Here it is, the original sin of comparative religions. I recklessly compare my "religious" experience at underground warehouse parties in the early 90's to the religious experiences of those participants at the festivals and religious rites at Gobekli Tepe over 10,000 years ago. This comparison is a part of my effort to outline two different types of religious experiences. The first is religion as a binding to the Symbolic order, but the Second is religion as a binding to what breaks our bonds to the Symbolic by breaking the boundaries of the Symbolic, or what Jacques Lacan named "The Real." The first religious impulse is for the uncertainty reduction of prediction machines, in which the Symbolic Order is reinforced by an "automatic" repetition of the same. The second religious impulse is to transcend the Symbolic Order as it touches the Real as a "Repetition of Difference." Let's review the underground, electronic music scene in the wake of the Post Industrial Collapse of the Midwest to give ourselves a concept for how to break concepts.

Trying Too Hard