WE
A refresher on Alan Watts’ views of the self—as a “skin-encapsulated ego” and beyond. Read on Big Think.
On Doing Nothing
As resistance, as art, for simple sanity, and as the simple truth of being present, here and now. Viva la doing nothing! Read on Boing Boing.
Dreaming Pure Awareness
Armed with EEG’s a few scientists posit that dreaming of nothing—white dreams—could simply be empty citta, pure awareness. Read in The Atlantic.
The Body Myth
Rheea Mukherjee’s debut novel… Here’s some yummy pulls from an interview— (1) Our bodies are political from birth; (2) The body is not a thing, it is a situation; (3) Opportunity: to relearn how we’ve been made to construct our reality; (4) A process of…
Sonic Meditations
American composer Pauline Oliveros said that her meditations had a goal of “expanded consciousness” and “humanitarian purposes; specifically healing.” Read in the New Yorker. _____________________ “The meditation ‘Teach Yourself to Fly’ asks the performer to observe her breath and eventually allow her voice to sound;…
The Body as Archive
Installation view of “Current State of Everything: The Body As Archive” (2018) by dana washington in Time is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the LA Rebellion and Today at Art + Practice (photo by Joshua White) via Hyperallergic.
Vanity Fair
For those of you in the SF Bay Area, Erica’s brother is receiving high praise for his role in Vanity Fair, playing through May 12 at ACT. Here Adam talks about his path from autistic kid to thriving actor: “I don’t know how many people…
The Merits of a Morning Head Massage
Scott Blossom is a friend, teacher and doctor who speaks on the Fearless Self Love podcast about neuroscience – we appreciated his tip on a morning head massage to stimulate the glymph (lymph of the brain); and the lying down morning meditation – being vividly…
When Every Vote Matters
Polls are open in India and voters are poised to elect the next President. Indian law mandates that no polling place can be further than 2km (about 1.25 miles) from a registered voter – so in…a desolate, seemingly endless, lion-infested forest in India, a single…
Unariun Disco
UNARIUS NIGHT! with Director Jodi Wille Including… A UNARIUS Mixtape recently-unearthed and extremely rare Unarius videos from the 70s and 80s AND a rare new transfer of the Unarius psychodrama: THE DECLINE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE ORION EMPIRE – PART 4: RELIGIOUS DECEPTION AND SPIRITUAL…