Time Out//YOU UPGRADEmag// may 1.  2001
The UPGRADEmag is a global edutainment round-up ‘broadcast’ weekly to =[9507]= Trance// New Age// Alternative// Activist folks who have been recommended to the Parallel YOUniversity/ Megatripolis Dance Dept as "showing signs of life".  Since many choose to forward it to their own lists, we estimate 19,000+ recipients. And, because of its less 'specialist' content, it's increasingly being posted on a variety of sites worldwide, making a total weeky ‘readership’ of, conservatively, 200,000+

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TIME OUT REVIEWS DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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APRIL 25
"Josh Harris rode the city's gilded express for half a decade. He banked $60 million from an initial public offering, bought a pet lizard, Maurice Jr., and started
Pseudo.com, a Web TV venture in a Soho loft.  It was going to be the next hot thing. . That was so then.  .Pseudo closed.  The lizard died. 
And Mr. Harris?  At age 36, his personal fortune is down to $1.5 million and he's leaving for an Ashram in India. 
"I really need to reconnect," he said. "This dream's over."

(International Herald Tribune in article on gathering US and World Recession)

YOU 2325

the good news is excellent Fraser, a good sign for things to come, a great hope for the future....
[appearance of police commander at club]
Thanks for keeping me connected!  Things have evolved beautifully here in Hawaii we are getting ready for our 11th straight full moon gathering... the tribe/community here has grown wonderfully, the gatherings are pure magic.
Aloha
Dean Odysseus/Hawaii

YOU 2326

TIME OUT REVIEWS DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT
A warren-like club under the railway arches in Camberwell might not be everyone's first stop on the road to enlightenment, but it's working like a charm for Fraser Clark.  The zippy entrepreneur who brought us Megatripolis and The Warp Experience is on the next phase of his ongoing mission of mass consciousness expansion, providing "food for all three brains - body, mind and feet".
The vibe at
'The Den' is half squat party, half-psychedelic trance hoe-down. In the bar a jolly lady dishes out yummy veggie grub while grizzled Glastonbury veterans deliver warm, ambient dub.  In the backroom a production of the Southwark Mysteries is in full flow.  It's like Shakespeare on acid: tantric theatre performed by a posse of shamanic entertainers, musical troubadours and pagan poets.  Meanwhile students from St Martin's College of Art provide cool visuals, Guru Dave debates self-awareness on the mic, and there are qualified Swedish body massages up in the medieval balcony.
Everywhere people are actually talking to each other, swapping ideas, views, phone numbers.
"Most clubs just fill whatever number of rooms with music" says Clark. "That's just too easy. I'm always looking to push the envelope of clubbing." 
Of course, if you are after spiritual fulfillment through body baffling music then you can always try the main dancefloor, throbbing to twisted, drugged-up trance, freaky people raging in the disco fog like they're plugged into the mains.  From
Camberwell to nirvana in seven hours?  The enlightenment starts here.
Den Of Enlightenment @ Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, SE5.  Official Launch Saturday, May 5th, 11pm - 6am.  INFO: 0207-813-9685

Time Out mag/London/Kieran Wyatt/ May 2, 2001

YOU 2326a

look forward to the party - looks like we're barking up the same tree of life
grrrrrrrreat stuff!
love

thornton/london

YOU 2327

New York
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YOU 2328

a big waving hello to you,
I was 'warped' two years ago at the Drome experience, and finding a programme leaflet this morning while clearing up brought it all back to me. (in the best possible way, I hasten to add... - with a wicked smile and twinge of glee in tummy, )
felt compelled to write, to find out if there are any plans for future theatre projects on the same mad and wonderful wavelength?
write back to me?
my name's Melanie,
hope you are well

heh heh!  c u on saturday then? 

