The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
We often think that creating art will help us find peace, its so taken for granted its laughable. We are sent messages that if you create...
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Gabriel Garcia,LMFT
Transformative Psychotherapy,
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- Sep 17
- 2 min
One Hundred Useful Dilemas
Oblique Strategies began as an experimental card game that encourages tangential thinking in order to rouse the intuitive spirit and...
gabrielgarciamft
- Sep 17
- 5 min
Wu Wei is a way to you
A Zen student went to a temple and asked how long it would take him to gain enlightenment if he joined the temple. 10 years, said the Zen...
gabrielgarciamft
- Jan 29
- 1 min
The New Anxiety Magazine
Magazines That Should Exist But Don't #1 Claire Weekes wrote an incredible book on anxiety and panic titled: Hope and Help for your ...
gabrielgarciamft
- Aug 16, 2022
- 5 min
THE SOUL OF A TREE: A MASTER WOODWORKERS REFLECTIONS
George Nakashima (May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker and architect. His innovations in the design of furniture ...
gabrielgarciamft
- Apr 19, 2022
- 6 min
The ecstatic solitude and final, magnificent days of OR-93
On a desolate, unknown and wild stretch of borderland between California and Oregon, in early spring, when the first whispers of running...
gabrielgarciamft
- Aug 17, 2021
- 1 min
Psychopoeia Fragment
Psychotherapy is a signifier with myriad connotations. Here the space casts off many of these assumptions and transmutes itself into a...
gabrielgarciamft
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
Towards an Anarcho-Taoist Approach to Therapy
Thirty spokes meet in the hub Where the wheel isn’t is where it’s useful. Hollowed out, makes a bowl, Where the pot’s not, is where it’s...
gabrielgarciamft
- Jun 25, 2021
- 2 min
You are the universe hiding from itself
Alan Watts curated one of the most succinct thought experiments at the intersection of desire and self. I encourage everyone to do this...
gabrielgarciamft
- Jun 25, 2021
- 5 min
Fragments of Taoist Therapy
The essence of Taoism is harmony. A harmonious existence for a Taoist, does not exclude the messy, the wild or the irrational. It makes...
gabrielgarciamft
- Jun 18, 2021
- 5 min
Born of Fire/The Fire Ladder
I sit down write and we are in the kindling of jejune days. Twelve months ago, we sat in quarantine as unprecedented fires terrorized our...
gabrielgarciamft
- May 28, 2021
- 1 min
Somewhere There is a Spring
If you have been beaten by the sun Always remember Somewhere there is a spring ⠀ Somewhere there is a spring And in this life you must...
gabrielgarciamft
- Feb 8, 2021
- 6 min
Consider The Burl
“Burl is the result of loss of orderly impulse in the tree, so that the grain is a tangle.” - Wallace Nutting “Likely the result of a...
gabrielgarciamft
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
The Transformation of Chuang Chou
Once Chaung Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He...
gabrielgarciamft
- Mar 18, 2020
- 4 min
Dude, Level up your Jing
Contemporary systems of knowledge are geared towards medicalization and pathology, in terms of science and psychology, respectively. In addi
gabrielgarciamft
- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min
The Moon at My Window - On Solitude
The thief left it behind:
The moon
at my window.
-Ryōkan Regardless of who you are you will experience loneliness and being alone....
gabrielgarciamft
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Axis Tempus Meditation - To Counter Linear Time
In a squirrely capitalist culture we are en-tranced by time. We believe it to be linear - the future, the past and, the present. We want...
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