The Freedom to Dance Experience

I went to bed some days both sick in my body and soul -my mind and my heart - pain has wracked my body these last months since the start of the war in Gaza and suddenly nothing has meaning to me anymore . No tourist destination - no coffee milkshake - I found myself just watching this movie playing out yet feeling at the same time - immobilised with helplessness - wanting to say STOP or say the latest phrase yet realising it’s all just wagging the dog ! 

All the good things we want to do to change the world is almost or mostly a waste of time and energy and money - nothing is really changing ! And as i channelled these emotions from the media screen everything became fragmented and full of horror and despair - all the years of trying to make this world more colourful a distant dream !

And as more time comes as more carnage flows - numbed by the constant content of destruction and death ! 

 This one says support the refugees - then the other says I need medicine - and all the while the same fat cats keep going and going and really they don’t care about you or your good works or your attempt at good works - to bring peace to the world - to build a better more sustainable green economy that reverses climate change or increases food security and reduces poverty - no they all want to borrow money from you because they feel they can even when they have more than you - this is the world the dishourable world we are living in - very few actually really want to BE the change they want to see - 

And I am Sorry to say  I realise now I have become one of them - so I went to sleep - I didn’t eat didn’t move just let the fever wash over me and sweat out the poison that had gripped my body and coughed out the phlegm that arrested my breathing day and night and let the pain be seated by the medication - 

It feels like everywhere and everything wants me to join the club -,to have a STATIC position - yet in my heart I know that the real position is dynamic and depends on each of us not becoming the worst version of ourselves in this different dimension and this timeline - 

when you are empathetic to the entire omniverse it’s hard to say this is wrong or this is evil - instead you know the highest good is your path and the one you must travel - it is ALL ABOUT SHIFTING and TRANSFORMING THE ENERGY - you are just the conduit - the vessel - in which this transformation works through 

Note : many people don’t get this and turn to alcohol or drugs  because they don’t know how to feel how to think how to act - but in truth they are “ TRANSFORMERS” and it’s so important to keep your vessel pure for this inter dimensional work to happen successfully- 

this confusion you feel inside is because the entire world around us is up in arms -….it’s at war with itself and each other and deep rooted programmes are kicking in to shut off your heart - your logic - your common sense …and all you are expected to do is to say WHICH FREEKING  team you side with - the problem is that the WORLD NOT ONLY LACKS LOVE BUT IMAGINATION !

 We saw what happened after 911 and 20 years down the line it’s the same old story - the people who play war games don’t want peace … it’s just a business ! 

To shift this destructive energy we must pray into being with fasting but also with movement - with anger - even With screaming and shouting - but mostly …. With unadulterated DANCE - not any disciplined kind of dance or a dance with a beginning and an ending - no this is the kind of dance that goes on and on until it stops  - the end ! 

This is the freedom  to dance - it’s a meditation in movement and not in sitting still - it is in the movement the dynamic meditation of movement without form or guru that the dance itself finds its own solution as we ourselves become the portals and enter into that intergalactic world of mystery that bends time and space itself -

 and by doing so we no Longer become slaves to any time line or time itself but bring past future and present o to one infinite moment - the NOW - the infinite eternal PERFECT now - and so you become a TIME MASTER - Namaskar ! 

THATS RIGHT .. you Master time itself in one moment ! I could go on about this and describe it until the cows come home suffice to say - it’s REAL  it’s true . We can all become timemasters ! 

1. We danced without alcohol for 3 months 

2.We danced without cigarettes or hashish for 3 months 

3. We danced our little team in Goa without mdma or acid or speed - for 3 months - 

On our return to

The UK we visited the heaven nightclub in London and one person asked us - what drugs are you on man ? 

I answered - nothing WERE  high on life ! 

That was the birth of rave but also the fall of the BERLIN WALL  and the freedom of Mandela  . Suddenly , the world looked a LOT BIGGER and brighter ! Shifting energy . 

FAST FORWARD 30 years - 

So why do I find myself here at a point of exhaustion ?-in these last months I have been fighting with myself to discover this truth which in exhaustion and illness I’m finally able to accept it - I refuse to be torn to pieces or to tear myself up by my own sense of the urgent need to do something - anything - to make the right decision and not go against what I truly believe in - that I am a BE-ing of LOVE and my mission on earth is to manifest and be this love - 

NOT TO HIDE - but I could not stand still! (The cave moment is gone - )

Anymore or quiet anymore - I could not play silently on the sidelines and ignore the truths- darkness - evil - hatred - separation it’s all part of this world we are in and it’s getting greater - but for us not to succumb to it we ourselves must be the change we wish to see and transform this great evil we see in the world with our LIGHT - our LIGHT !

