music, records, dancing, travel, yoga, festivals, shows, raves (although good ones are few and far between lately), hiking, camping, boarding/skiing, bike riding, photography, art/design, food, energy, learning new things, spending time with good people
"We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment." - Alan Watts..
the alien race that enslaved us way back when & programmed us to harvest gold.
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Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
they just stand back and let it all be
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She started a blaze from one tiny spark
I didn't even detect
She loved the light, was dismayed by the dark
The stars, though, she seemed to respect
The faint light that flutters at night to the Earth
Would land in her eyes and collect
Luminous creatures she'd find in the surf
I never thought to inspect
it's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago...
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.music.saves.our.lives.
drum 'n bass, breaks, trip-hop, ambient/experimental, jazz, funk, blues, noise, acid rock, pink floyd, grateful dead, the doors, the beatles, phish, janis, tool, misfits, nin, radiohead, garbage, good non-commercial hip-hop, old skool hardcore, some house and other str8 beats, lotta jam bands, hookah, dso, sts9, ymsb, ...
the wall, dark city, almost famous, american beauty, bowling for columbine (more than about guns..it really shows how badly america lives in fear), the matrix, pulp fiction, garden state, into the wild, what the bleep do we know, wallace and gromit movies,... most tim burton films, good horror & sci fi films, kung-fu movies, art & foreign films, some cheesy 80's movies,..i dunno, way too many to name. pan's labyrinth was prob. the best thing i've seen lately.
tv, for the most part, is bad for humankind. it's mind-control at its finest, especially in america. that said, there are some good programs on that flickering box. the daily show, colbert report, globetrekker, simpsons, futurama, family guy, [adult swim], seinfeld, curb, sopranos, star trek (TNG & DS9), real time w/ bill maher, six feet under, LOST, dr. katz, mXc, mr. bean, animal, science & nature shows, old nick at nite (taxi, welcome back kotter, lucy, etc..), weeds
too many to list, but the first authors that come to mind are douglas adams, jack kerouac, shunryu suzuki, timothy leary, kahlil gibran, jack kornfield, terrence mckenna, don miguel ruiz, john lilly, sogyal rinpoche, carlos castaneda, ralph metzner, deepak chopra, ram dass, aldous huxley, alan watts, b.k.s. iyengar, ...
patanjali, alan watts, matt groening, jim henson, jerry garcia, robert hunter, the buddha, captain picard, super grover, alex grey, arundhati roy, howard stern, amy goodman, jean valjean, armand dimele, tony (my yoga teacher), mr. miyagi, all the good teachers i've encountered.
and don't forget harry hood..
..where do you go when the lights go out?..