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amoeba

amoeba also ameba (e-mê´be) noun
plural amoebas or amoebae (-bê)
A protozoan of the genus Amoeba or related genera, occurring in water and soil and as a parasite in other animals. An amoeba has no definite form and consists essentially of a mass of protoplasm containing one nucleus or more surrounded by a delicate, flexible outer membrane. It moves by means of pseudopods.
[New Latin, genus name, from Greek amoibê, change, from ameibein, to change.]
- amoe´bic (-bîk) adjective

ameba

ameba (e-mê´be) or amoeba, one-celled PROTOZOAN in the phylum Sarcodina. Amebas constantly change their body shape as they form temporary extensions called pseudopods, or false feet, used for feeding and locomotion. Most amebas range from 5 to 20 microns in diameter. They engulf their prey (diatoms, algae, or bacteria) with their pseudopods, forming vacuoles in which food is digested by ENZYMES. Reproduction is usually by binary fission (splitting) to produce two daughter amebas, the nucleus dividing by MITOSIS; some also reproduce sexually. Amebas live in fresh and marine waters and the upper layers of soil. Many are PARASITES of aquatic and terrestrial animals, and some cause disease, e.g., amebic dysentery.

- _The New Hacker's Dictionary_ by Eric S. Raymond 

Life uses borders and life violates borders and life constructs media of its own to fill up the extra spaces. The amoeba and the fertilized egg are both sacs of juice and slime -- one grows by splitting itself, the other by being split. Viral-like DNA is "freely exchanged" in gushes of juice and slime -- liquid with paradoxical form -- the very liminality of form itself -- secret secretions -- the viscous slippery in-betweeness of the organic -- the placental wetness of becoming.

- Hakim Bey - _Boundary Violations_ 

Dancing as part of aboriginal culture, ancient Mayan civilisation, neanderthal man - you name it - is all part of an even longer tradition that goes back deep into pre-prehistory.

You see, the reason 'primitive'/'tribal'/'naive' cultures like to dance is because it feels good, and it feels good because those rhythms resonate with the vibrations of their DNA.  So we're tied up with dancing/raving at a sub-cellular level.
 

As we become more 'advanced' or 'civilised' we travel away from that basic awareness and it becomes harder for us, as individuals, to get in touch with the vibrations of our DNA.  There are several techniques which we can use to overcome the boundaries thrown up by our intellectual advancement; one of the most important is the use of psychedelic plants, which dissolve those boundaries and enable us to get in touch with our DNA.

Of course, this goes down to an even deeper level.  The reason your DNA's vibrating is because it, in turn, is resonating with the carrier wave of reality itself.  One day, when you get properly in rhythm with your sub-cellular vibrations, you'll be able to locate that carrier wave and take a ride on it, away from Samsara and into the realm of the ideas.  This will be A Worthwhile Exercise.

Of course, less advanced creatures than humans have much less difficulty feeling their DNA vibrate.  I reckon amoebas are seriously going off :-)

video for track _Amoeba_ MP3 by Future Sound Of London off of _ISDN_ CD on Astralwerks (1995)

• 604 track _Adios Amoeba_ MP3 by Pan off of _All Boundaries Are Illusion_ compilation CD on 21-3
• tech house track _Amoeba_ MP3 by Hakan Lidbo off of _Sound Oddities ep_ 12" on Moody (2000)
• track _Rollercoaster (Listen And Feel Live Mix)_ by Amoeba Assassin off of _Hardesertrance2_ MixCD by DJ Brian of Moontribe

• track _Amoeba_ MP3 by Future Sound of London off of _ISDN_ CD on Astralwerks (1995)
• track _Amoeba_ MP3 (192k) by Woob
• track _S.A.L.T._ MP3 by The Orb off of _Orblivion_ CD on Island (1997)
• sample from the film _Naked_ (vhs/ntsc) directed by Mike Leigh: "Do you think that the amoeba ever dreamed it would evolve into the frog? And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal cords in order to attract a mate onto the turn of gravity, did that frog ever imagine that the insignificant call would evolve into all the languages of the world into all the literature of the world? And just as that froggie could never have conceived of Shakespeare so we can not possibly imagine our destiny.  Look, if you take the whole of time and represent it by one year, were only in the first few moments of the first of January. There's a long way to go.  Only now we're not going to spout extra limbs and wings and fins because evolution itself is evolving. When it comes, the apocalypse itself will be part of the process of that leap of evolution. By the very definition of apocalypse, mankind must cease to exist, at least in a material form. We'll evolve into something that transcends matter, into a species of pure thought. Are you with me?" @ 6:57

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