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Antero Alli
This nOde last updated May 7th, 2003 and is permanently morphing...
(11 K'an (Corn) / 12 Uo - 24/260 - 12.19.10.4.4)

born: 11/11/52; Helsinki, Finland.
 

authored:
_ANGEL TECH:  A Modern Shaman's Guide To Reality Selection_  (New Falcon 1986); _ALL RITES REVERSED: RITUAL TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF-INITIATION_ (New Falcon, 1987); _THE AKASHIC RECORD PLAYER_ (New Falcon, 1988); _A MODERN SHAMAN'S GUIDE TO A PREGNANT UNIVERSE_ (New Falcon, 1988); _ASTROLOGIK_ (Vigilantero,1990); _LETTERS, ESSAYS, PREMONITIONS_ (Vigilantero, 1993); _THE VERTICAL ORACLE (Vertical Pool, 1997)

plays written, directed & produced:
_CIRCLES_ (1976); _CORONATION AT STILLNIGHT_ (1977); _THE CONJUNCTION_ (1978); _AS THE WORM TURNS: A Psychic Soap Opera_ (1979); _CHAPEL PERILOUS_ (1982); the previous work produced in Berkeley, CA; _AS THE WORM TURNS: A Radio Play_ (1986; Boulder, CO); _HUNGRY GHOSTS_ (1998; Seattle WA)

mediamaker :
(docudramas, documentaries, shorts & *features by A. Alli)
*_REQUEIM FOR A FRIEND_ (1990), _ARCHAIC COMMUNITY_ (1991), _MASS OF THE ICONOCLASTS_ (1992), _BOMBS & PRAYERS_ (1992), _BLACK SEA_ (1992), *_THE ORACLE_ (1993), _THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR_ (1993), _LIVE! AT THE PUSS PUSS CAFE_ (1994), _THE COLD FORCE_ (1994), _THE WORD, WEIRD_ (1994), *_THE DRIVETIME_ (1995), *_LILY IN LIMBO_ (1996) & others

music and audio production:
_THE FROZEN BEAUTIES: A new wave punk band_ (1980; lyrics & guitar; Berkeley CA); _SEXUAL ENERGY MEDITATIONS, EARTH ENERGY MEDITATIONS_ and _PSYCHIC ENERGY MEDITATIONS_ (Sounds True, 1988) _BABES IN THE ABYSS: Original Solo Piano_ (1990; recording; Seattle)

ritual and theater director:
ParaTheatrical ReSearch (since 1977): an ongoing exploration of how theatre, ritual, poetry, music and spirituality coincide and collide in non-performance, as well as
performance, mediums; a process that rearranges itself over time for different groups and purposes.

columns & essays featured in:
_DETAILS_, _ATTITUDE_, _WHOLE EARTH REVIEW_, _MOUNTAIN ASTROLOGER_, _PLANET EARTH_, _MEZLIM_, _QUEST_, _MAGICAL BLEND_, _GREEN EGG_, _NEW MOON RISING_, _HECATE’S LOOM_, _TOWARDS 2012_ & many others.

editor/publisher:
_TALKING RAVEN QUARTERLY: A Journal of Imaginative Trouble_ (1991-95, Seattle WA); VIGILANTERO PRESS (1986-93; Boulder CO and Seattle WA)

When Data Became Dada

If information was no longer the known statistics of dead data but fresh experience -- spontaneous, unknown and alive -- then twentieth century culture began with its creative assimilation. What the scientist finds out through thinking, the artist discovers through new ways of perceiving, hearing and feeling. While Einstein made scientific history with his theory of relativity and Heisenberg with his uncertainty principle, the Surrealist "dada" revolution (Dali, Cocteau, Satie, etc.), James Joyce's omnicultural _Finnegans Wake_, and the music of Jazz brought the living experience to the people. Both scientists and artists recognized this dynamic shift from a "reality" that was once "predictable, solid and set" to one that seemed wilder, more plural, malleable and unfathomable. To those minds awakening from the slumber of nineteenth century "certainty" trance, our so-called "reality" entered the realm of immeasurable possibilities with countless interpretations. Any culture failing to assimilate this transformation in perception, never enters the twentieth century let alone, the twenty-first.
 

[...]
 

The very spirit of imagination demands the redefinition of intelligence, if only to begin thinking like twentieth century brains, instead of eighteenth or nineteenth century ones. Intelligence thrives on information. Before the twentieth century the most widely accepted and scientific definition of "information" was the common-sense process of accumulating known data; knowledge was inert, predictable, and easily categorized. The universe, or so it was thought, could be mapped out in surgical precision like some deux machina that followed understandable laws. How many of us still think this way ?
 

