| integral scene in los angeles |
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| 07:59pm 16/10/2005 |
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Third Eye Gathering & iNtegral cReatives presents the "integral anomaly" -an esoteric exploration in art, music, spirituality, community, discussion When: Oct. 22, 2005 (after the iWET seminar on Saturday) Location: Hive Gallery 729 S. Spring St./LA/90014 Time: 8-12pm Suggested Donation: $10 Audience: all ages This
is an iWET after party for iWET participants and the integral community
of LA but it is welcome to everyone interested in cutting edge theories
of consciousness and esoteric art. The
iWET (integral weekend experiential training) is a two-day intensive
seminar on integral theory and applications dedicated to personal
transformation and community-building, synthesizing the latest
techniques in consciousness studies. For more information check out: www.integralseminars.org and the attached newsletter as spaces are still open for enrollment. And also see www.integralinstitute.org
for more on the research and development of integral theory (as
pioneered by Ken Wilber) and methodology to help global and individual
crisis in this time of rapid evolution. The
iWET after party is being held by Third Eye Gathering, a non-profit
organization, celebrating the philosophical and meaningful pursuits of
humanity in art, music and community. integral
creatives, iC, is a integral art movement in the LA area, finding each
other to share the an integral vision in transcendent creativity and
will be collaborating and volunteering with Third Eye Gathering for
future events. Please pass this information on to any you think would be interested and contact me if you have questions. |
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| create:fixate los angeles |
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| 11:19pm 13/07/2005 |
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this is an art show i'll be participatig in this weekend...check it out...say hello...
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Create:Fixate's All-Photography Show
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Sat 7.16 (7pm-2am) |
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Spring Arts Tower (453 S Spring St, 323.466.5141) map |
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$10 / $7 before 9pm / Free from 4-7pm |
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Event Info | Create:Fixate |
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For its second annual all-photography show, the innovative art exhibit and party known as Create:Fixate digs into the medium's vast versatility. With work ranging from the haunting nighttime landscapes of Craig Havens to the playful documentary images of Jamie Trueblood (who shot stills for Lords of Dogtown), the 28 photographers in the show reveal and reflect, startle and repulse — sometimes all with the same image. Alongside DJ'd beats and bleeps, tonight's musical lineup features wiry post-punk group the Transmissions, a promising Los Angeles trio that's been busy gathering critical comparisons to Modest Mouse and Blonde Redhead. (PJ)
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| sufi poets, whitetrash senseis, and suburban cult leaders |
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| 09:27pm 07/07/2005 |
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"Pre-emptive Strike"
Imagine a thousand squadron of Iranian
Air Force jets flying low over New York,
Atlanta, and Cedar Rapids.
Over the Napa Valley and Crawford, Texas.
Persian Stealth bombers flying low
under the radar, dropping a million
copies of Hafiz, on America, simply for love.
- Joe Zarantonello
joe zarantonello or mr. z as i grew up knowing him has been an important teacher on my spiritual path...he currently runs a spiritual retreat in the woods of kentucky...learn more about him here: www.looseleafhollow.com ...and buy a copy of his poetry book...only a few pages in and i had tears in my eyes...green bamboo is the title...the product of thirty years of meditation
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| inner guru...outer space |
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| 04:20pm 03/07/2005 |
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"We are not exactly what we think we are, which, I think, is where it starts to get interesting. Then, what are we? Who are we? We might turn the searchlight inward and start to find out a little bit, come home, and make ourselves at home, here in this universe, instead of acting like disenfranchised aliens, strangers in a strange land." - lama surya das (a.k.a. LSD)
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| phenomenology |
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| 04:44pm 30/06/2005 |
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www.enlightentainment.com - visine for your third eye
My body is a thing in the world, which at the same time is also subject to the world. This is the body as a lived body; that which I see and feel, not the biological organism, but the body I am aware of through intentionality. It is because my body is a worldly thing, an object in the world, that I can experience other worldly things. If I were only mind/pure consciousness, there would be no point of contact with the world. -sensei </td> |
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| INSIGHT IS THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND THE BREATH |
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| 11:27am 19/05/2005 |
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chogyam trungpa:
As far as Buddha was concerned, at that point [of his enlightenment] it was
not the message but the implications that were more important. And as
followers of Buddha, we have this approach, which is the idea of
vipashyana, literally meaning "insight." Insight is relating not only with
what you see but also with the implications of it, the totality of the
space and objects around it. Breath is the object of meditation, but the
environment around the breath is also part of the meditative situation.
From "The Way of the Buddha" in THE MYTH OF FREEDOM. |
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| i know i know...she's so hot! |
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| 07:18pm 23/03/2005 |
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my known knowns keep me safe---even if this safety is matrix and not reality
my unknown knowns irritate the fuck out of me---i blow it when i don't know it
my known unknowns take up more space in my head than those known knowns---but not the space of nothingness strangely enough
my unknown unknowns perpetuate my life as i don't know it but flow with it. cause it is either go or stub your toe
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| poetic terrorism |
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| 10:19pm 03/03/2005 |
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The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
By Hakim Bey
Poetic Terrorism
WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects. Kidnap someone & make them happy. Pick someone at random & convince them they're the heir to an enormous, useless & amazing fortune--say 5000 square miles of Antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in Bombay, or a collection of alchemical mss. Later they will come to realize that for a few moments they believed in something extraordinary, & will perhaps be driven as a result to seek out some more intense mode of existence.
