Category: Essays

Behind the Mask, by Peter Coyote

Carnival masks from Venice. Photograph by Dagoos at Dutch Wikipedia

The acclaimed actor, now Zen teacher, remembers

The Missing Piece, by Cynthia Bourgeault

Merion Friends Meeting House, Narberth, Pennsylvania. National Park Service

A transformative discovery lights the way

Stones in the Sacred Household: The 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions, by Trebbe Johnson

A hopeful report from the 2021 Parliament of the World’s Religions

The Golden Rule and the Transformation of Being, by Stephen Aronson

Icon of St. Sophia. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

How the Golden Rule can be the Golden Path

Tracking Thoreau & Leopold, by Keith Badger

Aldo Leopold with quiver and bow seated on rimrock above the Rio Gavilan in northern Mexico while on a bow hunting trip in 1938. Forest Service, USDA. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Pacific Southwest Region 5. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

A trail toward a Golden Rule, a Land Ethic, and real magic

The Golden Rule Tetraflexagon, by Steffan Soule

https://www.goldenruleproject.org/golden-rule-tetraflexagon

The Golden Rule Tetraflexagon is a magic device created by Steffan Soule in order to teach the Golden Rule.

Rising from the Fire: The Art of Transformation, by David Ulrich

Lava entering ocean. Photograph © David Ulrich

The fiery path from light to light

We’re In It Now, by Tracy Cochran

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941. Photograph by Abbie Rowe. National Archives and Records Administration

The greatest shocks can inspire the deepest wisdom

Fire Season, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Photograph by Breno Machado. Courtesy of Unsplash.com

A Sufi master looks at—and beyond—the approaching flames

Kissed by Fire, by Trebbe Johnson

Andy with tea bowl. Photograph by Trebbe Johnson

Fire Creates. Fire Cooks. Fire Kills. Fire also kisses. It kisses death from life and life from death.