Political Benders

So I felt it was time to try again and see how my feelings and thoughts have shifted since I last took the 'Pick Your Candidate' simple quiz to get me a simplified and general idea of my political aim as far as choosing a candidate. It appears as though I have loosened my views and am more ambiguously aligned with the candidates in general. I am not surprised that my score with Ron Paul has risen dramatically...

These are my results as of today (as compared to July 22, 2007):

Kucinich 46
(you have no disagreements with this candidate)

Gravel 37
(you have no disagreements with this candidate)

Obama 25
Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Same-Sex Marriage

Clinton 20
Death Penalty, Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Marriage

Biden 20
Death Penalty, Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Same-Sex Marriage

Edwards 19
Death Penalty, Patriot Act, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Marriage

Dodd 18
Death Penalty, Patriot Act, Border Fence, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action

Paul 16 (currently of great interest to me... although we apparently don't match up perfectly, I am totally in favor of his intention to remove the Income Tax and Federal Reserve system and to reform the drug policies, which are big issues for me that this poll does not take into consideration.)
Abortion Rights, ANWR Drilling, Kyoto, Assault Weapons Ban, Citizenship Path for Illegals, Border Fence, Net Neutrality, Minimum Wage Increase, Same-Sex Marriage, Universal Healthcare

Richardson 13
Death Penalty, Assault Weapons Ban, Patriot Act, Iran Sanctions, Iran - Military Action, Same-Sex Marriage

Brownback -13
Thompson -16
Cox -20
Huckabee -23
McCain -24
Giuliani -30
Tancredo -38
Romney -40
Hunter -41

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This latest collection of articles/documents focuses on the personal experiences with psychedelics and their personal and intimate effects on people's bodies, minds, and lives. I have read a few of the essays and have found them to be very inspiring, passionate, and moving. I imagine that this issue will remind many people within and without the psychedelic community of why it is that we choose to take action and stand for the appropriate understanding, relationship, and application of these plants and substances that we have been sculpted and enlivened by.

Many blessings as the dark night of the seasons rolls over us and we are reminded why it is so lovely to be awakened by a throbbing star-sun every day of our lives.

ALOHA

Sweet days into sweet night,

Michael Eugene Brown II - the Brown Rabbit

La La Losing It

Photography in SF

Things I Find Especially

Long Live The Giving Trees

On this Full Moon
of Abundance
we find ourselves taking,
taking more than we need
and threatening to bleed
the big, bold, and bright
green Giants giving off
sweet, soft air
and haven
to a thousand living things.

Please do not cut these Beings down.
Please do not kill for profit
or for proposed and supposed Human benefit.
I know, and you know, that we would all much more deeply benefit
from the living with
and learning from
the silent stance of beauty and strength
that these Redwoods embody and instruct.

Murder is fuct
and not part of this dream.
Go downstream
with your gas-powered saw
where your life is ruled
by unruly law
and the belief
in your separation
and power over
life.
Go downstream
with pain and strife.

These Redwoods stand free
as you and me
and we join in agreement
to acknowledge our
inherent right to live out our lives
in peace
and in full blooming beauty
without threat of death
from another.

The wind blows
from end to end,
life to life
and the living
never dies,
only flies
in different
phases
through different
hazes
of color
and light;
the eternal flight
of the eternal flower.

Aloha


Please support the efforts and the people who give their lives to our future and the assured future of Humanity on a Planet that nurtures us.

What can I do you ask?

The best thing you can do is to let go. Go with the flow. Which flow? The flow of your heart. What is the flow of my heart? The flow of your heart is the flow of emotional experience. Emotions are part of vibrational matrices of experience that color and qualitatively reflect energy through consciousness. As co-creative stewards of energy, we, the individuated points of consciousness, can direct the flows of experience through our awareness and creative power.

The heart is an organ, an instrument, an energetic 'transformer' that we have for the creation and transformation of energies; we can use our heart, to direct and transform energy/experience at the level of emotion. When we generate experiences of joy, bliss, gratitude, happiness, and love, we effect the overall matrix of experience that the emotional wave is flowing through. In terms of third-dimensional, linear-time based reality, we can create clouds with specific emotional qualities-colors.

When we say, "Go with the flow [of the heart]", we are actually reminding ourselves and others to remain aware of our own ability to consciously direct the flow of emotional energies through and around us. We choose the emotional flow. If we find ourselves resisting, as signified or alerted by the experience of pain or suffering, we can cneter ourselves, become aware of and acknowledge what it is that we are holding to, and release, recycle and return the energy/experience/boundary to the source.

The pinnacle of all mystical experience is the 'bliss' or unification experience where one realizes their true relationship to all that is, which is, complete and forever interrelated connection to the source and the endless manifestations that arise thereof.

To 'go with the flow', is to remember and consciously take part in and let go into the process of creation and release [a.k.a. creation & destruction].

It is a truly endless cycle that is the nature of third-dimensional duality coming out of the endless and always empty source. This duality continues onward and unfolds through further dimensional experiences and is always perfectly and harmoniously expressed in all dimensions, through all times, in all spaces....




From our viewpoint, it is a beautiful struggle to attempt to comprehend and communicate beyond... and in this way, we open up and release that we may unfold the higher-dimensional experiences within and through our currently unfolding experiences.


I share this with you as I process it and begin to distill it into workable and self-experienced knowledge - wisdom.

ALOHA
A ho

In flow,
as flow,
unknown
knowing
knows no
going
but beyond
and but here
we are always
am
I

Burning Man 2007 Timelapse

Further Awakening

WAKE UP Brothers and Sisters!

It's time to know
and grow and let go

of the old dreams
into the free streams
of love-light life
that we are.

Wake up and walk free.

Know and let go.

Me at Burning Man

Burning Man Photos

Beautiful Photos from Burning Man by another amazing being with a camera...

Terence McKenna Audio Resource

If you ever wanted to hear Terence McKenna jibba-jabba on and on... here is a new link with a ton (if not all) of his recordings.

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