A friend of mine, a philosopher of sorts, remarks occasionally on the absurdity of NASA’s attempts through sophisticated monitoring equipment to pick up signs of transmissions from intelligent beings from other galaxies. Isn’t it ironic, he states, that we spend all these millions of dollars trying to find these weak transmissions from somewhere far off [...]
Whales, Mosquitoes and a Flowing Crystal River It started outside a rollicking pub in Killarney, Ireland. It was about one in the morning and I stopped to listen to some wonderful Irish music as I made my way back to my hotel from a presentation I’d made at the International Transpersonal Psychology Conference. While the [...]
Waiting at a red light on East Blithdale Waiting for the light to change, yellow and red leaves swirling on city street. Shimmering rays of sunshine illuminating their lively dance. Stopped in tracks of myopic vision, predicated on self-involvement– mechanical man obsessed in thinking, suddenly set free by “acts of nature”, an intelligence of trans-human [...]
I remember the very first time I walked into a garden. I was under three years old. I lived with my parents in Manhattan at the time, and we had come out to the country in upstate New York for several weeks of vacation. This was my first sojourn out of the city environment, where [...]
The universe as we know it is a trickster. The universe as we don’t know it is even more of a trickster. tomás The coyote comes in many forms, for people of the Northwest it is the raven, in the western occult tradition it is the first card of the Tarot deck, the fool. Coyote [...]
An Interview with by Lisa Alpine: Common Ground, Issue 97 – Fall 1998 Have you experienced ayahuasca?” a visitor asked when he saw my collection of Amazonian art gathered in the 1970s when I traveled extensively by small canoe through the Amazon Basin. I rebuked, ‘God, no! I didn’t want to be laid out unconscious [...]
Shamanism is humanity’s oldest expression of spirituality and as such, is the underbelly of all of modern religion. In the course of his-story, as European and United States colonialism and the arrogant work of missionaries spread through out the world, shamanism has been marginalized, oppressed and in some cases, violently annihilated, its practitioners put to [...]
“Creativity is an interesting phenomena. You can’t observe it under a microscope or through any other measuring instrument. One can only see the results of creativity, or the process of creativity, but not the substance itself. Or is it a substance? Like mercury, it is hard to grasp in our hands. Yet who doesn’t value [...]
“Get a real life!” is a favorite retort by my youngest daughter and her peers to statements they judge to be hopelessly square. Despite its’ flippancy the point it makes is an important one. “Get a real life!” An unreal life, a pretend life with no soul or substance will just not do. A real [...]
Heeding the Wake-Up Call of Terrorism “There can be no sides in a round world.” When the horror of September 11th smashed into most of our consciousness I had the good fortune to be shielded from its impact because I was miles deep and miles high in the Yosemite Sierra on my yearly quest for [...]
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