Exotic Matter - Astral Attache

The Aquarian aeon signifies a cyborganic ecology of the collective ego matrix. The individual within a group, as a body of one mind. A neural-nerve-netting, astral occult alchemy of the digital chromosome. URANUS and NEPTUNE, the planetary deities representing revolutionary awakening and millennial redemption, are transiting thru the transpersonal humanitarian domain of AQUARIUS, where they are spark-plugging an accelerated amplification of cyberdelic, shared psychic resonance: A technogeist exponential sporing of tek-gnosis-teleology, the computer as an umbilical portal to the matrix of the universal mind. The mass-mitosis of the digital chromosome, cyborganically grafted into a symbiotic self-replicating nanotek robotica. A morphogenesis of fibre-optical ganglia, ether-relaying the gestating spiritual machine. A digerati incantation micro-macros, catalysing a logos-psychos epiphany of shamanarchical scientia. Neuro-cognitively, the techno-rave Eden-quest is a postmodern Pagan-Dionysian ritual of redemption and resurrection. Cyborgasmic, techno-totem transcendentalism, in which the alchemical existential transfiguration of collective psyche occurs thru ecstatic euphoria, trance-dance, death and metaphysical rebirth. The rapture and numinous allure of a mythical technogeist apotheosis seduces with its emotionally detached electronic consciousness. Escape is no substitute for liberation, and transcendental rapture is not ‘freedom’, but a chaos attractor, an experiential transducer state, that reconnects one to a prenatal oceanic omnipotence. The 2000 epoch – an age of the spiritual machine – has the seed potential to heal the breach between religion and science, as humanity seeks the sacred in the technosphere. Science simulates the occult in its quest to gain control over nature. The emerging digital occult of genetic engineering, genome code deciphering and cybernetic kabbala will allow more refined conjuring with the exotic matter. This is the scientia of the holy grail, the philosophers stone that alchemists and mystics seek. Metaphysically, the Self is the micro of the macrocosm. The life destiny the Self undertakes, through birth, is an alchemical psychic process to integrate the prima materia of emotional inheritance and unique psychological patterns. The celestial birth configuration of a horoscope is a lens thru which one views the world. It is catalysed by planetary cycles, resulting in an experiential morphic resonance that the Self interpolates with the macrocosm and spools into the evolving matrix of the World Soul as it co-creates with an expanding and contracting Universe.

As humanity reaches for light and omnipotence it has attempted to shun all darkness, thus resulting in an unconscious shadow; that which is feared, denied, pushed underground. The base metal – lead, symbolised by SATURN, corresponds with defensive, depressive fears, secretly buried deep in the underworld rhizome of ancestral, psychic, cellular memory; the demonised archaic domain of Hades, PLUTO.Astrology and alchemy are laws of correspondence dealing with the transmutation of psyche. For consciousness to reflect on the unconscious, a transformational process occurs. Wholistic integration of the Chironian primal wound releases the solar gold of Self actualised love, symbolised by the SUN in a horoscope. Thus, the cosmic uroboros serpent eats its tail, a mythic image of the origin of life, which forms the world-egg out of which all manifestation comes. The anima mundi, exotic matter of the galactic centre.

All tracks written and produced by Ray Castle except track 3 written by Ray Castle and Phil Thomson, with arrangement and production by Ray Castle. Recorded at the Numinous Newsic Studio.

metaray@one.net.au

Design & Layout by Ray Castle & Al Ferguson. 3D modeling and piquant pixel tessellations by Al Ferguson. alferg@earthling.net

Mastering by Alias James at Turtlerock in Sydney.

Thanks to all associates, collaborators, catalysers, mentors and friends who have enriched the pureé processes embodied in this exotic matter. A magnanimous, tangential, sharing of mutualities has been appreciated from, Ollie Olsen and Psy-Harmonics, Nick Taylor and Edgecore, Jun and Equinox; plus the immediate, antipodean, psy beatz – freakquency – fraternity, for the neotronic camaraderie.

This morpho-mutational, digidelic batch of ditties have hatched with the assistance and enthusiastic conviction of avant groovologist, Franny Frey, the soldering iron, sine wave surfing of Mark Turner and the vibroverb shtick of The Magus, Jaguar Priest, A H Bolon.

E X O T I C M A T T E R

A S T R A L A T T A C H E

1. TUNING FORK (STRUCK UPON A STAR MIX) 6:48

2. ASTRAL PATHWAYS 8:08

3. SEMINAL RA (ECMOTIK ZATTER MIX) 7:45

4. CHTHONIC CORPUSCLE 8:32

5. QUANGO 6:17

6. APOTHEOSIS 6:55

7. TUNING FORK (OCEANIA MIX) 6:55

8. GOLD GHOST (EXISTENTIAL MIX) 5:59

9. THE TRANSCENDENT 5:34

10. NESSUS 4:05

11. JUNGLE DEVAS 7:22