This is an attempt to describe what, i reckon, we're kinda all after when we go out
The zone is the period then everything's perfect, at a rave, or in a club, but to unveil its inherent characteristics, without demeaning its importance to just a drug high, takes some teething out.
Change is . . . an incomprehensible, complex phenomenon; we have no way of knowing what creates change or when it is to occur. . . . Albert Einstein would cite the principle of nonlocality. . . . C.G. Jung would speak of synchronicity, and Rupert Sheldrake of morphogenic resonance. We could just as easily call it chance, the Tao, or a miracle"2
The unpredictable and opportunistic nature of human contact in this environment is heightened by uplifted emotions that are shared which resonate and reverberate from one person to another.
This is the feeling which the raver gets at around 2am in the midst of the party, where the ultimate 'phase-locking' occurs, in the dance itself - where up to thousands of like-minded young people play out rave culture's tribal ceremony, the dance linking everyone together in a synchronous moment. They're all on the same drugs, listening to the same soundtrack, in the same rhythm"1
"The circuits of the brain which mediate alarm, fear, fight, lust, and territorial paranoia are temporarily disconnected. You see everything with total clarity, undistorted by animalistic urges. You have reached a state which the ancients have called nirvana, all seeing bliss"7
This is something beyond, out of the reach of capitalism, and not just another variant on popular culture youth rebellion which began in the 50's.
It's important to see though how rave culture beats the system by infiltrating the system rather than opposing it.
By Philip Knight with reference from
1. http://www.snarl.org/texts/features/dancecult2.htm
2. http://www.birdhouse.org/words/wbrown/specfive.html
[ 18 March 2002: Message edited by: philgene ]
The zone is the period then everything's perfect, at a rave, or in a club, but to unveil its inherent characteristics, without demeaning its importance to just a drug high, takes some teething out.
Change is . . . an incomprehensible, complex phenomenon; we have no way of knowing what creates change or when it is to occur. . . . Albert Einstein would cite the principle of nonlocality. . . . C.G. Jung would speak of synchronicity, and Rupert Sheldrake of morphogenic resonance. We could just as easily call it chance, the Tao, or a miracle"2
The unpredictable and opportunistic nature of human contact in this environment is heightened by uplifted emotions that are shared which resonate and reverberate from one person to another.
This is the feeling which the raver gets at around 2am in the midst of the party, where the ultimate 'phase-locking' occurs, in the dance itself - where up to thousands of like-minded young people play out rave culture's tribal ceremony, the dance linking everyone together in a synchronous moment. They're all on the same drugs, listening to the same soundtrack, in the same rhythm"1
"The circuits of the brain which mediate alarm, fear, fight, lust, and territorial paranoia are temporarily disconnected. You see everything with total clarity, undistorted by animalistic urges. You have reached a state which the ancients have called nirvana, all seeing bliss"7
This is something beyond, out of the reach of capitalism, and not just another variant on popular culture youth rebellion which began in the 50's.
It's important to see though how rave culture beats the system by infiltrating the system rather than opposing it.
By Philip Knight with reference from
1. http://www.snarl.org/texts/features/dancecult2.htm
2. http://www.birdhouse.org/words/wbrown/specfive.html
[ 18 March 2002: Message edited by: philgene ]
