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Ending the Beelzebub Wars 6 May 2013 | 04:49 pm
Ending the Beelzebub Wars: Beyond “Us and Them” Stephen A. Grant “We have met the enemy and he is us.” — Pogo1 A STRIKING FEATURE of G. I. Gurdjieff’s teaching is the cosmic scale of history, referr...
Hearing the Cries of the World 6 May 2013 | 04:30 pm
Hearing the Cries of the World Mark Nepo THIS STORY IS SO OLD we don’t know who told it or who it’s about, except that it speaks to all of us. We no longer know if it was a “he” or “she” at the cente...
Emanations of Divinity 6 May 2013 | 04:12 pm
Emanations of Divinity: The Cosmology of Hieronymus Bosch Lee van Laer PERHAPS NO OTHER single piece of artwork in the entire Western world so deftly summarizes the intersecting forces of Heaven and ...
Night I Died 28 Apr 2013 | 06:50 pm
The Night I Died Tracy Cochran Head down, hugging a grocery bag, I hurried past gutted buildings and empty lots, back to my ex-boyfriend’s apartment in Hell’s Kitchen. It seemed like a good idea at s...
Awakening to Giftism 28 Apr 2013 | 06:43 pm
Awakening to Giftivism, in Pune Nipun Mehta In the 1930s, Gandhi convened India’s independence movement leaders for a pivotal meeting. It wasn’t a productive meeting. Polarities widened and rifts dee...
Bridging the Spiritual and the Mundane 3 Feb 2013 | 11:09 pm
A Personal Odyssey Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi It was forty years ago that I left the United States for Asia to take ordination as a Theravada Buddhist monk. My interest in Buddhism began in my junior year o...
A Consonance of Feeling 3 Feb 2013 | 11:05 pm
Painting icons in a modern world Lee van Laer, art by Chantal Heinegg The painting of icons is a tradition dating back to the earliest days of Christianity. Deeply connected to Eastern Orthodox prac...
Grace is Here! 3 Feb 2013 | 11:02 pm
A Conversation with Ram Dass Recently we had the opportunity to visit ?and interview Ram Dass in his home amidst the exceptional natural beauty of the Hawaiian island ? of Maui. To say that we were ...
To Try to have some Feeling 3 Feb 2013 | 10:48 pm
A conversation with Silas Hagerty Silas Hagerty was a young filmmaker in his twenties when I met him at a Servicespace retreat. Servicespace.org ?is a volunteer-run organization that supports and enc...
A Coversation with the Elements 26 Oct 2012 | 06:37 pm
by Mark Nepo If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day. —Leonard Cohen We are so close to the Earth that we often forget—it is alive. And the language of its aliveness is what we ca...
