Good Afternoon DN & FAM!

wow what a kodak shot. that's beautiful.
never been to the big apple...one day. one day.
be safe & have a rockin one.

x leanne

Have a great time Dave & Perk. Good luck with the show - I wish I could be there! It's raining here in the RI and I suppose in NY as well? I wonder if the baseball game will be postponed?

Have a great day all,

Jilla

Ima Bout Ta Do!

Dave,
Rock out with your C%&K out! Have a great show!

Stve

Dave & Perk,

Have a safe trip. See you guys on Thursday. Throw me a guitar pic and/or drumstick. Play a KISS song or two. Preferably I LOVE IT LOUD and STRUTTER.
Thank you in advance,

Mike from NYC

Dave-Have alot of fun and rock out the wicked solo's.

Brett

Have a nice trip, Dave!

That picture reminds me I have yet to go to NY. *Puts it on her 'to do' list*

I hope everyone is doing well!

~Noonie Chantelle~

Have fun guys...

Peace Out (ok c@£k out, apparently! Sorry, that should've been "piece out")

RP
x

Have a safe trip Dave!

Maybe you do need to get a place on the east coast . . .

oh no, another plane to catch, another part of your big rockstar lifestyle *bats her envy voice with a newspaper*
eheh. have fun, D&P! <3

Soph xx

Hi Dave,

Have a safe trip.

Can't wait for the show on Thursday. Sure hope Lou joins you guys!

Hope this rain lets up~~!!

take care,
itanja

Hey Scotisheyes,

Didn't see your message for me, from the 'New Ticket' thread, until today.

The last few days have been kind of bad....I PMed you at the 'old' board. Please check your messages there.

Email me through my email listed here (I also included it in the PM) & we can 'talk'.

I couldn't find your email address at your link.

Hope all is well with you & your family.

take care,
itanja

rob here
dave thats means you'll be in NYC tonight....please please please come to my show at the Continental on St Marks/Astor Pl. My band i called In Question and we go on at 11 pm. anyone else check it out!! see ya on thursday
www.inquestionmusic.com

Have a great show guys!!!
Much peace -
Scott

totally psyched for the show...geez...with all the traveling dave does...he must be exhausted with jet lag and all...he's a brave man lol...i'm so excited for this...it's just the pick me up i need...can't wait to see you guys there :-D

-Love, Emily

hey dave and everyone 'THIS IS A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT' THE MUSIC LOVERS OF DUBLIN AND IRELAND NEED YOUR HELP, PLEASE GO TO RORYGALLAGHERCORNER.COM AND SIGN THE PETITION TO ERECT A BRONZE GUITAR IN THE GREAT MANS HONOUR, PLEASE THE MAN IS A LEGEND THINK OF THE PEOPLE HE HAS INFLUENCED, ITS SUCH A SMALL THING TO DO. PLEASE HELP..........FROM STEPHEN

ATTN: 6767 PEOPLE GOING TO THE NYC CAMP FREDDY SHOW AT IRVING PLAZA ON THE 21ST!!!

Here are the preshow meetup plans!:

What:
6767 people who want to meet, hang out, chat, eat/drink/dine, and have photos taken in a replica of the DTTAH photo booth before the Campy Freddy show at Irving Plaza. Yes, that's right, this restaurant has a working photo booth that looks just like the one in DTTAH! Come hang out, even if you don't feel like eating (just order water or something).

Where:
Lemon Restaurant
230 Park Ave SOUTH (19th street, just a few blocks from Union Square and Irving Plaza)
New York, New York 10003

Map: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=New+York&state=NY&address=230+Park+Ave+S+&zip=10003&country=us&zoom=8

When: October 21st, AT 6PM.

Why: Because we can!

How: Feel free to where the X's somewhere on yourself. Or you can simply ask the matredee where the 6767 people are and he/she will send you over to the table! :)
I hope to see everyone there. Rob, Mike, Emily, Itanja, and everyone else who said they would show up. E-mail me with any questions. :)

Rock on,
- Sean

Hey y'all. HAve fun at the show everyone. You lucky guys you. Wish I was there. Al Roker said the rain is gonna stop tonight,hope no one gets sick. Take care family, have a nice sun shinny day. (as the Brady kids would say)Take care everyone.

