A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single click!

Welcome to my blog! Since this is my first entry, I'll provide the basics and move on to the advanced stuff in later postings.

Ingredients: (Topics to be discussed)

• Enlightenment
• Religion (ancient, pagan, Eastern, Western, modern)
  
• Sex
• Gender
• Fetishes (branching away from "vanilla" sex)
  
• Drugs (tools of the Urban Shaman)
  
• Music
• Poker
  
• Happiness
  
• Success
• Work
  
• Family
  
• World Affairs
• Politics
• History
• Memes
• The Collective Unconcious
• Randomness (as in, non-predictability)
• Intelligent technological consumption
  
• Great Theories from Great Thinkers

... all this and more!!! Should be fun! :) I also plan to include postings on "Things all enlightened creatures should know." These special postings (complete with video and powerpoint!) will be my contribution to all of the souls that have made possible my existence. If you don't know me, think of them as my gift to you.

Who Am I?

Well, that will be fleshed out in many more postings, but let's get a few things out of the way. I was born and raised in the MidWest of America. By the time I was 30, I had a Ph.D. in computer science, a luxury car and home, yet I was not happy. Realizing there was no future for me here, I decided to give up everything (and I do mean everything that Americans come to enjoy and cherish) and move to London, England on a 3-year vision quest for enlightenment. There, my eyes opened.

To put it another way, I embarked on a search for the ulitmate question to life, the universe, and everything. I was the shaolin monk; I had learned everything I could in this land and school system and it was time for me to proceed on to other realms of existence and consciousness.

Now, as Plato has written of Socrates, it is time for me to return to the cave and illuminate the shadows. Of course, I realize that one person's path to enlightenment is just that ... ONE person's path, uniquely my own. However, I hope that by sharing the stories of my life, my friends, my quest, and my ongoing struggles with life in the valley of the masses, you too will find the resources needed to climb your mountain (and find your way back down again!).

Guide to the Guide

If you are of the persuasion to read these entries in chronological order, then you will be happy to learn that I will be writing them in the same way! However, you should also realize that time and space being relative, what I write will not necessarily comply with temporal (or spatial) restrictions. So read front-to-back, back-to-front, or just skip around. I'll try to be friendly to both kinds of readers.

... and writers!!! Please feel free to leave your comments! As we are all in this together, from time to time, I hope to sollicit ideas from you, dear reader, to guide the collective journey.

Discliamer: the names of the innocent will be changed to protect them. No promises for the guilty. ;)