Modern Day Alchemists


“The challenge of our age is to become alchemists, transmuting the energy of insight and wisdom into practical living and thus to manifest the divine on earth.” --Jack Schwartz, Voluntary Controls

Gurus

Education is a creative act, not an act of imitation. When on the path of self-realization, sometimes it’s easy to look up to our teachers as people to ape. We admire their station in life, so that is a natural impulse. What we don’t realize is that teachers are our peers, not gods. We should think of them as handing us maps. Look at the map and see where you are on it. Are you where you thought you were? Do you want to be somewhere else? Do you want to be where your teacher is? What’s the best way to get there for you and your life?

Each of us makes his/her own pathway to the Truth. You are not the only one to envision the world in a certain way, but the world that you perceive is unique to you alone. There is only one Truth, but there are infinite ways to experience it.

The one and only true teacher resides within each of us. It is our decision whether or not to pay attention to what that teacher says.

No one has ever taught us anything. They have only revealed truths which we already knew.

Accessing Your Section of the Cosmic Library



Locked within the inner chambers of our beings are our fears, desires, and anxieties, but also our inherent potentials for courage, self-growth, and knowledge. These potentials are so great, they are just about unimaginable to our conscious mind. Most potentials remain unrealized because we can't find ways to apply them creatively. Others we don't use because we are controlled by a group consciousness, and can't operate individually. At times it seems our sense of identity seems to rely entirely on our memberships...

We must re-evolve. We must learn to hear and follow a most clear seeing and powerful leader: the knowingness within each one of us...

It is only through meditation that we can tap into the universal source of all knowledge... a pool of wisdom so deep and so wide that all the information on this microscopically small planet, the Earth, would only be that which laps upon its shores. We must tap into this wisdom if we are to move mountains and live up to our full potentials.

All experiences go into this pool of wisdom, the universal archives from which we can draw whatever we wish. But you are your own library card; your mind the only entrance key you possess. However, you can not see all the books. Your mind vibrates on a certain frequency, and therefore you are only able to access the section of the library that has books that pertain to your particular experience, the level on which you are now existing. You can always read the books on the lower levels of development, but you will never be able to access the books from the higher levels of consciousness... not until your mind begins to vibrate there.

If you wish to read more books in the cosmic library, start evolving so that you can gain access to the more highly developed books... meditation is a crucial part of this evolution.


inspired / stolen from "the path of action" by jack schwartz

Balanced Dying

From Human Energy Systems by Jack Schwartz

“An important part of balanced living is balanced dying. As we take time out to eat and rest, we must also take out time to die—to encourage the progressive transition of ourselves through the stages of life. This is how I think of meditation. Meditation is the basic initiator of all action.”

Resonating Frequencies

From Human Energy Systems by Jack Schwartz

“It is inevitable that heightened self-awareness will influence the body and will effect important changes on a physical level… If we keep the body as radiant as possible, our higher consciousness will attract energy at that same high level, and so we will avoid diseases…

“If we radiate out with a certain frequency of energy and with a certain amplitude, this will produce resonance with similar energies in the environment… just as if I strike a G note on a violin, a piano’s G string with vibrate sympathetically… (so too do we resonate with our environments and vice versa)… Remember too that all the particles of your body are also contained in the environment. Every particle has the capacity to produce energetic outflow, and to resonate or vibrate sympathetically."

Fleet foxes. Try listening to this song just once. It will creep into your consciousness like spiraling limbs of ivy... you'll find yourself going back to it again and again. Beautiful.

My friend's cousin makes these Playmobile Rave scenes... love it! Reminds me of the old days...




He calls it the Mega Lego Club. There's even a funny little video on there. Check it out: http://genx.shutterfly.com/

Halloween came and went, and I'm happy to have spent it at Danbro Studios. My favorite act of the night was DMBQ, these insane Japanese rockers who crowd surf like maniacs. They actually closed the show with the drummer floating the whole drum set on TOP of the crowd, and then he played. Oh yeah... a sight to behold.

Check out the pics on Brooklyn Vegan!

This music is so bad, I have to share it. I like how no one in these videos looks excited about making music. It's like, they're just hanging out, and some instruments happen to be laying around, so they play them. It's almost a chore. I mean, the singer in "Reminiscing" actually looks bored.



Robbie Dupree looks like a tall, strange bird in a toothpaste colored sweater. But his conga player's killing it!