Monthly Archives: September 2008

'Raw Foodist' Or 'Conscious Eater'?

For a while now, & even though I use it to describe myself, I've been both­ered by the term 'raw food­ist'. This breaks down to three main rea­sons: It implies that I only eat raw foods (ie, I'm 100% — & pos­si­bly mil­i­tant about it at that) It misses the whole point of raw (more on

A Trip To 'The Nongs'

Being a busy Thurs­day, I decided what bet­ter to do than bug­ger off out of town & head to the local mountain/forest range. (Some) locals call these "the nongs", but offi­cially they're the Dan­de­nong Ranges. It's about an hours drive east of where I live. Any­way, they're green, and, you know, moun­tainy. That's all I care

A Silly Party Game

I was chat­ting with my sen­sei this evening, and he told me about a party game he learned. I'm sure this is as old as the hills, but it was new to me, and I found it more than a lit­tle eye open­ing. So, I thought I'd share it with you. First of all, grab a

Sweat The Small Stuff

I had a weird dream last night. So, as usual, I tapped on it. Thing is, I could feel that while it was help­ing, it wasn't really get­ting to the root of the prob­lem. In my dream, I dunno, I was in this weird war zone — kindof. I had a gun, there were peo­ple out

Bacon, Bagels & Noodles

A week or so ago I got rid of my final cooked food addic­tion… or so I thought. I'd been read­ing a really inter­est­ing thread on Give It To Me Raw about being addicted to cooked food. At the time I was eat­ing all raw.. except for going out for hot chips, ohhh, 2 or

My First Durian (aka Stealing Alien Babies From The Mothership)

I decided a sunny Sat­ur­day after­noon was the per­fect time to try durian. I'd had a small bite of one before, but was now deter­mined to try the whole thing. Choos­ing, buy­ing, open­ing & hope­fully hav­ing enough nerve to actu­ally eat one. I steeled myself to the dis­tinct pos­si­bil­ity of get­ting part way in &

How To Get What You Want In Relationships (But Not What You Asked For)

I've been giv­ing a lot of thought to how we attract peo­ple into our lives — who we end up in rela­tion­ships with, and so on. This applies both to inti­mate rela­tion­ships, and more impor­tantly friend­ships (since we gen­er­ally have far more & are less dis­crim­i­nat­ing with friends than lovers) It's pretty obvi­ous (in hind­sight)

The Healing Power Of Music

When I was in my early teens, my mother 'encour­aged' me to do three things — take up an instru­ment (gui­tar), learn a lan­guage (French), & do gym­nas­tics. I pretty much sucked at all three of them. I was talk­ing to a friend yes­ter­day about doing some chant­ing (in San­skrit) — the thought of which freaked

Two Approaches to Trans-Humanism (Who Wants To Live Forever?)

Post human­ism is, essen­tially, what it will be like to be "more than human" — ie, what are we going to evolve to next. This could be purely bio­log­i­cal, purely mechan­i­cal, some kind of nano-tech, or a com­bi­na­tion of the lot. Tran­shu­man­ism is more or less syn­onomous with "human enhance­ment". This is the step­ping stone to