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Category Archives: Shaman/Poet

“Neurotic Children….”

May 3, 2024

  “People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are …

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Happy… Now!

December 30, 2023

  “(The paths to the House I seek to make,   But leave to those to come, the House itself.) …

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On Ulysses, Books, Books, Books, and ‘Coffined Words…’

December 18, 2023

   I wrote this in response to a comment I received today on a YouTube video I did many years …

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Mentoring The ‘Deviants,’ The Artists….

November 1, 2023

  “And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …

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Life Is On BOTH Ends Of A Gun….

October 29, 2023

  “All these characters, moving around and against one another, share but facets of some prodigious unity and are at …

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Poetic Gold….

October 27, 2023

 “The poet is the intense centre of the life of his age to which he stands in a relation than …

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The Lost Shamanic Way….

August 22, 2023

  Yesterday I was sitting in a coffee shop and the conversation turned as it frequently does these days to …

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We Use Words Far Too Much….

December 22, 2020

  I take long walks up into the hills behind my place almost every day now. Yesterday with a light …

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The Magic Bus!

December 20, 2020

  I’m sitting in the driver’s seat of an empty bus. ‘C’ crew has disembarked for their shift at the …

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Words Fail, Again and Again….

December 18, 2020

  I include ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Zen,’ even ‘poetry’ and ‘yoga’ in the tags when I publish one of these mild …

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