YOU 2329

WED MAY 2

NO DANCE - NO POP - NO ROCK
BIG CHOIRS BIG ORCHESTRAS

They're back!! London's only Classical music night club
The Mint Bar & Restaurant, 182 St John St, EC1
7.30pm - 12.00  Entrance FREE

YOU 2340

hi there fraser, et al, thanks a bundle for all the terrific info!
ciannait@mullum.com.au

YOU 2341

SAT MAY 5       DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT / PLAYSHOP PROGRAM
10pm    Opening Rite
11pm    
Enlightenment Intensive Hour : 'Get Blissed Out' in Guru Dave Oshana's Commune-E-station.
12pm    Andria presents
'The Drugs War' video
1am     Pushing the Envelope: Debate on Drugs in general, with
Dance Drugs Alliance speaker etc
2am     
Inter Ference: Oratorio Musicali!
3am     YOUNG LIVES RUINED BY DRUG LAWS with Chief Superintendent Brian Paddick, Shane Collins of Green Party Drug Group - in CROWS NEST after the  play.
3am     Video of MAY DAY Demo in Playshop Room.
4am     
Talking Stick Cicle / Open Mike

YOU 2342

MARCH 25        SCIENCE 'PROVES' OUR UNIVERSE NOT ALONE
Spanish and American astrophysicists claim that the universe contains an infinite number of similar universes called O-regions which we will someday be able to contact. 
Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts University) and Jaume Garriga (University of Barcelona) call the concept "Many Worlds in One" and the team's hypothesis will soon be published in the journal Gravitation and Quantum Cosmology.
These universes are probably similar to our own - with similar life forms, for instance - because they share a key feature with our world: a finite number of distinct histories.  A history is the way something has evolved in time and will continue to evolve. Until now, physicists have never been able  to make such an assertion.
"I very much admire the precision with which the ideas are expressed" said a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist. "I consider the work of Alex Vilenkin and his collaborators to be the leading work in this field. What is new in their article is the realization that the total number of possible histories for each universe is finite."
Guth - one of the foremost authorities on a concept called the Inflationary Universe - finds the concept that there are an infinite number of universes like our own startling.  "That's a pretty mind-boggling conclusion," he says.  Some interesting and troubling implications follow. "When a thought crosses your mind that a terrible calamity might have happened,"  Vilenkin told UPI, "you can be assured  that it has happened in some of the other O-regions."
Furthermore, since some
O-regions have histories nearly identical to our own, "if you nearly escaped an accident here, then you were not so lucky in some other O-regions with the same prior history."
However, the worlds
Garriga and Vilenkin imagine are not all calamitous, some are amusing.  "Distant copies of ourselves play all sorts of different roles in infinitely many O-regions - in some Al Gore is president and - yes - Elvis Presley  is still alive!"
Guth formulated the now well-accepted idea that the universe is expanding - or inflating - and published the best-selling book "The Inflationary Universe" in 1997.  As the visible universe expands, or inflates, it gives birth to new universes.  Since inflation is eternal, new universe creation is also eternal.
"In an eternally inflating universe, anything that can happen will happen; in fact, it will happen an infinite number of times," Guth says. "We already know that our planet is merely a tiny speck in a vast cosmos, but now we are being told that we do not even hold a unique copyright on our own identities! Instead, each of us is actually only a single copy of an infinite number of beings that are completely identical to ourselves."
 
YOU 2345

** LETTER OF THE WEEK **
Dear Fraser,
I profoundly disagree about cannabis: someone I know well spent 18 years trying to end his addiction to cannabis which nearly ruined his marriage and his family. Even though most who use it may well not go on to heavier stuff, most who use heavier stuff have used cannabis in the past. Use of drugs has a generalised degrading effect on a community. Look at what happened when Alaska legalised cannabis. Expenditure on crime and health problems dramatically increased and, after five or six years, a referendum changed the policy back to what it had been previously. The oft quoted success of Holland's liberal policy on cannabis ignores the disaster behind the scenes of increasing heavier drug use. In addition, the Dutch Home Secretary said that their policy on drugs 'has regrettably made Holland the crime capital of the world' EVEN THOUGH DRUGS THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY DECRIMINALISED and this is the point that you and your fellow legalisers cannot escape from.
Regards,

Duncan McNair.

