Home Sweet Samsara

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Creating one’s own personal Buddhism, personal yoga, personal interpretations without relying on original teachings seems to be putting people off course. There is a need to return to fundamentals as they were originally taught, not as people might want them to be taught.

A Child of God in Misery: On the Origins of Spiritual Retardation

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Consumerism robs us of our ability to define our own
experience.  There is a malevolent force afoot in this
world, an historical movement to transform humanity's wild-begotten beauty into
a panopticon so ubiquitous that the very concept of escape becomes an archaic
curiosity.

A Farewell to Advertising

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Digital advertisers track your online
behavior, creating a detailed personal profile that is owned by the
company that constructs it, which can do whatever it pleases with that
information, including sell it. Emerging
technologies could support a different model that respects our privacy,
acknowledges our intelligence, and responds to actual needs, not manufactured
desires.

Human Being or Human Going?

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Although being is shared by all humans of all cultures and all eras, and by all living creatures, being as an aspect of our human condition and potential is not celebrated in modern Western culture. One way to illustrate the experience of being in an alternative, magical way, is to recall being in love.

Healthy Food, Healthy Thought

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Today, I witnessed a trauma that happens every day in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco — a Superfund toxic site, a modern-day ghetto where people have to travel miles to get fresh vegetables. I ask my students at Willie Brown Jr. Academy, "What is food security?"

Reinventing the Wheel: Riffing off of Walter Benjamin in Ladakh

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Within the temples, tourists wander about chattering and taking photos. Few indeed are the visitors who make bows at the threshold or offerings at the altar. Without knowing basic Buddhist traditions, tourists behave like the cattle of Indian streets. This trend could easily be summed up in a single word: commodification.

Psi-verts and Psychic Piracy: The Future of Parapsychology?

Although there seems to be evidence emerging for an essentially constant and unconscious psychic awareness in all people, there seems to be little indication that the desire to buy a specific product can be psychically "planted" in one's unconscious mind. The bad news is that in principal such "psiverts" are completely feasible and resemble much of the work that has occurred in parapsychology over the years.

The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies

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Our civilization is facing a crisis of language when our words no longer mean anything. What are we to do when our primary creative tool in the modern world has become impotent?

I Am God

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The history of religion in the US from Puritanism to the present mirrors the evolution of capitalism. What we think of as "spirituality" today is not a departure from the narcissistic culture of consumption, but its truest expression.

Divine Voyeurs: Salvia on YouTube

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Salvia divinorum, also known as "Diviner's Sage," has been called "the most powerful hallucinogenic known to mankind" by enthusiasts on the net. So how does it feel to be on salvia with a camera phone in your face? In the post-Jackass, reality-TV generation nothing is sacred.

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