my knees are bent for you my skin is quiet I shed drops of Witnessing into the waiting of your hands the shadows have ascended silver rays reflected your world is becoming it is in all the voices

here shall words arrive not on my lips, nor yours but still caressed a meeting of sorts out of sorts still always flowing an uncovering of of  what what will your tongue see your eyes hear our heart sing?

Just joined academia.edu - a place specifically for sharing academc-related information, including full papers!  See my page at: http://ciis.academia.edu/SethMiller

The following exercise was proposed: Take the following list, culled from a critique of Ken Wilber's work by philosopher William Irwin Thompson, Coming Into Being and write the opposites. simplistic  how to fix  compulsive mappings  textbook categorizations  control the universe through mapping  dominant masculinist purposefulness  shift power from the described to the describer  psychic inflation and self-magnification  a grand pyramid with the advocate on top  lacking poetic...

I'd like to make a contribution with regards to circularity/linearity, from a geometrical standpoint.  If you don't like geometry, stop reading, or better yet, read with increased intensity. The polarity between circle/line is one that is fundamental to many geometries - they are taken to be quite different logical entities.  Primarily this arises because of...

A professor of mine, Bradford Keeney, offers the following advice: EVERY TIME YOU READ <insert your book here>, INTERACT WITH THE BOOK IN A WAY THAT YOU HAVE NEVER INTERACTED WITH A BOOK:  Some possibilities:  *drill a hole through it *drill other holes  *underline spaces rather than words  *talk to the book  *place book under pillow or bed or tv or...

I updated the main page to load much faster, and created a page of alchemical images: https://spiritalchemy.com/alchemyimages.htm Please beware that the page is LOADED with images, in order that they can be easily browsed, so it may take a minute to load.

Today I put up most of my poems on the site: http://elements.spiritalchemy.com/poetry.html Poetry isn't good for much if it never gets read, so despite the fact that many of these poems are embarrassing for one reason or another, I thought I'd post them as a kind of experiment/record of my own transformation, since transformation is...

Wow - wandering through Powell's books just turned up this gem - perfect for me!  It's a book with an alchemical basis (the chapters are organized by the seven basic alchemical processes), exploring philosophy, science, history, and consciousness...  but what's even better is that the book is very visual and creative.  It includes seven paper...

Finally got around to weeding through recent photos and posting some to Flickr. Most notably, these include a trip to Palm Springs and some amazing flowers at a bed and breakfast (Elements, I believe it's called) on Whidbey Island. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritself Here's a sample:

I have posted the Daisy videos on YouTube, with a few other things that are not here. http://www.youtube.com/arapacana Now all i need is a proper video camera...