Manifest of cargo
What is this website about ?
It is a meeting place for those who like to explore lifes many and varied expressions. It is for those who notice that all things appear to be made from matter, but some of them appear to be made of matter and thinks and talks and dreams and experiences. It is for people who think that there might be more to life than what appears on the surface. It is also for those who don't care about sort of stuff too.
It is for somebody who isn't merely looking for information to store in a filing system, but is excited by the prospect of a direct experience of life itself. It is for the traveler who is prepared to wander into unknown territory and absorb whatever is reflected there. It is for somebody who isn't afraid of encountering their own inner landscape, even though it might not be a pretty sight. It is for the person who has left the left brains confined territory, or who is not afraid of leaving it. It is for those whole are prepared to have their belief systems deconstructed and undermined, and be left with only an untrammeled view.
It is for the person who will buy a book without already knowing the terrain covered by the contents. It is for the person who won't flinch or run away from the unexpected or unusual. It is for the person who knows everything already, and who realises that it wont help them. It is for the person who sees parts of themselves buried within the words and images, and is happy to rummage around to find more. It is for the person who knows nothing. It is for the modern urban slave who might bathe in metaphor and dream a bit that sanity is near. It is for the university student experiencing the thrill of exploration, and having new worlds and vistas opened up to them. It is for those experiencing difficulty, who in its pages might find the inspiration to meet the earth that supports them. It is an elixir to remedy the loss of sanity and truth in the world. It is for those trapped in the realm of senses and sensibility who will jump on a life-raft to a wider view if given a chance or even half a chance.
It is for those who find it interesting because they find that it turns them towards the source and their self. Fascinated that it takes them closer-to their suffering, and brings them closer to the world. Find in it a bastion of life when they live in a culture that has ceased to yield content. Unfathomable and always with more to reveal. A cure for the minds contents and the incessant regurgitation of novelty. Interesting because the grandest of dramas is always near. A challenge for those who have read thousands of novels and yet their heart and soul still hunger. Stimulating food for the right-brain which seems to be diminished by post-post-post modern life. A road-map for those who have lived the urban dream from end to end and found that it lacks the nourishment that the human form actually requires. The examination of a yearning within themselves that begs to be investigated.
Other than merely sitting in front of a screen or reading books, it is for people of many activities and backgrounds. Perhaps they will be more reflective in character, or open to it at least. They will climb mountains and live happily amongst the earths delightful scenery. They will be, in general, educated although not necessarily intellectually defined, nor so confined. Interested in the creative world and nature, and not be an unfortunate by-product of the manufactured environment. Touched by the noon day sun, and touched by art. Questioning in nature, not bound by any particular view or answer. Not afraid of encountering the internal and psychological nature of life, psyche, self or spirituality. Able to be intrigued and like solving puzzles.
This site is for people who ride donkeys and bicycles in the traffic, and near the sea. People who wear comfortable clothes that aren't new anymore. People who have jerseys knitted from wool and sometimes trousers knitted from wool too. People who will cast their nets far and wide to find what life and earth have to offer and will find it from beyond the corporate fare. They would recognise a rock if they found one in the garden and might gaze in admiration at the weeds growing in the cracks. They will be entirely spellbound by rockpools. That is what they will be doing when not reading books, working or looking after their friends. They will read on the internet as well. Everything that is not presented by the mass media outlets. They will discover everything that is hidden or hard to find. They will venture into the unbelievable without flinching, their courage is endless. They will be fearlessly negotiating their ever present inner monsters and staring nose-to-nose with death. They will keep goats and chickens in their apartment.
The contents on this site are best for people aged between one and one hundred, who are of one sex or the other. Possibly neither or maybe even both. Most likely you will have a broad mind and more often than not a sympathetic relationship with the 'humanities'. This site is specifically for the human and the humane.
We, as the producers of these works have no qualifications nor authority to force anybody to listen to us or justify our existence. Maybe it is better if nobody does. We have had no special rank bestowed upon us, and would throw it away if we had. We do not have permission to produce this work. We do it because because we are writers, artists and adepts, annoyers and alchemists, in the manner that Tristan Tzara or John Cage, or Buckminster Fuller or LeCorbusier were. We are probably anarchists and/or communists, libertarians and librarians, libertines and exopolitical. Maybe we exist on both ends of the spectrum at once and maybe we don't. Maybe we are figments of an imagination from outside of the paradigm. Maybe we are not really anything.