Description: Performance of my spoken word piece Piercing the Veil with my PEACE program friends at the DKK offices in Baguio City. This is shot in the night outside with zero lighting.
Incorporates traditional Filipino instruments made from bamboo.
July 2008 in Baguio City, Philippines
Piercing the Veil
By Philippe Javier Garcesto
Breathe and Listen
Ever since Voltaire's Age of Reason
Supernatural Phenomenon and Superstition
has been ridiculed by Science
practitioners have been charged with treason
by dogmatic authoritarian theocracies
whose brand of monotheistic peace and love
wrought destruction on indigenous cultures with a dove
Christopher Columbus venerated on an American Holiday
unwittingly unleashed the first real World War
Economic Imperialism unleashed by European Royalty
raped, pillaged, and plundered free people across the globe
who lacked the foresight and the technology
to combat Capitalism's unquenchable greed
Indigenous Cultures knew how to respect Mother Earth
living in Balance and Harmony was no Prophecy
Some tribes could not differentiate between green and blue
The sky and the forest canopy were the same in their view
Everything bound together in blissful interconnectivity
From the tree to the bee to the sea to the knee
All things created out of the same energy
Quantum Physics postulates a world of vibrating frequencies
Tiny little particles we can neither touch, taste, smell, hear nor see
Just another perspective on reality or way to be
Let me take you back to pre-history
50,000 years ago we were gifted with our current physiology
But our ancestors were simple stone tool using hunter gatherers
Then 20,000 years ago visionary art, sculpture, and religion
exploded onto the scene with a flurry of creativity
We were granted conceptual ability
initiated through a connection with Spirituality
From spears to shoes to skyscrapers to spaceships
this is the power of human ingenuity
We now stand at the peak of modern civilization
Masters of our own Destiny
Though many of us fail to see this clearly
That reality is simply a reflection of your inner state
Because we are trapped in the illusion and the delusion of the Elite Few
who believe they have the right to rule over the Oppressed Many
by the government's purposefully underfunded education system
a factory churning out conforming consumers
seduced by a false and deceiving media
with images of bling, bitches, and booze
as the signifiers of success or else you lose
debasing women as nothing more than sexual icons
confusing feminist empowering female domination
instead of mutual respect and gender equality
then strung along by hypocritical religious authorities
through liturgies, discourses, and seminars
proclaiming to Speak in God's name
when in vain the disillusioned masses cry out for a savior
instead of claiming their divine right
as one with the creator
For too long we have shirked our spiritual responsibility
as equal co-creators of our reality
We have been given a great gift and a great responsibility
We can no longer stand to see
Millions of our brothers and sisters die for
Billions of meaningless paper printed off the bark of trees
REJOICE!
In our lifetime we will have witnessed great suffering
But we will also bear witness to a great rebirth
To a new era of free loving people
Free people who truly listen to their hearts
Free people who refuse to submit to psychic tyranny
Free people who are connected spiritually
with no intermediaries claiming to give salvation
Salvation comes from within and starts from the heart
There are no fancy tricks, no mysteries, no evangelical saviors
Don't expect anyone to come save you, you must save yourself
If you have love, reverence, and humility for the
wonder of existence the universe will reply in kind
Self-respect is the beginning to building a positive future
a man of peace once said
"Be the change that you want to see in the World"
