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What makes everyone here tick?
I'm into all things vibrational. I have a performance degree and most of mr professional experience in classical saxophone performance. Composition, ensemble conducting, jamming, taking/teaching private lessons... I love it all.
Recently, over the past year or so, I've been exploring more esoteric forms of vibrational play- YOGA (all forms, hatha [most common in the West, the physical form], jnana [knowledge, philosophy, psychology], karma [selfless service], bhakti [divine devotion], and raja ["royal," concentration and mastery]), Pranic Healing (energy healing taught by Choa Kok Sui), and journalism (co-anchoring a bilingual news show on fiercely independant listener-sponsored KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles).
Of course all things physics, philosophical and psychological interest me as well.
I'm working towards integrating full spectrum health and vibrational experience (all senses, though mostly sound focused) with human spiritual realizations.
Reading the Bhagavad Gita and the books of Srila Prabhupada (the founder of the "Hare Krsna" movement) are my point of focus right now.
Feel free to discuss my interests as well as post your own as they do and do not relate.
I'm into all things vibrational. I have a performance degree and most of mr professional experience in classical saxophone performance. Composition, ensemble conducting, jamming, taking/teaching private lessons... I love it all.
Recently, over the past year or so, I've been exploring more esoteric forms of vibrational play- YOGA (all forms, hatha [most common in the West, the physical form], jnana [knowledge, philosophy, psychology], karma [selfless service], bhakti [divine devotion], and raja ["royal," concentration and mastery]), Pranic Healing (energy healing taught by Choa Kok Sui), and journalism (co-anchoring a bilingual news show on fiercely independant listener-sponsored KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles).
Of course all things physics, philosophical and psychological interest me as well.
I'm working towards integrating full spectrum health and vibrational experience (all senses, though mostly sound focused) with human spiritual realizations.
Reading the Bhagavad Gita and the books of Srila Prabhupada (the founder of the "Hare Krsna" movement) are my point of focus right now.
Feel free to discuss my interests as well as post your own as they do and do not relate.
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Re: Ideas/interests
Mon, May 3, 2004 - 7:32 PMDan it sounds like you are getting into alot of mumbo jumbo.
Mysticism celebrates retardation.
It is the journey of one towards a retard state.
Dont't get on that bus dan, it is far too small. -
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Wed, May 5, 2004 - 8:48 PMDoug- you are an asshat. ;-D
Mysticism asserts the infinte as above and beyond your finite asshattery.
namaste
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Tue, May 4, 2004 - 5:14 PMAn ultimate spiritual peace through an unshakeable gratitude. -
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Tue, May 4, 2004 - 11:38 PM"Feel free to discuss my interests as well as post your own as they do and do not relate. "
Did anyone else read this and think fuck you I don't need no persmission to think or discuss anything whether it relates or not? It was so very very knee jerk ENTP of me to have this reaction on some many level it makes me laugh at myself thus sending vibrations to my bladder for some healthy release of toxins;) -
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Wed, May 5, 2004 - 8:45 PMI'm just clarifying that the subject is "Ideas/interests" not MY ideas interests. I think everybody should jump in and discuss theirs, everyone elses, etc
I had the same reaction rereading it myself. And it keeps happening too. That's what makes this thread great. -
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Thu, May 6, 2004 - 11:46 AMLOL... yes we salute and authority or directives with our middle finger, debate like crazy and still can make fun of ourselves. I think I like this ENPT thing:)
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Fri, May 7, 2004 - 6:21 PMI like to make fun of hippies, smell exotic animal piss, and make birdbaths for seniors. -
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Mon, May 10, 2004 - 11:31 AMIt's always been sound for me. I've never really been a believer in any kind of mysticism or religeon. But sounds have always inspired me and made me had a reaction that I could only say is on par with drugs or therapy. -
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Tue, May 11, 2004 - 6:36 AMI totally agree. And as my involvement and appreciation for sound continued into the subtle world, I found spiritual principles everywhere. In fact, the spirit world isn't about belief for me, it's about law. Spiritual law is real. -
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Sun, May 16, 2004 - 12:05 PMIsn't that the million dollar question?
In an infinite number of ways. I find it primarily in terms of focusing one's attention. When not obeying spiritual law (samadhi, or trance, staying completely focused on absolute perfection) the gross world erodes your appreciation/passion for absolute perfection into a Dali-esque blend of hypersexualism and "dog eat dog" short-sighted ideology. Spiritualism, or the acceptance of the highest ideals, requires more subtle principles than self-interested action and gross pleasure seeking as the means and ends of life's purpose. Others are treated as equals, or as the same spiritual being, thus bargains, compassion and real objective understanding and fairness transcend the animalistic tendency for life to interest itself solely with it's own desires and take nothing else into account.
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Tue, May 18, 2004 - 8:31 PMIt's a good question, but it's not really answerable. Absolute perfection is an infinite quantity. But it's really a choice of this or that, at the simplest level. We all come from a state of animalism, sense gratification. Because of that, we have the choice to evolve in consciousness or revert. In fact, when we don't make a choice, for instance, believing that there's no purpose in focusing on absolute perfection, or believing that it is an impossible task... we're making a choice in our choicelessness to revert.
