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Techgnosis is a Free Alternative Lifestyle event in the Sunshine coast hinterlands, Featuring Music, Art, Workshops and Entheogen/Ethnobotany Gathering. tECHGNOSIS AUSTRALIA Forest Festival tribes coming together FREE equinox dreaming 17th-21st March 2006 Our 2006 party, in Queensland, will feature Music stage and 2 chill zones Zone Euphorika Phantastik: Plants - Teknowlogy - Consciousness Solar Powered Autonoumous Zone 70 hour Film Fest Capoeira Guru's story telling marquee Flammable Pyrotechnics Mutants Tribalists Zine lounge Kidz fest massage and harmony area mud spa drum city swimming laughing dancing learning loving Free Entry and Free Camping www.techgnosis.muchfree.org Web site under construction Volunteers required from now,come and live here in the bush in Qld and help make this fest the best! contact [email protected]

http://www.techgnosis.muchfree.org/ A Free Festival north of Brisbane... Featuring The Subterann Stage Running saturday night and into sunday, then sunday night and in to monday - the Subterran Eclectronic stage promises a wide range of freakquencies provided by selectors coming from s.e.qld and northern nsw, and a few special visitors from further afar. Saturday night will be a classic bush party flow, from dub and chilled grooves into psytrance and progressive with a serving of tribal tech to wind up the journey. Sunday night things get a little more tweaked, with some urban breaks to start things off, then we let the ethnobotany heads drive the ship for a while for a guided journey to inner space, followed by another good dose of breaks/glitch/electro and an all out crew mashup to finish things up. Monday night will see the space converted to a 10k outdoor immersive cinema, in collaboration with the Kino Gnosis film festival. :Saturday: 5-6.30 mopoke 6.30-8 light be 8-9.30 spatial anomoly 9.30-11 ande 11-12.30 fuzzarelly -:Sunday:- 12.30-2 manarchy 2-3.30 foot-e 3.30-5.30 junosect 5-6.30 kaneda 6.30-8 sam i am 8-9.30 kromatix 9.30-11 octon 11-12.30 paul abad 12.30-2 pedro - break - 7-8.30 minxalicious 8.30-10 shards 10-11.30 dj bumcrack 11.30-1 findbuddha -:Monday:- 1-3 jimME 3-5 chaotic eternal 5-7 fungalicious 7-8.30 mesq 8.30-10 justin formation 10-11.30 elastic jesus 11.30-1 mashup - break - Monday pm: 10k outdoor immersive cinema =] PLUS SOLAR POWERED AUTONOMOUS ZONE A Chill Space - A Meeting Place - A Sheltered, Safe, Free-thinking Space. SPAZ is a diverse, eclectic chill space with karma free sound power. A space to meet and talk to a thought provoking soundtrack. A space to move to new grooves. Spinners include, Su Real, Spatial Anomaly, Mijoe and Ande. Blackboards slots are available for guest Djs, so come and see us at the festival if you're keen. Special highlight event is the Zone Euphorika where presentations, discussions and workshops take place from Saturday noon til late. FRI Setup Anything Goes (Who Dares Spins) FRI 6pm-8pm Cooking Tunes (Tasty Beats and Melodies) FRI 8pm-10pm Night Airwaves (Dreamy Ambient Flows) SAT 7am-9am Tones and Drones (for Stretches and Yawns) SAT 9am -11am Breakfast Beats (Not too heavy, not too Light) SAT 11am - 12am Prepare for Euphorika SAT 12pm - Dark Zone Euphorika Program (Presentations, Discussions, Workshops) SAT Dark til Late Post Euphorika (Gentle Comedown) SUN 7am - 9am Tones and Drones (for Stretches and Yawns) SUN 9am-10am Kids Activities (Including Kids' Dance Party!) SUN 10am-12pm Beats for Brunch (Not too heavy, not too Light) SUN 12pm - 2pm Shanti Shanti (Midday Global Diversity in Chill) SUN 2pm - 4pm Mind Meld (Electronic and Warped) SUN 4pm-6pm Anything Goes (Who Dares Spins) SUN 6pm-8pm Cooking Tunes (Tasty Beats and Melodies) SUN 8pm-10pm Night Airwaves (Dreamy Ambient Flows) MON 7am - 9am Tones and Drones (for Stretches and Yawns) MON 9am-10am Kids Activities (More Kids' in the Zone) MON 10am-12pm Beats for Brunch (Not too heavy, not too Light) MON 12pm - 2pm Shanti Shanti (Midday Global Diversity in Chill) MON 2pm - 4pm Mind Meld (Electronic and Warped) MON 4pm-6pm Anything Goes (Who Dares Spins) MON 6pm-8pm Cooking Tunes (Tasty Beats and Melodies) MON 8pm-10pm Night Airwaves (Dreamy Ambient Flows) TUE 7am - 9am Tones and Drones (for Stretches and Yawns) TUE 9am - close Anything Goes (Who Dares Spins) AND ALSO Zone Euphorika Phantastiq Program Sat 18 March Midday Sex, Drugs & Magick Matt, Jim, Neil · Throughout history, drugs and magick have always been linked. Shamans have used hallucinogens to see into "the other world" and perform healings and curses with the help of the spirits. More recently the most influential man in modern occultism, Aleister Crowley, also used vast amounts of drugs to enhance his magickal practices. Occult understandings are also useful in framing entheogenic experiences, without placing them in rigid distinctions. The conjunction of both these practices will add to the effects of both, while also allowing the practitioner more control over the whole experience. · Trance technologies: exploring the relationship between different technologies that can be used to alter consciousness including western ceremonial magick and entheogens. 