The Chilluminati Manifesto
- Psychedelic trance, chill and ambient are the music that we play. Music in itself is a transformative and psychedelic agent.
- Our parties are more than music. They are multidimensional, multifaceted trance, visual, art and kinetic performance events. They are experiences, a psychedelic circus.
- Our parties are about transformation and becoming. Whatever your sense of spirituality is, you bring that to the party.
- At our parties everyone takes responsibility for the party, others and themselves.
- Our parties have an atmosphere and a vibe. The party is a field of energy that connects us. The party is a living being.
- Our parties are about expressing yourself, being creative, being an individual.
- Our parties are inclusive and open.
- Our parties are both local and planetary; cultural diverse, reflective of the American Midwest, yet global.
- We respect local laws and customs.
- Our party is a gift which we all (organizers, artists, DJs and attendees) give to each other. This is not about money, commercialization and exploitation. This is not a product this is a community.
About the term psychedelic: The term psychedelic was first coined by Dr. Humphrey Osmond in a 1956 letter to novelist Aldous Huxley. Huxley and Osmond worked together for years to further the cause of systematic research into consciousness altering substances such as mescaline and LSD (Huxley, author of Brave New World wrote many ground-breaking works on the effects of psychedelics, such as Heaven and Hell, Doors of Perception and the novel Island).
Fifty years later we still use the term 'psychedelic', but in a much broader sense. We refer to as psychedelic anything having the effect of transforming our mode of consciousness. We embrace every such legal technique which includes dance, music, techniques involving light and sound, sensory deprivation, breath control, exercise, fasting, art, meditation, prayer, sex, and yoga.
We encourage everyone to advance their consciousness through legal means, but we also encourage our community to become involved in their national societies in advancing the cause of a more rational and sane drug policy around the world, in every nation. We encourage dancers and trancers to support such drug policy and education organizations as MAPS, Drug Policy Alliance, and Erowid.
