great boat and theres a website that you can hook up with... Stubnitz spelt phonetically... http://www. stubnitz.com/ RAHM> Ive got one question - and the one thing the elders have asked me is that its all open source and no one controls or owns anything... free information, everythings free around the globe for each other, yknow... tribal values as opposed to capitalist values... RAK> Thats really interesting because at the moment in the mainstream world and the information economy with the internet and everything, open source technology is coming in as the new thing... Open source basically means its open to the whole community to add to as long as they acknowledge where its come from, respect the makers, and add to it to use in a non-prot way... RAHM> Articial intelligence - its using technology to act like an organic thing... RAK> `As above, so below... as in the mainstream world, the tribal world... RAHM> Less applied intellect, the less physical material that goes back to the spirit... so were doing crystalline technology from the earth... nothing else... and were all intergalactic beings... KING RICHARD> Just on open source, many people here mightnt realise that this term is an American computer programming term coined by Richard Stallman, and he devised a license which is called GPL which is the General Public License, and all of the other licenses are proprietary licenses so theyve got individual ownership. And so, for instance, an operating system like Microsoft is proprietary and owned by the Microsoft corporation... What GPU allows is the adding on to the software and its not actually owned in a proprietary sense... and thats where the

open comes from. You can look at the code and go to the back end of it and tweak it and add to it, and hence the term open source. So youve got this duality happening in the computer world, this proprietary software which is closed and you cant look at it unless youve got the encrypted codes to go in and look at it, or youve got open source, which is open under the GPL license... So thats the distinct separation between the two systems... RAHM> Thats what I place all my faith in.... KING RICHARD> But open source is generally better software than proprietary because its actually ... the tree which its structured and developed and grown upon is very logical and organic... It has the brains of the web and all the computer programmers feeding it... so it gets the best minds adding on to the code so when the next release comes around its one step better. RAK> Sort of the perfect model for tribal resurgence, isnt it? Its a network not a hierarchy so everyones got an opportunity to add to it and to make it stronger... and the more people that join in the stronger a network becomes because of the resources they bring... KING RICHARD> There usually is a bit of a hierarchy model behind the development of each open source GPL project, but the same principles apply all the time... RAHM> Its then framework thats important! KING RICHARD> Thats right...

RAHM> What our collective understanding creates, the social networks of our new tribal societies... What are our collective dreams? We all hold the environment, our childrens future as paramount - exactly what my elders have been teaching me... We dont hold Coca-Cola high, or industrialism or Westeld. We want to honour each other as human beings. Were sacred creatures being made like animals in the suburbs. LUCY> But we need to believe that Westeld will lead people to understanding... You cant just negate whats already happening out there... RAK> Youve got to work with it...

nology and open source reects the global consciousness on a physical level... MONKEY 4> A 100th Monkey level!

RAHM> Totally... You acknowledge different things when you loom into the collective consciousness, the archetypes of the not yet transformed god and things like this... The collective consciousness is where our work is... KING RICHARD> Just out of curiosity, is there anyone here thats running open source software on their computers??? MONKEY 6> I dual-boot Linux but its not totally open source... RAHM> I would say something different, except my elders say the same thing... its the common dreams... the 100th Monkey... RAK> Well, how do we keep this critical mass together? Were all here now and theres a lot of familiar faces that we see at parties all the time... MONKEY 12> MONKEY 6> (laughter) By letting it go... What, we dont go home?

LUCY> Yeah... Its important to see everything as part of a greater whole unfolding... RAHM> But how do we fuse the worlds...? Its called bridging the worlds... ROLAND> By believing it... I really think its about believing and living it... Youve got to go out there and do your thing, and if we all do it, and believe that the other people around us are doing it... its happened... RAHM> Its called living your multi-dimensional self. If you live your dreams in every moment - thats consciousness. MONKEY 4 > If we keep existing on that cosmic level... the subtle realms of our thoughts... with direction and focus we can be given power up there... and that will ultimately trickle down through everything else... RAHM> the Internet and tech-

RAK> The collective vibe in tribal/ party culture in the last ten or twenty years is building, but I guess its still constrained by capitalism and needing to put money into a party and pay for acts etc which changes the dynamics a bit from traditional tribal models... MONKEY 6> How do we become more proactive in our dream of what the future is? For all of us? RAHM> Open source is the answer...! How do we practically apply THAT, to our dreams...?

