deathclown online April & BEYOND
please read/fill out the surveys if you are interested in training, plus new interviews and such
Click the google forms to register your interest. this is step one of the process. please keep in mind i can’t offer refunds or rollovers. please sign up as you can commit to attending. All sessions are online, using zoom.
you can see the basic pre-class instructions and code of conduct here
Saturday April 13th 10-1pm pst $50
https://forms.gle/nLpVSufa6ZoSR6wk6
Saturday April 20th 10-1130am pst $30
also included is a link to audit the devising workshop from 12-3pm pst same day
https://forms.gle/tvbdyzWymbz22ko58
An Ongoing “Theater Coven”…?!
https://forms.gle/YU4ex44CcnkbFSMt7
(you can read more about my thought process in the google form itself, and below)
I was interviewed about my nondual animist take on addiction by a chinese medicine practitioner nico
Oppression & Addiction w Dare Carrasquillo. Today’s chat involves many subjects from the concept of the self from a TCM Perspective, history of shamanic traditions, creativity and its polarity, possession, to how oppression is linked to addiction within societies. We discussed Gabor Mate’s book “In the Realm of the Hungry Ghost,” and critiqued the way addiction is treated in the modern medical system. Drink tea and be well!
my latest livedream
Relating with Business in an Anti-Relational Economic Paradigm
Wisdom is a life sentence.
To go against the addictions of society, of fate, of inheritance is a struggle for liberation on behalf of all beings, on behalf of all beings who couldn’t fight, couldn’t struggle, who gave in to temptation, who succumbed to the easier road. Solidarity is a practice, a means and an end, the start of human culture as we know it and the only way to repair the harm we’ve allowed to happen and that we are complicit in.
These kinds of words are not the words of a wealthy capitalist with an instagrammable life. In fact, when i tell the truth i LOSE followers, especially followers with money and resources. Transparency about the realities of decolonization, disability justice and massive wealth inequality are seen by capitalists as weakness, as invalidation of the authority they seek.
In the mind of a capitalist, the only true and valid authorities on health, happiness & wisdom are rich, able-bodied people with money and power to spare. This is the poisonous legacy of Patriarchal Christianity, seeped through to the new age grifters of “The Secret”. And it’s everywhere.
This is why, for the past many months, as I have tried to listen to various business coaches, that I have gotten more and more resistant to upleveling my business. You see, part of what i do and why i do it is that i’m dispossessed, i am an exile, a child of the diaspora with no real community, no real role that is situated in context. In another timeline i would have been a brujo, a curandero, a folk healer by whatever name that culture distinguishes a folk healer.
But i also can’t give up, i have to try and survive… not for “myself” but for the collective, for any possible descendants who might be able to choose sanity and stewardship over addiction and extraction. Cooperation instead of competition. Play & Respect over Abuse & Neglect.
So, how do i facilitate this ecosystem of practice in ways that actually nourish me? That is the question for which i do not yet have an answer, that may be unanswerable in this time of crisis and collapse.
I am experimenting forward, every seeming failure more data for the resolution of fate and the capacity for sudden and sublime communion with reality.
So, all that being said, a thimble full of oceanic slew, what do i think the next orientation should look like?
Simply, longer-term containers where artists can practice and make art together and where i can nourish myself with stability, constancy and regularity. What that means is something like a private container on podia/telegram/google drive with more frequent offerings and recordings, where folks can learn the methods, organize and play together, share works in process, and be held in a ritually hygienic structure. A “Theater Coven” where we can learn, experiment, gain real data and not “leak” our energy.
At this stage in the game, I am taking interested folk’s contact information for a “beta” cohort. (see google form for more info)
This beta run would have three pricing tiers (all logistics subject to change) based on your income level: $100, $200, and $300 USD per month. I may also require minimum 3–6-month commitments in order to protect my time & energy.
There are explorations we can do in a longer-term container that we cannot do in a drop-in container.
It is not possible without some trust and some familiarity.
We have to understand the basic premise of the method(s), and then we have to deal with our various social defenses, and with that, show up and practice. We have to land on the mat, we have to play for real, and we have to be carried in that process by the process.
If we are constantly threatened by abandonment, loneliness, starvation and various other fragmented experiences, our system will never get into that second or third gear. Ritually Reciprocal Relationship. Process-Oriented Creativity.
All of this is me being transparent with how dangerous and psychopathic online “coaching” & the general society of “personal self-development” has become. As a folk healer without a community this is what it might take to actually create something beneficial.
More to come, check out the google form if you’re interested and have the financial means to support. I am not able at this time to entertain notions of scholarships or subsidies but that is why i’m trying to build something sustainable.
Comment below if you have any questions or comments.
Important Links in Relation to Solidarity:
The sex-strike theory of human origins by Chris Knight and Camilla Power (UCL) Sept 26 2023 - Radical Anthropology Group
Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix | Team Human - Authors of Solidarity Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix share ways to reclaim the power of collective action.