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• ▼2010 (16)
  • ▼March (4)
    • Tim Nelson on the Hard Crash
    • Beyond the Teaching Drum
    • Wisdom and Profound Perception in Chinese Medicine
    • The Elemental Balance of the Modern Human Race
  • ▶February (9)
    • Evolution of Consciousness: The End
    • An Offer for Those in Need
    • "Fag"
    • Teaching Drum on TV
    • A Quiet Invasion of Greed and Judgment
    • In Business to Fail
    • What Makes Life Meaningful?
    • Toward a Postmodern Folk Magic
    • Crazy Beliefs and Why I Believe Them
  • ▶January (3)
    • The Lure of Special Abilities
    • Paleo Perspectives
    • System of Rules
• ▶2009 (84)
  • ▶December (1)
    • This Sublime Life
  • ▶November (5)
    • The Way of Deception, Part 3: Hyperreality
    • Rolling Thunder Wakes a Girl From a Coma
    • Steven Brust and Neil Gaiman on Classifying Books
    • The Way of Deception, Part 2: All Things Deceive
    • The Way of Deception, Part 1
  • ▶October (10)
    • My Career in Public Speaking
    • Sticking to their Guns
    • Blog Update: Seeking Initiation into the Great Mystery, in a World of Sublime Violence
    • I fixed my computer
    • On Beauty, Tragedy, and Love
    • On Meanness, Judgment, and Tough Love
    • The Spirit of Capitalism
    • The Heart and the Rhythm of Earth
    • Rhapsody in Blue
    • Jugaad: Ingenuity in the Face of Adversity
  • ▶September (7)
    • Spiritual vs. Material Survival
    • Absorbing Sick Qi
    • Getting to Know the Local Dead
    • The Great Mystery: An Invisible Order
    • Business as a Spiritual Journey
    • Higher Order
    • Side with the Living
  • ▶August (10)
    • The Great "Wallyworld" High Level Teachings
    • The Extraordinary Physical Abilities of the Mongols
    • Fitness: Purpose and Philosophy
    • The Liminality of the Body
    • Power in the Margins
    • Stillness-Movement Qigong
    • The Wasteland of Modern Life
    • The Main Problem With Marketing Tactics ...
    • Childhood and Trauma
    • Influence and Liminality
  • ▶July (3)
    • The Great Mystery: Communion
    • Voices in the Land
    • A Note on Living Life
  • ▶June (13)
    • All Behavior is Manipulation
    • The Bard and Personal Magnetism
    • A Bard's Life For Me
    • Cultural Fitness
    • Adaptation is Contamination?
    • Fitness
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 7: The Hermetic Tradition and Oriental Medicine
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 6: Energy Healing
    • A Year of Medical Chi Kung, Addendum
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 5: The Toltecs
    • A Year of Medical Chi Kung
    • Which You? Which World?
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 4: Primitive Skills and the Native Way
  • ▶May (8)
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 3: Tibetan Buddhism in India
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 2: The Seth Material
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Part 1: Growing Up Christian
    • My Spiritual Autobiography, Introduction
    • The Tyrant of Life
    • Study = Fail
    • Transitioning to Real Life
    • The Petty Tyrant
  • ▶April (4)
    • No Means No
    • Leaping into the Unknown
    • Reset
    • Identity Crisis
  • ▶March (6)
    • Joy in Being Animal
    • Animal Nature
    • Living the Myth, Part 2: Spiritual Hypoglycemia
    • Hypoglycemia
    • The Mysteries of Blood
    • I love geek humor
  • ▶February (8)
    • Money as the Flow of Relationship
    • Money and the Crisis of Civilization
    • Slumdog Millionaire
    • The Monster Under the Bed
    • The Corrupting Effect of Money
    • One-Finger Shooting Zen
    • I'm really tired
    • Thoughts from a homeless guy now that I'm back on my feet
  • ▶January (9)
    • Disregard
    • The 100-Year-Old Energy Vampire
    • Interview at Teaching Drum
    • Violence: A Moral Theory
    • The Scope of Violence
    • Hiding in the Shadows of the Warrior
    • Pseudo-Review: The Secret
    • Review of a Psychic: Erin Pavlina
    • The World of Forms, Part 4: Growing Beyond Obsolete Boundaries
• ▶2008 (60)
  • ▶December (7)
    • Healing Acute Injuries With the Mind
    • The World of Forms, Part 3: Learning the Dance
    • The Ethics of Wealth and Success
    • The World of Forms, Part 2
    • The World of Forms, Part 1
    • Graduation
    • Ending
  • ▶November (5)
    • On Prayer and Worship
    • Thoughts on Participation and Evocation
    • Stamina and Qigong
    • Health Check
    • Learning to Stand
  • ▶October (8)
    • The Great Mystery: Perceiving the Beauty of This World
    • The Great Mystery: Perceiving the Dishonesty of This World
    • Love Transforms
    • Sexual Orientation
    • Unmasking Complicity to Oppression
    • War On Ourselves
    • Just Resistance
    • Your God Will Be My God
  • ▶September (2)
    • Home
    • Pause
  • ▶August (4)
    • Major Life Decision
    • Down the Rabbit Hole
    • Pedagogy in Lalaland
    • Training in Medical Qigong
  • ▶July (9)
    • The Great Mystery: The Ecstatic Connection
    • "My Life Since Getting Out of Prison"
    • Reflections on Clinic: Passing a Landmark
    • Reflections on Clinic: Chasing Glory
    • Languages of the World, Part 2: Human and Nonhuman
    • What is God?
