Humans On The Loop 11 - Shaft Uddin & Camillo Klingen (Tantra & Society)
A special Boom Festival "Future Fossils on The Road" episode featuring some awesome people Michael met while playing and speaking at the amazing biennial psytrance festival in Portugal.
Shaft Uddin is a Tantric Unicorn and Sacred Sexual Awakener (with noisy arm bangles): http://sacredsexualawakening.com
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We discuss:
Shadow work, “turning into the swerve,” and going into darkness to claim the light. Realizing that the monster in your dream is you.
Dealing with people’s projections and how to make peace with the people who embody your opposite or rejected self – in other words, how to be a “polyamorous sex cult leader” with grace and dignity and humility.
“There’s nothing wrong with desire. There’s nothing wrong with harnessing your sexual energy for greater abundance and manifestation.”
The dam is to the river system as the taboo is to the body. How do our needs to control nature manifest in ways that obstruct or interfere with our well-being?
The horrible true history of the corset – designed to keep women from speaking up for themselves.
“The more I study the vagina, the yoni, the sacred space, the more I understand myself. Because I understand where I came from.”
The historical tendencies of masculine magic being about projecting the will and controlling nature, and feminine magic being about aligning will with the power of natural cycles.
The power of the vulnerability of group intimacy and Michael’s experience with The Body Electric School at Burning Man 2008.
Shaft’s ambidextrous “twin goddess awakening” practice and the creation of circuits of loving energy and other “woo woo stuff” that cured his loneliness, depression, and substance abuse.
The difference between “polyamory” as loving multiple people and recognizing the original unity and non-separation of all of us and loving universally (see also Alice Frank’s “uniamory”).
Polyamory vs. Transparent Love (and other Principles of Unicornia)
“Don’t leave me!”
(and then immediately)
”It’s okay, I’m fulfilled in myself, it’s fine.”
— TIME TRAVEL (not externally, but internally) and FATE —
Following the histories of the atoms that compose us into the stars and nebulae from which our parts originated = internal time travel!
The myth of Atlantis as an example of “misplaced concreteness” of the racial memory of an ancient extinction our cells still remember, not necessarily the story that we tell ourselves about an ancient city.
Graham Hancock’s argument that a 13,000 year old comet impact ended the Pleistocene and the possibility that epigenetic molecules have coded this event in our cell nuclei – as well as other even more ancient extinction events such as The Great Oxygenation Event (in which the evolution of photosynthesis nearly destroyed all life).
People are building bunkers preparing for a catastrophe that happened two billion years ago!
Recycling everything.
Faith in humanity and a belief in the Star Trek vision.
“I believe that we will start flourishing.”
Christopher Ryan vs Stephen Pinker and clashing narratives about the progress of our species and whether or not we really are more peaceful than we were as foragers.
“I get my knowledge off of YouTube and Facebook.”
— WOO ALERT ––
We might as well go there: crystals. Meditating on them. Going back to Lemuria through crystal meditation time travel. “OR are we projecting onto it?”
Exalting the natural world by our awareness and appreciation of it. Ensouling technologies by naming them. To observe something turns it from a possibility into an actuality. So with New Age weirdness, how many hallucinations does it take to qualify as reality?
Iboga teaches Shaft to “Ask a tree.”
Michael: “If my cohost were here to reign me in, we might not even be having this conversation.”
Biogeomagnetism and Michael’s 2008 vision-hypothesis that solar maxima and mimina might correlate to changes in the expression of different hormonal balances and behavioral patterns, possibly entirely different genetic expression patterns and states of consciousness.
S: “Do you believe in past life regression? I just paid $400 for my one.”
M: “Why’d you do that when you can talk to a tree for free?”
Camillo introduces himself. Our first third-party guest! He weighs in on the possibility of the cycle of learning that a soul goes through…
Is “how literally true it is” the right question? Or do we just have a modern human obsession with FACTS?
M: “We don’t realize we’re in this Russian doll of nested dreams. And so we regard LOCAL reality as REALITY. And then you get out of that atmosphere and it gets more and more diffuse.”
Writing Field Guides to the Denizens of DMT Space:
- the very circus vibe
- “like with ayahuasca, there’s always a snake”
…and on to Jeremy Narby’s revelations in his book, The Cosmic Serpent, about how plants communicate to animals about their phytochemical properties through gross anatomy.
