Category: Essays

La Llorona, by Edward W. Wood, Jr.

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, by Roger Lipsey

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

Looking for Gold: The Alchemy of Cinderella, by Mary A. Osborne

Cinderella. Carl Offterdinger, nineteenth century. From My First Book of Fairy Tales. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Harke

The hidden teachings of a beloved fairy tale

The Art of Budo, by John Stevens

Portion of a facsimile of calligraphy by Wang Xizhi. All images courtesy of John Stevens and Shambhala Publications

The calligraphy and paintings of the martial arts masters

Testimony, by Brenton MacKinnon

Truong Son National Cemetery, memorial to North Vietnamese soldiers, Vietnam. Photograph by Gonzo Gooner, 2010. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Gonzo Gooner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

A powerful remembrance of war and peace

In the Hands of the Sea, by Surnaí Molloy

Landscape, seascape: Vågen VIII (Wave VIII). August Strindberg, 1901/1902. Nordic Museum, Stockholm. Wikimedia Commons. Source/Photographer: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/ygHgZV4EYwrCtQ

A rapturous elegy to love