WE ARE THE DREAMERS OF THE DREAM
WE ARE THE INFINITE IMAGINARIUM
Our Mantra is
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This is media as art and art as transformation
This is media as cultural resistance and a path to social change
This is Media not for revolution but rather for evolution
(The Preamble: We The Imaginarium)
Welcome back to a deep-dive into Infinite Imaginarium Pivotal Show The Death of Narrative. The last time I begin this tale, it was just after Dlive left the Steem Blockchain, and then a few days after that HF20, so now that the Hard Fog has seemed to pass I thought it was wise to get back into it.
Please Check Out The Death of The Narrative (Part 1):
What is the Infinite Imaginarium?
Infinite Imaginarium is A Multimedia Decentralized Open Source Artist Collective, made up of a mosaic of programmers, artists, musicians, shamans, visionaries, regular people making shit happen. Just so we're clear people, we're HERE to play & make MAGIC happen!
In Infinite Imaginarium: The Death of The Narrative (Part 2), Nikki brings up trying to explain something to someone and the experience of recalling dreams, which gets Me(SatoriD) off and on Topic of Dreams. As The Death of Narrative happens, it's important to draw from the forgotten language of Dreams and Myths.
In this part, I bring up DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman which is worth a deep look at. Or at least bring up some resources.
Dr. Strassman and other Researchers speculate the DMT is released in our brains during birth, death, and dreams. It is also a naturally occurring 'tryptamine'. Tryptamines are a group of substances found in nature that mimic the chemical structure of serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter in the human brain - and one that plays a very important role indeed. Its job is believed to includes the regulation of mood, memory, and sleep. We don't yet fully understand the relation of DMT, Consciousness, Dreams, and Memory, but research is on-going.
Other tryptamines include melatonin (the hormone responsible for sleep), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), bufotenin (psychedelic toad slime), LSD.
Interest Peaked? Check out this good Article: DMT: The Spirit Molecule Explained that explains in more details some of the stuff I mention in the discussion.
Another book by Dr. Strassman that I brought up was Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies. It's an Anthology of Essays on investigating the experiences of other realms of existence and contact with otherworldly beings, via DMT experiences, Shamanic Techniques, Art/Poetry & Science Fiction writing.
Dennis McKenna sums it up:
Those who regularly navigate the hyperspatial landscape that some have called the ‘tryptamine dimension’ have long suspected that the portals to inner and outer space may be one and the same. This book, a collaboration of the most cutting-edge shaman/neuroscientists working in this field, boldly explores this concept in a stunning tour de force.
I also mention a personal story of when I first tried to find the others at a 3-day rave, trying to talk and discuss Terence Mckenna. It took me a long time to find my weird tribe and discuss some of the strange things that plague my silly mind. But at this 3-day rave, I was reading The Archaic Revival by Terence Mckenna. In his book he says;
It was really the DMT that empowered my commitment to the psychedelic experience. DMT was so much more powerful, so much more alien, raising all kinds of issues about what is reality, what is language, what is the self, what is three-dimensional space and time, all the questions I became involved with over the next twenty years or so.
Peak through the Veil
Inner Paths to Outer Space
Time for The Show
is what it all seems to be
My whole life can be dissolved
down to a single grain of sand
On the shores of perception
The ocean of possibilities
crashes and collapse into reality
In an effort to Destabilize the Coincidence Control Office,
let's cut-up the future, so that the Dreamtime can leak out
In order to storm the reality studio and destabilize language,
perception, and reality, let’s break open the mind
We are looking at poetry as coding
We are looking for source code
We are looking to mainline ideas, images, and visions
in order to be able to express them in ways
that speak to directly to the core
and essence of something that we already know
and that we are already connected to
Some Dreams will never end
Some Realities will never begin
And somethings will only be in Visions
This is an open call to anyone wanting to have fun and join us in the Infinite Imaginarium. If you have a creative project, artwork, music or just brainstorming interesting ideas, please joins us in the Imaginarium to talk, ponder and create some magic!
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Note on Banner Art by Friend of The Imaginarium Carolina Arevalo. Carolina is a Peruvian Visionary Artist that I have worked on different projects and done different shows with. The Banner Art is taken from series of early drawings she did, it's worth checking out the whole Series of Small Drawings.