FULL MOON FUNK-TION w/Galactic Wind & Mandala Mark (events » nightlife) Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 9:00 PM 71 RSVPs Full Moon Funk-tion

with downtempo, dubstep and dance from
DJ's Galactic Wind
& Mandala Mark

Saturday November 24th
9pm- late

Location: 'Ridgeway', 200m up Leg Of Mutton Road from Wells Road, Glastonbury.

Look for the balloons

Chai, treats and lots of fun!
Smoking balcony
Magick Hat Donation

For more directions call 01458 830363

New Years Eve Tranceformation in Avalon (events » nightlife) Monday, December 31, 2007 - 8:30 PM 72 RSVPs New Year’s Eve Tranceformation

A night of festive trance dancing fun
At The Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury
Monday 31st December, 8:30pm- 2:30am

Featuring music from the main stage at the Waveform Festival.

•LIVE• Zetan Spore
(Cornwall’s finest psytrance live performers)
Ed Tangent (Phantasm Records, Sunrise Manchester)
DJ Galactic Wind (Waveform)
•LIVE• Paul Didge

Café Chill with
Red Earth, The Alchemist & Sparkle

Elemental Sound System

3-D Décor By Faerie Jane
Backdrops and visuals by Deliberate Space

£10 advance tickets from Changing World 01458 831453
(credit card booking fee £1)
£15 on the day (if available)
online tix: www.archangelshop.co.uk

16 +. No unaccompanied minors please.
More info: 01458 835808
Next gig: Saturday January 19th at The Assembly Rooms featuring Dymons •LIVE•

January 17th is very significant in the Maya Long Count (events » community) Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 1:00 AM 72 RSVPs Tomorrow, January 17th 2008 is a very significant day in the Mayan long count calendar.

It is exactly 1800 days to the end of the cycle on the most commonly agreed correlation date of December 21st 2012.

This means that it is exactly 5 Tun (a cycle of 360 days) or one Holtun (5 tun).

The day sign is 11 Ahau or Sun. This is significant as the end of Tun and Katun cycles always fall on this day sign and the last day of a cycle is considered the name bearer after which the cycle is named. For example, we are now in the Katun 4 Ahau which is named after the last day of the cycle on 21.12.2012.

The Maya, as is recorded in the Books Of Chilam Balam, associated these days with particular prophecies.

Each Katun has its own energies according to the prophecies associated with these day signs.

We are now shifting into the last Holtun, which means we will be in the last quarter of the last tun of the whole long count- a cycle of 5200 Tun! I think it would be reasonable to say that the jaguar priests of the Chilam Balam would view this as being very significant indeed.

There is also a nice piece of mathmagic that appears in the day count, if we translate it into decimal numbers.

Tomorrow will be 1870200 days into the cycle.

The cycle completes at 1872000.

It will be interesting to observe how we experience this shift energetically.
What we can definitely say is that we are now living in the very end days of the great long count cycle.

Mark Heley
markheley@lycos.com

Tranceformation in Avalon (events » nightlife) Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 8:00 PM 73 RSVPs Tranceformation”s
Wizard Birthday Bash

At The Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury
Saturday January 19th, 8:00pm- 1:00am

Featuring music from the main stage at the Waveform Festival.

•LIVE• Dymons
(Elestial Records, Switzerland)
A live set of psychedelic dub from the Peaking Goddess Collective member
Colin O.O.O.D. (Organic Records)
DJ Galactic Wind (Waveform)

Café Chill with
Red Earth Collective & guests

Elemental Sound System

3-D Décor By Faerie Jane
Backdrops and visuals by Deliberate Space

£5 advance tickets from Changing World 01458 831453
(credit card booking fee £1)
£7 on the day (if available)

More info: 01458 835808
Next gig: Leap Forward! on Friday February 29th at The Assembly Rooms

Sept 12-14th WAVEFORM FESTIVAL- the sustainable dance music festival (events » live music) Friday, September 12, 2008 - 12:00 PM 74 RSVPs WAVEFORM

the sustainable dance music festival • www.waveformfestival.com

Last year Waveform established itself as an award wining, environmentally friendly event with an incredible line up of cutting edge dance music. This year, it’s back with an all night music license and even more musical variety.

This years’ Waveform will be held at Warren Farm, Liddington, Wilts, SN4 0EB, close to the M4 with easy access from Bristol and London, but far enough away from any neighbours to mean that we can extend our music policy around the clock!

SIX STAGES

With a line up that includes EAT STATIC, SYSTEM 7, GAUDI, FAR TOO LOUD and many more, the Main Stage and Gaia Chill areas return, but are joined by a vastly expanded Trance Arena. hosted with TRIBE OF FROG will host some of the finest international DJ’s and live acts around amongst incredible sound and decor. The Breaks Stage, featuring ARCHANGEL BREAKS, will return with additional electronica & dubstep to keep all tastes in quality dance music happy.

