Here’s a Bit About Me 🙃

Note: Some of these details are intimate and adult-themed. Reader-discretion is advised

• I was in a boy band for a while with my first close friend, Ariel. 🕺🏼 We danced a lot together and my passion for dance has lived on ever since. I’ve taken Jazz, Ballet, and Hip-Hop dance classes. 💃 I’m known among friends for freestyle ecstatic dancing.

• When I was in middle school, I worked as a close-up magician in the lobby of a fancy car wash. I practiced magic for 6 years, until I became bored of it. After reaching a certain level of mastery, it no longer delighted me as it once did. My heart yearned for real magick, which I eventually found.

• I grew up in Las Vegas and moved to Phoenix, Arizona in the middle of high school. Both high schools I attended were Arts High Schools, and my studies focused heavily on technical theater, digital art, and filmmaking. 🎭 🎨 🎬

• I went to three colleges in three Arizona cities: Flagstaff, Prescott, and Phoenix. I graduated with a degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications. My studies were more wide ranging than anyone I’ve ever met. If I had permission to rename my degree to more appropriately fit what I studied, I’d say I completed a Masters Degree in Generalism and Systems Thinking. I also gained a working proficiency with American Sign Language which I could easily revive through regular communication.

• In the middle of my college years, I took a 3-year hiatus working as a paraprofessional for students with special needs from ages 2 to 22. I loved it. Most of them were autistic, and I have a working theory that I’m on the spectrum.

• I also spent one of those years living with a partner. Interestingly, we had absolutely no money problems. In the words of Jack Johnson, I was “just a fool learning loving somebody don't make them love you.” It wasn’t that she didn’t want to love me. I think it was just that she didn’t believe in my love, and I can understand why.

• The first long-term job I landed with my bachelor’s degree was with a startup company. During my three years of working there, I learned a ton about just how sophisticated the industry of manipulation—I mean propaganda—Oh, shoot! 🤣 🙃 I mean marketing is.

• Though I had developed a wonderfully interconnected perspective on the world through college coursework and independent study, I still felt trapped by material reductionism. It seemed almost inevitable that such a perspective led down a path of nihilism or putting faith in something outside your own experience. South Park beautifully encapsulates this view of the world in their "You're Getting Old" and "Ass Burgers" episodes.

• I started to make a comfortable living wage, and this gave me the freedom to explore my personal desires—the only place I could find an occupational escape from my own nihilism. This is when I discovered my love of yoga and the world of psychological BDSM:

  • I regularly performed the 26-posture hot yoga practice that has been popularized in the U.S. and originated from Bishnu Charan Ghosh. It’s a form of stoic self-care that I often call “Fight Club for Western Yogis.”

  • I dove deeply into the world of psychological BDSM, and it has been one of my most significant channels for learning, sharing, and celebrating wisdom.

• Eventually, I met Mia. I wrote about the transformative experience she helped guide me toward in an article called “The Spiritual Skeptic.” We fell in love, moved to Portland together, and have shared a loving connection and home since. We are polyamorous in a way that doesn’t appear to go along with today’s norms of what “polyamours” means to many, and we fully embrace compersion. This has led to some incredible growth for both of us.

• Mia also introduced me to a couple revolutionary practices that have been transformative on a physical level for me: fascia blasting and Lagree.

• This led me to many other paradigm-shifting experiences. With a great deal of striving, I eventually escaped my own psychological ego in the way Jiddu Krishnamurti explains. 🙏 His words can be quite difficult to see beyond, but I am now able to see what he was talking about. I want to share that with anyone who’s interested.

• Despite having been trapped in my own self concern, I have been long able to cognitively comprehend how technology, economics, and culture can all be redesigned and redirected. Now that I’ve begun to master the art of stepping outside of myself, I feel the full picture of what I have realized is ready to share and exchange with others. Key authors, speakers, and futurists who have helped me understand systems thinking, alternative economic approaches, and epigenetics include Jacque Fresco, Peter Joseph, Charles Eisenstein, Jaron Lanier, and Daniel Pinchbeck. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

• In support of all belief and disbelief systems, I completed an Accredited Spiritual & Life Coach Certification, instructed by Emily Andrews.