Namasté!
My friends all know me by the name "Dallas."
Since I am the Rainbow Tantra community Manager, I thought you’d like to know a little about me.
Basically, I’m a work in progress. I’m happiest when I’m striving to reach my full potential. My biggest fear is mediocrity. I try to live by the "Golden Rule." I believe in "live and let live," and don’t believe in trying to change people. I’d much rather accept them, or reject them, the way they are.
Originally from Brooklyn, I lived in Texas from high school through medical school. After returning to NYC to complete my residency training in Internal Medicine, I went on to study film, which was a passion of mine since high school. Having practiced Emergency Medicine for 10 years, I am now studying Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Los Angeles with the intention of practicing Integrative Medicine (Eastern-Western Medicine), with an emphasis on Women's Health, upon graduating.
I enjoy challenging myself physically and am an avid skier. I also enjoy scuba diving and have traveled extensively to exotic dive sites around the world. My other passions include rafting, weight lifting, photography, screenwriting, music, and collecting "tribal" art. I love traveling abroad, especially if it includes ecotourism, and to date have visited 22 countries. More recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to study for three weeks under the direct tutelage of the Indian Tantric master and guru, Sri Param Eswaran, during an intensive three-week Tantra pilgrimage in Southern India.
I dig movies, live music, and dancing, particularly at some hot after-hour spot downtown. I'm also fond of lectures, art exhibits, poetry slams, dance performances, as well as concerts. I'm not a big sports spectator.
I'm spiritual, but not fanatical. The type of Tantra I study and practice is strongly influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Kundalini Yoga.
I reject the notion that the spiritual path towards enlightenment has to be one of renunciation. Tantra doesn’t say "Withdraw from the world. The flesh is evil." Rather, it tells the practitioner to seek with a sincere and pure heart for Liberation, enjoy the pleasures of the world you live in, always keeping the spiritual intent alive, and you will come to live in the bliss of Pure Being.
This is what I found most appealing about Tantra. However, when I finally decided to seriously commit myself to the study and practice of Tantra during the summer of 2001, I was astounded to discover just how few practitioners there are in the U.S. Even these few seemed lonely and isolated, yearning for contact with other Tantrikas.
After much introspection, and admittedly initial resistance, I accepted the opportunity the Universe had presented to me – to be a catalyst through which others will know Tantra.
I make no claims to be a guru. I am far too early along on my own spiritual path of awakening. However, I've always been Tantric in spirit, although at the time I didn't know what Tantra is.
I am a natural healer, which is why I was drawn to Western medicine, and now Acupuncture and Traditional Oriental Medicine. Unlike most physicians of Western medicine, but like the Tantrics of old, I embrace all branches of the tree of life – astronomy, astrology, numerology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, alchemy, Ayurveda (the traditional herbal medicine of India), psychology, parapsychology, biofeedback, yoga, meditation, bioenergetics and so on. Therefore, it feels only natural to follow my "calling" and share this knowledge with others in need and desirous of it.
Just as I had to begin at an early stage in my medical training to apply my knowledge and skills, I am similarly starting from an early stage in my Tantric study and practice to share and apply my knowledge with others. I'm confident our studies together will be mutually enriching, and I'll do everything within my ability to make it so.
I'm looking forward to chatting you.
Sat Nam! (Truth is my identity!)
Dallas
