my own closing ceremony

And now that it has been more than a week since the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, things are returning to normal. Classes have started back at UBC and the grind of assignments, lab expectations, long term projects, and midterm exams has provided a nice break from the breakneck pace of the Olympics. Moving [...]

Renewable Energy Won’t Save Us

Renewable energy is often touted as the future because it has lower CO2 emissions or “can solve our energy scarcity problems because it will replace oil”. Unfortunately, renewable energy is far from solving those massive problems. Solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, etc… all require tremendous amounts of oil to get their infrastructure up and running, emitting [...]

Collapse, coming to a theatre near you… hopefully before things fall apart

As independent journalist Michael Ruppert sits in a chair, in a dark room, smoking and saying alarming things my remote desire for business as usual went up in the smoke from the end of his cigarette. I’ve seen Chris Martenson’s Crash Course a few times. I’ve seen the 45 minute version of it too. I’ve [...]

realms of the human unconscious

Maybe we have to be born with an interest in the origin of consciousness, where it resides and how it operates, I’m one of those people. No explanation garnered by science, religion, mystics, or from indigenous wisdom has ever fully approximated what I’ve seen in the world. Transpersonal psychologist Stanislov Grof’s first book, Realms of [...]

leaving North Carolina

Starting Friday, June 26th 2009 my life changed dramatically. I left my job at Duke Energy, I spent a few weeks in western North Carolina at Lake Santeetlah with Jane and her family, I packed up, said goodbye, drove for a month across the US and Canada with my fianceé and @serdmanczyk (Erby), moved to [...]

there will be bison

I’ve finally finished editing all my photos from the road-trip this summer and will put up a series of posts on here to describe the adventure across North America. If you are thinking that might be boring, I’ll whet your appetite with this trailer,

Update: via request from @aernst, for an approximate map of the [...]

a history of integrative plant psychology

On my recent trip to the American Southwest I was thrilled to learn of the prevalence petroglyphs held in the region. Here was an opportunity to see into the actual minds of the humans that forged the original path for our species many generations ago.
When I found my first set of petroglyphs (my photograph above) [...]

A brief look at Taoist Spirituality

On energy work and meditation:
I think all meditations and energy work either break down into additive or subtractive. Like your either adding (developing, building, cultivating) or you are removing (letting go, observing, freeing).
The practices where you remove, you remove thinking, remove attachments, remove blocks, pain etc. This can include energy work which it more often [...]

hope for the future of the emotional psyche

Recently I am challenged to distill the most important aspects of my mind and persona, to detail what my assets are as a human being. At this turning point in my life and career I must ask what I can give to the world, for on this I can base a long successful career not [...]

planning the roadtrip to Vancity

Updated 6/23/2009
Starting at University of British Columbia the first week of September means that it is appropriate for me to begin planning my move out to Western Canada. Jane is on board and will be bringing her car out to the Vancouver area. I will be abandoning my 2000 Saturn SL1, most likely at my [...]