Dancing With Shiva

The Holy Union

2011-01-24T20:29:00.004-05:00

God as the father and the Virgin Mary as the Holy Mother are really the perfect metaphors. The father signifies the eternal, the void, and the mother represents the material, tangible world, and all that is in it (maternal : material; mother : matter_. God is not the whole story just as the Great Goddess could not be either for they are both necessary and require each other. The father

Self Portrait

2010-10-13T21:22:00.001-04:00

Green Tomatoes

2010-09-12T17:10:00.001-04:00

Having just moved to Burlington, Vermont, there are a number of things that have struck me as new, intriguing, and exciting. The beautiful geography is an obvious example, a lively and vibrant community is another, and then there's a certain put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is attitude toward social responsibilities that is both refreshing and challenging at the same time.One of the consequences

Yahoo News

2010-09-07T18:51:00.000-04:00

During his five-month captivity in northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar, the freelance journalist thought he would never get out alive."I thought I would be certainly killed, so I tried to prepare myself to face it," he recalled. His fear reached its peak in late June, when the captors issued an ultimatum to the Japanese government, threatening to kill him if their demands were not met within

Fresh off the "Yahoo News" Press

2010-09-04T15:58:00.002-04:00

"KABUL, Afghanistan – The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years â€” special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents â€” to try to convince skeptics the war can be won.More than previous commanders, Gen. David Petraeus has released the results of special operations missions — 235 militant leaders were killed or captured in

The Long Road

2010-09-02T21:10:00.002-04:00

Embarking on the hero's journey is like walking along the edge of a knife. Go too far and you risk insanity, don't go far enough and you risk complacency. It's a necessarily lonely road too--there's only room for one to walk it yet it cannot be completed alone.

The Trouble With Infinite Growth

2010-08-27T12:27:00.000-04:00

Consider the earth as a closed system. In order for its collective economy to grow, it needs to expand the services rendered and goods produced. The only way to expand services rendered is to increase the amount of goods produced (b/c the money from services must come from somewhere, i.e. tangible goods). The only way to produce more goods is to harvest more resources, otherwise (if you are just

The Morality of Fly Fishing

2010-05-25T10:27:00.003-04:00

NEXT TIME YOU JUDGE A CATCH AND KEEPER:As an 11 year old I was sent to my first overnight camp, a one night "Introduction to Fly Fishing" where I learned how to cast, tie a few knots, and even dissected a fish. At 15 I joined my father and grandfather on a week long fly fishing trip in Montana. I fly fished regularly for the better part of 10 years before I ever considered the moral status of fly

From Yahoo Sports

2010-05-05T22:41:00.001-04:00

Having occurred only 16 times since the modern baseball era began in 1900, pitching a perfect game is among the rarest feats in sports. It's the Holy Grail for pitchers, earning them a one-way ticket to sports immortality and a permanent spot in the history books.But for 24-year-old Wade McGilberry, there was a more, uh, practical motivation: $1 million, which is exactly how much the Alabama man

From Yahoo News

2010-05-01T23:24:00.002-04:00

At times, these injuries are infamous enough to inspire a nickname, such as in the case of Glenallen “Spiderman” Hill. The outfielder – who has coincidentally played for eight different teams – got his nickname from an incident spurred on by his apparently severe arachnophobia. Early in his career, while with the Blue Jays, Hill was having a violent nightmare about spiders. While still asleep, he

Mystery and Religion

2010-04-14T14:00:00.003-04:00

Life is an absurd game in which there are no explicit rules and the only purported answers come from institutions, our religions in particular; but that's not how a relationship with God is supposed to work. Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, Mohammed, all found God for themselves and their lessons to us are not ends in themselves but are instead paths to the divine ("I am the Way"). Even the great

The Evolution of Me

2010-01-22T12:07:00.003-05:00

It never ceases to amaze me how much progress we make as individuals. Have you ever looked back five years and wondered what the hell you were thinking? How could you be so naive, so stupid? What about the "you" of last year? Last month? Often I look back at myself and can barely recognize the person that I once was. How could I have thought such thoughts? I often laugh at the naivety of my

2010-01-21T22:40:00.002-05:00

Judas' kiss,sweetly lingers,upon my lips.

