There are many who seek an answer to the question, What am I to do in this life? and they yearn for knowing what to do. What am I to do? What is there to do? What is my purpose in life? They read books, tapes, attend workshops, seminars searching endlessly for an answer. Or they engage in all sorts of activities as expressions of their doingness.
You are becoming what you already are. Your purpose is to Be that which you already are. Through being comes knowing and knowing allows you to create experiences based on your intent and awareness of yourself as a Self.
Do you want to know your Self? Look in the mirror. Touch yourself. Wiggle your hands. Pay attention to your Dreams. Listen to the winds. Meditate upon the stars.
You will never know your Self by imitating others, holding on to the Past, or even the Future. Knowing Self is standing in the Present moment of your Being.
Being yourself is exploring Aspects of consciousness in realms beyond present physical ones. You are indeed more than your physical body. You can perceive things beyond the physical world.
Let your Self become as you are being...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tattoos For The Soul Pt.1
Tattoos represent the body as living art. In ancient times, tribes used tattoos as rites of passage, initiations, and other aspects of human experience. They are used in your modern society as announcements and displays of affections, emotions, and beliefs. Similar to marriage, tattoos are statements from the individual concerning the nature of personal reality.
In many ways, they are like caves of ancient times where man painted stories upon the walls, myths, legends, and codes that were passed on to future generations. The body art, or the body as art, whether pierced or painted, has been seen as cultural, religious, political, and spiritual ritual in many cultures. A living message board, tattoos shares with the world stages of life, the cycles of human life, its moments, joys, and sorrows, pain and pleasures, friends and enemies.
Even the smallest unnoticeable tattoos are symbols of a greater reality that is beyond the comprehension of human intellect. Tattoos are symbols, ideas represented by man’s ink, emotions captured through symbols. For instance, the tattoos for the dead are represented by name and symbols, memories, a living graveyard site, designed to honor the human personality and experience.
For many believe that they become more as a person with the imprint of tattoos, their consciousness is heightened by enduring pain, and a soul contract is made through the experience of tattooing. Tattoos are living reminders of what is sacred and important to the body consciousness.
Tattoos, I feel, are like the person who can only see out of one eye. They do not see the whole, only its parts, and relate to physical reality on the basis of their limited view of the soul. The soul endures many births and deaths, experiences, adventures that would shame many tattoo wearers. The soul is more than the physical body and nothing captures its totality. Therefore, tattoos become the outer ego’s attempt at broadcasting its life movie while others repeat ancient tribal customs. They become the outer manifestation of the myth of the human body and life.
Man has always sought to capture his stories through myths, legends, and fantasies. Tattoos are visual stories created to highlight the individual's mythical journey. And, yet man's soul is an ever-changing entity that cannot be captured by the limitations of ink.
In many ways, they are like caves of ancient times where man painted stories upon the walls, myths, legends, and codes that were passed on to future generations. The body art, or the body as art, whether pierced or painted, has been seen as cultural, religious, political, and spiritual ritual in many cultures. A living message board, tattoos shares with the world stages of life, the cycles of human life, its moments, joys, and sorrows, pain and pleasures, friends and enemies.
Even the smallest unnoticeable tattoos are symbols of a greater reality that is beyond the comprehension of human intellect. Tattoos are symbols, ideas represented by man’s ink, emotions captured through symbols. For instance, the tattoos for the dead are represented by name and symbols, memories, a living graveyard site, designed to honor the human personality and experience.
For many believe that they become more as a person with the imprint of tattoos, their consciousness is heightened by enduring pain, and a soul contract is made through the experience of tattooing. Tattoos are living reminders of what is sacred and important to the body consciousness.
Tattoos, I feel, are like the person who can only see out of one eye. They do not see the whole, only its parts, and relate to physical reality on the basis of their limited view of the soul. The soul endures many births and deaths, experiences, adventures that would shame many tattoo wearers. The soul is more than the physical body and nothing captures its totality. Therefore, tattoos become the outer ego’s attempt at broadcasting its life movie while others repeat ancient tribal customs. They become the outer manifestation of the myth of the human body and life.
Man has always sought to capture his stories through myths, legends, and fantasies. Tattoos are visual stories created to highlight the individual's mythical journey. And, yet man's soul is an ever-changing entity that cannot be captured by the limitations of ink.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
Recently I bought a copy of the bestseller The Power of Myth. It is an excellent interview with Joseph Campbell, one of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization. Campbell died in 1987 but his work lives on particularly in the Satars Wars episodes where he influenced George Lucas. Campbell is known for the famous saying, 'Follow Your Bliss' which has been misinterpreted by many spiritual seekers as the motto of the so-called New Age. In this famous interview, Campbell shares his thoughts and feelings about myths, modern society, and the need for myths in our world.
