Letting History Wash Over Us
I awoke this morning to the familiar cadence of a certain bird that greets each day perched on a bush somewhere outside my bedroom window [...]
A Grandmother’s Prayer for Young Men, by Glenda Taylor
A Grandmother’s Prayer for Young Men, by Glenda Taylor Oh, Great and Good Spirit, behold these many young men, especially those just coming into their [...]
“What We Want, We Have,” an excerpt from Huston Smith’s “The World Religions”
Hinduism and the Meaning of the Self, an excerpt from Huston Smith: “…Pleasure, success, responsible discharge of duty, and liberation—we have completed the circuit of [...]
A Partial Timeline for Women’s Studies, by Dawn Warren
1850 BC Egyptian texts describe the first known reference to contraceptives. 1750 BC The Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian law code, protects a woman's right [...]
Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper GalleryAncestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper
Native American, History and Culture, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Cross-Cultural Mythology, Ancestry: Contemporary, Earth and Ecology, Intention and Expectation: Quotations, All Ancestry Content, Prayer: Quotations
Ancestry: Contemporary: An excerpt from “Concerning Smoke” by Jordan Paper
“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos. Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each [...]
Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux GalleryQuotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Native American, History and Culture, Cross-Cultural Mythology, Consciousness, Energy, and Matter: Quotations, Psychology, Spirituality, Fear, Courage, and Reassurance: Quotations, Earth and Ecology, Prayer: Quotations
Quotations from Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk was a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. The following quotes are from Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy [...]
Order and Connection, A Quote from Vine Deloria Jr.
“…From observing the world around them, they could see orderly processes that marked the way organic life behaved. From the obvious motions of the sun [...]
War, Peace, Reconciliation, by Glenda Taylor
This article, War, Peace, Reconciliation, is by Glenda Taylor, who notes: "I wrote this in 1989, but amazingly, as I read it in the year [...]
Settled, Unsettled
Every time I've come to Colorado by driving up out of the mostly flat lands of East Texas, through the endless plains, to the foothills, [...]
Mystery
What are we to do? In this time of cultural chaos, this video explores the question of where we may find the bedrock values and [...]
