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Member Profile: SantaFeCentaur
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"Namaste"
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I am a:
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60-year-old Man (Single)
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Located in:
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Santa Fe, NM (USA) |
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Seeking a:
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Woman (30 to 90) |
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For:
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Friendship, Dating, Serious Relationship, Marriage |
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Spirituality:
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Yoga, Spiritual, not religious |
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| About Me
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I love the great outdoors and the great indoors, really anything to do with doors.
I've been diagnosed with the INTP personality disorder by Dr. Myers-Briggs, and it is highly contagious.
I was a legislative assistant and policy advisor to a senior Democratic U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C. While on Capitol Hill I was also a semi-pro dancer culminating in a dance version of Phantom of the Opera at Wolf Trap.
Of the thousands of interesting people I met in Washington DC, The Dalai Lama stands out. Feeling The Dalai Lama's overwhelming humility and powerful, tangible transmission of unconditional love, joy, and peace from 30 yards away was an unexpected catalyst that touched me deeply, reminding me that there are deeper potentials and dimensions of reality beyond the world of the terribly obvious just waiting to be explored and developed.
Likewise, a spontaneous experience of mutual 'One Taste' with a girlfriend while camping did the same. We experienced reality nondually when the distinction between 'I' and 'thou' dissolved in a moment of oneness we felt simultaneously. This profound experience was made possible by our physical attraction and heart connection that drew us into each other like magnets. We spent the rest of the night comparing notes and trying to relive that numinous mystical state of oneness.
Tho my years in D.C. were great, when I reached the limits of working for someone else in the conventional world of the terribly obvious and realized that the best way to improve the world is to improve oneself, I followed my heart to sunny Santa Fe for grad school at St. John's College, the secular alternative 'Great Books' school, as part of my path of personal and spiritual growth.
INTP, Enneagram 5, integral stage of development, I'm looking for a hiking/running partner, yoga buddy, best friend, and lover to share this mysterious journey of life, someone open to exploring the idea that we are ultimately the all-powerful creators of all that we experience, and that realizing this helps us create in a more conscious way.
An integral seeker, psychonaut, onironaut, and lightworker, I'm currently remembering the lineage of my soul through hypnotic regression into past lives and the transitions between them, the 'between lives' state referred to as the 'bardo realm' by Buddhists and the 'home' of the soul by contemporary experiencers.
Intimate relationships are like mini-incarnations of our current incarnation on Earth: Each relationship has a life of its own in the lineage of your heart, each a stage in the unfolding of our enormous potential for love, each lover a mirror and teacher of the heart helping us become better versions of ourselves. If Earth is a school where reflection is our teacher, then relationships are classrooms where lessons are learned and divine virtues are cultivated and expressed.
Namaste
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Basics
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My Sign:
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Virgo |
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I speak:
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English |
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Occupation:
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Self-employed |
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Education:
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Graduate Degree |
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Ethnicity:
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Caucasian |
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Height:
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5 11" (180 cm)
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Body Type:
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Athletic |
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Eye Color:
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Green |
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Hair Color:
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Bald |
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Hair Length:
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Shaved |
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Lifestyle
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I live with:
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Live with pets |
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Have kids:
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No |
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Want (more) children:
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No |
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Willing To Relocate:
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Maybe
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Diet:
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Health Food Nut, A Little of Everything |
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Smoking:
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No |
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Drinking:
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No |
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Exercise:
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exercise regularly |
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Pets:
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Cat |
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How I spend my free time:
- I'd love to meet a happy, fun, playful, open, sensitive, intuitive, caring, loving yogini devoted to awakening to her true nature and growing to her full potential.
I'm strongly attracted to the divine feminine who's naturally drawn to the divine masculine so we can melt together in passionate, blissful union.
I honor and offer emotional intelligence and emotional maturity, and it would be wonderful to experience this in a fun fulfilling relationship.
We dissolve misunderstandings with tantric eye gazing while holding hands, talking, and tickle fights!
Report me to the site administrator if I ask for too much.
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| Personality
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My Personality:
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Confident, Intuitive, Playful
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When out with friends, I'm usually:
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The talkative one
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What makes me laugh hardest:
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Conan, Howie Mandel, Bill Maher, The Simpsons, Reno 911, satire
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I'm happiest when:
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Growing, helping people grow, exercising, meditating, spending quality time with my lover when in relationship
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The things that annoy me are:
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One of my practices is to actually try not to be annoyed by anything or anyone. Many times the things we find annoying in others are actually projections, qualities we don't like about ourselves that we don't consciously acknowledge but are reminded of when seen in others.