Campbell studied myths all his life and taught many students the power of myths in our daily lives. He believed society comes alive through myths as they did in ancient times. A civilization cannot survive without myths Campbell believed for they served the purpose of reminding us of the mysteries of life and the universe. They open us to a 'higher' realm of thought and feeling. Myths are reflected in all aspects of lives and Campbell wrote several books on the Western and Eastern mythologies and their similarities. He connected the dots between the gods of the East and the mythical gods of the West. He was the first to teach the world not just their history but how can live by myths.
Whether we are aware of it or not, modern myths still impact our world. Campbell described human life as the 'hero journey' and each person was embarked an adventure of life. Myths captured the power of the Hero Journey and we can see this today in our superhero movies where the hero discovers his abilities and is faced with challenges in learning about himself and facing a villain(s). That is why comic books and these kinds of movies are so popular as well as action movies. They are loosely based on myth or an attempt to create new myths. However, the damage lies within missing their deeper meaning and messages as so many people do.
Reality shows are a crude attempt at shaping our ideas of romantic love and the path of success. Who is my soul mate? How can I get the money? Do whatever it takes to win the man/woman's heart, win the Prize, even if it means humiliating yourself in front of people. These are all based on the myth of love and life whether viewers are aware of it not. That is why they are popular because they tap into our deeper aspects of human psyche. They remind audiences of The American Dream which is based on The American Myth of destiny, purpose, and success.
Campbell would not be surprised that so much has been lost in our modern world of myths, the youth and absence of myths in their lives, and the profound impact of corporate greed, the economy, and Barack Obama. He would speak about the collective desire for a hero, thus Obama's rise to presidency, and he would probably describe our current economy as a part of the collective hero adventure, its dark side, and slaying the monsters of fear, greed and dishonesty along the way. And, of course, he would point out that each individual is engaged in a living mythical journey filled with hope, joys, sorrows, obstacles, success, and failures. He would say that the power of myth is alive and present, yet hidden in our hearts and minds.
And I would thank him for that.
Campbell studied myths all his life and taught many students the power of myths in our daily lives. He believed society comes alive through myths as they did in ancient times. A civilization cannot survive without myths Campbell believed for they served the purpose of reminding us of the mysteries of life and the universe. They open us to a 'higher' realm of thought and feeling. Myths are reflected in all aspects of lives and Campbell wrote several books on the Western and Eastern mythologies and their similarities. He connected the dots between the gods of the East and the mythical gods of the West. He was the first to teach the world not just their history but how can live by myths.
Whether we are aware of it or not, modern myths still impact our world. Campbell described human life as the 'hero journey' and each person was embarked an adventure of life. Myths captured the power of the Hero Journey and we can see this today in our superhero movies where the hero discovers his abilities and is faced with challenges in learning about himself and facing a villain(s). That is why comic books and these kinds of movies are so popular as well as action movies. They are loosely based on myth or an attempt to create new myths. However, the damage lies within missing their deeper meaning and messages as so many people do.
Reality shows are a crude attempt at shaping our ideas of romantic love and the path of success. Who is my soul mate? How can I get the money? Do whatever it takes to win the man/woman's heart, win the Prize, even if it means humiliating yourself in front of people. These are all based on the myth of love and life whether viewers are aware of it not. That is why they are popular because they tap into our deeper aspects of human psyche. They remind audiences of The American Dream which is based on The American Myth of destiny, purpose, and success.
Campbell would not be surprised that so much has been lost in our modern world of myths, the youth and absence of myths in their lives, and the profound impact of corporate greed, the economy, and Barack Obama. He would speak about the collective desire for a hero, thus Obama's rise to presidency, and he would probably describe our current economy as a part of the collective hero adventure, its dark side, and slaying the monsters of fear, greed and dishonesty along the way. And, of course, he would point out that each individual is engaged in a living mythical journey filled with hope, joys, sorrows, obstacles, success, and failures. He would say that the power of myth is alive and present, yet hidden in our hearts and minds.