We will feature psy trance, progessive, breakbeat, dub, reggae, dubstep, glitch, minimal, funky house and electro sounds.

The Green Village with its solar and wind powered Cat’s Cradle stage, will expand into a whole area. Powered exclusively by wind and sun it will feature workshops, a kids area, a green innovations area, enchanted gardens, sauna, spa and solar showers and much more.

EARTHDANCE

Waveform is proud to be part of EARTHDANCE, the world’s largest synchronised music and dance event for world peace. At midnight on Saturday night, joined by over 300 events in 60 other countries, Waveform will celebrate the Prayer for Peace - A moment of unifying intention for world unity. A portion of Waveform’s proceeds go to Earthdance as well as our nominated charity, Ecoshelter.

www.earthdance.org • www.ecoshelter.org

GREEN ETHOS

More solar power. More solar showers. We will be proving more and even better composting toilets, extending our recycling and re-use policies and finding many other ways to minimalise our environmental impact and give a little back to the planet. There will also be a full programme of talks, workshops, saunas, showers, healing, therapies and organic food to feed the mind, body and soul.

TICKETS
Tickets are available at just £78 WITH NO BOOKING FEE from the waveform on-line shop www.waveformfestival.com.

They are also available via www.accessallares.org and www.bristolticketshop.co.uk.
Entrance on the gate is £90 (if tickets are available).

UK Festival Awards-
Nominated for 2 in 2007, Best New Festival, the Greener Festival Award,

Festival Information
3 Days • 5000 capacity • All night music license • 6 stages and arenas • All weather
Just off J15 of M4 between Bristol and London

Site wide organic food and drink • Award winning composting toilets • Disabled facilities • Sustainable power site wide • Shuttle from local transport connections • Lift share • Kids area • Luxury camping •

Check out our website www.waveformfestival.com for more information and for the line up of incredible music.

CONTACT INFO: info@waveformfestival.com
Life Changing Events, 10, St, Johns Square, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 9LJ
01458 835808

visiting ashland and san francisco- right now! (events » other) Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 8:00 PM 73 RSVPs
Hi peeps,

I'm visiting Ashland right now and will be heading down to San Francisco for a week next wednesday. Be great to hook up with as many friends as possible- I'll be at the 2012 conference, but I'm also up for dropping a dubstep set if the opportunity arises. Got lots of west country dub flavour in tow, so be good to reconnect with the west coast massive.

Drop me a line at markheley@lycos.com or text me at +44-785 555 6555

Big Love

Sony's 2012 media event tonight- the facts and the fiction (events » politics & activism) Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 10:45 PM 75 RSVPs Sony and 2012: the facts and the fiction.

Indigenous elder calls for a media boycott of the new 2012 disaster movie

This week, on Thursday October 1st, between 10:50 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. EDT/PDT, Sony Pictures are planning an unprecedented media campaign across nearly 450 TV stations in the US in support of their forthcoming Roland Emmerich directed film “2012”. Three of the major US TV networks and dozens of cable stations will near simultaneously show a two minute preview from the film depicting what the film-makers describe as the largest “roadblock” scene ever filmed.

This will effectively be the largest film preview in history shown on more stations than the Superbowl, and potentially reaching as many as 110-140 million viewers. The Sony film, as you would expect from the director of “Independence Day” and “The Day After Tomorrow”, is a glossy, high budget, effects-laden disaster movie that uses some of the more dire predictions about what may happen in 2012 as its back story.

Is this really what we can expect in 2012? The Sony media campaign has already involved a widespread poster campaign that simply states: “We were warned. Search: 2012.” What do you get when you put 2012 into Google? A few weeks ago you may have found Geoff Stray’s excellent independent website, www.diagnosis2012.co.uk; an exhaustive and informative compendium of 2012-related research. Now instead, you will get the Sony website, www.whowillsurvive2012.com- of course, promoting the film. If you navigate this site and click on the box marked “the experience” you will also find a number of links to other websites including www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org and www.thisistheend.com

Both of these are “fake” websites created by Sony to promote the film, but neither is explicitly branded as associated with it. The goal is obviously to suggest to the casual clicker, drawn in by the poster campaign or the preview event, that these are real source of information. Of course, the moderately amusing Woody Harrelson videos on www.thisistheend.com should give the game away pretty quickly. However, the website for the “Institute For Human Continuity”, is much more invidious. For example, on its home page it offers the opportunity to sign up and register for the “survival lottery” which offers an opportunity to win a place in an underground bunker, subterranean city or even a place in space on a “free-floating space colony” so that the lucky few can survive the immanent apocalypse of 2012 .

