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30 October 2003

 

NOTICE TO AOL SUBSCRIBERS
If you are a friend (or a subscriber to the Matrix Masters monthly newsletter) you won't be receiving any email from me. For some reason, AOL thinks that all email coming from matrixmasters.com is spam. As you are already aware, we didn't even send out 12 newsletters in the past 12 months. However, that seems to be too much for AOL to handle.

Therefore, if you are an AOL subscriber you won't be receiving any email from me anymore. THE SOLUTION is to quit using AOL and find an Internet Service Provider that us humans can correspond with to solve problems like these.

Thanks for understanding,

Lorenzo Hagerty

posted by Lorenzo 11:43 AM

 

Thought for the day
Governments, non-governmental organisations, political parties and social movements, labor unions and business interests, and religious organisations and student groups are talking to each other and are realising they have a common purpose. That purpose is to drive the neo-con threat away from the power centers of the world.
--W. Madsen

posted by Lorenzo 10:45 AM

29 October 2003

 

Oppose the Ecstasy Awareness Act
PROFITING FROM RAVES"

"Whoever profits monetarily from a rave or similar electronic dance event, knowing or having reason to know that the unlawful use or distribution of a controlled substance occurs at the rave or similar event, shall be fined not more than $500,000 or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the defendant is an organization, the fine imposable for the offense is not more than $2,000,000."

[ACTION ALERT: Please click the above link to go to the Electronic Music Defense & Education Fund's Web site where you can learn more about what you can do to stop this insidious law.]

posted by Lorenzo 4:40 PM

 

Thought for the day
Those who rejoice in denying justice to one they hate, pave the way to a denial of justice for someone they love.
--Wendell Willkie

posted by Lorenzo 10:38 AM

23 October 2003

 

A thought from Terence McKenna
Other intelligent monkeys have walked this planet. We exterminated them and so now we are unique, but what is loose on this planet is language, self-replicating information systems that reflect functions of DNA: learning, coding, templating, recording, testing, retesting, recodong against DNA functions. The again, language may be a quality of an entirely different order. Whatever language is, it is in us monkeys now and moving through us and moving out of our hands and into the noosphere with which we have surrounded ourselves.

There is another metaphor. One must balance these explainations. Now I shall sound as if I didn't think the mushroom is an extraterrestrial. It may instead be what I've recently come to suspect - that the human soul is so alienated from us in our present culture that we treat it as an extraterrestrial. To us the most alien thing in the cosmos is the human soul. Aliens Hollywood-style could arrive on earth tomorrow and the DMT trance would remain more weird and continue to hold more promise for useful information for the human future. It is that intense.

Phillip K. Dick, in one of his last novels, Valis, discusses the long hibernation of the Logos. A creature of pure information, it was buried in the ground at Nag Hammadi, along with the burying of the Chenoboskion Library circa 370 A.D. As static information, it existed there until 1947, when the texts were translated and read. As soon as people had the information in their minds, the symbiote came alive, for, like the mushroom consciousness, Dick imagined it to be a thing of pure information. The mushroom consciousness is the consciousness of the Other in hyperspace, which means in dream and in the psilocybin trance, at the quantum foundation of being, in the human future, and after death. All of these places that were thought the be discrete and separate are seen to be part of a single continuum.

Think about this for a moment: If the human mind does not loom large in the coming history of the human race, then what is to become of us? The future is bound to be psychedelic, because the future belongs to the mind. We are just beginning to push the buttons on the mind. Once we take a serious engineering approach to this, we are going to discover the plasticity, the mutability, the eternal nature of the mind and, I believe, release it from the monkey. My vision of the final human future is an effort to exteriorize the soul and internalize the body, so that the exterior soul will exist as a superconducting lens of translinguistic matter generated out of the body of each of us at a critical juncture at our psychedelic bar mitzvah. From that point on, we will be eternal somewhere in the solid-state matrix of the translinguistic lens we have become. One's body image will exist as a holographic wave transform while one is at play in the fields of the Lord and living in Elysium.
Terence McKenna

posted by Lorenzo 6:38 PM

 

I'll be off line for a bit
There won't be any postings from me for the next few days, I'm sad to say. My mother is seriously ill, and so I'm leaving town to be with her and won't have access to the Net while I'm there. If you get a chance, I would appreciate you sending her some white light and love. Thank you.

posted by Lorenzo 5:29 PM

 

Thought for the day

AMERICA
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing
...
America when will we end the human war?
...
America when will you be angelic?
...
America why are your libraries full of tears?
...
I'm sick of your insane demands.
...
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of
underprivileged who live in my flowerpots
under the light of five hundred suns.
...
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes
in precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and
psychopathic anyway.

