ted garrison
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Boulder, Colorado, United States |
| Introduction | I was born and raised in India as a sixth generation missionary's kid. (Don't give up.) How I came into the world involves all the drama Bollywood is well known for. What sounds like a tragic story is still the ground of meaning for my life. Hope is born in such strange ways. A year before I was born my dad was having an affair with a pretty blond missionary in another village, about a hundred Kilometers away. He had to get rid of my mom, so he pushed her over a cliff in Mussoorie, North India and went down to smash her head with a rock. He left her for dead. She was miraculously rescued and put into a body caste for at least a month. When the body caste came off, they had sex in a crazy fit of reconciliation and I was conceived. Today I am ok with shame and guilt, but I have learned that Blame is always excessive and yet the root of The Human Condition - an exciting story that ends and ends in our time! I am the guy who knows where there is blame there is need for forgiveness and a story in which meaning might be found. This blog is my way of expressing gratitude for being plugged into this dream to play a role. |
| Interests | The Kabbalah, The Flower of Life, The Human Design System, The I Ching, The Enneagram, Contact Improvisation Dance, Voice/Instrumentation, Performance Poetry, Yoga, The Gathering, Bardo Teachings. |
| Favorite movies | The Mission, Elephant Man, My Dinner With Andrea, The Life of Brian, 2001 Space Odyesse, The Mahabarata - Terry Brooks, The Wizard of Oz, The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland, Dude where's my car, The Sound of Music, |
| Favorite music | Beethovan's 9th, The Beetles, Mozart, Bruce Cockburn, Russian Orthodox Choral Music, Africa trance dance rave techno, mushuga, |
| Favorite books | The Torah, The Dead Sea Scrolls/Nag Hammadi Library, The Mahabharata, Western Philosophy, The Quran, Native spirituality, The Tao Te Ching, My poems, The New Testament, The Dhamapada. |
In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?
Who am I? Who are we? What is the story that ends?