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Collective Unconcious
This nOde last updated June 8th, 2003 and is permanently morphing...
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Rupert Sheldrake's   Morphic Resonance and Morphogenetic Fields

Music is the language of the unconscious mind par excellence. As we shall argue in chapter VI, primordial racial memories are brought to the surface more readily by music than by natural scenery or any other art; it seems to be possible to relate familiar features of music to archaic experiences of humanity.

It is music that provides the strongest support for our thesis that aesthetic experience consists in the interaction between the universal primordial images buried in the unconscious and an external artifact or natural object which we call beautiful.

The incomparable power of music to move a listener to the depths of his being is well-known; it will, on occasion, bring him to tears. What is the explanation of the power of this stimulus which is unparalleled in the other arts? If our thesis is tenable it must be that music is for some reason an unusually effective agent for bringing to the surface archaic images and memories stored in the unconscious. As Jung remarks, "The man who speaks with primordial images speaks with a thousand tongues.. . . That is the secret of effective art." Now musical expression can stimulate archaic emotional experiences very effectively - fear by agitato, mourning by molto legato, excitement by prestissimo, sanctuary by rallentando succeeded by the tonic or home note, and in similar ways. These universal emotionally charged experiences become effective when they are raised from the deep unconscious to the surface mind, and it happens that music, unlike any of the other arts, provides precise and powerful means of effecting this transfer.

- H.E. Huntley - _The Divine Proportion: A Study In Mathematical Beauty_

What this advance of novelty is, and what the process of becoming may be seen to be in essence, is the revelation of the interspecies' mind. In human beings, it is approached through the nonmetabolizing neural DNA scattered through the body, and for humans it becomes apparent as a higher cortical phenomenon, as an experience, and as a confrontation with the Jungian "collective unconscious." This revelation and its  integration into the field of shared experience is a process of transformation of the previously limited ego. The many magnitudes of duration in  which the levels of the modular hierarchy of waves can be supposed to be operable exceed, at both ends of the scale, any physical processes  known to occur.

 - Terence McKenna 

film _Repo Man_  (vhs/ntsc) directed by Alex Cox

Otto holds up book he's about to throw in burning garbage can. Book says "Dioretix: The Science of Matter over Mind. By A. Rum Bi..." (reference to L. Ron Hubbard's _Dianetics_)

Miller: "A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give you an example, show you what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like, plate or shrimp, or plate of shrimp out of the blue no explanation. No point in looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness." 
 
 

"The transformations of culture do not take place in history, they take place in myth. A model, a hypothesis, or a myth is a way of rendering the invisible. Because the unconscious is outside time, it can perceive transformations beyond the limits of the ego. These unconscious perceptions are expressed in art or mythologies. We ourselves are living in an age of cultural transformation, but if you went to the experts to ask for a description, they would tell you nothing. You have to go to those who are at home in the unconscious and in the subconscious, the artists and prophets: through myth and symbol in art, science fiction or religion, they will describe the present by speaking about the future."

- William Irwin Thompson

Members:   Tim Healey (Quirk  with Mark Allen), Colin Bennun and Steve Callaghan

 releases: _Fluorostan_ 12" on Flying Rhino

• _Synchronicity Converger_
• samples: "perhaps i'm dreaming?"; [gibberish]; "well the next thing that happened was a noise..."; "out of this world" 
• _Fluorostani Transcendance_ MP3
• sample: "Welcome to psychic voyages,  passengers for the personal reality transplant to Fluoristan please proceed to the astral transfer lounge and commence your meditation."; "Unconsciouses.";   "Where are we going? I don't know, but one thing I do know. What's that?   Whatever it is, it's a long way from Patsovia"; "Uh oh..." 

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