Since what we experience outside ourselves is always a projection of our inner reality, it's not possible for us to be nonjudgmental of another until we are nonjudgmental of ourselves.
Judgment of others is cloaked self-judgment. If we didn't have the trait we judge in others in ourselves, we would either be unable to recognize it in the other or would not judge when we see it. Speaking and acting nonjudgmentally is not enough. True nonjudgment, or equanimity to put it in positive terms, is found in how we experience ourselves, for that is how we truly experience others in our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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The best day of my life was when:
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The day I meet you. ;-)
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If I could have dinner with any three people, they would be:
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Sri Aurobindo, The Dalai Lama, Amma
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Interests
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My interests, hobbies, and pastimes include...
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Board Games, Computers, Eating Out, Gardening, Movies, Music (listening), Music (performing), Politics, Reading, Science, Theater, Travel, Writing
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The physical activities I'm interested in are:
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Camping, Dancing, Fishing, Gym/Weightlifting, Hiking/Backpacking, Martial Arts, Running, Skiing, Walking, Yoga (hatha)
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For fun I like to...
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I read sheet music while listening to audiobooks in the background. ;-) Kidding.
I love hiking and traveling, and have always wanted to go skydiving, hang-gliding, hot-air ballooning and stuff like that.
Playing with you and making you laugh.
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My favorite movies:
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The Matrix trilogy, 12 Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, Contact, The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Proposition, Generations, The Game, Devil's Advocate, Raising Arizona, indies in general, Woody Allen films, parody, satire, spoofs like the Naked Gun series, Mike Myers, Steven Wright, Conan, Howie Mandel, Eddie Murphy, Richard Lewis, Gary Schandling, Madeleine Stowe, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman
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My favorite music:
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Rush is my all-time favorite band, I've seen them live many times and they're just phenomenal, in a class by themselves. Funk is the best to dance to. I love Kate Bush, she's in a class by herself as well-the divine feminine incarnate. U2, Peter Gabriel, The Gypsy Kings, Dead Can Dance; progressive rock, alt. rock like The Church, Modern English, classic rock like the Rolling Stones, The Doors; Irish music; world music; progressive jazz; romantic, postromantic and 20th century classical like Dvorak, Martinu, Copland, Orff; techno/trance
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My favorite books:
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Health & fitness (incl. sports nutrition, exercise physiology, anti-aging/life extension, cognitive enhancement/nootropics, sports psychology, health psychology, etc.), psychology (esp. developmental, humanistic, transpersonal, integral, applied, and the so-called 'new' positive psychology), the new sciences (relativity & quantum physics, the systems sciences, complexity/chaos theories, cybernetics, cognitive sciences, consciousness studies, etc.), parapsychology/paranormal (all areas, esp. reincarnation, NDEs and OBEs, and yes, even psychics, mediums, ghosts, UFOs), philosophy (esp. Classical Greek, Continental, Eastern, Post-Analytic, Integral), spirituality (of the nondual traditions, esp. Vedanta Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Taoism, and the 20th century Indian & American integral tradition), philosophy of information and information theory, IT stuff, business & marketing strategy, "What is Enlightenment?" magazine. Favorite authors: Victor Frankl, Abraham Maslow, Carol Gilligan, Plato, Plotinus, Hegel, Sri Aurobindo, Emerson, Habermas, William James, Ken Wilber, David Deida, John Welwood, Jenny Wade, Don Beck, Roger Walsh, Michael Murphy, Georg Feuerstein, The Dalai Lama, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Gurudev Mahendranath, Swami Vivekananda, Osho, Luciano Floridi, Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad, Peter Senge.
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Values
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The virtues I consider most important are...
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Open-Mindedness, Courage, Compassion
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The things I'm most grateful for in life are...
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everything...mainly having this adventure we call life
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My goals, and what I want out of life...
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My most important goal is my path to enlightenment and service in this lifetime and finding someone happy, fun, playful, open, sensitive, intuitive, caring, and loving to share it with. All other goals are subsumed within this.
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My political inclination can be described as...
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Non-conformist
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Spirituality
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Spiritual Orientation:
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Yoga, Spiritual, not religious
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I consider my spirituality...
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The central focus of my life
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What brought me to my spiritual path and motivated my interest...
