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Images for the
"Archaic Revival"

archaic horned shaman
Archaic Ritual & Goddesses

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Archaic Cave & Rock Art

"The Sorcerer" (Les Trois Freres, Lascaux cave c. 13000 BCE)
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Kokopelli (fertility-trickster god, Chaco Canyon, NM))
Primitivist Art, Modern and Postmodern

"The Archaic Revival"
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"The Archaic Revival"
The Archaic Revival actually begins in the Romantic period (18th & 19th centuries), which has come to be known as  the "Romantic Quest for Origins." This took many forms, some of which were poetic meditations among Gothic ruins and the exploration of dreams, which were sometimes equated with a journey to recover the ancient past.

Archaic Revival Images

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"I do believe I have transcended" (V.M.)
Archaic Sacred Mushroom Images

"The Archaic Revival"
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Magic Mushroom Shaman
About "transcending time in an eternal mythical moment":  "… this reproduction (in ritual) made him contemporary with the mythical moment of the beginning of the world and he felt the need of returning to that moment as often as possible in order to annul profane time and its burden of memory and guilt; in other words, to regenerate herself or himself and the fallen world.... The creation of the world, which took place, in illud tempore, at the beginning of the year, is thus reactualized each year [at the New Year ritual]."  --Mircea Eliade

Fenestra Aeternitatis (Window to Eternity) Ancient
Fenestra Aeternitatis (Window to Eternity) Modern
Note: Interestingly enough, the "Fenestra Aeternitatis" figured prominently in Mircea Eliade's novella, Youth Without Youth, which was turned into a movie in 2007. Prof. Eliade is the expert (the late professor of the history of religion) on archaic religion I'm using in my "New Year & Rebirth in Archaic Myth & Ritual" musical essays.

"History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa 15,000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the Great Horned Mushroom Goddess before history, before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism, before, before, before. And this is where the future is taking us because the secret faith of the twentieth century is not modernism, the secret faith of the twentieth century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and catastrophe theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity. And I tell you this because if the community understands what it is that holds it together the community will be better able to streamline itself for flight into hyperspace because what we need is a new myth, what we need is a new true story that tells us where we're going in the universe and that true story is that the ego is a product of pathology, and when psilocybin is regularly part of the human experience the ego is supressed and the supression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the product peddlers. Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience - and nobody can sell that to you and nobody can buy it from you, so the dominator culture is not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience, but that's what holds the community together. And as we break out of the silly myths of science, and the infantile obsessions of the marketplace what we discover through the psychedelic experience is that in the body, IN THE BODY, there are Niagras of beauty, alien beauty, alien dimensions that are part of the self, the richest part of life. I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. What the Archaic Revival means is shamanism, ecstacy, orgiastic sexuality, and the defeat of the three enemies of the people. And the three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy and monotony! And if you get them on the run you have the dominators sweating folks, because that means your getting it all reconnected, and getting it all reconnected means putting aside the idea of separateness and self-definition through thing-fetish. Getting it all connected means tapping into the Gaian mind, and the Gaian mind is what we're calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet. And without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set, and that's the idea; figuring out how to reset the compass of the self through community, through ecstatic dance, through psychedelics, sexuality, intelligence, INTELLIGENCE. This is what we have to have to make the forward escape into hyperspace." --Terence McKenna

"And my soul has been psychedelicized (time)" (C.B.)


























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