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What is your preferred contemplative time?

Posted on Sep 16th, 2009 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

I'm a round-the-clock man meself althogh I value dawn and dusk, those still-but-not-tepid times in which the global energies lie fallow before reversing their flow...the yogis refer to them as Sandhis which is not the... More »

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What is your relationship to independence?

Posted on Jul 4th, 2009 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

I believe in interdependence rather than independence.....we exist in and as this nexus of physical, emotional and morphogenic finely-grained goop and not as this little island of figure in a ground of separate otherness.....seeing life... More »

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Where would you recommend people give their time?

Posted on Dec 20th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

Well...when you're on a 747 and streaming and screaming through the solid air at subMach velocity with the starboard turbine aflame and everythings gone end-of-Alien with the alarms cawing like bad electro house and people... More »

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Which foreign country or culture do you feel most drawn toward?

Posted on Oct 18th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

I really don't anymore...I used to say India, Nepal, Tibet, Iceland, the Integral or yoga or Buddhist cultures.... but these days, as much as I love all of these I am not drawn towards them....I... More »

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What constitutes true communication?

Posted on Jul 20th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

To my mind, true communication occurs when the commnicator thinks s/he said what the recipient thought s/he heard. Facilitated with clarity, directness, honesty, respect and  compatible worldviews. Jon x

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What gets in the way of us connecting with others?

Posted on Jul 10th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

Love love will tear us apart...again... as Ian Curtis sang.....and yesterday I read that some nut tried to connect with him more deeply by ripping off his headstone and presumably taking it home..... Which verifies... More »

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What draws us together?

Posted on Jul 9th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

Rolf Harris doing a manic Gaia fresco. We do seem to have this wierd pushme-pullyou attitude to relating....we are, I think, hardwired to connect with others in premodern tribes which metamorphosise into clans as they... More »

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If you could combine two interests, what would they be?

Posted on Mar 12th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

Sex and death...then ideally I could be coming when I'm going.

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When was the last time you really met a stranger?

Posted on Jan 16th, 2008 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

Professional ethics forbid me to answer this question in detail...people I have never met before enter my sanctuary and tell me a story about themselves, often one they have never told anybody before...lets call him/her... More »

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What does it mean to be in relationship?

Posted on Dec 27th, 2007 by Shameslaya : Tantrika Kosmocentria Shameslaya

Relationship is the water we fish swim in...we are ever in relationship...to the ground, the open sky, others loved or maybe less loved....we exist in duality...I cannot say what it means because I have nothing... More »

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