Bio

Everything I have done since age 16 has been integrated to the purpose of precisely answering a single question: Why, at age 15, was I suddenly overcome by a state of continuous rapture in the knowledge that life is sublime, a state which persisted in me for three months solid, regardless of circumstances, but which then faded into the grey, empty conflict of modern survival? //

This quest has accentuated my tendencies to intensity, paranoia, and brilliance. And it has left me eccentric, broke—and nearly broken—and too incisive for my own good. It doesn't matter. Over Christmas, I found my answer (http://andrewdurham.com).

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Now it is my function in life to test these findings, which may well contain the solution to every problem we face in this culture, both individually and collectively. Should the test succeed (as did a similar one 18 years ago), then, as Neo said, what is possible truly knows no rules or controls, no borders or boundaries.

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note: regarding the Evolver subtitle, I don't view Earth as "our" world, nor do I wish to change it. I view these as strictly civilized ideas that will replicate The Problem. Myself, I wish to discover the world, which is fine as it is. We are ill, but we're basically fine, too. Just sayin.

Skills and talents

student of philosophy, health, design // sing, guitar, violin, dance, draw, act, write poetry, understand babies // design & build alternative shelter, handyman // business consulting, personal coaching // writing and editing // slow, deep thinking

Interests

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What I'm Reading

The Bolivian Diaries -Ernesto Che Guevara // TAZ -Hakim Bey // 2012 -Daniel Pinchbeck // TOP 5: Atlas Shrugged -Ayn Rand // In Search of the Miraculous -P D Ouspensky // Ishmael -Daniel Quinn // The Continuum Concept -Jean Liedloff // The 80/10/10 Diet -Doug Graham

What I'm Listening To

U2, Black Lab, Imogen Heap, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joanie Mitchell, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, and Luciano Pavarotti

Movies I've Seen Recently

A Very Long Engagement, Zizek!, Watchmen, TOP 5: Rob Roy, Don Juan de Marco, Un Coeur en Hiver, A Good Year, The Matrix

Websites I'm Into

Triorbital Domes, The Hexayurt Project, Ishmael Community, mobileread

Education

High school

Interlochen Arts Academy (violin, poetry) and Twin Falls High School (Idaho)

College

i used their libraries (all over the place)

Additional study

independent studies in: PHILOSOPHY, focusing on Ayn Rand. Later, on esoteric and tantric spiritual traditions including Hindu Baul tradition, Sufism (Irina Tweedie, Idries Shah, Murat Yagan, and Gurdjieff) under a spiritual teacher. HEALTH am studying natural hygiene. fasted in wilderness in '91 for 23 days. studied raw foodism (was second employee at Nature's First Law). edited _The Raw Secrets_. finally discovered Dr Doug Graham's _The 80/10/10 Diet_ 18 months ago. I eat mostly fruit. DESIGN this I learned from my father since birth. grew up with Frank Lloyd Wright books instead of coloring books. later introduced to Buckminster Fuller and ecological design (Viktor Papanek).