    • But the birds will stay, singing
    • Languages of the World, Part 1
    • The Map Is Not The Territory
  • ▶June (8)
    • A World Made of Stories
    • The Narratives of Martial Arts Traditions
    • The Surgery Was a Success, but the Patient Died
    • Emulating Evil
    • Transcendence and Immanence
    • Desert Sustainability
    • Fork in the Road
    • Graduating from Toyohari Basic Training
  • ▶May (4)
    • Absorption of Psychic Energy: A Digestive Analogue
    • A Magical Approach
    • My Cup Runneth Over
    • Random Celebrity Encounter
  • ▶April (1)
    • Flows of Energy
  • ▶March (2)
    • Stranded and Desperate
    • That's So Cool
  • ▶February (4)
    • Clinical Failures
    • The Constant Dying of Things
    • New Blog: Health Beyond Civilization
    • Tobacco Dream
  • ▶January (6)
    • Separating Pure From Impure
    • The Ecology of Success
    • Getting Down to Business: A Beginning
    • The Great Mystery: A Moment of Intuition
    • The Great Mystery: Notes from Rudolf Steiner
    • Divine Love
• ▶2007 (63)
  • ▶December (10)
    • The Great Mystery: The Ecstasy, Beckoning
    • The Great Mystery: The Perception of Essential Meaning
    • Firsthand from Pakistan
    • The Great Mystery: Vibrations and Ripples
    • Moment
    • Rough Vibrations
    • Ishkode
    • "Town Doesn't Exist": A Critique of the Wilderness Guide Program
    • Fluidity and Structure
    • The Four Pillars of Diagnosis
  • ▶November (7)
    • One Missed Opportunity
    • Dr. John Shen
    • Living the Myth, Part 1: A Sense of Story
    • Encounter with a Psychic
    • Orienting to the Physical
    • Rewilding in One Picture
    • The Great Mystery, Part 4: Imprisoned Beneath the Vast Sky
  • ▶October (3)
    • Gripe Sheet
    • Symbolic Communication
    • Not I, But God Through Me
  • ▶September (3)
    • The Great Mystery, Part 3: Shall We Dance?
    • One Small Step For a Man
    • Website Update: Final Move
  • ▶August (6)
    • Adventuresome Acupuncture
    • Ritual
    • Website Update: Shifting Colors
    • A Place to Be Sacred
    • Power In Failure
    • Meaningful Life
  • ▶July (4)
    • "Why Do They Hate Us?"
    • The Dying of the Bees
    • Listening to the Energy of Life
    • Healing Miracles
  • ▶June (7)
    • Stance Training
    • Chess Master
    • Mystery Lives in the Generosity of the Obvious
    • Community
    • The Threat of Human Space
    • Experiences in Human Space
    • A Space to Be Human
  • ▶May (3)
    • A Debate on Primitivism and Agriculture
    • An Obsession with Cleanliness
    • First Week of Clinic
  • ▶April (7)
    • The Experience and Flow of Vital Energy
    • A Hiatus on Shaolin Kung Fu
    • Mindfulness
    • Crossroads
    • How I Feel, Illustrated
    • Peace, Be Still
    • Developing Perception
  • ▶March (2)
    • The Storm
    • Getting Down to Business, Part 2: The Villain's Quest
  • ▶February (4)
    • From a Welfare Kid
    • Evolution of Consciousness, Part 6: The End of the Beginning
    • Evolution of Consciousness, Part 5: Rudolf Steiner's Perspective
    • Evolution of Consciousness, Part 4: Trans-Tribalism
  • ▶January (7)
    • Evolution of Consciousness, Part 3: Fall From Grace
    • Evolution of Consciousness, Part 2: The Value of Prepersonal Consciousness
    • Evolution of Consciousness, Part 1: The Point of Civilization
    • The "Chunk" Model of Psychophysical Space
    • Freedom From Myth?