Camillo talks about synesthetic communication with the body, mapping brain regions to reinterpret signals from the body from feeling to visual cortex processing, etc. How archetypes might be the firmware-esque stable mappings of visual and emotional content onto personified entities. (Why would something like that evolve?) Filtered through the specificities of culture, universal human archetypes become specific deities and spirits.
S: “THIS is why I want to have a church.”
M: “This is why my dad doesn’t want me starting a church.”
The Ten Principles of Unicorn
Unicorn Power Ballads
Biophotonics and the DNA Light Internet
M: “Maybe the medieval view of things as endlessly regressing celestial spheres is closer to the truth.”
Mapping possibility as multiverses on a spherical coordinate plane, and the impossible as antipodal to you, and what’s just unlikely as on the horizon, and what is as where you’re standing. And it all moves when you move.
“I basically suppressed my superpowers. I chose to live a lower form of existence…because what really made me happy was ‘Getting paid and getting laid.’ And it made me super happy until two years ago, when I had my awakening.”
Michael Crichton’s experience, as reported in his autobiography Travels, of learning to see auras. How Shaft and his former lover learned to see auras. Shaft and Camillo share some exercises and anecdotes about how to move energy.
Burning Man as a physicalized internet and the advent of “noetic polities” in which people affiliate and orchestrate according to interests and values, not blood relations or geographic proximity. Will this “unscheduled fluid simultaneity” of liminal zones like festivals be the norm in a few decades, as we get more and more invested in the internet? Nod to Doug Rushkoff’s book Present Shock and his term “narrative collapse.”
“Let’s see if it’s in flow! Kind of a spiritual bypass; no agreements.”
Scheduling as a byproduct of modern city time; flow as a byproduct as tribal nonlinear time.
C: “You’re not the mountain from which the river flows. You’re something in the river that’s going with it, and you’d better just swim with it.”
M: “But maybe if you had the mass of a mountain in people that were all trying to get the river to flow upstream, you could do it.”
M: “Do you know [of] Peter Diamandis?”
S: “Like a true shaman, I don’t read. I learn through experience. Tell me.”
M: “Okay, well, through my experience of reading people…”
S: [Devious Cackle]
Taking an active stance toward the future. Seeing yourself as an active contributor to the future (rather than feeling disempowered by someone else’s vision of the future).
Abundance vs. Scarcity in history and economics and how the kind of abundance Diamandis predicts for the next century will radically change our sense of value/priority and allow us to be more deeply generous with one another.
C: “A lot of us live in a state of mental scarcity when we’re actually some of the richest people in the world.”
Michael’s perspective on Lisbon and the awesomeness of Europe vs. the ridiculous waste and price of the USA.
Shaft and Kamillo on the difference in agricultural and food standards in the USA vs. Europe.
Parag Khanna and his book Connectography, which argues that our connective infrastructure and economic relationships define boundaries more than actual national borders.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the light and dark sides of globalism vs. planetary culture. NOT THE SAME.
Shaft’s three step plan for extricating yourself from the system.
(Camillo is doing the exact same thing.)
C: “I think the universe is going to show you more love if you show more love to it.”
Reliance on the system we are trying to escape.
M: “What does capitalism actually produce? It seems like people who are trying to escape capitalism is the main product.”
Alex joins the conversation and drops a knowledge ball on us about permaculture. Shaft brings up Tamera, a sustainable free love community in Portugal – and his mission to travel the world’s intentional communities and model his own on their best features.
M: “Every generation’s trash becomes something valuable to the next generation.”
Was the Baby Boomer acquisition/trash-creation phase the caterpillar phase of humanity, gathering and consolidating for an evolutionary transformation?
Art made out of trash! Building bricks!
Steve brings up the possibility of Universal Basic Income. Camillo mentions that Finland will actually be implementing UBI next year!
Lynn Rothschild’s recent speech arguing for Universal Basic Income because capitalism needs consumers and a middle class to keep things in circulation.
Capitalism is based on extraction - nod to Episode 9 with author Ashley Dawson on his book, Extinction: A Radical Critique.
The origins of the word wealth.
Everyone’s perspectives on the future:
- Steve wants to get involved rather than just complaining.
- Camillo wants people to learn about finding how to make their passions their jobs and creating abundance for everyone before we destroy ourselves.
- Shaft believes in Star Trek, that we’ll live in a beautiful future that’s like Sweden, only everywhere.
- Alex hopes that our good choices reach a critical mass that changes everything in the direction of sustainability.
- Michael asks, “What is the change that each of us must go through in order to make the world we want to live in BELIEVABLE?”
The only way to move forward into this world is as complete people.
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