The Esoteric Hip Hop Knowledge of The Black Dot
Alterati editor-in-chief James tipped me off to a book he saw in a crazy book store tucked away in an obscure corner of Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market. Beside the Aleister Crowley and Eliphas Levi tomes and David Icke DVDs was a book about a magickal approach to hip hop. After some digging The Matrix of Hip Hop website and the Hip Hop Decoded: From its Ancient Origin to its Modern Day Matrix book was unearthed.
The author – Harlem based The Black Dot – outlays a trippy occult Hip Hop cosmology, probably best expressed in the video The Five Bloodlines of Hip Hop, where we learn how our ancestors (well, maybe not mine …) came to earth through five elemental gateways, how the Golden Age was destroyed by parasitic mutants, the transformation of the elemental archetypes of communication (Hieroglyphics, Drummer, Oracle, and Dancer into Graffiti, DJ, Emcee, and B-Boy), the unifying power of the etheric pineal gland, how the ancestral bloodlines were reactivated by hip hop in 1973, how the mutants tried to use gangster rap to thwart the reactivation and the hip hop zero point singularity of 2012 where the planet will vibrate to throbbing higher dimensional beats and rhymes.
The Five Bloodlines of Hip Hop
The What The Bleep … Do You Know about Hip Hop lecture has – aside from the raps about Morphic resonance and orgone clouds – a riff on a public occult G.W. Bush/Katrina/NFL draft pick ritual that reminds me of the weird conspiratorial ideas of Michael A. Hoffman, who posits that the satanic illuminati Cryptocracy perform their evil rituals in public using the mass media as a stage, “shadow plays for the Pepsi generation.”
What The Bleep … Do You Know about Hip Hop
Public occult rituals designed to enslave the masses are further explored in the Nas and Jay-Z Ritual lecture, the inclusion of media stars in magickal theory and practice for me resonates with the pop magick of comic writer Grant Morrison and numerous other
currents in the occult underground.
Nas and Jay-Z Ritual
One thing I tend to forget as I ponder the possible planetary transformation as prophesied by seers and visionaries ancient and modern is that change agents aren’t monopolized by dark clad Goths transcending reality via distorted electronic drums and detuned guitars and high tech New Agers chatting with other dimensional entities in an emergent desert city, that the Omega Point, the Apocalypse, the Singularity, the End of Time and History, the Age of Horus etc. etc. etc. is probably going to manifest itself through the near infinite variations of culture, environment and human uniquenesses, apparently contradictory until unified by true knowledge, maybe the result of a fully activated pineal gland …? not some monolithic uniform Idea.
Or maybe not, and the future will be a big budget blockbuster movie or video game of whatever dystopic scenario is terrifying the population into paralysis that day, or simply just the same old, same old, spending December 12, 2012 shopping at Wal-Mart City, coming across a great deal on a brain chip that fills the mind with the latest pleasurably mindless thoughts harvested from Chinese brainwave factory farms, narcotic patches on sweaty foreheads, the thoughts remixed into novel forms by Manhattan hive mind advertising cults, but regardless, The Black Dot succeeded at tripping out an otherwise overcast mellow Sunday afternoon.
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Honestly, the future that terrifies me most is the one where, more or less, nothing changes. The Grim Meathook Future, as other, better, writers have deemed it. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the old structures of authority maintain their grip on the world even as the rate of change accelerates, keep a lid on any sort of systematic restructuring of civilization. The people in power may change, and how they govern may change, but in the end there are always the bastards in charge and the governed, the few and the masses, the core and the periphery, exploiters and the exploited.
Even your pessimistic outlook of the same old, same old seems like too much change, too fast to me, and I’ve lived more than half my life since 1990. We won’t have commercially available brain chips in 2012. The tech will be there- it practically already is- but it’ll be just another one of those marginalized science fiction elements edging into the peripherary of our awareness, like robot medics, bionic eyes, apes with cyberlimbs and nanomechanical bloodcell replacements.
The people who have the power are too invested in keeping things the same to let it be otherwise, even the ones that supposedly thrive on growth and innovation. If the system works, why change it?
Yea it’ll be the Aeon of “Don’t quit your day job”.
This is inspiring — that metaphysical, spiritual information is making its way into hip hop culture and thinking. It’s about time the frequencies are raised in that territory, although there’s serious risks for abuse & faulty logic (of which I heard much in the three talks posted). Nevertheless, hip hop plays a critical role in modern life, just as Baroque played a critical role in the 1600s. We live in a cut-up society, in which sampling, and cuts, & scratching, and “stream of consciousness” cypher-spinning lyrics, and “broken” dance moves, etc. make up a large part of cultural expression: the MTV generation with the fast cut editing & ADHD? Collage & multicultural self-splitting diversity & narcissism so crucial to our survival and navigation of the modern world.
Kind of funny, I just thought about my workings with the Hip-Hop pantheon earlier today. I finished the workings when at a dance party and the spirit of Hip-Hop rode me; I only have hazy memories, though the spirit communicated with ill rhymes that I felt far beyond anything my surface mind could create. My friends could not believe my dancing, or so they told me. My first case of possession that did not occur while using any drugs.
Keep On Keeping On, good stuff.
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