It all comes back to open source communities... we need to strengthen the networks that exist already between those homes, distributed communities trading and living within a tribal network...

RAK> It all comes back to open source communities... we probably all here live in communal living of some sort, atmates or shared houses, we need to strengthen the networks that exist already between those homes, distributed communities trading and living within a tribal network... LUCY> now... Thats where we all are

MONKEY 8> Its just consolidating that awareness thing we were talking about before... Um, Jess has had her hand up for a while now... JESS> Im really patient... Id just like to say weve got one, two, three, four, ve, six seven (points to rafters holding up the roof of the UFO zone) which ts the seven years weve got left, and this middle one (central point) is the universe... Thats what weve got to start looking after and were were all at at the moment... Thats what were going to be transcending in the new universe... (walkie talkie voice signal interrupts - Its God someone shouts and lots of laughter) JESS> And I reckon whats going to be happening when those seven years have turned around and weve got to that axis of the world, the plates are going to touch... its going to be a new myth... this is the vision that I have. Whatevers going to happen its going to all nish , all transform, and its going to be a total new beginning. All the past is going to be closing and there will be a new history and a new Dreaming is going to be starting... So in the next seven years the people that are here, on a global scale, need to be efcient without using the outside resources... Like my beautiful friend Azar over in the double decker red bus - hes

got the whole solar panels thing happening, weve got to get the whole wind power thing happening and get a piece of land... Everyone could put some money in to but the community a piece of land... and make sure that theres fresh water and a mountain... and that were slightly up over sea level, and lets start something! We could put that into the media and say this is how we should start living now... by example... And a whole lot of shit is going to come up because people either will or wont accept it or dont want to start accepting it... But Im sorry, from Day One, to Year Seven, to the Universe... its all got to change... MONKEY 10> I dont know if its going to be so noticeable, though, because it will change on a gradient, a lot of things will be changing, but while you live through it its not necessarily going to be noticeable... But say in 50 years looking back youll be able to see a massive change... JESS> Ive been living in Mexico for two years and two months and Ive just come back here to Australia and the whole time Ive been in Mexico, three different times over three years and ve months, and sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on with me? Why am I drawn to that side of the world when Im from Australia and Australias one of the most beautiful countries in all the world and all the countries Ive travelled... Theres magick in the land, the birds, the air - its not the same as any other country. So what am I doing in Mexico? Studying the Mayan Calendar and the Aztecs and the pyramids... Were in what they call the Fifth Sun which culminates in 2012... Which Im sure we all know about - thats why were here... KING RICHARD> What do you reckon is going to happen in 2012?

RAK> Everythings going to happen, Richard - everything! JESS> Im not really sure but I have a vision coming that Ive been working with... I reckon theres people that are going to transcend... so we may not be physically here... RAK> shift... So theres a dimensional

RAHM> ware...

We dont have the wet-

JESS> Yeah, we might actually be transcending... So thats why Im saying to you on a real cosmic level we have to be working out where the people have to be on the earth to transcend to another planet... RAK> quency... Another vibrational fre-

ROLAND> Let go of our egos for a second and the whole world will change... well have done it... the next step, the next level... When we die - weve all got beliefs about what happens when we die, but none of us fucking know... In this consciousness weve all got to make that journey... Thats the sort of approach weve got to have to this... RAK> I think thats very true the icebergs 90% underwater, and the hyperdimensional structure of the universe, which quantum physicists say is 10 or 12 dimensions, is like the iceberg. Things from one dimension will reect into another. Gravity and electromagnetism are the same things but on different frequencies. If you could see a hyperdimensional object as a whole which is what the universe is - youd see the thing blossoming or unfolding, but if youre only on one level of it, youll see the transformation only on that one level, but its really multi-dimensional. I think in 2012 as many things will happen as there are participants in the happening. LUCY> Id just like to say that some people have that experience of transcension and all, but I feel if we were having this conversation in ve years it might be a bit different what we think would happen. RAK> You mean go back to the earth more rather than leave the earth? LUCY> Well, Ive had acid trips, well, actually mushy trips... and the only real thing... everythings melting in the room that I was in, and the only thing that held its base was the fruit in the fruit bowl in the kitchen... That was the only thing I could hang onto that was real and that made any sense...

