gifts from strange places

The best Mercury retrograde I've ever experienced!
Just at the times when you need it - strange treasures are dropped at your feet - or a finger beckons - or a song is sung - or you read a poem...and the veil is ripped, Maya dissolves and a whole new plateau of experience opens out before you in wondrous unbelievable detail...the light...just right, the colors so rich you are physically saturated and the sounds, the words....

Here you go guys:
Here’s a huge giftie.

I saw this band Mankind is Obsolete at a new heavy music club, the Cellar in Greenville last night and they were incredible. Riveting, explosive, profound, powerful, scary the way they get in your head, make you wanna do stuff...(you'll come up with your own stuff).... Very tight, very professional – way too good for Greenville. They’re on the level of arena type bands. More industrial than Coildwave, like Nine Inch Nails with a girl singer. Plus they were all really really humble and nice to talk to... check them out, go them if they come close to you – beg them to play close to you - you will not be disappointed.

http://www.mkio.com/

http://www.myspace.com/mankindisobsolete

Second giftie: James Hillman speaks about the gods at Mythic Journeys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFkkQ9eq8qw

Third giftie: Okay and to tie it all together with the Mankind Is Obsolete lyrics of "Trapped Inside" and "Silent Killer" (not the best poetry but okay lyrics and a pivotal concept)...a must read book by all the seekers out there, one of the best I've read on the whole waking up experience written by a psychiatrist, professor of philosophy and anthropology who became a shaman in his own right:

"The World of Shamanism, New Views on an Ancient Tradiiton" by Roger, Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Have fun opening doors.