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My spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen’s latest quote of the week:
No Reference Points
Consciousness has no boundaries, no beginning and no end. The cognitive faculties of the human mind cannot grasp its infinite nature, because we habitually relate to the self that is observing only as a fixed, finite entity, and to every object that we give […]

Having disbanded in 2000, my favorite contemporary rock band since I was a depressed 15-year-old (in 1995), The Smashing Pumpkins, played their first show in nearly seven years last night in Paris! (Former members James and D’arcy–and Melissa–you will be missed. But at least now we’re getting a little Gen-Y representation happening with new bassist/vocalist […]

Since July 2003, I’ve been on the staff of What Is Enlightenment? magazine as an editor and writer. Here are some of the more substantial pieces I’ve written for WIE:
FEATURES & REVIEWS
Anarchy in the Sangha
A combo review of Noah Levine’s Against the Stream and Brad Warner’s Sit Down and Shut Up
Issue 38
Which Came First: […]

Sheer genius . . .

(For those who don’t watch BSG, Adama and Tigh actually appear to be uber-straight males, hence the ironic craftiness of this clip.)

Name: Tom Huston
Genesis: California, USA, in June 1980
Samsaric Origins!
Born and raised in California till I was nearly 14, my family and I moved to the dismal, rainy Seattle area in 1994, a few days after Kurt Cobain killed himself there (pure coincidence). Over the next few years, I listened to alternative rock, aspired to study […]

Welcome to KosmicTom.com! Here I intend to amuse myself, and Viewers Like You, with all manner of posts related to anything and everything that piques my interest as I contemplate the wondrously multidimensional, ceaselessly evolving Kosmos that surrounds us (and is us).
I hope you enjoy your visit.
Kosmically Yours,
Tom

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  • Welcome to the personal blog of Tom Huston, one of the editors at What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Arising from the cultural milieu of late 20th-century America, armed with the combined powers of Integral Theory and Evolutionary Enlightenment, he has become … Kosmic Tom.
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