I was hiking through a forest last summer and delighting in the beauty surrounding me. At one point my attention focused in on the leaves on the trees and a few thoughts came to mind. Perhaps you’ll take a little mind ride with me here and consider the existence of a leaf for a few [...]
Archive for the ‘Returning to Sacred World,’ category
Never Separated
Posted January 7th, 2012 by admin. Comment (1).
A Good Way to Teach
Posted January 7th, 2012 by admin. Comment (1).
If you’ve read Returning to Sacred World you probably recall a number of references to and quotes from Kanucas, a spiritual elder in the Native American Church (NAC). Kanucas was my first contact with the NAC in 2003 and in the years since I’ve had a lot of interaction with him.
Returning to Sacred World makes [...]
Updates on the Emerging Reality
Posted February 9th, 2011 by admin. Comment (0).
I spend a fair amount of time maintaining vigilance on the planetary journey on numerous levels. I try to stay somewhat cognizant of new developments in spiritual work, economic conditions, new social forms, visionary ideas, climatic changes and so on. I particularly watch for indications that, as the title of my book says, we are [...]
Principles of the Paradigm Revolution
Posted August 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comment (0).
I suspect that if you’ve found your way here it’s abundantly clear to you that the juggernaut of the current dominant paradigm is not going much further on this planet. That conceptual framework has at its core the belief that the material realm is all there is and that we are no more than separate [...]
The book: Returning to Sacred World
Posted August 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comment (0).
I’ll be updating this post periodically with news on the progress of the ideas and activities associated with my book, Returning to Sacred World: A Spiritual Toolkit for the Emerging Reality. It was published in November 2010 by O Books. It’s available at Amazon. Clicking on this link at amazon.com should take you directly to [...]
Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comments (6).
Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero
Ronin, or Ronin Niwe, is one of what might be described as the new breed of ayahuasca curanderos. These are mainly people who are not native to the Amazonian region of South America and who have undertaken apprenticeships, often under the tutelage of ayahuasca shamans trained in the traditional way. This [...]
Crop Circles: a Beautiful Enigma
Posted May 13th, 2010 by admin. Comment (1).
At the risk of being filed by some readers under F for flake, I feel compelled to address the issue of crop circles. It’s just too bizarre and mysterious to ignore. Most people have by now heard of these crop formations—”circles” doesn’t begin to describe most of them—and most are happy to put the story down to [...]