The spiritual teacher Don Juan says that there are two worlds – one that we perceive with our five senses, and one that is outside of this sensual reality. The former, which we are all familiar with, is called the Tonal, while the latter, which almost no one can perceive is called the Nagual. Our home, work, exercise, belief system, our relationship with others – these are all part of the Tonal. The power of creation, true knowledge, the “Infinite Source” resides in the Nagual. According to Don Juan, in order to perceive the Nagual we must keep our Tonal perfectly clean. Regularly “sweeping” our Tonal is extremely important. We…
I found myself on the most deserted stretch of beach I know of in the world, near the southern tip of the island of Niijima. There wasn’t another person as far as the eye could see. The still air, the warm autumn sun, the coarse glass sand that coats the skin but brushes away just as easily, the gently lapping waves, the large rock protruding from the water a few hundred meters offshore – these were my companions for the afternoon. I reached a place where I thought I might take a rest. The beach rose up from the water and gradually steepened into a hill, and I wondered about camping…
Last week I had the honor of sharing Kyla’s views on raising twins while still keeping her passion alive in the first Blue Belt video interview. This week we add to the story, presenting Kyla’s responses to my interview questions alongside those of Ellen, friend and single mother in the Philippines. Thanks to both for giving generously of their limited time to share their information with the world.
For this special Mothers Day edition of the Weekly we have a video interview that goes into the practical aspects of the fusion principle. My friend Kyla is a single mother of twins, chef for a household of eight, an accomplished artist (check her work at www.thenerdyhippie.com), and apparently she can even fix your car if you are in the area. It’s a long interview and I will work on writing up a consolidated transcript, but we covered a lot of ground and it is worth checking out if you are interested in how to follow your dreams in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges – by establishing a loving…
Hello again BBL readers. I’m back for my long overdue and hopefully anticipated follow-up to my first and only guest post on the Blue Belt Life blog. It has been nearly a year since I stayed at the Blue Belt household in Tokyo and attempted to adhere to Chris’s strict vegetarian, no alcohol diet. Trips to the farmer’s market at Yurakucho filling backpacks with vegetables, eating rice, homemade butter and concoctions of vegetables that I didn’t know existed and fighting the temptation to go anywhere near meat or booze (although I did eat quite a bit of sushi as Chris conceded going full vegie would be near impossible from my starting…
After discussing the third law of thermodynamics and its relation to human life, consumption, and work, it should be clear why we go through the formidable task of bringing new life into this world. Those who have had the experience can probably comment on the huge energy drain involved – I already feel it in the lead-up to my first attempt. But as fusion is necessary to perpetuate the sun’s life, so it is with ours. Reproduction (the Fusion Principle) It is interesting how human fusion corresponds to hydrogen fusion within the sun. The hydrogen atom contains a proton and an electron, an inner core and an outward projection. Similarly…
Recently we have been looking at human behaviors and their relation to the third law of thermodynamics. The third law explains why we consume, sleep, work, and reproduce, which account for close to all of the behavior we engage in throughout life. We can see how nature mandates these behaviors by looking at the consequences of not engaging in them. Life is a precious and spectacularly improbable gift, and if we violate the laws of nature, the creator of life, we justly relinquish that gift. Specifically, we know that if we stop breathing we will die after a few minutes. If we stop taking in fluids we will die in a few…
I spend most of my time eating, sleeping and working. Intuitively I know there is more to life than this, but this is the current level of my consciousness – thoroughly blue belt. But it is fun, this cycle of life that achieves the dissipation of the sun’s energy but also pushes us forward into new and interesting realms and experiences. Somewhat synchronystically, the same week I chose to write a discourse on our dissipation through work, I participated in an enormously dissipative event – the Tokyo Eco Slow Marathon in Chiba, an hour outside of Tokyo. My good mate A-town and I jogged, walked and flowed a full marathon…
The current topic of discussion is the physical laws of nature and how they dictate our behaviors in the world. Specifically we are looking at the third law of thermodynamics, which we have shown explains the existence of life as we know it. I am attempting to extend from this physical law to a moral law supported in nature, in order to remove the ambiguity that surrounds most moral dogma. Last week we started to look at what behaviors are in harmony with the third law, namely consumption and rest – two of the qualities that comprise the Feminine principle in our nature. Now let’s look at the other half.…