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There's not really any one point in time that marks a beginning of my path, it seems to have evolved continuously. Prospectively it appears continuous though in retrospect I can see there were catalysts and emergents, definite stages that are evident now. Kierkegaard said we only understand life in retrospect but we must live it prospectively, negotiating it the best we can given our current level of awareness. What motivates me to pursue this path? The strongest imaginable drive to know and understand. More than mere curiosity, more of a lifelong insatiable passion for learning, wisdom, and awareness and a passionate drive to then use what I've learned to transform, to transcend, to actualize personal and social potential; to learn and grow, Eros.
Feeling the powerful transmission of The Dalai Lama's consciousness in Washington DC was certainly an inspiring catalyst.
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I consider the purpose of my spirituality to be...
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Connecting to something greater than myself, Finding happiness and peace within, Belonging to a like-minded community, Helping me grow as a person
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After the body dies...
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Other
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I would define a spiritual experience as...
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Anything that profoundly enhances awareness or consciousness. Consciousness is that which is aware of everything, that which is aware of objects of consciousness. Everything we perceive and conceive is not consciousness but are objects of consciousness, in consciousness. That awareness that is aware of objects of perception and objects of conception, that subject who perceives and conceives these objects, is nothing other than consciousness, the space or openness in which all things arise moment to moment. That which is aware of the words I'm writing and the words you're reading is none other than consciousness. That awareness of these words, in both the writer and the reader, is the same consciousness though apparently separated into me and you by the illusion of our individual consciousness, the limited awareness of our contracted skin-encapsulated ego. Spiritual practices such as meditation, yoga, tantra, etc., are methods of re-membering and re-collecting that which was apparently dismembered and scattered in involution into this 'optical delusion' of individual consciousness as Einstein put it. This is the near-unanimous consensus of longtime meditators the world over whose ever-present awareness thru dream and deep sleep states has been confirmed by EEG studies at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere.
On a more personal level what consciousness means to me, since everyone's path of re-membering and re-collecting is unique, is awareness of and trust in the consciousness deep within me (that's also deep within you). I've had a series of experiences throughout my life that although different in substance have been similar in form, they have one thing in common: powerful lessons of learning to trust in and believe in myself. My intuition has grown by leaps and bounds from these experiences and the more I exercise it, which I see as an awareness of one's own deeper consciousness or the breaking through of deeper levels of consciousness into ordinary waking consciousness, the stronger it becomes as a result. These experiences continue making me stronger, yet they are also profoundly humbling.
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A spiritual experience I would like to share...
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I have a strong intuition that has never failed me so long as I actually tune in and listen to it. I've had close friends who had near-death experiences; I've had premonitions or precognitive dreams remembered before the actual events took place (not just deja vu); I've had 'visits' in my dreams from both my grandmother and a friend on the nights they each passed over; I had an uncanny and extremely strong intuition about a man later convicted and imprisoned for attempted murder that no one else who knew him felt, in fact everyone else worshipped the ground he walked on while I stood alone in my strong, strong feelings about him months before he was busted by the FBI for trying to hire a hit man to murder his wife so he could be with his girlfriend (the hit man was an undercover FBI agent). He had tried to kill her two other times, once by trying to poison her with a chemistry set he and his girlfriend bought at Toys-R-Us (no kidding!) and again by burning his house down while his two children and wife were asleep. The whole thing took place in Washington and was made into a movie. These experiences and many more like them have convinced me there's much more to life than meets the eye so my beliefs and values are products of direct vivid realizations, they're not just theoretical constructs or wishful thinking.
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The spiritual books and authors that have had the greatest impact on me...
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Many, although Ken Wilber has had the most impact on me, as well as David Deida and Jenny Wade regarding the stages of relationship, especially 3rd stage spiritual relationships and authentic tantra yoga as a path, the path of love.
Recently Robert Schwartz, author of 'Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born,' and 'Your Soul's Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born.'
Pamela Kribbe's channelings.
Dr. Eben Alexander's books, talks, and interviews.
Paulo Coelho
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Who I'm Looking For
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I'm seeking a:
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Woman (30 to 90)
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Ethnicity:
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Any
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Height:
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1' 0" to 8' 0" (30cm to 244cm)
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Body Type:
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Slender, Athletic
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Hair Color:
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Any
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She should speak:
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English
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Education:
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Doesn't Matter
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Annual Income:
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Doesn't Matter
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Smoking:
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No
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Drinking:
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Doesn't Matter
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Vegetarian:
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Doesn't Matter
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Has children:
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No
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Wants children:
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Not sure, Probably not, No
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Personality:
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Playful, Intuitive, Caring
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When out with friends, she would be...
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Doesn't Matter
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Spiritual Orientation:
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Any
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