a carefully curated treasure trove
of miscellaneous conscious
evolutionary utopian artworks,
auditory & visual,
curated by Neonn Felicity
The following is a randomized highlight reel of the most prodigiously felicitous pieces of my information diet, the media that I believe every conscious person ought to digest and share. This site will be a constant work-in-progress, as I continue in my quest to discover and curate the most enlightening art and literature I can find in cyberspace.
So really, thanks for being here! Cosmic Evolution appreciates your intentional attention! And it is my sincerest hope that you benefit from these exceptional philosophical artistic geniuses and their various epic masterpieces as much as I have. I owe the depth and breadth of my own consciousness to the profound truth and goodness in their vision, and to their powerful ability to express it so beautifully.
♥ Enjoy & Evolve ♥
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❝ It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the healthiest and happiest societies: the degree of equality among their members. Further, more unequal societies are bad for everyone within them-the rich and middle class as well as the poor.
The remarkable data assembled in The Spirit Level exposes stark differences, not only among the nations of the first world but even within America’s fifty states. Almost every modern social problem-poor health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness-is more likely to occur in a less-equal society.
Renowned researchers Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett lay bare the contradictions between material success and social failure in the developed world. But they do not merely tell us what’s wrong. They offer a way toward a new political outlook, shifting from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society. ❞Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia
Tags: Capitalism, Decommodification, Equality, Evolution, Humanism, Inequality, Kate Pickett, Optimism, Public Health, Richard Wilkinson, Society, Spirituality, The Zeitgeist Movement
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Killer Falcon
Anthology of Forgotten Poetry
Existential Transcendental Hip-Hop Album [2017]
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Esoteric Hip-Hop, Hippie-Hop, Killer Falcon, Metaphysics, New Age, Warrior Type Wizards
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Neonn Felicity Curations
🎛️ Audio for DJs to SAMPLE 🎛️
YouTube Playlist
«Prev1/56Next»Anti-Antidisestablishmentarianism | CushVlog 06.22.23 | Chapo Trap HouseManifesting the Utopian Mind 🔮 Neonn Felicity 🔮 Lightning in a Bottle 2022Bonus video: What AI art means for human artistsA Spectre Haunting: China Miéville on the Communist ManifestoAbby Martin & Immortal Technique: Civil WarHow Sex, Drugs, and Ancient Humans Affect Today’s Politics with Chris RyanThe Future of Human Potential | Dr. Vivienne Ming | SingularityU South AfricaPablos Holman | Automating Ourselves | Global Summit 2018 | Singularity UniversityThe Future of Work | SingularityU Germany Summit 2017«Prev1/56Next»Categories: Symposia
Tags: Audio to Sample, Neonn Felicity Curations, Neonn YouTube Playlist, Philosophy, YouTube Playlists
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Son of Saturn & Morbski
Akashik Ancestorz
Revolutionary Transcendental Hip-Hop Album [2009]
Categories: Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Akashik Ancestorz, Morbski, Revolt Motion Records, Son of Saturn
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Vinton Cerf, Neil Gershenfeld, Elizabeth Stark, Alex Wright
❝ Disruptive technologies uproot culture, can precipitate wars & even topple empires. By this measure, human history has seen nothing like the internet. Pioneers of the digital revolution, Vinton Cerf, Neil Gershenfeld, Elizabeth Stark, & Alex Wright, examine the Internet’s brief but explosive history & reveal nascent projects that will shortly reinvent how we interact with technology—and each other. From social upheaval & ever-shifting privacy standards to self-driving cars & networked groceries, this eye-opening program provides a stunning glimpse of what’s around the corner. ❞
Categories: Panel Discussions, Symposia
Tags: Alex Wright, Disruption, Elizabeth Stark, Futurism, History, Internet, Internet Society, Neil Gershenfeld, Networks, Technology, Vinton Cerf
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Legion & Mr. Kou
Cosmic Arts
Revolutionary Transcendental Hip-Hop EP [2017]
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Indigenous Hip-Hop, Kalki, Legion, Mr. Kou, Poetry, Revolt Motion Records, Spoken Word
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Neonn Felicity Curations
🎬 Movie Trailers 🎬
YouTube Playlist
«Prev1/8Next»Kingpin (1996) Trailer #1Are Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings Related To Each Other?Barbie | Main TrailerThe WhaleZelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages – A Leap of FaithALIENS, CLOWNS & GEEKS | Official HD Trailer (2021) | COMEDY | Film Threat TrailersWOLF WARRIOR Official Trailer | Directed by Wu Jing | Starring Scott Adkins, Yu Nan, and Ni DahongTheaters of War (2022): Official TrailerHERCULES – Official Main Trailer (HD) – UK«Prev1/8Next»Categories: Cinema, Film, Symposia
