Spirituality
How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred- Victoria Loorz

How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred- Victoria Loorz

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The Sound of Your Own Voice- Kim Rosen

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 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

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...