Category Archives: Open Practice

A Rebirth Into Infinity

11/16/2021: Heroic dose (7.377 grams) of psilocybin mushroom (Penisenvy).  I now have a new appreciation for the Buddhist teachings… Shinzen’s hardcore dharma, Focus on Flow, Focus on Change, the dharma of the sleeping Buddha dreaming the universe into being, then smiling, knowing that All There Is is a big fucking joke. It can’t be this […]

Touch the Groove of My Kickass Dharma Mix

I’ve been playing around with TRAKTOR DJ for iPad for a few weeks now. I love this application. It rekindled my passion for mixing music. To practice my remix chops I’ve created a series of dharma mix featuring my kick ass dharma teacher, Shinzen Young, remixed with some of my favorite music. It’s my way […]

Open Practice: On Terence McKenna and the Psychedelic Path to Gnosis

I’ve been familiar with Terence McKenna and the whole psychedelic movement ever since I started my research on altered states of consciousness and the so called “spiritual” path. In fact, one of the earliest sites on the Internet that I frequently visited before the explosion of the World Wide Web is deoxy.org. But even though […]

Open Practice: Focus on Flow in Waking and Lucid Dreaming

In the spirit of #OpenPractice, below is my latest conversation with Shinzen Young regarding my chosen form of practice. I hope this will be of some use for others out there who have a similar form of practice. Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:54:24 -0800 Subject: Re: The Dark Night From: “~C4Chaos” To: Shinzen Young […]

Open Practice: Why Ken Wilber is So Awesome (I Think)

It’s been a while since I’ve written about integral stuff on this blog. I guess it’s high time that I break this pattern. And this is a perfect serendipitous timing… Integral Life just published an audio of Ken Wilber tracing back his developmental stages and making a matter-of-fact self-assessment of his shadows and current stage […]