JESS> I reckon its a bit heavier than that... some people say, oh, yknow, its just going to be a transformation globally, and everythings going to be okay... But Ive got this other, heavier feeling that the world... its going to be hyperdimensional... ROLAND> Its almost got to be that youve got to be willing to let it all go... bom... RAK> The more you believe, the more you let go the higher you will go... ROLAND> Theres a really crazy story from the 1920s by this mathematician called FLATLAND... And its basically the story of a square imagining what it is to be in the third dimension... And thats really fucking hard if youve only got two dimensions to understand the world with... And so I dont think we can perceive whats going to happen, I dont think we should attempt to perceive whats going to happen... just right now believe it is happening and let go...

And when you talk about transcension, I think we can transcend to a different dimension, another opening, but personally I cant see myself leaving the earth and I dont ever get that feeling that Im going to the stars, or... ROLAND> To go back to what you said at the beginning - were on Eden... This is fucking Eden right here right now... Were already here.... But we view it as separate from out there... RAK> maybe... Transform, not transcend,

LUCY> The bible talks about Heaven being in the rmament... but the rmament is not in the ground or the air, its in the ether... its a vibrational thing... And as our vibrations raise we can see it more clearly... I can see it already - Im not sure how many other people can... ROLAND> Do you see auras and stuff? LUCY> yeah? Yeah... well... I see a garden,

RAK> Does anyone know much about permaculture...? Ive just been reading a bit about it in a book by David Holmgren one of the Australian co-founders of permaculture, and he talks a lot about net energy ratios and ecosystems... If you could see beyond the physical rmament its all energy... all matter is feeding and eating and processing energy back in a cycle - its all alive, and humans are a part of that... One of the things he was saying is almost like an Eden myth - that we have a place in the net energy ratio and weve lost our awareness of that place so that we keep trying to transcend and go beyond it... When in fact its like our little womb, this planet, and we need to transform and regain our alignment with it more than transcend... Permacultures really interesting as a way to get back to that sustainability issue we were talking about before... LUCY> And we dont necessarily need to grow vegetables forever... Like, I dont eat carrots - I dont know how many people get into them - I know theyre good for me but thats only because Im at a certain vibrational level... And I know that mangoes and other fruits - heaps of tropical fruits - have the highest vibration ever and can sustain you once your body is clean and can assimilate it and digest and use it properly. At the moment weve still got heaps of toxins in our body, the environment and the air, so we need to be eating permacultural type foods. Even permacultures developing further than whats going on at the moment, the vegetable food garden type thing. Its going beyond annual vegetables into more permanent food forests... Fruit and nut trees and moving away from that open land and closing it all in...

ROLAND> The fact that weve got so many people on the earth, thats how many dreams and visions there are... And when you start thinking of that level its a massive, massive shift for our consciousness... LUCY> Sure, sure, and theres a lot of history that needs to be left behind... MONKEY 10> If anyone gets a chance check out how happy these monkeys are (holding up the plastic monkeys from the Barrel of Monkeys that link arm in arm, red, yellow and blue) (laughter)... LUCY> Its also the Game...

RAHM> And how much they look like Rak! (laughter)...

DWAYNE WHO SHALL REMAIN OTHERWISE NAMELESS> Permacultures very into three dimensional type forests... LUCY> And its evolving... And the interesting thing is, if you think about the Garden of Eden and the apple... Permaculture was developed by an ex-logger in tasmania, which is known as the Apple Isle... DWAYNE WHO SHALL REMAIN OTHERWISE NAMELESS> I dont think he was a logger, he worked for the government in clearing... LUCY> That mightve been after - he was a logger, so its like his redemption... RAK> You have to embrace the shadow to get to the light... MONKEY 9> I studied permaculture with him and he said he didnt invent anything - he was just collecting Grandmas recipes... its all trial and error, every climate, every environment is different, there are no rules... mulch, mulch and mulch... (laughter) MONKEY 10> You can intuitively sense where you are and by doing that sense what permaculture systems are needed intuitively... LUCY> When youre lucky enough to be able to tune into intuition, but a lot of people have to relearn that... ROLAND> Getting back to what you were saying about the tribal elders... What I found really beautiful about the opening ceremony here (at Submerge festival) was that people involved themselves in learning about those systems that are here... How many of us know how much food is produced within a 100 metres? RAHM> Innite is the answer... abundance... The most poignant moment for me of this whole experience was when the tribal elder who conducted the opening said If a black woman was Eve, she would have eaten the snake.. (laughter and agreement)

If a black woman was Eve, she would have eaten the snake...

