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 [...]
“The bowl of the pipe is a sacrificial vessel that itself is a miniature cosmos. Often tobacco is added pinch by pinch, each [...]
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 [...]
“So long as you feel the human contact, the atmosphere of mutual confidence, there is no danger; and even if you have to face the [...]
"Lama Govinda tells us in his Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism" “the sound values of om and their symbolic interpretation (in the Upanishads) are described in [...]
“All major mystical traditions have recognized that there is a paradox at the heart of the journey…Put simply, this is that we are already what [...]
“…Every day, in almost all its branches, the revelations of modern science offer evidence that the universe, reality itself, is alive—alive beyond all imagining. All [...]
"All phenomenal are processes, connections, all is in flux. and at moments this flux is actually visible: one has only to open the mind in [...]
“…A feel for the mysterious and the unseen is thus entirely proper to our experience of the material surroundings. Invisibility is not, first and foremost, [...]
Excerpts From The Upanishads, ancient accounts of mystical revelations from the Vedas, Hindu’s oldest holy scriptures “Narada once came to Sanatkumara and asked to be [...]
The Four Great Vows of Zen Buddhism: However [...]