Love, CC

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but Dave's appearance on Howard Stern will air at the following times on E!:

WEDNESDAY
10/20 11 p.m.: Dave Navarro and Savanna

THURSDAY
10/21 2 a.m.: Dave Navarro and Savanna

hey melissa, you're more then welcome here! when i first wrote a post everyone was so sweet, this is a great place to find out about when you're a musiclover especially if you dig Dave! -hope i'm not writing something weird with that phrase, thought i'd just give it a try-

hey everyone who's going to the NYC camp freddy show, have a great time! please take lots of pictures, that would be awesome ;)

i'm having another big fight with my sister so i'm glad everyone here is so excited about the show, makes me feel happy
love, emma

Emily...your excitement has been so contagious...I am really excited for you...I know you will have a killer time at the show!

Eric...I've been looking for that info...thank you very much!!!

Emma...I have a VERY volatile older Sister...the whole family constantly walks on egg shells with her and the slightest thing sets her off...then, watch out! I can so relate to your posts....I really hope you don't let it get you down. I know it's tough but I've learned with my Sister that she apparently wants everyone to be as miserable as she is and I refuse to play that game. Plus, I just tell myself she is mentally ill and can't help herself! ;)

The only reason I do the "walk on eggshells" thing is because, when she gets mad at me, she often won't let me have any contact with my Nephews, who I love dearly and am very close to (have no children of my own and never will).

Anyway....chin up Sweetie...it will blow over.

Hey dave! long time no post. Just thought i'd say hey. See how you doing. Very nice picture. I hope all is good and well. I hope you and Carmen are good and well. Have a nice dayy!

its taboo tuesday, vote for chris benoit to face HHH at wwe.com

Hey to D-Man, Perk & the fam. Hope your flight and stay in the big N-Y is smooth, and hope you guy's have a great show...which i'm sure you will. Congrat's to all the 67er's who are going... definitely planning my next trip to the apple to coincide with the purpose of seeing D... anyway, i'm in an artistic dark spot..., so if anyone wants to chat...IM on AOL at EuphoricXRecall...

love, peace, and hair grease

A-D

Be safe. Have fun! :)

thank you so much cori, that helped, i feel a lot better. it's always good if someone says 'chin up'. it's such a small thing to say but it helps, don't know how. maybe the feeling that someone read your post and is ready to share his or her experience
my parents aren't home this entire week and i was looking forward to be alone, cook my own meals, do the dishes when i want to and so on. but she won't go home and she is controling everything here.
i walk on eggshells as well, just so everything stays calm and we won't get a fight..which doesn't works because sometimes frustrations have to come out..
you're sweet. good luck with your sister and i hope things will work out and you will keep on seeing your nephews. it's good to be so close to them, i'm sure they love you dearly and you'll see them a lot.
good night everyone, emma

Thanks for being so sweet Emma!! I hope you feel better or at least I hope your sister goes home soon :) I'm so envious ofeveryone going to the show in NYC. How much fun would that be! ~Melissa~

Dave and Stephen, have fun in NY! I'll be back there to visit my family for Christmas and New Years, hopefully around that time you guys will be there again playing a killer show. Have a safe flight!

Emma...you make me feel better too...just knowing other people have Sisters like mine! ;)

Hey... when did they rebuild the WTC?

Emma and Cori, if I could have picked my sisters ,they would have been much like you. But, alas...they are not, and that's all I have to say about that(Forrest Gump voice)

Cori, you are always the voice of calm and reason here, I love the fact that every time you post something, I can relate to it...

and Emma, oh Emma, I can't wait till you decide to take a trip to the states, I will be your official hostel..

We can't choose our family, but we are bound by a sense of duty to support them, at least that's what I think.

I am thinking of the White Christmas movie, memmer,
Sisters
Sisters
there never were such devoted sisters
God help the mister
that comes between me and my sister
and God help the sister
that comes between me and my man

jezebel( I'm Danny Kaye in this scenario)

Welcome, welcome, welcome!!! It's great to have you back on the east coast.
-Melissa

Eric,

Thanks for the info. I will make sure that I watch Dave on Howard.

