Self-Expression
“There is vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.”
Martha Graham, Choreographer
Rock climbing, flow states, and Apple’s OS X Yosemite
Today marks my 45th birthday. Yesterday, 22 years ago, I found myself 3000 feet above Yosemite Valley, ascending the last 100 feet of El Capitan’s famous “big wall climb”, The Nose. My climbing partners, William Okin (my best friend from birth),Billy McCullough (well before he opened the famed Tahoe restaurant Dragonfly), and I had been living […]
[VIDEO] Creativity, Cosmology, and Communion: A Buddhist View of the Sacred Significance of Psychedelics
Austin Hill Shaw is interested in exploring the peculiar ability of psychedelics to root out both the karmic challenges and opportunities of the individual who ingests them, and their powerful way of delivering messages that, when seen in the appropriate light, allow an individual to move forward in life with a deeper sense of meaning, […]
Is it possible to marry the spiritual and the material?
At the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, a woman from England, Harpal Datt of Glow at Work, a business psychology consultancy specializing in unleashing talent and potential, came up to me and said, “Your friend says you’re a Buddhist hipster. What does that mean?” To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure either. But […]
Creativity and Psychedelics: Religious Scholar Huston Smith and the Good Friday Experiment
..listening to the angelic music from the choir being piped down into the basement room, and having his consciousness greatly expanded by the chemicals in the mushrooms, Huston experienced a homecoming he’d longed for all his life: a direct, personal encounter with God. Psychedelics: An important tool for creativity and innovation As a creativity expert, my […]
[ARTICLE] The Psychedelic Miracle
Apply now for this year’s Healing and Self-Expression Plant Medicine Retreat in The Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Peru. “[Ayahuasca users] have become better partners to their spouses, better parents to their children, better children to their parents, better employees, better employers, just more responsible overall, bringing a higher level of ethical integrity to everything […]