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SoulQuest7

Title: Love, Serve, Remember

Gender: Male

Age: 52

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Location: Madison, WI

About Me:

My main interests are spirituality, vegetarianism, human rights, comparative religion, and music collecting. My other networking page is at myspace and is more musically oriented: http://www.myspace.com/nickkokoshis
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Member Since: Thursday, June 15 2006

Last Visit: 689 days ago.

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Things SoulQuest7 Loves

Interests:

My main intersts are spirituality,
music,
and liberal progressive politics. I generally like the liberal,
egalitarian,
universalist strand in every religion. I've been a vegetarian for 30 years (and it ain't always easy) and am interested in holistic health. I like Ram Dass,
the 60s counterculture and anyone who is following their lead of trying to make the world a better place by struggling for the welfare of all living beings (the modern manifestation of which is feminism,
gay rights,
animal welfare,
ecology,
peace and justice movements). I like the Jain and Hindu concept of ahimsa (nonviolence),
the Buddhist concept of metta (loving-kindness),
the Christian concept of agape (divine love),
and all good ideas work together! My dislikes are complacency,
cruelty,
injustice,
and I believe in struggling against them personally and politically-- this is the truest spirituality and expression of love. I'm interested in the psychology of mysticism,
consciousness,
peak experiences,
love,
empathy,
compassion,
and ultruism. I like spacey stuff: the universe,
parallel universes,
UFOs,
and NDEs (near death experiences).

Books:

Be Here Now (Ram Dass),
Birth Of The Cool : Beat,
Bebop,
and the American Avant Garde (Lewis MacAdams),
SMiLE: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece (Domenic Priore),
Sex Death Enlightenment (Mark Matousek),
Out On a Limb (Shirley MacLaine),
Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda),
The New Testament,
The Autobiography of Donovan (Donovan),
The Graceful Guru: Hindu Female Gurus in India and the United States (Karen Pechilis),
Scrapbook of a Haight Ashbury Pilgrm (Elizabeth Gips),
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake),
Howl (Allen Ginsberg),
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse),
anything by or about Mel Torme.

Music:

My favorite music is: Indie folk and rock (Sufjan Stevens,
Denison Witmer,
Over the Rhine,
Mason Jennings,
Through Snowy Static,
Death Cab for Cutie,
Postal Service,
Regina Spektor),
Jazz IS cool (Mel Torme,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Don Cherry,
Classical Jazz Quartet,
Dave Brubeck Quartet,
Dizzy Gillespie,
Dianne Reeves,
Eberhard Weber,
John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti),
60s psychedelia,
progressive rock,
and post-rock (Sigur Ros,
Tortoise,
Sound Tribe Sector 9,
Nina Hagen,
The Incredible String Band,
Beatles,
Jon Anderson and YES,
Donovan,
Renaissance,
Genesis,
Mike Oldfield,
Daevid Allen and Gong,
Moody Blues),
Devotional music (Jai Uttal,
Karnamrita,
Bhagavan Das,
Hindu kirtan,
The Sufi Choir,
Bluegrass gospel,
Gregorian chant,
Choral masses),
Electronic music (synthesizers,
theremin,
effects,
Pet Shop Boys) Percussion music (Pierre Moerlin,
The Active Percussion Duo,
Stefon Harris,
Nemani Somayajulu,
Bill Bruford,
Zakir Hussain,
Buddy Rich,
gamelon music),
Indian classical music (jalatarangam [water bowls],
sitar,
tabla,
bansuri flute,
violin,
vocals),
Asian Underground (Talvin Singh,
dj Cheb i Sabbah),
Irish-Scottish-Celtic music (Ce,
Brian Hart,
Danu,
Liam Clancy,
Flook,
Dougie MacLean,
Derek Bell,
Altan),
Gay topical singer-songwriters (Romanovsky and Phillips,
Phranc,
Meg Christian,
Michael Callen),
British and American folk music (Joan Baez,
Phil Ochs,
Bill "Belinda" Jones,
The Roches,
David Rovics,
Joni Mitchell),
and Christmas music (all varieties).

Movies:

Documentaries and films about music,
religion,
politics: Christmas films (A Christmas Carol,
The Bishop's Wife),
New Age films (Out on a Limb,
My Dinner with Andre,
What the Bleep Do We Know?,
Yellow Submarine,
Brother Sun Sister Moon),
Political films (Sophie Scholl,
Gandhi,
Reds,
Good Night and Good Luck),
Deepa Mehta films (Earth,
Bollywood Hollywood,
Fire,
Water) Gay films (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love,
Lie Down with the Dogs),
Woody Allen films (Everyone Says I Love You,
Stardust Memories,
Love and Death,
Manhattan,
Deconstructing Harry),
Sci-fi (Contact,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Star Wars),
films about Ram Dass (Fierce Grace,
Ecstatic States),
Documentaries (Fahrenheit 9/11,
The Torture Question,
Why We Fight,
Making Sense of the Sixties,
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today,
Why Am I Gay?),
anything about or with Mel Torme!.

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