Mike from NYC

good evenin' everyone. i'm feeling much better thanks to you all! i'm off to bed now and hopefully have sweet dreams.
see you all tomorrow, love, emma
sisters are strange things. but if you have a sister -or brother- you are one. that's the tricky bit..

Just for a little walk down memory lane:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://6767.com

It may take a second or two...or 10 to load.

Dave & Steve - have a safe flight. See you guys on Thursday! (I'm so excited!)

NYC 6767er's... see you at the Lemon!

Argh... I have been way too busy the past two days. So calming that you people are still here. You rock.

Anyone going to see Ministry at BB King's tomorrow night? (NYC)

Sorry... in an overworked, underpaid mood. I have nothing enlightening to say.

Better mood Thursday... promise... cross my (thump, thump... it's still beating) heart.

Ciao!
Adina

hi family,

welcome Melissa!

thank you Eric for the Howard Stern info - i've been trying to find that too.

nothing personal against the Yankees, but GO BOSTON!!!

not too jealous about those going to the show thursday... come saturday, CF will be rockin LA!! hope NY is a blast, as usual.

<3 Sarah

hey Jen... how ironic is it that there were 67 results???

Dave~Have a great time in The Big Banana. :D

look like we have 2 new Melissa's!

frustrated. arghh. went to the RHCP message board, which I hardly ever go on, and it drove me insane. took ages to load. couldn't find what i was looking for. isn't that always frustrating? :S
ripping my hair out.

have had several strange days in a row...a weekend at my grandparents..
i lost track of time last night, was super late phoning my son in NJ and there was no answer, and I feel terrible about it. :( still no answer..waaahhh!!!

Hey Dave,
Spent a rainy (very unusual for LA) Sunday finishing your book. I couldn't put it down. I liked how in the end, you took responsibility for your actions and learned from your experince. It got me thinking how all of us, not just addicts, think that it is everyone else's actions that keep us in the place we are in. How hard it is to see how our own actions manifest the life we create. I am happy you are in the place that you are in now and have found your way thru "the mud". We all create our own "mud" and as we learn from it, we mold ourselves into the "perfect being" that we are and always have been. Thanks for sharing your story.
Namaste,
Sally

Hey fam. I have a technical question that's driving me crazy. I'm trying to create a typepad account but when I minimize the screen everything is thrown out of wack. How do I set it so it doesn't do that? Please e-mail me if you know the answer. I'm new to this and I can't freaking figure it out yet. But it's only been one day. Rrr

Hey, Peeps!

Hey, Dave!

What´s up? :)

Sounds like you´re bound to have some serious fun in the Big Apple, huh?

F*cking great! Rock on!

love from
Luiz.

PS: Hey, BTW - I just found this old MP3 file of my band, back from 97 and I thought some some you peeps out there might be interested.

It´s me on vocals, as usual. Care to check it out...?

http://www.geocities.com/luizmarcondesblog3/Shadow.mp3

lyrics are in Enlglish and I wrote them myself (that´s probably why they don´t make much sense! - lol - but come to think of it, that might be a good thing in a "trippy" rock and roll context such as this...)

e-mail me as much as you want afterwards...
marcondes_luiz@hotmail.com

constructive criticism is always valid and welcome!

love on ya!

Luiz. =)

Have fun you guys, and have a nice trip too.

Dave, Just wanted to say something..
I met you a long time ago in the 90's and you looked good there, but, man you have come a long way! Your attitude is so much better and you look awesome! I really truly hope the best for you and your band mates! You are and always have been, one of my top guitarists..up there with Beck and Hendrix of course Rhodes! Thank you for all the postive vibes you send to us. BIG HUG! Keep up the good work and keep giving us more great music!
Only the strong survive and you are strong! XO

Hello Jen

Thanks for the trip down memory lane - I was there at it's incarnation. I'd forgotten about Dave's ramblings. I think i even had a debate about whether there was life on mars.

