Category: Essays

Out of the Dark Depths, by Lane Igoudin

Photograph by Jared Rice. Tulum, Mexico

Within a Mayan burial cave, understanding comes

Everything is Burning, by Tracy Cochran

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament. Author unknown. C.1834, oil on panel. Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. Source/Photographer: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/RgGPJOYOSROUkw

In a world on fire, finding the light that guides

With Outstretched Arms, Like Wings, by Sister Wendy Beckett and Robert Ellsberg

John the Baptist, Forerunner. Father William Hart McNichols, 1997. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Texas A&M University Libraries

A visit with the famed nun and art historian

Yin-Yang and Awakening Awareness, by Robert Peng

Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi holding the Yin-Yang symbol. Nineteenth century watercolor. Hsi (c. 4,000 B.C.) is widely considered the father of the Chinese Tai Chi philosophy of yin and yang and thus of the I Ching. Wikimedia Commons. Wellcome Images. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Advice and exercises from a Qigong master

The Only Black Person in the Room, by Lisa Teasley

Unsplash.com. “Portrait of Xavier Evans.” Photo by Jurien Huggins

What that means and how that feels

The Night of the Hessian Soldier, by Tracy Cochran

The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 (detail). John Trumbell, between 1786 and 1828. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

A haunted inn inspires deeper questions

East Hill Farm, by Jonathan James

East Hill Farm

A leap of faith into an “intentional” community

Arrernte Land, by Karen Lethlean

Aboriginal Rock Art, Anbangbang Rock Shelter, Kakadu National Park, Australia, 2005. Wikimedia Commons. Photos by Thomas Schoch. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en

A child visits her ancestral land

To Hold One’s Own, by Surnaí Molloy

Hummingbird from Unsplash.com. Photo by James Wainscoat

Making the world her own

Prophets without Robes or Staffs, by Roger Lipsey

Photograph by Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, License CC BY-SA 4.0.

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