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Ẅ̷̡͎̞͔̫̙̞͈͙̓̈́̏͐́͂͝e̷̗̯̔͗̀̆̇̎͛ were the wildcard on 25.4 - we got there fresh and sweated it out under a sweltering Berlin sun.

The atmosphere was tangible. Playful. Like electric sugar. One by one solo artists, soul singers, lyrical poets and musicians took to the stage (something like 20 artists performed) each supported the other - no one was left behind 🕊

Blessed to have met such talented and warm people - welcomed onto a DIY stage, fed, watered and embraced °•.

Live electronics / Håvard Møen Otnes
Bansuri flute / Himansh Pandey
Vocals guitar / Drew Pegram
Host with the most .stoni

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'Ring-fenced propagandised Patriarchy' meets an 'Existential clearing in the forest'

There's been a lot of talk around dissolving timelines, shifting paradigms and ego dissolution in circles I move within.

If you've found yourself facing 'deep change', it's no surprise - human beings struggle with change. Magic, once revealed through children's eyes is stripped away in an unfair exchange with toxic societal hypernorms.

Have you found yourself seeking safety, solitude, clarity and simplicity?

I've dropped into a space recently that can only be described as 'a clearing in the forest'.

This space represents a divide, into which our raw natural self discovers, on the one hand lonesomeness, and on the other, companionship. It's a middle space which calls for nothing but awareness. Here, in the background I hear no calls for rental payments, health insurance contributions, compulsory pensions or tax obligations.

This 'clearing in the forest' is an embodied space which resonates more with my animal than with what the puppet master would call 'my swayable ego'.

The idea of myself does not exist there - the clearing in the forest is a 'deep soul state'.

I sit here, like a wolf among wolves - with those primal eyes that seem to presume nothing but speak so exquisitely of life itself.

It came to me some years ago that I am tired. I'm tired of the systems which we have inherited, none of which I had any say in shaping. Systems which place such an emphasis on hitting the mark and allow so little room for individual agency, let alone wisdom, child-like play or activities outside ring-fenced propagandised patriarchy.

The answer is to begin walking. Advance, evolve and abstain. If you, like me, feel an urge to curl up and retreat into dispair at times - know that the system was designed to create conditions that perfectly support downward disempowerment. A spiralling that clips your divine wings in exchange for absent-minded capitulation.

Walk away - toward the clearings in our forests

Hugs
Drew