An imaginary city, in an imaginary land

Come with me, into a journey of pure imagination. Please enjoy this collective creative expression; High Priestess Nikki tells the story of the imaginary friends, while Rose and SatoriD read their psalms, which they have titled Poetic Double Dutch. The Transcript is provided below:

[Narration High Priestess Nikki]
An imaginary city, in an imaginary land, there’s an Imaginarium filled with imaginary friends.
Come inside, come away with me, see inside this imagery, pull away the illusion of reality and join us
Hand in hand
And across these mystical sands, in this imaginary land, the imaginary friends dance under the moon
To the beat, the beat, the heartbeat of the universe
Quiet now, and you’ll hear the sound
Their voices all around
Singing bright for all who’ve found, this place, the Imaginarium
Are you there? Yes, I hear you
You are not alone.

The religious medium is art
The practitioner is the artist
The church is the Infinite Imaginarium community and play space
The religious text is Team Human and a bucket full of books
The central message is Connect, Collaborate, Create
This is evolution, not revolution,
Imaginarium has evolved out of the collective consciousness, the Dreamtime
It is us, and them. We are all one.

[Enter Acolyte Rose]
This is my religion, a performance
Infinite Imaginarium
It’s not a brand
It’s a concept, a vision, a dream land
In the dreamscape, we escape

[Enter The Digital Shaman SatoriD]
Are you ready?
It’s time
To Find the Others
and
Create The Weird
Let’s flip the figure and the ground
Let’s play and dance for humanity
Let’s make things Actually Worth living for
work as play
play as work
words as poetry
poetry as life
life as beauty
beauty as eternity

[Rose]
Save me from this chemical plateau
An endless dream state
Stagnant airflow
Everything is grating metal against metal
As my thoughts crash into each other
In sloOow mMmoOotion
The call of the others: Let’s get weird
{What Does It Mean To Be Fully Human?
What Does It Mean To Be a Part of
The Lineage of All of Life?}
The same soundtrack plays in my mind
Time and again
Time and again
I’ve fallen in love with a war, I just can’t win
It never began

[SatoriD]
Are you there?
Yes, I hear you.
You are not alone.
we have fallen into a reality bubble that has gotten out of control
All media connects us before it tears us apart
don’t look into the screen, play in the infinite…

[Rose]
I’ve gotta look away from the screen
But my imaginary friends are playing behind it
It’s all a dream

[SatoriD]
Click and listen, let the visions flow (Insert sample)
are you (cosmically) triggered, yet?
spin the wheel of consciousness
watch the slow-wave into the hypnagogic
dance the daydream into the trance
there are strange and beautiful things happening behind the mind’s eye
can the true self come out to play?

[Rose]
Falling into the hypnagogic state
Strange intensity
Awakened by the hypnopompic illusions
I just want to stay
In this playground of crashing kaleidoscopes
Soaring rush of peptides
Filling my heart with joy and pleasure
After a lifetime of decay
Floating between
Trying to land on my feet, all-day
Keep floating back up into the sky
To the imaginary playground

[SatoriD]
That’s what happens when we pull the cosmic trigger
Forgive me
I often forget how much magic I hold in the palm of my hand
And how I can spin dreams out of control with a single grain of sand
It’s my bad, or my good? However, you wish to perceive it

[Rose]
I was right there with you last night until Nikki woke me up
With her burning question, candle lit, pass the torch
I’ve got the words, they’ve been coming to me
Words are my minions they sculpt our reality

[SatoriD]
You dance with the word, better than most

[Rose]
It’s my salvation, my artistic medium

[SatoriD]
No doubt
I’ve got to bring the full wrath of Satori

[Rose]
(Laughs) We got sails on a raft to fly in the sky
And land in the open mystery of the sea

[SatoriD]
As I chew on peyote trying to hold onto my humanity
Killing philosophy like logic and wu-tang murder bars
Please forgive me, I got all my references etched in the skin of my dreams
Please shake and erase all of human history
Perception is an etch a sketch that hangs on space/time
Of the Word, spinning all the possible worlds
Everybody wants to be God
Nobody wants to kill God
Undoing of all that has been taught
So that only the essence remains
The only control is that there is no control
This is a chaos configuration
Please forgive me for I do not know what I do
Feel the pain of the world and drink to numb the dark, cold reality, only at 2:16
Burning all the pages in the book of Life to keep my soul warm…

[Rose]
Words are my minions
Crafting our visions
C’mon SatoriD, fly high with me

[SatoriD]
I’m craving reality and a pulse in life in general.
The world feels dead and boring.
Too much political bull[spit], no one can just have fun anymore
Where does one go to find a home?

[Rose]
Yeah, holmes, you’re not alone
I’ve learned to create a reality bubble and turn off the feed
It seems like we’re repeating history
In Athens the babble got too loud
The physical became the only reality
They lost their sense of morality
Demanded the life of Socrates
Lost, focused on shutting out the truth
Shrouded in a forgotten image of eternal youth
Shatter the mirror yo
Break free of the illusion
The real world is being left behind for the delusion
So come on SatoriD and go with me
To the infinite playground in our imaginary reality

[SatoriD]
Every time I hear that eternal beat
I dance with you in the Infinite Imaginarium (playground)
1,2, 4 my heart skips a beat, we be two steppin
in the wasteland that we inherit from those that can’t see
but yet with you, I can see the infinite color scheme of my dreams

[Nikki]
Are you there?
Yes, I hear you. You are not alone

Video and Audio by SatoriD