- well, it's obvious that the first country to 'civilise' is going to attract all the repressed from the intolerant countries around.  hardly the drug's fault, no? 

YOU 2346

JUNK MAIL RESISTANCE
Anyone who's "gone indoors" for one reason or another may have been as disgusted as we are at how quickly the junk mailers get back on to you. Time was that all this stuff came with a return address and returning it (at sender's expense) soon stopped it coming.
Now, with the advent of the Post Office's junk mail services, a return address is often not given.  When we emailed them to find out how we could stop this flood of glossy printed crap, we were told we'd have to snail mail no less than three separate agencies (at our own expense) to have our address removed from their mailing lists.
We replied that we already had a method for disposing of unsolicited rubbish - putting it back in a post box.  Unsurprisingly we received no reply.
Now this is not an attempt to disrupt the mail - which would be a criminal offence;  it's simply exercising the right to return unsolicited mail to the sender who in this case happens to be the Post Office.
If 5% of the population were to do this, we think they'd stop sending this crap to people who DO NOT WANT IT;  if not they'd have to get MUCH bigger post boxes.
The Post Office are abusing the planet by this criminal waste of resources, and their staff who now have to deliver to every house almost every day.

SHOW THEM WHAT YOU THINK.  RETURN UNSOLICITED MAIL TO SENDER!

YOU 23347

ANOTHER WORLD TO LIVE IN
The greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century is that this macro-world, which we directly experience, floats on another world-which is incredibly more powerful and throws the switches for what happens in this world.
The world's great wisdom traditions have from time immemorial likewise claimed that there is another, more important world, with this important difference: the traditional/religious Other-world is not only (like the quantum world) more powerful than this one, it is better-charged with more meaning, value, and purpose.
For the West, Plato's Allegory of the Cave remains paradigmatic; the things of this world are as shadows on walls compared with the "furniture" of the Otherworld, which is (in this analogy) 3-dimensional and decked out in Technicolor.
Huston Smith's Presentation Abstract for The Prophets Conference - New York City.

YOU 2348

US CRACKDOWN FIGHTBACK CONTINUES

DRAMA FREE ZONES
Wow! I'm one of those that has felt this way since jumping into the scene. The problem, as well educated and affluent as many of us are, we are also not mainstreamers. We pride ourselves on being different, and many of us love our "drama free zones". So, I just can't get anyone to talk politics.
Maybe 200 of us just came back from the most incredible party at WMC. What
if that was shut down?!  What if Denny's was raided, that morning at 6am, and everyone was drug tested?!
Or the Danny T party, which was the most incredible music any of us have heard, was raided, and Danny thrown in jail with the rest of us, after a 17 hour set. Is this that far fetched?
So, how do we package the message so it is attractive to our group? How do we make it cool to talk about this and be informed? It must be as cool as discussing our DJs and music, part of our culture.
One quick suggestion, maybe a way to gather the demographics of our community to demonstrate our affluence more clearly.

Good luck!

US CRACKDOWN CONTINUES

I don't know if you all heard of the party held here in the states in Maryland that was a very good peaceful afternoon outing, outside with mother nature, that police did random searching of cars on the way into and out of the event?  Seems to me this is against our civil liberties.  It's time to stand up against this Gestapo society we are becoming!
By the way numerous arrests were made.  I guess they are looking for ways to stop the dance scene.
jerryonjay@hotmail.com

YOU 2349

Writing from the States.  It is so great to hear of this kind of sociopolitical action going on the UK!
I have believed for a while now that the UK will be the next European country
to legalize.
Unfortunately, the US is still waaaayyyy behind in its laws!
Sincerely,

Tamiko

YOU 2350
YOUNG LIVES RUINED BY DRUG.. LAWS!
Chief Superintendent of Police To Discuss Drug Laws And Effects With Club Ravers

London  SAT MAY 5       
Commander Brian Paddick, enlightened head of policing in Lambeth (where the annual Cannabis Festival takes place) has agreed to speak in the Drugs Debate at the launch of new club The Den of Enlightenment.  The debate is on YOUNG LIVES RUINED BY DRUG LAWS.

