Stars at Elbow and Foot

Being Embodied : "To understand embodiment, it is helpful to look at its opposite, being un-embodied." "It is easy to fall into an un-embodied state; it's easy to lose yourself and to not be aware that you have become un-embodied, and not notice until the signs are screaming at you from every direction. Our culture supports and encourages its citizens to be un-embodied. In this culture of enslavement to socially dysfunctional norms, becoming embodied is a revolutionary act." read more

Sun rises in tears Birds start singing from green trees Sounds end in silence

There is no 2012. But there are end times. Each one of us will have an end of the world. It will be the day that we die. There. No crappy Michael Bay-ish Apocalypse Armageddon. No UFO brothers returning from the ancient past to enlighten or destroy us. Just the world and the weirdness of our lives and myths and imaginations and each of us with our own personal Apocalypse, just without the digital effects and the really beautiful people. It's that, or the Universe wanted movies to watch and conspiracy blogs to waste its time on. And whatever you believe, you are mostly wrong. I'm sure that the real end will be no big thing, kind of like the time I had a root canal. I spent weeks thinking about the drilling and the pain, remembering Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man under the drill of a NAZI bastard diamond hunter. And when it was all done, I tasted blood for a few hours, my jaw was sore, and my mouth was foolishly numb from Novocaine. Not that much pain. Not that much terror. Defin