[Veck93]

My point is, just do it, don't worry about what is legal and what the mainstream society will think about it. Because no matter what you do, somebody is going to not like it, or think you are sinners or infidels.

One thought I had was that there is a strong link between Goa dance culture and Shivite Hinduism. Right there is a clear path to a religion – worship of Shiva through dance. Everyone should learn more about Hinduism and consider adopting the religion if they want a clear path from trance dance to Spirituality.

I hear ya on the whole psy scene/Shiva sect crossover. Maybe Goa parties are really just an extension of Shiva ritual?
Speaking of “Goa'n” to start a new religion, I recently read some philosophies of the Rastafarians and their use of Word-Sound-Power and how they reshaped a language into their own.

From the essay “Up-full Sounds: Language, Identity, and the Worldview of the Rastafari”, by John W. Pulis, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 1990, “When used in reference to person, self or individual, the “I” signified the cornerstone of a renegotiated construction of identity known as 'I-n(within)-I.'” The development of “Dread Talk” (the deep Jamaican patois spoken by adherents of the Rastafarian religion/culture) was a conscious exercise in breaking down the sounds of English words and reassembling them into new words (“up-full” sounds, “heartical” sounds) that were free from the negative, divisive and misleading sounds and character the words possessed in the language of “Babylon” (meaning the language of the white colonists that had enslaved them).

For example, the de sound prefix in the word dedicate (pronounced dead-di-cate) was deleted because of its sound-sense similarity to the de sound in the English words death and destruction. The de prefix was replaced by a sound that signified its opposite, not in Creole, but in English, i.e., live, creating the up-full liv-i-cate. The un sound in words such as understand was replaced by the o sound of over as in overstand, implying that all speakers are competent, i.e., no speaker of Creole, English, or Dread Talk is under, beneath, or below another. The up sound in the word oppression was replaced by down, as in down-press-I, because [oppression pushes people down, not up]. … the suffix dom was deleted from the word wisdom because of its similarity to the word dumb…The Creole mon, i.e., man, replaced the suffix dumb creating the word-sound wiz-mon.

And everywhere in this recreation of language is “I”:

The con sound in words such as kon-scious and kon-trol was associated with the k sound in the Creole word kunni, meaning clever. [or “to con” – “to deceive”] It was replaced by the first-person pronoun I, as in I-trol and I-scious…The first person I replaced the u or you-sound, the second-person derivative, in words such as unity and human creating the words I-nity and I-man, similar to the word-sounds I-trol and I-scious.

This topic is vast,  Rastafarians and their Dread Talk language honor the “I” without violently rejecting the separate and divisive ego, but rather by transcending it through the simple removal of its place in their linguistic heritage.

“I and I embraces the congregation in unity with the Most I (high) in an endless circle of I-nity (unity).”

I think this idea extends to trance culture and rewriting culture in general.  😉

Very interesting, and well explained, post. I'd not given this much thought in years but it really brings back those first weeks sitting around trying to figure out what “Natty Dred” was about back in whatever seventies it was that Marley finally hit here. The I n I part has always stuck with me but forgot most of the rest.
As any good magickian knows words have power. Best to remember that. Further, sound and color have power. Much healing work is done using sound and color as the basic tool.

[Pauldo]

watch out for those shriners!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=edLJqxy-4Bc

[thefixer]

Osho has a kind of lame trance dance thing going at his compound in Pune I hear.

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