This is from the Spirituality through Hip Hop class I taught at Pima College. I was a guest lecturer for the course Religion in Modern Culture.The class was 2 hours long. I started with a rap, went into the philosophy of how to view art and creativity and what it actually is. I then went into the history of hip hop, the four facets (graffiti, MC, DJ, Dancing) and showed how these are great creative outlets for expression. I then played 5 minutes from four different documentaries, each dealing with a respective element of hip hop (Bomb It, Freesstyle, Scratch, Rize). I then played a song, a couple music videos, rapped another poem of mine and ended with a 30 minute Q&A.
In this video I give an intro and rap my poem "Visionz".
In this video I I talk about the universe, creativity, art, and the four elements of hip hop.
In this video I rap my poem "Quantum Mystics".
The two most important things in life:
1. Love is the first.
2. Learning is the second
The most important question in life:
What do you want?
..
"Now go from observing the All to being the All."
"Yes, but how?"
"Make love to me, Ken, make love to the sky, make love to the clouds, embrace the stars, kiss the heavens, hold the cosmos in the palm of your hand, explode out of yourself into the universe at large."
I am deliriously slipping away into a cosmos close to infinity, I am starting to...
"This is what men and women do for each other," the voice continues. "Man the Seer becomes one with the Seen, woman the Seen becomes one with the Seer. Purusha and Prakriti fall in love, Shiva and Shakti melt into the Heart and unite for all eternity, subject and object dissolve into One Taste and light up the night with their yells."
"Men and women...," I mumble.
"What do you think all those once-every-ten-minute fantasies you have about female bodies really mean? You don't think they are about sex, do you?"
I try to focus. "When I am deeply, deeply in love...," and I look into sky eyes, and I disappear entirely into that beautiful expanse, and I am free in a way that lights up the universe with a radiance that makes the blazing sun go pale and anemic,
and I am drenched with a being that explodes my heart to all infinity. Supernovas swirl endlessly in my brain, galaxies start running through my veins, I grasp the entire cosmos in the palm of my hand, and the Mystery that surrounds me melts the universe away....
"Yes, young Ken, keep going."
Deeper and deeper into my being, farther back into my own consciousness, resting as the infinite Witness of all the worlds that arise. An empty, dark, vast formlessness, yet intrinsically alive, infinately wise, radiating a luminosity too subtle to see or even feel, an infinate Release on the other side of terror, a radical Freedom beyond the shores of pain, a bliss beyond that cannot be felt and a light beyond light that cannot even be seen.
"Now come back to me, Ken," the eyes of sky whisper.
And out of that infinate Emptiness the entire World explodes, and I am flooded with an ecstasy so unbearably intense I splinter into a million souls dispersed in cosmic winds, I arise an infinity of translucent stars adorning the sheltering sky, disappear instantly into an iridescent sun shining in the heart of each and every being, arising yet as erotic earth giving life to all who yearn. Freedom and Fullness drench my being and soak theuniverse to its radiant core, and it is all so obvious, so utterly, painfully, terribly obvious.
"I am the creator of this entire cosmic game, aren't I?"
"We all are, young Ken," my tomorrow-me says.
All sentient beings are pure Spirit. That is indeed the game, the cosmic game, the great and grand joke that we are all playing on ourselves."
"But what happens once you awaken to this ultimate open secret? What happens after that? What happens next?"
"Exactly what should happen next, whatever that is. You will continue to play the game, only now fully awake. It is then ordinary, ever so ordinary, as you go on about the world. You will enter the marketplace with open hands, you will comfort those around you as best as you possibly can, you will work to help all people."
~From the closing pages of Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free
by Ken Wilber
Jahan name means "world" and "universe" in Sanskrit & Persian.
I like to play.
I love spicy food.
I am a vegetarian.
I speak English, Spanish, and Farsi.
I just finished my degree as a Philosophy major and Psychology and Physics minor at the University of Arizona.
My score on The LONG Scientific Personality Test :
INFP - the Healer
(You scored 27% I to E, 10% N to S, 19% F to T, and 52% J to P!)
