Dakota Feinstein

View larger image The name, Dakota Feinstein came to me in a loose association. I think it's funny, but could be easily misconstrued as serious. This is intentional. After the name arrived, I began to say that I was going to write a book and call it "Dakota Feinstein's Spiritual Journey". I like that new age first name and the Jewish last name, in counterpoint , as well as the picture it evokes. I may have to take on a mystical middle name at sometime in the future. When I started this endeavor, I was completely anonymous, because I project shame and humiliation into every new experience, due to early trauma. Anonymity just seemed safer. After a few months, I did tell a few dear and close personal friends what I was up to. I remain anonymous because I write things here that many people would be better off not knowing, as in, you don't want to think about your parents having sex. I try to publish interesting photographs that illustrate synchronicity and beauty. I've stopped with the dead fish, for the time being. I cover culture, inside looks at seminars, shamanism, energy healing, spiritual journeys, spiritual teachers, intense conscious and unconscious emotions and thoughts, aging, aesthetics, pressing questions, lunacy and what I do with mine, politics and most recently, perversion. You know, whatever comes into my head. I have even received continuing education credits for learning some of this stuff. I am about to start Tai Chi for little old ladies who want to increase their goddess energy. See what I mean? I try not to be boring, to use clickies for astonishment, intermittantly reinforcing the reader's quest for further information. I try to to keep my sense of humor and awe, and stay at the curious edge of my disbelief as I experience fourth dimensional goings on. Really, what more can a girl do? Just looked at the list above and said to myself, "No wonder only a few people read this blog?" Who can take it? In the past I would have said alot more about what I "do" rather than about how I be. This is a blog about coming into being -- doesn't that sound pretentious? Photo note: You are left to determine whether I am the glamorous blonde behind the camera with the Martha Stewart scarf at my neck and the elbows-to-die-for, or the distinguished gentleman in the raincoat. In any case, I have many facets.

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