Torsten Klimmer & Billy Rood will present and talk about their film:

Liquid Crystal Vision

In a time where enlightening media is very much required, filmmakers Billy Rood and Torsten Klimmer have created a revolutionary documentary that is cutting edge in its approach to both: reality, and digital art.

The incredible storyline created itself in an effortless devotional dream of the filmmakers that worked like maniacs for over two years to produce this true masterpiece.

The digital collage of channeled interviews, 3-D computer animation, psychedelic sounds, and visual interludes weave the multifaceted landscape of Liquid Crystal Vision. Watching the film triggers a certain psychological response that unchains deep inner truths. Its hallucinatory sights and soundscatapult viewers into cosmic spheres.

This 60 minute wake-up call to the world reaches the public as a global peace prayer, suggesting to dance in trance parties and the right to get high as alternatives to war and global domination. The film enchants the audience with a mystical beauty that becomes apparent when watching it.

"LCV" was made without financial support of major media companies. Many resources were pulled to manifest this fascinating piece of art! Fully edited digital and shot in 3-chip technology, the production maintained a semi-professional character. The audio format is 48 KHZ, 16-bit Stereo, and Dolby 5.1 Surround on DVD! The prime video format is NTSC and the master came out of the AVID. The digital art preserved its original quality that speaks for itself.

Liquid Crystal Vision is a psychedelic movie that weaves a multi-colored tapestry of dance, trance, mystical arts, and science on the digital loom of shamanic cybernetic consciousness.

Liquid Crystal Vision fuses the ancient and the future. It blends scenes of exotic places such as Angkor Wat, Goa, Laos, Japan, and others with superb graphics, sounds, performances, and channeled interviews. LCV presents dancing as one of the means to initiate a far-reaching personal evolution. It contrasts control versus freedom. The impact of the mystical arts movement on planetary consciousness is highlighted during the 60 minutes play time. Liquid Crystal Vision makes an artistic and political statement that leaves a strong imprint on the audience.

In Tokyo - spring 2000 Torsten Klimmer aka Omananda received a cosmic vision to create a psychedelic film. He had already collected a lot of stunning footage on his travels that could be used to build parts of this film. Before Torsten moved to London, where he joined forces with Billy Rood, he interviewed psychedelic people in San Francisco. When he arrived in Brixton, a lot of work had to be done. Many hours of video needed to be sorted and the basic outline of the film had to be conceptualized. Torsten had the fundamental idea and inspiration of the film. He filmed most of it and edited about 80 % of it. The film-making process took roughly 8 month. Many technical obstacles were removed in that periode. Torsten literally worked 16 hrs every day, falling asleep on the rendering machine and waking up the next morning, just to continue where he had left off. After the film was done, he took it to California, where he final mastered the sound with Rob Rayle. Final production and titles were done with the help of Nathan Vogel. Eventually Liquid Crystal Vision was exported out of the Avid and encoded to DVD with the help of Dave Carp.

Billy Rood aka Tantric Demon is a fractal genius that sees life in terms of fractal animations. Figguring out mathematical, scientific calculations, he spends nights in front of computers, writing custom plug-ins that turn into beautiful 3-D graphics. Billy has edited videos for Cold Cut and The Infinity Project, collaborated with Dave Gilmour and Arthur C. Clarke on Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon's award-winning movie "Colors of Infinity". He has co-written and animated "Clouds are not Spheres: The life and times of a Maverick Mathematician". "Billy also co-authored "Introducing Fractal Geometry" that is a book explaining in scientific detail anything about the origin of the fractal. Tanric Demon is one of the most original VJ's in London.

www.liquidcrystalvision.com

TRIBAL SURVIVAL - Fleur Chetwynd, Survival International

Thank you so much for your interest in my giving a talk at Shamania. Events such as yours provide a really positive environment in which to discuss the many problems faced by tribal peoples around the world. They allow Survival to share an insight into the vibrancy of tribal peoples lives, so their stories may be told and their worlds understood.

Please find below a synopsis of my talk. Much of the footage I can show is previously unseen by the public, and includes footage of the Jarawa Tribe of the Andamen Islands, and the story of the Enawene Nawe Indians, of Brazil.

I can also provide a stunning slideshow of pictures and quotes from tribal communities worldwide, set to tribal inspired music. The slideshow lasts 27 minutes, and will also be shown by Synchronistic Sounds (Chill Out). While I realise that it may not fit into a 1 hour slot, it stands alone well, and is available should you have a half hour slot in which to play it. I also have other footage at hand should you want it or have spare time that needs filling of the story of the Bushman’s of Botswana’s successful court case (12 minutes long) to win back their land which also stands alone well.

Synopsis
Tribal peoples live in 60 countries around the world, and number over 150 million individuals. The biggest problem faced by tribal peoples is the loss of their land at the hands of local authorities and oil, mining and logging companies. Behind the oppression, lies greed, misunderstanding, and a racism that sees tribal people as ‘backward’ or ‘primitive.’