    • Getting Down to Business, Part 1
    • Freedom From Myth
• ▶2006 (37)
  • ▶December (5)
    • I Hate Nature
    • A Sense of Place
    • It Works!
    • Myths of My Future
    • John Michael Greer on Activism, Magic, and Genuine Transformation
  • ▶November (4)
    • The Great Mystery, Part 2: Dancing With the Hurricane
    • Jacques Ellul on Propaganda
    • Authentic Politics
    • Window into the Body
  • ▶October (5)
    • The Great Mystery
    • You Create Your Own (Dangerous) Reality, Part 2
    • You Create Your Own (Dangerous) Reality, Part 1
    • General Zod Rules
    • Connection
  • ▶September (3)
    • Seeking Life Within Death
    • Jury Duty
    • Building Vitality through Shaolin Kung Fu
  • ▶August (3)
    • Living in the World, Part 3: Facing the Future
    • The End of Year One
    • Life is simpler when you're a pirate
  • ▶July (3)
    • Supercharged
    • Thought-Forms and the Cleansing of the Soul
    • The Discipline of Relaxation
  • ▶June (2)
    • Perception and Integrity
    • Website Update
  • ▶May (3)
    • The Other Self
    • The Importance of Diagnosis
    • Getting Acquainted with the Pulse
  • ▶April (3)
    • The Spirituality of Power: Hidden Forces
    • Living in the World, Part 2: Seeking the "Primitive"
    • Website Update: edge-of-grace.com
  • ▶March (1)
    • Healing, Character, and the Elements
  • ▶February (3)
    • Healing, Karma, Perception, and Being
    • Eyesight Improvement
    • Living Medicine
  • ▶January (2)
    • The Coming of Deindustrial Society: A Practical Response
    • Living in the World, Part 1
• ▶2005 (75)
  • ▶December (6)
    • Karma and the Plumbing
    • Responsibility and Relationships
    • The Songlines of Acupuncture Meridians
    • The First Hunt: A Story
    • A Good Fit
    • A Vague Vision
  • ▶November (2)
    • Becky Reynolds
    • On Skepticism of Oriental Medicine
  • ▶October (9)
    • Real Learning
    • The Alexander Technique
    • On the Nature of Karma
    • I Don't Hear So Good
    • I wonder if I'm ever a punchline ...
    • What is Balance?
    • The Old Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
    • Repossessing the Body
    • Recovering Qi
  • ▶September (5)
    • Settling in for the Storm
    • Awakening the Senses
    • Paradigm Shock
    • "This is criminal."
    • Hard Realities in the Aftermath of Katrina
  • ▶August (4)
    • The Hurricane
    • Entry
    • Lurching Forward
    • The Valley of the Shadow of Death
  • ▶July (8)
    • The Living Dead and the Wild Within
    • False Gods of the Flesh
    • Toxic Sludge is Good for You!
    • Embarking on an Education in Chinese Medicine
    • Finding the Ground
    • Moving to Florida
    • I'll Take Irony for $180 Billion
    • Power Is That Which Endures
  • ▶June (18)
    • Subliminal Lovin'
    • Preparing to Move
    • The Spirituality of Nonviolence: On Not Becoming What We Hate
    • Health and Enlightenment
    • A Chance Encounter
    • The Essence of Ninjutsu
    • The Spirituality of Power: Return to the Martial Arts?
    • One Year of Marriage
    • The Spirituality of Power: The Transformation of Violence
    • Power
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 8: The Road Home
    • Accepting the Real
    • Naïveté
    • The Death of a Student
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 7: Engaging the Violence Within
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 6: Revisiting the Martial Arts
    • Vision, Reading, and Plundering Ourselves
    • Obsessions
  • ▶May (10)
    • The Art of Nothing
    • Trash
    • The Mysticism of the Arts
    • A Year in the Woods
    • The Christian and the Occult
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 5: Living the Lie
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 4: A Short Biblical Interlude
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 3: Consensual Psychic Reality and the Domination System
    • Spirituality is competitive after all ...