And I would thank him for that.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
You Belong Here
You are born for the purpose of living totally and completely. You are born to manifest your desires within the time-space continuum. You are capable of great wonders. You are born to live fully as yourself. You are born. This is where you belong.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Strip Hop
Lately I've been thinking about hip hop music and how artists have lost in many ways a sense of meaning in their music. No longer does hip hop offer powerful messages of change and hope as late rapper Tupac Shakur once said,"It's time for our people to make some changes...let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live.." Only recently have we heard the word 'change'as part of Obama's political campaign speech motto. But are we really going to change? Hip hop has changed from its heyday of pro-black, pro-change, message music to now Ringtone, strip hop music.
Radio djs play songs that fill the strip and dance clubs, thus I call it 'strip hop.' Hip hop artists are writing songs that can be played in dance and strip clubs and broadcasted on your cellphones. Girls are hypnotized by celebrities, and guys emulate these stars who have found a dream with big labels, big corporations who seek only talents that will fill their greedy pockets. Artists are caught in a web of deceit as they struggle to create more of the same and different-when their creative juices run dry. Strip hop manages to degrade the best of the best who seek to entertain and perhaps enlighten us with their lyrics, styles, and controversial lifestyles.
Every hip hop artist are drawn out on the factory line as living products and packaged like a new brand of Frito-Lays chips, ripped open they are by the hungry, tasted for their exquisite chemical value, and discarded like a half-eaten burger on a rainy day. It is the profane masquerading itself as sacred...where consumers believe they are getting worthy products when in fact they are simply getting more of the same. The corporate entities NEED bodies and minds of the talented and gifted and pay large sums of money for their gifts. We, the consumers, act like babies ready for suckling and rest after being sexually teased by the acoustic effects of strip hop. Strip hop disguises itself as romantic love ballads sernenading the mysterious girl on the dance floor as Akon sings, " You got me so hypnotized, the way your body moves around..." He is explicitly telling a story as most artists nowadays about their sexual adventures which is hardly close to any enlightened idea of love. Strip hop is not about love. It is about sexualizing the female where she is both glorified for what she can do in the bedroom rather than what she is.
It is the New Black Patriarchy in the black male community while other ethnic male communities follow. Hispanic, Mexican, Irish, jewish, and Asian boys idolize these psuedo-masculine artists who secretly engage in homosexual acts while parading themselves as heterosexuals. Women love these poster boys of urban success, yet confused they are as they both praise their boys for their successes while condemning them for their cheating ways as they dance to these songs on the dance floors. Kids look up to these artists of strip hop as models of success. Rags to riches stories lie at the heart of strip hop. The artist who was once poor is now surrounded by wealth and discovers how money can be used to manipulate women for short-term sexual gratification. It is the dichotomous nature of 'love.' These boys are not men and define manhood in limited terms(i.e sexual conquest of groupies, material possessions, and business ownerships). Strip hop leaves its listerners sexually aroused yet spiritually empty. A void consumes the souls who listen to strip hop believing they are hearing something different when in fact it the same sounds remixed. The mind and heart are manipulated as you listen to strip hop imagining yourself chasing, pining, and whining for the affections and attention of the Stripper. She is alluring and possess sexual magic that draws many observers.
Hip hop artists are well known for attending strip clubs. It is like rich white guys going to play golf on the weekends. Artists find their music playing in the clubs and receiving many accolades, gifts, rewards for their fame and fortune. Strippers talk about whose in the club and who pays how much. Rappers seek attention for their confused egos as women psychologically trick these men into giving over their monies for sexual arousal. It is a disease of the ego and strip hop has spread like a virus across the world.
Radio djs play songs that fill the strip and dance clubs, thus I call it 'strip hop.' Hip hop artists are writing songs that can be played in dance and strip clubs and broadcasted on your cellphones. Girls are hypnotized by celebrities, and guys emulate these stars who have found a dream with big labels, big corporations who seek only talents that will fill their greedy pockets. Artists are caught in a web of deceit as they struggle to create more of the same and different-when their creative juices run dry. Strip hop manages to degrade the best of the best who seek to entertain and perhaps enlighten us with their lyrics, styles, and controversial lifestyles.
Every hip hop artist are drawn out on the factory line as living products and packaged like a new brand of Frito-Lays chips, ripped open they are by the hungry, tasted for their exquisite chemical value, and discarded like a half-eaten burger on a rainy day. It is the profane masquerading itself as sacred...where consumers believe they are getting worthy products when in fact they are simply getting more of the same. The corporate entities NEED bodies and minds of the talented and gifted and pay large sums of money for their gifts. We, the consumers, act like babies ready for suckling and rest after being sexually teased by the acoustic effects of strip hop. Strip hop disguises itself as romantic love ballads sernenading the mysterious girl on the dance floor as Akon sings, " You got me so hypnotized, the way your body moves around..." He is explicitly telling a story as most artists nowadays about their sexual adventures which is hardly close to any enlightened idea of love. Strip hop is not about love. It is about sexualizing the female where she is both glorified for what she can do in the bedroom rather than what she is.