1pm Chemical Bigotry Cognitive Liberty and Sedition Laws - Roberto, Kath, Neil, Rak Plants versus Mega-Pharma - Ray 2pm Ayahuasca - Julian Julian will talk about his experiences in South America at the Ayahuasca conference, his view of the attitudes, expectations and results that people have of psychedelic compounds and plants, and the possible ways in which such can be used consciously for personal integration and global evolution. 3pm Coming of Age: How did the Acid Generation get orfff on Hoffman's birthday? Rak, Neil 4pm Doof Kulcha 21st Century Shamanism - Neil, Kath, Mesq, Ronny, Paul, Matt, Jim Doof culture not only creates a close knit community, but due to the nature of psychedelics and the ritual nature of the doof, it also helps to form individual spirituality. Often the experience are full of shamanic elements, indeed even the individual's beliefs often seem like a 21st century version of traditional shamanism. Is Doof Dead? - Neil, Kath, Mesq, Ronny, Paul, Matt, Jim We were in trouble when the Chemical Brothers did a Coke commercial. Let's face it: psy-trance is the AC-DC of the 21st Century. The whole scene these days seems to thrive on speed, K and ecstacy. The music (with a few notable exceptions) hasn't changed much in at least 5 years and most of the participants are heading into their 30s and the business of breeding. Doof has been co-opted (and consequently disempowered) by the mainstream (much like what happened to acid-rock in the 60s-70s). 6pm Undergrowth Digizine - http://www.undergrowth.org/ - Rak The Undergrowth collective is an evolving organism of writers, artists, media makers and cutting edge ontological guerillas. Undergrowth publishes an online and print magazine containing the best short fiction, journalism, poetry, visual art, photography, comics and esoterica from Australia's counter-cultural underground. Undergrowth also hosts an e-book library of emerging and established authors in downloadable PDF form, on-line art galleries of contributing artists, music videos, spoken word and audio interviews available as podcasts, video documentary clips, 'nu media' and animations, community forums and Nomadology, featuring traveller's blogs examining the world around us. We are all change agents. Engage the flow and swim with it. In it. Become it.. {we live not Underground, but in the Undergrowth} After Dark - Workshops - To be Announced at Techgnosis - Kurt, Julian, Jim and Craig There will be no set agendas at this space all energies are welcome, No podiums or lectures as such... Directions Zone Euphorika Phantastiq @ Techgnosis Festival 17-21 March 06 Utopia Environmental Reserve, via Gympie, Qld http://www.techgnosis.muchfree.org/zone-euphorika.html http://www.techgnosis.muchfree.org/ http://www.psypedia.com/techgnosis/ DIRECTIONS to UER (Utopia Enviromental Reserve) From Brisbane head up the Bruce Highway, past Gympie about 10kms, and then take the Wide Bay Highway (towards Kilkivan) for about 20kms. [Gympie would be your last opportunity for provisions]. Turn off to Woolooga. No more towns or shops after Woolooga (and it only has a pub). Keep going through Woolooga till you cross the Wide Bay Creek (about 10kms) and then turn left towards Biggenden. This stretch is around 50km including about 5kms of dirt road (after the dirt you enter the free shire of Woocoo, with no police and no mobile coverage), on this stretch (watch out for cows on the road). The next turnoff to the left you take will be Biggenden again. After about 4kms take Innoorooolabah Road to the left. About 3kms along this road is Utopia Road on the right. Just follow this dirt road for about 7-8kms and you will enter Utopia Enviro Reserve. Another 800mtres and you will turn right at the roundhouse (which is a brick mailroom). Just 100m down the hill from the roundhouse a track to the right to our place - should be a sign here (and then about another 800m). FREE

