you me

The body and mind together do present a unified, self-regulating, healing, self-clearing system.

Within it each problem contains its own solution if it is honestly faced. Each symptom, mental or physical, is a clue to the resolution of the conflict behind it, and contains within it the seeds of its own healing.

-Seth

hot natured

if consciousness is universal
then why am i wide awake, wondering what to say
when in a parallel dimension
lost in the spiritual, change into physical
no i cant, go back, no i cant, go back
she got me rocking in a forward motion
she got me moving in a different state of mind
she got me rocking in a forward motion
she got me rocking in a different state of mind
i can’t go back in time

“ATTENTION: All you rule-breakers, you misfits and troublemakers, all you free spirits and pioneers, all you visionaries and non-conformists… Everything that the establishment has told you is wrong with you is actually what’s right with you. You see things others don’t. You are hardwired to change the world. Unlike 9 out of 10 people—your mind is irrepressible—and this threatens authority. You were born to be a revolutionary. You can’t stand rules because in your heart you know there’s a better way. You have strengths dangerous to the establishment, and it wants them eliminated. So your whole life you’ve been told your strengths were weaknesses? Now I’m telling you otherwise.”

- Garret John LoPorto

“As the Virgin, woman takes the surrendering role and the man acts as the initiator. She is the “clean slate” on which he writes the Karmic message, while she confers and shares her untouchable “pure essence” with him alone. In this role, she embodies conventional love at its most potent level. She is the “pure flower” whose fragrance is his alone to smell.

As the Whore, a woman is in the active role; it is she who acts as the initiatress into the mysteries of love. Without any shame or restraint, she is free to give all of herself to him without any restrictions. In this role woman embodies unconventional love. Sure of her sexuality, she offers herself in service without reservation, guilt, or insecurity. She must draw on her own special qualities and confer them on her lover. She is pure Shakti, the power principle of initiation, the High Priestess.”

- Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger

“In sex, we desire to lose our superficial self completely in overwhelming bodily joy, but we also fear this loss of self. We long to merge with our lover so deeply that our vulnerable hearts are one light, but we also resist this oneness. We ache to let go of all protection and enter nakedly into unguarded love, but we are also afraid of this vulnerability.
We yearn and hesitate to give our deepest depth of being- which is God’s depth- through sexual love. This openess of being is all there is and who we are, and yet we stand divided and protected. We refuse to trust.”

- David Deida (Enlightened Sex)

“Sexuality and spiritual experience have traditionally been linked in the literature of mysticism. Religious ecstasy seems strikingly similar to erotic excitement in the accounts of saints and holy people who have spoken of enlightenment- knowing ultimate reality, or in their usual term, God- in language that resorts to sexual imagery. Such images, they said, were the best they could find to describe an otherwise indescribable experience. Such terms as rapture, passion, union and ravish occur frequently.”

- John White (Kundalini: Sex, Evolution, and Higher Consciousness)

everything is alive, everything

“The Buddhist realizes that the blue mountain is walking. The Native American hears the blue mountain talking. I have heard mountains sing and mountains shake with the power of thunder. Mountains whistle with the power of wind and whisper with pine. Mountains crackle, groan, and roar with glacial energies. And mountains hold their silence in stillness, like great meditators abiding at the edge of the horizon. Mountains also mark the boundaries of the known world.”

Joan Halifax

“When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy - if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation. So meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your wife or child.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

oohyeahaw

about this moon

Hold not too rigidly to beliefs, stagnation occurs. When we learn our lessons in life, they tend not to repeat. If you send out mixed vibes, that’s what returns to you from Life and others. Stop projecting blaming others for your pain and take responsibility to heal as well as get clear within yourself first before you demand others to alter their ways. This Lunar Eclipse may be laced with communication and relating difficulties. Fighting the inevitable only exhausts you and keeps you in a power struggle. Accept what is, seek a solution and then move onward.

Links Project

i fail to see how any of our technological innovations improve upon nature. in terms of energetic efficiencies, waste management, and resiliency the soft redundant systems of nature beats our hard technology any day. I think the point of this article is that our technology (in this case our language) fundamentally shapes our attitude toward our environment and each other, often in negative ways. there are alternative systems of technology that create other ways of building a culture and surviving on a day-to-day basis. Given the horrific outcomes of our own cultural development (nuclear weapons, superbugs, massive pollution, topsoil loss, global warming, etc) it seems pretty clear that the scientific progress you think of as an improvement is in fact an system that is inherently destructive and oppressive. time was codified as a method of control.

