| integral scene in los angeles |
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| 07:58pm 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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| 09:17am 08/10/2005 |
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sorry...i haven't visited this part of the virtual universe in quite a while...spending more of my time at myspace...which seems alot easier for me to navigate...feel free to drop in and say hi to me there: www.myspace.com/whitetrash_shaolin - seek sage counseling of the sensei
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www.myspace.com/whitetrashshaolin - you can hear our latest songs...esoteric hip hop |
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| create:fixate los angeles |
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| 11:15pm 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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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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| 09:21pm 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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| 03:41pm 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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| invisible college |
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| 08:28pm 17/06/2005 |
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what i'd like to do is set up a fund for artists who contribute to enlightentainment in some way...provide the space and tools...even the living quarters on the art colony grounds...artists could apply for a space or sponsorship of their project...and in return would contribute artwork to enlightentainment...which would promote the artist as well...
integral art is collaborative by nature...as it recognizes in each of our individual art projects the contributions of so many artists around us...
martial arts is the most integral of arts...and as a physical practice way more challenging than that wimpy weightlifting crap...
none...other than your Self...
"predictions are hard, especially about the future." - niels bohr
a monk asked isan, "what is the tao?"
"mindlessness is the tao," isan replied.
"i don't comprehend," the monk said.
"all you need to do is to apprehend the one who does not comprehend."
"who is the one who does not comprehend?" the monk said.
"none other than yourself," replied isan. |
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| INSIGHT IS THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND THE BREATH |
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| 11:12am 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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| poetic terrorism |
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| 10:05pm 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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| essay by ken wilber |
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| 09:35pm 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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| 01:13am 06/02/2005 |
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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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| 09:39pm 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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| shortcut to nirvana |
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| 10:27pm 11/01/2005 |
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Imagine a cross between the Hajj and Burning Man, produced by Baz Luhrmann in India, and you can see why filmmakers Maurizio Benazzo and Nick Day created this documentary. Kumbh Mela is a 2000-year-old tradition occuring once every 12 years that attracts hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. Spiritual leaders (including the Dalai Lama), artists, musicians, philosophers, and acolytes gather to teach, learn, and feel the ecstasy of enlightenment. The climax, the ritual bath in the Ganges, is supposed to purify pilgrims so completely as to assure them a place in heaven. (SND)
Note: 100% of the opening night proceeds benefit tsunami relief efforts.
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| generosity... |
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| 09:50pm 03/01/2005 |
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sundays in santa monica - open art studio sessions
visionary/spiritual/integral artists gathering in santa monica every sunday of this month of january...to create and inspire and collaborate...contact me if you're interested in more details...
"Wanting to own, wanting to possess and not being prepared to give out is
not really a weakness for any particular thing. It is more generally
wanting to occupy oneself with something, and if you have lost or lose
interest in that particular thing, then you always want to substitute
something else in its place....So that is the real weakness -- though not
exactly weakness, but more a kind of habit that one tends to form through a
neurotic process of thoughts. The whole thing boils down to this
overlapping of thoughts which goes on all the time in our minds. We never
allow anything to really happen or take place in our mind. One thought
comes and, almost before we finish that, another one comes in and overlaps
it and then another. So we never allow any gap which would permit us to be
free and really digest things. Therefore it becomes a continual demand, a
continual process of creating and wanting to own. And that is why one has
to develop this generosity of really opening oneself." - Chogyam Trungpa |
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| here's the plan for new year's eve |
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| 09:55pm 30/12/2004 |
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sea of dreams for new year's eve
NYE: Multimedia
Anon Salon and Dream Circus Theatre Present Sea of Dreams: ODDySEA
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Fri 12.31 (8:30pm-4:30am) |
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The Park Plaza Hotel (607 Park View St, 213.384.5281) |
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For the first time, legendary Bay Area event producers Anon Salon present their fabulous Sea of Dreams NYE party simultaneously in SF and LA. Lose yourself in the multiple rooms of entertainment at the elegant Park Plaza Hotel — filled with over 50 DJs, musical acts, and other performers — with fellow costumed revelers. (RK/QoV)
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| these foolish times we live in... |
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| 09:50pm 29/12/2004 |
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"Either fly as far as you can from men, or else, laughing at the world and the men who are in it, make yourself a fool in many things." - Thomas Merton
 
The Fool is an innocent, bound on a journey he knows not where, with only the conviction that with optimism the greater good will prevail. The Fool has faith in himself to bring him through new experiences, as we must have faith in ourselves, knowing our hearts lead the way and where good intentions prevail, the correct path will become apparent.
The Fool has little baggage, little preparation and his only muses are the little butterfly people who follow him, representing transformation and change, as well as his instincts for survival that will help him make his way through the weary world. He is a free spirit, an unformed personality ready to take on anything, climbing towards spiritual enlightenment.
The Fool is on a journey, an adventure. He represents new and possibly unexpected changes in one's life to a new and uncharted territory. This territory may not be a physical change in location; it can be a new creative path, a new field of study or a new business opportunity. This change may be an adventure of some type that has a beginning and end, or it may be the kind of change that affects an entire lifestyle, but as in all changes it involves risk. |
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