Psychedelic trance and the connected scene has moved my life massively ever since I set foot on a large dancefloor and witnessed how life as a human can unfold, in great contrast to all the usuals we undergo as people living in so-called civilized societies.
Many years ago, pushing a decade now, I started to stumble upon news ways of seeing the world around me, largely fueled by the Zeitgeist documentaries I watched back then that didn't only ask severly relevant questions but also offered several elegant yet radical solutions to those societal problems. And so naturally I gave it my all, thinking this model presented would be "THE WAY TO GO", not yet grasping the full implications of it all or what might be missing from the analysis and the solutions offered.
But then I travelled to my first psychedelic dancefloor playground at Ozora in 2012 where I saw humanity in a way that had never seemed possible to me before.
Here I had been trying to force a world upon people who weren't ready sitting in the local occupy camp in my hometown, doing my best to CONVINCE people of the merit of the ideas I has so vigilantly made my own, only to find at a psychedelic dancefloor like Ozora that all of these prospects are long in operation and that countless people on Earth ALREADY LIVE THIS WAY.
Giving each other a helping hand, helping each other out whenever someone needs support. Sharing food, drink and love without expecting anything in return. Unconditional. Teaching each other skills and knowledge without being a missionary. And always being ready to question one's own understanding before questioning everyone else.
In short: I was wow'ed. I had completely missed this development on Earth until that time. I had thought this could only be existing in extremely remote natural societies living in the rainforest or in the figments of the imagination, dreaming up potential future prospects for humanity to move towards. Like a science-fiction dystopia we could never reasonably hope to reach within the next 5 generations...
But here I was dancing with all these strangers, feeling more like home than anywhere or anytime before.
It wasn't until much later that I stumbled upon one of the pioneers of the scene, a DJ who constantly plays 24-hour sets all over the Earth, where people live exactly like this, and he was talking about the scene and what we are actually doing there from experience.
My estimations and own experiences were confirmed: This scene is different.
It may become a grave target for the control structure in the future, and as I already remarked the gang may have long started to coopt the scene entirely. But seeing and experiencing the people that come to these parties still, their behavior and their love for human beings has given me so much that I feel more than compelled to share the words of Goa Gil with you all, the psy-grandpa who has been an integral part of the scene for so long during its first major chapter from the 1990s onwards that I can't help but share it with you all right here right now.
If you wonder why psychedelic trance is such a recurring theme on this blog, if you want to know why I give it so much attention and care and why I ultimately want to start @psycultureradio and make my own album (being a guitarist originally who never had anything to do with electronic music at all) you may want to give this man a listen.
(...) "If we can dance together, we can work together and make this world a beautiful place." (...)
Beautiful
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