Saturday XXXXIV: Joy · 8 March 2008
Brother is here now. You don’t even want to know the amazingness of him.
And you will not. He is too fast for internet documentation, and too handsome to be photographed. Also, too good for words.
Thus we are nonverbal. Always have been.
For now I function in eyebrow gestures, pinches, sighs, and single-word exclamations.
You should see the Editor, mister structured-thought man, starving for someone to utter a complete sentence.
Headlines:
● Still having trouble viewing this blog? It's a software issue: i.e., the site purposely doesn't function in that browser. Free firefox.
● The spirulina powder I mentioned two weeks ago: nope. My disgust only increases. It’s BAD. Does this mean I need to do spirulina practice? Did I transcend self-punishing Evangelical Protestantism for nothing? NO! Check it out: I’ve got a fresh $25 jar of this magic that I will happily give you if you live in LA and can hack the powder. Email me.
● Siddhis postcast! Ok, only listen to this if you understand it’s not serious. Great overview of different traditions’ orientations to magick. But overall, X-box is probably better than siddhis.
● Ok, what is serious is this. I’m not even giving you a warning. Read the 5-point manifesto, and the profiles. This is real.
● Daniel Goleman, the emotional intelligence guy, talks about childhood shit and transcending it though reflection and relationships with people who are good to you. Short, revolutionary message. [Via.] “Research absolutely demonstrates that if you take the time to make sense of what happened to you, then you can free yourself up to develop your own sense of security inside of you.”
● CP’s podcast on how to talk about yoga with normal people. First: do not tell them you dedicated a practice to them. Especially if they know you practice in the living room in your underwear.
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Categories: astanga yoga
, esoteric shit
, having a body
, markets-networks-society
, morality
, spirituality
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Wow, the Miss L Project is… astonishing.
...and to depopulate some areas by denying access to water sources and plantations...
Things like that make me wish I were more imaginative.
Posted by: Carl · Mar 8, 05:04 PM · #
Hey, this would be the museum director brother? Hope that’s coming along.
Posted by: jlafitte · Mar 9, 03:54 AM · #
Thanks for the plug! I’m honored to be the first low-brow saturday link.
Have fun with the bro!
cody
Posted by: cody · Mar 9, 06:37 AM · #
wow, Miss L! very very powerful.
as for the spirulina powder, is there a chance that it is ‘off’? if so you can return it. if not, tried it in a smoothie with banana?
Posted by: cranky housefrau · Mar 9, 09:17 AM · #
oh, and i think MOST CERTAINLY you should tell people you dedicate your underwear practice to them! awesome!
Posted by: cranky housefrau · Mar 9, 09:19 AM · #
Hi Jean, yes. This is the man. He is en route from Marfa, Tx, to the new digs in Pdx. Doing performance art things along the way. Marfa has aliens; Portland has vegans. Both are good though.
Miss L is fucking subversive. So many ways you could hate on this project, but I say it works. Apparently the BBC caught on and might do something similar. These women…. Damn.
Tova, spirulina can be “off”? I don’t want to give away “off” spirulina, but I also hesitate to tote it back to my co-op.
I will dedicate a practice to you the next time I do it in my underwear. Shhhhh. Susan, if you don’t watch out you are next. Anyone else for underwear practice?
Do you know that on Facebook you can do the equivalent of a “wink” where you “send someone good karma”?
This is why I am not a member of Facebook. Dedicating practices is as far as I go. I am a serious person, dammit.
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 9, 10:50 AM · #
Miss Landmine: a little torn between positive vibes about agency (“survivor” not “victim”) and deep suspicion about beauty pageantry (agency, yes, but agency via spectacle of THIS order? suspicious suspicious).
Emotional intelligence: always hated the idea, but agree entirely with the article. Know what? I think that I like bits and pieces, but hate overarching paradigms. This fits with all of my criticism of SD, too. Emotions? Great. Intelligence? Wonderful. Dynamics and compassion? Fantastic. Big unified-field theories about the Spirit evolving us? Mythology.
Posted by: patrick · Mar 9, 11:43 AM · #
hi (0v0)
i wrote a lengthy comment over at CP’s blog on that podcast relating a similar story about a folk dancing freak, but blogger ate my comment, so i wrote him offblog.
hugs
arturo
Posted by: arturo · Mar 9, 01:08 PM · #
Allright that’s it, Patrick. I’m throwing down!
Watch out Mister because I’m dedicating tomorrow’s practice straight to you. That quiver you feel in the ether tomorrow at 8 am CST is the evolutionary power of Spirit expanding through its aspen tree roots. Good luck resisting those powers!!!!!
Also, there needs to be a patron saint of lost blog comments. Poor little beings out wandering through the sea of 1s and 0s… it must be lonely. A saint from the Hindu pantheon, maybe?
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 9, 06:30 PM · #
I am sure I can find the patron saint!
I need to meet the Brother. Wow. Big wow.
Posted by: Anna · Mar 10, 05:43 AM · #
he he Anna maybe us interested ladies should find an orderly queue }:-)
Posted by: V · Mar 10, 08:28 AM · #
“form”, I meant “form”. Help, my English is abandoning me.
Posted by: V · Mar 10, 08:29 AM · #
Ha! Yeah, he’s beyond amazing. And probably blushing right now SO MUCH.
But ashtangis should know that even though he is a performance artist, the one time I took him to a Mysore room he found the exhibitionism element thoroughly disturbing.
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 10, 08:40 AM · #
That’s ok, we can leave the exhibitionism to me then }:-D
Posted by: V · Mar 10, 08:44 AM · #
Hee hee.
Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 10, 08:53 AM · #
What exhibitionism element?
Seriously? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in a shala. Excepting during Guruji’s visits, of course.
Posted by: Katie · Mar 11, 07:52 AM · #