California – oops, Bay Area, here I am

September 28th, 2010 | Posted by Mushin in traveling - (4 Comments)

I’m in culture-shock. Well, okay, I’m exaggerating. The type of spirituality – I call it Californianism – that I meet here wherever I go is a mixture of New Age, Buddhist and positivist, basically Christian ideas (actually easily traceable to “Christian Science“); stirred well in a melting pot of activists, artists, hippies, healers and entrepreneurs. It’s almost as … Read more

I’m starting to leave the idea of oneness behind in favor of a kind of pluralistic, polytheistic, polycentric inner/outer reality. I’m starting to contemplate that monotheism, oneness, big bang, verticality, all-pervading consciousness, etc. are part of a perspective that is always playing for dominance (and obviously is not; but downplaying what … Read morehinders it … Read more

In my second posting (1st here) on this beginning exploration and reassessment of what I’ve come to see as true, beautiful and good I’m going to look more into what Soul is and does. And again, I’m just going to go with my meanderings and contemplations; I’m not trying to be comprehensive and go through … Read more

This is the very first installment of what I hope will become a Body, Soul and Spirit series of posts that will meander around most of the topics that keep fascinating me since a while. Starting with a meeting with a great and lovely man in Basel, Switzerland who remembers a long line of incarnations … Read more

My twitter-stream has many tweets like these: ColinUdeLewis “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.” James Allen WilliamHarryman “95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself.” — Brian Tracy bfederman A man’s own self is his friend. A man’s own self is his foe. Gita Good advise, … Read more