<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com</link><image><url>https://alpha.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://alpha.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:07:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[How and Why to Start a Dream Journal (Even if you Don’t Believe in Dreams)]]></title><description><![CDATA[As promised, I will interpret the dream as narrated for you in the previous post. I assure you that my interpretation will be wildly different than yours, and with the right mindset, you can draw value]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/how-and-why-to-start-a-dream-journal-even-if-you-don-t-believe-in-dreams</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/how-and-why-to-start-a-dream-journal-even-if-you-don-t-believe-in-dreams</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:32:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/7DceLgR4szFxUiiDmYoirsLnxvCXh8QyAmqMnGPo4AYAhqZyPh3aFxhJRW6qJd4zMkqEEdF7ERxpfL8dgrC14?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Pay Attention to Dreams? (Curveball: Because They're Meaningless and That's Okay)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image created with Artbreeder. I'm trying out something odd this week. I'm going to share my dreams, and what I think they mean. | Daily thought-storm for April 6, 2020. | Hey folks, Ever since]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/why-pay-attention-to-dreams-curveball-because-they-re-meaningless-and-that-s-okay</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/why-pay-attention-to-dreams-curveball-because-they-re-meaningless-and-that-s-okay</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:35:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/ADdPNihJzmPasggoA9zo7a9krLHELwr1426rbn3nieq7XPE7nHXqYGXvk3wQXWkMdyiFNGV2NDnqqJtkHeAWozV4a?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Honesty Has Helped Me to Find Balance While the World is Burning.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Privilege, Honesty, and Balance | Daily Thought-Storm 2 Woe is me, reader. I have to wash my clothes by hand again today. This town’s still closed for business, and my apartment contains no laundry machine,]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/how-honesty-has-helped-me-to-find-balance-while-the-world-is-burning</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/how-honesty-has-helped-me-to-find-balance-while-the-world-is-burning</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:19:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6gUbcKN7UxenQRLjtrjozhdLXqTaRA2iSXJjz5kjL7ai1opsnN8C8tnERGQJUPc6M8otVF?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kefir, Quarantine, and Catastrophe (Daily Thought-storm 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I had a stomach ache. Shouldn’t have drunk that kefir, it was rancid. I killed all the beneficial bacteria by pouring piping-hot water over it. I’ll have to throw out three weeks’ worth]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/kefir-quarantine-and-catastrophe-daily-thought-storm-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/kefir-quarantine-and-catastrophe-daily-thought-storm-1</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 18:31:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4PYjjVwJ1UdtK8emRYhtHLYgRPhk9YhDKLE7AxiAJQHrcavXEcQ7B62vnBzL8NB7AjPUhDYbtCu87wE1oy32Pu4jMVQ78BtxssmFPenwsC2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Mushrooms Grow In Peru And Their Benefits.]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Originally published in The Startup on March 27, 2020.) A few weeks ago, I turned up in a village called Arin in the Sacred Valley near Cusco, searching for a mysterious wizard by the name of Taki. At]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/where-mushrooms-grow-in-peru-and-their-benefits</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/where-mushrooms-grow-in-peru-and-their-benefits</guid><category><![CDATA[smallbusiness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:50:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6gUbcKN7UxenQRLjtrjozhdLXqTaRA2iSXJjz5kkXsbx8QKnD35kJBvtnLUURrDtwkMWuk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mescaline Session Three | Departures in Many Faces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where am I going? It’s not that I’m lost, but I need to visit the question. Between the cocoa techno party the other night and bushwhacking up the mountains that morning, I must have made the decision]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/mescaline-session-three-or-departures-in-many-faces</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/mescaline-session-three-or-departures-in-many-faces</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2020 21:52:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing Places | Some Scaffolding to Mescaline session 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman with five heads came to Casa Intihuatana and transformed the air. From a muffled stereo the heartbeat of Latin America resonated through me until it was all I cared to listen to. El Bújo, Weval,]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/changing-places-or-some-scaffolding-to-mescaline-session-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/changing-places-or-some-scaffolding-to-mescaline-session-3</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:11:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pre-Mescaline Session 3 | Premonition of a Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dream Journal | February 7, 2020 Enormous fish, they were catching enormous fish and leaving them by their vehicles at the gas stations, the fish were choking without oxygen as the men filled their tanks,]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/pre-mescaline-session-3-or-premonition-of-a-storm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/pre-mescaline-session-3-or-premonition-of-a-storm</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:04:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts from Rain; Stoking the Fire with Deadwood]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where am I going? It’s not that I’m lost, but I need to visit the question. Between the cocoa techno party and bushwhacking up the mountains, I must have made that decision. In the end, it’s always a decision]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/thoughts-from-rain-stoking-the-fire-with-deadwood</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/thoughts-from-rain-stoking-the-fire-with-deadwood</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 02:08:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freewritten | Walking With Another Shadow]]></title><description><![CDATA[I ask her, "Do you know what you want?" Her mind goes somewhere far away for a moment and then, "Ya. Ya, I know. I didn't before, I had hints even on the plane here. But ya, I have