LUCY> I had an argument with an aboriginal woman about the same thing... I said to her that apples taste better than snakes... RAHM> Then you havent had snake cooked the right way, obviously...! Knowing the land you come from, its the whole understanding... ROLAND> Its the perception of the land around us and how to use it... RAHM> Its called survival... How long do you have to hunt and gather all day long if you dont kill a kangaroo... Its mass self organisational skills... Im vegetarian but Im learning how to hunt... I dont want to kill anything unless i have to survive... Without those skills, this monkey could survive about two days and is fucked... gotta get real... two days and youre dead... Get the air con and the credit card out and see if you survive.... Thats what my elders have to teach to the rest of the world... But how do we communicate that vision to live in harmony with the earth? Which is the whole permaculture, Bill Mollison thing... LUCY> We have to learn for ourselves, really... RAHM> Mass self organisation leading by example...! Demonstrate your actions and enough people will follow you... Open source, its the key to it all... DWAYNE WHO SHALL REMAIN OTHERWISE NAMELESS> Always publish what you know... MONKEY 10> A key, its not THE key, there are many keys...

RAHM> Im sorry, but to me, my tribal elders have directed me - the planetary future relies on open source... KING RICHARD> What theyre refering to is sharing, its pretty simple. PHOEBE> Which is what were doing here, coming together at these parties, because predominantly thats where a lot of people come from and this is where transformation happens for a lot of people... I know my self, its brought me back to the Dreaming and the land through parties... And seeing people and reecting where I want to be and the whole lifestyle... So I feel like were all here and, well, I dont always pay, Im more of a free person or volunteer to get in, but theres a lot of people that pay a lot of money to go to these parties all the time and there is a responsibility, like here, in this amazing community where people have got there stuff together to get happening... So is there a possibility, since were always doing this party thing - can we come together and create something that we can start working with? Even if it is trial and error, can we make our Eden? RAHM> Can I just say one thing? I work for the elders. I respect the wisdom of the universe. And I totally think what youre saying is the key. How do we come to have a spiritual connection with the land, a shared collective mythology? RAK> And I think its that sense of community being self organising. So instead of having money, you have time, and everyone has skills and resources and you pool that to bring it together... equal loads... RAHM> Thats the open source. So the elders have directed me to create open source networks on a global scale to transcend the consciousness... and open source is the future of the new architecture of the new world...

RAK> Also, I dont think it can be permanently a party zone, yknow. Thats a peak experience. Its part of the overall journey, and in tribal cultures the party would be celebrating something like the full moon, or it had an earth based rhythm to it. PHOEBE> And thats the sustainable part of it... ROLAND> You cant expect it to be a huge party zone straight off... Its got to be small groups doing it regularly and just keep doing it... RAK> It comes back to the basics, you need something to sit your bum on, something to walk on and do stuff on... you need land. RAHM> A good starting point if you dont have land is to ask somebody who are the traditional owners... What is the language name of the storyline? Take responsibility for the shared urban mythology, the collective dreaming... MONKEY 14> But if you cant access that, like if youre in the city, its still not hard to go out into the parks... ROLAND> Ask the native traditional owners of Melbourne... MONKEY 14> You dont necessarily need to go have a confrontation in order to have a spiritual connection to the land... Were all gathering in groups, constantly circling, tuning in - were all ascending now! Whether were doing it in a verbal, physical sense, which is one pure level of it, and what were discussing here is way beyond that... and we all feel that. RAHM> The semantics of language... Words get in the way... how do we dream the dream collectively?

RAK> If civilisation continues the way its going - its eroding, the oils running out and its not sustainable, I think there will be some slow drift of urban refugees migrating from the cities, all getting out, who realise its not working and need to nd spaces... Do you think tribal elders would be welcoming to that? To recognising that theres the land and the people and the need and put two and two together... RAHM> Its called neo-tribalism... If you leave within the Yeah...

MONKEY 13> tribal laws...

RAK and RAHM>

RAHM> You take responsibility for your grey water, you take responsibilty for every single thing... but youre all invited... theres a gateway to a new community - its all there... the elders have given us everything we need, its just about people having the consciousness - the monkeys getting out of the barrel, so to speak... RAK> Ah, I like it...

