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A Primary Reading List
Posted by Richard Grossinger on June 24, 2010
When I was twenty, the poet Robert Kelly presented my wife Lindy and me with a reading list to get us started, so to speak, in life.
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Pang Yang & The Publick Universal Friend
Posted by Peter Lamborn Wilson on June 24, 2010
In 1776 a 24-year-old Quaker woman in Rhode Island died of a mysterious disease, and then came to life again in her coffin on the way to the graveyard.
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Alia Johnson, February 14, 1948 to May 5, 2010
Posted by Gayan Macher on June 19, 2010
Alia was my teacher and my friend, two most beautiful words.
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An Ecological Disaster: Polluting the Waters of Life
Posted by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on June 18, 2010
Recently we have been witnessing the worst ecological disaster in North America with the oil gushing from the depths of the Gulf.
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Finding Peace and What Really Matters at the Cemetery
Posted by Pythia Peay on June 18, 2010
Call me dark, odd, or a bit of a mystic, but I’ve always been drawn to cemeteries.
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Sufi Sheikh Who Preached Nonviolence Laid to Rest
Posted by Seven Pillars on June 18, 2010
In a small and ancient family plot attached to his ancestral home in Jerusalem’s Old City, Sufi leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari was laid to rest on Tuesday, June 1, at age 61, after a long struggle with heart disease. He was head of the mystical Naqshabandi Holy Land Sufi Order.
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Over the Memorial Day weekend, 38 visionaries, teachers, artists and change agents of many faiths and professions came together for a special gathering at the Abode of the Message in upstate New York. read more »
I have been asked to say something about my experience of Seven Pillars. For me, Seven Pillars has been, and I am sure will continue to be, a learning experience. read more »
Nature mystic Richard Jefferies speaks about how one night he felt himself as wandering amongst the stars. read more »
In a techno-consumer culture enraptured with externals and superficiality, the tendency toward poetry can represent a struggle to value, protect and embody those qualities that are most hidden in oneself, the qualities of the soul. read more »
There is a creative tension, one we all face, in reconciling the teachings and traditions of the past with the tremendous global changes of the present. Our current era is one of dynamic change, fraught with all the eddies and currents of conflicting interests and aspirations, stirred by the plasmic energies of technology, and heated by increasing sensitivities of personhood—in gender, age, ethnicity, community, language, ideology, and local, layered identities no longer confined to simple bodily perceptions. read more »
Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the Spirit of your Nations in prayer. read more »
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