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

  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 [...]

Andrew Harvey on “Chanting Om”

"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 [...]

Quotation from Andrew Harvey, contemporary mystic, scholar, poet, spiritual activist, on “Paradox”

“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 [...]

From “A Sense of the Cosmos: Scientific Knowledge and Spiritual Truth”

“…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 [...]

An Excerpt from “The Snow Leopard” by Peter Matthiessen, page 64-67

"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 [...]

Excerpts from “The Invisibles” by David Abram in Parabola, Vol. 31. No. 1

“…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, [...]

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