Nature As The Church… The Shrines The Altars….
That was my impression as I roamed the lush gardens of Japan. Beautifully sculpted, the gardens draw you along winding …
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Sunday… The Lord’s Day…?
Poseidon. A personification, indeed a deification, of the unfathomable power of the oceans and seas. But look beyond the …
The Priests And The Shaman…
“And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …
Why The Omphalos Cafe?
Honestly I do not even like using the word ‘shaman.’ The word, like many today, has suffered degradation. The …
“Neurotic Children….”
“People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are …
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 …
‘Enlightenment:’ The Unseen, Unseeable Flow!
Enlightenment. Satori. Zen. Mindfulness. Living in the Present. All is ‘Transient.’ Blah, blah, blah. We always, always need …
Our Lost Oneness….
Try to imagine the evolution, the organic blossoming of human interaction from families and clans through the vast …
Mentoring The ‘Deviants,’ The Artists….
“And yet even then [Paleolithic Age] there was an allowance made for a certain type of deviant, the visionary, …
Life Is On BOTH Ends Of A Gun….
“All these characters, moving around and against one another, share but facets of some prodigious unity and are at …
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