“You have to have confidence in your own ability to be able to go it alone, to go against what the rest of the culture is doing.” – Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Penobscot Nation A few weeks ago, […]
It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story” – Native American proverb These days it seems everyone is into ayahuasca, an indigenous plant medicine that has become the focus of a fledgling tourism industry in greater […][…]
The Finding Felix Project is a work for screen and publication from curator and filmmaker Katy Kavanaugh. A fellowship from Stanford University and the Freie Universität – Berlin allowed Katy to return to the Berlin […]
“One night, I was lying on my bed with the window open. It was warm, and a delightful, sensuous breeze was wafting over me. I opened my legs to it and felt as if it […]
In a bustling neighborhood in southeast Portland, situated between an e-cigarette store and a barbershop, sits a strange little business called Float On. Each day, around fifty people walk through the shop’s front door and […]
Sex and Soul To define sacred sexuality, it is important to rediscover what sex means to us. Paramount for growth in this area is to break out of preconceived thinking. To help us step out […]
“There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. When we were children we wanted to talk to animals and struggled to understand why this was impossible. Slowly we gave up the attempt as […]
“Do not pursue the past. Do not usher in the future. Rest evenly with present awareness” (Tibetan meditation instruction) It was 1972, and Gary Weber, a 29-year old materials science PhD student at Penn State […]
With almost every meaningful institution now committed to free market self-interest, Americans inhabit a culture of competition, inadequacy, anxiety, and low self-esteem. A person’s value in this culture solely derives from the ability to make […][…]
Tell it to no one but the wise For most will mock it right away The truly living do I prize Those who long in flame to die. . . . Distance cannot slow your […][…]