On Rough-books, Resilience, and Love
I have not plummeted, as poet Denise Levertov once wrote. Something in me is whispering the same…
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Small, Slow and Low
As always when I have a spiritual question, I headed outside and got my hands in the dirt. It is always for me the growing things that hold the simplest and most important answers. How would they answer this question? What did they know about collaborating with the underworld?
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Mapping A Path To The Divine
I like to explore the spiritual terrain of religions and even set up camp and learn their practices, but I have never settled on one. If anything I draw on all I’ve experienced in mapping my own route to the divine.
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Autumn & Emptying The Cup
There’s a way that in this yellowing, all of that can begin to putrefy, fall apart, and be turned to dust. The particles of light which comprise this dust, the alchemical scintilla, are one of the true symbols on the alchemical or mystical path, emanations of the activity of the Ally as it incarnates in time and space by way of emotion, image, and pure feeling.
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Notes On the Sagrada Família
I wonder if that separation is what first aroused his thirst. I wonder whether from the window he longed for the teeming, reckless, beautiful, extravagant world below—crawling with insects, bursting with flowers, everything flashing in the sun and rustling in the breeze. Maybe his architecture was a way of abolishing that early distance.
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.