The dance was AND IS  our transformation….

and I slept again 

Until one day I finally woke up!

In and out of my trances and flashbacks of the past into the memories of one of the many journeys I had been on - India

Yes - it was there that I discovered how to shift negative black energy and emotions with the power of movement - dance - this was how the whole trance tekno house scene caught the wave of its mass popularity and hysteria -

- we discovered something in1989 in goa -

and that was we could DANCE  for hours and hours and for days on end week in and week out -we could shift energy by dancing- we did not need drugs to do it -

 the FREEDOM  to dance was the drug !!!

It was the total experience - amongst the palm trees - on the beach in the Forrest - sipping chai - small talk - then back to the dance -  it is in this ancient way that the indigenous First Nations went to war and celebrated seasons and mourned their dead - it is in this way that the tribal Spirit of the individual pain was HEALED and purified  and through it that collective medicine of the collective unconscious mind of the tribe would heal It’s COLLECTIVE pain !  The fire moves- purifies - burns it is our medicine …

And this is what we should do to heal

Ourselves now at this time ! 

I felt in 1989 like I had discovered the WHEEL!

On the beaches of Goa that all our inner turmoil could be cleared by our expression - PURGED!!!-whether it was aggressive or passive in the moment or somewhere else - everything we thought or felt could be expressed and manifested and recorded by the movement of our body to the music ! 

 It didn’t matter if you laughed or cried uncontrollably or pissed in your pants - this was all about CONNECTING to the core of your being and returning to where you came from ! Your source if you will - touching God within  -  if this meant you had to pretend to be a dog ( as a friend did ) or have sex on the beach  - that was your affair ! Of course is that necessary ? No - but if it means we can save lives by dancing your tits off - 

Then why not ? Finding oneness through dynamic movement. 

And this is the freedom to dance and that is I submit the key to full spectrum world peace Unity and love ! 

Just dance !

HOW TO END THE WAR IN GAZA

 There is a path to peace in the land of Israel and Palestine - but it will require both imagination and compromises on both sides . In my view this is the only way to stop the killing now and for future generations to come. 

 

It's simple yet hard to comprehend for some. Yet in my view it has to be this way. 

It starts by understanding how we got here in the first place. 

ODYSSEY TIMES: APRIL EDITION -

Icarus : touching the sky with our dreams in the fairest of capes

Cape Town ! 

South Africa 

Once upon a time Europeans came to this place calling it the cape of good hope ! - the fairest of capes- and with their first sight they invoked the scripture in this most uncertain time 

- “ the lord preparers a table in front of my enemies! “Psalm 23 

From Bartholomew Dias in 1488-  the Portuguese explorer who came here in the 15th century but landed in Mossel Bay - the first chapel in Southern Africa to Jan Van Riebek the Dutch forerunner of the modern Afrikaner people in 1652- to the immigrants who first landed here in the union castle lines that also dropped off people in Australia - so many souls have come through here on the way to India and beyond - and all have stood upon that day and seen the greatest wonder of Southern Africa - table mountain ! 

It was here that I first came as a baby in 1964 and later as a grown man I left to the Caribbean aboard the polish yacht the Czarny Diament escaping apartheid South Africa and the army that had called me up for service - it has never ceased to amaze me despite all The time that has gone by - Cape Town remains the mother city of South Africa amid all its horror and its beauty - a place I spent some years as a boy running up the maintain ranges of hottentot Holland and discovering the secrets of the most incredible rains and flora my eyes have ever seen - from the red river of the rooielse where as a scout I discovered an unexploded missile in the beach as a sea about or witnessed the largest ever great white landed on the strand of false bay - this region had never ceased to catch my breathe and thank god for being able to see it with my own eyes ! 

 As our journey through this incredible continent this undiscovered contingent continues i want to say this - this land is not for the faint hearted. Not fools . 

On the 29 th may I cast my vote to make my voice heard- and to my great surprise - it was ! The ruling regime that has screwed up our country since 1999 with rampant corruption and nepotism has finally lost its majority and now there’s some hope that the nation will repair itself ! But this is Africa - we have to be cautiously optimistic since these thieves are still in power - just they don’t have so much of it now - I predicted 42 % but they got 40 in the end and rather than stick with their communist buddies they chose sanity with the democratic alliance - not everyone is terrible ! 

I’ll write more about these elections in another blog - but there is hope now in South Africa thanks God !