'What is'
“To this day, ‘God’ is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions, and change the...
View ArticleRice and Vitamins
In 1905 there was an enterprising young British physician living in the East Indies. This man of science observed something quite unexpected; he grew curious and went to work to understand this...
View ArticleComplexes
Each day we have choices to reclaim stuck and outmoded aspects of our being.The poet, Rumi, urges us heed the call:The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep!You must ask for...
View ArticleThe Gift of Stopping
In our busy lives today, we all need reminders that stopping is possible. Stopping is going nowhere happily, turning away from the hurry that fills so much of modern life. Each day you can give...
View ArticleWhat is Progress?
Lewis Mumford wrote a wonderful book on modern civilization and the growth of our cities. He did not believe that we were making much progress in a true sense. There has been enormous change in the...
View ArticleThe Individuation Process
Individuation is a term that Carl Jung invented. It lacks poetry, but if you are searching for meaning in your life you are individuating. It is the process of you becoming yourself – that which you...
View ArticlePlacebo or Symbolic Effect?
In a recent study imaging the brains of patients with major depression, some of the patients had positive therapeutic responses but did not receive the anti-depressant. “We were just looking at the...
View ArticleInner Collective Weather
I have been reflecting on the concept of PSYCHIC WEATHER which I once heard someone speak of in Zurich. I need much more training in this subject, but I cannot find another teacher. It makes such a...
View ArticleYearning
I have been asked by several loyal readers when we would write again. Both Robert and I have been ill in different ways. I want to try to begin a dialogue again, and thank you for your patience.Tonight...
View ArticleDesire, Fruits, Action, Rags of Love
For some time, as I emerged from a darkness of despair, I contemplated suffering and desire.It is instructive that the word "suffer" means to allow, to allow what is. There is a tension between...
View ArticleA Round Trip
The Danish philosopher Soren Kirkegaard summed up the individuation process (though he never used that term), when he wrote that there are three kinds of people in the world. Simple man comes home...
View ArticleIndividuation
It was Jung’s genius to realize that every person is born as unique in his or her personality as in physical structure. The shape of your ears, the color of your eyes and your hair, the contours of...
View ArticleAn excerpt from The Ramayana
One day when King Rama was sitting on his throne, his ring fell off. When it touched the earth, it made a hole in the ground and disappeared into it. It was gone. He friend Hanuman was nearby. Rama...
View ArticleSacrifice
Sacrifice is an important concept for anyone interested in leading a religious life, but most people today seems to think that sacrifice means giving something up. This is how shallow our religious...
View ArticleAn Understanding Heart
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human...
View Articledown they forgot as up they grew
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at...
View ArticleTo Stop Fighting 'What Is'
As Buddhism teaches so eloquently, anything you do to escape the fundamental duality of ego consciousness just kicks more energy into it. Your only choice is to stop. That unsplit, unifying place is...
View ArticleStanding Outside one's 'I-ness'
The word ecstatic in its original sense means to stand outside of oneself. We work so hard to make a personal self, an “I” or ego, with clarity and continuity. This is extremely valuable, but one pays...
View ArticleRenewal and Play
To renew ourselves throughout busy and ever-changing careers and lives requires access to our inner sources of creativity and play. Play may be the simplest thing there is for a child. Children are in...
View ArticleDuality: The Essence of Everyday Consciousness
Spiritual teachings are sometimes interpreted as advising us to let go of material things and lighten our load by reducing attachments, but this is a fundamental misunderstanding. To advance...
View ArticleSacrifice: To Make Sacred
I have been gripped all day by the thought of SACRIFICE. I grew sick of the word early in my life and it was enough to drive me out of the common jargon of most churches. But when I learned that the...
View ArticleTo Become Humanized
Almost all of our myths, or at least our interpretation of them, is that you should destroy the instinct and march off heroically to rescue what is lost. In multiple stories in the West, in movies as...
View ArticleGardeners of the Heart
My friend, Roland, is a master gardener. He recently learned that his home above Boulder was completely destroyed in a forest fire. He writes:"Life is change. We do not really know what is around the...
View ArticleRobert Discovers Bhakti love in India
When I traveled in India I had a good friend, Amba Shankar, who often went with me wherever I needed to go. He fended off beggars, paid the necessary bribes, purchased tickets, translated, made sure I...
View ArticleEvolution of Consciousness
Every creature on the planet is an emanation from the one and only source of all life and cause of the universe. In us the divine element may not yet be nearly so prominent as in the case of holy ones,...
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