Tag: mountains

• There is No Dark Future! Part 2: A poem & photo series.

  A poem continued. An offering of hope. Like so many of you I have been on a spiritual journey the past year and a half. New Wisdom has been given to me. Words of truth our souls are aching to know. Thank you so much for reading these frail words which are spoken through me.…

  Joshua Khatena

  September 12, 2021

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• Setting the Record Strait Part 2

  I was at Mt. Shasta writing about one of the most surreally difficult nights of my life, right before another strange event occurred on this mountain. Truth can be a stranger dance than any of our fictions. You see, I slipped through the trapdoor of my mind after a BLM celebration, on the night of…

  Joshua Khatena

  April 9, 2021

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• Setting the Record Strait

  

  I was sat in meditation upon a plateau full of rock labyrinths in the sacred heart of mysterious Mt. Shasta. Asking the Universe for answers, as always, and waiting for a sign that I was on my path. Knowing this time I was not the crafter of my life disaster. This time the fuck- up…

  Joshua Khatena

  April 1, 2021

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• We Are Natural Mystics

  

  We Are Natural Mystics: There are pockets on Earth that no human eye has seen. Great mysteries of life are hidden in riddles and rivers. Ancient secrets sag in the marrow of oil. If we have not been able to catalog and observe all parts of our planet, then how do we bound in all…

  Joshua Khatena

  March 26, 2021

  Adventurer, America, beginning, Change, Discover, Empowerment, Existentialism, Healing, life, mount st. helens, Nature, Philosophy, Photography, Questioning, San Francisco, transformation, Travel, wanderlust, writer

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• Radically Rooted in 2021

  I asked what my mantra for 2021 should be & found a black diamond run named “Radical” while skiing yesterday. It seems sort of obvious considering my Instagram name/other account which was inspired by the BLM & social justice revolution in America last summer. The revolution for human rights which continue today. The label “Radical”…

  Joshua Khatena

  January 3, 2021

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• Rider of Waves (Part 2)

  

  In the process of becoming unconditional, you become like water. In living your truth in resilient flexibility you will start setting yourself & others free. Everything in the known existence shares pools from some part of the 118 elements. We all come from the same initial Source. We are fulfillments of the genetic promises brought…

  Joshua Khatena

  November 25, 2020

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• Thunder on the Mountain 2

  

  Every Mountain calls you home in different ways. St. Helen’s is a mountain of contemplation & rebirth. The felled forests enables one to see out in vast distances. The ghostly backdrop enables one to project your thoughts and hopes onto. Engulfed in barren rugged crust of Earth. In fact the desolation of Mt. St. Helen’s…

  Joshua Khatena

  September 15, 2020

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• Sunshine Laundromat

  Columbia Gorge has finally reopened. The river itself a glacier’s million-year pet project eroding earth out to the Pacific. Call it Nature’s version of “will they or won’t they?” (Sorry Sam and Diane.) The Columbia feels ancient and powerful perhaps because this river wasn’t “supposed” to be here. It was carved into the marrow of…

  Joshua Khatena

  May 8, 2020

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• The Long Ride Home pt. 1

  In 2017 I told myself, “When I move to Portland, I’m going skiing after work.” I moved here one year ago, and for the past 2 months I’ve been gratefully skiing on the Earth’s mirror, scarcely believing this is home now. It was one of those dreams we all have like building a house, visiting…

  Joshua Khatena

  March 14, 2020

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