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Category Archives: Essay
Butt of the Joke
A million monkeys typing for a million years DID produce the works of Shakespeare when you think about it. Because every “monkey” chatter and every “monkey” action led to that point. Shakespeare was merely a biocomputer synthesizing everything that had … Continue reading
Posted in Essay, Poetry
Tagged bee gees, consciousness, creation, evolution, free will, i started a joke, karma, laughter, magick, occult, philosophy, poetry, yoga
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Haiku a Day #12
She rests on a mat soaked with sweat and emotions savasana’s bliss Words and watercolor by Radiant Spleen In the many years I’ve been practicing and teaching yoga and meditation, I’ve never had so many people approach me after classes … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Pics, Essay, Poetry
Tagged #metoo, haiku, meditation, patriarchy, poetry, rape culture, yoga
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Explore For the Sake of Exploration
“Explore” 9×12 Watercolor by PJ . Finished between my morning hatha class, and the restorative class I teach in the evening. I mention this because the theme of my classes this week has been “Explore for the sake of exploration, … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Pics, Essay
Tagged inspiration, moon, neil degrasse tyson, pole dancing, science, watercolor, yoga
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The Bad Boys (and Girls) of Yoga
Thinking yogis are a bit weird is nothing new (from humble sadahkas to spooky siddhas.) Exhibit 1, this lovely excerpt from a 14th century Indian play, these are the lines the author put into the mouth of a tantric thaumaturge: … Continue reading
Ganesha The Mama’s Boy
Ganesha, the Remover of Obstacles Ganesha, big old cuddly elephant, much beloved by western yogis, and basically, by everybody as far as I can tell. What’s not to love about an elephant-headed deity who will stomp with his tree-like legs … Continue reading
Dark Night of the Soul
Have been going through a process for the last several months. It’s hard to write about, and even though it’s a topic probably more suited to Radiant Spleen, I wrote about it a little at my Wooliverse Blog, where I … Continue reading
Extinction
Al Gore came to me last night in a dream. And as is his style, he lectured me for hours, showing me in painful detail rainfall and temperature charts from all over the world. Like an angel sent by God, … Continue reading
Light and Dark
Yesterday I shared to Facebook a link to this blog, a place for my art and poetry which explores both the light and dark in the pursuit of living consciously. But, because the subject matter of the specific post was … Continue reading
Posted in Essay, Uncategorized
Tagged art, conscioussness, evil, good, non-duality, teaching, yoga
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Contentment
Hey, wait a minute? Aren’t you a yoga teacher? Isn’t the point of practicing yoga to be happy? How can you say there’s no happiness? What kind of negativity are you playing at? I love this little strip. Why does … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, nihlism, niyama, samtosha, santosha
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Why do we put lights on the Xmas Tree?
Solid lights, blinking lights, blue lights, white lights shining and flashing and brightening our holiday tree. We string our tree, fragrant with the pagan scent of nature, to commemorate all the beautiful radiant souls that have been snuffed out by … Continue reading
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