Darrin Drda is an author, designer, illustrator, and musician living in the Bay Area of Caligornia. He holds an MA in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness (PCC) from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. Darrin’s latest book, with which this blog is affiliated, is entitled The Four Global Truths: Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times, published by North Atlantic Books under the Evolver Editions imprint. For more information, please visit www.thefourglobaltruths.com.
Hello! I saw your interview with Ian MacKenzie and felt compelled to reach out. I’m producing a wellness show called Exploring Joy and I am looking to connect with people who would like to participate somehow. I believe we are going through a transition. People are beginning to wake up and see we are not living “right.” In America we tend to view wellness as fitness…but the purpose of the Exploring Joy show is to remind people that wellness is happiness…and the first place it starts is in the mind.
Please view the promo for our show and contact me if you would like to be involved.
http://vimeo.com/33091594
http://exploringjoy.tv
I’m looking forward to reading your book and possibly connecting in the future.
Best wishes!
Joy Rigel
I was a patient of your Mother’s Cheryl at a mental hospital in Maine. I earned a degree in philosophy but have since gone into the spiritual side of all the major religions. Your Mother helped me through some tough times when the male doctors (all of them) failed to help me and Cheryl knew I was just fine and worked to get me out of there quick. She offered to let me read your book but when she went to her car to get it she realized she had lent it to someone else. Thus I have yet to read it. Anyways, I was looking at art on my Tumblr feed and a great wheel of Samsara piece called Americosmos came up with your name. I thought, “I know his mom!” Then I came to this site. I tried to call back Cheryl many times but never got through. I have not spoken to her since they transferred me to Dorothea Dix and I have since been out for a while. I just want you to know that your mother was the only person to really listen to my story and come to the right conclusion. I have to so much to thank her for. She felt like my only friend while I was there along with some nice social workers. I am so happy some one has adapted some Buddhism to contemporary problems and I know they have solutions. To me, I believe everyone has both the potential for terrible evils and amazing moral goodness in them but we must learn that each person’s psyche is where the problem is. Much of Buddhism is about mental afflictions and the use of meditation so I think this book is on the right track and surely I will read it. The artwork is great Americosmos! Did you really do it? Can I get a poster somehow? I wish you the best. Also, I do remember Cherly saying she’d help me go on a vacation to CA to meet you because she thought I needed to get away from all the hospital garbage. She was so nice to offer. Tell her I said hello if you can!
Hi Michael,
Anyway, here’s to your continued healing and spiritual growth. If you want to download the Americosmos image you can find it here:
Thanks for the note. I’m so glad to hear that Cheryl is doing good work over in Maine. You should know, however, that she is not my mother but my sister! (Don’t worry, I won’t tell her about the confusion, and I doubt she reads my blog
http://www.thefourglobaltruths.com/americosmos.html
Blessings,
-Darrin