Twelfth Pilgrim
A green light approached. To my amazement, a little man in a square hat emerged from the underbrush. He clutched a blade of grass on whose tip glowed a tiny lantern. He had mutton chop whiskers and brass spectacles.
Read More
Category: Editor’s Picks
Your Body is an Ancestor
You do not need to build an ancestor altar. You do not need to trace your bloodline back ten generations. Ancestry isn’t a lineage. It is a nonlinear tangle of animacy with multiple points of entry. For me, ancestry extends beyond the human. It is rhizomatic, rooting into different species and deep time.
Read More
These Blues
I am a man who spends his waking hours scouring for signs, starlight chatter, mosaics of broken conversations, every outward sign pointing inward, a volunteer transcendentalist. My morning prayer is may the messenger come, this day.
Read More
When God Was a Woman: An Introduction to the Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine
The Sacred Feminine is a power spiritual idea in her own right, with distinctive characteristics that distinguish Her from some of the more dominant religious traditions we might be most familiar with. In other words, it isn’t as simple as calling God a “She” versus a “He.”
Read More
The Fairies are Back & They’re Even Smaller: The Meeting of Magic & the Microscopic World of “Smalls”
I think the fairies are back. And they’re even smaller. I think they got smaller, not in order to disappear, but in order to reappear, in the new age of the “true.” In stories perfectly primed for our scientifically oriented brains. Fairies are back, under the crystalline gaze of the microscope. And they have new names. I give you viruses, microbes, protozoa, fungi, tardigrades also known as “moss piglets,” dust seeds, and those other “smalls” so magical you must look through another “eye” in order to see them.
Read MoreThe Braided Way
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.