Justin Boreta

This is a home for things I am working on, reading, and thinking about.

I am a member of music projects The Glitch Mob, Superposition, and 29 Palms.

I also co-founded iOS visuals app Hyperspektiv.

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Alan Watts + Boreta + Superposition - Listen, Dream

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Alan Watts + Boreta + Superposition - Listen, Dream

Alan Watts + Boreta + Superposition - Listen, Dream

Superposition - A00/ No Mind

✿ Ambient Ritual Spotify Playlist ✿

The Glitch Mob - Go Light (29 Palms Remix)

29 Palms - Lightning in a bottle 2018

Christopher Willits - Clear (Boreta Remix)

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Books Favorite books of 2019

Meditation Alan Watts, Boreta, Superposition – Listen, Dream

Meditation ✿ Ambient Ritual ✿ playlist

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💃🏻 @babaramdass 💃🏻

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Today is Alan Watts’ Birthday, revisiting our audiovisual mediation collaboration, “Listen, Dream”. I can read or listen to his any of his work at any point in time and it has a magical way of putting it all in perspective. Spiritual windshield wipers.

If you haven’t heard yet, I recommend giving it a listen in headphones from start to finish. (Full audio link in bio)

Visuals @strangelooptv

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📚 2019 Favorite Books. I will be sending out email newsletters in 2020 with books and more, sign up @ boreta.net
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▪️ Matthew Walker - Why We Sleep (not pictured)
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This book is a game changer. If you read one book from this list, I would recommend this. It is a bit overkill IMO, but still it changed my life for the better.
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▪️ Monica Gagliano - Thus Spoke the Plant (not pictured)

I recommended this to a lot of friends. Mind boggling scientist’s story of communicating with plants.
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▪️ Ryan Holiday - Stillness is the Key
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Highly recommended, great for shifting perspective and creative process.
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▪️ Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Quick read, hyper blast of cosmic perspective.
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▪️ Richard Wolf - In Tune: Music as the Bridge to Mindfulness

Beautiful read for musicians and/or mediators.
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▪️ Annaka Harris - Conscious
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By far the most approachable and still mind-bending book about consciousness I’ve read. Loved. A real life scifi journey.
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▪️Michelle Janikan - Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion
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I am so happy this finally exists. Practical and expansive guide for all things tripping: safety, best practices, etc.
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▪️Cory Allen - Now is the Way
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Lovely book about mindfulness for everyone, but IMO especially useful if you're just getting started.
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▪️Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature
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The history of the idea of nature. Super fun read and timely.
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▪️Oliver Sacks - Everything in its Place
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The final book from one of my favorite authors. Filled with real wisdom and gratitude.
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▪️Ted Chiang - Exhalation
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Absolutely loved this. If you are looking for some heady, beautiful fiction, this is my favorite in a long time. Can’t recommend enough.
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▪️Ram Dass - Polishing the Mirror
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Revisited this this week after Ram Dass passed, more potent than ever.
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▪️Francois Bourzat/Kristina Hunter - Consciousness Medicine
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By far the best and most approachable book about of the therapeutic use of psychedelics I've read. .
▪️Mike Jay - Mescaline
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This one blew me away and I will read again. There is so much wisdom and history about altered states of consciousness from the beginning of time until today, it’s psychedelic Sapiens.

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Thank you for everything @babaramdass who left his body yesterday. What a journey!

I had the pleasure of spending time with him on multiple occasions when working on our collaboration. Words can not describe what it was like walking into the room with him—it was like being on the best kind of drugs. He cultivated a gaze of pure acceptance like a nuclear mutant superhero of compassion. I felt my masks and stories melt away into the present moment, and without him saying anything I intuitively got what it was all about.

There is nothing to believe, nothing to sign up for, nothing to pay. The teachings are not an external framework to subscribe to as much as they are a machete clearing away dense forests of ego (judgement, fear) to remember our true nature (loving awareness, compassion, joy). I asked him questions for hours. I told him about making music and touring, and how I felt like we receive love from fans and send it back out in the form of music. He stopped me and said, “Ah ha! You see that? That’s your ego? Your ego gives and takes, your soul IS love.” It is a small but profound difference of transacting in love to being it.

This is all a practice, of course. I get lost in my ego-mind every single day. But now there is a little Ram Dass there waving and smiling, reminding me to witness it all and not get caught in the drama. “Death is like taking off a tight shoe,” he said. He helped me put the idea of dying in a lens of acceptance rather than fear. I believe this pure acceptance is a cheat code to set our internal compasses to everything that truly matters in a life well-lived. How fitting that he took of his shoe in a such graceful way and left a wake of breadcrumbs for generations to come. Loving awareness ♥️♥️♥️

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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” -Carl Sagan

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We are making some beautiful limited vinyl of the Alan Watts meditation. Proceeds go to @alanwattsorg towards production efforts to release rarely-heard talks from the archives. Pre-order at the link in my bio ♾
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Art by @dean.grenier

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Spent the birthday weekend full zend mode in this rainy forest bathing situation