Tags: Movie Trailers, Neonn Felicity Curations, Neonn YouTube Playlist, YouTube Playlists
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Antony of Egypt
Phonetic Tapestries
Revolutionary Indigenous Hip-Hop Album [2017]
“This is an album that consists of songs exclusively made in the context of doctoral classes and of my research on Hip-Hop at the Modern Languages & Cultural Studies department during my time teaching and studying at the U of Alberta.” ~Anton Iorga
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Political Hip-Hop, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Anton Iorga, Antony of Egypt, Concept Album, Education, Indigenous, Kalki, Kikwaakew, Legion, Poetry, Revolt Motion Records, Spoken Word, Sunya de la Costa
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Bliss
Corporatocracy
Revolutionary Hip-Hop Album [2012]
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Hardcore Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Political Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Bliss, Conspiracy, Corporatocracy, Female Emcee, Revolt Motion Records
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“Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a collage of biography, archival material and various graphics and illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick’s 22-award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Symposia
Tags: Civics, Conspiracy, Control, Culture, Futurism, Manufacturing Consent, Mark Achbar, Noam Chomsky, Peter Wintonick, Propaganda, Psyche-Warfare, Religion, Society, Technology, The Media
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Beast 1333
Revelation 13
Revolutionary Hardcore Hip-Hop Album [2015]
Categories: Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
Tags: Apocalypse, Beast 1333, Consciousness, Flow, Lyricism, New Age, Philosophy, Revolt Motion Records
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❝ From the author of the bestselling “Art and Physics” comes a new book with breathtaking implications. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects, including neurology, anthropology, history, and religion, “Leonard Shlain” argues that the development of alphabetic literacy itself reinforced the human brain’s left hemisphere — linear, abstract, predominantly masculine — at the expense of its right — holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess” charts the connection between alphabetic literacy and monotheism; patriarchy and misogyny, and tracks the correlations between the rise and fall of literacy and the status of women in society, mythology, and religion. ❞
Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia
Tags: Alphabet, Ancient History, Anthropology, Art, Culture, Evolution, Goddess, History, Leonard Shlain, Literacy, Media Theory, Neuroscience, Patriarchy, Psychology, Religion, Technology, Type, Writing
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Sheldon Solomon
Disagreement with Jordan Peterson
Lex Fridman Interview Clip [2020]
brilliant discussion on meaning
“Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core.”
Categories: Interviews, Podcasts, Symposia
Tags: Civilization, Culture, Disagreement, Ethics, Evolution, Humanity, Jordan Peterson, Lex Fridman, Meaning, Philosophy, Potential UC Guests, Psychology, Religion, Sheldon Solomon, Society, Spirituality
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❝ In Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen redefines spiritual awakening for our contemporary world—a world characterized by exponential change and an ever-expanding appreciation for the processes of evolution. Cohen’s message is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self. Through five tenets for living an enlightened life, Cohen will empower you to wholeheartedly participate in the process of change as your own spiritual practice. Evolutionary Enlightenment not only makes deep sense of life today; it will show you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow. ❞
Categories: Books, Literature, Symposia, Talks
Tags: Andrew Cohen, Awakening, Enlightenment, Evolution, Freedom, Liberty, Spirituality
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“Submerged in Colorado’s tight-knit and exploding underground electronic music scene in the early 2000’s, Matt Wax discovered a new medium to shift his musical focus upon in DJ culture. Classically trained in trumpet and piano, not only did his musical focus shift, but he returned to Bend, Oregon where he now hosts @BeatLabRadio, one of the only bass music radio shows still broadcasting on FM on the west coast. When not running the radio show, he produces live shows and plays at clubs and festivals, He focuses on feeding his crowds with high energy mash-ups and mixes in every set.
