Light and Danger through the Crack in the Door
It was November 1, 1984. On the previous night, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards, an act of retribution after Gandhi had sanctioned the Indian army to storm the holiest of Sikh…
Metaphors of Movement
“Now shall I walk, or should I ride?” “Ride,” Pleasure said. “Walk,” Joy replied. In his 1914 poem The Best Friend, the Welsh poet and occasional vagabond W.H. Davies pondered a timeless question: “Now shall I walk, or should I…
O Little Town of Riverside
Along the banks of a winding river, where the Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Chippewa once lived, a small village lies still and silent as ancient Bethlehem. Ten miles from Chicago and centuries away, follow a maze of curvilinear roads that bend…
Meeting Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a towering figure of twentieth-century spirituality, raised to be the new World Teacher in the Theosophical tradition but later rejecting this title in order to teach as an independent force. –––The Editors We were in New…
The Endless Vows
There are four vows we can practice in any given moment that will return us to what matters, that will return us to ourselves and each other. They are simple and always in reach, though they require everything from us.…
You Would Run for Your Life, by Tracy Cochran
Viking ship. Photograph by Adrian Wallett A mother and daughter trace their roots to the Vikings—and to those they conquered “You would run for your life,”…
A Good Start, by Tracy Cochran
“Is this the Dutch Village?” My friend Liz asked this of a New York City police officer who happened to be standing in front of a replica of a big…
Seeking Verity, by Tracy Cochran
Verity climbed down from the scaffold and stood with me, looking up at his work. I murmured something about how otherworldly the statue looked. “I look for something other when…
Circles of Time, by J. Stephen Lansing
Balinese Priest, Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen. It has been suggested that the linear theory of time is related to the experience of time in…