Ego is a bitch. It is the petulant, undisciplined child inside all of us screaming defiantly at the world, “MINE!” It sometimes sets unreasonable expectations and calls us terrible names when we fail. My ego is no different. A long time ago in a peloton far, far away I used to be a road bicycle …
“I’m not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.” -Jennifer Egan I walked out of my therapist’s office for the last time this week. In October of 2014 I sat on Dr Z’s couch for the first time and wept deeply, opening myself to the …
WALKING WITH GOD (part 4 of 5) In the Light of the Feminine Though I knew all the women who would be attending this ceremony there was a hint of anxiety as I traveled to the temple- I was the only male who would be journeying with them. There were 5 participants and our guides …
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna “LSD …
“These days, when I knock on the doors of the Tryptamine Palace, I am no longer greeted with unconditional love, but instead, I am reminded of the responsibility that comes with ultimate knowledge: an undeniable responsibility to myself, to my tribe, to my species, to my planet.” -James Oroc You made your intentions. You prepared …
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac I spent more than 30 years being angry at my mother. I didn’t know why and I never questioned my feelings. My anger just was. In November of 2015 we hadn’t talked in …
“It is characteristic that dreams never express themselves in a logical, abstract way but always in the language of parable or simile.” -Carl Jung When writing, it’s generally considered bad form to indicate that something can’t be described in words. Yet this is precisely the challenge when writing about this work- finding words that convey …
“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.” Acts9:18 KJV Medieval European maps often grew outward from the Mediterranean Sea, which they believed was the centre of the Earth. At the edges of the known world was the great unknown, terra incognita, and here the maps were often illustrated with fantastical …