Bookings: Contact@BeatLabRadio.com“
Categories: Bass, EDM, Music, Trap, Wave
Tags: Beat Lab Radio, Matt Wax, music2write2, The Antidote Campout 2021
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Greg Harrison
Groove
Authentic Renegade Rave Dramedy Film [2000]
The following is a long-form movie review by Neonn Felicity. Usually my words are in this font/color & quoted official descriptions are in lavender, but I wrote 1300 words about this amazing film & wasn’t sure where to post them, & it would take up too much space to put them all here in that format. So here they are, at least for now! 😛
Vudu ($3) ~ Amazon Prime ($3) ~ YouTube ($4)
If you would like to see an authentic portrait of the rave experience, including the dialectic between the event producers and the rave police, watch a movie called Groove. Somehow, writer-director Greg Harrison was able to capture extremely nuanced aspects of the whole thing that every raver has witnessed and felt and laughed at again and again over the course of going to underground raves. It was by far the most accurate depiction of the way people act on ecstasy at raves that I have ever seen in my life. It shows the way people converse in the midst of the party in profoundly honest and healing ways that deepen and accelerate the development of relationships between siblings, long-time friends, lovers new and old, and people who only just met for a brief but important moment.
The characters all felt eerily familiar to me, as if I had met them in real life at real raves, to such an extent that I feel like they must be somewhat universal archetypes across time and space. Groove was produced a decade before I started raving, but so much of it reminded me of those early days when I first fell in love with this culture and converted to the neopagan rave religion and adopted the name Neonn.
They depict brilliantly the phenomenon of “renegade” raves in abandoned warehouses whose locations remain undisclosed until the night of the party, when there is a phone number that reveals an address to a “map point” on the outgoing voicemail message, and there is somebody at the map point giving directions to the party to ravers for $2. That’s the price.
Later on, the main dude who threw the party is asked, “Why do you do this to yourself? Don’t even get paid, risk getting arrested, for what?” And he says, “You don’t know?” “No.” “The nod.” “The nod?” “Yeah. It happens to me at least once every party. Somebody comes up to me, says, ‘Thank you for making this happen; I needed this; this really meant something to me,’ and then they nod. And I nod back.” “That’s it?” “That’s it.”
Groove depicts the DJs, the drug dealers, the tech people, the decor people, the event promoters and organizers, and the individual ravers in participatory attendance all as creating this immensely valuable ecstatic container purely for the love of it. They are putting on these wonderful epic parties because they actually love it so deeply that they are willing to do it not only for almost no pay, but at a material cost of the risk of fines, asset seizures, and jail.
This labor of profound love refutes the obsolete speculation about human nature that asserts that culture needs a monetary incentive to be produced, cultivated, maintained, and innovated on. Authentic rave culture does not operate primarily by the profit motive, and yet it is Evolving more rapidly than the consumer culture which is primarily motivated by profit.
If you need proof, just look at the memetic recycling going on in the endless remakes and spin-offs and derivative knock-offs Hollywood is constantly producing, and the nauseatingly vapid consumeristic bling bling pop music playing on repeat on every radio station across the country, most of which are owned by a few gigantic oligopolistic corporations who bought them all up after Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulating—among other things—the cap on how many terrestrial radio stations a single corporate entity could own. Our anarchic neopagan culture is more emotionally and humanistically sophisticated, more imaginatively creative, and more genuinely innovative and future-oriented than that which money can possibly ever hope to incentivize. This film depicts that quite well.
