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 [...]
“…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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
(Unfortunately, I cannot now find my source for the following, but will gratefully credit it when I do! Perhaps I wrote it using a number [...]
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” Joseph Campbell “If we can recognize [...]
From The World's Religions, by Huston Smith: “Muslims point out that Muhammad incorporated into his charter for Medina the principle of religious toleration that these [...]
People do not need your opinions or your advice. People do not need to be fixed, corrected, or judged. What people need is to be empowered [...]