Undergrowth - Open Discussion

The Secret Revealed! Forum

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:00:21 -0700

I had an interesting, if somewhat drunken, Earthdance. Given that it is the global party and day for peace, I spent the day picking peoples brains to further my understanding of why the resistance to war in this country is not growing with what has been going on. In some way I finally found an answer. In several separate conversations with people they urged me to watch "The Secret" to cast more light on things. In fact they were all saying the same thing. That to resist something will only give it more power and all used "The Secret" as an example of a cogent explanation to this theory. Luckily I had recently been given a copy of "The Secret" that I had not yet watched so it was obviously something the Universe was putting in my way. I have since watched it and am glad that people finally urged me into checking this out. I had no idea that things were getting so bad.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:57:36 -0700

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

Dear Group Members,

I want to share my article with you. This is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

a science to peace?

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:40:06 -0700

t sipping

Tue, 16 May 2006 19:11:26 -0700

history lessons. red is for
passion. so love the body
though it may be costly

on the oxygen reserves.
nitrogen can be tricky
with finger-trap treaties.

reach back to days gone long
ago getting along in a fellowship
keep track record sing-songs.

fingertips and fragile lips
undeniable squares and hips
let things loose and slip.

100th Monkey Forum

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:27:37 -0800

The TRIBAL POW-WOW is a meeting of minds (online and in the community) to discuss the state of alternative culture and where it’s headed, as well as it’s response to the rapidly militant, right-wing world around it. YOU are invited to come speak from the heart and join with other elders and participants in the counter-culture on matters that are affecting us in this ongoing series of community building conferences.The Tribal POW-WOW is an exercise in “group-mind” and non-hierarchical community discussion.

Imagineering

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:42:36 -0800

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Give me grounding.
Hire a cosmic accountant.
True cost everything.
Triple Bottom underline.
Audit the bankrupt power stations.
Eco-tax a given.
Make Karma electricity
Breed organic perm(anent)culture
Redistribute the earth
Harvest the sun’s energy,
the winds whisper,
the secret of H20,
Share intellectual property,
Maintain biodiversity
Heal the planets wounds
Rescue the future

LSD "Problem Child and Wonder Drug"

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:15:12 -0800

In relation to Rak Razam's article on the LSD Symposium in Switzerland celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann, Undergrowth invites readers and artists to post thoughts on the psychedelic phenomena.

website bugs

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:58:09 -0800

"add comment" to this forum topic and post any new bugs that you find in the undergrowth site, so's we can hun 'em down and squash 'em. yeah?

Undergrowth Projects for 2006

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:14:24 -0800

" Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality."
Andre Breton - The Surrealist Manifesto

Undergrowth is a space for us to concoct new paradigms, manifestations of the revolution, sonnets to chaos, love letters to the moon, temporary autonomous interzones, alchemical collaborations between creative kindreds, manifestos of whimsy, whimsical monuments to the moment.

This forum is a place to post ideas for collective projects, which may or may not manifest under the Undergrowth banner. The point is not in the branding, but in the fostering of creation. If you are seeking co-conspirators, here is the place to conspire. It's the digital cafe at the end of the world, serving expresso to help plot the next revolutionary art movement, to craft poetry that will shift consciousness, or just to jam.

In this spirit, we want to open up our next year of projects to the community. If you are interested in any of the projects outlined below contact Tim Parish, the Art Director at art@undergrowth.org or post your suggestions and comments on this site. It is possible that not all of these projects will take place this year, but that kind of depends on the critical mass behind them. We're just putting them out there so we can see who bites. Throwing it to the wind to see which are spears and which are boomerangs... yo?

You are most welcome to join in, or to submit material not on these topics but on the Undergrowth vibe to the Features section

Manifestosis

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:45:30 -0800

Last night I heard consciousness whisper crude jukebox sonnets to an already subdued and lovesick dream, while in between the body slept with ancient purpose, absurd in absent motion, groping sculpted bedsheets with the thirst for intimacy. Primal as the moment of touch. Homesick for reality, warm and sweaty nights of tantric communism. Dreamlike but true. Never forever but long enough to seem, another dimension away.