When Two or More Gather
I’m on the outside looking in when it comes to practicing any religious orthodoxy. I suppose I picked that up from my mother, who...
Tag: knowledge
Everything Flows, so that We may Live
Pondering–if that is the right term for thoughts that arise in the loose weave of imagination–I thought how a city’s water supply could be...
Empty and Full
Several Sanskrit terms have made it into Western vocabularies. Some, such as karma and samsara, require no translation, and are considered by many to...
Going Without Going
There’s a Time, Space, and Knowledge practice, “Going Without Going”, in which–in the seated version introduced by Carolyn Pasternak, who passed on this Spring—you...
Of Two Minds.
“After apprenticing to such narratives, in typical Western fashion, many of us revise our stories as we move away from home turf, family of...
The Die is not yet Cast.
“We have complete control in the special sense that we do not need to control anything. Whether emotions and circumstances control us or we...
A Call from Memory
A church bell just rung for the second time this morning, as I’m sitting over a first cup of coffee in the town of...
Consulting the Oracles of Time
In a memoir there is always a present time from which a shepherd, tending the flock of memories, sends out his rescue missions. And...
Remembering Betty
Last weekend I attended a memorial gathering for Betty Senescu. Her passing at age 92 brought together at least a hundred people. Judging from...
The Weaver is Being Woven.
In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...