The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine. —Thomas Berry, The Sacred Universe On the edge of the barranca, behind the 1970s Southern California suburb where I was a...
Inquiry at the Brink of a New Year- Kim Rosen
“When the inner and the outer are wedded, revelation occurs.” ~ Hildegard von Bingen For the last several years, a group of friends have entered a mostly silent retreat for several days over the new year. This year, on New Year’s Day we took a hike in the mist-jeweled...
Tracking the Wilds of Geometry- George Leoniak
As a wildlife tracker, I honed observation skills to detect slight disturbances in natural settings. Many of these tracks and signs are easily missed as they blend into a background of what often appears, to an untrained eye, an entangled pattern of twigs, leaves,...
A Road Map to Your Intuition- Katie Beecher
If you don’t know what a medical intuitive is, prepare for a moment of unorthodox thinking. A medical intuitive is someone with psychic abilities—stay with us—who uses those abilities for greater insight into some aspect of well-being. No one is suggesting that...
Howard Thurman’s Spiritual Teacher- Matthew Fox
African American theologian Howard Thurman (1899–1981) was the spiritual champion of the civil rights movement. Thurman’s book, Jesus and the Disinherited, was a huge influence on Martin Luther King Jr., who took the book with him each of the thirty-nine times he went...
Aging, Artistry and Surrender: Pollyanna Bush Interviews Kim Rosen
This conversation took place in August, 2020.Kim Rosen, M.F.A., has awakened listeners around the world to the power of poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words. Her work has been...
Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual- Alnoor Ladha Interviews Francis Weller
This is an edited transcript of a conversation that took place on November 4, 2020 as part of an interview series titled, Deschooling Dialogues. Alnoor Ladha (AL) interviews Francis Weller (FW), a psychotherapist, writer and activist who pioneered the method of...
The Sound of Your Own Voice- Kim Rosen
The sound of your voice is the sound of the life you have led, which brought you to this moment. All your accrued experience—the losses, the joys, the successes, the agonies—are inscribed in your voice. When who you are merges with a communication you feel passionate...
Jean Houston and Anneloes Smitsman: A Conversation with Deepak Chopra
Jean Houston, Ph.D. is an innovative scholar, futurist, and researcher in human capacities, social change, and systemic transformation. She is one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement and one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our...
The Grandeur of the Soul- Francis Weller
During the Renaissance, when the world still possessed a sense of enchantment, when animals and the dreaming earth spoke and were worthy of our attention, poets and philosophers conjured an image to depict the grandeur of the soul. What they came upon was the night...