Other Interests: Biology, Physics, Paganism, History, Economics, Politics, sociology.
Music
I like all types of music. I prefer classical, electronic, symphonic, and rock.
Movies
I watch movies often, but i do not make watching them a habit.
Television
Not so much...Especially these days. People get caught up in the drama of the world and ignore their own lives.
Books
This is a small selection of stuff I read.
Finnegan's Wake(James Joyce), The Man in the High Castle(Phillip K. Dick), The Invisible Landscape: Mind,hallucinogens, and the I-Ching(Terence and Dennis Mckenna), LSD psychotherapy(Stan Grof), Altered States of Consciousness(Charles Tart), The Sun Also Rises(Ernest Hemingway), Food of the Gods(Terence Mckenna), The Giver(Lois Lowry), Passion of the Western Mind(Richard Tarnas), Hallucinogens and Culture(Peter T. Furst), The Conscious Mind(David Chalmers), Brave New world(Aldous Huxley), The Tao Te Ching(Stephen Mitchell), Techgnosis(Erik Davis), Man and His Symbols(Carl Jung), The Doors of Perception(Aldous Huxley), Design for Dying(Timothy Leary), The Politics of Psychopharmacology(Timothy Leary), Games Zen Masters Play(R.H. Blythe), The Cosmic Game(Stan Grof), Tao:the Watercourse way(Alan Watts), The Joyous Cosmology(Alan Watts), The Archaic Revival(Terence Mckenna), Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche), Process and Reality(Alfred North Whitehead), 1984(George Orwell), Fahrenheit 451(Ray Bradbury), Jitterbug Perfume(Tom Robbins), A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness(V.S. Ramachandran), Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy(Clark Heinrich), Breaking Open the Head(Daniel Pinchbeck), Consciousness Explained(Daniel Dennet), Primitive Mythology(Joseph Campbell), Italian Witchcraft(Raven Grimassi), Anthem(Ayn Rand), The Virtue of Selfishness(Ayn Rand), Varieties of Religious Experience(William James), A Brief History of Everything(Ken Wilber), Steppenwolf(Hermen Hesse), A Scanner Darkly(Phillip K. Dick), Kay Redfield Jamison(An Unquiet Mind), Wicca(Vivanne Crowley), The Book of Lies(Aliester Crowley), Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy(Mircea Eliade), Shamanism(Roger Walsh), The Holographic Universe(Michael Talbot), The Tao of Physics(Fritjof Capra), The Evolutionary Mind(Mckenna, Sheldrake, and Abrhams), The Rebirth of Nature(Rupert Sheldrake), Blood Rites(Barbara Ehrenreich)
Heroes
Everyone close to me. My wife, my brother, and Knotty have all been major influences.
Nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind. -Terence Mckenna
Haha, yeah man. I actually wasn't going to give the first guy the satisfaction of a reply, but as I read his post I got more and more offended at the fact that he was just sitting at his screen insulting you for no reason. "My gosh Sterlin, you think differently from me... You must be some fucking punk ass kid that just loves to rebel against the LAWRD!!!!"
Give me a break.
Anyway, I gave the second guy final reply for the night (after he assumed I don't know anything about history, hahahahaha), and the posts from your pals were pretty funny too, especially Stephanie's. It really had me rolling. Creatards can be so overly ridiculous sometimes. I really have no idea why we bother with them sometimes.
Haha yeah. When I cooked up the idea I had figured it would be you, Stephanie, and me so I figure we would need one or maybe two (trying to save for a trip to New Mexico in a couple of weeks). I suppose it depends on whether we are all drinking sake or if there is beer involved as well.
Sounds great. I'm scheduled to get off at 7 but there is never a guarantee of that. I'll head to the store between classes and work and get the sake. What's the head count so I'll know how much to buy, and how does everyone want to split the prices?