You are more introverted than extroverted. You are more intuitive than observant, you are more feeling based than thinking based, and you prefer to go with the flow rather than having a plan. Your type can best be summarized by the word "Healer", which belongs to the larger group of idealists. You have a capacity for caring that is deeper than most. You strive for unity, are fascinated by the battles between good and evil, and can be something of an idealist. Only 1% of the population shares your type.
As a romantic partner, you are usually supportive and nuturing, however, you have a high need for individuality. Harmony is extremely important to you as you are very affected by conflict and tension, which also makes you resist confronting your partner directly about problems. When you get angry, you usually blame yourself, rather than your partner. You can also be stubborn and unyielding when you feel you are being criticized or mistreated. You feel the most appreciated when your partner listens to you carefully. You need to be understood. You need to hear your partner express their feelings, the more often, the better.
Your group summary: idealists (NF)
Your type summary: INFP
Link: The LONG Scientific Personality Test
"THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE"
(Not in any particular order)
1) Record a demo
2) Write a book
3) Visit Egypt
4) Visit Tibet
5) Visit the Mayan ruins
6) Visit CoSM in New York and party at club Spirit
7) Take a trip to the Amazon and take DMT
8) Take Peyote
9) Take Aminita Muscara
10) Take an intense Salvia trip.
"We're the renagades, we're the people with our own philosophies. We change the course of history. Everyday people like you and me." ~RATM
You are naturally born with a gift, whether it be
poetry, writing or song. You love beauty and
creativity, and usually are highly intelligent.
Others view you as mysterious and dreamy, yet
also bold since you hold firm in your beliefs.
What Type of Soul Do You Have ?
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.. You scored as Idealist. Idealism centers around the belief that we are moving towards something greater. An odd mix of evolutionist and spiritualist, you see the divine within ourselves, waiting to emerge over time. Many religious traditions express how the divine spirit lost its identity, thus creating our world of turmoil, but in time it will find itself and all things will again become one.
Idealist
100%
Cultural Creative
88%
Existentialist
75%
Postmodernist
69%
Modernist
44%
Materialist
44%
Romanticist
44%
Fundamentalist
31%
What is Your World View? (updated)
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Your Power Color Is Lime Green
At Your Highest:
You are adventurous, witty, and a visionary.
At Your Lowest:
You feel misunderstood, like you don't fit in.
In Love:
You have a tough exterior, but can be very dedicated.
How You're Attractive:
Your self-awareness and confidence lights up a room.
Your Eternal Question:
"What else do I need in my life?" What's Your Power Color?
What Your Soul Really Looks Like
You are a wanderer. You constantly long for a new adventure, challenge, or eve a completely different life.
You are a very grounded, responsible, and realistic person. People may not want to hear the truth from you, but they're going to get it.
You believe that people see you as larger than life and important. While this is true, they also think you're a bit full of yourself.
Your near future is calm, relaxing, and pretty much what you want. And it's something you've been anticipating for a while now.
For you, falling in love is all about the adventure and uncertainty. You can only fall in love with someone who keeps you guessing. Inside the Room of Your Soul
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Images that have inspired me:
"Consciousness appears to be that of the universe itself. This most remarkable of altered-state experiences surfaces in individuals who are commited to the quest of apprehending the ulitmate grounds of existence. When the seekers come close to attaining their goal, their descriptions of what they regard as the supreme principle of existence are strikingly similar. They describe what they experience as an immense and unfathomable field of consciousness endowed with infiniate intelligence and creative power. The field of cosmic consciousness they experience is a cosmic emptiness - a void. Yet, paradoxically, it is also an essential fullness. Although it does not feature anything in a concretely manifest form, it contains all of existence in potential. They vacuum they experience is a plenum: nothing is missing in it. It is the ultimate source of existence, the cradle of all being. It is pregnant with the possibility of everything there is. The phenomenal world is its creation: the realization and concretization of its inherent potential. "
~ Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything - Ervin Lazlo