Category: Stories from My Life

  • The Virtues of a Flip Phone

    Just over a month ago I switched from my iPhone to an old flip phone. Have a look: It’s a real piece of shit. It has nothing. No camera, no photo texts, just calling and texting. And texting is a real pain in the ass with T9 or worse, the Abc/abc format. Maybe you remember. I…

  • Life Lessons from Dogs

    I’ve had the supreme privilege of having spent the last 10 years of my life with not one, but two beautiful golden retrievers. As we’ve grown older together, as I’ve watched their faces gain wisdom and silver fur, as they’ve come to lower into and rise from their lying positions more slowly and with more labored groaning sounds, I’ve…

  • 30 Days of Marijuana

    It feels stupid to call it “marijuana”. No one calls it that. “Hey dooood, you wanna smoke some marijuannnaa?”  Although “marijuana” sounds legit with a Hispanic accent. “Yo essay, ju wana smok sum mah-ree-wanna?” Anyway. As mentioned in yesterday’s newsletter, today starts 30 days of smoking pot every day. Whether you’ve ever been interested in smoking pot but…

  • Probable Selves and Alternate Realities

    In The Unknown Reality, Volume I, the third book in the six book series of the main Seth material, Seth discusses alternate realities and probable selves. I’ve only just begun the book but have recently been thinking about my own life in terms of probable selves and considering the idea that there are other Chakis out there…

  • Four Hours of Sleep – Update #3

    This is the third update to this post, which explains why I’m experimenting with getting only four hours of sleep per night. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything new to update in the last week. I’ve continued the sleeping schedule and have continued to experience the benefits I expounded a week ago: heightened intuition, increased wittiness, more…

  • Talk to Your Body for Easy Healing

    Our bodies, composed of more than 30 trillion individual cells, handle all of their complex functions on their own without our conscious intervention. Our bodies are geniuses, but usually our thoughts and beliefs hinder their ability to achieve and maintain perfect health. We think we need all kinds of medications. Unfortunately, these medications are generally designed to…

  • 20,000+ Little Lives

    If you think about it, each day in your life is a little life in itself. You wake up to your alarm, which is…alarming…just like birth, you’re groggy and can’t think too well for a few minutes, like early childhood, then you go to work and do what you’re told for around half the day,…

  • We Don’t Know Anything

    We think we know, but we don’t, and no matter how hard we try, we’ll never know. How many times in your life have you known something, only to later find out that you actually didn’t know it? That you were wrong? This has happened to me thousands of times, and I admit it will…

  • Are Sunglasses Harmful?

    Disclaimer: I am neither a doctor nor a scientist and am not making any recommendations regarding your decision to wear or not to wear sunglasses. You are solely responsible for any harm you may endure as a result of your eyewear choices, and for that matter, any of your life choices. Unless we’re looking directly into…

  • Life Is a Struggle

    What a struggle life is. Bills, relationships, commutes. Erectile disfunction, vaginal dryness, venerial disease. Death. At least death ends the struggles, but even learning to deal with the idea of death is itself a struggle. We’re all just flailing through life trying not to die, trying to be happy, but blind as bats and without the sonar. We…