6.02.2003

Working Through

An update, for all of you true fans (at last count, one...): The Muse and I have found a doorway to a new path, for our relationship and our future together. It's been pretty amazing. In short, we seem to have found a way to recapture that growth phase in an intimate relationship that typically lies between the wild infatuation and the settling down. We missed that part. We've gotten it back.

It's tremendous.

Life is a wonderful gift.

Rune does San Francisco

So, after years of longing to do this, I finally did. Went to MindStates IV, a little annual gathering of The Tribe. Highlights, besides the general conference sessions, included meeting: Ann and Sasha Shulgin; Myron Stolaroff; Ralph Metzner; Larry Hagerty; David Nichols; Zoe Seven; Nicholas Sand; John Gilmore and Earth and Fire Erowid. Also, while I didn't have the opportunity to meet them, I heard the following folks present: Stan Grof, Richard Glen Boire, R.U.Sirius and Jaron Lanier, and a host of notable artisits, including Robert Venosa and Martina Hoffman, Allyson and Alex Grey (check out the link for the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors!) and Pablo Amaringo.

The conference was in Berkeley, so I got a taste of that scene. Also spent some time in Golden Gate State Park, Haight-Ashbury and Chinatown.

A great city. One to go back to.