Re: DT01, The Pan Mind Pipes Games of Electronic Coherence

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for the article on Brion Gysin/William S. Burroughs/Genesis P-Orridge!! It is so good to see that someone out there (outside of the circle of people that I know) recognizes and has researched three of the people who lie at the root of the “postmodern underground movement” (to give it a name for convenience’s sake). It is really important to educate people about the history behind what they do, because it often reconnects us to thee original fire that fueled it in the first place. Plus you illuminated 3 revolutionary artists and the ideals their work revolved around, and then went further by elucidating the connection that exists between their work and what is going on in modern rave culture (including what isn’t going on and what should be going on!). Most “ravers” I know, when I mention Psychic TV would say “that’s Industrial, I don’t go for that shit” or “who?” It’s nice to see that there’s a writer out there who ignores the blockades put up by all this division of music by genre/subgenre bullshit. Knowing about passionate people and their actions against the mainstream through art and music might help to inspire people involved in a “scene” right now to get off their asses and move in new directions. I would bet that plenty of people recognize Burroughs as a writer, but might not know about his work as an experimental artist/musician or his collaborations with P-Orridge and Gysin. I’d also like to say props for mentioning the Dreamachine—yes, it does work! (I wouldn’t call it a drug-free high, though, so much as a really simple, powerful tool for meditation and consciousness-connection.)

In addition to telling people about these very important figures, you did a great job highlighting some of their work, and you touched on something vital when you connected them to the “rave culture” of today. Thanks for talking about the importance of unifying energy and reaching for a higher place. Yes, there is a natural science to it. People need to recognize that we can collectively go higher without giving up our individuality—right now, it all does seem to be about some kind of strange comatose conformity, and we certainly aren’t getting any higher no matter how many drugs we take. So much of what I see is steeped in decadence and elitism—it all adds up to decay, and that makes me really sad. The whole idea behind a rave has so much potential, but a bunch of rich kids hopped up on filthy imitation E or G in expensive designer clothes, divided over economics, subgenres and stupid high-school dance politics is a waste of time to those who really care about “keeping it real”. So it’s refreshing to see that there are people out there, like Doghead Cola and the others working on The Deadly Type who care enough to observe what’s happening around them, give us all information of important history, and gather insight from the past into the present. Thank you for doing something at a higher level than most—your zine totally kicks ass, and keep up the good work!

Jenni, Denver, CO

Among the Greeks, this powerful alliance was of utmost importance, primarily because there is only one certainty in life: death. How we choose to die or shed away old paradigms is our life’s most important work, and we must learn to do it consciously, with integrity.

The next parallel comes with the mythology of the Hermetic Order of the Egyptians, who considered human evolutionary existence in 3 stages: the Age of Isis (the matriarchal, tribal, gatherer, nurturing female-dominant pre-civilized-city age of wo/mankind), the Age of Osiris (the patriarchal, hunter, warmongering, tool-based male-dominant period of settled ‘civilized’ social culture), and the Age of Horus (which begins in 2001, also called the Age of Discovery, or, the Child, Horus being the

offspring of Isis and Osiris). One may look at filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey for a powerful translation of the pop-culture code.

Irregardless, Age of Aquarius or not, the times, they are a-changin’.

Thanks again to Mr. Hayward and to The Deadly Type for presenting thoughtful material worth reading amongst a propagandistic realm of consumerist-driven faux-media.

A deadlicated reader, Boulder, CO