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Be the Eye of the Hurricane

April 21st, 2008

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, [...]

Our Spiritual Natures vs. Influencing Agendas

April 3rd, 2008

Please note a couple of excellent recent articles by two of my esteemed ‘blogeagues’, Kingsley Dennis and Neil Kramer, whose insights and intelligence continue to inspire me here at Surfing the Tao.

Neil Kramer has blessed us yet again with another thoughtful post over at The Cleaver, entitled What Lies [...]

Love, Psycho-cryptography and the Noosphere

January 26th, 2008

“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 [...]

The Electric Universe, Psychedelic Wormholes and the Spiders on Mars

January 6th, 2008

Plasma, or ionized gas, is often referred to as the fourth state of matter and is defined as an “assemblage of charged particles called electrons and ions that react collectively to forces exerted by electric and magnetic fields”. It is said to make up more than 99% of the visible and non-visible [...]

Pearls Before Whine

December 29th, 2007

“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

November 28th, 2007

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 [...]

The Mad Spirit

November 2nd, 2007

Readers may know Rabindranath Tagore is near and dear to my heart. He is mentor, master, and gentle guiding spirit. Often it is his words that teach and soothe me above all others. I found the following essay, “Pagal” or “The Mad Spirit” from an earlier work Bangadarshan, which he [...]

Surfing Quetzalcoatl

October 22nd, 2007

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 [...]

The Tao of Where

September 25th, 2007

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 [...]

Metaphysical Book Club

September 14th, 2007

Help! I’m reaching out to my blog community because I don’t know where else to turn – and I trust you all for your excellent research and thoughtfulness, so I figured, why not ask.

I’ve been asked to moderate a metaphysical book club at our local bookstore, [...]

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