Haltya are one of my faveourite Psytrance acts... Hailing from Finland and Incorporating twisted psychedelia with funky big band grooves... to create an amazingly beautiful musical experience... Haltya and many many more artists will also be appearing at a party in Tenterfield NSW. Check http://www.giiwa.com/MOM.htm for more details. Good luck with your S.Australian party!

From what i heard, he didn't bring many... if any of his books heh... great promotions!!! I will also be there to sign books if anyone is interested.

Aww I would have gone just to have another good doof with you CS!!! I'll hopefully be coming down to melb this year with some Brissie crew will let you know, hopefully see you there!

To me the Chyrsanthemum is like a Multidimensional Hymen that is like a thin membrane separating ourselves from the greater void. With DMT practices this membrane is breached once "a breakthrough" experience is had.

A brief update before a major update!! Things are slowly shaping up for the Zone Euphorika Phantastika section of Techgnosis... There will be Discussion groups, presentations and workshops in areas such as ... Cultivation of Medicinal Herbs Simple Plant Chemistry Identification of Australian Ethnobotanicals Doof Culture and Spirituality Entheogens, Alternative Culture and the Law More details to follow as it happens...

Happy belated BDay Eli... You rock can't wait to share a space with you again!

Well this thread is very interesting... One of the reasons I have not been up for putting effort into the "Brisbane EB Group" is overall lack of enthusiasm for doing things. Seeing as though I have posted information about an Entheogen/Ethnobotany Gathering for FREE that is occuring only a couple of hours from Brisbane one would think there would be a little bit more interest. All i can say is that if you want something to happen in your own backyard then make it happen, be part of it.

This will be a great oppurtunity for Anyone to submit their proposal for a workshop or presentation... This event is open to anybody to have their input... Please don't be shy.

http://www.techgnosis.muchfree.org/zone-euphorika.html CALL OUT!!! Zone Euphorika Phantastik Plants – Teknowlogy – Free Thort at the Techgnosis Festival 17-21 March 2006 Pow-wows, presentations & workshops over 2 days: Saturday 18 March and Monday 20 March chill space for impromptu culture jamz . . . film & music. . . installations & art . . . stalls & swaps supertramps ~ vegetalistas ~ Psykonauts ~ terraists ~ memetik-mutants ~ tekno~shaman ~ kemicalistas Are you interested in participating????? Contact any of the ZEP crew by 31 January 06: - Your brief bio - Your Contact details - What would you like to do? ZEP Contacts: Darren – [email protected] or 0424 638 967 Kath - [email protected] or 07-3393 1007 or PO Box 6013 St Lucia Q 4067 Matt – [email protected] or 07-32026126 or 0416350652 technological unconsciousness entheogens digital phantasms cacti psychedelics creative process techstasy consciousness chemistry sex pleasure activism pharmacology utopian dreams chemical bigotry doof culture shamanism creativity spirit plants human modernity botany nihilism cognitive liberty apocalyptic visions medicine shamanism eco-psychology ethnobotany gnosis magick ritual philosophy metaphysics biochemistry techne alien obsessions natives fungi law prohibition perception

Hi everyone, Despite appearing to have completely left the Entheogen EB world, I am still trying to keep up to date and active at various levels of the Entheogen community.... In march 06 there will be a FREE Alternative Lifestyle gathering on the Sunshine coast... Here is a rundown We are seeking people from the Brisbane area especially to help us set up this space, we are looking for workshops and presenters and volunteers... This would be a great oppurtunity for The Brisbane EB group to get together as well as to showcase our community... Anything goes!!

Would love to be able to make it down for this again... Last year was one of the most amazing times of my life!!

