Mar 15, 2020
EVERY BEING HAD BECOME A BUDDHA
when I learned about Kleishas or Structural defects of the minds (in KL in 2009), I thought of the wonderful times I had spent in the most Buddhist country on…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Oct 15, 2019
THE MYTHICAL WORLD SINCE OCTOBER 5, 2019
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Since October 5 th , 2019, I have been on a high emotional ride, things which seems unconnected are truly related to…
Oct 15, 2019
EVERYTHING IS RELATED . MITAKUYE OYASIN INDIANS SAY WE ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO DECIPHER IT
A BUDDHIST monk appears at the hotel where I was staying at Fort Cochin in Kerala, India He is a Geshe, just one year short of becoming a monk. He…
Oct 15, 2019
CASUALIDAD NO ES TAN CASUAL . COINCIDENCES DO NOT EXIST A STORY FROM FORT COCHIN KERALA
I am not sure when I first heard the phrase, Coincidences do not exist but much sonorous in Spanish, Casualidad no es tan Casual..but one thing for sure. It was…
Jun 15, 2019
SADHGURU ON BEING YOUR OWN DIRECTOR OF LIFE . MY COMMENTARY ON THE FOLLOWING BLOG
0 0 1 612 3492 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 29 8 4096 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE When a drama happens, there are three…
Jun 15, 2019
WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN 3 AM AND 4 AM . AN YOGIC AND AN ENDOCRINOLOGICAL EXPLANATION
American Indians consider the earth to be an extension of their bodies and try to coordinate their bodies with the movements of planets and also the rhythm of the seasons.…
Jun 15, 2019
A WONDERFUL RELAXING DAY IN SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
Most visitors to Siem Reap are here to see the magnificent archeological ruins, Angkor Wat and hundreds of other hindu-buddhist temples dating back to 9th to 11th centuries. I am…
Sep 15, 2018
NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE MUSIC AND BLOOD PRESSURE
There is a variety of reasons why people get high blood pressure HBP. The history of 130/80 as the normal (which was revised in 2017 to 120/80 as being the…
Aug 15, 2018
EGO THE CONTROLLER OF OUR AVERSIONS AND ATTACHMENTS AND DESIRES
I still remember that evening very clearly, at the restaurants just across the International bridge from Eagle Pass, Texas..perhaps its name was El Modelo? in Piedras Negras in Coahuila, Mexico..…
Apr 15, 2018
THE TOUCH: THE SCIENCE, THE PHILOSOPHY AND THE MYSTIC
HUMAN TOUCH as a mystic, therapeutic and culturally relevant symbol, is receiving some scientific attention as well. I have just left Cuba and one of the first things I note…
Mar 15, 2018
INVOLVEMENT AT WORK : THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY
INVOLVEMENT AT WORK: WHERE THE BORDERS BETWEEN WORK, SOCIETY AND JOY MELT AWAY, TOUCHING ON THE SPIRITUAL WORLD I am at a purpose built office building in a small town…
Mar 15, 2018
THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: MUNCHING OF KUALA LUMPUR AND SADHGURU
Mun Ching Yong has been a friend of mine for over a decade when we met on an Air Asia Flight to Siem Reap from Kuala Lumpur in February 2008.…
May 15, 2017
ONE DAY IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, TRULY ASIA 10 MAY 2017
I chose the right place to come, to get away from the conflicts and confusions in Brussels and Miami. Here I can be myself, don't have to put up any…
May 15, 2017
QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA TO KUALA LUMPUR SEAT 1 F 9 MAY 2017
QATAR AIRWAYS Flight from Doha to Kuala Lumpur 9 May 2017 I like it when they put this calming Quranic verse just before the planes leave the gate. I assume…
Apr 15, 2017
THE MOVEABLE FEAST OF LA HABANA COMES TO MIAMI
Miami has always been a soothing balm to my soul, it was a love at first sight when I arrived in USA to do my post graduate studies. Friends have…
Feb 15, 2017
SADHGURU’S TEN TIPS FOR HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
Like many other things, Philosophy also arrived by the back door in my life. Never took a course in Philosophy but sitting on the banks of the River Seine in…
Jan 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF 2016 WELCOME TO CUBA
Life is not about the regrets about the PAST nor about the anxieties of the FUTURE. As I sit here at the Admirals Club at Heathrow Airport in London, I…
Jan 15, 2016
IF YOU WISH TO BE HAPPY PRACTICE COMPASSION, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE OTHERS HAPPY PRACTICE COMPASSION
Yesterday I was watching a TED talk video from the director of the Harvard Project , which had followed a cohort of people in Boston, including Harvard College students 1938,…