MONKEY 4> Its like with the silicon technology, yknow, the indigenous become the in-digital... (laughter) RAHM> Silicon technology and urban mythology - were all dreaming the dreams of now... and we all share them, so its the mutual inclusion of each others dreams that will manifest our ultimate reality... LUCY> And thats exactly what it is...

RAK> A wise man once said - We are the music makers... we are the Dreamers of the Dream ... it was Willy Wonka!... KING RICHARD> Can I ask... why do you perceive land as

The cumulative effect of ownership and possession and of hierarchy has resulted in the world out of balance weve got now...

being the solution, because if you look at ownership concepts... RAK> Not as ownership...

KING RICHARD> ...like indigenous people have of land its very different to the Western European concept of carving up land and... RAK> Well, thats where it all started to go wrong...! The cumulative effect of ownership and possession and of hierarchy has resulted in the world out of balance weve got now... KING RICHARD> Well there was a shift... youre making a value judgement that its wrong... but it was a shift in the way of doing things... RAK> Yeah, I think its wrong...

KING RICHARD> But youre saying you need land, which means youve got to purchase land... RAK> No, no... thats not what Im saying at all... (general agreement) RAHM> Its a connection to Land... Well, to get a

KING RICHARD> clarity check...

RAK> Well land was stolen from us originally and... KING RICHARD> So youre looking at land as what, a space to free roam and set up community... whats your drive...? RAK> Ah, the quest for Monkey Island!!! see http://www.barrelfullofmonkeys.org/ monkeyisland.php

Well, as native custodians would say, I think land is a responsibility. Its not just the Great Aussie Dream with a BBQ in your backyard and a little fence... Its coming more into an awareness of what land really is... Weve been distanced from the true meaning of land for centuries now and I think youve got to come back to some sort of equilibrium with the land and once youve got that, and maybe the blessing of indigenous custodians in the area, then you could proceed... But I mean, indigenous means of the land and if we leave the cities I think we will become indigenous ourselves... RAHM> I have thousands of acres of tribal land and I dont need to own anything... Can I just dispel a myth about the urban mythology in relation to drug culture? If you still need the keys to the door of perception then youre locked within the house... MONKEY 13> Also, I think that going back a very, very long time ago I think that what youre talking about is the value of land as community and sharing... its about reaching a compromise because we do live in the Western world and we cant deny that... so yes, we purchase a bit of land but its not just ours - we share... RAHM> Its open source, totally!

the city... And then you have a level of people who act more organically and this is woven together in increasingly strong ways... And then theres a level of people above that who kind of act of light waves and thats when you look someone in the eye and you actually transmit energy and lightwaves and understanding and thats a rare peak, almost a personal temporary zone... But what were looking to do is create a permanent autonomous zone ... So what this involves is having the foresight to understand that we DO have to work together, and that we dont have to look everyone in the eyes, we look at the people that we need to and understand that they are then going to reect that light to someone else in the way that theyre meant to and thats the way youre meant to have it... So at the top you have the natural crystalline structure, the organic structure and the imposed crystalline structure, the metallic structure if you will, but within that theres ways that light is transmitted and its all interwoven... We each of us have to take responsibility in our own back yards because thats all weve got... all the power weve got or have managed to nd on our journeys of transcendence or whatever it is we like to see it as... We do have to do this as often as possible - this is not the purest way we can communicate, for instance, not as pure as in a drumming circle or something like that, when youre receiving information thats not possible to put into words... but this is a part of organic technology, of organising crystalline structures that are beyond the physical even... that are formed naturally and as part of our evolution. LUCY> (clapping) beautifully put...

LUKE> Its what sharing is... connecting to our genetic heritage as part of an organism that is telling us to act this way... because this is how you need to act as an organism as a whole to survive... and to make that jump... And what I see here is a representation of different levels of culture that exist throughout the entire spectrum of culture on all levels of society... And down here we have views preposed by a false creationist technology, money, things like this that people are locked into in

KING RICHARD> base fear?

