There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan Gaia. The Great Mother. Born out of Chaos. Giving birth to the sky (Uranus), mountains (Ourea), and the sea (Pontus). To the early Greeks she was the primordial personification of the earth, the CONTINUE READING...
A whimper. So small. Slipped under the door and drifted down the hallway just above the worn wooden floor. So soft. You’d hardly notice it unless you tiptoed down the hallway and leaned in close… pressing your ear against a door frequently closed. A whimper. Standing in the room now, up against the closed door. CONTINUE READING...
When most people—especially those new to the experience—imagine working with entheogenic sacraments (i.e., psychedelics, plant medicines), they focus on “the ceremony” and think of it as a single moment in time—the day of “the journey.” But the work is never confined to the time spent meeting the sacrament. In many traditions (and in many modern CONTINUE READING...
There’s a myth many of us inherit early. Not always spoken aloud. Often simply breathed in. It moves through our culture like weather—so constant we forget it has a name. It lives in the stories we’re told, the praise we receive, the roles we’re rewarded for playing. It pulses through media—movies, television, the endless stream CONTINUE READING...
I loved my dad. He wasn’t “the perfect father” (is there such a person) but he was a decent man who had the emotional maturity to be able to tell his son and his daughters that he loved them. One of the greatest gifts he gave me, throughout my teens and into young adulthood, was CONTINUE READING...
I remember clicking the “submit” button on the World’s Toughest Mudder entry and thinking “Oh God… what have I done now?” But there was no backing out now. I had just “put my money where my mouth is” and committed to participate in the 2015 end-of-season event for Tough Mudder. The 2015 World’s Toughest Mudder CONTINUE READING...
