“I have no ideology. My life is my message.” ~Gandhi We are born into a story not of our making. The story of the unfolding universe begets the story of the earth begets the story of evolution begets the story of our species which begets the story of the culture we were born into. The mystery walk is our proactive contribution to the overall story of the unfolding mystery. It’s a spiritual journey into our own personal story. A story that includes what has been told already,

“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow—and that is likely to hurt.” ~Wei Wu Wei The path toward true awakening is painful and bumpy. It’s not pretty. In fact, it can be downright ugly. There are egoic pitfalls. There are soul-snaring brambles. There are existential knots. The way is never clear, until it is. An even then, it usually turns out to be an illusion. The path is not soft and sweet but jagged and elusive. It is not artificially blissful but aut

“A happy life is impossible, the highest thing that man can aspire to is a heroic life; such as a man lives, who is always fighting against unequal odds for the good of others; and wins in the end without any thanks. After the battle is over, he stands like the Prince in the re corvo of Gozzi, with dignity and nobility in his eyes, but turned to stone. His memory remains and will be reverenced as a hero's; his will, that has been mortified all his life by toiling and struggli

“For the Plains Indians, thunder and lightning symbolized the vast, uncontrollable energy of nature. It’s not surprising, then, that the Thunderbird is connected with the strange, uncontrollable force of the Trickster figure, and his avatar, the heyoka.” ~Steve Mizrach, Ph.D The four thunderbirds symbolize the four cardinal directions of the medicine wheel. And although different tribes interpret the Medicine Wheel differently, the energy is what matters. This article will fo

“War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting technology from weaponry to livingry.” ~Buckminster Fuller Fuck your weaponry! Fuck your wars! Fuck your head-in-the-sand, kneejerk reaction being violence as a solution to problems. The problem is that you think that having a problem is a problem. It’s not. We all have problems. The problem is that your solution to problems is almost always violence, as indoctrinated into you by the State’s solution to problems: which is also vi

“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero: seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.” ~Horace Alchemy is the art of transformation. Self-inflicted alchemy is the art of transforming self-preservation (lead) into self-overcoming (gold). It’s “inflicted” because the process is uncomfortable at first. One must leave one’s comfort zone to grow. One must take an independent leap of courage out of a codependent state in order to understand that one’s true essence is an interdependen