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| Occupation | Day job: I work with individuals with disabilities and as a philosophical counselor. Passion: writing, philosophical research, hiking |
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| Location | Philomont, VA, United States |
| Introduction | I love the great outside---the worlds that shake my world. My passion and liability are philosophy. I have had a long abiding interest in Eastern approaches to nonduality and especially appreciate Derrida's form of deconstruction. I lived in an ashram for several years. I am lover of the great mystery--the depth that breaths us. This is why I love the great outside --the large, the wild. It exceeds my sense of "mineness"--rupturing my own feeling of presence with the mystery of the Other that both ever exceeds me yet is not separate. In this line I am pursuing an inquiry into the philosophy of technology which includes: abstraction, cognition, freedom, spontaneity, spectrality, 'the' wild and embodiment. In addition to hopefully beginning PhD studies this year, I also hope to make it back to Nepal in the next few years, hike a significant portion of the AT and perhaps climb Mt Rainer. |
| Interests | philosophy, reading, writing, hiking, being with my children |
| Favorite Movies | Never Cry Wolf, Razors Edge. Why Did the Bodhi Dharma Leave for the East?, Nasfaratu, The Fountain, Cloud Atlas, 127 Hours |
| Favorite Music | Classical, ambient, off-beat and anything unusual, Mateo Monk |
| Favorite Books | Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness, Being and Time, The Nothingness Beyond God, Origins and HIstory of Consciousness, The Every Present Origin, Of Grammatology, Margins of Philosophy, Speech and Phenomena, Dune series, Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars |
O man, take care! What does the deep midnight declare? " I was asleep— From a deep dream I woke and swear:— The world is deep. Deeper than day had been aware. Deep is its woe— Joy—deeper yet than agony: Woe implores: Go! But all joy wants eternity— Wants deep, wants deep eternity." --Nietzsche, Zarathustra