roflgrins schrieb:

I see festival culture and visionary art as empowering a sense of their being a planetary civilization.
It has to be imagined before it can come about. Right now we can only imagine the worst scenarios of domination, rather than liberation. What already exists in many people’s hearts is a sense of unity with humanity and with the life web. Just common sense, ethical principles, that the violation of them is crashing the planet. And so any emergence of a planetary civilization, new means of addressing these common problems, you know, will have to be invented. It is going to be through a creative visionary imagination that solutions will be brought about. Not anything else.
This is the generation really that is seeding a planetary civilization. There are many tremendously genius minds alive today imagining new solutions to some of our mega problems. All of these things, you know, whether it’s visionary art or festival culture, all of these things are important to birthing what is an underground intelligence. I think of it like the mycelia, all of us are like the mycelia interconnected underground, you know, and then occasionally it fruits out in a festival. The underground intelligence is worldwide and it’s fruiting all over with very similar kinds of things we call the Love Tribe.
We need to be conscious and do what each of us can, but we also need to hold some degree of faith, and loving whatever happens day by day, because we’re the creators, or the authors of our story about our lives.

Alex Grey