Category: Essays

The Real Rasputin?

Gregory Rasputin, 1920. Photograph by Karl Bulla

A fresh look at “the mad monk”

A Higher Power

Father Edward Dowling. Wikimedia Commons. Source: Father Edward Dowling. Author: Mary University Archives

The spiritual awakening of a world-class drunk

Rated “Condemned”

Subjects: Yvonne Elliman, Ted Neeley Program: :"Jesus Christ Superstar" on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies" Time: NBC Television Network colorcast, Monday Oct. 11 (9-11 p.m. NYT0

Tasting the forbidden fruit

Journey of the Rainbow Serpent

Photograph by Luke Jones. From Unsplash.com

Anonymous / Aboriginal

La Llorona

Depiction of La Lalorona in Xochimilco, Mexico. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Raúl Arturo Fernández Vega

A visitation in the night

Sacred Time, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

A Masque for the Four Seasons. Walter Crane, 1905-1909. Oil on canvas. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany. Wikimedia Commons. Source: Daderot

The seasons and the Cosmos

Who Are You? by Tracy Cochran

Buddha Teaching. Maha Vihara Mojopahit monastery, Trowulan, East Java. Photograph by Anandajoti Bhikkhu. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Anandajoti Bhikkhu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Listening for an answer beyond words

A Turning Point in the Cosmos, by Mary A. Osborne

Nun, god of the waters of chaos, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra (represented by the scarab and the sun disk) into the sky at the beginning of time. From The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson, 2003. Artwork c. 1050 B.C. Wikimedia Commons.

Owen Barfield and the history of consciousness

And So On, by Kent Jones

Photograph by Michael Dziedzic. From Unsplash.com

Within the chaos, a door to “the inexhaustible Now”

Abba, tell me a word

Scenes from the Lives of the Desert Fathers (Thebaid). Fra Angelico, 1420. Tempera on poplar wood. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Wikimedia Commons. Source/Photographer: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/VAHKpwvs_fhZ-A

The Desert Fathers and Mothers— and their culture of search