Home: Passions & Projects
My often boundless passion for life has led me to many wondrous places, people and experiences. Sharing those experiences has sometimes proven difficult, so below is a short list of quick links, followed by longer explanations afterwards:
• My BUILDING MY DREAM PLANE diary of homebuilt Sportsman 2+2 airplane.
• My GNOSIS OF MYTH section exploring nonduality and the roots of religion.
• My Scientifically-Proven Religious Experiences from John Hopkins University.
• My PLAYGROUND RECORDING STUDIO and Mastering Blog.
• My KONA KAVA FARM in Hawaii for organic Kava Kava and vegan chocolate.
• My ENTHEOLOGY project of non-duality and preserving sacred shamanic knowledge.
• My DELUSIONS OF RELIGION and ON BEING HUMAN articles and essays.
• My piloting planes and helicopters, as well as diving, and my latest love; surfing.
• My Motion Graphics training for my upcoming doco on Shamanism in 2012.
• My PHOTO JOURNALS, my PAINTINGS and BOOKS IN PROGRESS.
• My BODHI BLOG for IAmShaman; the vision and website that started my path to Shamanism.
01. My first love will always be my PLAYGROUND RECORDING STUDIO and Mastering Blog. The opportunity to work with bands I adored such as Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Verve, Spiritualized, HUM, Posies, and many more made so many dreams come true for me. I’m grateful for every moment on the road and in the studio, and I had assumed that I’d be a record producer for the rest of my life. That all changed…
02. In the early 2000′s, I had a life-changing spiritual experience. It turned my world upside-down, and I left the music business to pursue a path I never could have imagined I’d find myself on. I do my best to explain it in LIVING THIS DOUBLE LIFE post and my ABOUT ME page and my KEITH CLEVERSLEY’S POINT page, but none seem to truly describe how a single experience was able to change the course of my entire life. So much continues to evolve and expand from that experience, manifesting in projects such as my KONA KAVA FARM, or ones described in my MISSION STATEMENT on my Shaman’s Garden.
03. The next project has been evolving for years; it’s ENTHEOLOGY.COM, which I started in the early 2000′s to simply collect and preserve the knowledge of sacred and shamanic plants and peoples for my own personal research. It’s truly an ongoing labor of love for me. Much of it has since come from personal experiences in the field, deep in the Amazon Jungle or at the top of Machu Picchu in search of answers, connections, and the history of spirituality and religious beliefs. Although my personal efforts are simply a drop in the bucket, it’s a bucket I firmly believe in, and I’ve truly never been more sure of the path I’m on now.
04. Next up would be my often misinterpreted voice in relation to what I’ve come to call the GNOSIS OF MYTH. It began as the DELUSIONS OF RELIGION where I explored how Jesus was a perfect example of the manifestation of earlier non-dualist traditions. The true portrait of Christianity is far different than the mainstream religion that was hijacked by politicians hungry for world domination, which culminated in the Council of Nicea in 325AD. The GNOSIS OF MYTH section focuses exclusively on understanding the truth in mythological stories and how they’re the keys to all that we’ve lost spiritually. To regain our spirituality is to simply remember, to escape our mutual indoctrination of the misogynistic, oppressive tradition that billions of us inherited.
05. Fifth on the list would have to be a few of my favorite things to do in the world including piloting single engine planes, as well as diving, and my latest craze; surfing. There’s never enough time to do everything, but I do my absolute best to squeeze as many of them in as I can between running my studio and shop. I can’t get enough of flying my Cessna Skycatcher in Southern California airspace. Within minutes I can go from ocean to mountains to desert to soaring waterfalls in beautiful places difficult to reach except by plane. I always knew I wanted to own my own plane, but I had no idea how transforming it could be. My dear friend Steven Forrest is right over the mountains, and if anyone is ever interested in a true evolutionary astrological reading, I highly suggest checking him and his books out.
06. Then there’s my other creative outlets (neurosis) such as some of my PHOTO JOURNALS, my paintings, as well as some of my fine art nudes, and my eternal BOOKS IN PROGRESS. I adore traveling, but had to put it on hold as I spent 2010 moving me and my studio to California, while researching and then building a video production rig, fleshing out a script, and assembling a team to start work on the documentary. More travel photos will appear shortly as I begin traveling exclusively to support my continued passion for and research into Shamanism.
07. After that, I would have to include my new passion for Motion Graphics and my goal of posting 100 projects in 100 days. It was started because of my upcoming documentary called “Shamanism: Spirituality’s True Roots” scheduled to start production on January 2012. When I got a quote of $3,000.00/minute of animation, I decided to learn it myself. It’s been so much fun that I’ve converted my new mastering studio in California to a full-on video production facility. It’s taken a back seat to my research on Shamanism, but we will make it happen.
LASTLY: It’s difficult to squeeze all the things I find so much joy in, but at the moment, my focus, as it has been for years, is the preservation, research, and spreading the word of Shamanism, the rituals, and the sacred plants used for Shamanic rituals, while exploring the space outside of time that the shamanic experience of non-duality has given me. That passion, born from a vision, has never wavered and has brought me a richness in my life that I never would have imagined possible. It’s taken me to many corners of the world, to Shaman and Non-Duality Conferences, to Shamanic Rituals in the Amazon Rainforest, to forming my Peruvian Coalition, to gathering artifacts that prove the existence of Shamanism in Mayan culture, to inspiring me to author hundreds of articles on my network of websites. I’m always excited to see what the Universe has in store for me next.
