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About Me

let's see...hmmm...I've hitchhiked to Mexico:: gotten very sick in Mexico:: lived in Greece for a year:: smuggled hash into Greece twice and didn't get caught (talk about being young, stupid, and lucky):: performed in piano lounges to make ends meet (talk about being young and cheesy):: done a coupla years in the army:: seen Jimi Hendrix play:: watched Allen Ginsberg and the Fugs perform:: eaten 10 grams of mushrooms and lived to tell about it (not recommended, very scary...there are better ways to seek enlightenment):: drank way too much for years:: gotten sober:: pissed off quite a few people:: made some good friends along the way. I would very much like to live in India for a few years when and if circumstances permit. Life to me is justing hanging out...falling deeper and deeper into the heart. Here are a few lines from Rumi:The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life. Now my loving is running toward life shouting, What a bargain, let's buy it!~~~~~ Om. Let there be Peace and Love Among All Beings of the Universe. Let there be Peace,Let there be Peace, Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
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My Interests

Sufism, Vedanta, Buddhism, AA, music, art, film, shooting pool, just being with friends no matter what we're doing.

I'd like to meet:

If I seem like someone you would like to meet, I'm sure I would like to meet you!

Music:

Coltrane, Faure, Poulenc, Third Eye Blind, Slaid Cleaves, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, and much, much more!

Movies:

American Beauty, The Elephant Man, Mysterious Skin, The Ice Storm, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Donnie Darko, much more!

Television:

I know yer not supposed to like TV, but I like CSI, Numbers, Crossing Jordan, and Missing Without a Trace. I think in a previous life I may have been a detective.

Books:

The Essential Rumi (translation by Coleman Barks), The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham), The Ramayana (translation by Ramesh Menon), Autobiography of A Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda), Be Here Now (Ram Das), Tao Te Ching, The Bible, People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn), many, many more!

Heroes:

I don't know about heroes, but there are a lot of people I admire: Ramana Maharshi, Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi, Bill W, Mother Theresa, St. Clare, Roshi Philip Kapleau, all the AA Old-Timers (even the really annoying ones)! I will add more as I think of them.

My Blog

12/31/2006 TO EVERYONE!

Well, it's the last day of 2006 and I haven't written a blog in six months. On one level it's been an awful six months as I was getting weaker and weaker from anemia and didn't know what th...
Posted by Mike! on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:53:00 PST

6/12/2006 ON BEING A LION

The following is a short message given by Sri Poonja ("Papaji") of Lucknow, India, who died in 1997. He was a remarkable man who helped many, many people to find the innate peace and happiness wh...
Posted by Mike! on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:44:00 PST

6/10/06 MY COOL HEAVEN

Man, do I feel like crap today. As many of you know, I live with and take care of my 84 year old mother who has Alzheimers. Most of the time I actually enjoy it, but sometimes I don't! Right now, at ...
Posted by Mike! on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:23:00 PST

6/8/06 LETTER TO DR. LAURA (REPOST)

Dear Dr. Laura:Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone...
Posted by Mike! on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:51:00 PST

6/1/06 re: ANDREW'S BULLETIN

Andrew posted a bulletin today asking for comments regarding an anti-AA video he saw on You Tube. So I watched it and commented back. Then I thought I would like to share those thoughts with all ...
Posted by Mike! on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:26:00 PST

6/1/06 SOME RUMI

Rumi was a 13th century Sufi poet and mystic who lived in modern-day Iran. ♣♣♣♣♣ Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating. God's Lion did nothin...
Posted by Mike! on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:46:00 PST

5/16/06 SHINY NEW BLOG!

My friend Dave just posted a great blog which really inspired me, and caused me to think about how this whole universe is just one big Love Arena where everything, in one way or another, gets wor...
Posted by Mike! on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:37:00 PST

4/12/06 THOUGHTS ON FAITH

Tao te Ching (from Chapter 30) The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events go...
Posted by Mike! on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:32:00 PST

4/8/06 THE GRINCH WHO STOLE MARRIAGE (Repost)

"The Grinch Who Stole Marriage"Every Gay down in Gayville liked Gay Marriage a lot......But the Grinch, who lived just east of Gayville, did NOT!!The Grinch hated happy Gays! The whole Marriage season...
Posted by Mike! on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:44:00 PST

4/3/06 CHECK OUT THE FIRST VIDEO ON THIS PAGE THEN READ THIS BLOG!

Many think (and I am one of them) that the world is on the verge of a global awakening. We all observe the climatic, social, and political upheaval which is getting worse by the minute. What we d...
Posted by Mike! on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:02:00 PST