KALI/SHIVA BAC BOOK CLUB

VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO READ

KALI/SHIVA BAC BOOK CLUB: 
LETS DESTROY / CREATE / CONSUME / MAKE LOVE WITH CULTURAL OBJECTS- Like the Book

FILTHY HOT SUMMER READS
Lets get Sand in our Spines! (of our books!)
Bounce some ideas off into that vast expansive space circulating between our skulls and ribcages- R hearts & minds 
Sharing words, symbols and concepts we can grow like sweet little seeds, understand our world and the multitude of experiences of it/with it, listen and learn from ourselves and each other.

Lets Vote on the book with the vibe you’d like most to set your month off on, 
We can get all these web cheep but lets pick soon so we can order them and start soaking them word rays up-
Here’s a list to make it easier! 

FICTION
Jitterbug Perfume – yay! Tom Robbins on about something other than bloomberg!

LOVING KINDNESS
Thich Nhat Hanh- No Death, No Fear.
His sweet little plum head has kept poppin up in my lyfe again recently, and its been a awhile- so for being free where you are…he’s got a simple message for mindfulness we can use everyday.

POETRY
Charles Baudelaire- Flowers of Evil
Loved tha herb!!

Antonin Artaud- Selected Writings
A little pricier (used @ $11) I feel a worthwhile read, introduced by the lovely Susan Sontag, Artauds a rimbaud reading, peyote eating, wildcracka.

CONCIOUSNESS 
Mircea Eliade- Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
One of the Godpapas of myth lit, the sacred and shamanism, and buddies with just about everyone in the day

Stanislav Grof- The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives
Some nice new age ideation from the noosphere. 

Andrew Weil- The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Conciousness 
Mushroom man! An authority on ‘natural’ medicine and healing the body using ancient psychoactive substances. Has a Good head on his shoulders. 
(not to rule out any suggestions from interested book clubbers to read Mckenna- That’s Always an option…)

Douglas Hofstadter- I Am A Strange Loop 
Shouts to Innergaze! http://www.confusedhouse.org/innergaze.html-
We can learn some legit tech/universal philosophy together, I just got this on sale at the East/West closing…aww…(kinda)

CONSPIRACY
Immanuel Velikovsky – World in Collision 
Venutian pseudoscience! I have a nice companion text we can compliment this with, too.

Robert Anton Wilson- Sex, Drugs & Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits 
Fiction… but this man is a Maverick

VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO READ

Book Club in 3 Days!

You've clearly always wanted to join a chic hipster book club, and Body Actualized Control is happy to finally make it a possibility for you. Don't fuck up by not reading half of the book and missing the meeting. Don't be a forgetful, slothy person; don't wake up in the afternoon, confused and lonely. It's finally summer. Be a person who remembers to do things, who remembers how to truly enjoy life.

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff. Wednesday June 9th at 9pm, 957 Broadway.

Book Club - Party!

Book Club - Party!
9PM - Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Market Hotel - 957 Broadway

Summer is great for partying and drinking and having sex but somewhere in there you need to take time to improve yourself.

Here at Body Actualized Control we've decided to start a book club. The first book we're going to read is the memoir THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff.

It costs like $3 From half.com or amazon. It's available at the NYPL. Or you could go to Strand and it's only like $5.

We'll all read the first half of the book (about one hundred pages) by June 9th and discuss it at the meeting. And then we'll party and drink and some of us might hook up.

BYOB : )

"The story is grim: The teenaged Wolff moves with his divorced mother from Florida to Utah to Washington State to escape her violent boyfriend. When she remarries, Wolff finds himself in a bitter battle of wills with his abusive stepfather, a contest in which the two prove to be more evenly matched than might have been supposed. Deception, disguise, and illusion are the weapons the young man learns to employ as he grows up--not bad training for a writer-to-be. Somber though this tale of family strife is, it is also darkly funny and so artistically satisfying that most readers come away exhilarated rather than depressed."

The Miracle of Mindfulness

Let's talk a little bit on the importance of breathing.

When I'm teaching yoga class, I try to create as much focus on the breath as possible. When you are aware of your breathing, observing your breathing, you can't help but - be here now - embodying the present moment.

And it doesn't need to be this mystical Now-ness where every moment blossoms out before you. I'm just talking about cooling your mind out and being present. It's about being awake, being there with whoever and whatever is around you and not letting your thoughts take you to the places that don't matter.

Vietnamese chill out monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, wrote this book, The Miracle of Mindfulness, which I really got into: it's about practicing mindfulness. Because you can get real calm and real holy while your stretching in class or meditating with your eyes closed, but all that doesn't really matter when you come down from your mountain and you get upset when someone bumps into you.

So mindfulness is meditation for everyday life. It's about returning your awareness to the present throughout the day in order to just be there. This is bringing you back into your body, back to the task at hand, and ultimately tuning into and turning on your higher self.

And when you're working towards that, then, that mystical Nowness does become a possibility, gradually, gently opening up more and more in your daily life:

"When you are walking along a path leading into a village, you can practice mindfulness. Walking along a dirt path, surrounded by patches of green grass, if you practice mindfulness you will experience that path, the path leading into the village… If we're really engaged in mindfulness while walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality."

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