A Return Home from the Great Reveal and the Launch of a New Experience
I don’t know what to say about what’s happened. It’s been a long 5 months. Many awakenings, transformations and some mild psychosis.
To begin. I’ve discovered I am a seeker. I seek for knowledge, for optimism and hope. I seek for understanding of the invisible world that billions of people believe is waiting for them. I have filled my head with ideas, myths, habits and drugs. Digging deeper into some kind of understanding - The devil’s territory - But I have found this to be a conspiracy. Or worse – a belief that has truly manifested itself in our world. And it’s all been caused by an even greater belief that the word of god has not been tampered with for political purposes.
Not to get too far into detail, but tor example:
“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable way of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God will drive those nations before you.” (Deuteronomy 18:9-14).
What God would say such a thing? My vote is a human one. A human/god seeking specific goals. A human/god striving for a successful conquest without the guilt which comes with the genocide and oppression placed upon the Pagans, Native Americans, Mayans, Aztecs, Aborigines and Pygmies – to name a few from every corner of the world.
But I digress – I apologize, I have just been really wrapped up in my current project. I can’t quite explain what happened in Africa, or what exactly we filmed. I’m beginning to scare myself. But maybe that was my intention to begin with. I have used film as a tool to help me seek out hidden knowledge and discover a deeper understanding of magic through indigenous cultures, sacred plants and spiritual visions/visits. If you listen to the jungle long enough – All your senses sharpen and you fall back to a place you existed, thousands of life times ago, when you were still connected.
Why have so many forgotten how to speak to this place? Trapped and asleep to communication with the infinite “invisible” we all know is real, for we all are it. And we’ve decided to express this through belief and imagination and unfortunately, fear of this “invisible” we all are.
I suppose my two new films (One on Dharma Sangha and the other on the African culture, Bwiti and their sacred plant Iboga) are becoming more of my own personal exegesis on holy texts and master mythologies than “entertainment”. I don’t know if this is a good thing or not. I leave myself open to whatever magnetism I am being pulled toward.
When the messiah comes (again?), he/she will probably be a plant. For that is all that will be left, unless we get our act together, right now. We’re all together on this floating symbolic presence. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we are a multi-cultural/multidimensional existence. Separate from God only because the majority of us have said we are. In fact, in one of the original renditions of the Eden creation myth, Adam and Eve kick God out of the Garden! That symbolism seems to make much more sense to me. It is through this disconnection from the symbolic “God”, we have disconnected from each other and especially from the ancient indigenous cultures we can do nothing but learn from.
I plan to update more often as I push (Or am I being pulled?) forward. I would like to personally thank my friend Cody Peterson for creating this new website design. This site has now become something much more interesting and intriguing for me to be a part of. HA! Thank you so much Cody.
Also, my solo project InDreama is opening for Melt Banana on Oct. 10th in Omaha. I rejoice!
