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Trying to integrate the shadow, bewildered and stunned

I was going to post this on the old Breaking Open the Head forums, because I've gained a lot from them even though I came to them about 5 years after they stopped being really active, to pay my respects to the challenge and the inspiration of the forums, but the registration software is no longer working in the forums or doesn't work on my laptop. So I'll post this here.

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"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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About Me

Bio

'I want to take up surfing, to experience of the intellectual refinement of the longboard. I need to learn tango for its spiritual valences. How will my education be complete without a Voudoun initiation? And learning to play electric guitar will without doubt improve the rigor of my dialectics.'

Skills and talents
Hug distribution, barefoot running, gift giving, laughing, creative anarchy
Interests
bodywork, Ceremonial Magic, healing others, Hermeticism, kenosis, Sufi poetry, vajrayana buddhism, Yoga
What I'm Reading
On Becoming an Alchemist, American Gods, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, Rumi (ongoing), Promethea vol. 3, The Lover Within
What I'm Listening To
Bon Iver, the Black Keys, Sneaker Pimps, Iron & Wine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Interpol, the XX, Patti Smith, MGMT, Beck
Movies I've Seen Recently
Tron, Black Swan, Inception

Education

Additional study
The garden of love is without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Work

Employer
Uncle Sam
Position
hired gun