What matters?
I looked through my blogs of days past that I have left unpublished in an effort to let go, forget, allow . . Something. Perhaps I just...
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A journey and exploration into the mysteries, beauty, and magic of Life, the universe, Gaia and Humanity
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A journey and exploration into the mysteries, beauty, and magic of Life, the universe, Gaia and Humanity
Akana Mandaté
- Dec 2, 2021
- 6 min
I Don’t Know Shit
I’ve been on this ride for just over 10 weeks now. It has been an adventure though more than anything it has been confusing. Wondering...
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Akana Mandaté
- Nov 13, 2021
- 8 min
Day 4: Leaning into discomfort and trust
Milford to Greenwich 45 miles I left for Greenwich. It was brisk, but refreshing. About 43 miles, it would take a few hours to arrive...
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Akana Mandaté
- Nov 13, 2021
- 6 min
Day 3 The best coffee I’ve ever had: Pregaming Greenwich to NYC and a Fire Station
That morning I found a place called CFCF. It stands for Coffee Cafe. When I got there it said on the window ‘No lap top zone’ or...
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Akana Mandaté
- Nov 12, 2021
- 5 min
Day 5-8: Sitting outside a Dunkin Donut at 12:57 in Nauet
Greenwich to Brooklyn to Nyack to Clifton to Kenilworth, NJ: 150 miles A cop just pulled up to see what was going on. I’m guessing there...
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Akana Mandaté
- Nov 8, 2021
- 6 min
Day 1/2: Steve, a garage, a futon and a love cat named Venus
After seeing Anne off on the train the previous day, I departed the station in New Haven feeling curious, nervous, excited and open....
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Akana Mandaté
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
Day 1 of part 2: And so it begins again
The last few days have been dynamic and varied in heart and the world. I saw my partner off to Boston and myself off on a new adventure....
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Akana Mandaté
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
Lost and Find
It is impossible to discover something if you always know where you are. Discovery is in the unknown. It is taking a risk. It is allowing...
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Akana Mandaté
- Oct 19, 2021
- 8 min
Feel. Play. Create. Share. Repeat.
It’s how you are designed. The origins of the foundation of who and what we are can easily be found in the eyes, sounds and actions of a...
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Akana Mandaté
- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
Free Writing: What is keeping me from seeing the beauty in everything?
Personal Free Writing What is between me and the beauty that exists in all of us and everything around us? Fear, confusion and the...
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Akana Mandaté
- Oct 10, 2021
- 2 min
Trusting the Darkness
'Tis what you can't see with your eyes that you seek. Our intuition is the hand of God guiding us into our knowing of days long past Did...
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Akana Mandaté
- Oct 9, 2021
- 6 min
My Name is Akana
What is in a name Note: This blog is from the summer of 2018 and has been unpublished until now. There is this moment in Frank Herbert’s...
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Akana Mandaté
- Oct 9, 2021
- 5 min
Unraveling the Shadows of my Soul
Note: This was written in 2018 and remained unpublished until now The only power fear has over me is to keep me from it. Yet when fear is...
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Akana Mandaté
- Sep 21, 2021
- 8 min
Following the Inspiration of Darkness
I thought I was lost. Kind of. I know we are never truly lost. Though, tell that to someone who thinks they are lost. It just means that...
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Akana Mandaté
- Aug 23, 2021
- 6 min
The Discovery of I. Just wait. Something has to happen.
I was an acting and movement instructor. Before that a tennis coach and program director and an outdoor adventure company director and...
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Akana Mandaté
- Aug 9, 2021
- 3 min
Remi Bricka: Stories of Inspiration and Remembrance
Remy Bricka: The man who walks on water. On 2 April 1988, a former schoolteacher and singer set out from Tenerife to cross the Atlantic...
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Akana Mandaté
- May 24, 2021
- 1 min
Four Minute Free Writing: REWRITING HISTORY
Looking past the veil of time unravels the discord of humanity. Longing to be lost in oneself only to be found. Look to the light for the...
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Akana Mandaté
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Free Writings: The crossroads of trust and letting life fuck me
Writing Prompt (4 minutes): THE CROSSROADS The crossroads of time ever again passing us as we get to once again choose like never before...
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Akana Mandaté
- Mar 21, 2021
- 15 min
Money is Love; A Father's Dying Gift
Death is such a great teacher. And so is life . . . when we allow it. When they meet one another everything changes. What my channel...
