graffitirun
12-11-2006, 09:03 PM
2012, the Return of Quetzalcoatl is many, many things. Importantly it is the chronicle of a man whose Roots stretch back into the ground of the Beats, who holds safe some never-before-seen pictures of the Values and Ethics of 50’s & 60’s Abstract Expressionism, travels through those Taxi Driver streets of NYC 1970s, crashes into and all over the 80’s art world, then- further onward ...and upward through Visionary Worlds, Other Worlds, End of Worlds, New Beginnings and Evolver. A strong thread
The book covers much ground and at a New York pace. This is not some light-blue-tip-toe-through-the-new-age. 2012 is a full on dirty hands hyper-ride with a man who has had the opportunity to experience some of the deepest realms the planet has to offer. Investigative, Curious, Crazy- these are not bad things. If anything 2012 fuels one to explore for themselves what’s really going on, be it Collectively or Personally. What I find troubling is the critics' fixation on the Mayan prophesies and/or the Prophetic Transmission aspects that make up the book. For those unfamiliar or simply naive about Ayahuasca or other psychedelic experiences perhaps you should see for yourself what these plants can show and tell you.
Terence McKenna has said, regarding Mushrooms; “If you think you’ve done too much, you haven’t done enough.” I offer this advice to anyone who has issues with the prophetic realms of the world, prophetic sections of the book or holds accusations of “too much ego”. If these things are bothering you… then you simply do not know the half of it. Whether it’s The World or Psychedelic Realms-- you should drop everything and go and take more of it.
Speaking of hyper-ride, both 2012 and Breaking Open the Head, have excited and engaged me with their revelations to a similar extent as the talks and writing of Mark Pesce. Where Mark is perhaps more mathematical, more media, more virtual, Daniel is perhaps more art, more literary, more adventurous. Both however, are influenced by Terence McKenna and Buckminster Fuller, by Praxis and Pragmatism, by New Worlds and their Navigation. Also of note is the extent to which Daniel includes and investigates Rudolf Steiner. I met Rudolf Steiner on a bench in London’s Hyde Park and he forever changed the course of my life. Steiner is important and it is refreshing to see him woven into this ever expanding Tapestry of Connections.
Yes, it is easy to get hooked on the whole 2012 thing; it is such a delicious number. However this book is an enormous set of information and explorations of and into consciousness, time, dream, vision, mind, matter, men, women, serpents, snakes, ladders and dungeons- all in light of Myriad new Flowers that pop up continuously in our little Earthly Garden. People try to compare it to Carlos Castaneda, to Tim Leary, to Aldous Huxley and that’s fine. But really (or additionally) it is this Blazing Millenniums connection to Kerouac’s On the Road. Except with 2012, while there are many Paths… the road is gone, the bridge has been washed out, complete Snowstorm, Electrical outage, February heatwave, Synchronistic downpour, a Jack-Bauer-24-Hours-No-Time-Left-Relase-The-Virus Planetary Crisis! (…to be averted)
The world is crazy, getting crazier and more often than not; Truth is Stranger. Even Science Fiction writers are turning more to Practical Design (Bruce Sterling; Shaping Things) or Present-Day-Cyber (William Gibson; Pattern Recognition). Participating in reality and subsequently sharing these stories of reality, visionary realms, wonder, strangeness and transformation, requires courage and a wide, unblinking eye. So does reading it and more so, acting upon it.
The book covers much ground and at a New York pace. This is not some light-blue-tip-toe-through-the-new-age. 2012 is a full on dirty hands hyper-ride with a man who has had the opportunity to experience some of the deepest realms the planet has to offer. Investigative, Curious, Crazy- these are not bad things. If anything 2012 fuels one to explore for themselves what’s really going on, be it Collectively or Personally. What I find troubling is the critics' fixation on the Mayan prophesies and/or the Prophetic Transmission aspects that make up the book. For those unfamiliar or simply naive about Ayahuasca or other psychedelic experiences perhaps you should see for yourself what these plants can show and tell you.
Terence McKenna has said, regarding Mushrooms; “If you think you’ve done too much, you haven’t done enough.” I offer this advice to anyone who has issues with the prophetic realms of the world, prophetic sections of the book or holds accusations of “too much ego”. If these things are bothering you… then you simply do not know the half of it. Whether it’s The World or Psychedelic Realms-- you should drop everything and go and take more of it.
Speaking of hyper-ride, both 2012 and Breaking Open the Head, have excited and engaged me with their revelations to a similar extent as the talks and writing of Mark Pesce. Where Mark is perhaps more mathematical, more media, more virtual, Daniel is perhaps more art, more literary, more adventurous. Both however, are influenced by Terence McKenna and Buckminster Fuller, by Praxis and Pragmatism, by New Worlds and their Navigation. Also of note is the extent to which Daniel includes and investigates Rudolf Steiner. I met Rudolf Steiner on a bench in London’s Hyde Park and he forever changed the course of my life. Steiner is important and it is refreshing to see him woven into this ever expanding Tapestry of Connections.
Yes, it is easy to get hooked on the whole 2012 thing; it is such a delicious number. However this book is an enormous set of information and explorations of and into consciousness, time, dream, vision, mind, matter, men, women, serpents, snakes, ladders and dungeons- all in light of Myriad new Flowers that pop up continuously in our little Earthly Garden. People try to compare it to Carlos Castaneda, to Tim Leary, to Aldous Huxley and that’s fine. But really (or additionally) it is this Blazing Millenniums connection to Kerouac’s On the Road. Except with 2012, while there are many Paths… the road is gone, the bridge has been washed out, complete Snowstorm, Electrical outage, February heatwave, Synchronistic downpour, a Jack-Bauer-24-Hours-No-Time-Left-Relase-The-Virus Planetary Crisis! (…to be averted)
The world is crazy, getting crazier and more often than not; Truth is Stranger. Even Science Fiction writers are turning more to Practical Design (Bruce Sterling; Shaping Things) or Present-Day-Cyber (William Gibson; Pattern Recognition). Participating in reality and subsequently sharing these stories of reality, visionary realms, wonder, strangeness and transformation, requires courage and a wide, unblinking eye. So does reading it and more so, acting upon it.