After several sodden vision quest days in Nova Scotia, wishing for sun, I decided to just “love what is.” It was a good decision! And this love letter to Nature, to the primal reality of a wet and dripping world was one of the results. Enjoy!
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Wind moves in the branches. This morning brings rain and fog, the call of a lonely sparrow, the tapping of dripping… Read More »
Our oldest archetypal image – the World Tree – has roots that reach deep into the earth while its branches stretch upward to the sky. At its base, a spring – representing the Source of Life — bubbles up from beneath the ground, providing life to everything in “the garden.” Institutional spiritual traditions of the West habitually look up…… Read More »
Approaching the Winter Solstice, we enter the darkest time of the year. Yet, this time, though dark, is referred to as “the Holidays” (Holy Days) and — lasting from Thanks-giving to Christmas – associated with gratitude and the giving of gifts.
What gifts do we want to give in these dark times? What light or warmth do we want to bring to the world… to whom?
It’s in those times… Read More »
The waters break as pregnant clouds let loose and shower the desert with cold and drenching rebirth. The river swells and bursts with life, the current rising as brown mud and silt slide over sandbar and gravel. Staunch in its power and resolute in its course, it envelopes the banks and swallows the thirsty grasses and shrubs.
The harsh summer of drought is soothed in this watery fall, the fever… Read More »
In the world of daily consensual reality, the term “altered state” seems threatening to many, a dangerous, unstable condition possibly induced by drugs or some untethered consciousness behind the frightening unpredictability of the mentally ill. This is the common usage, but it’s inaccurate or at best inadequate. If something is “altered,” we have to ask, “from what?” And if we are talking about the mind, consciousness, or forms of perception,… Read More »