Take care
Sarah K

Hey Dave, it's Justin (e-mailed you weeks ago about doing an interview, I'll try in a couple months maybe you'll have some free time then). I checked out your Spread project, and I have "Trust No One"... I recognized the shared songs but was blown away how much better the production is on TNO, and your singing. Did you take any singing lessons? Could you elaborate some on Spread vs TNO (for instance who produced Spread?)

Thanks and oh btw... you have recently become partial inspiration for me to begin working out - I started today and saw a fox during my jog :D - thanks Dave!

hey Luiz~I'll check out your music, but will have to do it later today.

Dave~can you throw a plectrum from the CF show over to Wales please? thank you! :P Make sure it's a nylon one though.

nylons..don't guys look sexy in fishnet tights? well some guys anyway? :D

Lisa
xxxx

safe travels, perk & dave :)

can't wait to meet everyone at the lemon bar. i actually partied there last summer with some "yalies" haha it's pretty cool. and if you're underage, the park avalon across the street doesn't card- we used to go there before we turned 21. it's because it's classy, they don't id there haha

went to the yanks game last nite. great seats but the outcome sucked. i REALLY hope the 'curse' isn't reversed this year- though it would suck being the most pathetic team in baseball for the past 86 years, boston. whatever happens- if ny or boston progresses- neither will likely win the series. the alcs is the real series & whichever team goes on is gonna be so tired & restless while stl or houston will be refreshed & doe-eyed since they haven't gone this far in forever. but, i have a strange feeling the bronx bombers will be able to push through against the odds- let's just hope the fall classic's umps aren't as anal as they were last nite.

NY Yankees? Did they suck in the Reggie Jackson era? I thought they were good then..okay, well that was when I was in 5th grade about. Oo

welcome, melissa! we were all newbies at one point or another ;)

Welcome Melissa #2!!! Happy Hump-Day, Dave and Family!

QUOTE let's just hope the fall classic's umps aren't as anal as they were last nite. QUOTE

Posted by: Ellen | October 20, 2004 07:53 AM

Well, Ellen, my biggest fear is that the Ump's paranoia about the fans, will incite the cops in the riot gear, which will incite the fans, which will mess with the players' heads....Can't the boys just have some fun?

I'm with you, the ALCS IS the series, just like the AFC and NFC championship games ARE the Super Bowl, but those are some mighty fine good looking men out there, and Kurt Schilling ROCKS!!!
jezebel(didn't he used to be a Dodger?)

Saw an old interview with Ray Charles on 60 Minutes the other night. He mentioned that taking heroin was something he did cause he enjoyed it at the time, but he did not think it aided him in writing music.
I thought that kind of echoed what Dave was saying earlier (last couple weeks). -2 cents

Have a firkin fun Freddy night in NYC!

hey dave

hey family

sorry i havent checked in lately, been up and down and i have exams soon. i hope you are all well

much love,

kyle

Thank you for all the welcomes!! Hello to the other Melissa!! And to think I thought my name was uncommon :)
Luiz, I tried your link but it didn't work :(
I can't wait to see Howard Stern tonight!! I heard the show the day it was on, can't wait to actually see it!! I was up late the other night and I caught a quick interview with Dave on Extra, the tv show. Dave, you want to have a little girl with Carmen? That is soooo sweet!! I can't wait for you two to have kids!! You two are going to be the best parents!!

Melissa #1 :)

Hey Everyone...

I just finished the book last night, and Im sad its over! I just wanted to keep on reading... it gives some really good insight to what makes Dave tick..

Wish I could be in NY!!

Hey all :)
Be safe dave!
How is the family today? Have fun @ the show you lucky east coasters!
Mike from NYC- I love it Loud is my favorite KISS song :)
Melissa- Welcome! Hope you enjoy this place as much as I do.
Have a great day all!
Karrie :)

Hey Dave,
You and Perk should come watch game 7 of the ALCS with some real New Yawkers! Bar East, 90th Street & 1st Ave. I know you no longer imbibe alcohal but the peeps are great and the atmosphere promises to be greater. Wish us luck!

Either way, have a great visit to our fair city and a rockin' show.

-m

happy wednesday people!

