Thursday, July 29, 2010

My copy of 2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration, by Richard Grossinger, arrived this morning.  I'm suffering extreme pangs of anticipation!  I haven't peeked past the introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck yet, so in lieu of the book proper, here's a taste of that:

"My personal hope for 2013 is a visceral revolution of the human spirit against domination and oppression, against the sorcerer's spell of Illuminati technology and endless virtual distraction-prisons.  The spiritual counter-culture that is developing a deepening awareness of the psychic and synchronic order could meld with the grittier layer of baseline struggle for human survival and dignity that we meet in movements like the Zapatistas and recall from the satyagraha and civil rights struggles led by heroes like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.  My true concern is that if we do not help bring about this uprising on behalf of the multitude, if our intellectuals and textual wizards and artist-shamans can't figure out how to sacrifice their own ego interests to serve this larger emancipatory project, our species will soon discover, as Marlene Dietrich informs Orson Welles at the end of the great, seedy masterpiece Touch of Evil: "Your future's all used up."

2013: Raising the Earth to the Next Vibration is published by North Atlantic books:
http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/

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