Manifesting the Utopian Mind 🔮 Neonn Felicity 🔮 Lightning in a Bottle 2022
Channel: Neonn Felicity
Date: 2023-03-16

Lightning in a Bottle was my first campout festival in 2012, and it has been the biggest source of vital inspiration to me every year since. 🥰 Such a vast plethora of sophisticated & eccentric & genuinely creative cultural ingenuity, & above all else, a beautifully intentionally cultivated sense of welcome & deep belonging to all participants. 💜 Ever since that first LiB, I've wanted nothing more than to contribute my philosophy to the radical educational programming they host amidst that magical cauldron of transformational culture. I'll be presenting new material there this year, so here is my talk from last year. I am very proud of this presentation, so please let me know if you enjoy it too!

Presentation Description
Our ancient ancestors enjoyed a special communal shamanic consciousness as players in a cosmic drama that involved mythical & biological creatures of all sorts, where there was a magical mystery at the heart of their existence and a sense of endless possibilities for compassion and joy. Our collective imagination—the spiritual dimension of our lives—has been crippled by the authoritarian mode of social organization that produced the dominant religio-economic systems of the past couple millennia. This talk will explore the hidden psychedelic origins of radical ideation, and the ways in which the awakened utopian mind is reemerging, reminding us of our need for transcendent community to manifest a prosperous world.

Presenter Biography
Neonn Felicity is a rave philosopher, techno-utopian media theorist, and futurist pagan historian who seeks to contextualize our current moment in civilizational evolution by synthesizing radical scholarship of the human condition from across the ages. He is the author of a forthcoming psychedelic political philosophy treatise called, Obsolete the Leviathan: An Evolutionary Techno-Utopian Manifesto, which explores the nature of the monumental transition in human affairs that is currently underway due to the exponentially accelerating pace of technological and cultural evolution, and the role that we individuals can play in shaping the way our collective future unfolds. Volume One of the trilogy is titled, The Peace on Drugs: Ecstatic Epiphanies, Escaping Dystopia, & Abolishing the Fascist Tyranny of Prohibition, and it covers the role of mind-opening technologies in the past, present, and future evolution of human civilization.