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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

About Me

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My Interests



Nature
music - film - twilight
old photographs - melancholia
architecture - meditation
cosmos - solitude
lotus flowers
shadow

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Bodhidharma, David Bohm, William Blake, the Bhagavad Gita, Buddha, Adi Da, Salvadore Dali, Taisen Deshimaru, Dhammapada, Leonardo Di Vinci, Edgar Cayce, Christ, Albert Einstein, Epicurus, M.C. Escher, Emerson, Euclid, Fibonacci, Diane Fossey, H.R. Giger, Andy Goldsworthy, Vincent Van Gogh, Alex Gray, Thich Nhat Hanh, Stephen Hawking, Heraclitus, Bill Hicks, Helen Keller, the Koran, Martin Luther King, Krishnamurti, Paul Laffoley, The Dali Lama, Bruce Lee, Terence McKenna, Osho, Claude Monet, Michelangelo, Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Rosa Parks, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sagan, Han Shan, Shunryu Suzuki, Sri Ramakrishna, Socrates, Bassui Tokusho, Echart Tolle, Lao Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Chung Tzu, The Upanishads, Alan Watts, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paramhansa Yogananda

I'd like to meet:



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Music:

Acid Jazz, Alias, Aphex Twin, Ambient, Amon Tobin, Air, Art Rock, A Perfect Circle, Tori Amos, Jon Anderson, Arovane, Avant Garde, Autechre, Marvin Ayres, Richard Barbieri, Baroque, Beethoven, Bach, Black Sabbath, Blackfield, Blues, The Beatles, Captian Beefheart, Bjork, Boards of Canada, Beck, Jeff Beck, Adrien Belew, Big Band, Bill Bruford, Jean Baptiste Besard, Lindsay Buckingham, Casino Versus Japan, Choral, Chamber, Classical, Cornelius, Chill, Claude Debussy, Devo, The Doors, Down-Tempo, Do Make Say Think, Miles Davis, Drum 'n' Bass, Danny Elfman, Brian Eno, Enya, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Eric Dolphy, Explosions in the Sky, ELO, Duke Ellington, Four Tet, Fantomas, Faith No More, The Flaming Lips, Freescha, Robert Fripp, Fleetwood Mac, Fusion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, David Gilmour, Jerry Goldsmith, Elliot Goldenthal, Gothic, Philip Glass, PJ Harvey, Herbie Hancock, Holst, Steve Howe, IDM, Isis, Jazz, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Kayo Dot, Kraftwerk, Kyuss, King Diamond, Led Zeppelin, Lemon Jelly, Tony Levin, John Lennon, Lounge, Mercury Rev, M83, Mum, Mu-Ziq, Massive Attack, Maudlin of the Well, Mediaeval, Charles Mingus, The Moody Blues, Marillion, Mogwai, The Mahavishnu Orhcestra, The Mars Volta, Mozart, Mr. Bungle, Minimalism, Nine Inch Nails, New Age, No-Man, Stevie Nicks, Opeth, Ozric Tentacles, Peeping Tom, Plaid, The Police, Portishead, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Primus, Progressive, Psychedelic, Queens of the Stone Age, Queen, Rush, Radiohead, Redpoint, Red Sparrows, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Sacred, Steely Dan, Squarepusher, Howard Shore, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth, Santana, Ulrich Schnauss, Michael Stearns, Tim Story, Camille Saint-Saens, Ravi Shankar, Shoegaze, Sting, Stravinsky, Sun Ra, Symphonic, Theo Travis, Tomahawk, Tool, Tortoise, TU, Turner, Tycho, Type O Negative, The Talking Heads, UK, Ulrich Schnauss, UnKle, Edgar Varese, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, The White Lodge, Steven Wilson, John Williams, Roger Waters, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Frank Zappa, John Zorn

Movies:

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Rosanna Arquette, Annette Bening, Adrien Brody, Steve Buscemi, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Jim Carry, William Dafoe, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, John Ford, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Vincent Gallo, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Harris, Goldie Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Peter Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Raul Julia, Hervey Keitel, Val Kilmer, Jessica Lange, Christopher Lee, Danial Day-Lewis, Christopher Lloyd, George Lucas, David Lynch, Ian McKellen, Malcolm Mcdowell, Bill Murray, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Nick Nolte, Gary Oldman, Shawn Penn, Oliver Reed, Tim Roth, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Patrick Stewert, Eric Stoltz, Sharon Stone, Kevin Spacy, Uma Thurman, Benicio Del Toro, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Gene Wilder, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, James Woods

Television:

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PBS, IFC, Sundance, Discovery Science, History International, Indenpendent Film, Investigative Journalism, Planet Earth, Mr. Show, The Root of All Evil w/ Lewis Black, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Henry Rollins Show

Books:

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind ~ Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Miracle of Mindfulness ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The ZEN Teaching of Bohhidharma
Dhammapada ~ The Teachings of BuddhaThe Tao Te Ching ~ Lao Tzu
Lieh-Tzu ~ A Taoist Guide to Practical LivingThe Book of Understanding- Creating Your Own Path to Freedom ~ Osho
Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance ~ Osho

Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna
The Upanishads

A New Earth- Awakening to Your Life's Purpose ~ Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now- A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment ~ Eckhart Tolle

The Mission of Art ~ Alex Grey
Food of the Gods- The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution ~ Terence McKenna

DMT: The Spirit Molecule- A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences ~ Rick Strassman MD

The Holographic Universe ~ by Michael Talbot

Stalking the Wild Pendulum : On the Mechanics of Consciousness -- Itzhak Bentov

Heroes:

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If the eye never falls asleep, all dreams cease by themselves. If the spirit retains its unity, all things are of one essence. when this essence is seen, in an instant we are free. We return to the origin and remain that which we are.
- T’sen T’sang

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My Blog

stillness speaks

    ********* When body and soul are rid of the dust of this world of dreams our understanding is awakened and Truth perceived.~unknown ...
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persistence

***There's a tree that existed before the woods,In age twice as old.Its roots suffered as the valley changed,Its leaves deformed by wind and frost.People all laugh at its withered aspect,Caring nothi...
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procession

within the void****** ...
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adrondack overlook

8th Lake ************...
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Awaken

encounterparadigm shiftastral traveler How profoundly silent is the temple of Tao!Boundless and infinite,It is the dwelling place of the divine.The light-hall is wide and high,Yet awed by silence.For...
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dandelion

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layers of separation

unitycommuniondualityfracturedlayers of seperation~separation is the illusion~...
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shadow

turbulent percepts -:)O(:-The essence of mind Is formless; This itself is the subtle Body of reality. The essence of mind is Inherently empty; This itself is the infinite Body of space.Ta-Chu ...
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misty mountain / sun tower

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An Expression of Autumn

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