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Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Mar 24th, 2010
Back in January, Orion, myself, and 4 other Vegas friends traveled to central Cali and attended a Vipassana meditation retreat. Vipassana is a very specific meditation technique, taught piece by piece throughout the ten days. Here is the basic framework for this experience: * Takes place in a remote retreat * Men and women [...]
Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Feb 25th, 2010
Like many angst-ridden goth-wannabe teens, I had a viscous streak of suicidal ideation. It started through an innocent fascination with death, and before I knew it, I had actually named my suicidal thoughts “consumption”, as they were truly becoming all-consuming. I wrote poems and short stories, and invariably, the main character would off him/herself in [...]
Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Feb 11th, 2010
God. Wow, what a powerful word. It’s one of those word-bombs that almost always elicits some sort of response in folks. Heart-stopping reverence. Stomach-turning resistance. Even God -apathy is stronger than an army tank. Whatever emotion you have when you hear / speak the word, it’s likely to be potent. I’ve run the gamut of [...]
Posted in Huachuma Ceremonies, Shamanic Ceremonies, The Path of Enlightenment on Feb 1st, 2010
Back on the eve of Christmas Eve, I found a rare quiet, completely solo night to myself, and felt it right to go deep with the plants again. My previous Huachuma ceremony was my only to-date solo excursion with Grandfather Wisdom / San Pedro, and I felt like I learned volumes about the energies, especially [...]
Posted in Aftermaths and In-Betweens, Tantra Revelations on Jan 26th, 2010
Two very distinct and paradoxical reasons have kept me from blogging lately: 1) So bloody much has happened it’s daunting to try and cover all the ground in a genuine, detailed fasion 2) Much of what keeps transpiring is from the space where words cannot go, so how does the unreal ego / identity self [...]
