Posted in Randomness on 10/31/2007 10:18 am by OneMysticalMonkey
Halloween… a day overflowing with history, symbolism, spiritual meaning and festivities… but instead of writing up a serious post about any of that, or railing against the degree of consumerism sweeping many up in the holiday (to the tune of $5B!), I thought some jokes were in order instead (these are kid-safe)!
Hope you like what I’ve dug up (ha ha ha!)…
Why was the mummy so tense? - He was all wound up
What’s a monster’s favorite play? - Romeo and Ghouliet
What kind of mistakes do spooks make? - Boo boos
What’s the ratio of a pumpkin’s circumference to its diameter? - Pumpkin Pi
What are little ghosts dressed in when it rains? - Boo-ts and ghoul-oshes!
How do you stop a werewolf chasing you? - Throw a stick and say fetch!
Who is the most important member of the ghost’s football team? - The ghoulie!
What is a Mummie’s favorite type of music? - Wrap!
What type of monster really loves dance music? - The boogieman!
How can you tell when a vampire has been in a bakery? - All the jelly has been sucked out of the jelly doughnuts.
Be safe, and enjoy the festivities… whether commercial, spiritual, a bit of both, or something else!
Namaste.
Posted in (Re)Examinations on 10/29/2007 07:31 am by OneMysticalMonkey
Our world, as most would agree, is a fast-paced, technologically and mechanically complicated one, with a wide assortment of distractions and entertainments from which to choose. We frequently fill our hours playing video games, surfing the web, or watching mindless drama on television or in the movies. And, like most things these days, these amusements come hand-in-hand with an assortment of biased media, propaganda, marketing ads and other claptrap largely intended to overwhelm us and undermine our self-image, making us vulnerable and desirous to purchase the products placed before us - the marketed “solutions” to the fabricated “issue” or “problem”.
Posted in Activism on 10/26/2007 01:15 pm by OneMysticalMonkey
The United Nations World Food Program presents a two-fold improvement opportunity for “armchair activism”: improve your vocabulary and feed the hungry! This game presents you with a word and four options from which to choose. If you choose the correct meaning for the given word, you get a more difficult word to try next and successfully donate 10 grains of rice to those who need it. If you choose incorrectly, you get an easier word for the next round. The rice donation is paid for by the sponsors whose ads appear (subtly) on the site.
The better your vocabulary, the more grains of rice you donate… enjoy!
Posted in Randomness on 10/24/2007 07:52 am by OneMysticalMonkey
As a metaphysician, I tend to be curious about pretty much everything - including intriguing little quizzes that try to convince me they can discern how my brain works by asking a few simple questions. This is my results:
You are Balanced-brained
That means you are able to draw on the strengths of both the right and left hemispheres of your brain, depending upon a given situation.
When you need to explain a complicated process to someone, or plan a detailed vacation, the left hemisphere of your brain, which is responsible for your ability to solve problems logically, might kick in. But if you were critiquing an art opening or coming up with an original way to file papers, the right side of your brain, which is responsible for noticing subtle details in things, might take over.
While many people have clearly dominant left- or right-brained tendencies, you are able to draw on skills from both hemispheres of your brain. This rare combination makes you a very creative and flexible thinker.
The down side to being balanced-brained is that you may sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision when the two hemispheres of your brain are competing to solve a problem in their own unique ways.
Posted in Monkey business on 10/21/2007 10:19 pm by OneMysticalMonkey
It seems once more I’m in a period of (new) growth and transition… recently (or is that ‘currently’?) mired in the physical, it’s been difficult to find the time to meditate or to blog or, on occasion, even sleep. But being always on the move has provided an opportunity to experience the physical once more in a manner that only serves to emphasize the cyclical nature of spirit-to-physical and back to spirit again. And, I’m beginning to realize that it is part of my particular Path to tread between the two… at least for now.
Posted in Reflections on 10/12/2007 08:56 am by OneMysticalMonkey
“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.”
Posted in Randomness on 10/09/2007 08:45 pm by OneMysticalMonkey
Wow… it has been several days of non-stop running! I’ve barely had time to sleep or meditate (nevermind blog!) but the physical demands its due, so to speak, and it’s all part of the overall cycle. So, that said, and apologies for lack of posting extended, this is a special post on this blog, for it is the 108th. It seemed only fitting to honor the number that through the ages has held a certain significance. Why the number one-hundred-and-eight? Well, to mention only a few references… Read the rest of this entry »
I can not help but to laugh at myself and at how long it has taken to get these five principles posted! I was thinking of giving a brief explanation of Reiki, adding some personal experiences as a healer, maybe a little background on Reiki, or posting the principles as a nice graphic… but some days, it’s more important just to get the essence of a thing accomplished than to let one’s own ego and humanity obsess over the details. Like with Reiki itself, this is not about “me”, it is about Reiki itself. There is a blessing in here somewhere for at least one of you! More on Reiki will be posted another time. These principles can certainly stand on their own! Enjoy.
Namaste, laughing at myself and putting ego back where it belongs!
