Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Awakened Persons
“Anyone who possesses consciousness, anyone who possesses mind, or the unconscious mind—all are candidates for bodhisattvahood. Anyone can become an awakened person. In this sense, there is no such thing as a “secret doctrine” or a teaching which is only for the few. As far as the teaching is concerned, it is always open.
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My Story
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”
Nondual Wisdom
Adventures in Nondual Wisdom with some of my beloved teachers. Conference time!
Tuned with Love
“The heart is the thousand-stringed instrument that only can be tuned with love. ”
Mujer Espiritu
Connecting to this frequency of mysticism with curandera, Maria Sabina, in this documentary from 1979.
The Trip Treatment
Here is a feature article, The Trip Treatment, in the New Yorker with a great in-depth history on the use of psilocybin for healing.
Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klimt. 1915.
“But more than a year after their psilocybin sessions volunteers who had had the most complete mystical experiences showed significant increases in their “openness,” one of the five domains that psychologists look at in assessing personality traits. (The others are conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.) Openness, which encompasses aesthetic appreciation, imagination, and tolerance of others’ viewpoints, is a good predictor of creativity.”