Tag Activation

PieceMakers/TAG ACTIVATION

Travel to an active set of train-tracks alone. You must take with you five coins in

your current country’s currency. Ideally you will have a penny, a nickel, a dime, a

quarter, and either some other coin (fifty cent piece, etc) or a repeat. You must place

these coins on the rails of the train-tracks. Center them and make sure to pay

attention to where you put them in case you stray too far. As the train passes you

and runs over the coins they usually bounce off right next to where they were

placed. Sometimes they wedge themselves in the rocks or very rarely shoot out

further. Make sure to pay attention when you are laying down your coins as cops

and more importantly trains can sneak up on you.

With each coin-as you lay them down-speak aloud the five precepts of The New

Mythologies that are listed beneath this paragraph. Then, as you wait for a train,

meditate on the five precepts. Once the train has passed, find as many of the coins as

you can. Whatever is lost is a gift to the Train. Clutch your coins in the palm of your

hand, and say it one more time:

1: Transgression is my religion

2: Deep Play is my ritual.

3: The Stranger is my priest.

4: Risk is my baptism.

5: Transcendence is my reward.

Welcome to The New Mythologies. Your tags are now active.

Soldiers go off to fight distant wars and wear tags worn for essentially one reason,

so that their bodies can be identified if they are found dead. These tags indicate that

death is the corollary of war; there is no war without death much like there is no

money without debt; but the implication of my tags for the war they represent is not

death but transgression, and the beginning transcendence. It is a war that starts

within.