2020
Channel: James Barrett
Date: 31/12/2019

Acoustic acid tribal trance for 2020. Smash the control images, smash the control machine. Love is the Law, Love under Will.

For some time now I have been working with old reel to reel tape machines to record and make music. I am at last starting to produce sounds that I am happy with. This was recorded using a Nagra 4.2 Mono reel to reel tape machine, then mixed using the Reaper audio program. I offer it as a piece for the new year, new decade and new world. Global human society is in a desperate state in many ways as we continue to blunder on with our greed and fear, promoted all the time by those that are supposed to be leading us.

I am inspired by Mahayana Black Hat Buddhism. The central yogic practice of the Karma Kagyu is the doctrine of Mahamudra, also known as the "Great Seal". This doctrine focuses on four principal stages of meditative practice (the Four Yogas of Mahamudra):

- The development of single-pointedness of mind,
- The transcendence of all conceptual elaboration,
- The cultivation of the perspective that all phenomena are of a "single taste", and
- The fruition of the path, which is beyond any contrived acts of meditation.

It is through these four stages of development that the practitioner is said to attain the perfect realization of mahamudra. Mahamudra is practiced both independently and as the completion stage of Vajrayana practice.

Then
Every attempt to escape yourself
Ends in a mirror
Do not spend your lifespan
Feeding appetites
Step out of the circle
The body is where
We wait for death but
Instead open a wound
In the skin of reality
Crawl through it
Into yourself

The ache of experience
Points to no new roads
But the dream can be the map
From what you already know
You present ultimatums
Like they are ideas
And then wonder why
The television is not listening.

What time is mind?
Lying in the arms of separateness
Get grow or give the difference
To strangers
The spider queen lives within me
Colonial reparations paid to the moon.

There are many ways
for looking at forever
Shall we begin?