| "Occulture is not a secret culture as the word might suggest, but culture that is in some way hidden and ignored, or wilfuly marginalised to the extremities of our society. A culture of individuality and sub-cults, a culture of questions that have not been properly identified- let alone answered- and therefore, do not get fair representation in the mainstream media. It is a culture that has been misinterpreted. Not because it is 'evil' or wrong, but because it is generaly apolitical and amoral, unashamedly artistic, experimental, undogmatic, intellectual and oddly evolutionary. It is a sub-culture that is forming a question that 'reality' alone cannot answer." Simon Dwyer Rapid Eye 1 Introduction
|
Well that says it better than we could- accordingly we will use this page to investigate and link to areas of Magick, conspiracy, fringe science, psychology, dream study, body modification, sexuality and other evolutionary tactics.
| web reviews | books | links | |
| web reviews | THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE - somewhere... It is said that we unquestionably believe 95% of everything that we read. If you believe that statistic, you'll be interested to know that I just made it up. Yet, seeing it there, in print, in gratuituous monocolour, it somehow becomes more believable - it becomes fact. Words in print become gospel, become the truth, and that truth is scrupulously managed worldwide. For centuries, people believed the world was flat because society told them so. Then society changed its mind and told everyone that we actually lived on a giant football. Dribbling a fag off your lip was considered hip and healthy in the fifties, then it became a global killer. Robert Maxwell was branded a saint, a hero of our nation, before disappearing into the ocean with millions of pounds worth of other people's pensions. Paul Weller was once considered talented. Such half-truths were perpetuatued ad infinitum as there was never any wide-spread recourse to alternative points of view. And so to the internet - now claimed to be the last true remaining sanctuary of absolute free speech. Unlike coventional media, you will rarely find only one side to any story. Such altruistic benevolence on the part of the web means that rather than having one opinion about something, we now have several. It does, however, mean that every warped and perverted fantasy that breeds in the murky canals of your brain can now corroborated by the power of the written word. The truth is out there? Well, that depends which truth we are looking for. Take Diana for instance. It was only a matter of minutes before newsgroup threads and web sites were infected with meandering, alternative visions of that fateful night in Paris. One site seems to favour the premeditated murder option. It asks questions such as why the alleged "first persons on the scene" spoke in a different American accent depending on which TV station you were watching. Why was Di not taken to the nearby hospital and was instead driven halfway across town? They suggest that the driver, rather than being drunk, was actually drugged and that there was a decoy vehicle hiding in the tunnel that was deliberately rammed into the Fayed's precious Merc. Ridiculous perhaps, but given Mohammed's alleged connections with the global arms trade and the absurd, cartoon lifestyle of the Windsors, anything may well be possible. It was equally disorientating to see one contributor, Catherine, ask the question, "who are the editors of the site? why are you doing this? how do I know you're not the CIA?" Naturally, it's not the CIA editing the site, rather it's Chelsea Clinton's Global Underground Militia Movement. Of course. I am fairly sure that it won't be long before Louise Woodward conspiracies abound on the web (like the suggestion that the family could only claim their 1.5 million dollar medical insurance if Woodward was found guilty...), but whilst our hacks are choked with toffee-apple outrage, the American press are - naturally - defending their own corner in a show of malevolence that would never find its way into our shop-soiled tabloids . One columnist from the Boston Globe's web site is in no doubt about the guilty parties and spits virtriol at the au-pair and her "million dollar defence team". "This is defense by distraction," Mrs McNamara hisses, "in truth, they made this trial about everyone but their dry-eyed, moon faced client." Notice her emphatic use of the word "truth" - her version is gospel, naturally. Nannies , thrust so far into the US limelight, now seem to be the favoured choice of assailant for the latest Kurt Cobain murder theory. There was a time when the web was happy to perpetuate the notion that the FBI murdered Cobain in an effort to maintain the laid-back, non-revolutionary stance of Grunge (which they had obviously created) and its position as the white faced antithesis to hip-hop. However, time moves on and the latest "truth" would have us belive that Courtney Love actually plotted with live-in nanny Michael Dewitt to bump off the People's Poet, for reasons that seem to utterly disintegrate under close scrunity. The same must be said for the "Project Dumbo" web site. Herein we find the allegation that in 1983 that Americans successfully combined the DNA of elephants with that of a bat and Skippy the Flying Elephant was born. Unfortunately, the project had to terminated when Skippy and his pals flew outside of the control area and had to be gunned down before Mr & Mrs America clapped their eyes on them. A tragic tale indeed. Seekers of more believable evidence should check out the Fake Moon Landing site - one theory that actually holds together well under achingly intense scientific study. Illuminatus author and all-round genius, Robert Anton Wilson, has gathered together a fine collection of further alternative truths in his Black Ops site, and he attempts to aim at a few of the larger targets. The holocaust, AIDS, the War on Some Drugs, Vietnam - it's all there. Other sources of occutural disinformation that you should hurry your browser along to are SchNEWS, Urban75, Squall and the anti-drug hysteria oasis that is Hyperreal. And just in case you fell for the world-wide conspiracy that Pop Tarts are made exclusively for ingestion, you should certainly consider the idea that underneath that suger-coated exterior beats the heart of a killing machine - for detailed construction plans, check out the Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torch site. True or false? - you decide. [sb.nov97]
The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross |
|
TURBULENCE
APOTHEOSIS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
ELECTRIC SKIZOO
THEE TEMPLE OF PSYCHICK YOUTH Following his departure from Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P. Orridge currently operates as Thee Process.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
BLACK OPS
STELARC
PHREAK
DR TIMOTHY LEARY
UNOFFICIAL LEARY ARCHIVE
JOHN C. LILLY
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES
BOING BOING
ALAN WATTS
NIERCIA
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
X-RE
ISLAND ONE SOCIETY
OCEANIA THE FIFTY GREATEST CONSPIRACIES OF ALL TIME
DOWNLOAD A TOE-TAG
THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS
E-ZINE SEARCH
BODY MODIFICATION EZINE
SCHWA HOME PAGE
AD BUSTERS
MUTATE AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD
TWIN PEAKS : THE BLACK LODGE
THE VEGETARIAN PAGES
DISINFOTAINMENT ARMCHAIR SHOPPING GUIDE
THE CHEROTIC (R)EVOLUTIONARY
TARGETTING THE STONED CYBERPUNK |