Call it karma, trauma, triggers, or ego… it keeps us from feeling “enough” for Love It’s a matter of time until the tech elite invent a “cum button.” We’ll have our neuralink brain implants splooging dopamine directly into the cortex when we look at ads for Outback Steakhouse. Before we know it, as if our bodies were operated by tiny […]
How contradictory hot-takes aiming to define reality can be simultaneously true. Maybe just for grass-is-greener reasons, with American culture so infamously individualistic, counter-culture spiritual seekers often become infatuated with the Buddhist concept of Anatta. Signifying the metaphysical assertion that it’s an illusion that we’re discrete, separate individuals, Anatta translates, essentially, to “no-self.” In the New Agey subculture to which Liminal Trickster […]
A reliable form of Empty Hands divination Dog Walkin’ Shamanism is a practice inspired by some famous, prolific modern shamans: the writers of the 1985 show MacGyver. MacGyver’s nearly unavoidable in the social ether of pop culture, but let’s back up and refresh your memory. The titular character creatively engineered his way through every episode’s life-or-death predicament. He’d invent these […]
Getting high simply sitting still: a better salve to late-stage Capitalism than Percocet Blissy Meditation isn’t quite the bland corporate mindfulness that will impress your boss via improvements to focus and productivity. On the other hand, it’s not likely to be your ejector seat from reality either. I don’t have the qualifications to know how much assistance it can be […]
Radical Acceptance author, Tara Brach, quotes a Buddhist Nun’s mantra: “Thank you for this experience, I have no complaints.” But is it really right to say that in every circumstance? The worst edge-cases call for something else: they call for Yes-and-ness.
My spiritual teachers are unanimous: there is no “self.” But when we talk about authentic self-expression, aren’t we talking about our outsides reflecting what that illusory inner pilot feels? That’s where I started last night. I finished identifying as non-binary.
When a memory eddies into the present, a dead you is being reincarnated. As I sat quietly the other day—engaged more in “thinking with my eyes closed” than in meditating—an old embarrassment bubbled to the surface and I realized that the “me” who endured that experience is dead…
You can explain New Thought via evolutionary psychology… but project it forward and the Mental Appendage powering New Thought becomes the womb gestating an embryonic God.
See me—this polygnostic worshipper simultaneously convinced of multiple truths; enrapt by Mania, transfixed by Paranoia, and informed by Materialism—a somnambulant groaning and shuffling to the bathroom for a morning piss. A hand flat on the wall. Shoulders slumped. Head hanging limp…
Nineteen year old Freedom blows bubbles infused with catnip and watches Evie bat and boop them out of the air.
The cat is transfixed with the laser focus of an apex predator and, in a similar but less carnivorous way, the bubbles help Freedom expand into the mindful present…