The story of the forced re-settlement of the nomadic Innu tribe in Canada, and its disastrous consequences provides an example of the devastation which follows contact and colonisation for the majority of tribal societies worldwide. The already tragic situation of the Innu is contrasted with that of the Jarawa of the Andaman Islands, who are faced with the early stages of such a colonisation. The talk then moves on to examine the situation of the Enawene Nawe, one of the few tribes who have increased in number since contact. We will look briefly at their fascinating, ritualistic world of spirits, and at how they live in close connection to their land. We will look at how their survival is now being threatened by those who seek to take their land and resources. Most of all we will look at the contemporary relevance and dynamism of tribal societies, and examine their right to live as they choose. The oppression, destruction and persecution faced by tribal peoples constitutes one of the most pressing humanitarian crisis of our time and Survival International hopes to raise awareness of how each of us can help protect human freedom and diversity in the face of such destructive forces.

About Survival:

Survival is the only international organisation supporting tribal peoples worldwide, helping them protect their land, defend their lives, and determine their own futures.

Defined as those who have lived in tribal societies for many generations; tribal peoples are usually the original inhabitants of the place they live in, or have at least lived there for hundreds if not thousands of years. They mostly provide for themselves, living off the land by hunting, fishing, gathering or growing vegetables or keeping their own animals. They often have an extremely strong cultural, emotional and spiritual attachment to their land

Founded in 1969, Survival works for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. Working closely with local indigenous organisations we offer tribal people a platform to address the world. We tend to focus on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world.

There are over 150 million tribal peoples worldwide, and almost all of them face relentless persecution by governments and corporations who seek to take their land and so destroy them. We believe that public opinion is the most effective force for change. Its power will make it harder, and eventually impossible, for governments and companies to oppress tribal peoples.
www.survival-international.org

In 2001-2, film maker Donal Ruane spent a year in the Peruvian Amazon during which time he spent several months isolated in the jungle undergoing the sometimes harrowing ordeals and training that is required of a shamanic initiate. Since then he has made a number of subsequent visits to continue his apprenticeship. The film Stories on a Stick chronicles this journey and his experiences with the legendary hallucinogenic brew Ayahuasca and will be released on DVD later in the year. Five years in the making the film includes in-depth interviews with former shaman and visionary artist Don Pablo Amaringo and other ayahuasqueros (specialists in the use of ayahuasca) and explores the teachings, beliefs and methodology surrounding ayahuasca usage among Mestizo shamans  in the  Upper Amazon.

Peruvian mestizo shamanism and its connections with European folklore, magic and religion:  a talk by Donal Ruane

Donal Ruane has had a life-long interest in shamanism, folklore and the occult and spent several months apprenticed to a Mestizo shaman in the Peruvian Amazon in 2001-2.

In this talk he will explore the beliefs and methodology of shamanic initiation and its relationship to the ‘supernatural’ experiences of the apprentice shaman. He will argue that many of these manifestations which he experienced himself during his own initiation have their echoes in accounts of Witchcraft and encounters with fairies and the dead reported in Europe in the past. By examining the visually stunning iconography of the ayahuasca visionary paintings of Pablo Amaringo with their unique mix of Amazonian mythology and European folklore Donal speculates that this might point towards an archaic native tradition of shamanism now forgotten.

1. Tobacco healing ritual performed by Donal Ruane

The evening will begin with a traditional healing ritual using indigenous tobacco (nicotiana rustica), the most sacred plant of them all in the Americas and a general introduction to some of the medicinal plants of the Upper Amazon region and there various uses and the mythologies that surround them.  

2. Shamanic initiation among the mestizo population of the Peruvian Amazon - A talk by Donal Ruane  

In this talk Donal Ruane will explore the mythology, topography, dietary and sexual prescriptions of shamanic initiation and how during the prolonged ordeals of the ‘dieta’ the plants can teach and give the initiate power. This talk is based on first hand experience and will explore authentic indigenous shamanism from the inside out.

For more information or to contact Donal Ruane see:

www.headoverheels.org.uk 

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Paul Bennett  - Guided Walk

Author of ‘The Old Stones of Elmet’  (Capall Bann Publishing)
Paul will be conducting a guided walk around some of the old sacred sites of the locality, which was once part of the ancient British kingdom of Elmet - the last region in England to come under the dominion of the church. Elmet was one of the smaller regions that made up the huge northern kingdom of Brigantia, which was the largest single pagan-Celtic kingdom of the ancient Britons, comprising the six modern northern counties of England.

Peter B Lloyd - Neolithic Shamanism: Reaching Back over the Millennia
How can we say anything about shamanism in prehistoric times, with no written records and only ruined temples as evidence? New archaeological evidence from the underground Neolithic temples in Malta give us firmer ideas of spiritual practices of that era. Combined with other lines of insight into the neolithic mind, we can make evidence-based speculations about the shamanism of megalithic temples.
www.metageum.org

Steve Hart – Talk / Visualisation
(probably Green or White Tara)
Dakinis and goddesses of the bliss body: the sacred feminine in the yogic traditions of Buddhism

Treb0r  -  www.pagaian.org - one year on
Reflections on the first year of running the pagaian.org website, including info on the great Wikipedia debacle.

Dave Lee – Reality is a rip-off, Chaos Magic is the cure!
Have you ever wished that magic was real, not just either a childhood fantasy that you were made to grow out of, or a wishy-washy new age way of lying to yourself in the face of the evidence?

Have you ever wished that the universe were alive and responding to your thoughts?

Chaos Magic is a toolkit of proven effectiveness for re-enchanting the world, a toolkit for the post-science age.
This talk is a glimpse into Chaos Magician Dave Lee’s personal quest to find a way off, the prison planet of materialism.

The Workshop: Dragon Eagle Magic

Dave Lee will lead a practical exercise to raise magical power and transform consciousness.