So yesterday I signed up with another temp agency and already got a call back from someone interested... it's downtown and pays a bit more than I'm earning now and I will be setting up an interview probably for Friday.
Also went to Anthony's book signing.. i'll post more about that on my blog later tonight. Needless to say I left grinning like an idiot.. haha

I got my dead bride halloween costume while out was out in westwood village... they have a great store (Ahs) there with lots of good halloween stuff. I was in there forever, I love those kinds of things!

My birthday get-together will be at the Rainbow on Sunset... more about that later.

I'm going out of town for the weekend and the next few days are going to be a bit crazy so I won't be around for a while.

I'll catch you guys later!

Maria

Good Wednesday afternoon Dave (hope all is well with you in NYC) and GOOD AFTERNOON family.

Luiz.. I tried to get to your music.. IE says that the page (file) doesn't exist.

Hook up with me on MSN.. my contact info is br.horne@rogers.com

ANYONE else can also hook up with me on MSN or AIM (spread4unicorns) or YAHOO (brhorne01).

Peace and Respect,

BH

hi everyone i'm back, well my computer is alive again! LOL

Dave have a great and safe trip.

Jezz check your email.
(remember to pray)

amor y paz,
blanca lizardi

Sorry but I'm new at this!! I just picked up your book.. think it's awesome. I was wondering what happend to your website: davenavarro.net?? Is that part of the past as well???
Lots of positive love
Carly

yeah i was wondering about davenavarro.net too.....

davenavarro.net? Isn't that where they sell TOYZ!

Blanca!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muchas gracias, mi amiga!! Te amo!!
Yes, I am having a crisis, it is about 15 years old, 5'10", and full of attitude....(I don't want to go to school, I don't want to get good grades, I have a hard time focusing ,and I am the class clown!)
Where did he get that from?

Prayer...prayer helps...prayer is good, and that two or more thing, that's a given...so, any of you peeps want to say a prayer for this mother and child, I would be more than grateful...
jezebel (It's not easy being me)

Jez, you have a 15-year-old? Holy cow... all this time, I thought you were talking about a kid no older than, like, 10, at most. You just struck me as a youngun'... not at all old enough to have a teenager. Wow... bless you, woman! It ain't easy being the parent of a 15-year-old (just ask my parents). And jeez, he's tall for his age, isn't he? PS There are worse things than being the mom of the class clown... From experience, the class clown tends to have more friends and goes further in life because people like them. I think he has a bright future, despite the lack of academic drive. Don't worry too much about him, but hey, you will... cuz you're his mum. :-)

Hey Dave
Firstly, I just wanted to say that I love all of the amazing body work you have had done. Secondly, I just wanted to know how Carmen feels about it? I mean, I know that she is your wife and she will be suportive of anything that you choose to do, but does she really like them and think that they make you more attractive, or does she "like them" because its a part of you and that's what she sees. Ya know what im saying? Does she encourage all the body painting?

Hey SnoWhite,
Nice work spotting the 67 results! I missed that!

Hi all,

i got the book today (yeah i know i am late with this) but i am so happy. So tomorrow i will start reading......
When i think how long i waited for this to happen......lol.

Additionally i got The Panic Channel shirt and sticker from my man to my birthday.....yeah, that was way cool.

So, if i am out for some time - i am reading the book.......

have a good time all, especially the ones going to see CF this week.....as usual i can only envy you...

lot of love from cold and rainy Europe,
Astrid

I still havnt got the book and i wont be getting it till the 1st of November it sucks living here !

Camp Freddy show sounds like its gonna be great! What happened to the Camp Freddy album ?

Is anything happening with the Panic Agency?

Thanks for the great news about the album and tour being soon :) Ive been walking around with a big smile on my face all day.

Hope you and Perks have a good trip to NY.

