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What helps you connect to your spiritual nature?
Posted on Dec 10th, 2009
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Shameslaya
Shameslaya
Three shots of vodka usually does it.
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What is your preferred contemplative time?
Posted on Sep 16th, 2009
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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
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Shameslaya
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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