Spiritual Principles in Action, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Glastonbury Festival, England, 1971. Photograph by Paul Townsend A Sufi master on taking responsibility for our world In answer to a question from a thirty-one-year-old person, “What advice do you have for people my age in dealing with a world…
Painting Enlightenment, Paula Arai / Artwork by Iwasaki Tsuneo
Healing visions of the Heart Sutra Mandala of Evolution. Iwasaki Tsuneo The extraordinary paintings on the next several pages were begun at age seventy by Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002), a retired Japanese research biologist. Iwasaki, who fought for his country during…
Who Decides History’s Future?, by Alexandra Zaleski
Knights and martyrs. Painting (detail) on canvas from church of Abbas Antonios, Ethiopia. Late seventeenth century. Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris In the Era of Princes, Abyssinia had no king. It had an emperor in name alone, locked in…
Rewilding: A Conversation with Staffan Widstrand, by Eleanor O’Hanlon
European bison bull, Bison bonasus, in Zuid Kennemerland National Park, The Netherlands. This is Europe’s largest herbivore, weighing in at over one thousand kilograms. It was once hunted as close to extinction as any animal can be, with only thirteen…
The Courageous Mary Oliver, by Lisa Starr
Mary Oliver Photograph by Greg Rose I will be forever grateful to Coleman Barks for many things, but there is no doubt that his greatest gift to me was introducing me to his friend, my hero, the poet Mary Oliver.…
East Hill Farm
Once upon a time… many years ago, when a now very old man was but a youth, he felt something was mysteriously missing in his life, but he didn’t know…
How Do We Reclaim The Heart Of Humanity?, by Trebbe Johnson
A Report on the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions It was a pilgrimage of reparation, undertaken by a few people who shouldered the burden of an act that had…
Golden Temple, by Neil Patel
Julian Nyca, Golden Temple, Amritsar, India, Wikimedia Commons The night Nimo, Jay, and I arrived in Amritsar, India, we made a cursory survey of the Sikh…
The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart
Girl Sweeping. William McGregor Paxton, 1912. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts In the busyness of our contemporary life we are drawn into ceaseless activity that…
Driving Lessons, by Snigdha Manickavel
Chennai, India. Photograph by aotaro Snigdha Manickavel spent part of her childhood in Edmonton, Canada, before moving with her family to the temple town of Chidambaram…
Fusterlandia, by Tracy Cochran
Havana. Photograph by Augustin de Montesquiou A tour of Havana leads to a priceless discovery I stood on the upper deck of a cruise ship at…
How to Find a Spiritual Teacher, by Lillian Firestone
If you dream of finding a great Teacher, a Master, the operative advice is, “get real.” Great teachers may appear once in a hundred years. Masters require great sacrifice of those…
Rewilding: A Conversation with Staffan Widstrand, by Eleanor O’Hanlon
European bison bull, Bison bonasus, in Zuid Kennemerland National Park, The Netherlands. This is Europe’s largest herbivore, weighing in at over one thousand kilograms. It was once hunted as close…
The Compassionate Warrior, by Elsa Marston
Abd el-Kader protecting Christians in 1860 Damascus Abd el-Kader (1808-1883) was an Algerian religious and military leader, a sharif (noble) and Sufi, elected Emir, or Commander…
The Nothingness of Time, by Alexandra Haven
Photo by Flyn Schmidt (http://www.camerablog.de/) Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to…
Healing the Wounds of War
In contrast to our modern situation, traditional and indigenous peoples had extensive spiritually and communally based warrior medicine, practices and lineages. They lived immersed in and part of nature and…
From Bad to Good, by Patty de Llosa
One of some seven-hundred current members of Ready Willing & Able, the Doe Fund’s flagship training and sustaining organization, Joe will spend the next few months cleaning the streets for…
The Search for One Thing, by Betsy Cornwell
Photo: Flickr.com. Photographer: unukorno “Give it one week of hard frost,” my new husband says, “and all the green will be gone.” He has slowed the car…
A Parabola Bestiary: Coyotes, by Peter Beagle
Photo by Ban Yido Bestiaries were traditionally works of observation and natural history. Ancient and widespread, their way of observing allowed room for elements of theology,…