The GEnie Files 1992 - PART 5
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RITUAL NUDITY AND SEXUALITY
Category 3, Topic 7
Message 228 Sat Apr 25, 1992
STAVROS at 21:39 EDT
I think the diversion started because many relate nudity to sex. My dog doesn’t wear clothes and she has sex on her mind during heat twice a month.
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Category 3, Topic 7
Message 229 Sat Apr 25, 1992
J.AUDLIN at 22:04 EDT
Right, Stavros, though I think discussing nudity or sexuality as they relate to ceremony are both fine here. But you’re right that nudity does NOT mean sexuality. (Or vice-versa, for that matter.) Our inipi ceremonies are in the nude, but sexuality simply is not a part of them. Anybody who can’t dissociate the one from the other is not welcome. ––Jim
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Category 3, Topic 7
Message 230 Sat Apr 26, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 04:33 EDT
Down, Stavros. Today I heard that she is doing her thesis on me…that makes me feel old! Wonder if that means she will come to a ritual performance.
Back to the topic … I’ve said acts like “sexual” intercourse have different dynamics and effects when they are done within a magical ritual than they have when they are done within normal life. To understand this, you have to understand shamanism evolved from the act/trance/state of playing common in mammals. Playing is a state in which acts are temporarily drained of their normal meanings/results so that a high level of “safeness” is created. Within this state, learning, exploring … and new combinations of action/thought can be tried out without fear/pressure/taboo … because it’s “just pretend.” “Just pretend” is in fact another reality. Playing and dreaming are closely related.
CENSORSHIP
Category 39 Topic 35
Message 120 Sat Apr 25, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 04:02 EDT
As you know, I am doing a double bill with Johanna Went at LACE in L.A. in July. The NEA has just demanded LACE to not put the NEA name on the posters for some of its shows [guess which shows!]. By doing this, NEA is expressing, covertly, its displeasure at LACE for booking artists like Went and myself…blacklisted artists. But blacklists are always covert, hidden, denied. Above-ground galleries after they had me perform in them, have been audited, grants cut or denied, permanently closed down for “fire code.” It’s never directly linked to me or artists like me…or else!
When Helms had me investigated TWICE by the G.A.O., they never came to me. Instead, they quizzed the galleries about me. Helms or the G.A.O. NEVER said why I was investigated [the press assumed it was for “obscenity” (nudity and expanded sexuality) and for “anti-religious” (shamanism).]
I even challenged Helms in an open letter to talk to me man to man, as is the American way…………………no reply!
CENSORSHIP IS UNAMERICAN!
THE DEATH PENALTY
Category 9 Topic 46
Message 75 Sat Apr 28, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 02:47 EDT
Steve, what you said proves my point. A reality that justifies state killings as a form of pure revenge is a reality in which such statements as “so what if a few innocent people get executed and those guys might have not done that crime…but they must have done something…so fry them,” along with a stabbing killing machine are put forth as reasonable and serious. I do not want to live in that reality, do you? In that reality, why shouldn’t a guy kill an innocent person just to get revenge on a society which he thinks done him wrong…or why shouldn’t a woman beat her kid just because it makes her feel good to let the anger and revenge out?
If we create and accept this revenge, we would lose the logical/ethical/moral base from which to fight crime and to teach.
Revenge is brought up as a reason for the death penalty when it is hard to prove death penalty deters crime. Similarly, the death penalty does not feed, house, educate a single person. It wouldn’t free up any money [unless we radically distort our traditional concepts of justice and freedom…and that price is much too great!]…
Now, I was waiting to be accused of living in an ivory tower! The places I perform at are usually in the toughest parts of all major U.S. cities, I’ve panhandled, survived the streets, at least 4 people have tried to kill me…….and so on. An ivory tower?
Cynicism and fear create a rusty prison cell of isolation. Frankly I refuse to let THEM force me into that cell!
RELATIONSHIPS
Category 28 Topic 46
Message 56 Wed Apr 289 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 03:48 EDT
The few weeks ago, I was reading GENIE personal classifieds…you know…swm looking for swf…must be 22.4 years old, blue eyes, 5’2”, 126 lb, flosses, must like Chinese food, etc. And they wonder why they are alone. Why they can’t meet someone. Why their relationships break up, etc.
There was one ad: E-MAIL FRIENDS WANTED…MALE AND FEMALE, NONROMANTIC AND NONSEXUAL…GAYS NEED NOT REPLY.
I wrote back: WHY NOT GAYS?
On here we have a chance to relate to one another without being divided by bodies, beyond time and space. When I talk to Jim, I’m aware that I’m talking to a lot of other people in different times, most of whom I may never hear from…but with whom I’m in dynamic relationship.