something]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/freewritten-or-walking-with-another-shadow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/freewritten-or-walking-with-another-shadow</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 23:04:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mescaline in the Sacred Valley, Peru | Session Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I knew that the spirits were attendant, I went to the river to speak with the medicine. Other travelers and drifters were there, sitting in their own fields of private contemplation. I pass the idle]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/mescaline-in-the-sacred-valley-peru-or-session-two</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/mescaline-in-the-sacred-valley-peru-or-session-two</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 22:36:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[January 2020: Wachuma in the Sacred Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[January 10, 2020 In the roaring twenty-twenties, I find myself craving ordered chaos, and that’s something quite different from disorder. I’m regrowing my ankles, intestines, and knees in a private]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/january-2020-wachuma-in-the-sacred-valley</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/january-2020-wachuma-in-the-sacred-valley</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:46:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s with this new marina in Exmouth? (Think luxury Outback adventures, and maybe solar.)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marina Quays — Exmouth — Western Australia, August 18th, 2018, Credit: Adwo “We passed through Exmouth, a place that is experiencing an impressive influx of private investment., A marina is being built]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/what-s-with-this-new-marina-in-exmouth-think-luxury-outback-adventures-and-maybe-solar</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/what-s-with-this-new-marina-in-exmouth-think-luxury-outback-adventures-and-maybe-solar</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:05:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/5bEGgqZEHBMdvSSM19eBf5mzVXgDWL1u5R2QBPcehfT78PuS7H5NRpH2No7VcRcfUi8peQ77vYHTxsr5BP9pcLAUZcRFSsNN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Deleted]]]></title><description><![CDATA[[Empty]]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/enigma-btc-eng-looks-very-bullish-this-week-still-has-upside-potential</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/enigma-btc-eng-looks-very-bullish-this-week-still-has-upside-potential</guid><category><![CDATA[enigma]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:47:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asiatic Travels #13: Padum -- Princelings, hashish, sand dunes, a Ladakhi wedding]]></title><description><![CDATA[This story continues where the other left off, in the valley of Zanskar where I test my endurance perhaps more than I ever had before up to that point. It was truly a deadly experience and I was very glad]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-13-padum-princelings-hashish-sand-dunes-a-ladakhi-wedding</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-13-padum-princelings-hashish-sand-dunes-a-ladakhi-wedding</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2017 02:09:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961Jmyyj92NHu3hoGi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asiatic Travels #12: Through the valley of Zanskar to Kargyak village]]></title><description><![CDATA[This story continues where the other left off, in the Valley of Zanskar after passing Shingo-la. It then continues here, where I recap the journey to this point and reach the village of Kargyak. There]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-12-through-the-valley-of-zanskar-to-kargyak-village</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-12-through-the-valley-of-zanskar-to-kargyak-village</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:56:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e9w6EXgNLkQb9Q5Uu9Dk2a5wGmxkiRWUpJi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asiatic Travels #11: Crossing Shingo-la into the Valley of Zanskar]]></title><description><![CDATA[This continues where the other entry left off, in Himachal Pradesh on my way to Shingo-la and the valley of Zanskar. I'll be posting these regularly until the entire thing is transcribed with photos and]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-11-crossing-shingo-la-into-the-valley-of-zanskar</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-11-crossing-shingo-la-into-the-valley-of-zanskar</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:09:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961LYa5gxyPnfZQbJn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asiatic Travels #10: Approaching Shingo-la, Altitude Sickness]]></title><description><![CDATA[This continues where the other entry left off, in Himachal Pradesh on my way to Shingo-la. I'll be posting these regularly until the entire thing is transcribed with photos and videos. In the first year]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-10-approaching-shingo-la-altitude-sickness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-10-approaching-shingo-la-altitude-sickness</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:41:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961G5urWNNiCUsNBoC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asiatic Travels #9: Into Himachal Pradesh]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is transcribed from my travel journals written while trekking through the Himalaya in the summer of 2014. The photos were taken with a Canon pocket camera.  July 23, 2014 The sun was hot this day,]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-9-into-himachal-pradesh</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-9-into-himachal-pradesh</guid><category><![CDATA[travel]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 02:44:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961PVadFsSdFmgDd9x?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asiatic Travels #8: Malaysian Street Photography -- Here's a bundle from Georgetown and Malacca]]></title><description><![CDATA[My friends warned me not to spend all of my good photos in one post, but I'm doing it anyway (forgive me @calendula). There are plenty more for me to share! This is really a sample and I'll continue to]]></description><link>https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-8-malaysian-street-photography-here-s-a-bundle-from-georgetown-and-malacca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://alpha.ecency.com/@rotiwokeman/asiatic-travels-8-malaysian-street-photography-here-s-a-bundle-from-georgetown-and-malacca</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotiwokeman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:22:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961KJK6cGiP574h9PU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>