February 2010
5 posts
“For I declare by the eternal truth, as long as you have the will to do the will...”
– Meister Eckhart, Sermon 52
“We see a sham world because we live a sham life.”
– Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism
January 2010
2 posts
“I’m too tired to prolong this brutal exchange between a bedragled microbe...”
– Larry David in Whatever Works
December 2009
2 posts
“The question becomes: How far is your head up your own ass?”
– Eli
Tupac song selected for Vatican playlist →
November 2009
2 posts
Skin Deep →
Use this database to learn which body products are safest for you and the planet.
“…a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to...”
– NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
October 2009
5 posts
“As a young contemporary adult, I can honestly say that to admit to being a...”
– Reality Sandwich | My Reconciliation with Christianity
Living systems turn energy into order.
Dead systems turn order into energy.
Google performative dissonance.
(from old class notes I don’t want to lose forever)
“We have scrubbed the world clean of magic.”
– Alan Watts, The Book, p. 115
Obama's Nobel Prize - →
I had the same immediate reaction which I’m certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the wrong website
"No Poo"
I was almost out of shampoo so I thought I would take the opportunity to find the *greenest* replacement. I came across this “no-poo” idea and tried it today.
You just make a little paste of baking soda and water and rub it around your scalp. Then dunk the ends of your hair (if it is long) in diluted apple cider vinegar. Very easy.
So far it looks great. I think it will take a week...
September 2009
9 posts
Agni Yoga →
In order to accept and admit Fire as the path to Hierarchy, as the path of love and compassion, it is necessary to be affirmed irrevocably with one’s entire heart. Only thus will the small stars become flaming giants.
Time is Disappearing from the Universe →
…we have been fooled into thinking the expansion of the universe is accelerating, when in reality, time itself is slowing down.
Tzadikim Nistarim →
Lamedvavnik is the Yiddish term for one of the 36 humble righteous ones or Tzadikim mentioned in kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. According to this teaching, at any given time there are at least 36 holy Jews in the world who are Tzadikim. These holy people are hidden; i.e., nobody knows who they are. According to some versions of the story, they themselves may not know who they are. For the sake of...
Life Recorders May Be This Century’s Wrist Watch →
If your entire life is recorded, what does that mean for psychology and spirituality?
No repressed memories. No mysterious patches of childhood. Everything will be indexed and reviewable.You could literally be *witness* to your entire life, like a movie.
Just wait until these things can be hacked and your *memories* can be spliced with CGI.
Never a dull moment here on Earth…
Is Alex Jones Psychotic? →
My fathers were silversmiths, they smithed silver. And in their dingy rooms at tiny tables, they tapped away at second rate metals, fashioning all manner of bauble and trinket. A more worthless profession, I cannot name. When I was born, when I arrived, my mother fell to fever, for I burned like fire. And as fire, I swiftly grew, I swiftly spread with no regard to guidance or suggestion. And as...
August 2009
10 posts
Adherents.com →
An interesting list of the world’s largest religious groups.
Porn and Mirror Neurons : The Frontal Cortex →
Porn does not cause us to think about sex. Rather, porn causes to think we are having sex.
Embracing The End of Time →
“Right-wingers, Lefters, Progressives, Regressives, God Lovers, God Deniers, Fat Cats, Hipsters — everyone’s stirring, becoming unhinged — everyone is getting their freak on.”
OT on TV →
OneTaste is featured at the end of this Nightline clip. Enjoy!
Tao Te Ching - 47
Without going out the door, know the world Without peering out the window, see the Heavenly Tao The further one goes The less one knows
Therefore the sage knows without going Names without seeing Achieves without striving
(Translation by Derek Lin)
Once I boarded a boat to Tangier. In some ways it was a last ditch effort to find something I was promised. The boat was full of children yelling in Arabic.
An instant later I found myself in front of a MAC counter, breathing the stale air of American commerce, wondering which color eyeshadow might fill that gap in my reality. Not so far removed from the medina.
Summer nights are warm all over...
Meditation: The dark side →
…meditation and Buddhism have a lot to offer, but so do Judaism, Christianity and other spiritual and psychological paths that emphasize transformation and living life to the fullest.
Quiverfull →
“It’s a logical extreme of the movement whose naturalistic bent actually overlaps with the back-to-the-land, new age counterculture in some ways, with Quiverfull moms staking out their territory of natural pregnancy in the odd company of feminist doulas and naturopaths…”
How interesting! This is what I am talking about with western, progressive, new age, spiritual people needing...
“Life’s interesting. You may not understand it all. But, hey, that’s...”
– Grandma
July 2009
5 posts
The Neurobiology of Relational Spirituality →
At the last, I wrested myself from those chains and though I bore their marks on my flesh, no longer was I under their power. In one last breath, it all shook loose and there I was: alone.
But as I looked, I mean really looked, maybe for the first time, what I saw didn’t compute, didn’t make sense. I couldn’t make sense of it. Worlds spun before my eyes and all I heard was my...
Futurisms
If, more and more people cancel cable in favor of Netflix/internet viewing.
Our children will not see “current” programming, but will be watching the shows we grew up with and have fond memories of on DVD/YouTube.
They will grow up with the same childhood programming that we did, potentially causing a looping effect which would freeze the childhood popular media memory roughly...
Could you survive without money? →
May 2009
2 posts
“Those who do not wish to make super-efforts had better give up everything and...”
– Gurdjieff
“God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise...”
– Hegel
April 2009
4 posts
“Lots of airlines are cracking down on fat people.”
– What a great quote from Slate.
“Life is not about being liked, it’s about being effective.”
– Guy in this funny video. (Amber > Orange, anyone?)
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March 2009
7 posts
TOUCH-AND-GO SITUATION - New York Post →
OneTaste in the news again.
The Trap - Documentary on Psychology & Politics →
I’m skeptical, but it’s very interesting.
“Was there a Hank Williams Sr. who sang?”
– Snook’s friend
“Welcome to the suburbs.”
– Housewarming guests