Poesis – Page 6 – CALL ME MAGGIE

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

July 28, 2012

Artist: Zac Hale

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 14, 2012

Singing in the Dark Temple of Midnight

I am here to sing thee songs. In this hall of thine I have a corner seat. In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose. When the… Continue reading

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 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 28, 2012

Whatever, Etc., 0017: For John & Martine

June 24, 2012

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world interruption close one eye, open other alternating I Continue reading

June 19, 2012

Stars, Planets And The Meaningless Life : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

The talks on Kepler were delightful and I drank in all the new science like a thirsty kid on a hot summer day. But none of what I learned pushed me out of my comfort zone and on to the… Continue reading

June 18, 2012

Becoming Integral: We have never been disenchanted

As always, something of interest from Sam at Becoming Integral. 8ˆ) http://becomingintegral.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/we-have-never-been-disenchanted/#comment-173 Continue reading

May 24, 2012

Hunter Wild

Click “Collect Me” to help me Hunter Wild win a gallery show in New York City and a $10,000 cash grant : Self – A Creative Competition via Hunter Wild. Continue reading

May 18, 2012

Haiku 20120518

Waiting for today Dawn yawning awake in east… Suddenly brilliance! Continue reading

May 15, 2012

The Corporate Professor

I highly recommend all of the articles in the current issue of the Hedgehog Review. Here is the first one: Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University Continue reading

May 3, 2012

Textimony 20120501

Philosophizing requires a SINGULAR RESOLVE that awakens the contemplator to originary self-causation. No philosophizing is accidental. Continue reading

April 25, 2012

Textimony 20120424

when we abandon moderation, EVERYTHING intoxicates us Continue reading

April 25, 2012

Textimony 20120420

To do or failing to do? Yesterday gone & tomorrow not yet. Living fully, believing openly, loving profoundly. This today now/here: How can failure happen? Continue reading

April 20, 2012

Textimony 20120417

dandelion snow adrift on whispered wishes floating afternoon Continue reading

April 20, 2012

Textimony 20120410

Wanton vagabond wanders in vines of withering vanity. Accidental attention to detail. Deliberate explosion of ecstasy: suspended animation. Continue reading