Tag: Social change

• 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

  Adventurer, black lives matter, california, Consciousness, Existentialism, Gay, growth, Healing, hope, Mental Health, mount shasta, Mountain, Nature, Path, Philosophy, Photography, quarantine, Questioning, self-care, Social Justice, soul, the Universe, transformation, wanderlust, writer

  Author, Bipolar, Blm, blogger, Consciousness, doubt, empowered, Gay, hiking, hope, life, mount shasta, mountains, mystic, purpose, quarantine, searching, Social change, Social Justice, transformation, Travel, Universe

• 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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• Rainbow Connection CDMX

  

  Let us give thanks then- instead of to a nation, but appreciating unto each other and loved ones who came before. Let us be thankful for the abundant beauty, biodiversity, sustainable resources, justice spread out in every movement of our planet spinning on an axis- as fractured as it all may seem. It is from…

  Joshua Khatena

  November 27, 2020

  Author, Backpacking, Blog, Empowerment, growth, hope, indigenious, mexico, mexico city, Photography, shaman, thankfulness, thanksgiving, transformation, Travel, traveler, writer, zocalo

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• Collaborate and Listen: part 1

  

  An Aztec Shaman in Zocalo honored me with a blessing two years ago this November. During an ancient Aztec ceremony he spoke words passed down from his ancestors. He chanted Earth-born hymnals as an interlocutor for his soul. His gruff tones hummed from deep intergenerational tomes I couldn’t comprehend. Perhaps he prayed that we would…

  Joshua Khatena

  November 26, 2020

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• Rider of Days (Part 1)

  

  This year has led us down the path to becoming unconditional. To acceptance of life’s continual uncertainties. It’s the surest voyage to setting yourself free. We are all riders on different courses of a mortal journey. This Universe resides nowhere and all at once, forever in the process of becoming. Maybe it takes the pulling…

  Joshua Khatena

  November 24, 2020

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• Dressed to Suppress pt. 1

  It’s 2 days before the US elects another president. And it’s hard to pretend that social justice and human rights aren’t just below my level of awareness almost every moment of waking life. That most of us are hopeful and unsure, afraid of what will happen to our country for the next 4 years. Because…

  Joshua Khatena

  November 1, 2020

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• Express Yourself, Respect Yourself, Baby!

  

  There’s a freedom to be who you are in Portland and it’s sacred. This city is unlike any place I’ve lived. The overall ethos of the city is to live with respect and communion with all people and harmony with the Earth, without pigeonholing everyone into tidy labels and categories. That’s one reason why this…

  Joshua Khatena

  August 5, 2020

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• Let Freedom Ring 07/04/20

  

  Some men are of the opinion that God gave them Earth to rule as their dominion. Beasts to subdue Manifest lands to ravage Peace was slaughtered Its Peoples were called Savage. Modern generations birthed beneath fluorescent glows God became irrelevant when man learned fire all his own. But I’ve always felt more akin to Icarus…

  Joshua Khatena

  July 4, 2020

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