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ZOOMDOUT Head of the Year (2013): Russell Brand

11/29/2013

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The comedian and actor, Russell Brand, has been busy ruffling up old patriarchal feathers throughout his revolutionary stand-up comedy world-tour, "Messiah Complex." During his tour around the globe he's been on countless radio, podcast and television programs megaphoning his illuminated realizations.

It's apparent that Brand takes every opportunity to break through the media's medium in order to comedically stir the listener into a state of "aha!" (probably followed by a state of "haha"). He frequently and facetiously exposes the long-outdated operating system our culture is currently running on.  Drawing up his inspiration from revolutionary figures that fluctuate between Che Guevara, Gandhi, Jesus Christ and Malcolm X, he is brilliantly juxtaposing our crumpling situation with a solution that involves us graduating out of the "dead human ape" mentality. 

His solution takes shape in his hyper-enthusiastic espousing of the importance of consciousness evolution; whether it be through life-style choices such as yoga, vegetarianism and mediation, or a full on immersion into Amazonian Shamanism. His relentless dedication of promoting the evolution of consciousness, combined with his humorous unveilings of the exaggerated faults and errors glaring in the face of society, in my opinion, has earned Russell Brand the recognition of being the most ZOOMDOUT Head of the Year this year (2013). 

That being said, below are a few of Russell Brand's spiritually-generated gems excerpted from the excellently-edited montage video above; along with the virally laugh-out-loud "Morning Joe" hi-jacking video, BBC Newnight interview, and his truth-spewing interview on Infowars with Alex Jones. Congratulations and much respect to Russell Brand for zooming out and coming back to share what he has learned. In the words of Chris Kilham, "Viva la evolution!"
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SCUBA Death and Re-Breath: Diving in the Caribbean

11/22/2013

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Diving and Dying and Diving
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I took a one credit SCUBA diving class during my last semester at Syracuse back in the winter of 2009. I’ll repeat that: the winter of 2009. 

It was a clumsily metallic, semester-long class made up of SCUBA-diving theory and deep-end-of-the-school-pool-diving. I should probably disclose that this crumpled up period of experienced time was accompanied by a personal all-time-high of mushroom-munching, lucid dreaming, salvia-smoking, acid-dropping, psychedelic reading, McKenna lecture-listening, Waking Life-looping exploratory habits. In other words, it was during the “My Time is Melting” phase of inspiration. The strange, semester-long Salvador Dahli-like trip was majestically topped off with a sweet, creamy swirl of trauma, thanks to a SCUBA diving accident that almost pushed me over the slippery edge of life.

I guess, given the time constraints, the National Aquatic Service in Syracuse is usually left with no choice but to dump its fledgling SCUBA diving students into the tundra-temperature lake located even farther north of an already freezing, frost-covered Syracuse. The dim-witted SCUBA school provided us with cheap, penguin-colored wet suits and strapped us on with beat up iron belts and antiquated SCUBA tanks before our first open water test-dive. Like helpless, flapping baby birds in SCUBA gear we lined up like Emperor Penguins about to dive into the Arctic Ocean for the first time.

I remember the first dive roughly going according to plan. Aside from the loose-fitting dry suit; which freely welcomed the freezing lake water to creep into my suit and slowly proceeded to turn my body into a Popsicle. After re-emerging out of the water I was slightly shaken up by the fact that my first dive could’ve ended in disaster, but I quickly warmed up to the preeminent fact that I made it out alive, albeit frozen.

However, the second dive practically ended up in a life-ending debacle. We were swimming like a mindless school of guppies at the bottom of the lake when my regulator’s airflow suddenly clogged up on me without the slightest courtesy of warning. Submerged in befuddlement, I went on to take another desperate breath, but the regulator declined my seemingly annoying request for air, again. I had plenty of air in my tank and yet I had no idea why this was happening. What a convenient situation I found myself in. Not being able to utter a word or get the attention of anybody at the bottom of the dark lake only expounded to the amount of worry already on my shoulders.

This is when desperation peaked and I made the last batch of panicked attempts to inhale some air out of the scheming regulator with a greater voracity than a vicious crackhead sucking up the fumes of their last dwindling particles of crack in their pipe. After the last sequence of massively failed attempts my mind quickly flashed up all of my available survival options.


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