March 7th 98
Illustration : Kitamura Masashi
Hi all,
At the moment, we are for the great
majority confronted to economical problems, related
to the financial crisis in the East and in the West, and this leads to an
unexpected direction of our activities. I have been gathering those of us who
are from Asia, and those who live in the West and are familiar with Eastern
culture.
Having travelled to Asia myself
from France to India by road when it was still possible, and must say the East
has been making again my whole education, and I am eminently grateful to it for
the result.
Foe H. Tamajiro : http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/foe4foe/foeindex.htm - foe4foe@sprynet.com who is one of my Interzone
friends and co-worker since the beginning of the group (see Western Lands http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands for Interzone),
proposes we connect for working together : he works in US with Japan and looks
for people who like to bring in Japanese markets, as he has no problem
localizing their sites (translating, and registering their site in Japanese
search engines) : թ!o,~n"a_(o٬kfI___RAVEnՋkD]W"gJ~Y
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There now is a Work page in the site Western Lands, gathering
our respective specialities, adverts, writtings ready to be published, etc. We already have a CD
project started with translations of the Last
Words of Hassan Sabbah, which can be spread then in the East and the West.
At the moment, Pierre has been printing
tee-shirts with a collage of Burroughs, and we are gonna
sell them to have some money to start something. He is also into CD and video,
and is a painter and tailor as well.
Andrew is printing a review, Rub Out, we
are also gonna sell. Bhagi
is also musician and can also press CD and make import-export with India.
Thanks to our different orgines,
we can get organized in function of the laws of the different countries, and
choose the easiest ones according to our respective projects.
For those of you who are not used to Interzone yet, we have been making a pact of mutual
assistance and help each-other when needed.
Andrew introduced the concept of the zone
as a psychic refuge, on the principle of the city of Refuge in Hawaii, and we
visualize it and use it as such.
So we can have knowledges, data and
parameters from our respective cultures, as well as scientific domains of
knowledge of the West.
The idea of making this group comes from
the past : in the middle age, during the crusades,
some religious French order, the Templars, met in Iran another group of mystic
warriors, the Ismaelians of the commune of Hassan Sabbah in Alamut. See : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Derniersmots.html
They both had problems with the Turks from
Mongolia, who had invaded Jerusalems and were threatenning both of them. So they decided they had no
reason to fight each other and better become allies. So they did, and decided
to mix their respective knowledges at all levels, to gather the data from the
East and the West.
The Ismaelian tought the Templars the use of Arabic numbers, which they
ignored, using the Roman numbers, as well mathematics and astrology, which the
Roman numbers did not allow to access to.
They also had Arabic translations of Greek
authors from antiquity which were not translated in Latin and Europe did not
know then.
They extended their collaboration at the
spiritual level as well, and studdied each other's
religions and holy texts considering them as complementary elements of a same
set.
As a result, they both got to a state of
evolution which their own respective civilisations
had not reached yet, invented a bank system, and became very prosperous, strong
and respected.
Stating the similarities of our respective
situations and the efficiency of the method, I thought it might be a good thing
to do and propose we do the same.
In our case, we would mix several culture, which would allow an exponential "Third
Mind" out of it (in human communication, 1 + 1 = 3 refering
to the law of non-addititvity in mathematics).
Foe, Gary, Rick, Andrew and I have been
practicing such exchanges since the beginning of Interzone
in August, and we often are dumbfounded with the results, as everybody can
bring a new light which would never have appeared to the others.
Another important domain we can work on is
medical research and gather traditional, alternative
and modern medicines. Here also the first steps are valuable, as new
therapeutic directions in different domains which come out of it do not need
money nor credits, can be applied easily by anybody, and are not
harmful nor weakenning for the organism.
I'm gathering them at the moment and shall
communicate them to you then.
Now, in the direction of the communes project, for those of you who want to realize it,
one easy thing to do could be to rent a place here in function of the number of
persons.
For instance, renting a big farm for ten
people would not be much for each, much more cheaper
than renting an individual flat. Here, we can produce our own food, buy it from
the farmers very cheap and better quality than in the chops (I have
experimented both, it works great and is easy); then we can earn money in
function of our needs through artistical activities,
a cheap restaurant with Asian food (I'm a good cook, can make very cheap and
good food and love it) and make our researches and own stuff.
This would also be a place for people of
the group who need cares : in this domain, we can get
registered as a "thereapeutic lieu de vie"
and get also money for this and share it. I got some infos
about it and it's easy now. This would be also the
perfect solution for taking Louis, the guy who made me discover Burroughs, out
of the hospital where he is since 20 years, and where he has nothing to do.
So this is a summing up of the main
directions. Let me know what you think and if you are interested in some of
them.
Love.
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