“Kiss the Sky”, An Excellent “Man’s” Movie with no Guns!

When someone says, ” Oh, That’s a man’s Movie”, Your first thought is Bruce Willis or a twist on 24.  Last night we watched, Kiss the Sky (1998) with William Petersen and Gary Cole. This is a very different movie. On the surface, one thinks here are two 45 year old men going through a mid-life crisis (they are!). Yet, this is such a rare, one of a kind movie, in that the intertwining of their ‘mid-life calling’ leads through the sexual into the spiritual. This is a very profound movie, going so deeply to the core of the natural of reality, the search for G-d within, the juxtaposition of trying to balance Freedom, Family, Sexual desire and Spiritual fulfillment.  I highly recommend it….

A Treatise on Confusion

My teacher used to say:

“Confusion is a high state as long as you don’t stay there.”

Confusion means that something new is coming into our consciousness that we haven’t quite accepted yet. An old thought form or belief system is still in place and we’re not quite ready to let it go.There is a cross over between these two thought energies pulling at our mind.

This is confusion.

It’s a high state because we are moving from an old paradigm into a new one. This is progress, evolution or involution. People who are perpetually confused and confounded are not the subject of this discussion! We are talking about movement into new higher territory and the mental friction that is part of the natural process of getting there.

His Holiness the 14th Dalia Lama Historic Visit to Iowa May 18th 2010

In a historic first time visit to Iowa, His Holiness The Dalai Lama will visit the University of Northern Iowa on May 18, 2010. Two programs will be featured:

Panel Discussion

A Conversation with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet: Educating for a Non-violent World
Tuesday, May 18; 9:30-11 a.m., McLeod Center
Tickets: $15 ; UNI students free

Violence in our schools, communities, workplace and our world affects everyone. Join His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet and distinguished panelists as they discuss ways in which we, as individuals and as a society, can address issues of violence, promote civility and enhance understanding through education.

Keynote Address: The Power of Education

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Tuesday, May 18; 2-3:30 p.m., McLeod Center
Tickets: $50, $25, $15; UNI students free

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will give the keynote address for the 2009 Joy Cole Corning Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series. His speech, “The Power of Education,” will focus on the importance of education in an increasingly global society, the role of education in developing socially responsible citizens, and the impact an individual can have on the world.

http://www.uni.edu/dalailama/

Tickets went on Sale at 8:30 a.m. CST:

http://www.uni.edu/dalailama/tickets

My Birth…

What if I  were to share with you that I remember my Birth…?  The smell of Ether, the tremendous light, the look of absolute exuberant joy as my father looked at me in the nursery for the first time?

I do.

We were all there yet few of us remember. Why and why not?  Is the memory so deeply buried that it takes the unraveling of layers of consciousness to reveal what has always been there? As the conscious mind begins to be make conscious the so called sub-conscious, many fascinating memories are found. Psychologists have been saying for decades that we only use 5-10% of our mind. Are you interested in what’s in the other 90%?  I am.  As a dedicated explorer of the inner and outer worlds…I’m all in!