Where do you

LUKE> Fear is part of our genetic information that keeps you down where you should be teaching other people who you should be on that level with... The less you fear the less you interact with people that fear.... A friend of mine says its been a while since shes been told shes living in fairyland, that shes too trusting of people. In terms of autonomous zones its about understanding that when you have a lot of people that spend a lot of time together, that when they can do that co-operatively and communitively, they create an autonomous zone. And when someone comes out of that orbit or that spiral, they are immediately kind of isolated from the new spiral that theyve got into... but its necessary that it happens this interweaving of people in and out of these spirals... So its not about getting all of us that are here now to stay in the same point and build something here now; its about understanding that what were doing right now is creating that zone of sharing, information and light. RAK> Its like you seed it, you go on back to your own communities and networks and keep that vibrational frequency or light, and then spark or connect with other people - and thats the way the web goes... Its never up to one person or one group or one nation - its about that unity, the network and the co-operation... LUCY> And its like dominoes - the more people that do things, the more everyone gets involved, like... (a few people say) the 100th Monkey!!! RAK> When the 100th Monkey tunes in it just gels and comes together! Its like energy going through a circuit that nally has an open circuit to travel through and do the thing its meant to do...

MONKEY 15> Theres an important thing about the way were transmitting these things, whether it be through words, or music, or nding our own personal truth and working with them to be able to transmit them through those ultimate kind of symbols or triggers or whatever that all of us feel... LUKE> We each of us have things that we know we can feel by actually trying to make the time for it or whatever... that were meant to be doing THAT... even though it might be non-sensical to us at the time, I think were meant to be doing these things that are sharing and spreading the message out... And so, for me its about, yknow, just doing what I feel like, as well as kinda looking around at what I have got, and saying, well, what can I do with this... ? With these ideas and the people ive got around me? My vision in all this is bringing people together and unifying people who are separate so they can share and by sharing they can form that natural crystalline structure... RAHM> LUKE> sharing... World bridging... Yeah... World melding,

ROLAND> There are so many groups like us all over the world... and across Australia if they all just got together... LUKE> Exactly...

RAK> Its time to DO IT... I mean, its 2005, I believe there are seven years left and we are going through a paradigm shift now with global culture and everything weve all talked about is no longer talk - its time to walk...

The opening ceremony last night was a beautiful bridging of cultures and its done. Its the time of doing - were all here now talking but by doing so were also doing... recognising and linking up... LUCY> And I dont know about anyone else but Ii feel like Ive reached a kind of ready point... RAK> Totally...

LUCY> ...and I want to get something happening... something thats fun and thats community and that were good at... and we dont have to learn new things to be able to do... we can use the skills that we do have to bring our vision to fruition... RAHM> We need to nurture the new tribe... this new understanding... LUCY> yknow... Which well formulate as we do it,

LUKE> I think its important to follow up the steps that have been made here and with whats been different here from doofs in general, in terms that this has been far more open, this is something that can actually ow out into the rest of culture... It isnt so autonomous or closed off from the rest of the world... To follow this up we need to start implementing, not so much our beliefs as our physical ideas in terms of permaculture and sustainability and things like that... into our festivals and celebrations etc... RAK> Show by example...

LUKE> Because this is the rst party Ive been to thats even had a recycling bin! JESS> Yeah, same... there was the big issue at Rainbow Serpent, hey, I dont know if anyone here noticed but there was rubbish everywhere and it was like, hey, this is hypoc-

I want to get something happening... something thats fun and thats community and that were good at...

risy in its highest form... It was highly disappointing... ROLAND> Well I went to the Woodford Folk Festival last year, not the one thats just gone, rst time, and I was surprised - 90,000 people over a week and there was hardly any rubbish! 150,000 this year... Ultimately theres a sense within that community that they believe its worth doing... They come together, have a party, get a bit trashy, yknow, with 150,000 people which is a whole lot of logistics youve got to look after there... but they all try to make a difference, despite the politics or whatever... so people keep hanging there and making sure it happens again next year... JESS> But they also honour the fact that people want to recycle by providing recycling bins... Rainbow Serpent didnt have enough bins... most people that go there have the conscious awareness that hey were destroying the earth and we need to look after it and we need to do these sustainable things on a practical level but the fact that it wasnt even provided as an option... MONKEY 15> It all comes back to us at the end of the day... were all in our back yard and weve all got to do it... but theres people that arent doing it... MONKEY 4> A slogan they had at the Exodus festival is that its all about caring and sharing, loving and giving... For me that says it all... Yet some people dont give a fuck... LUCY> But thats okay thats just where theyre at... We spend heaps of time giving a fuck, heaps of our energy concerning ourselves with whats going on with the planet... Weve got to get to some point where we can just release that and have some fun! Which is where I imagine the festivals come in where people will be learning skills

