Hello Dear Friend of inSpiral

this is an extraordinary email as we need to tell you about an important event this Thursday - our long standing friend and inspiration Fraser Clark has recently been diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer. His time with us is possibly drawing to a close. A special one-off Megatripolis event is being held as a fund-raiser for specialist medical care.

WE WANT YOU TO COME

In the late 1980s Fraser was the creator and editor of the Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, (EPi) a London based magazine, which achieved international recognition. In it he developed the concept of, and coined the phrase Zippie, with the idea of saving the planet, encouraging a return to consciousness and embracing technology.

In 1990 he was the editor of Evolution, which was the flagship magazine of rave culture, and which gained wide recognition both here and in America, thus paving the way for Fraser's next move into dance c ulture...

In 1993 he founded Megatripolis - one of the first events to recognise the synergy arising from combining New Age ideology with Rave culture. It was the first UK indoor festival where people were exposed to cross-cultural ideas and experiences.

Megatripolis was also a pioneer of the "Parallel University", the concept of offering live talks by philosophers, scientists and activists (along with supporting literature) to club-goers. Visits from speakers such as Allen Ginsberg, Terence McKenna, George Monbiot, Howard Marks and Ram Dass were common.

Megatripolis spawned a thousand imitators and is perhaps Fraser's most enduring legacy.

In the late 1990's, Fraser teamed up with alternative theatre writer / actor / director / genius Ken Campbell to create The Warp Experience, a 24 hour stage play by Neil Oram, within a 24 hour party.

The Warp Experience was based at The Drome - the cavernous tunnels under London Bridge Station now known as seOne. After it finished, a number of the production crew went on to create The Synergy Project - now known as Luminopolis.
Fraser's trailblazing has led directly to the amazing parties that we run today - he is our spiritual grandfather.

"Deep down this man is a teacher, a spokesman and advocate for the modern urban neopagans who has dedicated his life to the spread of archaic consciousness, specifically through the Youth Culture, which he sees as our last hope for planetary survival.

Like their ancestors and most current mathematicians and physicists, Zippies have abandoned organised rules of logic in favour of reality hacking - riding the waves, watching for trends, keeping an open mind, and staying connected to the flow. For the Zippy, exploration itself is a kind of understanding, and the process of exploring is the meaning of life." Douglas Rushkoff: Cyberia (Harper Collins)
-
Megatripolis reunion:

A benefit event for Fraser Clark

Full Moon, Thursday 13th November 2008

Starting at 10pm and finishing at 6am.

Heaven Night Club, Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NG Phone: 02072678320

Tickets
£8.00 on the door

Advance online tickets are available at:
http://www.onlinestall.com/cgi-bin/stall2.pl?act=viewitem&item=1502

Donations to Fraser's fighting fund:

http://www.accessallareas.org/p ayment

Order over the phone Tel: 02072678320 and 02072676148





- The Line-up:

The main room . . . .

Cathedral

DJ's playing Shamanic + Mega -T classics only.

22:00 - 23:30 Darius Akasaic

23:30 - 1:00 Richard Gray

1:00 - 1:30 A miracle on the dance floor?
Everyone who wishes will gather on the main Heaven dance floor to Love bomb the man who started it all.

Love is the only answer, and this could be a hugely powerful application of applied love our love will flow to Fraser as deep and holy healing, surround and overwhelm him! He will absorb it and allow it to work within him, bathing all his cells in golden light. As he sends the love back out to us, we will visualise the flow of golden energy radiating out, healing, carrying all dis-ease with it, transforming discomfort into joy and worries into peace, activating a beautiful Circle of Love that will flow out through London, the planet's Heart Chakra. This is our time. Fraser will no doubt ascend to Higher Heaven at this point, disappearing in a lightning flash! (TBC)

1:30 - 4:00 Marco Arnaldi

4:00 - 5.30 Nic The Record

5.30 - 6.30 All the above DJ's will play 1 record each in rotation.

