Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Crossroads
Love synchronicity. Getting across SF, my uber driver from East Sudan shared about the value of ritual, noting his sisters' African coffee gatherings for women in contrast to American donut & coffee workplace Fridays. With clear insights on people's boundaries, he offered the gist of his pending thesis on cultural divides and I am planning on emailing him trickster tales on Eshu that I included in my own thesis.
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.