We arrive at 10am to
what seems a Disney Land theme park on Buddhism. There are 3 towers of rooms connected by a stream for the wooden boats and a tiny train, 2 water slides, DOLPHINS in a pool much to
o small, lagoon equipped with sea turtles and tropical fish, 4,000 "normies", 1,500 pixies, fairies, hippies, framers, artists, musicians and Russell, Katie and I. Alchemeyez is a 3 day non-stop visionary arts and consciousness conference held at the Hilton Waikoloa. The conference went from 10am to 6am, yes that is 6am...which means no time for sleep! The first day stated off with Dr. Tim Freeman followed by ama
zing talk with artist Romio Shestha. Romio's talk reminded me of the book No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten, he spoke of the connection to God one has while creating art. "You loose yourself and become a chann
el." he said while holding up a 6 foot high canvas. Romio's art was displayed as the focal point of the gallery, I guess when your canvas is over 15 feet you kind of steal the space. Romio told the audience that he has been painting for the last 17 reincarnations which would explain the immense detail and enormous scale of his art. After a full day of lectures and perusing the gallery and tons of artists booths we made our way to the dance floor. There were three rooms with DJs switching every hour or so until 6am. Dance Party!!!Day Two:
With a little under 3
hours of sleep the day is already under way. Music blaring by 10am with lectures starting at noon. Artist Chris Dyer drew the crowd to roaring laughter with his visionary skateboards and Peruvian charm. He spoke on the power of positive creation. His main example was that in the skate community you see a lot of skulls, destruction and more negative imagery. His goal is to bring positive visionary art to the skate world with the intention of spreading positivity rather
than destruction. After the day time lectures we attended the Lu'au fest complete with native Hawaiian dishes, fire dancers and music. The all you can eat buffet might have saved to weekend, it fed our whole crew for the next two days, thanks hotel mini-fridge! Directly after dinner was one of my favorite lectures of the weekend, Dennis McKenna on Plant-Human Co-Evolution and the origins of Imagination. Wow, don't really even know how to explain that one, spend hours on youtube looking trough his lectures, you will not be let down. The day of lectures finally came to a close around 10pm just in time for the best dancing of the weekend! 6am, man on the mic: "Thanks for dancing, it is 6am and the Hilton breakfast starts in 15 minutes if you could all go hide 
yourselves as soon as possible that would be great, oh, the music starts back up in 4 hours"... Picture for a moment the kinds of people that dance until 6am at a visionary arts and consciousness conference and then picture the kinds of people that vacation at the Hilton and eat breakfast at 6am... That is an interesting elevator ride!Day Three: So we have logged a total of maybe 5 hours of sleep and over 40
hours of dancing and lectures... One more day! Sundays lectures were from all the artists giving them each the space to explain what art is to them and why they are apart of this conference. Of all the lectures Sunday Jamie Janover was by far the most intriguing. He spoke for about 2 hours about sacred geometry , noting the fact that the Big Island of Hawaii sits at 19.42 degrees which is in line with Tenochtitlan in Mexico, the Great Pyramid of Giza and
the sunken pyramids of the coast of Japan all creating the middle line of a tetrahedron the size of the earth. Ancient space aliens and crop circles YO!!!! Check them out!!! After blowing my mind on aliens and crop circles it was time for more dancing... and more dancing.... and more dancing with friend and president of the Maui Dance Advocates Anthony Simmons (ps, it is illegal to dance in Maui, check out the site), capping the night off with an amazing performance by Heyoka at 5am! Danced the souls of my feet right off!Over all this was an amazing festival and collective consciousness!!!
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