This is just a little note to say that I will be back up writing soon. Right now I’m knee deep finishing up PARABOLA’s latest issue on “Man & Machine” and it’s looking great. Expect to see an interview with Ravi Ravindra, as well as articles covering Islam and science, webmasters of the Orthodox Jewish world, Bread and Puppet theater, cyborgs, and more!
June 14, 2008
Dr. Robert Svoboda and Dr. Scott Blossom will be speaking at Ashtanga Yoga New York (AYNY) in New York City on Saturday June 14th & Sunday June 15th from 1–4pm.
From the AYNY website:
Fire embodies the sun, and is its spirit on Earth. Fire is the celebrant of sacrifices, and “digester” of life experiences. We rely on fire’s good judgment to keep the other Elements in right relationship to one another. These lectures will discuss how best to invoke fire into our lives, internally & externally; how to prevent fires in places we don’t want them to start; how to align our internal fires; and how to keep Tejas predominant, and Pitta subservient.
June 11, 2008
“Things are not as they appear. Nor are they otherwise.”
From the Lakavatra Sutra (The epigraph to The Drop Edge of Yonder)
About three months ago my cyber self came across the Ashtanga Yoga inspired and spiritually genuine musings of Spiros Antonopoulos at SoulJerky.com. As a site whose well-earned no BS take on yoga and all things Eastern came as a breath of fresh air, I quickly made it one of the few haunts on my weekly Web wanderings. Happily, while browsing the site I was hipped to Rudolph Wurlitzer’s latest novel The Drop Edge of Yonder. (more…)
May 24, 2008
The Situationists were a radicalized group of international post-Dada ex-artists and political theorists who in the 1950s and 60s attempted to expose everything from the banality of grid-like city planning to the mediation of reality through images and commerce. One graffitied statement attributed to them reads, “Boredom is counterrevolutionary.” An unabashed declarative such as this has always had a special place in my heart. Yet, lately I have been wondering if an obsession with subverting boredom has led us down a rather boring path itself. Especially when it comes to the commercialization of spirituality, perhaps raising our hands and admitting to an excessive ennui is just what we need to do. (more…)
May 14, 2008
For me the term “Christian Rock” has always been synonymous with “bad music.” It’s happy, it’s slightly arrogant in that “I’ve been saved” kind of way, and more often then not it just seems manufactured (think: N’Sync with the Spirit of Jesus running through their veins). But these days I am finding (though I admit I’m slightly skeptical) that as all good well-read twenty-somethings should do, taking an old approach to living and making it radical again is as American as a log cabin in Brooklyn. (more…)