--Allen Gnisberg

posted by Lorenzo 9:43 AM

22 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
The whole moral tendency of America is to kick people when they are down, when they are suffering. I mean the whole 'success deal' in America, obviously, is anti-humane and it can't survive. It can't survive because it's against the word of God.
--Allen Ginsberg

posted by Lorenzo 5:47 PM

21 October 2003

 

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posted by Lorenzo 4:15 PM

 

Thought for the day
Abandon certainty, we are a probe into the unknown.
Frank Herbert, from Children of Dune

posted by Lorenzo 11:14 AM

20 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
My sentence is life. My violation is the worst---happiness. I smoked marijuana.
--Neal Cassady while he was being held in San Quentin Penitentiary

posted by Lorenzo 9:18 AM

18 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again.
--Herman Hesse, from Steppenwolf

posted by Lorenzo 11:07 AM

17 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
I don't see what all the fuss is about. The guy was just a druggie!
--Rush Limbaugh on Jerry Garcia's death - 8/10/95

posted by Lorenzo 3:44 PM

16 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
It is, as Marshal McLuhan predicted, a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or around international fishing boundaries on the high seas, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, on TV and in cyberspace. It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future.

Thanks for this Fraser, Daniel and parallel-youniversity.com

posted by Lorenzo 9:10 PM

12 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
I have reserved for the last, the most potent and forcible cause of destruction, the domestic hostilities of the Romans themselves. . . . In a dark period of five hundred years, Rome was perpetually afficted by the sanguinary quarrels of the nobles and the people . . . At such a time when every quarrel was decided by the sword, and none could trust their lives or properties to the impotence of law, against the domestic enemies whom they feared or hated.
--Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

posted by Lorenzo 3:11 PM

08 October 2003

 

California conservatives appoint a Nazi-admiring sexual predator to terminate democracy
In a replay of the 2000 presidential election, the Republican party again circumvented democracy by ousting (in a bloodless coup) the candidate who received the largest number of votes with a figurehead of their own. Although the final vote count is not yet in, it is obvious that Gray Davis, while failing to stop the recall, still polled a significantly larger number of votes than did the Republican candidate. Democracy has failed in California. Things are about to get really interesting. The gloves are off. There are no more rules. Anarchy slouches toward Sacramento.

So what do the people who voted for Arnold believe in? One can only assume that they hold to the beliefs of their new leader, which may be summarized as follows:

Arnold on Hitler: "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." Of course, this just runs in the family. Arnold's father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, joined Hitler's notorious storm troopers six months after they helped launch Kristallnacht.

Arnold refuses to repudiate his close friend Kurt Waldheim, who is Europe's leading neo-Nazi. In fact, he even invited Waldheim to his wedding.

Arnold admits to being a sexual predator as recently as 2001. (His supporters seem to believe that there is nothing wrong with these criminal acts since they all took place before the campaign ... interesting morality there, I'd say.)

Arnold met with Enron pirate Kenneth Lay in a hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off.

Arnold has accepted large sums of money from special interests to promote the rights of corporations over the rights of the people.

Arnold supported the anti-immigrant Prop. 187 despite his claim of having a uniquely empathetic understanding of issues facing immigrants. Welcome to the "I got mine, screw the rest of you" school of politics.

Arnold is a bigot, for example: In 1996, he said: "I used steroids. It was a risky thing to do, but I have no regrets. It was what I had to do to compete." This guy was in charge of Bush Sr.'s President's Council on Physical Fitness? What a great role model for kids who want to really pump up!

I could go on, but you get the picture. Those who voted for Arnold, whether they realize it or not, are now partners in the above consciousness. I feel sorry for them, but they are perfect examples of the shallowness of American politics and of the voters in the US. Sound bites from an ego-maniac who is supported by some very dark forces can win anywhere in the US right now. Elections can be nullified by any rich conservative who didn't get a big enough share of the pie. Democracy is finished in the no-longer-United States of America. Let the revolution begin!

posted by Lorenzo 9:13 AM

02 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
The most important lesson of the stark realities, emerging form September 11, is that global terrorism cannot be eradicated through the use of force alone. Force may be necessary to forestall terrorist attacks or apprehend them whenever possible, but the use of force will be effective only if it is used as part of a strategy which also deals with the underlying causes of extremism to win minds and hearts.
--Sataj Aziz ... former foreign minister of Pakistan

posted by Lorenzo 11:43 AM

01 October 2003

 

Thought for the day
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.
--Henry Emerson Fosdick

posted by Lorenzo 10:28 AM