I started using Facebook a few weeks ago. Since Tribe goes down frequently, it's good to be on more than one network. Some of you are already Facebook friends, but if you aren't, you can look me up there: Larry Christopher, Poughkeepsie, NY network (I've noticed links to profile don't usually work).

I'd like to invite my Tribe friends who have not yet joined my new tribe, Liminal Worlds, to check it out or join. In general, it's part of a wider project to network innovative ideas and solutions pertaining to the arts, healing, society, metaphysics or the like.

tribes.tribe.net/liminalworlds

This is an article I posted on Associated Content, exploring how the idea of adulthood has become marginalized in contemporary culture.

tinyurl.com/2qzo35

This movie, by the same director as Pi and Requiem For A Dream, was just released on DVD last week. It's a fascinating exploration of topics such as multiple realities, death and rebirth and Mayan cosmology. It's not very linear, and it would be difficult for me to say exactly what it all means, but watching it is a kind of trip (it has a kind of psychedelic visual style) that opens your mind and senses to archetypes such as the Tree of Life. I still have to watch some of the commentary that ... read more

From Pronoia, by Rob Brezsny - "Definition: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need when you need it."

I started this book a couple of days ago, and it's a good reminder that most of the "information" out there, even coming from alternative sources, is geared towards fear and negativity. Lear... read more