Antero Alli was born 11 November 1952, in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. Alli currently resides in Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions, some of which have been released as films. Alli is also a professional astrologer

Astrologer

An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an...

 and has authored books on experimental theatre

Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century as a retraction against the dominant vent governing the writing and production of dramatical menstrophy, and age in particular. The term has shifted over time as the mainstream...

, astrology

Astrology

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world...

 and Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

's 8-circuit model of consciousness

8-Circuit Model of Consciousness

The eight-circuit model of consciousness is a theory in psychology, first proposed by Timothy Leary. It consists of several quantum psychological systems that unify the various interpretations of the main altered states of consciousness into one coherent meta-theory...

.

Film and theatrical work

Alli refers to his thirty years of work in experimental theatre as paratheatre, a term borrowed from the writings of Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....

.http://www.paratheatrical.com/orientation.html He conducts private workshops in the Bay Area, some of which have evolved into public productions and provided the material for his films.http://www.paratheatrical.com/workings.html

Between 1976 and 1999, Alli wrote and directed a series of stageplays exploring mystical themes in "Circles" (1976), "Coronation at Stillnight" (1977), "The Conjunction" (1978), "Chapel Perilous" (1983), "Animamundi" (1989), and "Hungry Ghosts of Albion" (1999). Between 1992 and 2002 Antero co-curated the Nomad Film Festival, a Pacific coast touring venue featuring short experimental films and videos.http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=9 Since 1993, Antero has redirected his focus to the creation of underground feature-length art films with mystical themes such as "The Oracle" (1993), The Drivetime (1995), Tragos (2001), Hysteria (2002), Under a Shipwrecked Moon (2003) and The Greater Circulation (2005), a cinematic treatment of Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n poet Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

's "Requiem For a Friend."

Writing

Alli's books span a number of subjects, but all share common themes with his paratheatrical efforts: archetype

Archetype

An archetype is a universally understood symbol or term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated...

s, personal mythology and the use of ritual

Ritual

A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers....

 to transform consciousness

Consciousness

Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...

. Like his colleague Rob Brezsny

Rob Brezsny

Rob Brezsny is an American astrologer, writer, poet, and musician. His weekly horoscope column Free Will Astrology , has been published for more than 28 years, runs in 120 periodicals, and can be subscribed to for free via email.- Career :Brezsny is the first well-known horoscope columnist...

, Alli proposes a free will

Free will

"To make my own decisions whether I am successful or not due to uncontrollable forces" -Troy MorrisonA pragmatic definition of free willFree will is the ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints. The existence of free will and its exact nature and definition have long...

 approach to astrology, which advocates providing clients with the information to make decisions instead of deterministic

Determinism

Determinism is the general philosophical thesis that states that for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given them, nothing else could happen. There are many versions of this thesis. Each of them rests upon various alleged connections, and interdependencies of things and...

 predictions. In Towards an Archaeology of the Soul (2003), Alli presents a detailed account of the theories and processes that go into his own paratheatrical creations.

Between 1991-95, Alli was editor/publisher of Talking Raven Quarterly, a Seattle-based literary journal featuring the writings of Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...

, Hakim Bey, and Rob Brezsny among others.http://www.paratheatrical.com/pages/talkingraven/raven.html

In Spring and Fall 2006, Alli taught a course on his book AngelTech at Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...

's Maybe Logic Academy.

Books

• Alli, Antero (1987). AngelTech. New Falcon. ISBN 1-56184-009-2
• Alli, Antero (1988). All Rites Reversed: Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation. New Falcon. ISBN 0-941404-81-1
• Alli, Antero (1988). The Akashic Record Player: A Non-Stop Geomantic Conspiracy. New Falcon. ISBN 0-941404-91-9
• Alli, Antero (1993). Letters, Essays and Premonitions. Vigilantero Press/Vertical Pool.
• Alli, Antero and Sylvie Pickering (1996). The Vertical Oracle. Vertical Pool. ISBN 0-9657341-0-2
• Alli, Antero (1999). Astrologik. Vertical Pool. ISBN 0-9657341-0-2
• Alli, Antero (2003). Towards an Archeology of the Soul. Vertical Pool. ISBN 0-9657341-2-9
• Hyatt, Christopher S. and Antero Alli (1988 then 2006). A Modern Shaman's Guide to a Pregnant Universe. New Falcon. ISBN 1-56184-241-9
• Alli, Antero (2009). The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body. Vertical Pool. ISBN 978-0-9657341-3-4

Filmography

• Requiem for a Friend (1991; 40 min)
• "Archaic Community (1992; 80 min) a paratheatre video document
• The Drivetime
  The Drivetime
  The Drivetime is a 1995 science fiction film directed, written and produced by the Finnish-born filmmaker Antero Alli.-Plot:The film opens in the year 2023 in the Nostradamus Islands. A librarian named Flux recalls a series of earthquakes that destroyed the continental United States...
  
  (1995; 88 min)
• The Oracle (1993; 70 min)
• Lily in Limbo (1996; 27 min)
• Tragos: A Cyber-Noir Witch Hunt (2000; 105 min)
• Roadkill (2001; 27 min)
• Hysteria (2002; 83 min)
• Under a Shipwrecked Moon (2003; 96 min)
• Orphans of Delirium (2004; 82 min) a paratheatre video document
• The Greater Circulation (2005; 93 min)
• "The Mind is a Liar and a Whore" (2007; 92 min)
• "The Invisible Forest" (2008; 111 min.)
• "To Dream of Falling Upwards" (2011; 125 min)

External links

• Antero Alli's Website
• Antero Alli at IMDB
• An excerpt from Alli's 'The Akashic Record Player' at Deoxy.org
• Talking Raven reviewed at Tap Root Reviews