Angela V. Michaels

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Be the Eye of the Hurricane

There is a quiet place, within yourself, away from the storm. In the center of the whipping winds and stinging rain, there is sunlight, peace and tranquility.

 

This world, and often this blog, is often full of the terrible side of life – the things people should know about, [...]

Love, Psycho-cryptography and the Noosphere

“I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere.” – Ralph Abraham, The Evolutionary Mind (1988)

 

Lawrence Hagerty wrote in The Spirit of the Internet,“…the Internet is not the noosphere. It is merely an infrastructure that is now available for the [...]

Pearls Before Whine

“Every pearl has its oyster.” – Randall Jarrell

 

I don’t believe in coincidence. I’ve gotten myself into quite a few prolonged conversations on that point; but the fact remains, for myself, there is only synchronicity and wisdom hidden amongst the layers of daily experience. It’s only up to [...]

Fiberglass and Resin

My surfboard is woven of millions of tiny threads of wisdom, cemented by the love with which I am gratefully surrounded. Without it I could not withstand the endless pounding of the waves – ultra-strangeness in the world, as well as in my own life. My toes grab hold, the wax which is [...]

Surfing Quetzalcoatl

Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, self-proclaimed cynic and son of Beatnik parents, transversed the realms of the psychic and the psychedelic, as well as his own personal drama, to bring us his version of the Eschaton in his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. His scholarly prose is punctuated with radical, apocalyptic refrains which [...]

Residing in the Center…

Yes, things have been crazy around here. I am working on a few ideas right now but for whatever reason the Tao has me surfing other breaks at the moment. I’ll be here soon…It’s All Good …

 

There is a time for being ahead,

a [...]

Rough Surfing

When life hits you hard

hit back harder

 

 

Will the struggle to make ends meet

and keep loved ones near when an ocean divides,

and health is threatened

 

 

really make me stronger?

 

 

All I have [...]

The Tao of Where

 

On any journey of self-discovery and seeking the unknowable, one cannot help but notice the inextricable and inevitable influence of place upon progress-to-date – until, of course, one reaches the place of no-place.

 

Though my own metaphysical journey started in Los Angeles, it quickly became clear that at [...]

Notes from the Surf XI

I’ve been wrapped up in my own world lately; most of us bloggers have other lives with our own share of dilemmas, and yet, sometimes we get news that shatters our little routines and drowns us in perspective. Out of respect for privacy I won’t go any further, but please make a point of [...]

The Paradigm Police

“They definitely do not want us to learn to Surf the Tao, for then we would no longer be victims to their abuse.” – Surfing the Tao: A Revolution of Free Will

My husband, who is a bit older than I am, commented this morning that if someone went to [...]