We’re updating the Gaia “About” page, and this is my chance to officially introduce myself. So… Hi!

My Name: David Pearson

Official Title: Former Director of Operations & Business Development at Gaia
                      Former COO / VP of Biz Dev & Co-founder at Zaadz

Unofficial Title: Explorer

... from this perspective anyway. Here's a list of some things I’ve been checking out in 2008

Some audio in the player right now

Do YOU Do It or Does IT Do You? – Alan Watts
We may be much more than who we think we are.

The Book of Secrets – Deepak Chopra
Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

The New Man – Casey's new site
Beyond the macho jerk and the new age wimp.

Gamma Meditation System – Dr. Jeffrey Thompson
You have to check this out (article below).

"Work"

So far we've launched:

myGaia start page
Gaia+ with resonance engine (and more features on the way)

and

the new Gaia.com navigation page (just last week)

Man.... I can't begin to tell you how amazing this team is. Stay tuned for what's next.

(Gaia Pro to come in April)

Latest Books

Spiritual Warfare – Jed McKenna

“Self-deceit is the hardest habit to break cuz it tells us that we ain't self-deceived.”

“I want what's best and I trust the universe, not my little brain, to be the judge of what's best and how best to make it happen.”

"Your thoughts and emotions determine your dreamstate reality. That's where you start. From there it's just a matter of simplifying the equation and eventually seeing that your thoughts and emotions are your dreamstate. It's all consciousness, you are just consciousness. There is nothing else. Once that goes from thought-level concept to full emmersion awareness, you naturally merge with the currents instead of being tossed about by them."

The Untethered Soul – Mickey Singer

"Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It's the commotion that mind makes about life that really causes problems."

"When you close down and protect yourself, you are pulling a shell around the part of you that is weak."

"Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself."

Does It Matter? – Alan Watts

"A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy."

New Good Food – Margarett Wittenberg

"My work has also given me the chance to participate in national and international advisory groups exploring some of the deeper issues about food and how to work together to deal with them. Primary topics have included the short- and long-term of pesticides and other pollutants on out food supply, sustainable agriculture, genetic engineering, sustainability of wild seafood, aquaculture, and the welfare of food-producing animals from birth through slaughter."

iTunes tracks that I'm digging

"The Trick Is to Keep Breathing" - Garbage

"Innocente" (Edit) - Delerium & Leigh Nash

"Alice" - Venus Hum

"Heartburn" - Just Jack

Friend’s Websites

EduFire – Jon
An amazing new concept in education.

Just Perception – No one
Just perception... without a perceiver

Feel Good Vibes – Ninja
Brighten your day

thinkArete – Brian
Concentrated wisdom for the busy self-actualizer

Travel and geography

I've been living in Boulder for most of the time these days and have been enjoying the mountians and new friends. It feels like spring could be here soon. I can't wait! Fingers crossed

Took a long weekend off in January to go to Joshua Tree with Beth to get some alone time, to relax, and do some relationship work that we found through the Hendrick's Institute. Good stuff! We stayed at this great little private villa on 5 acres of magical land just outside the park. We highly recommend it if you ever make it out that way.

Went to Florida on retreat (and I use that term loosely) for the weekend a couple of weeks back with Sean, Casey, Jason, and some other great folks to meet with the "mighty guru" behind this site. ;) It was a weekend full of great conversations, altered states, lots of laughs, swimming, and even a beer or few.

Back to LA later this week to see my beautiful woman and to have a guys weekend with Benj and Mr. Johnson while our goddesses are at a workshop.

Hopefully taking my first real vacation since we launched Zaadz in ’05. Yes!!! The idea at this point is Bali (our dream accomadations) and if all goes well, we’ll be there this spring.

Maybe we’ll spend 10 days here too

Articles I've just read

Double Vision – John Welwood
Duality and Nonduality in Human Experience

Organization at the Leading Edge: Introducing Holacracy – Brian J. Robertson
A practice for organizational entities

Sound - Medicine for the New Millennium - Center for Neuroacoustic Research
Check out the audio by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson (up top) for the experience

On the screen

Into the Wild
A great movie (and book) about a young man who leaves society behind and walks is own parth. The cinematography is outstanding! (and the soundtrack is great too)

Paprika
A dream within a dream. This is an amazing animated adventure!

LOST
If you haven’t had a chance to check out this show…. You’re missing out! It’s thoroughly entertaining, thought provoking, and is constantly revealing deeper messages. Probably the best TV show I've ever seen (although that's not saying much as I don't really watch much TV).
 You can rent the first three seasons on DVD or download it on iTunes.

Some quotes that have caught me

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
~James D. Miles

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.
~Nietzsche

We do not "come into" into this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.
~Alan Watts

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what it is but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
~Socrates

It is the truth that frees, not your effort to be free.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
~Mahatma Gandhi

I/We would love to hear what’s new with you so far this year too. How about one thing that you're fired up about right now?

Does this planet amaze you as much as it does me?