Death Practice, Art Process

Process & Research are intertwined, or, Nonduality for Dummies

Encounter it, Become it, Express it, Give it Away (In a Ritual Container) - Encounter/Become/Express/Give (A.R.C.)

The process outlined and shown below is a very condensed version of a larger technique that has many facets, and this took me many years to learn and enact. It is what i learned through the process of internal decolonization, using nondual animism to decolonize my perception, and through multi-disciplinary art praxis as a generationally poor, non-college educated person.

Even with all of that training and experience, I still have to remember to do it, and find a way to do it, sometimes forcing myself through the door of the practice, because the practice involves feeling negative stimuli or emotions and the subsequent ghostly, addictive narratives that my brain, nervous system and ancestral-cultural patterning automatically generates as a kind of predictive defense system.

Yes, that’s a friggin’ mouthful, but it’s a more or less succinct way of explaining the sequence of events that occurs when a human system encounters phenomena it doesn’t prefer, even when much of those phenomena are self-generated by our system that makes it feel like it’s happening to us, not by us.

If you want me to train you to do this using multi-disciplinary art forms, I offer private sessions which you can read more about at the Sessions tab. Think of it like Spiritual Martial Arts where you learn to transform your addictions and negative phenomena into beauty, satire and relief. Plus, you’ll learn how to enact better boundaries, do ritual hygiene, increase your optionality and prepare for the Main Event: Death.

Notice, I try my best to avoid using two of the most overused and misunderstood terms in the modern parlance: trauma and healing. Also, I will focus on the forms, process and structures rather than the content.