Life and Everything about it, including, but not limited to: Consciousness; Love; the Soul; Nature; Creativity- Music, Poetry, Art, Dance, Movies, etc.; Spirituality - Meditation; Yoga; Vedantic philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Zen, Tao, I-Ching, Occult, Tantra, Mysticism of all religions; Science - Psychology, Quantum Physics, Bio-chemistry, Theories of Everything, Integrative principles and Gestalt approaches within all fields... Madness, Chaos and Order...Cultures (modern & ancient) and Traveling, sipping tea, frisbee, hiking, doodling, new things, ideas, thoughts, people, experiences, ...any and all novel stimuli.
I'd like to meet:
God and her Holy gang of Pranksters : Buddha, Jesus & Mary Magdalene, Mohammed, Dalai Lama, Lao tzu, Krishna and the incarnated Avatars (no not a band), and the likes. --
Carl Jung, Nietzsche, Einstein, Saul Williams, Ken Wilber, Alex Grey, Aleister Crowley, etc
Higher vibrating individuals sharing their insights and ideas to come together for a Future of Hope --
Politicians who care so I could shake their hand --
Politicians who don't so I could slap them --
A lot more people of who've moved on from this realm of Flesh to that of the Spirit, but who've left a fingerprint of their own Soul on this plane for us to learn from...
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
~Gandhi
Music:
tool. lake trout. malah. wu tang. the roots. led zepplin. projekt lotus. rage against the machine. saul williams. smashing pumpkins. bob marley. radiohead. ours. alice in chains. silerchair. soundgarden. muse. the used. the mars volta. non-prophets. blackalicious. sage francis. matisyahu. the bled. the crystal method. deftones. sqaurepusher. the arcade fire. thrice. rakim. dead poetic. dilated peoples. fat boy slim. built to spill. the beatles. the cure. nin. glassjaw. the verve. mogwai. robert johnson. sigur ros. white stripes. enigma. mos def. citizen cope. pete yorn. third eye blind. matchbox20. santana. wilco. kings of leon. foo fighters. weezer. medeski martin & wood. johnny cash. john coltrane. chemical brothers. pink floyd. incubus. remy zero. stuart davis.queens of the stoneage. portishead. thelonius monk. jeff buckley. chevelle. ben folds five. the doors. ian brown. bush prince. david bowie. bela fleck. string cheese incident. depeche mode. nickel creek. beck. digable planets. modest mouse. madonna. paul simon. no doubt. stevie wonder. tabla beat science. karsh kale. foo fighters. outkast. shakti. jurassic 5. phish. trey anastasio. sonny rollins. rollins band. chopin. bad religion. rancid. krs-1. violent femmes. southern culture on the skids. atreyu. bubba sparxxx. nirvana. guns n roses. stevie ray vaughn. coldplay. miles davis.people under the stairs. tu-pac. from autumn to ashes. dido. my morning jacket. jack johnson. the smiths. ben harper. dr. dre. tori amos. norah jones. wax poetic. mozart. led zeppelin. the clash. billie holiday. peter gabriel. louis armstrong. james brown. fishbone. space hog. eminem. richard ashcraft. kronos quartet. metallica. a perfect circle. black sabbath. counting crows. afi. j.s. bach. U2. charlie parker. jimi hendrix. death cab for cutie. bjork. sting. madonna. desmond dekker. toots and the maytals. weezer. dashboard confessional. duran duran. poets of rhythm. steve vai. filter. built to spill. primus. duke ellington. israel vibration. grateful dead. juliana theory.parliament funkadelic. de la sol. beethoven.
Movies:
american beauty. waking life. baraka. koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance). fear and loathing in las vegas. akira. ghost in a shell. samsara. sin city. labyrinth. the dark crystal. stargate. contact. terminator. charlie chapman. marx bros. napolean dynamite. reqiuem for a dream. pi. equilibrium. dopamine. butterfly effect. donnie darko. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. trainspotting. united states of leland. hotel rwanda. xmen. spider-man. constantine. point break. seven years in tibet. little buddha. kundun. last temptation of christ. boondock saints. rain man. fight club. big lebowski. dogma. rounders. good will hunting. bourne identity& supremacy. devils advocate. cube. being john malkovich. braveheart. gladiator. silence of the lambs. red dragon, garden state. lord of the rings. chronicles of narnia. harry potter series. amadeus. bladerunner. fifth element. amelie. princess bride. never ending story. willow. tombstone. time chasers. great expectations. shakespeare in love. romeo & juliet. othello. edward scissorhands. tim burton's the nightmare before christmas. el mariachi. desperado. the salton seas. once upon a time in mexico. pulp fiction. heat. last samurai. hero. usual suspects. soylent green. interview with the vampire. nosferatu. scarface. goodfellas. the royal tenenbaums. ferris beulers day off. goonies. say anything. rushmore. animal house. I
Television:
There's a lot of junk on T.V. ...fortunately I have a DVR and just record what strikes my fancy and don't pay attention to the BS. Recently I've really enjoyed Arrested Development, My Name is Earl, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Boondocks, Daily Show, Reno 911, Family Guy, Chapelle Show, random History and Discovery channel specials, and occasional others...
I try not to make a habit of TV anymore...
TV can disseminate your thoughts and disenable your motivation. It can entrap your attention in a state of mind equivalent to that of a zombie. It sucks out your life, numbs your mind, desecrates your soul, and languishes your body.
Books:
I take them and leave them, horde them and distribute them, I plan on renting a mountain cabin deep in the woods and locking myself up for a period of time with only the bare essentials of living necessary and to absorb myself in all the books that I possibly can...yea it's gonna happen...seriously.
Currently I'm reading a slew of of non-fiction books dealing with the Nature of reality, physics, ethnobotany, consciousness, and the evolution of human beings, including: The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, The Invisible Landscape by Terrence McKenna, Creativity, Consciousness, and Chaos A Trialogue between 3 amazing minds of our generation, and I-Ching.
A couple of my favorite other books thus far are Alex Grey's The Mission of Art and a novel based on a true story that is one of most beautiful and enriching works of word that i've read in a long while called Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
Heroes:
Countless Souls (Now and Then) that push our consciousness and spirit to the extremes of holistic and integrative thought and Love. Those that have revolutionalized and revitalized, resurrected and redefined...those that have evolved and push Re-Evolution, those that Nurture and Enlighten, those that fight the good fight and preach the peace, All those that sacrifice and have martyred themselves for a cause greater than themselves to plant seeds of change and growth inorder to bear the fruit of a ripened humanity - those that know the Work is never done , there are so many...countless and some nameless...I salute you all and hope to one day be in those Enlightened ranks.
