December 2011
78 posts
I have been considering when, where, what, how, and why I want to get my first tattoo. Ive had different ideas over the past few years. Various illustrations ive made on retreats to represent the synergy of my values; words, phrases, and symbols that have meaning to me. I wanted to get “Nunquam Dormio” tattoo’d in Latin over my inner arm after that fateful mushroom trip two years...
dude, i have a two-page-long, alphabetized list of...
anagrams are NOT easy to remember.
gamranas ear ONT saye ot mermreeb.
∞: Foods that Fuel Your Chakras →
Feeding Your Root Chakra
Grounding
Root vegetables: carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, onions, garlic, etc.
Protein-rich foods: eggs, meats, beans, tofu, soy products, peanut butter
Spices: horseradish, hot paprika, chives, cayenne, pepper
Feeding Your Sacral…
Yesss!!!! While I was meditating this morning I had two fantastic little insights I’d like to...
Just sent in the most badass application I’ve ever written to work at a vegan restaurant in Columbus. I’m so excited. I basically got the job already. My application was so legit.
Oh yeah! And I gave Mr. Princess a bath today. She is the sweetest cat I’ve ever met in my life. She hated the shower like any kitty. She really really hated it, but she didn’t try once to...
“Don’t push too harshly. It will only make the scared parts of yourself shut down. We want to encourage them and coax them out of hiding into the light. There’s usually a part of you that feels stronger and more confident. Let that part take the lead. Pay attention to your professional self, your witty self, your brotherly self, your athletic self, your creative self – whichever is the...
“The purpose of time is to enable man to learn to use it constructively. Time is thus a teaching device, and a means to an end. It will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.”
Deepok Chopra
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. I can only...
I’ve thought for a while now that a newborn baby is as intelligent or more intelligent than an adult because they are still directly associated with and linked to the source field. They just don’t have the brain power or physical orientation to do anything on a worldly level with that intelligence. I might be wrong, but I see wisdom in an infant’s eyes that I don’t see...
Ninefold Goddess: Chomsky to Occupy: Move on to... →
I was hooked on this article all the way through and then when I got to the bottom and it said Portland Oregon I got a massive erection. I’m off to find a youtube video of Chomsky. I want to hear the man. I thought he was dead!
ninefoldgoddess:
Chomsky to Occupy: Move on to the next stage
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are...
Study topic of interest: Shamanic/Nature-oriented cultures
Fantastic anime movie: Origin - Spirits of the Past
New EP: Neckless - Less Than Nothing
Okay, I admit it. I really don’t like being around my family. Can’t wait to get back to Columbus ASAP. I’m not going to do anything they ask me to do anymore. I’m pretty sure they make petty requests to piss me off and stay in control of the potential chaos that could erupt at any moment if petty things don’t get taken care of. I know that they are family, but...
American Democracy: 1776-2011.
It turns out that destroying the American democratic republic was easy to accomplish, historians will write someday. Simply get the three major cable news networks to blather on about useless bull**** for a few days, while legislators meet in secret behind closed doors to rush through the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA), and its evil twin sister,...
A seed came to me a couple weeks ago as a thought and it’s something I’ve been trying to feed to see where it goes. Really it turns out to be another mechanism my right brain, my visionary mind, my grandiose self, has come up with to break through the fears and restrictions of the left brain, the world, to which I am heir, reluctantly but faithfully. In essence, it’s the...
I’m watching elf right now with my famm, and there’s this girl, eh? and she’s depressed, but Buddy really breaks through her depression with unconditional innocence and spontaneity. our world is conditioned and constrained by the “professional image” that begins with our parents and teachers and we absorb it and become hard headed hard hearted human beings mostly for...
This Christmas I am grateful for my family’s health, the amazing book I’m reading (Just Kids by Patti Smith), the fantastic video game Okami I’ve been making my way through, and the fact that I’ve never gone a single day without everything I need.
I also thought to mention that I think in order to truly make the all important transition of becoming psychologically...
“The world is simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and...”
