letting-go

August 8, 2012

Textimony 20120804a

Stop. Breathe. Let-go. Breathe. NOWHERE. Breathe. Consider. Breathe. NOW/HERE.… Continue reading

August 7, 2012

Textimony 20120807

afternoon downpour sidewalk steam drifting upward empty cicada Continue reading

August 6, 2012

Textimony 20120805

dry horizon dusk crimson passion births star shine cat chasing crickets Continue reading

August 5, 2012

James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana

Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading

August 2, 2012

Textimony 20120802

We have all heard old Yoda’s admonition about Fear. Here is my attempt at the alternative: Fortitude is the way to the Light Side. Fortitude leads to patience Patience leads to love. Love leads to letting-go… Not needing, you… Continue reading

July 29, 2012

Textimony 20120729

Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading

July 22, 2012

Soul Spelunker: The Democratization of Imagination

Tom Cheetham is very profound. His phrase, “the democratization of imagination” is exactly what we are experiencing, and what I have been recently writing about. Imagining the Anima Mundi causes one to think along these lines. Western culture has been… Continue reading

July 17, 2012

Whatever, Etc., 0018: Chance & Digression

July 14, 2012

“The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards…”

I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee… Continue reading

July 4, 2012

The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.” This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing… Continue reading

July 1, 2012

Together Alone Coming Down Later

After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome,… Continue reading

June 20, 2012

Whatever, Etc., 0016: Boundary Opportunities

June 20, 2012

Garage Sale Existentialism | The New Existentialists

As the urban treasure hunters stop to peruse the wares, a very poor rendition of bedouin negotiating takes place between two suburbanite stalkers, one striving to sell his or her “valuable” wares and the other seeking to gain a prize… Continue reading

June 12, 2012

CALL ME MAGGIE