Who knows, Jim may be a big-titted babe with great legs! The point is, we here meet in spirit, get to know one another as personalities, not tied to bodies…then, if we want, we can put our bodies on…meet in the flesh…and play together…which is my favorite pastime.
BTW, I’m a lesbian in a male body.
RODNEY KING VERDICT REACTION
Category 9 Topic 49
Message 244 Sat May 02, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 04:17 EDT
As…C said, the basic cause of this is the feeling of personal powerlessness, ineffectiveness. This is the modern emotional illness which leads to cynicism and seeing other people as nonhuman or subhuman, “justifying” violence and revenge created by hopeless fear. This is why the cops beat this huge drugged black unknown subhuman animal. They were afraid…and all their numbers, guns, clubs, training did not remove the illness of personal powerlessness. So they kept beating this unknown animal. To them King was not human, but an abstracted fear. We can not tolerate this because, in fact, King is a human…and you do not treat humans like this. The cops made racial jokes to cover this fear, this ineffectiveness up.
This is why the jury came in with the not guilty verdict…or one of the reasons. They thought of King as a dangerous ex-con against whom they need protection by the cops.
And this modern illness of personal powerlessness, helplessness, and cynicism is the real cause of the riots and lootings…the verdict was just a mirror to focus and reflect this illness. But executions, beatings, burnings, guns, and in general believing ourselves victims is only slowly cutting our own wrists. Only by you and me assuming the power of being human will this change…and don’t wait for “leaders”…real change rarely comes from that quarter.
MAGICAL LIFE
Category 28 Topic 46
Message 72 Sat May 05, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 02:46 EDT
It’s cozy, warm, cuddly in here. In here we can play with each other…rub skin to skin. In reality the skin is the eighth body center, connecting the other 7 body centers into an interpenetrating circle, rather than a vertical column of blocks. The skin is not a dividing line between YOU and me, between OUTSIDE and INSIDE. Rather, the skin is the connecting organ of our tribal body.
THE MEAT ACT
Category 15 Topic 48
Message 54 Sat May 05, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 05:10 EDT
I’m singing a Black Sabbath song. Strobe light. Nude dancers, oil on their body, dance slowly, erotically, throw glitter on each other, then cover each other in chocolate, then whipped cream. Meanwhile Linda in black with her two monsters enters and stalks through the audience, looking for prey. All of the sudden, Linda unleashes the monsters onto a person [a plant]. They drag the person screaming onto the stage under the strobe, rip the person open and begin the feast…the smell of catsup, chicken skins, and cow guts adds something. At one point Linda pulls the victim up from death into life slowly, gently…bright stage lights come on. Everyone rocks from side to side, hugging one another, singing the Sonny and Cher corny, upbeat spiritual, “[YOU GOTTA HAVE] SOMEBODY”.– – the end.
Diane, how did I do? Do I get PG-13?
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Category 15 Topic 48
Message 55 Sat May 05, 1992
MODEM.MOM[Diane] at 14:03 EDT
Wow, Shaman!! That was practically a “G” rating!! I =am= impressed…
MAGICL LIFE
Category 8 Topic 7
Message 190 Sat May 12, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 03:43 EDT
A neat thing happened. A woman, Brenda, somewhere in the Midwest bought my ART OF A SHAMN [autobio/art lecture]. And Brenda gave it to one of her woman friends. It turns out when this woman was a child, she had a baby sister who she loved. The doctor told the parents the baby had no I.Q. and they should put her in an institution…the same thing the doctors told my folks about me. My parents didn’t buy it…but her folks followed the doctors’ advice…and for 40+ years, the family didn’t have contact with the sister. But after the woman read my piece, she hired a detective to find her sister. It turns out the sister was “normal” except for a slight case of CP, and was put in a foster home. Now the sisters are getting back in relationship.
I was blown out when I got that letter…it’s like if my work just had that one effect, it would have all been worth it!
FREEDOM
Category 9 Topic 44
Message 25 Sat May 18, 1992
F.MOORE7[SHAMAN] at 00:05 EDT
Religion is a dangerous reason to support any law…as we are seeing in other issues such as abortion and censorship. In my religion, nudity and physical play are healthy and moral…but I would not dream of passing a law banning clothes.
Laws against drugs do not stop drug taking. It just creates fear that then can be used for money and power. Drugs today are used to keep people powerless…and laws against drugs play a large part in this.
The basic issue in this is whether the person has the right to control his/her life. Car racing can be fatally dangerous. But car racing should not be outlawed…just put in a context which sets a socially safe frame such as the racetrack.