– Henry Miller
this (via wolfmama)
He spins around like a drunkard touching on every level of your brain before giving you a tiny drop of insightful serum that seeps into the center of your brain like a light going on and opening up new neural pathways and enlightening the self. This being nothing than a game of words on a physical screen on another non-dimensional screen. A self-inspecting non-dimensional screen. NOT a human...
“We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.” ― Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Von Goethe (via nirvikalpa)
Where are we going with this? What is the end result of doing all of this work, this searching for truth? Interacting with the world in a better way? What is trying to be accomplished. At this point the only thing pushing me is simply curiosity. Is there ever an end or a perfect understanding? It seems the original goal was to make the world a better place, but lots of people don’t seem to...
Television and most of what appears on it are unnatural for the human mind to experience and assimilate. Unnatural the way eating rocks is unnatural. Its possible, but ultimately undigestable, pointless, and harmful. Normally experiences happen in correspondence with physical movement. Events like conversation, joy, spontaneous interest and concentration, etc. are punctuations of activity against...
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Nietzche
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, the...”
– Nietzche
The more I meditate the more everyone begins to look objectifiably insane. Negative thinking, criticism, unhappiness, and worry are all mechanisms or reflections of the ego’s persistent failure to and insatiable desire to control existence. I hate to say this, but I think we are FAR more like robots than we want to admit. The “conscious” part of us represents probably only a...
REGRETS OF THE DYING By Bronnie Ware
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For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes...
WatchTo continue with December’s theme.
You cannot love. Your love is a facade, a deception. Your love is just a trick, your love is just to attain sex. That’s why when you attain sex, love disappears. Once you have had sexual intercourse with a woman or a man, love disappears. Again after twenty four hours energy will come, you will accumulate energy, and there will be sex again – you will become loving again. So love is just a means...
Don’t be against anything. Why? Because whenever you are against anything it means that deep down you are for it, otherwise why be against it? A man who is not angry deep down will not be against anger. Why should he be? A man who is not greedy deep down will not be against greed. Why should he be against it? There is no problem for him, it is not a choice, he has not made any distinction....
Jumping off of the last post, I have to share my own stories about this since I fell in love with (I cannot say how many) women on retreat. So I’ll start at the very beginning and try to keep track of the order of love affairs. The first was a 50+ year old lady named Roberta who worked in the front office. Mark and I arrived late to the retreat center and she was the one to greet us. I had...
IN the front hall of the Victorian house was a laminated sign that said “Shoes,” and underneath it a row of Birkenstocks and Danskos stretched along the wall. I could hear voices coming from themeditation hall upstairs, so I figured people were already finding their seats. I sat down and pulled off my motorcycle boots, wishing every object had its own little sign. If only my ex-boyfriend had...
Your mind as such has a tendency to complete – anything incomplete gives you tension. If you wanted to laugh and you could not, there will be tension. If you wanted to cry and could not, there will be tension. If you wanted to be angry and could not, there will be tension. That’s why you have been ill for so long; everything has been left incomplete!
You have never laughed totally, you have never...
If there is no effort, nothing is incomplete, then there is no need to dream. A dream is always to complete something: something which has remained incomplete in the day will be completed in a dream because mind has a tendency to complete everything. If it is not complete then the mind will always be uneasy. Effort is put into many things and if they remain incomplete, a dream is needed. When...
Huh! Positive signs in the universe about what I’m doing. I sold jam to the first two people I talked to and made $35 due to their generosity and support for my vision. Thank you!!
Will have a blog set up soon, an e-mail for feedback and requests is already up (anticannable@gmail.com), and I’m going to start making vegan baked goods that people can order 2-3 days ahead of time.
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Clarify, unwinding, understandable That you’re twisted In the regressions of your mind Is not a problem Watching You and me entwining. A day in which the emphasis Is in memory subsiding This daydreaming is no more A home life clusters of tension Head is easy waves Resisting kissing Not so Slow mind Open-handed living Clusters of grief in my gut It’s no wonder you’re thinking...
