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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Peter Janssen
The Reality of Truth
Plant Medicine Documentary [2017]
“This highly provocative documentary explores the relationship between spirituality, religion, and plant medicine. Featuring top thought leaders including Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Marianne Williamson, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and hosted by Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, the film explores how to access the true reality through plant medicine, Ayahuasca and meditation. It includes first of its kind interviews with top spiritual gurus, celebrities, and people of all faiths, about this intriguing connection and their personal experiences with spirituality and transcendence.
Throughout history human beings have searched for gateways to spirituality that have included meditation, prayer and plant medicine. The Judeo Christian religions, Vedic traditions, and Shamanistic rituals all incorporate techniques focused on transcending the physical reality. These ancient techniques have been uncovered and are now available to society, enabling our ability to tap into our true reality and awakening.
Interviews with leading scientists validate the merging of spirituality and science. The worldwide awareness of the film is meant to break through the “illusion of reality,” and allow viewers to move forward toward a more meaningful and peaceful future. The filmmakers are conducting interviews with today’s thought leaders from around the globe, while capturing the culture and energy of some of the most spiritual places on earth, including Peru, Rome, Maui, Costa Rica and the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. ~ https://therealityoftruth.com ~ http://www.PortalToAscension.org
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Interviews, Symposia
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Johann Hari
Everything You Think You Know about Addiction Is Wrong
TED Talk [2015]
“What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.”
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YouTube Playlist
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Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East ConflictNazis Never Left — They Just Rebranded. Here’s How They Took Over Mainstream PoliticsYou’re Not Lazy, You’re a Victim of the Burnout SocietyCultural Nihilism and the Rise of The GrifterJon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah PodcastMichael Parenti "The Struggle for History" North Hollywood, California June 1994HasanAbi and Chris Hedges discuss The Descent into FascismMichael Parenti "Democratic Government vs. The State" Long Beach, California September 1991Michael Parenti "Racism and the Ideology of Slavery: From Aristotle to George Bush"1/33Categories: Symposia
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Abby Martin
Empire Files
Anti-Imperial Political News & Commentary Show
1/23The Ecocidal History of the U.S. Military – EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY Deleted SceneAbby Martin's New Film EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMYAbby Martin & Greg Stoker: Final Message From Gaza Flotilla Before Israel AttackJeremy Corbyn: Gaza, Nuclear War & Why Movements Must Rise NowWhen Fiction Becomes Reality – Game of Thrones Actor on GazaLIVE Interview From Gaza Flotilla as Threats EscalateIsrael’s Gaza Trap: Starve, Lure, Kill—Jeremy Scahill Exposes “Final Phase” of GenocideTrump's Naked Imperialism & How the British Empire Never DiedTim Heidecker Talks Comedy, Collapse & the Dystopian Circus w/ Abby Martin1/23Categories: Afternoon News, Evening News, News, Symposia, Video Essays, Vlogs, YouTube Channels
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Desert Dwellers
Epic Cinematic Psychedelic Bass Producers
“North America bookings: Mint Talent Group – Mary: bookings@desertdwellers.org
International bookings: Sofa Beats – Itay: international@desertdwellers.org
Management: jesse@pivotal-agency.com; cole@pivotal-agency.com
“Desert Dwellers is the convergence of music producers Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe, who honed their individual crafts in the mystical deserts of California and New Mexico, long before electronic music reached mainstream. Amani and Treavor combine the raw sounds of the natural world, wrapped in dance-floor and chill-out productions; blending deep bass, earthy percussion, etheric voices, and cross-cultural instrumentation into a sonic incense for the mind and body. Desert Dwellers’ unique global sounds are a bridge between worlds, and their label Desert Trax has become a platform to spotlight similar alchemical artists.
“Brought together in the late ‘90s through the legendary Moontribe gatherings, in 2019 the duo celebrated their 20th anniversary of making music together, adding depth to their reputation as a pioneering and prolific downtempo, psybass, and tribal-house act from the United States. The culmination of two decades of partnership has forged their Beatport number 1 selling electronica album BREATH, out on Black Swan Sounds, which features more than 20 musicians and vocalists over a 10-track nomadic journey.
“Desert Dwellers’ studio output is matched only by their extensive touring history, which juxtaposes performances at America’s most iconic festivals like Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, Burning Man, and Coachella, with high-powered sets at the biggest trance festivals around the world; BOOM in Portugal and Rainbow Serpent in Australia. Desert Dwellers are equally at home in the clubs as they are in the yoga studios, and the jungles, deserts, and mountains of far-flung international festivals.”Categories: Bass, Cinematic, Downtempo, EDM, House, Music, Psychedelic Bass, Tribal
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Sleep Sinatra & Ed Glorious
Sleep Gloriously
Soulful Existential Hip-Hop Album [2021]
“Find Peace within Self and Solace within the Knowledge of Self.”
