my guiding principle

Our ego minds want us to stay victims and blame someone or something outside ourselves. But, our higher selves want us to see our own divinity and the divinity in others.

what is actually dying when we die?

Ah, what a grand question. Terrifying, unanswerable, not worth thinking about? Not sure. My views on the subject continue to evolve but for the moment I would classify them as the belief in infinite possibilty. That is, when one dies, it is only the end of the physical body and it's capability to function. Everything and anything else is possible. Maybe the grand finale is merely a transfer/explosion/reformation of our enegry/soul/being. 

This poem was written in 1932 by a Mary Elizabeth Frye and I think it's beautiful 

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there; I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow,

I am the sun on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning’s hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight.

I am the soft star-shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there; I did not die.

female hysteria

It's true: 'Female Hysteria' was once a classifiable medical condition. It's roots go way back to the time of Plato who first introduced the idea that a woman's uterus travels throughout her body as if it were a living creature. The Greek word for uterus is hysteria; So I guess this explains explains the usage of the word today. Women who suffered from such uncontrollable hysteria would regularly undergo pelvic massages for their treatment. These 'massages' were performed by a physician who worked diligently to stimulate the woman until she reached "hysterical paroxysm" A.K.A..orgasm!

It was believed to be a disease that was caused by sexual deprivation and particularly passionate women were often affected.. whatever that means. It was also commonly associated with virgins, nuns and widows. The chaise lounge (you know, that fancy chair thing) was originally known as the fainting couch and was invented to soften the fall the crazies as they reached hysterical paroxysm.

Physicians and in later years, midwives became burdened with the amount of treatment needed by all these hysteric women and in 1873 the first electro-mechanic vibrator was used at an asylum in France for the treatment of hysteria.

and the rest is history.. 

sounds

what i've been playing lately

supakitch & koralie do sick art

this should lighten your day

What if we all felt the rush that comes from alleviating our fears and twisted perceptions, experience talking with an openness and listening with one too? What if we didn't pretend that everything bubbling underneath the surface of each and every person wasn't there? For every word that is said each day there are a multitude of words that couldn't make it past lips and are left to boil in the confines of every guarded mind. Don't forget you don't know anyone and that everything that's ever been said is untrue. It can't be true because it only exists inside of me or you.

Solipsism

Solipsism:
Is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist; it's a position that knowledge of anything outside one's own specific mind is unjustified. The term comes from Latin solus (alone) and ipse (self)....