The Spirit of Awesomeness

The (Super)Hero’s Journey of Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes a Superhero is born from the depths of loss, grief, depression and even suicide. Sometimes, it takes going to rock bottom to find your deepest purpose for living. And so it is with the towering figure of Buckminster Fuller. Bucky, as he liked to be called, is an amazing story of tragedy and triumph. Seriously, when I learned about the twists and turns of this man’s life, I felt humbled and awed by who this man decided to become,...

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Mr. Rogers–The unique philosophy of a real-Life Superhero

So, this is obviously a man that needs no introduction. Furthermore, this is a man that spoke more eloquently than I do; so I will save you from trying to give my own voice to his deep philosophy of love, acceptance, peace and justice, and let him speak for himself. The guiding philosophy of Mr. Rogers: • We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not...

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Your inevitable yoga ceiling, and how to shatter it

It’s Inevitable At a certain point in your yoga journey, you will reach this transition. For some sooner; for others later. But you will reach it. Let me give a context: Defined one way, yoga is the development of energy awareness and control for the purpose of realizing freedom, AND the resulting freedom itself. I will say again: yoga is the awareness and control of one’s energies for freedom. The most dense form of your energy is your physical body,...

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Toward proving the shared reality of consciousness and the universe

Today we bring you a tantalizing and controversial video by Dr. John Hagelin. A life’s work attempting to bridge the Science of Awesomeness with the Spirit of Awesomeness; where the experiencer of personal consciousness meets the reality of the universe. This, to say the least, is an ambitious undertaking. Course, it does help that the good doctor is a particle physicist, child protege, genius, life-long transcendental meditation practitioner and, in my view, a damn fine speaker. It is also worth point out that even with much respect,...

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