Psychoactivate (a personal story and a prayer for humanity and the planet) I decided to get psychoactive and exercise my imagination exorcise my demons find new meanings and stories to live my life by I was unfit for a fully functioning intuitive being my seeing was foggy the stormy seas of life had all but wrecked my ship fucked-up my shit I needed to get it together my shit that is and rebuild my ship not to space-out in my ship though a trip to outer-space would be wild inner-space was my destination healing visions, not hallucinations like most of my tribe and the rest of the west and beyond I was sick and stressed - `neuroticised` and `corporatised` sick and tired of feeling sick and tired I was programmed to self-destruct to fuck myself - and everyone else - up to sink our Mother Earth Ship and drink from the poisoned cup of needy greed to bleed-dry I was a spoilt brat: utterly confused and deeply diseased caught in the tangled web of our collective madness and the suffocating net of consumerism and `progress` the shrink-wrapped plastic paradise of the people of merchandise I was hypnotised into feeling impotent, castrated, even paralysed stumbling though the darkness in the land of the living dead cut off from true-loving and stuck in the head disconnected from nature, body, heart, spirit, soul as a fragment of the whole, I was cracked, fractured, smashed I had trashed my body, brain and heart my breath was shallow and my art was dark at first this was simply innocent naivety obsessive compulsive hyperactivity a symptom of over-stimulation and mis-education, an inevitable side-effect of the excessive consumption of a mass-produced and processed culture, a spiritual malnourishment caused by lack of right guidance, rituals and rites of passage exacerbated by the ruthless indoctrination and propagandising of the corporate-political-media machine I was a victim, a child; like everyone else brain-washed and media medicated by the ruling elite a corporate-created consumer being consumed by their ignorant greed but as soon as the first rays of a new era dawning had loosened my yawning jaw and wiped the polluted sleep from my eyes and shone the light of truth in my heart and I remembered our interconnectedness and recovered from my loneliness and reflected on our interdependence and realised that the eyes of the divine shine brightly though mine and are mirrored in yours and that I have a choice and hence power and as such a responsibility my victimhood was no longer innocent or an acceptable excuse for sure I could choose to snooze and ignore to feel sorry for myself and all or I could raise my game and raise my eyes and raise my arms and repair my brokenness and purge my poisons and re-imagine my life and dream a different dream I could choose to turn on the light To AWAKEN To shine brightly like a BEACON and beckon and welcome others from the darkness I could learn to respond to situations, instead of reacting dramatically I had a response-ability to deactivate my destructivity and choose LOVE over fear to attend to my distracting addictions and to take action with fierce COMPASSION instead of passionate anger to heal myself and the whole to rock`n` roll my soul ALIVE to get PSYCHOACTIVE and nourish my SPIRIT to LOVE myself well again so I could hold the hands of my brothers and sisters as they stumble though the dark looking for the LIGHT not because I am `special` or one of the `chosen` but because we are one I am you and you are me, we are the ones we have been waiting for and the time is now to wake-up from the nightmare and drink our medicine let us envision a new earth, a rebirth, a phoenix resurrection let us fan the flames of our imagination and take the opportunity to embrace our divinity, our humanity and animal nature it’s time to mature, to be initiated as a species from a time of reckless teenage tantrums dysfunctional interactions messy, me, my, I - mean mine - fights to a time of co-operation, to co-creative healing of dignified whole-hearted responsibility to cultivate peace and love and health and sustainable wealth The Earth is abundant, the heart is radiant, the divine is loving consciousness let us bless ourselves and each other and heal our sacred mother let us purge this Earth of our man-made poisons and open our hearts in unity the opportunity is HERE, the time is NOW, the choice is ours please take my hand and make a stand get up and stand up for all of life NOW and future generations and choose to become ancestors our great grand-children will honour and be proud of, instead of angry with and ashamed of let us stop fighting over our toys and food and water and money and power let us show up and share, let us grow-up and care what happens to ALL OUR RELATIONS let us dissolve the concept of Nation States and unite the rainbow tribes let us dismantle the psychopathic corporate dictatorship the psychotic fascism of neo-liberal capitalism the all-consuming demonic