"The More We Are Protected, The More We’re Trapped Within"
Last night I saw Peter Gabriel and Sevara Nezarkhan at Chastain Park Amphitheatre here in Atlanta. The set list: Red Rain More Than This Secret World Games With...
Priestess of the Drum: An Interview with Layne Redmond
Author, recording artist, and drum instructor Layne Redmond is passionate about the frame drum, the music of ecstasy, and the recovery of women’s role as ...
February 5, 1977
Here is an excerpt from my book The Aspiring Mystic: Practical Steps for Spiritual Seekers (2000). This passage describes my own initiation into an embodied, lu...
David and the Phoenix: A Gentle Masterpiece of the Mythic Imagination
David and the Phoenix, gentle masterpiece of children’s literature first appeared in the late 1950s, bringing a dimension of magic and wonder to young bab...
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
I read Evelyn Underhill’s magisterial “Mysticism” the summer after I graduated from high school, and I’ve been a student/devotee of the ...