This daily journal was written primarily because I well knew that time would force the swiftly passing incidents and impressions to blur each other in my memory.
While soma reinforces the ego's desire for comfort and isolation from truth, the moksha-medicine is designed to dissolve the ego, allowing the individual to see the world without the filters of conditioning.
The Men Who Led Theodore Roosevelt He was born gasping for breath and died in his sleep as the most consequential president between Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.
Aldous, the visionary who had spent a lifetime peering through the doors of perception and mapping the vast territories of the human mind, was now standing at the ultimate threshold.
The dual residency between the lush, spiritual sanctuary of Ojai and the stark, existential laboratory of the Mojave created a new internal topography.