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Akana Mandaté
- Mar 15, 2021
- 4 min
Free Writings: Anger & Awakening the Dragon
Prompt: Anger You are so judged. I wish I lost my shit. My truth backed by honest rage. A key to life. The key to freedom. The key that...
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Akana Mandaté
- Mar 5, 2021
- 12 min
Issai Gets to Type (Part 1)
Once Issai was out of the box it was clear that he had a lot to say and wanted to share with the world. This inner part of me. Through...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 28, 2021
- 10 min
'til Death Brings Us Together Again
For the most part, I have always been depressed at weddings. I'm uncertain why. I went to one wedding I had a great time at. Actually...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 28, 2021
- 4 min
Free Writing: The Only Thing In the Dark Is Love
I am writing an extra post today. More of a conversation between myself and my channel. I'm not sure what is happening though I want to...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 24, 2021
- 8 min
When Death is in Your Arms
Life can change in an instant. This afternoon was one of those moments. It changed and it didn't. William Esper would say it's just...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 23, 2021
- 6 min
A Poem About Hope: Page 132
A Poem: Page 132 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pS2jaAeU8&t=604s At a time of great despair I was looking for hope I was looking for...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 21, 2021
- 4 min
The Abandoned Watermill (Day 8)
The building looked like it was in shatters as the foliage fell quietly from the surrounding overgrown trees. The weight of it had built...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 21, 2021
- 7 min
Free Writing: Love is Madness
Something I often tangle with is the idea of madness. What it is. What is life? As I step into the darkness of being and forget myself....
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 20, 2021
- 3 min
Self Shift: The Universe Responds
I wrote late into the night disappointed that I didn't write more. I feel like I could write for months without stopping. There is so...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
An Actor's Truth
Being the original foundation of my work, I think the word 'Acting' alone tends to bring about a lot of different feelings and...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 19, 2021
- 9 min
Self Shift: The Inspired Life Experiment
For my entire life I have put most of my energy into other people's dreams. Helping others discover their truth, remember their deepest...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
LifeShift: Disease wants you to live
I have had the privilege of witnessing some of the most intimate, vulnerable and beautiful moments in so many people's lives. Like buried...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
Free Writing Entry: Remembering You
4 Minutes & 4 minutes I think about you and wonder. I long to reconnect only I also long to reconnect with myself. My own heart so that I...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
Free Writing Entry: The beast we fight
12 Minutes There is a piece of me that rests deep inside, that is here to play and has been awoken before though I know not why. It feels...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
The Real Witch Trials (Day 7)
Things weren't what they seemed. Though are they ever? Recorded history is often written by the authors of what makes sense. Of comfort....
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 16, 2021
- 3 min
Life Shift: Politics Unraveled
Several years ago I was at a 2-day educational workshop that was focusing on one of the technologies I was using. I had the pleasure of...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
Life Shift: Living Her Mother's Fight
Vanessa was a gospel singer. She came into our office because she was diabetic. Her sugar levels were 600, she was urinating foam, was...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
Life Shift: Rachel's Dream
It had been ten years since the captain asked Rachel if she wanted to go around the world with him on his boat. She had only been married...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
The House (Day 6)
Upon closer examination of their home, one would notice intricate details that were carved into the walls. Various layers of love that...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 13, 2021
- 11 min
Celebrating Grandma
Yesterday was my Grandmother's birthday. January 11th. I think she would have been 94. I loved my Grandma. She was an amazing woman....
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 12, 2021
- 10 min
Introducing Issai
In August of this past year I was staying at an Ashram outside of San Isidro, Costa Rica. The land was extraordinary and I was deeply...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
Inspired by The True Love by David Whyte
THE TRUE LOVE There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours, especially if you have waited years and especially if...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
Coming Together
Perhaps it isn't about letting go as much as it is about coming together. To let go is to allow and to listen through feeling because...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 10, 2021
- 11 min
The Chocolate Donut Diaries 3
Three years ago I had the idea to help my mother to move into an assisted living community. I did Ann's writing workshop at Esalen back...
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Akana Mandaté
- Jan 9, 2021
- 3 min
Hidden Underneath (Day 5)
When she was seven, Isadora began to hear voices in the middle of the night while she bathed peacefully in the dark of nothingness....
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