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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way

Not funny haha. As I recover and dig out from under the happy intensity of the Sacred Lands symposium, my plan was to sit down this evening to catch up on homework. The bombing in Boston has been on...

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Bamboo Soul

(from my homework for class this semester) A few years ago I made an extravagant purchase, one small black bamboo plant. I paid $50 for this plant, which was then difficult even to obtain. We have...

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Getting the Whole Story

Senses, inner and outer, we all know as the pathways by which we receive information. Mostly, we take outer senses for granted, unless we lose one of them through illness or accident. This morning I’ve...

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Lighting Another Torch

Osireion had a special day yesterday. One of our members has spent the past year doing individual work to learn more about the role of priest. The culmination of that year was a “crossing the bridge”...

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Tipping Point of Plenty

What if we reached the tipping point? No, not that one, not the apocalypse or anarchy. What if we all kept doing kind things, looking for and giving love, until one day a spark is lit and the universe...

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The Bounds of Self

If we are one with the universe, what is it that is “we”? If we wish for unity, what happens to the strength afforded by our diversity? Twice recently I’ve run across comments about recognizing the...

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Blood Done Sign My Name

Sometimes we forget that we have been part of history making, or that we stood side by side with the great ones of our generation. The waves some of us made were very small ripples in tiny ponds, but...

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Sex, Lies and Cults

My friend is the survivor of a daring escape from a religious cult.* From time to time she sees herself on an old 20/20 rerun; the first time I watched it with her I could hardly believe that my...

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Finding Eden Again

For some of us Feraferia is like a fairy tale, a half-remembered dream, a story we once heard from Adler (Drawing Down the Moon). We heard just enough to feel both curiosity and mystery, but had no...

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Season of Healing

My world shifted yesterday when I heard the presidential election results.  Through Vietnam, the killings of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy, Watergate, even, yes, 9/11, I never felt the fear that I do now....

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