So, the Big Changes.....

I did find what I was looking for - and more - at the Soulcraft Intensive experience at Breitenbush Hot Springs, in beautiful, beautiful Oregon ( Read more... )

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

--Joseph Campbell

I may write a lot about the modern, "western" world's disconnect from the Reality of Life on Earth, but every once in a while, I'll come across something that just takes my breath away. I really shouldn't think myself so radical.

Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action
Bored with your usual holiday? Try ( Read more... )

This is hot off the press! I wonder if I'll get in trouble for being too difficult to read???

Note: Stephen Buhner is the author of The Secret Teachings of Plants: The intelligence of the heart in the direct perception of nature, and is the "Buhner" to whom I refer.

Spiritual Psychology of the Human Heart, Antioch University Seattle ( Read more... )

Since I promised Habibi I'd spend some time with him, I thought I'd share something that's been slowly forming in the ol' noggin ( Read more... )

There is no absolute truth because there is absolute truth; how could there be relativity, were there no absolute?

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

--Frank Herbert

I'm still processing the whole experience of the dissection of the heart of a pig, which we cut out of its lungs. Pretty intense, and something I would never voluntarily do - oh, I think I'll go out and buy some pig heart and lungs and check out the circulatory system!! - and I'm glad our professor made us do it. I had mixed feelings about it ( Read more... )

The Power of Myth:
The First Storytellers
The Legacy of Joseph Campbell, Antioch University Seattle
March 26, 2007

In the "The First Storytellers" episode of the television series The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell discusses the mythology of primitive humankind, and its parallels with and continued influence on contemporary worldviews and ( Read more... )

I wrote the following to my "Spiritual Psychology of the Human Heart" class, just for fun, not as an assignment ( Read more... )