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.
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Galea
Experimental Bass & Dubstep DJ & Event Producer
“Galea (Formerly Head Soar)
Owner/Operator @ Cymatics Inc. & Head On High Productions“Galea first entered into the electronic music scene in 2012 before he dreamed of becoming a producer/dj. With the help of friends, he started the company Head On High Productions. Six years later him and a few friends a started Cymatics Inc. Some of the acts HOH & Cymatics Inc have brought to Nor Cal include G Jones, NastyNasty, Bleep Bloop, Thriftworks, Stylust(Twice), BOGL, 2 Nutz, The OriGinALz, Yheti, Shlump, Ultraviolet, Thelem, Youngsta, Hatcha, PartyWave, Trevor Kelly, Joe Nice, N-Type, and many more.Without the start of HOH, he would have never been inspired to start producing/performing.
“In early 2014 he started performing and producing Glitch music and Dubstep. He soon realized that he was truly meant for more than one genre. Currently, his favorite styles to perform for parties include Deep Dubstep, Glitch, Trap and other subgenus of Bass Music. 2015 was the year things started picking up fast for Galea(Head Soar) with bookings all across the West Coast at parties and festivals… A few Festivals he has played are Heart And SOULstice 2015-2016, Stilldream 2015-2018, The Pirate Party 2017, Santa Cruz Music Festival, Genesis Gathering and Music At The Views(WA).”
Categories: Bass, Dubstep, EDM, Experimental Bass, Music, Wave
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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! ๐
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 โrenegadeโ 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 โmap pointโ on the outgoing voicemail message, and there is somebody at the map point giving directions to the party to ravers for $2. Thatโs the price.
Later on, the main dude who threw the party is asked, โWhy do you do this to yourself? Donโt even get paid, risk getting arrested, for what?โ And he says, โYou donโt know?โ โNo.โ โThe nod.โ โThe nod?โ โYeah. It happens to me at least once every party. Somebody comes up to me, says, โThank you for making this happen; I needed this; this really meant something to me,โ and then they nod. And I nod back.โ โThatโs it?โ โThatโs it.โ
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 deregulatingโamong other thingsโthe 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 thatโs why Roger Ebert hated it so much. I havenโt 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 Establishmentโthe Leviathanโwas 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 shouldnโt have been surprised at how offended he was by the portrayal of people having positive life-affirming experiences on drugs at a rave. Thatโs 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 โdrug use without negative consequencesโ (except alcohol, because thatโs, uh, different because, uh, itโs legal). Thereโs 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. Thatโs incredibly dishonest, and it creates an extremely distorted and inaccurate public perception of what illegal drugsโin general and specific ones in particularโand 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 naรฏvely 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, โJust say โnoโ to drugs, kids,โ 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 ofโnot to mention an impoverished appreciation forโthe 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 useโand all the quirky behavior it instigates in ravers, before, during, and after the party, from every different perspective within the intimate temporary ecstatic communityโcan 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 couldnโt recognize the truth in the art when he saw it.
In all the hundreds of raves Iโve been to, spanning over a decade now, with hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of people at each event, Iโve shared dancefloor space with cumulatively millions of people at this point. Of all those millions of people Iโve raved with, Iโve 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 publicโs bias toward anecdotes over statistics, the vast majority of which say that on the whole, drugs are actually good! Most illegal drug useโespecially of psychedelicsโis perfectly appropriate and healthy, and provides people with intellectual curiosity, emotional catharsis, bodily pleasure, or even mystical transcendence. Itโs good to finally see a movie that portrays that underrepresented aspect of my spiritual community. Fuck Roger Ebert.
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Dr. Carl Hart
Let’s Quit Abusing Drug Users
TED MED Talk [2015]
“Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia University, offers a provocative, evidence-based view of addiction and discusses how it should impact drug policy.”
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L.F.OGRE
Psychedelic Bass & Dubstep Producer
“Pilot of the interstellar life frigate “Great Red Cypress””
Categories: Bass, Dubstep, EDM, Music, Psychedelic Bass
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The Wachowskis
Cloud Atlas
Epic Abstract Revolutionary Sci-Fi Film [2012]
โ Cloud Atlas is an epic science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell, the film has multiple plots set across six different eras, which Mitchell described as โa sort of pointillist mosaic.โ The official synopsis describes it as โan exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.โ Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Jim Broadbent lead an ensemble cast.
The film was produced by Grant Hill, Stefan Arndt, the Wachowskis, and Tykwer. During four years of development, the project met difficulties securing financial support; it was eventually produced with a $128 million budget provided by independent sources, making it one of the most expensive independent films of all time. Production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany.
