Guest Contributor - Jeremy Funston

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The Pursuit of Happiness

September 4, 2010 - 10:22 am

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When I came across this song by Kid Cudi, I was floored by what a
clear representation it was of our current cultural predicament. It
seems to comment on the search for fame and fortune and materialist
gratification – for ‘happiness’ – and the desperate sense of isolation
and misery that lingers beneath the surface when you’re looking for
meaning [...]

Following Through

August 28, 2010 - 6:26 pm

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After a long day of travel and high-altitude view seeking in the Rockies, we set up camp Thursday night at a basic campground nestled in a mountain valley. After making a fire and enjoying our own version of a campfire dinner feast (mostly beans and burnt veggie sausages) we decided to meditate around the dimming [...]

Letter to Merge

August 26, 2010 - 9:51 am

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Dear Merge,
I’m writing this as the others finish packing up the last of our things; We’re leaving the youth hostel we’ve stayed in the last two nights in Boulder and heading out to explore the rustic terrain of Colorado. It’s been an incredible experience to leave a retreat of such intensity of depth together, [...]

Fate, Synchronicities and Volitionality

June 11, 2010 - 9:02 am

Posted in Andrew Cohen, Consciousness, Culture, EnlightenNext, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Kosmocentric, Postmodernism | 2 comments

For some strange reason, perhaps because I’ve always lived very close to my dreams and authentic creative impulses, I’m someone who’s become accustomed over time to experiencing synchronicities on a regular and ongoing basis. It’s baffled me at times, thinking that there might be something out there talking to me and telling me what to [...]

On Responsibility

November 18, 2009 - 8:03 am

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     “Wow, I love this place!” I thought as an eighteen-year-old newcomer to New York City, having spent the majority of my youth in the quiet nooks and crannies of the Pacific Northwest of the USA, “It’s almost like people come here… and then just never grow up!!”
      It really was an [...]