and exchanging information and things like that... Lets not worry about the rubbish and all that... Well get it all down pat and let people know - fuckers, pull your nger out! And Im referring to all of us, yknow... because we all do it and we all buy food in packaging, its just the nature of the society we live in. HANS> In New Zealand they have huge festivals where they advertise that all money raised goes towards a sustainable community, and everyones involved and its so organic... LUCY> So maybe at festivals we need to make a really clear statement that were really done with the psychedelic consumerism... KING RICHARD> About recycling, can I just say Ive been through so many festivals on a managerial or organisational level, so many different takes and angles on it that I just think that it comes back to... so many organisers Ive worked with are so negligent in developing their own policies... And were talking about documented ideas, clear ideas... So say you come to Rainbow Serpent and you have an expectation. So does someone else, etc.. People are coming with fractured expectations of what the say, recycling policy should be... But if the organisers took the time - and Im not dishing out on the Rainbow people or anybody, but the ones that tend to work are the ones where say, the Woodfords and Mulaneys, the organisers do take a lot of time in documenting and communicating their ideas to the group involved in putting on the festival and that gets communicated to the people that are the attendees, so they build a shared understanding. LUKE> Like a mission statement companies do it, why not festivals? RAHM> Dening our urban mythol-

ogy... collective dreaming.... RAK> And I think if enough people responded it would initiate change... Like if six people were to contact the promoters about the same thing it would have an effect... wed better do it they would think. Its all about feedback... ROLAND> And that works directly, too... If theres people you see leaving a couch, or rubbish, or whatever, you say to them, hey guys - you make an effort... MONKEY 14> Sure, sure, and thats everywhere, in the city and someones throwing a cigarette away, its like hey man, whats your go? That goes straight to the river... LUKE> Thats where the mission statement comes into play, people would see something done thats not in the mission statement and know... MONKEY 4> Im a party/ festival promoter and I believe that 70% of the people, either they dont speak english or they cant read! ROLAND> Its like anything... I was in the student association and most people are so wrapped up in themselves they dont read... LUKE> It comes back to the organic and letting it be a representation of the culture... a living organism of the culture... Before anythings been nalised its important to make sure the entire concept of the thing being communicated, from A - Z, is being reafrmed on every level... MONKEY 14> The most important thing in any magickal ritual is focus and intent... So if we all live by that rule and keep it as pure as possible it

will... manifest... LUKE> But you also need to communicate it clearly to people that arent in the know... ROLAND> And I think the person who spoke early said it beautifully - we should be looking each other in the eye and communicating it. You dont need to say anything. LUKE> I heard a great saying a few months ago that was to do with the whole ownership of land thing... NOTHING WE OWN IS OURS ... And where that was actually said was, it was the very last thing to go through the main stage speakers at Earthcore, at the end of Simon Posfords set, it was a subliminal message... (a long interlude with readings from the Crystal Skulls book ensues by HARRIS and JESS, weaving in Mayan myth and prophecies of a united tribe at the end of the cycle) HARRIS> Id like to say that everyone is special and beautiful and I dont think we so much need to worry about where everythings headed because I think its heading in the right direction and we just need to relax and enjoy the ride and be in love... RAHM> My mother has been making a documentary with the Mayan Elders and going over there and working in South America and learning their stories and of their lands... And understanding the mythology of all the different tribes and the collective dream that transcends any tribal values its about universal truth. And I think thats what were reecting within each other right now.

RAK>

Bom, bom. Well

Just project love... way up into the universe... (monkeys meditate and DO IT!)

its been a long session and it might be time to wind it down... JESS> Yeah, I think its time for closing... KING RICHARD> Can I suggest for the closing, that we conduct a circle meditation prayer? Its a very simple thing, basically you need a circle and you connect hands, left hand up and right hand down.... If youre a third party looking at this from outside it sort of looks like a lotus petal opening up... then closing down... (general hubbub as people join hands) The way to understand it is that meditation in its purest form is just eliminating thought... Prayer is the opposite - having thought. If the meditation is a prayer its negating it all out with a moment of silence... And then at the end well put our hands up and stretch out, its a yogic thing, were actually stretching the heart muscles and opening... so the whole area from your heart to your throat is just opening... And while you lift back... just project love... way up into the universe... (monkeys meditate and DO IT!) (OHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM>>>>>) (OHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM>>>>>) (OHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM>>>>>) (doof music carries in from outside, the bass, like a heartbeat over the silence of the monkeys breathing...)

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