I'm doing 35 things
very worth doing
3 years ago
I’m on the board of Judevine Center for Autism. I’m helping them review how their processes to help improve their operations.
MermanDMP's Life List
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1. develop a balance between shamanism, christianity and buddhism
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2. read more poetry
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3. Continue to explore dance
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4. compile my first Poetry chapbook
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5. see my wife blossom into her own life
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6. write more poetry
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7. find a solid shamanic group
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8. find a workable church
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9. find a good yogi
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10. have more sex
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11. continue in the practice of non-distinction
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12. stop resisting the shamanic path
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13. light a funeral pyre
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14. develop more relationships among poets
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15. let go of more attachments
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16. help alex learn to not try so hard
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17. get back to shamanic journeying
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18. go to upper world
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19. learn to trust the universe more
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20. practice my yoga 5 or 6 times a week
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21. develop respectable publication outlets
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22. try peyote
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23. Infiltrate and expose the Skull and Bones society
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24. Sing a song without making a sound
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25. Be mummified
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26. create a cult
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27. live to be 120
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28. re-create the Jewish incense recipe
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29. Swim with dolphins
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30. find 30 accessible poets with great "stage presence"
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31. Update my website
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32. find 20 accessible poets with great "stage presence"
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33. Meet Kim Addonizio
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34. find 10 accessible poets with great "stage presence"
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35. Never stop learning
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Recent entries
Keeps me young
3 years ago
It is amazing what yoga does in my life. When I practice I am: calmer, sleep better, move better, more free, more creative, and think better.
Yay yoga!
Work, work, work
3 years ago
I’ve been working on this (on and off) for the past three years. It’s very intense. They have, of course, THE LIST of ingredients. The problem comes in the fact that scholars disagree as to what’s being referred to on about half of the ingredients. The interesting thing is that it seems no one is working on the subject in direct ways. Jews are forbidden to make the incense. So, all they are left with is study and some trial and errors from a essential oil perspective. But working with essential oils is not the same as working with the raw product (as the ancients did). Most Non-Jews don’t have enough motivations to do the work. It’s simply not that interesting to them. Except me I guess. I’d say I have it 90% solved. I’ve read some stuff some rabbis have done with essential oils, but in my opinion they’ve made some critical errors in thinking (because they are not working with the raw ingredients).
I think I’ve on the verge of moving to 95% complete. Studies in Egyptian incense practices are shedding new light.