Bolt up brass commemorative plaques in places (public or private) where you have experienced a revelation or had a particularly fulfilling sexual experience, etc.
Go naked for a sign. ( Read more... ) |
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| found an old manifesto...thinking about writing a new one... |
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| 09:19pm 23/02/2005 |
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WHITETRASH SHAOLIN
Realized: 1997
History: 1998 - Subliminal messages from Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, John Lilly M.D., and the Dalai Lama infiltrate the curious minds of a couple of slackers...round that same time, an interest in the internal martial arts, consciousness expansion, conspiracies, mysticism, hip hop and professional wrestling develops. 1999-First meeting of the founding members of the Bluegrass Collective, a round table of Whitetrash artists seeking fame, fortune, and comic relief from life in the midwest. 2000-The prophecy unfolds. Fu Man Chaw Records is founded, and Whitetrash Shaolin records "The Prophecy".
Players:
Prof. E.G. Madhman - rants, hooks, schizophrenia
Sensei Buddha Belly Bodecephus - inspiration, concepts, vocals,
Rev. Tetrahedron - rearrangement, beats, sermons
St. Atman Alien - research, transformation, accomodation
Mediocrates - drums, keyboards, live arrangement
Gary Lunk Lunk - record scratching, dirty jokes, production
RusuDen - production, electronic music made with machines
Our mission is to unite any and all coincidence of opposites; ultimately that we will bring together the Integral Tao and the subtle intracacies of the White Trash universal existence. With the melding of dichotomies, worldpeace and harmonious human existence will be ensured under a blanket of omni-directional mindfullness, bliss, and awe; we are guided by the wisdom and ther whiskey and the Dharma of the White Trash Dalai Lama.
Blending shaolin hard work and white trash hard knox, Professor E.G. Madman and Sensei Buddhabelly Bodhicephus are the ushers of a system of nonontology better known as neopostsyncretic paradoxology. The science of zen koans and government loans. We combine cutting edge technology (digital beats) and traditional methods (words) of metaprogramming (consciousness (R)evolution) to put forth the prophecy of the next incarnation of the bodhisattva of compassion and his quest to enlighten all living beings. |
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| essay by ken wilber |
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| 09:48pm 18/02/2005 |
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THE COMMON HEART
An Experience of Inter-Religious Dialogue
Edited by Netanel Miles-Yepez
Foreword by Ken Wilber
In 1984, Father Thomas Keating invited a broad range of spiritual
teachers from virtually all of the world’s great wisdom
traditions -- Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Indigenous, Islamic -- to gather
together at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. They kept
no records, published no reports, filmed none of the proceedings. In
fact, the results of that extraordinary gathering have been largely
secret, until now. ( Read more... ) |
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| stan grof story |
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| 07:24pm 05/02/2005 |
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during the holotropic breathing workshop last weekend...stan always seemed to be around...he was rooming just a few doors down from us...and always seemed to be walking in or out as we did...even during the breathing sessions he would walk around the room and help with body work or observe people as they tapped into their unconscious or the collective unconscious...
finally, on the last day, he held an open question&answer for the participants...and at one point told a story about the first time he did peyote in a ritual ceremony with the native american church...he was allowed to come to the reservation and bring some guests but they had to go through a kind of encounter group before they'd be allowed to participate with the church members as many were a bit uncomfortable with allowing outsiders to participate...eventually most everyone agreed to allow them to join in, however there was one man who was completely against these white people participating and, while reluctantly going along, remained full of anger and hatred at the intruders...during the entire ceremony he sat across the circle from stan and gazed at him with hatred...
eventually, at the end all were allowed to speak...and while one of the guests was thanking his hosts for including them, it was mentioned that stan was so far from his home in czechoslovakia...at the moment this was mentioned, the indian man sitting across from stan rose and ran over to him...sobbing with tears, he hugged stan and eventually spoke to the group...apologizing that he had brought so much hatred to this spiritual ceremony, but also for directing it at someone who he had assumed was american and thus connected to all the destruction that had been visited upon his people by these white intruders...but not only had he wrongly associated stan with complicity in the rape and destruction of his people, he admitted that in the second world war he had joined the american military and participated in the bombing of a city in czechoslavakia...so it was actually himself who had attacked stan's homeland and destroyed his people... |
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| me and my shadow |
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| 09:56pm 24/01/2005 |
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when you think or speak about yourself, when you say "I", what you usually refer to is "me and my story." this the "I" of your likes and dislikes, fears and desires, the "I" that is never satisfied for long. it is a mind-made sense of who you are, conditioned by the past and seeking to find its fulfillmment in the future. - eckhart tolle
i heard a story about ol' aleister crowley...one of his practices to eliminate this problem of "me and my story" was to slash his arm with a razor everytime he said "I"...now that's hardcore spiritual practice...( Read more... ) |
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