-Commenter on this article

“Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, except exactly who you’re being right now.”

- Neale Donald Walsch

“Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.”
 -Osho

“It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”
 -

Derrick Jensen

THE SUN IS SHINING EVERYDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frida Kahlo at Xochimilco, Mexico .1937.
Fritz Henle

CLICK IT CLICK CLICK CLICK

urban mystic

Most of us look out at our lives and see a world that seems cruel sometimes and kind at other times. We see a world filled with pain and joy. Sometimes this world seems fair, and at other times very unfair, and depending on what we see in our world, we decide what our experiences are going to be. In fact, most of the time we are searching outside ourselves for a situation that will improve our mood or enhance our attitude.

The problem with all this searching is that the seeds of unhappiness and discontent are not planted in an external garden. They are planted in the field of our individual and collective minds. All suffering begins at the level of the mind; therefore the only logical place where we can alleviate suffering is in the mind. Seeking outside for a solution to suffering is a guarantee that peace and contentment will remain elusive because the problem does not lie within the external circumstances.

Allowing yourself to continue to search outside your mind for the right set of circumstances is like planting an apple seed and hoping to see a banana tree grow. The seeds that are planted in our consciousness are the seeds that will bear fruit in our lives. Yet most people new to the spiritual path look around them and see all sorts of reasons why they cannot be content and at peace. 

It seems to be the money, the relationship, the family, or the state of affairs in the world that prevent a person from finding peace. The ego would have us cling to these external things, which it holds up as proof that happiness can only be experienced in brief glimpses. Still the search goes on and on in an endless pursuit.

Yoga seeks to completely invert this way of thinking. This may seem like an extreme statement, but actually it’s quite logical. All our suffering originates in the mind, and gets projected outward. Logically then, it’s the mind that needs to be changed. The only way to do this is to bring our attention inward. This inward focus is completely opposite to what the ego would have us do.

Pratyahara, the fifth limb of yoga, is where we begin to do this. Pratyahara is the practice of withdrawing the senses and pulling our attention inward. Most of us have been projecting outward for so long, we don’t even know we’re doing it. Our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and hands seem like peepholes that report what is on the outside, but they are really the ego’s tools for projecting everything outward.

This outward projection is the primary way the ego ensures we remain deluded. Only the truly numb can deny we are all searching for something. As long as we deny our true nature, we will feel within us an emptiness that is intolerable. This desire to search is the most natural thing, and it’s the unavoidable result of believing that we are not whole. If there must be a search, the ego compromises—it has us search where we will never find what we are looking for. 

I often compare the practice of pratyahara to fly-fishing. In fly-fishing, the angler casts the line out and then reels it back in almost as soon as it touches the water. This ongoing process of casting out and reeling back is like the practice of pratyahara, in that the ego is always casting the mind out and Spirit is always reeling it back in. 

Once we realize that allowing the mind to be distracted by outside things is the way the ego keeps us in bondage, it’s tempting to get caught up in judgment. It’s the nature of the ego to cast the mind out, just as the angler casts out his or her line. There is no doubt that this will happen. Rather than judge the process, it’s far more useful to allow Spirit to reel the mind back in. Just as the angler understands that the process of casting out and reeling back in is an ongoing process that will continue until the fishing is over, the spiritual seeker needs to understand that the process of the ego’s distraction and the return to Spirit is a life-long process.

high on glitters

was it my fault she didn't even know how much i crushed her
she went from one job to the next, high on youth, and like all crazy, crazy, 

it got her everwhere, oh yeah that and her height and her hair and her amazing eyes

oh yeah and christmastime its coming round again, and it won't be the same this time i'm telling you, 

i'm not gonna get all into the glitters the way i did last year. 

A madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how you lean forward or back. Standing beside the river, realizing that the water of earth is recycled forever, she deeply understood this: that there are two “presents.” One is of the moment. The other is of a longer moment – the “moment” that includes the history and knowledge one knows. So that, she mused, if the tears shed by the mother of Isis are now part of this river then I am somehow connected to her in this longer “present” that I am able to envision that contains both of us.

Alice Walker, “Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart”