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