Love always,
Georgina
redhotchilifoo Panic Agent 2588

well good evenin' to everyone! i'm having a wonderful wednesday, i've had a great day with a friend so i'm feeling a lot better then the last couple of days. it rained all day and i got soaked and cold and i'm sneezing a lot so that's not a good sign, but who cares...i've ordered DTTAH and scar tissue AND i'm feeling better! HA

i was wondering, what do you guys think of a tattoo in the neck, above the spine? is it a painful place to get the first one done? i was thinking curles, not-existing figures that follow the shapes of the body, really thin lines. my parents will hate it so i want to hear your thoughts on it.
i want a tattoo someday but for now i'm just fantasising, about places i like and what kind of tattoo. i think a tattoo can make a body prettier and i think they are sexy. i mean, look at dave!!
okay, see y'all later, love, emma

Thanks for all the welcomes. It felt good to be here before anyone even noticed. Great to see good hearted people out there!
-Melissa #2 (A.K.A. Sweet Melis

Nightbird,I know, it's some kind of weird Gilmore Girls relationship we got goin'! He is just trying to exert his independence, find his place, his niche as it were, and the Girls!!!!!!BITCHES (in my best Andy Dick voice)

It's hard to be a parent when you aren't a grown up yourself, he didn't come with ANY training!!! There are NO BOOKS!!! Believe me, I have read them all, and what makes it a bit different is that he is a boy without a male figure, and a pretty strong mom, so, I need to let him be a MAN!!, I'm sure it will be ok, it's just I thought it would be easier when he learned to feed and dress himself!

jezebel(yeah, I'm the motherly type)

Yes, davenavarro.net is now toys.

Dec 2nd LA. TPC and Doheny. ~from Doheny chat, Billy M. said it was okay for him to tell that news now.
Is it on the calendar? I should have checked before posting.

heLLo all!

Just a quick hello as I haven't really checked in since the making of "ShooT"! Where are the Old6767ers??lol Colleen, sandy, Abby, Bruce, Kyle, Pony...?? good to see anyway all the new people here! Welcome to all of you.

Start your engines, and get some ideas for the online "Nu" ProjeKt Album here...

Enjoy...

FreAk*

http://freak6767.free.fr

Jezebel,

My gosh, how I sympathize with you. I'm not a parent but I was parented by the best. My parents held the line with us. As much as I hated and resented them for it at the time, I'm so glad they did. My friends who's parents were more their 'friend' than their parent didn't learn the lessons that they needed to as teenagers. As adults, they are very irresponsible because they never had to be.

And then there is always "Kids will be kids..."

My thoughts are with you

Melissa :)

hey all,

hope all is well, freak i am alive just busy with crappy university and shit! lol

thanks to abby again for getting my book signed u rock girl! and good on you dave for taking time out and doing stuff like dat - we all dig it!

Rock on Camp Freddy - if only i could make it hey!

Love all
Sandy B
-x-

hey FreAk, i've just been listening to your audiostuff on your website, and i love what you do, it sounds great :D
can't wait for another online jam, i listened to Shoot over and over again!!

jezzi, good luck with your son, i think things will work out..how could they not with such a sweet mom!

AAAAAARRRRGGGUU!!!! what the.... son of a... piece of a....

sorry, just had to get that out. life can be down right brutal.

Luiz- I'd like to hear your stuff but, I couldn't get the link to work.

FreAk- I'm working on an Idea for a drum loop. may need some help converting it though.

Jezzi- 15yr old boys....hmmm well they can be a mess. I remember. it was a while ago but not so long that I don't remember. I remember that I was tough on my parents but they just let me know they were there for me. I would act like I didn't care but I did. In a big way. good luck.

and Cori once again THANK YOU!

jez- i agree. i was scared seeing those armed guards last nite! (gulp) though the fans (inappropriate unsportsman-like fans) chucked debris onto the field. so i could see the concern, but still v. scary for us normal peeps! but unless the calls were horrifyingly illegitimate, which they weren't (which i HATE to admit), it would've gotten ugly- fo' sho.

i think that schilling was actually one of those bastard diamondbacks pitchers back in '01...we besta not succumb to the suckly NL teams!!!

let the best man win, i say ;)

(but that man, better be decked in pinstripes!)

Hey Emma,
I'm all about tattoos. I, myself am getting my next tattoo on the nape of my neck. From what I hear from a tattoo artist friend if mine, and also from some friends (female) who have tattoos just below the neck, between the shoulders, it's supposed to actually feel REALLY good. On women only. Men don't have the same reaction to that particular spot. Plus it's a pretty dicreet place to have a tattoo, which adds to the mystique and sex appeal! Well, that's my opinion anyway! Good luck with whatever you decide. I'll let you know how mine turns out.

