Browsing the archives for the sadhana and dharma category
I’ve been listening to Stephan Hoeller lectures, as I go to sleep at night. This has given me a pretty good introduction to Hoeller’s brand of gnosticism. I have been assailed (in a way) by gnosticism for over 25 years.
I would buy occult books in my idiot teen years, and one of them was [...]
I cut/pasted the below text straight from Drudgereport. I love the frankness and the obvious intelligence of Obama. I especially like how he answered the last question. He’s cool dude, and he’s from Chicago, so you know he’s crooked.
In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: “We are out of [...]
I am I.
All is dispersion. These are the quality of things.
The Tenth Aethyr is the world of adjectives, and there is no substance therein.
When I lived in the ashram, back in 1991-92, my roommate, Richard, would read aloud from the Yoga Vasistha. This story was the first, in my recollection, that gave me the satori experience, and really defined what I had been experiencing in my meditations. Nondualism, nonexistence, existence, turtles all the way down. The nonesense of [...]
ephrix erõti periarchés d’ aneptoman
iõ iõ pan pan
õ pan pan aliplankte, kyllanias chionoktypoi
petraias apo deirados phanéth, õ
theõn choropoi anax
SOPH. AJ.
Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs [...]
I have been getting a little more into my Hindu, advaitist side. It just snuck up on me. I started reading the Bhagavad Gita, and then… boom. I’m all spiritual… kind of. For me. The deities in the above picture are (from left to right) MahaLakshmi, Ganesh, and Saraswati. I have had a fairly consistent [...]
From my island home I feel a chance
To kiss the tired ghosts of time and circumstance
So give me peace of mind and let me dance
Bury all my pain of years beneath the sand
Youdopia, This song moves me in its simplicity, vulnerability, and tiny shimmers of hermetic insight that the boys used to provide before Kashmir [...]
It’s been a wild couple of weeks. Courtesy of Facebook, I have found my wonderful son, I have reconnected with some old friends, and now I’m getting people I went to high school with.
I live a very compartmentalized life. A house with many mansions, as it were. As I reconnect with people from my past, [...]
My dear Youdopians, this is a cross post from my dear friend, whom I’ve know for thirty years. Television Sux is his blog, and this is a post from it.
I have been wanting to post this for some time. Now here it is.
“Thank you, you commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns. I did not expect this,” Penn joked [...]
Holy shit, youdopia. This isn’t much, really. But it is a nice piece of how they do it elsewhere. Gordon Brown got schooled by an MP, in the manner in which Britain does it. I wish we were a little more like that, but alas…. they’re all monsters, whore, goblins, or simply idiots… a few [...]
Well, youdopia, here he is. My son. He’s the fella on the right. Let’s hear it for the boy. I love him. We’ ve been chatting on Facebook, via machine translation, and I’m delighted that my wife, daughter, and dad have been also. It’s an amazing time.
This scan is courtesy of Gawker. Check out this story from Bloomberg reporting how AIG’s 165 million dollar bonuses were actually at least 215 million dollars. Enough.
I joined Facebook, after years of resistance, because Kiki pointed out that I would likely find my son. Lo and behold. There he was. I have never met him, never seen him, save for a few photos. Years passed and continents, languages, cultures, and legalities kept us separate, and yet… google was no help. Facebook… [...]
You know what, Youdopia? I like Joe Biden. I like it that his candor and abruptness allow him to remain nominally human in the center of Dis. The other day, an open mic caught Vice President Biden, when called “Mr Vice President” by a colleague, replying, “Give me a fucking break!”. Funny. I like [...]
Well, Youdopia… Jon Stewart took Cramer to the cleaners on the Daily Show last night. In one sense it was amazingly wonderful, but in another sense it is the start of Jon Stewart, politician, and I worry about the Frankenization of a very funny guy. He’s obviously fired up, and goddamnit he won, and he’s [...]
The more your dream is dead….
Visions
They get sucked from my eyes.
Like an eagle’s claw.
Man: Working Hard or hardly working.
Me: Fuck you.
(exeunt omnes)
night night y’all.
My blogger friend, Butterfly has been moved to the ICU. It pains me to write this, but it’s what happens. Her husband has been reading her all the tweets, emails, and texts that those who are rooting for her are sending. She has a work safe version of her cancer blog, and it’s here. Lifelovecancer.wordpress.com. [...]
Poor boys and pilgrims with families, and we’re all going to Graceland.
I knew Obama was going to win when his grandma died the night before the election. That’s mythic. When you’re dealing with something this big, you expect mythic actions. President-Elect Obama has the dubious distinction of being an Archetype. That’s good and bad. On [...]
Feed Me, Seymour
