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Not Your Typical New Years Article

While your feeds and inboxes are being flooded with articles about new years resolutions, take a quick moment to reflect on 2012.
Can you remember where you were in life at this time last year?
What has changed since then? How have you changed?
Chances are your world has shifted in ways that you never even considered when planning for 2012 a year ago. Perhaps those changes turned out to be even more fantastic than you could have imagined.
In that light, consider this rapturous truth when planning out your new year:

“We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell

I doubt the great Mr. Campbell would recommend dropping all of your resolutions and plans in favor of waiting. He would, however, encourage you to cultivate a sense of openness to what unfolds this year.
If something comes up that at first appears to be an obstacle, give it some time to transpire! If a caterpillar judged his metamorphosis by the first step – being locked up in a cocoon – he would never experience flight.
Embrace the mystery this year! Every happenstance occurence could turn into the reason why 2013 is going to be a magical year for you.
Here’s to you emerging from 2013 with wings :)

"Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?"

 - Leo Buscaglia

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us." 

- Joseph Campbell

Psychedelics Can Expand Your Consciousness

It might seem as though we are all separate, and individual from one another and our environment. While that may appear true and could very well be true in some ways, we are also all connected at the deepest levels of existence. When understanding this, we can look at how we operate daily and begin to ask questions: Why are we so concerned with dominating one another? Why do we strive to be better than others? Why do we chase pieces of paper so that we can have more and more things? Why do we judge one another? Why are we unable to be at peace? (read!)

Are you ready to party tomorrow? :)

I did't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

Pooh's psychedelic nightmare :)

Very cra­zed se­quence wi­th Win­nie the pooh fal­ling as­leep and hal­lu­ci­na­ting ele­phants in very psy­che­de­lic li­ke forms.

"Ah, world, what lessons you 
prepare for us, 
even in the leafless winter, 
even in the ashy city. 
I am thinking now of grief, 
and of getting past it; 

I feel my boots 
trying to leave the ground, 
I feel my heart pumping hard. I want 

to think again of dangerous 
and noble things. I want to be light and 
frolicsome. 
I want to be improbably 
beautiful and afraid of 
nothing, 
as though I had wings." 

 - Mary Oliver, Starlings in Winter

  If you're a nice guy, like me, don't change yourself for her. :D

 

    I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate questions and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.

    I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.

"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘Creation.’" 

 - Sigmund Freud