It premiered on 8 September 2012 at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival and was released on 26 October 2012 in conventional and IMAX cinemas. It polarized critics, and has been included on various Best Film and Worst Film lists. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Tykwer (who co-scored the film), Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil. It received several nominations at the Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, winning for Best Editing and Best Make-up. โ [Wikipedia]written & directed by The Wachowskis
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“The year is 3025, Earth as we know it a distant memory. Our tiny dismal planet in a state of ruin, Earth’s top aeronautic and interstellar scientists work feverishly on a scheme to a save humanity as greed, chaos and violence has consumed the very place we call home. The only hope we have left is to find a new home, a new place to thrive peacefully away from the decay that has become of our beloved planet.
This is the story of the starship “Great Red Cypress” an interstellar frigate containing the very seeds to create life elsewhere, piloted by it’s captain, Lawrence Francis Ogre, we start our voyage on the outer orbit of what was once Earth, Our beloved captain sends one last message to the one he loves before crawling into his cryo tube preparing for 100 years of sleep while traveling at the speed of light. This is the story Of A Great Red Cypress.”Categories: Bass, Dubstep, EDM, Glitch-Hop, Lo-Fi, Music, Psychedelic Bass, Trip-Hop
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John Iodorola (+Guests)
The Damage Report
Political News & Commentary Show
1/1514
Musk Flails As SpaceX Stock PLUNGES | Trump's Saudi Bribe Revealed | Bari Weiss's CBS Fake NewsRepublican's Family Photo Sparks BRUTAL BacklashWATCH John Fetterman Prove That He's a National EmbarrassmentTrump Says The UNIMAGINABLE Over Soldiers As Death Toll RisesLindsey Graham's Sister Sent SCRAMBLING After MAGA Uncovers Donation They HateTrump Makes INSANE Declaration As Tanker Attacks Erupt In New Trade DisasterTrump PANICS Over Election Downfall In Disastrous Georgia MeltdownKentucky Governor CALLED OUT As Mitch McConnell Replacement Demand GrowsTrump's Tariff Plan BLOWS UP In Financial Disaster As Canada Attacks Get Worse1/1514Categories: Afternoon News, Morning News, News, Symposia, Vlogs, YouTube Channels
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Russell Brand
Russell Brand
Political & Cultural Commentary Show
1/643The Truth Hollywood Won't Touch – SF743Bill Gates has the nerve to lecture us on this…Elon has gone off the rails…Is this the crisis nobody's talking about?Ricky Gervais did us all a service.Yet American kids are still being fed this crap…The true cost of validation…Mel Gibson was right about this…The Biden Family Is Not Innocent!1/643Categories: Afternoon News, Evening News, News, Symposia, Vlogs, YouTube Channels
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Kikwaakew
Hija Cosmica
(Makara Princess)Transcendental Existential Hip-Hop Album [2015]
“This is dedicated to the mythological offspring of a Frost Phoenix and one of the greatest polymath artists, masterminds and Bravehearted warrior Goddesses in existence, Aurora Borealis… you are a Divine Legend incomparable…” ~Kikwaakew
Categories: Existential Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
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Peter Joseph
Improbable Democracy
Z-Day Talk [2017]
“About TZM: The Zeitgeist Movement is a global sustainability activist group working to bring the world together for the common goal of species sustainability before it is too late. Divisive notions such as nations, governments, races, political parties, religions, creeds or class are non-operational distinctions in the view of The Movement. Rather, we recognize the world as one system and the human species as a singular unit, sharing a common habitat.”
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
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1/23New Interview Out Now On John Vibes' ChannelThe Viral Psilocybin-for-Alzheimer's Paper Gets Worse the More We Look at It"Psychedelic Zealots" w/ Dr. Tyler BlackNew interview with Dr. Tyler Black out tomorrow!OpenAI Accused of Causing a Teen's Fatal OverdoseInside Terence McKenna's Lost ArchivePsymposia AestheticsThe Billionaire Who Wants Society to "Adjust" to Tech Dystopia Using PsychedelicsChristian Angermayer's psychedelic opium for the masses1/23
Categories: Panel Discussions, Podcasts, Symposia, YouTube Channels
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IMMINENT CYBERCORPORATION
International Vaporwave Collective
“Worldwide Hardwave ๐ Vision / Community / Label / Agency. Global reflexion under the rays of the sad neon sun. Fall from the matrix, exit from the source code, connection in a single gust with the noosphere. ะกyberfuture imminent. You can’t hide from our sound. IMMINENT is an international art community dedicated to producing, promoting and sharing progressive and futuristic works of art with a particular focus on contemporary electronic music. Our goal is creating a unique artistic vision of the future while celebrating the culture and technology of the modern age. We invite you to take a glimpse of our own digital metropolis of music, consisting of the most colourful, creative, beautiful and sensual sounds and imageries.”