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The Thin White Duke

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About Me

"Science in the name of discovering nature's laws, and religion in the name of higher moral purpose, suppress and degrade much of what is most human and most personal about us; and both of them demand adherence to ideals that do not encourage us to attend in any ongoing daily way to the genuine needs of our organisms and their authentic satisfaction."

"In medicine and religion poisons and penances take the place of truth and righteousness. Physicians profess to have provided man with means of escaping the natural and inevitable consequences of his conduct. Why, therefore, seek to know the right and do it? Why be good when you can buy absolution? Why avoid the causes of disease when you may be immunized against them? Why search for causes when a pill will set everything right? Why avoid injurious practices, when penicillin will erase their consequences? Why live cleanly when vaccines can make unclean living safe? Why behave lawfully when a sermon or a pill can annul the laws of life? Why think of consequences when we can beg, buy, borrow or steal a cure?"

"I ride plywood, I talk to my cat."

"For some, getting tattooed is healing. To get a full-body tattoo takes years of suffering, and that requires maturing as a human, learning to experience and overcome pain. It is as if with each piercing of the needle, they become stronger and more complete."

"India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."


My Interests

with intelligence and curiosity, dedication and perseverance, and most of all focus i choose to live life. my primary interests include:

:: traditional micronesian gôtau
:: natural hygiene
:: somatic bodywork
:: body rites
:: indigenous culture
:: international travel
:: shibari
:: philosophy
:: organic farming
:: biodynamics
:: vegan raw foods lifestyle
:: japanese architecture
:: thai massage
:: ampuka massage
:: chinese medicine
:: ayurvedic medicine
:: polynesian tattoos
:: japanese tattoos
:: pahalwani
:: mallavidya
:: ashtanga yoga
:: pilates
:: nuad bo rarn
:: ampuka hara
:: lymphatic drainage (non-vodder)
:: meditation
:: climbing
:: surfing
:: canyoneering
:: trekking
:: hiking
:: simplicity

I'd like to meet:

fellow atheists, climbing partners, raw foodists, orange county hippies (if they exist), massage students, students of life...a few good souls. a few like minded people to bounce ideas off of; that would be nice. dim-witted, Ritalin-sedated monkey children need not apply. one of my favorite quotes sums it up best:

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible... If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others."

Music:

:: pink floyd
:: miles davis
:: tool
:: david bowie
:: led zeppelin

Movies:

:: before night falls
:: whale rider
:: baraka
:: fear and loathing in las vegas
:: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
:: donnie darko
:: garden state
:: babel
:: office space
:: the big lebowski
:: shaun of the dead

Television:

:: the office (bbc)
:: no reservations
:: little britain
:: nature
:: nova
:: planet earth

Books:

"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world."

:: the 80/10/10 diet
:: let my people go surfing
:: DMT the spirit molecule
:: doors of perception
:: flashbacks
:: food of the gods
:: grain damage
:: the holographic universe
:: the ibogaine story
:: job's body
:: ketamine
:: LSD my problem child
:: maya cosmogenesis 2012
:: pain free
:: sexus
:: siddhartha
:: yage letters

Heroes:

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

My rock, my reason for being, my mother. And for courage and complete willingness to throw caution to the wind, my wife.

My Blog

Impassioned Passages

i have deliberately chosen not to include the authors of the following quotes. in fact, for many of them, i can not recall the person whose words these are. they are not my words but they have a deep ...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:25:00 PST

The Evils Of Factory Farming

The following are a series of blog posts by the late Virgil Butler. They are several years old but warrant reading and rereading. While he was alive, he encouraged the free distribution of these writi...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:00 PST

O Le Ta Tatau

A five thousand year old tattooed man was discovered in October of 1991. The discovery made headlines all around the world. The incredibly well preserved skin of The Iceman is the oldest example of ta...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:43:00 PST

Words To Live By

"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect you...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:40:00 PST

White People Are Leaf-Cutter Ants

The origin of white people is the King of Leaf-Cutter Ants. Just look at the leaf-cutter ants, how they all work together cleaning and cleaning the land around their nests. Where the leaf-cutter ants ...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:01:00 PST

Ancient Tradtions Of Bodywork

Ampuka PsoasAmpuku is an Asian term meaning gentle, deep abdominal release. Chinese and Thai methods for opening the HARA are used to release and open the energy centers. The Abdomen, also known as th...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:25:00 PST

The Truth About Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens (psychedelics) are psychoactive substances that powerfully alter perception, mood, and a host of cognitive processes. They are considered physiologically safe and do not produce dependen...
Posted by The Thin White Duke on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:14:00 PST