At the turn of the twentieth century, Einstein, Heisenberg, and Schroedinger, amongst others, turned the world of intelligence on its ear; the world, according to the new physics and quantum mechanics, is infinitely more mysterious and strange than ever previously imagined.   One outcome of this important update was the redefinition of what constituted "information." In light of living in a universe of greater uncertainties, information was redefined as "the unpredictability of a message". This means, the more unpredictable the message, the more information there is in it. At this point, author William Burroughs' axiom from _NAKED LUNCH_ "Nothing is true; everything is permitted" might've made terrible sense to the cutting edge scientific community.

[...]

On one end of the chronological spectrum, time is not money; it is the measure of your life, as in "the time of your life." The measurement of nature -- the thirteen lunar cycles, the solar eclipses, the seasonal shifts -- is as close as it gets to "galactic" time, the time which knows no beginning or end but a metamorphosis of duration. At the other extreme, there's the 60 second/60 minute/12 month manmade organization of available time into measurable bits and pieces, usually connected with the punch-clock of employment; time as commercial regulation.

• 604 track _No Beginning No End_ MP3 by Rip Van Hippy off of _Waking Up Is Hard To Do_ CD on Psy-Harmonics (1997)

 - Antero Alli - _Occulture: The Secret Marriage of Art and Magick_
  

Meanwhile, back at the foot of Ayer's Rock (Uluru), thousands of whites and blacks gather around to hear the invocation of a chief aboriginal elder. "This is the working of the ceremony to save thegreen ants, the aboriginal people and the dreamtime that holds the world together. The white people are too young to know this and too old to understand. Yet, you must listen to these words now and hear with your hearts, the singing of the mountain. The mountain sings. It sings like it has never sung before...it is singing now for you...for us...for every living creature on this beautiful Earth. The mountain sings its first and last song. The music comes from far, far away yet it is inside you...inside the mountain...inside the trees...inside the rising sun...inside the stars...inside the little pebbles in the river... inside the kangaroo...inside the green ants...inside your mother...inside your father...the song is singing by itself inside every living thing. Now, the mountain sings to keep the world alive. When you hear the song inside your hearts, sing back to the mountain. Sing back to the mountain...sing back to the mountain..."

To the backdrop soundtrack of a hundred dijeridoos and clapsticks, thousands of people sound a rainbow chorus of tones, chants and melodies... cadencing into an aural patchwork of multitudinous wordless song.

[...]

As humans endure the multi-faceted awareness of simultaneously converging information sources, they learn to dial and fine tune those frequencies appropriate to the concerns of the time and place they are in. With persistence, the development of a reality selection circuit (in the Central Neural System) encourages High-Velocity Interaction with other humans by virtue of tolerance. (As humans distinguish and qualify various levels within their own being, they tend to tolerate internal contraries thus, vicariously allow for differences in others).

- Antero Alli - _Akashic Record Player_

"The physical body is the visible manifestation of the so-called Subconscious Mind. The body is the fingerprint of the soul, a Rorschach of the Self. Nothing can be hidden. The body communicates it all."  These last two sentences may be the motto of David Cronenberg's work; the unconscious is never as un-conscious as we like to think.

- Antero Alli

One of the many lesser known facts about Timothy Leary is his invention of a whole-brain model for intelligence (_INFO-Psychology_; Falcon Press)  which has since spawned two additional versions; one by myself (_ANGEL TECH_; Falcon.) and one by Robert Anton Wilson (_PROMETHEUS RISING_; Falcon.).   Dr. Leary's "Eight-Circuit Brain" theory suggests that "intelligence" is fundamentally plural by definition; an interaction of intelligences, or brains, begets more intelligence. Eight interactive functions of intelligence are defined by Leary and, in the creative process of  making them my own, redefined as: physical, emotional, conceptual, social, sensory, psychic, imaginative and spiritual intelligences (readers of ANGEL TECH may notice a change from "mythic" intelligence to the more psychological "imaginative" intelligence).

- Antero Alli - _World Entertainment War_
 

• ambient track _Angel Tech_ MP3 by Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook off of _Psychonavigation_ CD on Subharmonic (1994)

"The activation of Kundalini does not always occur from practicing Kundalini Yoga, etc. ... It has been known to erupt spontaneously in those people on the verge of major spiritual breakthroughs, regardless of their ideas of how enlightened they are."

- Antero Alli

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