“We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television-watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?” ― Sidney Poitier “Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species […]
Christopher Santiago | A Glimpse
…And the world undressed itself, naked against my ambivalent eyes, and I caught glimpses of what it really was. A spontaneous selection of limitless colors, angles that broke the simplicity of symmetry, flashing images of exposed realities, Clear visions of people, places, and purpose held within a moment of conscious clarity. I prayed to never lose its embrace. But the dawn always comes back, and once again I am left […]
Dreams of Awakening | An interview with Charlie Morley
I stumbled upon a videotaped interview with Charlie Morley on www.conscious.tv and was instantly hooked on his premise: that one could use one’s sleeping hours for spiritual practice. One could meditate in one’s dreams! In fact, Charlie informed us that there was an entire Buddhist lineage devoted to “dream yoga.” Charlie himself was an intriguing spiritual mentor: a former breakdancing hip-hop artist from the U.K., who got into lucid dreaming […]
Martin Willitts, Jr. | Selected poems on darkness and awakening
The Impossible Lack of Ability to Comprehend “Where is the end of it, the soundless wailing…” — T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, The Dry Savages, line 49 I do not know much of God. For what I know is infinitesimal. For all my arguing and listening, I know less still. And in stillness is both the impossible urge to know and the impossible lack of ability to understand. It loosens […]
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