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Shamanatrix

truly discover who you are and then forget to be born anew

About Me

The CricketSoda Myspace Editor! Continually living in gratitide. In each breath letting cycles of three wash over me: conception, gestation birth/ birth, life, death... Dynamic paradoxes are cause for tears and laugther, silence & thunder... everything is symbolic and senseless in essence. i am nothing but human and that is boundless magic in itself.

My Interests

getting stalked by mountain lions on cold autumn nights. going here:

I'd like to meet:

passionate humans ready to suck the juice out of each moment.

Music:

raw is good... Prince, Natacha Atlas, schubert, al green, portishead, Jorge Ben, radiohead, the pixies, tribe called quest, music of my homies, children of the revolution, sonic youth, ben folds five, pharcyde, arrested development, Tina Malia, Snatam Kaur, nirvana, spearhead, buck 65, outkast, beastie boys, beatles, eagles, ella fitzgerald, miles davis, gillian welch, billie holiday, musicals, they might be giants, tattle tale, murder by death, coltrane, duke ellington, elliot smith, johnny cash, edith piaf, neil young, paris combo, music from cirque de soleil, the cure, morcheeba, granddaddy... oh music, it just keeps going.

Movies:

Across the Universe, postcards from the edge, fear & loathing in las vegas, raising arizona, blood simple, the never ending story, priscilla queen of the desert, the secret isle of roin inish, animal house, the constant gardener, dr. strangelove, the shining, all about eve, west side story, black orpheus, rocky horror picture show, best in show, ma vie en rose...

Books:

the artist's way, don't drink the punch by Kamala Devi, the woman in the shaman's body, jitterbug purfume, fear and loathing in las vegas, the dharma bums, catch 22, writing down the bones, the mission of art by alex grey, the life of pi, sirens of titan, the phantom tollbooth, shakespeare, poe, anything by Laura Esquivel, gift from the sea by anne morrow lindbergh, le guin's nonfiction, oscar wilde, shel silverstein, Rilke, Lao Tzu...

Heroes:

the infinite teardrop (la mere) the mountains owls hawks foxes magical vessels made of transformed cardboard boxes...

My Blog

Philly to NYC

written on the plane... number 4 of 7 musings from the first seven days of 200infinityIV   "True works of art Are only seen Through the eyes of the listening heart      ...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

Can you guess? East meets West. . .

awakened at 4:25 am "go to Mt. Helix for sunrise..." instead I wrote the following, tried to sleep, and eventually threw in the towel and went out for sunrise around 6 am while the hood still slept, e...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

gearing up for some death in the desert

miraculous encounters leave her inspired... if only for one moment, the spark is enough to ignite a wild fire of desire. seduction, primal emotions haunt her dreams yet she stands in cold water, waist...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:31:00 PST

Divine Union--Women's Gift

"I can see why Buddhist monks might declare celibacythe POWER I feel in being in my own juices & creative flowand yet in women there reaches a point where the cosmic urge to merge & create l...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:29:00 PST

content to play the monster

My writing turns you onI can tellContesting only what she detestsPushing the envelope as magicians doLovers laugh and play to dieIn each others' arms every night  Songs o...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:24:00 PST

Make Sense of This

Make Sense of This   Stimulating brilliance Deriving pleasure out of pain Stained teeth Chewing through criminal desires Fire, melting your exterior like wax Revealing the rawness of your being U...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:46:00 PST

A Good Lamb Stew

Lamb Stew:   1 lb lamb stew meat Flour cumin salt pepper coat lamb pieces Heat oil in stew pot over medium heat Brown lamb on all sides Chop onion throw in pot (dig to bottom of pot, dred...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:56:00 PST

Midnight July 4

Infinite Mortality Wandering through the various spheres of consciousness Pondering nothing in particular Exploring heights and depths both ordinary and bizarre Listening to the language birth...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:13:00 PST

seductive like a snake

maybe Gabe's getting to me, or maybe i just love the classic 80's flick "Wallstreet" that i grew up on... (not to mention that young Charlie Sheen looks like my brother.) either way, this is a gr...
Posted by Shamanatrix on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:06:00 PST