The Thing About Daoism Is… (part 2)
Dare Carrasquillo Disclaimer: This article and my work are directed towards people who practice cultivation deliberately. My writing is primarily written to and for people who can take responsibility for their own life. People who work to help others – their students, clients, communities, etc. As such it may “skip over” very beginner level […]
The Thing About Daoism Is… (part 1)
Dare Carrasquillo “But, Actually…” For all the mytho-poetic rhetoric around hermits, enlightenment, non-action and immortality, Daoism is fundamentally about none of that whatsoever. At least, not in the ways that materialists think. …and if you think that somehow, you’ve escaped materialist philosophy, well, that’s how they got you. It’s baked in. Materialism, Scientism, Theism… […]
Cartoontra (Deathclown Rules #3)
Dare Carrasquillo Tantra: The Sanskrit word ‘Tantra’ derives from the verbal root tan, meaning ‘to weave’, or ‘compose’, and refers to a type of instructional text, often written as a dialogue between a god and a goddess1. According to Padoux, the verbal root Tan means: “to extend”, “to spread”, “to spin out”, “weave”, “display”, […]
Theater of Precarity (Deathclown Rules #2)
Dare Carrasquillo [Part 1] Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat. –from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity Theater of Precarity is a theatrical application of death practice. Death practice means many things to many people and cultures, but I spent 8 months in 2022-2023 explaining […]
The Pink Cloud Effect (Deathclown Rules #1)
Dare Carrasquillo Any seriously disorganized system or subsystem will improve if sufficient stimulus is applied to it. This does not mean that the stimulus is good, true or sane, just that the disorganized system responds positively in some regard to almost anything. This is why and how bad, corrupt and untrue things can appear […]
Red, Black, & White Paths
Dare Carrasquillo (Sohei) “An Ode to ming/ Charles, my teacher.” 1.Red path talk: the red path is ruthless. It demands honesty beyond human preferences. The red path teaches by taking away, it is a path of conflict, of friction, of constant pressures. Most of us only have some red path leaning, some have […]
Even When You Don’t Think You’re Helping
Dare Carrasquillo Breathwork to bring you back to baseline (at a moment’s notice). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dare Carrasquillo (@darecarrasquillo)
The Work
Dare Carrasquillo insects stir 3/1/23 it takes a lot of concentration, dedication to become clear in a culture designed for confusion designed for ignorance the work, as they say, in all caps with a hint of righteous pride THE WORK is not constantly explaining things to ignorantly confused people becoming famous for […]
Learning & Play: You Have to Want It
Dare Carrasquillo “But because we do not have real robust diverse communities of care, with diverse multicultural behaviors of coherence, we are instead siloed into capitalist bubbles of individuals, each person burdened with the weight of a thousand inaccurate concepts.” I’ve said a lot of things. I’ll likely say more. I never believed […]
Somatic Toolkit
Dare Carrasquillo Larger playlist of basic animist practices can be found here.
Learning Perception
Dare Sohei heres a working list of things i do and have done to think/perceive the way i do. i come from a pretty normal background — poverty, depression, anxiety, no college, lots of illnesses, addiction etc. my saving grace was probably the things that also screwed me up, which was animistic perception […]
Binary Fictions vs. Complex Realities
Dare Sohei why & how so many “logics” are poisoning us into monsters, a furiously incomplete discourse on furiously incomplete discourses this will be a ramble. i like rambles. #deathjazz this week we got the pereniall christo fascists wanting to overturn roe vs wade thing again, because their idea of heaven-on-earth is a […]
Communicating from a Place of Sickness & Pain
Dare Sohei a brief(?) communication about the time i am in: this is a water tiger (death-fear) year, and all of my inherited and conduct/ignorance related disease symptoms have returned in not a small way. i have learned, brutally, over the last 42 years, about living a life based on a disability justice […]
Threatening & Being Threatened
Dare Sohei grief (and rage) are just the very first parts of death practice. it strikes me as telling that resistances towards acceptance of these states and moving through them to whats beyond are so prevalent. its like watching someone pick at scabs. this culture, these behavorial stories are so fucking boring and remedial, […]
Distributed Networks
Dare Sohei Praxis, Dreaming Praxis – Distributed Networks & “The ODDI Approach” to wellbeing, trauma and creativity Hello & Blessings, I’m Dare and my website is www.bodyaltar.org I’ll cut to the chase and then expand. 5-10 minutes daily (i.e. consistently & frequently) actually works better than 1 hour once a week. Nibbling is better […]
The Woke Industry is Watching
Dare Sohei a living ramble those who are new to seeing human nature as it really is, go through a developmental process that mirrors all wisdom tradition processes. the cliche dark night of the soul is a real developmental transformation in the nervous system and belief infrastructure of a human. people who […]
Animist Primer: Sun Breathing
Dare Sohei
Capitalizing on Color
Christine Ruffolo It’s been about a month since the Embodiment Conference came and went. Since, there have been many claims and a good amount of evidence that the headpiece to the summit, Mark Walsh, isn’t a great guy. As someone who spoke at his summit, I’ve been sitting with possible courses of action (which […]
Musings from a Transformed Being
Dare Sohei Healing doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll feel less pain, or have less pain. It may, but it may also mean that the pain that’s there/here won’t take up all your attention, won’t distract you from what you CAN do, what else you can feel, what else is possible. Healing is a long game. […]
Chronic Fatigue and Pain
Dare Sohei Hello & Blessings I wanted to start a newer series of posts that laid out some general maps/approaches in easy language, around some of the common intertwined topics in trauma healing, animism and creativity. Some of this is just for the sake of expediency, as I spend a lot of my time […]