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Education, Learning &
Growth
Learning the ways
of the Shaman, I am studying Consciousness and Conscious Media
including:
Introductory
interview from February 11, 2010:
I am surveying and reporting on artistic, anthropologic,
subjective experiential and scientific dimensions of Consciousness
and Conscious Media. Through RobustMedia I am producing documentaries. And
through enginex, I am creating
new media. My working
defintition of Conscious Media:
- FUNCTIONS as an
initiatory environment that uses external technology to hold space
and shape time as a participatory process the experience of which
is personally informative and transformative;
- FORM follows
function with content that bridges seen and unseen worlds,
meaningful stories grounded in myth to illuminate one’s sense of
higher self in the Natural context outside of time in All that Is,
often to identify one self with the original Source, to celebrate
possibilities in the field of interconnected Life and engender
Love.
Sharing interest in
ancient wisdom by people in progressive modern societies who seek
integrated perspective and cultural development, I am exploring
cultural practices involving entheogens not allowed in these
societies.
My journey is informed by experiences of non-ordinary reality
including a life of profound dreams, virtual death experiences
including heart surgery as a child and time in holistic Shamanic
cultures with participation in a Sioux sweat lodge and 'works' using
psychoactive sacraments Ayahuasca (Amazonian), Daime of the
Brazilian Santo Daime, Huachuma of pre-Columbian Chavin, Peru,
Salvia of West Coast Central America and mindful practices such as
meditation.
Graduate of the
Ivey School of
Business at
the University of Western Ontario, Honors (1982), the focus of my
independent research, policy and consulting work was on project
management in the communication industry, media production,
exhibition strategies and emerging computer applications in the film
industry.
My top mark came in
Anthropology with a paper on emerging computer technology as a
cultural catalytic mechanism.
Significant
experience that now informs my work includes film production studies
at Ryerson in Toronto as well as time with Richard Branson and
Virgin Enterprises to rapidly design and
launch a new venture in Japan.
So too, my own
ventures provide opportunity to learn, particularly through
collaboration with great people.
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