-Sweet Melis

FOR LA PEOPLE:

does anyone know of a good restaurant near Wilshire & Western (near the Wiltern Theater) that has good, cheap food and beer? i'm not from the LA area and we want to find a good place to eat and drink before the CF show Saturday night.

Thanks!

<3 Sarah

ATTENTION ATTENTION SPAN!!!

"THE WORDS OF ROB BREZSNEY"

AN EXCERPT FROM:
PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia:
How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
to be published in early 2005

Copyright 2004
by ROB BREZSNEY / www.freewillastrology.com

THIS IS A PERFECT MOMENT

This is a perfect moment.

It's a perfect moment for many reasons, but especially because you and I are waking up from our sleepwalking thumbsucking dumbclucking collusion with the masters of illusion and destruction.

Thanks to them, from whom the painful blessings flow, we are waking up.

Their wars and tortures,
their crimes against nature,
extinctions of species
and brand new diseases.

Their spying and lying
in the name of the father,
sterilizing seeds and
trademarking water.

Molestations of god,
celebrations of shame,
stealing our dreams and
changing our names.

Their ingenious commercials
and bloodsucking hustles,
their endless rehearsals
for the end of the world.

Thanks to them, from whom the painful blessings flow, we are waking up.

•

Their painful blessings are cracking open more and more gashes in the shrunken and crippled mass hallucination that is mistakenly called "reality." And through the fractures, ripe eternity is flooding in; news of the soul's true home is pouring in; our allies from the other side of the veil are swarming in: inspiring us to become smarter and wilder and kinder and trickier.

We are waking up.

As heaven and earth come together, as the dreamtime and daytime merge, we register the shockingly exhilarating fact that we are in charge--you and I are in charge--of creating a brand new world. Not in some distant time or faraway place, but right here and right now.

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As we stand on this brink, as we dance on this verge, we can't let the ruling fools of the dying world sustain their curses. We have to rise up and fight their insane logic; defy, resist, and prevent their tragic magic; unleash our sacred rage and supercharge it.

But overthrowing the living dead is not enough. Protesting the well-dressed monsters is not enough. We can't afford to be consumed with our anger; can't be obsessed and possessed with their danger. Our sweet animal bodies need love and fertility. Our imaginations crave tastes of infinity.

In the New World that we are creating, we've got to be steeped in lusty compassion and ecstatic duty, ingenious love and insurrectionary beauty. We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

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So I'm curious, my fellow creators. Since you and I are in charge of making a brand New World, where do we begin? What wild truths do we want at the heart of our transformations? What fresh codes and stories will be our oracles? What crafty questions and uplifting desires will be our inspirations?

Here's where I want to begin: with pronoia. Pronoia is the opposite of paranoia--the antidote for paranoia.

Pronoia is the true theory that all of creation is conspiring to shower you with blessings.

Pronoia is the guarantee that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

Pronoia says that everything alive is working very hard to liberate you from ignorance and transform you into the gift of love you were born to be.

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I am allergic to dogma. I thrive on questions, and don't trust any idea that tempts me to believe in it absolutely. There are very few perceptions or theories about which I am totally certain.

But I am absolutely certain that pronoia describes the way the world actually is. Pronoia is wetter than water, truer than the facts, and stronger than death. It smells like cedar smoke in early spring rain, and if you close your eyes right now, you can feel it shimmering like the aurora borealis in your soft, warm animal body.

Some Buddhists say the inherent nature of existence is suffering; they long to escape into nirvana. Many Catholics say the inherent nature of life is sinful; they long for the purified peace of heaven. But pronoia assures us that the inherent nature of life is to liberate us.

Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place.

I'm not exaggerating or indulging in poetic metaphor when I say this. Visualize it if you dare.

The sweet stuff that quenches all of our longing is not far away in some other time and place. It's right here and right now.

As Elizabeth Barrett Browning knew, "Earth is crammed with heaven."

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"Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.� -Teilhard de Chardin