The Priests, The Shaman, And The Mystic….
We are born into a group, and membership in the group and the boundary with other groups can be …
Category Archives: History
Sunday… The Lord’s Day…?
Poseidon. A personification, indeed a deification, of the unfathomable power of the oceans and seas. But look beyond the …
Our (Lost) Sacred Connection To Nature….
This is from an email I recently sent an old friend: Great getting together. Like I briefly said, I …
Our Lost Oneness….
Try to imagine the evolution, the organic blossoming of human interaction from families and clans through the vast …
The Untaught Key to Us All….
“Their holy places are the woods and groves, and they call by the name of God that hidden presence which …
The Last Giant Step….
It is the last step on the road toward… enlightenment. The most difficult too. And I’ll tell you …
A Failure Of Nerve….
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens [circa 450 BC] and the growth of …
Mature Man, The Celebrant….
“Man as the meaning of the world! What exaltation! This fragile creature that has ‘spirit’ for 5,000 years …
Why Joseph Campbell?
Ok, on numerous occasions I’ve insisted that Joseph Campbell’s four volume series, The Masks Of God, is the most …
An Attempt At A Poetic Reply….
Response to an email with a link to an article in The Atlantic magazine on a book titled The …
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