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 2: The Myth of Redemptive Violence
  • ▶April (8)
    • The Conscious Use of Stories
    • The Spirituality of Violence, Part 1: Violence and the Martial Arts
    • Self-Expression
    • The Infinite Consciousness Within a Word
    • On Christianity
    • Discovering the Magic and the Meaning in the Mundane
    • A little death
    • The Mental Roots of Physical Health
  • ▶March (5)
    • Counterphobia to Catastrophe
    • The Spiritual Lessons of Traffic Jams
    • Love
    • End of the Oil Age
    • Transitions
• ▶2004 (5)
  • ▶November (1)
    • Autumn Update
  • ▶July (1)
    • Conjugal Bliss
  • ▶June (1)
    • Countdown to the Beginning
  • ▶April (2)
    • Suicide and Karma
    • The Paths of Health
• ▶2003 (14)
  • ▶November (2)
    • The Game of Power, Part Deux
    • Reflections on the Matrix Movies and Stories in General
  • ▶October (2)
    • The Game of Power
    • Witnessing to the Devil
  • ▶September (1)
    • Science as Pseudoscience
  • ▶August (2)
    • who reads this anyway?
    • Getting Down to Business
  • ▶June (1)
    • The Pendulum Swings ...
  • ▶April (2)
    • Meditation
    • The Trail to Oriental Medicine
  • ▶March (1)
    • Judging Taiwan
  • ▶February (2)
    • The Five Movements of the Shaman
    • Engagement!
  • ▶January (1)
    • Transition and Renewal
• ▶2002 (11)
  • ▶December (3)
    • Controlling Parents
    • Pain and Family
    • Winding Journey
  • ▶September (1)
    • New Mexico College of Natural Healing
  • ▶July (1)
    • Moving On
  • ▶April (2)
    • Day 355: The Beyond
    • Day 352: Welcome to the End.
  • ▶March (2)
    • Day 330: Winter Report
    • Day 314: Approaching the Finish Line
  • ▶January (2)
    • Day 283: Tracking
    • Day 271: The Beginning of Something Wonderful
• ▶2001 (35)
  • ▶December (3)
    • Day 245: The Violence of Civilization
    • Day 239: Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles
    • Day 238: Holiday "Break"
  • ▶November (3)
    • Day 219: The Coming of the Snows
    • Day 211: Whither Civilization?
    • Day 197: Vision Quest
  • ▶October (2)
    • Day 177: Sweat Lodge
    • Day 167: Circle Talk with Tamarack
  • ▶September (2)
    • Day 149: May We Live in Interesting Times
    • Day 136: Rejuvenated
  • ▶August (4)
    • Day 125: Truthspeaking
    • Day 115: Group Photo
    • Day 110: I tanned a hide and all I got was this ... tanned ... hide ...
    • Day 104: Night of the Raving Deer Butcher
  • ▶July (3)
    • Day 89: Interim
    • Day 75: Languishing in Boredom
    • Day 71: Confusion
  • ▶June (2)
    • Day 49: War on Sugar
    • Day 40: Activities
  • ▶May (3)
    • Day 26: Introduction to the Community
    • Day 21: Food, Water, and Shelter
    • Day 15: Psychological Threshold
  • ▶April (6)
    • Day 5: First Steps
    • Transition
    • Arrival
    • Entering the Abyss
    • Donations?
    • The Home Stretch
  • ▶March (3)
    • Renewing Commitment
    • Goodbyes
    • The inaugural post
  • ▶February (4)
    • Final Countdown
    • Adventures in Breathing
    • Memories of Being Gifted
    • Development in Childhood
• ▶2000 (16)
  • ▶December (2)
    • Magic
    • Wanderings
  • ▶November (1)
    • Flat Screens, Dead Heads
  • ▶October (2)
    • Ruthlessness
    • Emergence
  • ▶September (2)
    • Threshold
    • Metamorphosis
  • ▶May (2)
    • Hiatus
    • nothing of note
  • ▶April (1)
    • The Darker Half
  • ▶March (3)
    • Dungeons & Dragons Forever
    • Sexual Mess
    • How to Develop Discipline How to Get By
  • ▶February (2)
    • Inconsistencies
    • Random Thoughts Because I Am Too Busy to Write a Real Musing
  • ▶January (1)
    • Awkward Memories
• ▶1999 (8)
  • ▶December (3)
    • A Look from the Outside
    • An Interview with Dr. Wuggles
    • Reality Creation and Guilt
  • ▶November (2)
    • I Believe
    • Go to College! Waste Your Life!
  • ▶October (2)
    • Young Love
    • Paths With Heart
  • ▶September (1)
    • Welcome to the Edge

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