Wednesday 7 September 2011

The Astroshamanic Binary System (by Franco Santoro)

Here I would like to deal a bit with Astroshamanic Binaries and what it truly means to align with them. 

Please be aware that what I am handling in these writings is not conventional astrology in the way it is often shallowly perceived. Astrology, together with other aspects of Western or Mediterranean shamanism and magic, is still largely ridiculed, misunderstood or downplayed.

The current human predominant culture, which in astroshamanic jargon we call Human Arbitrary Configuration (HAC), is in fundamental denial of shamanic states of consciousness and our true authentic self, or Core Multidimensional Identity (CMI). 

HAC is also in denial of a most controversial part, which we strategically call the bona fide horny bit, i.e. the direct link between our separated human identity with the Core Multidimensional Identity. Since the connection with that bit is essential for the survival of the Human Arbitrary Configuration itself, it is essential to guarantee exposure to the bit without unveiling its veritable nature.

The way in which shamanism has developed in the past decades in the western world mainly serve this purpose. An example is the tendency of holding in deep reverence and respect exotic forms of shamanism, while despising or ignoring the applications that are part of our own personal or collective immediate environment. This is a major contradiction for the basic principle of shamanism involves having a direct, both pragmatic and visionary, rapport with everyday reality. Such reality includes the beings, the resources, the natural as well as the artificial or urban environment that surrounds us. These are our disregarded authentic psychotropic substances, providing the entire perception of our human realities.

Astroshamanism is an attempt to unveil this immediate web of life and uncover its hidden psychoactive effect. In this context the ingestion of hallucinatory substances far from being an exceptional event is part of our daily routine. It happens while I am having breakfast, drinking coffee, eating a bar of chocolate, smoking a cigarette, watching television, reading a book, chatting in a pub, and doing most ordinary things. This does not mean that assuming substances conventionally identified as psychotropic or hallucinatory is not useful. Again it is a matter of Intent. If my purpose is to access the core multi-dimensional identity I may get some benefit from them, as long as I am then willing to uncover the profuse and unconscious psychotropic effects of my daily routine, which are actually those who generate the reality I believe to be in.

Binaries are the psychoactive matrixes of human separated reality. They are the emanation point of all the ordinary and less ordinary substances and devices that alter human mood, behaviour, perception, or mental functioning. In advanced astroshamanism binaries are ingested as core psychoactive essences.

Their intake is a vibratory experience occurring either through natural voluntary exposure (when the condition of the binary are spontaneously generated by the environment, for example: during the days of the related Sun-Moon combination, by moving through a location that is aligned with a given binary, etc.) or virtual voluntary exposure (when the binary is purposefully selected by the recipient through the access to the Binary Net, i.e. by binary positioning in the Sacred Circle, using binary drumming or chanting, etc.). The above is just a strategic trigger. More will follow experientially on this topic in upcoming workshops and events.