I think that’s why Roger Ebert hated it so much. I haven’t read much of his work, but I know he was one of the most famous cinematic tastemakers in the country who got his start at the Chicago Sun Times in 1967, when the Establishment—the Leviathan—was in full-blown panic mode about the rise of the psychedelic counterculture, so I assume he made a name for himself hippie-punching all the way back at the beginning of his career. In that respect, I shouldn’t have been surprised at how offended he was by the portrayal of people having positive life-affirming experiences on drugs at a rave. That’s part of what was so special about that film!
Usually the writers and the studios are coerced by the ratings agencies and their corporate shareholders into never ever portraying “drug use without negative consequences” (except alcohol, because that’s, uh, different because, uh, it’s legal). There’s a lot of fascist propaganda machinery working behind the scenes to ensure that just about any time anybody does an illegal drug in a movie or on TV, something terrible happens to them. That’s incredibly dishonest, and it creates an extremely distorted and inaccurate public perception of what illegal drugs—in general and specific ones in particular—and people who do them responsibly and recreationally are actually like in real life, and what the actual risk-to-reward ratio is in doing them.
On the one hand, it undermines the credibility of people who sincerely care about preventing people from naïvely harming themselves in pursuit of a high, because by insisting that all depictions of drug use in the mainstream media be exaggerated scare stories where the moral of the story is basically, “Just say ‘no’ to drugs, kids,” nobody who ever does an illegal drug will ever listen to another word they say about the issue.
On the other hand, such systematically distorted depictions of drug use in our culture does infantilize the public about it such that most people are utterly trapped in a false understanding of—not to mention an impoverished appreciation for—the realms of conscious experience accessible to human beings given our extraordinary brains and our historical legacy of using them to invent shamanic mysticism and biochemistry and neuropsychopharmacology.
Groove showed me that psychedelic drug use—and all the quirky behavior it instigates in ravers, before, during, and after the party, from every different perspective within the intimate temporary ecstatic community—can in fact be depicted honestly, accurately, and authentically in film. It can be done. I always knew most of those other movies about psychedelics in general or raving in particular were slanderous, but Groove made me appreciate just how slanderous they were. Roger Ebert only got tricked into thinking this film was an inaccurate portrait of psychedelic culture because all he had was legitimately inaccurate portraits of it to compare it to. He drank the prohibitionist Kool-Aide, so apparently, he couldn’t recognize the truth in the art when he saw it.
In all the hundreds of raves I’ve been to, spanning over a decade now, with hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of people at each event, I’ve shared dancefloor space with cumulatively millions of people at this point. Of all those millions of people I’ve raved with, I’ve only ever heard of somebody dying at an event I was at twice. In both instances, it was Prohibition that killed them. One died from an overdose of an obscure research chemical that was sold to her under the pretense that it was LSD. That would not happen if these drugs were available from legitimate sources and thereby properly accurately labelled.
The other died from a lack of proper drug safety education; she overheated on the dancefloor on MDMA after dancing for ten hours straight without taking a break to hydrate and cool off for a minute. If her high school curriculum had taught her to remember to take breaks from dancing and to drink lots of water if she is going to be taking ecstasy, she would be alive right now. It was not the drug that killed her; it was the misguided paternalistic impulse that decided it was better to keep her ignorant of proper safety precautions.
The cynic in me wants to say that prohibitionists keep those teenagers ignorant and those drugs unlabeled and unregulated on purpose so that some ravers will accidentally hurt or kill themselves at a rave, because it helps to validate their hysterical slanderous anti-drug propaganda when there is in fact a real horror story anecdote they can point to and exploit the public’s bias toward anecdotes over statistics, the vast majority of which say that on the whole, drugs are actually good! Most illegal drug use—especially of psychedelics—is perfectly appropriate and healthy, and provides people with intellectual curiosity, emotional catharsis, bodily pleasure, or even mystical transcendence. It’s good to finally see a movie that portrays that underrepresented aspect of my spiritual community. Fuck Roger Ebert.
Categories: Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Film
Tags: Absolute Favs, Culture, Ecstasy, EDM Culture, Greg Harrison, MDMA, Must-Watch, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Psychedelics, Rave Culture, Raves, Renegades, Show Business, Tripworthy