Fraser Clark (d. 21 January 2009), was one of the leaders of the global

technogaian Technogaianism (a portmanteau word combining "techno-" for technology and "gaian" for Gaia philosophy) is a bright green environmentalist stance of active support for the research, development and use of emerging and future technologies to h ...

movement. As founder and editor of

Encyclopaedia Psychedelica ''Encyclopaedia Psychedelica International'' was an independent London-based magazine in the late 1980s that mixed a return to hippie values combined with new emerging technology, at a time when to call someone a 'Hippie' was considered an insult. ...

, he outlined his views on

entheogen Entheogens are psychoactive substances that induce alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior for the purposes of engendering spiritual development or otherwiseRätsch, Christian, ''The Encyclopedia of Psychoact ...

s and nature, and was a key advocate of the outdoor rave movement, hosting regular, small, indoor festivals such as those held at his central London club,

Megatripolis Megatripolis was an underground London club night created by Encyclopaedia Psychedelica/Evolution editor and founder of the Zippie movement Fraser Clark, and partner Sionaidh Craigen as well as a great many others. The club combined New Age id ...

. Clark believed the 1990s were the 1960s upside-down (9 being an upside-down 6). He advocated a new form of

hippie A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around ...

—the " Zippie"—who would balance the "techno right brain" with the "hippy left brain", embracing nature, peace and love, as well as technology. In 1989, he and Marcus Pennell organised the first Zippie Picnic on

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. Zippie Picnics continue to this day. Clark staged many pranks, particularly against the government of

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and then

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. He opposed the Poll Tax and later Criminal Justice Bill. Clark also engaged American youth culture on topics related to the

Pronoia The ''pronoia'' (plural ''pronoiai''; Greek: πρόνοια, meaning "care" or "forethought," from πρό, "before," and νόος, "mind") was a system of granting dedicated streams of state income to individuals and institutions in the late Byz ...

tour. In 2008, he announced he had inoperable

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References

*Collin, Mathew & Godfrey, John:
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
', Serpent's Tail (London), 1998. .

External links

Fraser Clark website

Pronoia

Fraser Clark Stanford University Lecture
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