Will let you know details as soon as I know

Hi Benzito If you are interested in partying the New Year in My Mates are having a Stomping Bush Doof in the Hills of Northern New South Wales... Here is a picture right from the edge of the Dancefloor And the Dancefloor at a Looney Tunez Party Called Shitz N Giggles Send me a pm if you are interested to get the details.

See thread for more info! http://www.shaman-australis.com.au/ubb/ult...ic;f=8;t=000779

Damn they keep changeing... 2:30-3:30 definitely

Thanks for the words of support guys... Ronny: Arrrgh definitely do !!! I thought Eli was going to give you my demo, at least thats what he said. Seeing as that hasn't happened expect a CD next week...

There are alot of good papers on Doof Mystical experiences.. recently UQ Honours Student Matt Soltau completed his Thesis : Spontaneous Shamanism: Shamanic experience at psychedelic dance parties. Which is fairly comprehensive. He and I will be most likely speaking on such things at Techgnosis in QLD

This thread is following from Revs posts and it is not me who wrote this but somebody I met on the dancefloor ... I personally feel that everything this person says should be taken with a grain of salt..because in the end it is all subjective..highly personal **The following was dictated to me on an uneventful drive from Random Doof Site X to Home #3124 ** Firstly a bit of background...until recently I have never been one to dance at all...it just didn't happen... couldn't.. only a year ago did I go to my first Outdoor Psychedelic Trance Party (Doof or party from now on)...which was Earthdance just out of nimbin... and since then I have become far more entwined, enraptured, enamored entangled in the overwhelming force that is Psychedelic Trance (referred to as Psy or Trance or Psy-Trance). Before I developed a love for Doofing and Psytrance I had already been interested in Shamanic Techniques and Psychedelics for quite a while...so while I had never been to a doof...I already had a fair understanding about the inherent shamanic possibilities. At your local Doof you will generally find (with the exception of drugs ) the following tools for obtaining Trance State Repetitive Drum Beat/Music (Music which has actually been made with the INTENT to facilitate conciousness expansion, by people who have obviously had experience with the Psychedelic" Ecstatic Dancing Mind Altering Psychoactive Drugs Such as MDMA, LSD, Mushrooms Visual FX If you are lucky the party will actually have production :D Such as Psychedelic Lighting and Projections...and perhaps some artwork or decor of some description Each of these tools by themselves are adequate with practise and will to obtain enter and experience trance... or trance-like states. Utilising all three at once maximises the likelihood that once succeeds to obtain other states of awareness...one variable considerably impacts this: The awareness of your fellow dancers... For the great majority (of doofers) a doof is a social gathering, a gathering of tribes, a place to renew friendships, relax, lose social programming, a fun time, a celebration of psychedelic and underground culture... For some people the doof has mystical overtones and there is the subconcious or... the notion, undisturbed by further thought or investigation that there is something else to it... and then perhaps for a few people the party is all of the above...BUT they are aware of the fact that by combining all the Tools and Techniques named above one can alter ones state of conciousness and perhaps manipulate the flow of energy on the dancefloor. For these people the Doof Dancefloor is a veritable smorgasboard or flailing psychic energy where people who are unaware unknowingly offer their energy to those who know how to use it. For those who are aware it is an open playing ground where the egg of reality can be cracked wide open, transcendental experiences can occur, Shamanic energetic battles, and u name it I guess... for someone who knows what they are looking for the Doof Dancefloor is a multidimensional portal that is powered by the music and the energy created by the dancers...

If thats what you believe ;)

Wow a revival of a really old thread I love it :D For anybody interested I will be talking at length and with much enthusiasm at an event in QLD called Techgnosis about the dynamics of the dancefloor... If anybody caught my presentation at Entheogenesis Australis, I will be elaborating on some of the ideas that I put across... Mostly to do with Music/Trance/Dancer Relationships.

Avoid Palmerston and Berrimah. Palmerston is on the outskirts of town... not my idea of a nice place. Berrimah is where the Jail is.

So what the hell is exactly going on?? I didn't even see any mention of what the heck is going on?? As far as I was aware there is a meet at the ROMA ST Parklands... on SUNDAY. It will be a combined EB\Psy-Chi ?? As far as I know there should be some great music... including a Mesq (Lounge Lizard) set :D

Can you believe I have been here that long! Yay!!!!