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Sunday
07Mar2010

New Music Monday /// Recover Mix - DJ Henry Still, Brooklyn NYC

Happy Monday peoples... This week's new music is brought to you yet again by the one DJ Henry Still, a true NYC underground veteran whose signature sound of old school house vibes, moody feelings and seasoned dance sense has been seriously catching my ear as of late.

This mix is straight up awesome and reminds of peak hour moments (especially the first few tracks) on the floor when music, DJ and crowd are one. Times when you remember that heaven is only a breath away.

Enjoy this week's free music mix and definitely let me know what you think.

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DJ Henry Still Official Website (where you can subscribe to his podcast of new mixes)

Download this mix as a high-quality mp3 and play it later

Thursday
04Mar2010

Homework for The Children: Create A Juicier World Story

There's a lot happening now in America that can cause a lot of people with good hearts and common sense enough to know that there is a better way, to get seriously angry and rail against everything that is 'wrong' and 'unjust.' While the feeling is certainly justiifed, it leads to self-defeating actions that go to serve the agenda of the other side.

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Monday
01Mar2010

New Music Monday /// Free DJ Mix - DJ Henry Still, Brooklyn NYC

 

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You're going to love this smart, slick and rolling non-stop mix recorded live in Brooklyn, NYC by my long time friend, DJ/Producer Henry Still.

True to his style, this is a way deep mix of minimal, tribal tech house that I've been listening to continuously day after day. The mix grows on you with its discerning, futuristic track selection, seamless mixing, and impeccable sound quality brought to you by an underground veteran.

Enjoy the groovy, soulful, and sometimes haunting journey that the one DJ Henry Still leads you on.

DJ Henry Still - The Fun Daze Mix

DJ Henry Still Official Website (where you can subscribe to his podcast of new mixes)

Wednesday
24Feb2010

Give Me Gift or Give Me Death

"Coin-Operated Laundr-O-Mat"

Passing by a laundromat the other day, these words caught my eye like never before.

I thought to myself, "That's it! That sums up it perfectly."

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Tuesday
23Feb2010

The Ancient Art of Burning Sage 

The ritual burning of herbs and herbal resins is common to many cultures in the world. From the rich frankincense of the Church and the Middle Eastern bazaar, to the heady incenses of Asia, to the raw energy of brush burning in many native cultures—the purification of space through this modality is a global phenomenon and one you can benefit from highly.

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Monday
22Feb2010

Free Underground House Music from DJ Tedd Patterson, Vibal NYC

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I've had the mix below on non-stop rotation for the past few days and have been loving it.

Why?

Tedd is one of those rare music artists that still pours his heart and soul into his art. Of course, I adore the minimal, tribal tech house that he has molded together into an uplifting, groovy and amazing listening experience.

Don't sleep on New York City's finest underground.

Look for Pt. 2 of the journey coming soon. Enjoy.

DJ Tedd Patterson Vibalcast 001 Jan. 20 2010 

Peep my man doin' his thing live at Club Cielo.

DJ Tedd Patterson Official Website

Sunday
21Feb2010

What Google Teaches Us About Being AW.SM

Ask any blogger, online business owner or marketer what they want most for their website and you are inevitably going to hear a chorus of the same response, "more qualified traffic from Google."

More qualified traffic equals more success, more money, more of whatever it is that they want. As David Ogilvy, founder of the legendary advertising firm would say, "you don't save souls in an empty church." 

Le Web has empowered the everyday individual in a way never before seen. It gives out free microphones and speakers and allows anybody with access to its network to broadcast a message to the entire world. As such, the path to success has done an about face from the way it used to be.

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Wednesday
17Feb2010

Chopsticks: The Choice of a Jedi

 

"The honorable man … allows no knives on his table." — Confucius

If you've ever watched someone grossly shoveling down food with a fork, or stabbing at their plate with one, you may notice there is something vaguely sadistic in the design—so much so that I regularly exchange my fork for a spoon, or better yet a pair of elegant and graceful chopsticks.

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Saturday
13Feb2010

The Most Important and Overlooked Keys You Need to Know to Be Free Now

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." — Albert Einstein

Let's face it. The utopia of fully realized human potential, truth, unity and life lived in harmony with nature that echos in our minds from some distant land, is not here yet and won't be here for many thousands of years. 

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Monday
01Feb2010

Top 3 Worst and Most Self-Defeating Mistakes New Agers and World Savers Make.

First things first, let's get an idea for who these so called new agers and world savers I'm referring to are. I'm sure you know a few...

Typically, they:

  • Are perennially perky, positive people who see nothing but love and light, and encourage you to do the same even in your darkest hour.
  • Are obsessively concerned with their carbon footprint (and yours) and bandy buzz words around like "sustainable," "organic," and "green."
  • Follow Indian gurus, silently hold that theirs is better than yours, and tell you that "we're all one."
  • Sometimes can't be around your "negative vibe."
  • Preach that vegetarian, vegan, and raw diets are far superior to any other.
  • Tell you as you face foreclosure or other such crisis that you created the situation with a choice and a choice will get you out of it.
  • Market pseudo-scientific healing techniques, and for $100/hr., will perform a "remote healing" for you.
  • For hefty sums will "coach" you to realize your dreams through the power of your thought alone.
  • Seem to have every answer to every existential question, yet their answers sound strikingly familiar to every stanza in The Power of Now.

You get the idea. 

Actually, many of these people are really well intentioned but often commit atrocious mistakes that render their efforts to help others and make the world a better place ineffectual (and sometimes perilously harmful). Here's the top 3 worst and most self-defeating mistakes they make:

#3 — Confuse Charity for Vanity.

"Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, do not know." — The Tao

You could also call this politics disguised as compassion. The classic example is the marketer seeing opportunities in the $11B self-help industry who pretends to be a healer to turn a profit. It's the humanitarian who travels to foreign lands to "help," but really is there to push a personal agenda or for a photo opportunity to further a career. 

#2 — Project Personal Issues On the World.

"Let him that would move the world, first move himself." — Socrates

The vast majority of new agers and world savers have not done their own inner work and carry deep pain from unresolved childhood issues. So now it becomes their job to heal others and the world, which is really just a coping strategy for avoiding their own shadow ... their own pain. This is why they all seem to live in a one season world of faux happiness, where everything is "all good" and "love and light." 

#1 — Fail to Act.

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." — Edmund Burke

Most new agers and world savers though knowing every answer to every existential question can't seem to cross the bridge from knowing to action. It's one thing to say "we're all one" and entirely another to act on this understanding. Indeed many decry Big Brother and the evil of the establishment, yet continue on in their smiley one season world without ever doing a thing about it.

(Interesting sync after publishing this post was reading this NY Times article.)