A question arose from deep down among the iridescent deep-sea dwellers along the bottom volcanic layer of my unconscious.
The question goes like this:

“What qualities must I incorporate into my essence to make myself a true teacher?”

This led me to ask,

“What qualities have my various teachers shared in common with each other that gave me the [...] Read more »

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Garrett Daun on March 28th, 2009

Today I completed a series of charcoals. I had never used them before today.
Special thanks to E.J. Gold from the IDHHB and GorebaggTV….a Real Can’t-Monster Slayer…
My fingers got raw from smudging on the paper…
Leave me comments with what you like, what sucks, and where to go next.
Also, a very limited amount of these will be [...] Read more »

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Garrett Daun on March 6th, 2009

Yesterday, She and I broke out the Just Because Club book again.

This time, we decided to head downtown to the heart of Eugene, OR for a dice walk. Without giving too much away, let’s just say it surprised both of us.
The exercises in the book have a tendency to create an eerie ambiance. This eerie [...] Read more »

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Garrett Daun on December 17th, 2008

First, a wonderful song in the flavor of Gurdjieff. It’s a bit scratchy, but check out the lyrics, and pretend you are listening to an olde record. Or, better yet, realize the static as outer space sunspot radiation, full of communication…….

I had never even heard of Parker Dickson until today, when, on my second Remote [...] Read more »

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Garrett Daun on December 17th, 2008

At 10:00am today, I did my first Remote Bardo Safari. Instead of trying to explain it to you, I will send you to the site. Click on the words “Remote Bardo Safari” and you can read all about it for yourself.
My Oxford American Dictionary defines bardo as:
bardo |?bär?d?|
noun
(in Tibetan Buddhism) a state of [...] Read more »

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Garrett Daun on November 19th, 2008

Last night, in addition to all the rest of the posts you saw appear here, I did another Just Because Club experiment. This time, the directions were to investigate my bedroom as if it were the room of a stranger, all the while deducing things about the inhabitants by the things in the room, the [...] Read more »

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Garrett Daun on November 15th, 2008

Setting out with a bit of inspiration from the vast and concise wordplay and in-depth consciousness investigation documented and performed by Eric Olson at his site, the Frank Olson Project.
Further, he has put forth a praxis of self-examination, discovery, and transcendence that involves a method of collage. Explore this HERE.
Tonight, I went through the “Collect” [...] Read more »

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