The Walk Back Home

The Ayurvedic Science of Life – Balancing Mind, Spirit, and Body Written by Nigel Ford Ayurvedic medicine is a 6000 year old system that’s referred to as the science of life. Ayurveda is a comprehensive approach to health and wellness that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of our well-being. In the western world, nutritional science focuses on the physical aspects of our diet: getting enough vitamins, minerals, carbs, proteins, and so on. Nutritional science is unparalleled in its understanding of the material makeup of food, but tends to ignore its more subtle energetic qualities. The Indian system of Ayurvedic medicine, then, can complement conventional nutritional science quite well. Ayurveda provides us with a deep understanding of the energetic relationship between our bodies and the food that we eat.   It’s an incredibly in-depth science, but there are a few simple concepts that can help you grasp the basics of the Ayurvedic phil...

You have the right to remain isolated The public has so kindly demonstrated That we need not break laws to be incarcerated We'll just do it ourselves, thanks, freedom's overrated The best way to impose martial law is to convince the people to stand there in awe while you slice through their rights like a chainsaw and draw up new laws while they call you the boss Our brothers are lost, the Man knows it well urging brothers & sisters to come Show & Tell all their worries and wonder, underpaid and unwell to co-create a police state and build our own hell The game's underway, the public's long been swayed by greenbacks and wage slavery anyway So we blame someone else for the trap that we've made pointing fingers, rescinding our sins everyday Such beautiful lies we spit at the mirror while the glass grows murky, smeared with dirt and fear Our rose-coloured glasses don't let us see clear And the cries of the Mother just slide through ou...

Yo, it's time for some curried snacks Anything without cumin? That's fuckin' whack I don't care if you be white, brown, or black You need turmeric up in your cabinet, stat! The flavours of India can't be beat so slurp up some Korma, you're in for a treat You're gold if your vegan, gold if you eat meat Even the gluten-free can dine without wheat Talkin' rice and chickpeas up in this bitch A meal made and paid for both the poor and the rich Any menu can grant your taste buds' deepest wish With one twist - try to pronounce the name of the dish

My understanding is that time is perceived due to our constantly changing consciousness. It's this condition that allows us to consider one moment different from the next. Objectively, all moments are simply one, and any event that we experience continues to exist independently of whether or not we're perceiving it. The analogy of the flatlanders sums this up pretty nice for me. Imagine a second-dimensional being living on a flat plane, like a piece of paper. That being would be able to move forward, backwards, left, and right. To the flatlander, those would be the only possible options. The concept of  verticality,  of moving  up or down,  would be absolutely foreign to it, and if it tried to express these ideas to a fellow flatlander they'd consider him bat-shit insane. HOWEVER, things are different for us in the third dimension. Since we observe from a higher spatial dimension, we can perceive the flatlander's entire plane - its entire reality - and can see that i...

I dunno man, I don't want to sound rude but it doesn't sound like you have much to back up that statement. I know it's standard to bash alternative medicine like TCM these days, but most of the people bashing these treatments just don't know that there's actually a boatload of scientific, clinical research that's been done on TCM. Most people who oppose TCM are rational, scientific-minded people who suspect that there's no scientific basis for the practice. I worked full-time as a health and medicine research author and have been a proponent of both Western and Eastern medicine. Each have their benefits, each have their drawbacks. Neither are inherently better than the other, and certainly neither of them should be consisdered quackery. Perhaps it'd help if I shared my perspective and some western-styled clinical research on TCM. Just because something functions differently than we're used to doesn't mean that it's quack...

The universe is a symbol. The physical world in which we inhabit is simply a symbol - an idea, a tangible representation of the world in which we truly reside. This realm was created so that Spirit could experience separation and explore a much denser state of Being. An opportunity for pure, undifferentiated potential to get to know itself through experience.  One such symbol that has always aggravated me is that of society - particularly capitalist society. Once, I questioned how and why the world could be run by an entourage of apathetic (if not sadistic) psychopaths. I questioned how humanity allowed itself to become practically enslaved by a small group of the elites. I demanded answers for why the planet and its beautiful children suffer at our own hands. Many of us have struggled with this peril and many have felt driven to make some sort of change in the world. This is where the discrepancy arises. A strong desire to change the world, the external, distracts one fr...

This post began as a note about using weed to help manage or treat emotional issues but it turned into a full-blown account of my experience using cannabis as emotional medicine. I just wanted to organize my thoughts in writing at first, but I think I'm going to share this because I find the potential  of this plant for healing emotional trauma is incredible.  It's only been a few months but I've gone through some incredible transformations as a result.  (There are also some pretty gnarly personal tidbits in here regarding my own process of letting go & growing up - be warned!) Using cannabis has been tremendously important for my spiritual and emotional growth - not because it helps to facilitate meditative states or expanded consciousness (although it's great at doing this, it kind of feels like cheating) but because it's helped me identify and eliminate emotional blockages that were slowing down my evolution. It's helped me develop the insight n...