“The quality of true genius is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously without losing your mind.” —Charles Baudelaire I’m a photographer. I‘ve been looking through the lens of a camera for fifty years, and through its tiny aperture, I find myself...
On my first trip to Ireland in 2007 with my husband John, I read Thomas Cahill’s now-classic book How the Irish Saved Civilization, in which he describes the essential role of the Irish monks and their work on illuminating manuscripts during the Dark Ages. I was...
We grandparents sometimes have a hard time accepting the fact that our grandchildren have to grow up. It’s inevitable. But it’s not easy for us. Sometimes when I walk along my street and see a stroller with an infant I am overcome with delight and ogle the baby. I...
Ram Dass played a big part in my life. In 1967, when I was a senior at UC Santa Barbara, I heard Richard Alpert talk, and I remember it well. I had read and followed the guidance of The Psychedelic Experience, based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the book Alpert...
The capacity for intuitive awareness is sadly overlooked or relegated to the sphere of “woo woo” arts, yet if we awaken our intuition we find ways to live more fully—more deeply experience the “rapture of being alive”, to use Joseph Campbell’s words. In the global...
I turned 20 years old in October of 2007, the beginning of my sophomore year of college at Boston University. I was happily ensconced in college life, surrounded by great friends and interesting classes in a city that I loved. I felt very little sadness at leaving my...
Rowe Center: You have both spent a good part of your lives working to make the world a better place. Will the world be a better place in 40 years? Susan Parenti: I believe we can create a better world if people would ask themselves what it is they really desire. What...
"I wish my body would just cooperate," Mila says, deep frustration in her voice. "I'm having fantastic sex. Why can't I cum?"We're sitting in my sex therapy office, having a conversation we've had several times before. In fact, it's a conversation I often have with my...
