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And watching the Jataka Tales, some clarity breaks through...

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I have absorbed spiritual teachings that gave a more feminine and a masculine approach to the path and to the alchemy of the self. Perhaps those are time-fettered gendered notions for what would better be described as more passive and more warrior-like methods. Of course many women are warriors and many men can take on a fundamentally surrendered ( Read more... )

What is this inside, so full, so needing too be emptied out. It is not even me.
Come curandera and clear me out...
There must be room for more,
Room for emptiness,
Room for Free.
Oh...

I am increasingly seeing the way in which 'appropriate behavior' is used to abuse people and I am becoming fiercely compassionately but unapologetically 'inappropriate'. This is quite the awakening happening and I fear for my mother that she is next on the list. haha I am going to see her in about a week and a half and, all jokes aside, abuse will ( Read more... )

I am thinking of how much of life is sanctified by humans through means such as writing, poetry, visual art, scholarship, dance, and many other ways ( Read more... )

I feel like I have a very blocked throat today. Something is waiting (demanding) to be said or heard. It seems like what the curander@s call the need to desahogarse, to undrown yourself.

Right now I am thinking of a popular woman TV evangelist in the US named Joyce Meyers. While visiting my mother in Texas recently, I heard her say that when a wound ( Read more... )

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I feel this morning that perhaps I have come a little closer to a deeper knowing of the nondual relaities that I have been really imbibing over the last years, all built on the foundation of a universal Islam that I have tried to live, a surrender deeper than any particular relgiious tradition as such (although also manifesting as tradition, ( Read more... )

I have had a big case of cansancio today. That is not just the Spanish word for tiredness but a term that my curandera will use in the original language because it carries with it something else, a deeper resonance from a more inward-looking discipline in a somehow more philosophical language. And that is where much of my heart was today: tiredness ( Read more... )

I am going to start kicking serious ass if one more person in the hierarchy obsessed east mediterranean (and god help me we are talking mostly academics, so I am sure Om Kali Ma understands) tries to inform me about something I surely don't know, or looks at me like I am an idiot while I speak to them and/or asks me to clarify in a condescending ( Read more... )