Jully 12^th 98

Hi all,

I had more computer problems recently and had to have it repaired again. So I lost the mail of 2 days : Ramuntcho, if you get this, I lost the E-mail and URL you had sent some hours before it collapsed.

Following the changes in the following sites :

a bulletin board , recordings, videos, and more to come soon.

Gary is also prepairing a site on buddhism.

Pierre has been gathering musics and recordings of the translation.

I send him the audio tapes some of you sent me, as well as to Foe.

we can now make an academy on the web gathering data in different domains . Foe proposes to make a bulletin board where we could exchange :

Here are the main subjects presently :

the story Feminine happened to one of his friends. You can write to him at :

Also two people have problems with kicking habbits. One is looking for a doc in US, and Jim, the Interzone doc, is in holidays at the moment.

Until now, Jim, the doc, has been really helpful and could handle all the requests sent to him (he even cured my bronchitis). But when he is not here, and in front of problems out of the medical area, we lack quick and effective solutions. How can we get organized to give it ?

Other opportunity, complementary with the Beat Hotel : put up something in the country side here (near Poitiers, 1.30 hour far from to Paris by train), where the land is the cheapest of France, and the region very nice So we would have two places allowing to answer our different needs (see below : in Communes).

If any of you is interested in this, let me know.

For the moment we have not dealt with money as a group, except for testing if we could get organized together to create something, and sell it : Pierre made it with the tee-shirts, and demonstrated we could (by the way, I still got 3 left). It was not a financial operation, but this was not the aim : the important point is that we can make it. Testing different experiments involving very smalls sums of money allow more freedom without taking risks.

Untill now, money has not interfered in our common work. But if we make the CD and sell it, or publish our writings, we shall have to take it in account. And if we do not fix before a common base of agreement for its use, distribution, etc…, it may lead to conflicts, which I want to avoid, because we never had any involving money untill now.

Also being from different countries from the East and the West, we need to consider the present economical context and see if we can find ways at our scale to avoid its repercussions in the frame of our East-West collaboration :

As far as I am concerned, in case my writings would be published, I'd like a part of the benefit got to a common fund of the Zone, which we could use then to make other things which require money, and which we would determine altogether, in function of our priorities.

The directions I have worked on about the economical organization and which I can propose are the following points :

• Use of money as a symbol of exchange and not as a value in itself
• Bases of exchanges agreed by everybody and similar for everybody : how can we settle fair rules ?
• What do we do about the problem of the fluctuation of the money : how can we get protected from this ?
• If we cannot solve those problems in the frame of the present monetary organization, which frame could we put instead which would avoid the tricks of the previous one ? Eventually, which symbol of exchange to adopt instead of money which would have a common effective value at the human level for all of us (and not only a symbolic one depending on factors we cannot handle) ?
• We have no money, but a huge of human potential. So we have nothing to loose really in the present economical situation, as our human resources remain. As a result, we can use these resources

Which types of commune do we intend to settle and where ?

According to which needs and means ? some needs a shelter, some need a way of life independant of the economical present context, some want a gay commune, some need a place to be taken care of, some want a peaceful place to come from time to time, rest , create altogether, some want to put up a physical academy, etc.

So the communes can have different shapes : a common big place or a common organization between people living in different places.

I got a personal documentation on it which I want to put at Interzone's disposal as it is more accessible than most of the doc on the net. This is the method I've been using untill now (see Ministry of Persons :

and the trap doors in it which lead to the following pages :

Putting up a new quantic vision of man and the world allowing to take in account levels of reality the map of Newton did not.

The present human sciences, based upon rationalist paradigm, do not allow to explain some domains we may experiment which are bound to expansion of conscience ( synchronicities, non ordinary reality, dreams, dreamachine, etc.)

We can organize exchanges relating these experiments, and try to understand what's going on the base of our respective elements.

Talking about it allows to understand we are not alone to live this, and to get to a result superior to the sum of us (third mind : law of non-additivity)

Starting from Korzybski's, Burroughs’ and Gysin’s data, we can use writing not only in a literary aim, but also according to its non-aristotelian function of time-binding (writing binds the writer and the readers through space-time) and its magic function (writing used to make things happen (Brion Gysin : "Magic is about making it happen") : the writer writes a scenario which becomes possible for the readers to apply it if they decide it; this also fits to the traditional function of art).

It comes out from this first year experiment that we are aware of Burroughsian concepts and immediately understand each other when we talk about them and use them. So this source of knowledge is immediately accessible to us, and allows us to make common experiments since the beginning of the group (dreamachine, dreams, Third Mind, etc…). But the domains in question here are not understandable on the base of the Euclidian nor Newtonian paradigms : they required quantic physics for Burroughs could experiment them, get an idea of what‘s going on, and then give of his experiments an understandable map, allowing to see the facts under another angle.

As a result, we got de facto a kind of monopoly of knowledge in those domains, as handling them requires to get the data and experiment them by oneself, which takes some years if we want to test the most of Burroughs’ assertions. Hence, we have to find a way to function which allows us to use those specificities of our group.

As a holiday home-work (he he he) you can see what you think and want do in all this.

You can keep on sending E-mails , I don't move at the moment and will tell you if I do. I will send the next report on the 21th as usual.

Thanks for your work, participation, mails, cheerings, etc…

Have great fun and take care.

Love

Iz

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