The Road to Tir na n'Og - the Journal of a Psychedelic Archaeologist
Psychedelic
Archaeology, the 'Happy Discipline', is an investigation into the past through
serendipity, divine inspiration, accident and blunder. It involves looking for
clues to the consciousness of past cultures in the art that they left behind
and exploring their world in the same state of consciousness - by taking whatever
drugs necessary. Although wildly inaccurate and dangerous when practised by
a layman, in the hands of an expert Psychedelic Archaeology produces results
that are illuminating, fascinating, hilarious and, who knows, very possibly
accurate.
In 'The Road to Tir na n'Og', the first published paper in this newly acknowledged field, Brian drops acid in the Neolithic cairns of Loughcrew, Ireland, and brings back a tale of dwarves, art, fucking, and a stone computer that hasn't stopped working for 5000 years.
The book comes with a DVD of the short movie 'Cairn T' by Flinton Chalk. This beautiful film shows the equinox sunrise illuminating entoptic carvings on the backstone of the cairn. It is accompanied by a trance-inducing 111Hz chant by the Barrittones. The 111Hz chant is based on the work of Paul Devereux, who discovered that Cairn T, and many other Neolithic buildings, resonate at a standing wave of between 110 and 112Hz. Devereux's subsequent investigations have discovered that this exact audio frequency range, and no other, has a marked and unmistakable effect on the human brain, in particular the pre-frontal cortex and the temporal lobes. Watching the 'doorway of light' in the film while listening to the soundtrack will help nudge the viewer towards the states described in the book. One day, we like to think, all history will be studied this way.
The book is limited to 111 copies, of which numbers 1, 11, 69 and 111 were the first to go. 111 is, of course, a very significant number for Brian. He's run the 111 Club, lives at number 111, and he is namechecked on page 111 of the original edition of Robert Anton Wilson's 'Cosmic Trigger'.
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