Category: Essays

Believing in Nothing, by Peter Coyote

Photograph by Pinkasem Muisri. Unsplash.com. Photo by Pinkasem Muisri

Sage advice from a welcome voice

A Moment of Another Reality, by Lillian Firestone

Photograph by Dyu-Ha.

Encountering Henrietta Lannes

Enthralled by the Marvel, by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Panthera Leo, 2016. Photograph by Nikhil More. Wikimedia Commons.

The legendary director meets Carlos Castaneda

Ultimate Reality and a Nondual God, by Ellen Birx

Where Jesus walks with the Buddha

Rising Above, by Mary A. Osborne

Augustus Tolton. From William Simmons’s Men of Mark (G.M. Rewell, 1887)

From slavery to the priesthood

Voice and Freedom, by Danielle Woerner

Expressing our essential self

Meeting the Teacher, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451409

A life-changing encounter with spiritual authority

I Knew Two Men, by Roger Lipsey

Smirke, Robert; 'Henry IV', Part I, Act V, Scene 4, Falstaff and the Dead Body of Hotspur; Royal Shakespeare Company Collection; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/henry-iv-part-i-act-v-scene-4-falstaff-and-the-dead-body-of-hotspur-54942

Remembering Harold Bloom and Jacob Needleman

The Word for Soul, by Surnaí Molloy

A lyrical song of love, nature, the sacred

Tenzin’s Escape, by Harvey Rice and Jackie Cole

Sezhig Monastery on the Changthang Plateau, where Tenzin planned his escape to Nepal. Sezhig was spared Chinese depredation because of its remoteness.

Bön monks flee the invaders of Tibet