It is the New Black Patriarchy in the black male community while other ethnic male communities follow. Hispanic, Mexican, Irish, jewish, and Asian boys idolize these psuedo-masculine artists who secretly engage in homosexual acts while parading themselves as heterosexuals. Women love these poster boys of urban success, yet confused they are as they both praise their boys for their successes while condemning them for their cheating ways as they dance to these songs on the dance floors. Kids look up to these artists of strip hop as models of success. Rags to riches stories lie at the heart of strip hop. The artist who was once poor is now surrounded by wealth and discovers how money can be used to manipulate women for short-term sexual gratification. It is the dichotomous nature of 'love.' These boys are not men and define manhood in limited terms(i.e sexual conquest of groupies, material possessions, and business ownerships). Strip hop leaves its listerners sexually aroused yet spiritually empty. A void consumes the souls who listen to strip hop believing they are hearing something different when in fact it the same sounds remixed. The mind and heart are manipulated as you listen to strip hop imagining yourself chasing, pining, and whining for the affections and attention of the Stripper. She is alluring and possess sexual magic that draws many observers.
Hip hop artists are well known for attending strip clubs. It is like rich white guys going to play golf on the weekends. Artists find their music playing in the clubs and receiving many accolades, gifts, rewards for their fame and fortune. Strippers talk about whose in the club and who pays how much. Rappers seek attention for their confused egos as women psychologically trick these men into giving over their monies for sexual arousal. It is a disease of the ego and strip hop has spread like a virus across the world.
Friday, September 12, 2008
The New Divine Providence
Within our reach is the essence of All There Is as simultaneously we live according to the stretching of the inner eye. This is the new divine providence that has become the soul of men and women. Awaken to that ever-lasting soul in you, my brother and sister! Let thy divine providence become the house of your soul! Be thy Light and Love! Jump into the beacon of Time and Space! It is your destiny, your adventure, your way. See what lies in the hearts of Creation! Feel what stands in the minds of All!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Everybody dies
It began with comedian George Carlin. That was a big big shocker. I loved that man's mind. He told it like it is. Then it was my web designer Peter Igo whom I mentioned in my last post. He died of cancer. At least that what they say, right? "It's always something" as comedian Gilder Radner once said. Then I heard about Robert Butts passing away in May. He was husband, writer, painter, and transcriber for Seth of Jane Roberts. Man! I was surprised but he was 'up there' in his years and chose a probable death. Then a man in my town named Richard died. He was an alcoholic and worked two jobs. Everytime I saw him he looked dissatisfied and overworked. Then the big news came much closer to home: my new girlfriend's sister's fiance died in a motorcycle 'accident.' I say that because I know there are no accidents. But we'll just leave it at that.
Then the world received even bigger news of Death: Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes died last weekend. Is it just me? What in the hell is going on? I ended a relationship of 12 years. My best friend is moving to a new city to get a Ph.D. Now this? Oh, there's more. Chris Calloway, daughter of the famous Cab Calloway died last week. She was a local celebrity in Santa Fe. Last year I did a show with Chris Calloway. We had so much fun together. She had this presence about her that was big. It's all a dream...
How many others died whom didn't get recognition? I'm sure there's so many that I cannot count. Many souls are transitioning at this time. Why? The planet is shifting tremendously and all the souls whom we love dearly and cherish and checking out. Our time on Earth is precious. Do you know when your time will come? Even the world's tallest woman died this week. Gosh, everybody dies...
Then the world received even bigger news of Death: Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes died last weekend. Is it just me? What in the hell is going on? I ended a relationship of 12 years. My best friend is moving to a new city to get a Ph.D. Now this? Oh, there's more. Chris Calloway, daughter of the famous Cab Calloway died last week. She was a local celebrity in Santa Fe. Last year I did a show with Chris Calloway. We had so much fun together. She had this presence about her that was big. It's all a dream...
How many others died whom didn't get recognition? I'm sure there's so many that I cannot count. Many souls are transitioning at this time. Why? The planet is shifting tremendously and all the souls whom we love dearly and cherish and checking out. Our time on Earth is precious. Do you know when your time will come? Even the world's tallest woman died this week. Gosh, everybody dies...
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