Mel Ash - Artist, Teacher and Speaker invites you to join the revolution.

Mel Ash
Mel Ash - From workshop on "Shaving the Inside of Your Skull" Photo by Peter Goldberg
"Ash invites you to master the art of going sane."
Playboy Magazine

Welcome to the official website for Mel Ash, Zen teacher, artist, author and spiritual revolutionary. Mel is working on a number of new books and is gearing up for a new tour. We invite you to check out Mel's classic material (Zen of Recover, Shaving the Inside of Your Skull, and Beat Spirit) , to check out the new material as we post it to this site, AND to get busy. Busy with what? With chaning things. Your self, your relationships, your community, our culture. Don't you think what's come to be "the norm" is pretty crazy? Just about everyone we speak with thinks so! As Leonard Nimoy's character said in the 1981 re-make of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, "People are changing. They’re becoming less human. It’s happening all around us." You know things need to change. Let's get sane together...

Writing from Ethan Ash
Articles and more from Mel Ash

HERE IT IS!!!!
Sex is the goofy smile of the Spirit
Art is the sweet spasm of the Soul
Difference is the cool gift of the gods
Magick is the unwilling victim of Science
Death is the Great Reminder
Fear is only the Boo! of Change
Guilt is a prison for the Innocent
Greed is the small Suicide
Religion is doing what you are doing right now
Enlightenment is the old switcheroo
God is your secret name
Paying attention is your only bill
Belief is Mind Death
Enough is enough
No is always the wrong answer
Yes, you already have permission
There is no right way
Happiness is already yours
Anything not on this list is a lie

- Rev. Mel Ash
Church of the Mysterioso
ZenSkull Temple

New Mel Ash articles on E-How
Ten new articles from Mel Ash on E-How.com. (Updated 11/1/07)

SOUL SURVIVAL
Read a chapter from Mel Ash’s forthcoming book SOUL SURVIVAL: A Spiritual Self-Defense Manual for the New Dark Age. YES, there are more books on the way. If all goes well we will even get "Skull" and "Beat Spirit" back in print. Used copies of these titles in good condition are still available online.

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Request an event through Mel's page on eventful.com. This will allow you to request an event in your home town and give you tools to promote the demand for an event there. Given sufficient interest we can work on making events happen in specific towns. Interested in booking a workshop or other event right now, click here to contact us.

What is Zen?
From "The Zen of Recovery" by Mel Ash

We Recover on the Bones of Others
This blessing/prayer closes the book "The Zen of Recovery" and has been adapted for use in aids awareness and aids memorial events. You can find a number of versions floating around online.

The Beat Book of the Dead
The Beat spirit, despite all you might hear, is far from dead. The final chapter is far from written, even if most of the original writers are gone. It's up to us to fill in the blanks, write the sequels, further the plots. What do these lately-deceased Beats have to teach us, their countercultural heirs, their aging step-children? What did they have to say about death, as well as life?

What They're Saying:

"Ash invites you to master the art of going sane."
- Playboy Magazine

"Ash puts Christ on a pogo stick, Buddha in running shoes and makes ashes out of standard brand spiritual exercises."
- Jean Houston, consciousness pioneer,
author of A Mythic Life, Mind Games
and advisor to Hillary Clinton

More reviews

You care about the others to say very much what person oneself is? You thought what person genuine own are? What person are we? What person may turn?

This book gives the reader "the shaving cutter", actually is one kind of self- guidance process. We in this process, the test, seek, the inspection "we should be" that person, "the others want us to do" that person, but also has "us to think oneself is" that person, thus breaks our limitation, develops our potential. Penetrates each question, each practice, each risk, each new experience, although all is a half step, but in steps to on the original appearance road, you certainly can have the crucial transformation:

• you no longer penetrate others' judgement to look at the world.
• you cannot everything be that severe, nervousness, the entire person changes has the vitality.
• in works with the method in, changes has the elasticity, has the creativity.

Moreover, extremely more importantly, you will be able because has worked loose the bedding bag jail head, the heart freely, oneself will wield the space also more widened!

Mel Ash, Zen-Meister und trockener Alkoholiker, stellt in diesem Buch einen außergewöhnlichen Ansatz vor, der Betroffenen hilft, sich nachhaltig von Süchten und Abhängigkeiten zu befreien: mit der fernöstlichen Praxis des Zen und dem Konzept der Anonymen Alkoholiker. Anschaulich und leicht verständlich beschreibt er, wie es gelingt, mit ehrlichem Blick das eigene Tun zu bewerten, sich die persönlichen Probleme bewusst zu machen und schließlich den Weg zur geistigen Freiheit zu gehen.

Get your own skull and brains
After taking a workshop with Mel many people find they crave having their very own skull and brains to play with. You can fin a wide assortment of skulls and brains online. Below is a nice one with a sectional brain.