COMMANDER PADDICK
Brian Paddick has been much covered in the media recently over his radical approach to current drug laws and is the first UK head of police to instruct his officers not to arrest or charge over personal possession.
"Since we cannot deal with every single crime and have to prioritise, we are concentrating on those kinds of crimes which are of real concern to the community: crack cocaine and drug related crime, street robbery and burglary" 
The current policing approach in Lambeth is this: "Any personal supply of cannabis found by an officer will be signed for by the suspect and sealed and disposed of."  No criminal charge or record will follow.

DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The new club is produced by the Parallel YOUniversity which has a long tradition in clubland of producing cutting edge debate in now legendary clubs such as Megatripolis at Heaven, and the 24 hour Warp Experience.  Ravers will participate freely in the exchange of opinions.  Debate hosted by Good Jeff, once described as "the crusty Jerry Springer".
"Everywhere people are actually talking to each other, swapping ideas, views, phone numbers.  The enlightenment starts here!"  Time Out.  May 2.

OTHER SPEAKERS include: Shane Collins of the Green Party Drug GroupFraser Clark, 'Head Master' of the club, will argue that more harm is actually done by drug laws than by drugs themselves.

DATE - 3am, Den of Enlightenment, Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, SE5

Parallel YOUniversity Faculty / Kitchen Table:  Rabbi Schmuley Boteach (L’Chaim Activities) Ken Campbell (Psycho Cosmic Theatre)  Lynn Rainbow Circle (Practical Magic & Astrology)  Fraser Clark M.A.Hons (Shamanic Psychology)  Jeff Guberman (Alternative History)  James McCabe (Mini-star without Portfolio)  James Hamilton (Soul Networking)  Mark Heley (Ethnobotanical & Temporal Studies) Jason Keehn (Rave Culture)  Susanna Lafond (Future-Normal Anthropology)  Dr John C. Lilly (Human Bio-Computer Studies) Lokabandhu (Buddhist Practice)  Howard Marks (Cannabis Deportment) Baron Peter von Massenbach (Global Networking)   Shane Collins (Green Practice)  Terence McKenna (Novelty Expansion Studies) Monkey Pilot & Mary (Global Whirl-Y-Giggery)  Neil Oram (Being Really Here)  Jamie Reid (Spiritual Art Activism)  Rosanna Rofe (World Peace Building)  Shane Collins (Green Activism), Youth (Reformation of Ancient Enchantment)

YOU 2351

New York
SAT MAY 5       FARIDA & THE IRAQI MAQAM ENSEMBLE
Part of a HISTORIC tour, presented by the Institute of Near Eastern & African Studies which also visits Washington, DC on Friday, Boston on Saturday, and Chicago, IL on Monday.
Farida is a remarkable vocalist with a reputation throughout the Arab world for her brilliant performances of the classical Iraqi maqam, highly improvisational music that is traditionally sung by men.  She graduated from the Institute of Music in Baghdad, mastered 19 maqams, and became the first woman to teach classical maqam in Iraq.  She has participated in many international events, including prestigious festivals in Moscow, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, and several European capitals. She will be accompanied by the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble.
Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street.  8pm.  $28; students $15  (212) 864-5400.   Information/charges  (212) 545-7536
"The interplay between singer and musicians is wondrously seductive…sheer brilliance…"  
SONGLINES

YOU 2352

J       NEXT DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT IS SATURDAY MAY 5TH
J       IMPERIAL GARDENS, 299 Camberwell New Road, London SE5.
J       Info: 0207-813-9685  //   www.parallel-youniversity.com
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