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Let the Soul Dangle
by Tom Hobson | November 14, 2024 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Perspectives | 1 Comment
The paradox of attention is that the more we strive to attend, the more difficult it becomes.
Interview With John C. Robinson, author of I Am God
by John C. Robinson | November 5, 2024 | Featured, Interview | 0 Comments
Mystics teach that imagination can function as an organ of perception.
Jesus 2024
by Zachary Helton | October 30, 2024 | Featured, Fiction | 3 Comments
Jesus 2024 signs started springing up on lawns and street corners across the country, their owners hoping to pressure a returned Jesus into the race.
Save The Frog
by Bob Bickford | October 25, 2024 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Nature | 5 Comments
Somewhere In The Dark: Between Motherhood & Mourning
by Isabel Mares | October 17, 2024 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Perspectives | 1 Comment
We are always greater together than we are alone, capable of such alchemical sweetness and innovation.
Dogen’s Instructions to the Gardener
by Karen Maezen Miller | October 10, 2024 | Applied Spirituality, Featured | 2 Comments
The natural world fulfilled me as nothing I’d done while stuck at a desk. What made it so? If I only pay attention, a garden tells me what to do.
The Light Of Death
by Jessica Rios | October 3, 2024 | Featured, Healing | 2 Comments
Since then, I often feel like I’m skipping down the sidewalk on a ribbon of yellow stars. I don’t fear death the way I used to, because I know it is a vast display of Light
In the absence of family stories I write my own
by Jeannine M. Pitas | September 26, 2024 | Featured, Perspectives | 1 Comment
We deserve to have someone remember us.
Confluence
by Liz Kornelsen | September 21, 2024 | Featured, Nature | 0 Comments
How many secret scars did he carry through his lifetime? How did those scars bend him?
A Soft Glow
by Alexis Levitin | September 11, 2024 | Featured, Fiction | 3 Comments
The glow grew in strength and finally he could see, even without his glasses, that the little boy he had known since childhood.
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LatestSteps of Success
by Zary Fekete
I stand in front of the shrine and bow. As I do, I feel the weight of my head, gently pulling my body toward the earth for a moment.
Paths and Traditions
LatestThe Shepherd of Hermas
This Christian text you’ve never heard of, The Shepherd of Hermas, barely mentions Jesus − but it was a favorite of early Christians far and wide for five centuries.
Applied Spirituality
LatestDogen’s Instructions to the Gardener
The natural world fulfilled me as nothing I’d done while stuck at a desk. What made it so? If I only pay attention, a garden tells me what to do.
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The Light Of Death
by Jessica Rios
Since then, I often feel like I’m skipping down the sidewalk on a ribbon of yellow stars. I don’t fear death the way I used to, because I know it is a vast display of Light
The Reflecting Pool And Other Brushes With The Unexplained
Mysticism has interested me since childhood. I don’t pretend to be a mystic, but I don’t dismiss those who wear the label.
Touchstones
by Debra Bures
Let me tell you the story of the Touchstones. It was just before 9/11. I had been holding a piece...
Finding Out “Hell” Isn’t in the Bible
When people ask me if I believe in hell, I usually answer them, “I don’t have to.” The Bible isn’t clear on it, the early Church didn’t see it as essential, and I’m in the company of a history full of Christians who didn’t believe in hell.
Parachutes of Hope: Reflections on Lent, Baba Yaga, and Palestine
by Isabel Mares
Every candle, every dance, repairs the cracks of the world.
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.