Thursday, 15 October 2026
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Wake Up
This week I was given a book by a friend of my mums that she had written. Its's entitled "Wake up". To summarise it's a book of her thoughts on the "awakening" needed within the Catholic church to meet the needs of our times; climate crisis, cost of living crisis, rise of facism , dropping church attendance and role of women in the church.
I think I first heard the term "Awakening" applied to me when I going through a journey of my own in the 90's. I was having some rather unusual experiences and I didn't think I had anyone I knew that could share them with ,who would understand or relate to them. I knew I wasn't completely alone due to a book I had read by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea called "The Illuminatus" but aside from The KLF from whom I had learned about the illuminatus and Spiral Tribe I had no other references.
I remember having theze thoughts to a soundtrack of Laurent Garniers "Wake up" and DJPC's "Insomniak"
My friend a graffiti artist named Snooze even did a exhibition entitled "wake up"
Eventually I confided in a friend whilst talking about the Illuminatus he said , you should really talk to some friends of mine. These friends turned out to be Thee Temple ov Psychik Youth . I went along to meet them. I told them what was happening and I remember Ray Eden saying "You're having an 'Awakening' ,you're waking up." In the terminology of Robert Anton Wilson I was going through "Chapel Perilous".
They encouraged me to think about my dreams, what I ate, whether I wanted to do martial arts and who and how I wanted to love.
Of course since then I read much on the subject of Spritual Awakening in both Eastern and Western traditions.
The concept was central to "The Matrix" movie Neo literally "woke up".
In recent years the term "woke" has be co-opted by the right wing a insult against the "Loony left" and "libtards" However when I first heard the term it appeared to be emerging from the Black community in relation to those with Socially concious and progressive views which I definately support.
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