***

2nd room . . . .

Cauldron

Inspiral and Luminopolis (formerly The Synergy Project)

The Magic Cauldron of Creation invites you to a soiree of creative expressions with many of our artists linking back to the days of Megatripolis

With Contributions from

Solarquest and Friends

Sandra the Dancer

Organismic aka Rhythm of Space

Precious RGB's AV set

What's her Name - the word on the pavement

Darren Sangita sounds

A triple back to back set from Giani (Synergy Project), Aliji (InSpiral) and Zak(Luminopolis)

A Jam by the Binky Bonk Collective

and poetic contributions by Lee Harris with tails from the grove

Further Visual Delights by
Billy Tantric
ShivaMonkey

Deco by
Liquid Drops - Little Green Planet
Shiva Monkey

***

3rd room . . . .

Techno Silence Suite

A Celebration & investigation of the life, work and ideas of Fraser Clark, a giant of the Counter Culture and Shamanarchic Rave Scene. We will talk, discuss, network, meditate, pray, and even dare to be silent.

Is Fraser now being proved right in predicting (and advocating) the extinction of Dinosaur culture?

Did the old hippy/raver/tribal elder get it right?! As Western Capitalism flounders, will the New Shamanarchic Paradigm come to the fore and a more loving, harmonious, inner-travelling and non-competitive world come into being in our lifetime? How exactly will this scenario play out?

Panellists

Mark Heley, Kate Magic and other thinkers plus (health allowing) Fraser himself.

MEGATRIP FOREVER TRIBUTE: Friends, colleagues and allies of Fraser will talk about his personal influence on their lives and ideas. Audience contribution encouraged. [The MEMORY WALL will be created here, so please bring images, flyers etc from past events]

MEGATRIPOLIS FOREVER BOOK: Kate Magic will talk about her forthcoming book 1988: The Untold Story of a Revolution, focusing on her chapter on Fraser and his concepts etc.

Megatrip Forever Meditation & Prayer: Spiritual groups will be onstage to pray for Fraser's health and vitality to be restored.

Megatrip Forever Theatre: Performances from both Neil Oram's The WARP play, and Fraser's own coming MEGATRIPOLIS@FOREVER RAVE HOPERA.

Megatrip Forever Poetry: Poets will recite poems related to Fraser's life, work and person.

Megatrip Forever Film: A shamanic theme in our surprise film premiere. Expect to go on a journey.

Megatripolis Forever Connections: All night we'll be meeting, RE-CONNECTING, networking, and, dare I say it, loving each other.

Featured Performers

Neil Oram - Writer of The Warp

Kate Magic - Rave Author: '88 The Untold Story

Mark Heley - Organiser/Conceptualiser: Sunrise, WaveForm Festivals

BuddhaField - Buddhist Meditative Guides

Paradox - Poet Extraordinaire

Niall McDevitt - Poet Extraordinaire

SpaceGirl - Poet Extraordinaire

John 'The Crow' Constable - Visionary Mystic/Playwright/Poet

Yogi G./Gina Feitelson - Actress/Comedian

George O'Gurdjieff - Spiritual Teacher

Supporting Performers

RainBow Lizzy - Muse
Sionaidh K. - co-founder Megatripolis
Caress StoryTeller Supreme
Brian Barritt - Author/Muse to Tim Leary)
James Hamilton - Writer/Encyclopedia Psychedelica
Dom Spiral - Synergy/Inspiral Founder
Lyn Lovell RainBow Circle/Rainbow Family Focaliser
Raga - All Arounder
Lee Harris - Alchemy/Homegrown founder
Katee Kaos - Synergy Project/Luminopolis Organiser
Jaunt-E - Superdog

HOST: Jeff ('JeffMan') Laster.

***

4th room

Room 23

Mix Master Morris

Foolish Felix

Eddy Lovechocolate

***