The Sky is Falling... Save Your Bacon!
During Burning Flipside 2007's First Work Weekend (WWI) @ Flat Creek, we laid out the footprint of our effigy (does this remind anyone else of the Maginot Line?) ...and right before I left, I consulted the I Ching at the center of the effigy space (The Axis Mundi: nexus at the center of our world, where microcosm & macrocosm become one)
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One of the main strengths of "Paganism," is the ability to spontaneously compose rituals, "de novio," as pointed out by Sam Webster... whose speech, "Ritual, Magick & How Pagans will Save the World," was a major inspiration for me to seek out a group of people with whom to share spirituality... and in this quest, I ended up remeeting many local burners through recreating the mojo_meeting! During the Mojo Meetings, we often did just this sort of sharing offerings with each other... and we were assisted by a talking-stick like device, in the form of a "Spooky" squeak toy!
This sort of exchange... sharing wisdom with one another... is exactly the sort of thing that i have been thinking would be really fun @ Flipside, too... and I have also wanted to take these words of wisdom & modulate them... whether done in the surrealist fashion, like a literary version of the exquisite corpse or the cut-up technique... or even finding our own wisdoms/truths in observation of the patterns in nature, such as in Renku (linked verse)...
I would also like to combine these words with images... a process through which one can create archetypes, like in the neuro-tarot &/or with magickal sigils.
And by combining words of wisdom, significant sounds, musical rhythms&melodies, profound images, & interactive scenarios, we can create awesome situations for ritual theatre... such as the MetaMorphic Ritual Theatre Co., the VORTEX Repertory Company's Dark Goddess, or the (Reinterpreted) Rites of Eleusis!
I am also excited to use technology (as an additional bonus, not a crutch), whether we are playing games with the crystal ball... modulating sounds and images through the use of a reactable... mixing, mashing, jamming, or creating sequences of montage with our toys!
If you would like to come play with us, we are at the burner warehouse on Wednesday evenings & Sunday afternoons...
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