A couple of upcoming classes
I have a couple of upcoming classes. One is a local class, for those of you who live in the Portland-Vancouver area and one is a Teleclass. Details Below: Breathing Meditation class In this class, Taylor Ellwood will teach you Taoist breathing techniques that you can use for meditation and for achieving closer connection to [...]
Letting Go
Kat and I came back from Pantheacon to one of our cats dying. It’s certainly not the homecoming experience we expected to have, and we’ve been grieving as we’ve also been getting him ready for his next journey. Something we’ve both said to him is that it’s ok for him to move on. And we [...]
Dream work update
I’ve been continuing to do the Dream Yoga work each night. Consistently my dreams have focused on issues that I’m currently working on via other forms of internal work. I’ve lately been focusing on the positions that you need to enter into when you got sleep, and when you wake up at different times of [...]
Dream Yoga work
I’ve recently been integrating into my dream work, dream yoga techniques from Tibetan Buddhism. What I’ve mainly done for the moment is breathing techniques that you do right before you go to sleep. I like to integrate steps of a new practice gradually. Kat’s also doing this practice. Even though we’ve just started with this [...]
Endorphin
Endorphin is a guy in a jogging suit. The symbol he gave me is a fleshknot that has a tripod base, with each part of the tripod rising to twist around the other two parts. He causes pleasure, notable in runner high, but also in meditation and experiencing something new, but he also opens doors [...]
Embodiment magic
A while back I’d written about some of my experiences with Laban, a form of physical movement. My main purpose for studying Laban was to learn more about the spatial realities of the body as well as how it moves through space, something I considered essential for really getting the methodology of paratheatre, which Antero [...]
Recognizing and changing patterns
I was talking with Kat recently about patterns, specifically the patterns of behavior each person has, as well as the patterns that occur between people. It seems to me that each person does have specific patterns of behavior that they act out, and also have specific patterns of behavior that occur in the relationships…kind of [...]
The illusion of control
I’ve been doing some internal work lately and one of the issues that has arisen has been about control, specifically the control a person has in his/her imagination vs the control s/he has in reality. If a person feels that s/he has no control over circumstances in his/her life, there can be, sometimes, a tendency [...]
Working with the monkey mind
One the issues that comes up in mediation is what Buddhists call Monkey Mind. It’s that troublesome voice that starts saying random messages to you and distracts you from meditating. For people who are trying to achieve a state of no mind, the monkey mind is particularly troublesome because its a reminder that your mind [...]
Meditation and the relationship to the body
I’ve been doing a lot of research and practical applications of meditation from various spiritual systems, and the one thing I find consistent is that for meditation to really work, there must be some interaction with the body. The body is the gateway to experiencing meditation, which makes sense as a meditation is really an [...]
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- I finished the latest revision of Magical Identity, at 93,535 words. Off to the editor and then layout! Expect a pre-order post soon.
