I follow my energy and never know where it will lead. I'm a mixed bag, difficult to keep up with, and constantly seem to be reinventing myself. My main interest in life has been to make sure I lived before I died. I live life fully, and try and stay open to whatever it brings. A friend once told me that she was attracted to me because of my wandering, free lifestyle. But after we got together, I got a straight job and became very boring. Some relative constants have been drumming, dancing and hanging out in coffee shops chatting and listening to music. Unfortunately, I haven't found a cafe in Tallytown that really does it for me. I like being in nature but I'm lazy and hate mosquitoes. I'm a news junkie, but I don't read or listen to much of the reporting in the mainstream media -I hate being lied to. DemocracyNow.org is the best news source I know. I'm very into media reform and love research. From time to time I maintain a meditation practice. More often I'm just living life - walking softly, trying to do no harm, helping out whenever I can, and keeping it all as simple as possible. I am reminded as I write this stuff that all our stories about ourselves are basically fictions - our real life is in the moment - spontaneously being - no identity in that beingness. We all just are...
I like most all ethnic music. Folk. Bluegrass. Blues. Jazz. Tango. Samba. Rhumba. NewGrass, JamBand, Gospel , Early Music
A magic moment: listening to JS Bach's Chaconne.
Lately listening to Cuban Counterpoint - History of Son Montuno, Aaron Neville, Damien Rice, The Duhks, The Mammals, my bros Smithsonian Blues Collection - Mean Old World , , Ramblin Jack Elliot, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Ric Edmiston, Stillwood, Scott Campbell, Dead Keys, Mose Allison, Blue Moon, Grisman Quintet, Armando Mafufo, Hossan Ramzy; Mbemba Bangoura , Mamady Keita, Laurent Camara, Tocamos , Hamza El din , the Meters, Moonshine Babies,
and the music that happens around the campfire
And creating my own radio stations around any of these guys at pandora.com
Old Favorites: Dave Van Ronk; Eric von Schmidt; Tim Hardin; Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Phil Ochs; Hamilton Camp; Jim Kweskin's Jug Band; John Fahey, John Hammond Jr.; Missisippi John Hurt; Rev. Gary Davis; BB King; Albert King; Skip James; and of course The Beatles, the Stones, Jefferson Airplane; Janis and Big Brother; the Dead, Velvet Underground...
Filmler
I can't sit through a film in the theater, but I watch a lot of videos. Some favorites are Dame La Mano, Buena Vista Social Club, Calle 54, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Walkout, Groundog Day, Finding Neverland , Fear and Loathing in las Vegas
Televizyon
Kill your TV!!
Kitaplar
"I Am That" Nisargadatta Maharaj. Sunyata-Life and Sayings of a Rare-Born Mystic. Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Dzogchen by the Dalai Lama. All of Howard Zinn's and Noam Chomsky's books. Neal Stephenson's 3 vol Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon. Living My Life by Emma Goldman. Terrence McKenna's Archaic Revival and Invisible Landscape. Diamond Sutra. Astrology of Personality by Dane Rudhyar. Way of the White Clouds by Lama Govinda. My Way, the Way of the White Clouds by Rajneesh. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter Thompson. Talking to Myself by Studs Terkel. All the Harry Potter books. Bob Dylan's Chronicles. Rules for Radicals by Alinsky. Flashbacks by Tim Leary. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
State University Of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 1978
Öğrenci durumu: Eski Mezunlar
Derece: Master's Degree
Ana dal: Humanistic/Transpersonal Psychology
1976 - 1978
University Of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 1974
Öğrenci durumu: Eski Mezunlar
Derece: Bachelor's Degree
Ana dal: Social Sciences
Ek dal: Religious Studies
1972 - 1974
University Maryland
College Park, MD
Mezun Olduğu Okul: 3000
Öğrenci durumu: Eski Mezunlar
Derece: None
Ana dal: Wandering around
Ek dal: Waiting and Wondering
1958 - 1965
bennett/gyanarthi not here too much these days... 22 Ağu 2009 tarihinde devamı
GYANARTHI BOOKS. I've been busy cataloging books from my old bookshops to sell at Gyanarthi
Books on TomFolio(dot)com, an online bookseller's co-op - check it out and let me know what you think!!
Along with the Esoteric books, I'm also adding original Haight Ashbury Concert
postcards and handbills...they're listed under the "music ephemera" category
For the last couple of years I've been exploring getting old. It's a fascinating process, and I want to write more about it. But not here, except to say that the aging process seems to be an external one that becomes internalized the more you buy into it. Our internal reality is timeless, but our bodies get older and our life stories longer. How we go about integrating this inner and outer reality is pretty important.
Bob Dylan: Those who are not busy being born, are busy dying (Its Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding).
This line really bothered me when i first heard it in 1965. I recognized its truth and set about birthing myself. But I was fortunate. I was blessed with an uncomfortable childhood. Nothing made sense to me, and I didn't fit in. So, when I stumbled onto my community and my music I went for it, and the trip has been a magic carpet ride, and a jump into an abyss all rolled into one. Music and dance has been the key.
Seed moments: Folk music in Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and Newport; Early Haight Ashbury scene where soon to be famous local bands played danceable insane venues; The inexplicable gathering of family in Woodstock. The magic of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (aka Osho) and the guidance of all of my teachers, for which I am eternally grateful.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
North Florida is so beautiful. I've been here for 20 years now and have had no desire to be anywhere else all this time. I've lived all over the country, but the first time I sat by a river lined with cypress, and live oaks dripping with spanish moss, I was hooked. Tallahassee's a bit too big, but it's grown on me too. Drumming and dancing and festival celebrations have been my passion.
There's a heavier, more intense side to me though. It comes up around all we do as a people to keep ourselves and others enslaved. I see life as a challenge and an opportunity to find, celebrate and maintain freedom and to help all our brothers and sisters do the same. I spent most of 2000-2004 working on several political/social action sites: www.whoseflorida.com and WhiteCloud (now www.myoldwhitecloud.com)
I like this quote:
If I'm not for myself who will be?
If I'm not for others what am I?
If not now, when?
Kimle tanışmak isterim: More of my family and maybe a tango partner.
Gracie...Woodstock 1969
Gracias...Woodstock 1969
San Francisco/Haight Ashbury 1967 - Country Joe and the Fish playing on the Panhandle the eve before the Peace March - 100,000 of us marched that day
Aquarian Age Bookstore, Baltimore MD 1968-80
Rajneeshpuram,OR 1984('85?)
Sannyas Diaspora - We're set loose on the world :)
10/05/06 "World Can't Wait" Tallahassee
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My brother Larry's String Quartet #1: The Blues / Speakin' of the Blues
~* Radiant points of crystal light guiding , loving through the night . Wonderous beauty circles so bright joyous , laughing , our soul's delight . For You are our beacon , loving power , saying '' You can discover You trueness , being alive , peace , fullness , loving and life '' At one with God , at one with life our radiant points of crystal light.
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