Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are ( Read more... )

Gaia has her cycles, her responses, and her needs. I do not always fathom what these are, though last night I welcomed the cycle of rains that mark California winter, and the fluorescent green that springs up everywhere. And across this globe, Haiti is reeling from the crashing of plates and the trembling of Gaia. One feels good and the other does ( Read more... )

All manner of things shall be well. - Julian of Norwich

There is no need to hook into the disconnection of another. Find your source and find your strength. The centered stillness of it all can be your Self, luminous and flexible, eternal as the darkness between stars ( Read more... )

[More from my ongoing project]

People write to me periodically about the problems in their communities with people wanting initiation into this or that, and there not being enough initiates to go around. I wrote a whole article for Thorn Magazine (no relation!) on this subject regarding the opening of the Mystery in all of its variety and glory. ( Read more... )

EVER since childhood, I have been honing my skills for living the life of a Radical Feminist Pirate and cultivating the Courage to Sin. The word "sin" is derived from the Indo-European root "es-," meaning "to be." When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a woman trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire ( Read more... )

Beneath New Year's Resolutions is always the beating of either want, need, or desire. But sometimes these "I wants" are really a variation on "I should". Those sorts of resolutions are usually not kept. A resolution where we have examined the underpinnings, and decided this is an actual want that we are willing to engage will around for our own ( Read more... )

[The following is from a larger current project of mine, on tracing the contours of Desire]

Post dinner and wine in a Los Angeles living room, I listened to some works in progress by pianist Dana Reason. She sat at the holiday card covered piano with pages and pages of scores in front of her and played. I was startled by the brilliance of both the ( Read more... )

We all have it, that shining crown upon our brows. What keeps us from recalling this?

The sacred fish swims deep in sacred pool. The holly berries ripen on the bush.

Gaudete. We are born. Every moment. Every day.

Christus est Natus. That means you.

Right now.

As long as one person is being tortured, we are all being tortured. As long as one person is torturing another, so we are torturing. We are all part of the continuum of the Holy. Let us re-member mighty Osiris, so that new life can once again grace the land. Let us re-member ourselves so that once again, we can share our fruits of love, and ( Read more... )

Know Thyself ( Read more... )