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About Me

I have the urge to decipher the world through the eyes of a mystical scientist; see the truth from the mouth of a storyteller; sense reality through the emotions of a poet; and master the art of living in this beautiful universe as efficiently as the trad-witch. And as for the rest of my pretentious self knowledge; integrate and organize what you think you know, continually update what you do not, and never hang on to any of it- I still know too little to know I know nothing at all.... I am a work in progress and no doubt will update this soon again.

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My Interests

Meditation, Vajrayana Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Traditional Witchcraft, Nondualism, Suchness, Emptiness, Samsara/Nirvana, states, hermeneutics, mysticism, Tantric Buddhism, Zen, Shamanism, The Healing Arts, Nature, Consciousness, integral theory, divination, seid, runic lore, children, wisdom, love, poetry, sutra, mythology, heathenry, crystals, sacred sites, rocks, Cernunnos, Freya, Isis, Gods and Godesses of all flavours, cats, pyramids, alternative egyptology, esoterica, astrology/psychology, sacred geometry, quantum theory, holistic thinking, abstract art, tribal art, trees, tree sculptures, ecology, symbolism, dreams, trancework, labyrinths, fairytale illustration

I'd like to meet:

Plotinus and Treya

Music:

classical, and much other good bits of acoustic seduxtion..my craving for it changes as i grow old and wearier.

Movies:

a bit of pot pourri really.. sci fi, fantasy, horror,

Television:

anything that makes me laugh

Books:

Grace and Grit by Treya Wilber, Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology and Spirituality by Ken Wilber, Cave in the Snow by Tenzin Palmo, Passport to the Cosmos by John E Mack, The Witching Way of Hollow Hill by Robin Artisson, The , The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird,

Heroes:

Treya Wilber, Ken Wilber, Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, Tenzin Gyatso, Tenzin Palmo, Plotinus, Monica SjÃ¶Ã¶, John E Mack, Audre Lorde, Andy Goldsworthy, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jean Shinoda Bolen

My Blog

My Grandfather

My swedish grandfather so young when he died at fifty eight from a heart attack. They say he worked too hard. He was a fantastic human being. Gentle and kind and amazingly in touch with t...
Posted by An Uppland Vana on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:36:00 PST

Tomtar

My dear beloved Grandmother, swedish woman and daughter of a family of farmers. I spoke to her tonight (my mother's birthday) and she told me a story I had heard her tell before and one that she...
Posted by An Uppland Vana on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:21:00 PST

The bit I left out...

On further exploration of my lucid dream, I have wondered who it may have been, the man who cooked at that underground stove. Ok, there was a bit I left out of my description, to cut the story short. ...
Posted by An Uppland Vana on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:49:00 PST

My lucid dream

The past months I have been rather lazy as regards to my own inner work. The burst of energy I felt a while back was met with great inner fear and resistance. I have had some very curious experiences,...
Posted by An Uppland Vana on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:11:00 PST