cancer the beast unleashed with its triple 6 barcode that decimates the environment - our body, our home in its relentless and ruthless pursuit of global hegemony and obscene luxury for the tiny tiny privileged minority and is threatening and actualizing, irreversibly, accelerated sociological disaster and ecological annihilation on an unprecedented scale: mass extinction and apocalyptic visions happening here and now .. Boom Boom Kapow~! in our home, in our face, in our lifetime this planet can`t be replaced so let us do it NOW before humanity slips, or hurtles, into the abyss let the Earth and humanity BREATHE clean-up the oceans, rivers and seas stop manufacturing disease and replant the trees detoxify the people and clean the air stop poisoning our food and water supplies people before profit, planet before `progress` not a regression, but an evolution find PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS to reconcile our differences and find ways to heal and forgive our past grievances remove our blinkers and rose-tinted glasses remove our masks and our armour and choose ‘amore not war’ mass disarmament and arms to embrace for the sake of all races let us collectively risk raw vulnerability and create a culture of deeply felt safety and healthy boundaries empowered by tolerance and mutual respect let us protect the planet and indigenous peoples - the keepers of wisdom and let genuine FREEDOM to live dignified lives thrive and let LOVE light the way let us PRAY and humble ourselves en-masse, not in a disempowering or self-deprecating way but with a humility without humiliation a declaration of responsibility and not knowing an asking for showing, for help, for support an acknowledgement of our ignorance and misguided behaviour an admission of struggle and bewildering confusion a letting go of egoic control-freakery and shadow-masculine power-over an appeal for salvation, revelation, illumination for divine interventions and saving grace let us ask the great spirit - the mystery, the devas and devis, our gods and goddesses, whatever name or names you choose to describe the universal powers beyond our comprehension - to teach us, or remind us perhaps, how to have healthy power and heart filled responsibility, to become once again the custodians of Mother Earth – PACHAMAMA let us co-create heart-art on earth and healthy technology and embody a beautiful vision that equally prioritises human-animal-nature rights and social-cultural-spiritual health and well being let our collective souls sing sacred songs of healing and celebration invoking our resurrection from the darkened ashes and broken bones as we find our way home again let us enthrone nature again (of which we are a part and not apart from) let the human spirit dance in alignment with nature, our true natures, and in harmony with the harmonic universe that birthed us as stardust billions of years ago and to which we will return as whispers in the wind and echoes in space riding spiraling waves of cosmic light pulsating from a multitude of magnificent suns: out-there in the ever-expanding, breathing multi-verse of consciousness and miraculously in-here in the cells of each one of us the survival of our species and all species depends on this: poetic remembrance and manifest living of our true magnificence we are unlimited beings with extraordinary powers that far exceed and make appear petty our childish needs to dominate and subjugate, to compete with, control and manipulate, to force obedience and compliance to distorted views of reality based on fear and greed we need each other to come together as one family - brothers and sisters with a collective shared destiny, living on our fragile habitat/home in danger of joining the over-crowded deathrow of `endangered species` with impending extinction a real possibility let us not become fossilised memories in natural history, fuel for some future humanoid race let us survive and revive our awareness and WAKE UP in fact – lets be super generous and move beyond surviving to thriving let LIFE Live let LOVE LOVE let us love life back to life again and sanctify the whole let your imagination go wild and dream a beautiful dream `Imagine` sang John Lennon `be the change you want to see` taught Mahatma Gandhi so let’s take a sweet piece of Gandhi Candy and give peace a chance don`t worry it won`t rot your teeth - no added sugar just natural essence of whole-soul nectar there is more than enough to go round please take a piece and pass it on there`s plenty more where that came from it`s made with love and little raw chocolate (organic and fair-trade of course) and while you delightedly eat this delicious sweet treat, please join with me and imagine one more thing: a world where `organic` and `fair-trade` are meaningless concepts think about it a moment: psycho-activate feel into it: be sentient then embody it: put it in to you muscles and you muscles into it MonKeefMagic Nov 2014