Categories: Abstract Hip-Hop, Existential Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
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Greydon Square
Omniverse : Type 3 : Aum niverse
Philosophical Sci-Fi Hip-Hop Album [2015]
This might literally be my favorite album of all time. Greydon’s lyrics (with perfect vocal delivery & Dre-caliber beats) capture the expansiveness & majesty of science, and the epic imagination of science fiction. This is the true new mythology of the future, where we try to fathom the heights of evolution achievable by civilizations millions of years beyond ours. And gosh it’s just such great music! And thru 30 songs he covers sooo much material, with a felicitous integration of scientific & poetic philosophy. It’s such a well-executed futuristic portrait of civilization, I think this album deserves all the awards, from a Pulitzer to a Grammy.. ♥ Neonn
Categories: Existential Hip-Hop, Gothic Hip-Hop, Intellectual Hip-Hop, Music, Psychedelic Hip-Hop, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, Streetwise Hip-Hop, Transcendental Hip-Hop
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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.
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Dr. Roland Griffiths
The Future & Science of Psychedelics
SXSW Interview w/ Tim Ferriss [2018]
“Bestselling author Tim Ferriss (Tools of Titans, The 4-Hour Workweek, etc.) probes the science, mysteries, and future of psychedelics with Dr. Roland R. Griffiths, a clinical pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Griffiths has been researching mood-altering compounds for more than 40 years, has published more than 370 scientific papers, and started the psilocybin (think “magic mushrooms”) research program at Johns Hopkins nearly 20 years ago. Dr. Griffiths and his colleagues have been leaders in the re-initiation of research with classic psychedelic drugs, which was blocked for a period of several decades. This session offers details and stories that can help both novices and experienced psychonauts get a better understanding of the applications of these incredible compounds.”
Categories: Interviews, On-Stage Interviews, Symposia
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Inna Vision
Conscious Hawaiian Reggae Band
beautiful melodies & conscious lyrics, quality uplifting reggae for the heart & mind <3
Official Bio:
International Reggae Band Inna Vision continues to represent Hawaiian Reggae on a global stage with melodic rhythm, lyrical consciousness, versatile cadence and infectious energy. Up rooted from the tiny island Maui, Inna Vision has toured the U.S. consistently since 2008 performing in over 70 cities and also bridging the gap between Europe, Jamaica and Tahiti.
2018-2019 proved massive with the release of 3 Full length albums including greatest hits compilation “Best Yet” celebrating 10 years of Inna Vision music. The hard hitting album “Link Up” climbed charts quickly and got nominated as “Reggae album of the year” finalist by Hawaii’s Na Hoku Hanohano awards. Following release and U.S. headline tour Inna Vision made Europe debut performing with Tribal Seeds in London, Amsterdam, France and stops on legendary festivals such as Summerjam (Germany) and Montreax Jazz Festival (Switzerland).
Inna Vision formed in 2005 as a 6 piece band with debut album Music on my Mind released in 2008. Few years after release original vocalist left the group to pursue solo careers. Inna Vision quickly re-branded led by founder and bassist “Koa Lopes.” Since re-brand Inna Vision took full speed releasing 5 albums, numerous singles and appears on songs with Million Stylez, Josh Heinrichs, Hirie, Gonzo, The Steppas, New Kingston, Redmelo and much more. Inna Vision has grown to having band members from California, Florida, New York, Boston and original musicians that still perform at home in Hawaii.
Inna Visions passion and persistence led to performances on California Roots Festival, Reggae on the River, One Love Fest, Reggae Rise Up and Hawaii’s Majah Rayjah. “The Vision” has also shared stages with J Boog, Common Kings, Ky-Mani Marley, Collie Buddz, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Steel Pulse, Alborosie, Gentleman, SOJA and much more.Inna Vision music represents, equality, manifestation, inspiration and most importantly love over all.
“Reggae music makes us feel like we can’t die.” – Reggae Lives.”
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Brian Helgeland
42
American Racial History Sports Drama Film [2013]
“Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures are teaming up with director Brian Helgeland for “42,” the powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. “42” will star Academy Award(R) nominee Harrison Ford (“Witness”) as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (“The Express”) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the color line in the big leagues.”
Categories: Biographical Dramas, Cinema, Film