Random Musing

2009-12-30T16:37:00.007-05:00

Note: The following is a stream-of-consciousness free write. I make some (personally) valuable conclusions, but I don't contend that they are historical "truth." For example, I greatly simplified man's transition from a purely experiential existence to our current abstracted existence, attributing the shift to Classical Greece when in actuality it likely was not any single event and took many

Life is Suffering

2009-11-27T20:26:00.002-05:00

The Buddhists had it right: life is full of suffering. People die, things break, friends and lovers come and go, even the mind will some day whither away. But in between all of the suffering--in between all of the pain--are moments of bliss, moments of supreme joy so brilliant, so perfect that they make it all worth it. Losing yourself in the arms of your partner while making love, feeling the

Happiness is a Warm Loaded Gun...

2009-10-30T04:56:00.003-04:00

Greetings from Thailand! (not sure who I'm greeting, I think I'm the only one who reads this blog!!) I just finished a four day motorbike tour in Northern Thailand with my motorcycle gang (OK, I ride a scooter). We had a few good conversations along the way but one conversation in particular on our final day stuck with me that I would like to expand upon.We were talking about "happiness" and how

Nature

2009-09-06T14:24:00.006-04:00

There are it seems, two ways to view nature: as a cruel, unforgiving, and thoughtless force which man must overcome, or as Gaia, the mother and great balancing force of the Universe.Modern man, or Western society at least, has come to view nature as in opposition to humanity. We may have risen from nature, but that ugly little truth is merely an additional inconvenience in the endless battle to

Time and the Eternal Present

2009-08-30T11:35:00.008-04:00

On a recent psilocybin mushroom trip, the concept of "time" was a major theme that carried on for the duration of my experience. As can happen during miserable experiences such as being ill, undergoing a difficult physical experience, or waiting for the work day to end, during my trip past and future seemed completely irrelevant and were nothing more than elusive concepts. My trip however, was

Another day, another dollar

2009-08-12T20:24:00.001-04:00

It is absolutely amazing how slow the time ticks by when you're at work. Seconds and minutes and hours just completely lose all meaning and yet, as I sit here now, that eternity that is my work day seems a distant memory, a fuzzy dream. I mean, today was horrible. Absolutely terrible. If I really think about it, I can remember telling myself a half a dozen times that it just isn't worth it, that

Terence McKenna, 2012, and the Eschaton

2009-07-01T12:25:00.004-04:00

In 1975 an obscure, nasally voiced young man and his brother proposed what they claimed to be an empirical formula capable of mapping time—both past and future. The young man was Terence McKenna, who would later be referred to as the “Timothy Leary (and much more) of the discretely psychedelic 90s,” (Gabriel 1993) and the formula was the basis for a program known as Timewave Zero, which offered

Crazy Video

2009-07-01T11:40:00.008-04:00

I found this video on the Psychedelic Salon forum over on the Grow Report. It's pretty interesting to say the least, and very short, absolutely worth checking out. To view in full resolution (which I highly recommend, the video above doesn't really do it justice), click hereLorenzo (of the Psychedlic Salon podcast) really finds some great stuff and posts it to his site over at

First Ever Trip Report

2009-06-22T15:44:00.003-04:00

Well, after nine months of actively pursuing my first psychedelic experience, I finally got what I asked for. It took me a surprisingly long time to actually find anyone with mushrooms, but it finally happened. The following experience took place at a cabin on a tree farm owned by my grandfather in the Catskills and on an eighth of mushrooms.In all, it was an absolutely beautiful experience,

EPR Paradox and Bell's Theorem

2009-05-29T17:54:00.002-04:00