Inspired to Drop Out: Marking The Way and vibrating with the tuned-in mind.

I've journeyed many times over the years. Not just in the physical sense of placing one foot in front of the other and moving between locations, but in the psychenautical sense of dissolving egos and awakened consciousness. Not being one for the mundane and base reality with which many have become accustomed, it was perhaps an inevitability that the wanderlust inherent to my mental rhythm would see me fall into an altogether different vibration.

I remember the first time like it was yesterday. It was February 2008 and a strange herbal mix owing it's origins to the rainforest of South America found me in the City of Bath, nestled as it is amongst the hills of North East Somerset. I was studying Politics with Economics at the University of Bath, was extremely politically active, and was [it might be fair to say] much of the rigid mindset - firm in my social construct and dogmatic in my world view.

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That plant, a particular species of Diviner's Sage changed everything. With my reality melting away, my construct peeling back to reveal an altogether unknown bio-energetic entity, my perceptions had been forever altered. As the years passed by life moved on. But the great unravelling of my consciousness had only just begun, and with time I was to stumble upon more of what I have come to term Nature's offerings.

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As an artist it's hard to contemplate creativity without mysticism. And insofar as mystical experiences do occur, it perhaps follows in a long tradition that the insights gleaned in such moments should continue to inspire as they do. Psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, even cannabis have all found their own place in what I have come to call my great awakening. But as much as I have come to enjoy such presence of mind and spirit, so too have I become wary of the danger of turning on and tuning in, only to drop out for just a short moment, prior to dropping back in wish all the fuzz of a barely audible radio frequency.

The ongoing unravelling perhaps demonstrates as much. I've had moments of consciousness, harmony, and pure hedonistic pleasure fill me with spirit and open my consciousness to the powerful being I truly am. But equally I've hit the bottom of the rollercoaster and plummeted back into the conventional reality which buzzes all around me.

Hard it has been to maintain my tuning in the modern population centre. It's not just the energy of the city-space, but the pollution, hysterical levels of social conformity, and the altogether rushed existence which can only ever detach the tuned in mind from it's natural harmonic centre.

This is perhaps why I've found myself journeying again. Initially it started out of a spiritual desire to turn on my being and reconnect to my mystical centre. Such a long time as it has been since I first realised to take my inspiration and set out on the wanderers path. But this time it's different, and where once there were only questions, now I feel I am beginning to find answers.

Where this journey will take me I have no idea. But I feel inspired once more. And with the glaring reality reflecting back at me from my once more open eyes, I cannot help but feel that the time is fast approaching where the urge to drop out and ditch what has become an altogether urban reality, is one which will push me deeper and deeper into the naturally vibrating bliss with which I have become accustomed, and with which my recent journeying has so clearly begun to mark The Way.