Without conscious progression beyond the material all we have is eating, mating, defending and sleeping. When we get lost in these activities rather than turning on, honing our consciousness, waking up, making the best decisions, following our highest calling, or whatever language you want to put it in, we are reverting to animalism.
Look around you. You'll see a tinge (or more!) of animalism in all but one out of a million people. And all these people are in a state of raising their consciousness or a state of reversion in any given moment. Life works in cycles. Most people have a small plateau in their cycle, and the rest is reverting. Most people are stagnant- they work just so when they experience the reversion they won't fall below where they started.
It's the rare self-realized person who never reverts. Free from the cycle and focused on absolute perfection... they just are. -
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Wed, May 26, 2004 - 11:45 PMWe're not "better" than animals, but we have more consciousness than them. Consciousness manifests, mostly, in terms of power. I can explain delicate matters of spirituality, arrange the movement of many different materials, travel across the world, arrange my own death and the deaths of many others, etc... all these actions still have consequences, but it's more than a monkey can do. These physical manifestations are really the lowest vibrations of this consciousness, as the higher vibrations are the truely creative activities that go on in most people's brains on a daily basis. Regardless of the energy blocks, superstitions and multiple neuroses that malaise humanity, we tend to be more conscious than animals.
But it's like pot, in a way. Just because you're "higher" than someone doesn't mean you're better. ;-D -
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Sat, June 19, 2004 - 7:41 PMdoug - after the asshattry, interesting probing questions.
dan - ever been to sacred-texts.org? ALL the reading you'd ever want (including, the the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Bhagavad Gita) all for FREE. and all at the comfort of yout very own computer screen. i suggest that if you like it, you order the $50 CD ROM which has the whole web site on it, because it does cost a lot to translate and host such a project.
and to answer the first post in the thread, a little about me: travel. i'm a jouneyer without much of a care for anything but having fun. i study japanese when i'm bored, but i have fun with it (reading harry potter in japanese is a good excuse to learn a language and get my elementary-school-read on). i have a passion for playing with fire. i read stephen hawking's lectures. i watch the ongoing political fiasco and marvel at the stupidity of the average american. i wonder how many religious 'prophets' need to appear on the planet before humanity actually gets its shit together. i love blue and orange, and when i do art those tend to be my main palette selections. i'm bored with most people, and they seem to notice that immediately and act accordingly. i'm not religious but i'm profoundly affected by life and its spiritual essense.
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Fri, December 17, 2004 - 2:56 PMI'm going to check out the sacred texts website at some point.
An asshat is one who's temporary mode of being outweighs its own uselessness only by its own ridiculous ostentation.
As all things, it takes an asshat (I've been there!) to know one. -
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A couple points for Chris
Fri, December 17, 2004 - 3:02 PM<<i wonder how many religious 'prophets' need to appear on the planet before humanity actually gets its shit together.>>
At what point do you delineate humanity's shit being together?
<<i love blue and orange, and when i do art those tend to be my main palette selections.>>
Blue, corresponding to the throat chakra or higher creativity, and orange, corresponding to the sex chakra or lower creativity, seem to mean you are in a very creative bend in your life. Do you ever contemplate red and violet together?
<<i'm bored with most people, and they seem to notice that immediately and act accordingly.>>
I don't relate. I CAN relate, and sometimes do relate to this, but people are people. They're all a being of consciousness. Do animals "bore" you in this same manner? Maybe its the idea that bores you. I find each person's, and animal's, life to be rich and fascinating, although not at all times.
<<i'm not religious but i'm profoundly affected by life and its spiritual essense.>>
J. Krishnamurti defines religion as the spiritual Truth that is beyond all organizated religions. I like that definition, and only by that definition I consider myself fully religious.
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Sun, January 30, 2005 - 6:22 PMi consider myself spiritual, even though i was in Catholic school as a kid and proclaimed myself an atheist--at age 9--because of the irrationality of the theology and the hypocrisy in the church(es).
i don't like making distinctions between the so-called material and the spiritual realms.
i like what Alan Watts talks about in this regard: if we were truly materialistic we would appreciate material reality and honor the world of the senses, rather than creating patterns (social, instittuional, etc.) that dull our senses and that destroy natural beauty and produce machine-grade pabulum for our daily consumption.
i'm interested in experiences that expand my sense of being alive, of being a human being (rather than a drone or social role).
i useda be very interested in learning a lotta math and languages and whatnot. i'm still interested in a lot of that stuff, but it's secondary to my interest in fomenting social revolution. (e.g. pasadena4all.org ; communityfeast.org )
kpfk (90.7 FM in LA; www.kpfk.org) is cool. i guest-hosted a coupla weeks ago on Radioactive and it was a real thrill.
Dan, when is your show? (or maybe i could not be lazy and read your profile since it prolly has the answer =) -
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Tue, February 1, 2005 - 8:09 AMI work on the 5:30-6am bilingual news show "People without Borders."
I'm pretty sure its not on my profile (also too lazy to check).
I anchor on Tuesday mornings, and sometimes other days. It's SUCH a thrill. I've anchored the evening news and other evening specials before, and it's always a thrill, for sure.
I loved reading your post Shawn. I couldn't agree more that Alan Watts and the experience of being alive are both great. -
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