All of this desperate survivalist fear-mongering is based on a totally unsupported statement found on the website that “We know that in 2012 there is a 94 percent probability that any number of global catastrophes will threaten all life on Earth.” Of course, careful analysis of this sentence renders the idea of there being a 94% chance of “any number” of events as being absurd, not to mention mathematically impossible. However many casual surfers will be taken in by this. This marketing strategy seems somehow resonant with the great Orson Wells radio production of War Of The Worlds. i.e. create fear and panic using authoritative fakery, sit back, and laugh at the dupes who lap it up. For many, the first exposure to the ideas, theories and prophecies associated with 2012 will be through this channel. Sony’s huge promotional budget will make sure of this.

The height of absurdity is reached on the Institute for Human Continuity’s website with their competition to become “leader of the post-2012 world”. Entrants will apparently compete for “the best scores in a few games designed to measure leadership abilities.” In the small print at the bottom of the page, it reads, “The Contest is open only to permanent legal residents of the 50 states of the U.S. or D.C.” Residents of the other 194 nations that comprise the world will probably find this notion strangely familiar.

Obviously the Institute for Human Continuity is fiction. So why should we care? It’s just marketing right. Well, in actuality, for better or worse, it is actually quite difficult to tell Sony’s hype and hoopla from many of the other sensationalist 2012 websites that seem to now dominate the Google ranking in the hope of a little overspill from the media giant’s table. Search 2012 and you will find any number of sites proclaiming true knowledge of the end of the world and/or “exclusive” insights into what will happen in 2012. Many of these seem substantially less grounded in reality than Sony’s slickly produced web media fictions.

None of this would matter if there weren’t good evidence that something significant may well be happening around 2012. For example, there are many prophecies from a number of indigenous traditions that suggest that around this time very significant changes may occur both on our planet and in the structure and purpose of human civilization. The tag line for the main Sony website is “The Mayans predicted it. But we never imagined it could happen.” Is this really what the Mayans are predicting?

From looking at the “2012” website and its emphasis on the “Mayan ruins”, you could be forgiven for assuming that the Maya were an extinct or lost civilization. In fact, especially in the highlands of Guatemala, there are many tribes of indigenous Maya still living in the traditional way. They are still keeping alive their remarkable calendar, still exact to the day and have done so far at least fifteen hundred years.

Last year the National Council of Mayan Elders created a commission of twenty-five of their most knowledgeable tradition keepers to condense their prophecies about this time into a form that could be easily shared with the rest of the world. This was released this year with a lot less media attention than the Roland Emmerich film. What they said was that we are now living in a period they call “the end of time” and during this period, which could last as long as seven years, we should prepare for a great darkening of the sky. During this period, which will last about thirty hours or more, it will be unsafe to travel, or to be outside. At this time, there may be substantial earth changes, including earthquakes and flooding. However, most people who are prepared and stay put will be OK. The changes will pass and life will resume, albeit in new way. The key message of the Maya, which has been emphasized by Don Alejandro Cirillo, the leader of the National Council of the Maya, is “Don’t be afraid”. This is exactly the opposite message of the “2012” film.

It is possible, according to Don Alejandro that those who are unprepared for the coming changes, may die just from fear itself. These changes may come at any time and will not specifically happen just on December 21st, 2012, when the 5,125 years cycle of the Mayan calendar system known as the “thirteen baktuns” comes to a close. It is also possible that these changes will not happen until as late as 2015, according to the author and “spiritual teacher” Drunvalo Melchizedek, who has been appointed a spokesperson on the Maya’s behalf by Don Alejandro.

We could hardly expect Hollywood to resist this opportunity to share what Derek Harrar, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Video Services for Comcast has described as “compelling footage”. The rollercoaster thrills of a big budget disaster movie “events” are big business and “2012” is throwing its hat into the ring as the contender to be the biggest disaster movie of them all. On the other hand we have the elders from traditions like the Hopi telling us that the “hour has come” and our collective intent and focus at this time is creating and shaping the new reality we will very shortly be living in. Not a great time then to be binging out on fear!

At the recent Earthdance event on September 26th in Laytonville California, in a presentation of the indigenous prophecies, grandmother ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh called for a television boycott of the October 1st broadcast in response to the fear-mongering and distortions of native prophecy that are included in the film. What is required, in this time, she said, is for people to look to their highest possibilities, not the worst and that whatever our collective vision of 2012 is will be largely instrumental in creating what actually happens. Earthdance is a globally networked event that unifies over 200 locations in 50 countries through a synchronized “Prayer For Peace”. It is events like this, according to ChoQosh, that are required to pass through the “birthing process of 2012”. Events that unify people and allows us to collectively transcend the fear associated with the far-reaching changes that are happening at every aspect of life. “Come together and celebrate”, she said, “the time of the lone wolf is over.”

Perhaps the film “2012” is in some way also part of the prophecy of this time. Certainly, many millions more people will now know about this date and the associated predictions. It is now up to us, according to these indigenous elders, to take this opportunity and to transform it from a disaster movie into a happy ending.


Mark Heley
Author The Everything Guide to 2012, Adams Media