Thoreau foryo

Henry David Thoreau believed that technology was counterproductive because it served as a distraction from the important questions of life.
He wrote in Walden:

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things... We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."

Blockhead - The Music Scene

How to be free, by me

A friend asked me to tell her everything i knew about happiness and fulfillment in life:

in a nutshell: we were born free, natural humans, natural: non synthetic, of nature, perfect as we are, spiritual beings having a human experience. try and think of ancient, tribal humans, no frogskin money or wal mart, just dirt and trees and rivers and birds and the SUN, o glorious sun! but then here is this society structure in the here and now that we are taking part in so, i guess we gotta play the game right? make money to survive, feed ourselves and achieve material enjoyment, etc....intention underlies EVERYTHING..picture it like a simple math equation. good + intention = good life OR bad + intention = shitty complicated life battling the ego...so then there is the ego which projects these images that we consider reality, and there is the beautiful spirit which floats in space happy as is....the current situation leaves most of us in an ego centered battle of me me me, mine mine mine, LET GO OF THAT! SERIOUSLY, its like a blind tailless dog chasing its tail, thinking it has one but there is nothing there to ever catch, ya dig? belief in magic is imperative, i say this because I am currently living proof that anyone can manifest their destiny through simple pure intention, objectivity (not projecting your beliefs onto anyone else, even through a casual glance). Let me also say that this has taken time, because the ego is sneaky and its concept of necessity, although an illusion, a complete illusion, an absolute crazy magic trick in itself, had me chasing my invisible tail more or less since birth and it took cosmic forces beyond my control and about 26 years on the gregorian calendar to start realizing, and now looking back i realize that there were signs all my life (both my greek grandparents names directly translate to FREEDOM, tripout!) just waiting, trying to steer me on the spirit path. check it: this money based illusion that most of the modern world is caught up in is SOMEONE ELSE'S DREAM...most people are living somebody elses dream! It is just a guess but this someone else was probably from the evil spirit realm, because apparently that exists as well but only if you think it, without the thought of something, it cannot exist, think about it, or DON'T....thats where intention comes in to rule the universe, think it and it becomes, dont think it and it vanishes. that being said, the greatest sound advice i was ever given on this path is: life is a string of moments. fear and love are the basic underlying factors that motivate us/ the universe. Fear and love CANNOT exist in the same moment, impossible. therefore, if we live from moment to moment, PRESENT in the glorious here and now, and choose love in each, then voial, presto change-o, alacadabra alakazam! the truth will unfold quite beautifully right before our very third-eye. Any excuses you may have made against what I have said are FEAR based, shakem off quick and keep moving on the path of LOVE and LIGHT and all will be well. simple. Another amazing piece of advice that you and I have been hearing all our lives is "nothing is as it seems" or as Tolkien put it, "not all that glitters is gold"...il just let you think about that one. LOVE

Don't walk away in silence

The truth seems to be picking up speed faster and faster these days, irrelevant falsehoods that many are programmed to live by are becoming more and more transparent. 'Run from false remedies that dilute your energy, keep it rich and musky' is what Rumi said 400 years ago. Today I am keeping it musky for sure, staying light so the sweet tune of god/love may pass right through me enveloping my soul (which was given to me for free; everything else at a price) so that I may not walk away in silence. Love spreads like wild fire and you better believe that I'm a hunk a hunk of burning love!

Stay Light!

Light Light Light
Light vs. Dark
Light vs. Heavy
Light Light Light Light Light Light
Light Light Light Light Light Light
Lightbeing emit beam glow
Lightbody shine flash ray
Lighthouse star bright shed
Lightbox sunlight!

The sun is always light!
Always giving light to us!
Even by bouncing it off the moon!
The sun must have created the moon so it could
provide light for the entire planet as much as possible.
Craziest of all, the sun gives us all this light and
does not ask for anything in return!
What a deal!

Follow the example of the sun and
stay light!

Calm Waters

I am the calm waters amidst a sea of chaos.
Not the perfect kind of cosmic chaos
but the kind of disorder that arises from millions of people all trying so hard to establish their egos on a permashook etch-a-sketch through a predictable, ordered life.Cosmic chaos cannot be trapped, tame, caged, buttoned up or down, ordered.
They say, "tis the season for giving" but many of the ego creatures just keep doing what they have been programmed to do; they take and take and take for their own perceived progress, blinded by materialism.
Progress, however, can only be achieved by giving.
The natives proved it for thousands of years through their culture of free giving.
Living off the land, taking from it but understanding the balance that must be achieved by giving back equally.
Giving without any concept of charity even.
No concept that, "because I gave, I will surely receive..."
No.
That is an equation for a failed system.
Give until it hurts.
The natives did it.
Once they had given everything but the buffalo skins on their backs, other members of the tribe took notice and would start the cycle of giving once again.
What happens in such a situation in 2010?
Those with nothing stay with nothing because they are perceived as nothing.
No things perceived as no wealth.
Wrong.
I say: No things =FREE! = wealthy beyond measure

December 13, 2010

Sitting in my new blue room in South Lake Tahoe. Winnie the Pooh is digging for honey on my wall while the Grateful Dead jam a jam in the kitchen. Typical scene you might find me in. The universe provided me with a comfy queen size bed which I spilled an entire liter of water onto yesterday. I finagled some milk crates and added an upside down snowboard deck to fashion a table that looks like T"""T. I have a windowsill to hold some miscellaneous items as well. My window looks right out onto the street/forest/neighborhood in the woods.
An interesting sounding bird came by yesterday. I did not catch a glimpse of her. I am sure she will be back with more messages and insight on the simple song life we live. The coyote packs wail crazy night tunes just a block away in a huge meadow that I have yet to venture out onto. It will be a full moon snowboot mission.
There is power in this lake and all around it. This entire area is a massive earthen stadium. The mountains provide the seating, up to full capacity in some instances, and the lake is the playing field, where all the action is, as still as a feather laying in an empty nest. Teaching us a lesson on how patience cultivates wisdom. Absorbing each ray of light as it comes. Reflecting the blue that envelops us. The blue that we desire to "keep" for a bumper stickers sake.
Now is the time more than ever to learn from our natural surroundings.
Practice the same patience as the rocks and the trees and learn from them the same way the natives did for centuries.