“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 University, […][…]
“The most highly developed branches of the human family have in common one peculiar characteristic. They tend to produce … a curious and definite type of personality; a type which refuses to be satisfied with […][…]
[This is part two of a two-part column. Read part one, “Here Come The Animals”, here.] “We are born trapped in our own selfish skins, and we open our eyes to the rings of existence around […][…]
Animal Consciousness and the Expansion of the Human Imagination by Jeff Warren “The imagination is not a source of deception and delusion, but a capacity to sense what you do not know, to intuit what […][…]
In January of this year, an academic named Paul Wapner delivered an interesting lecture at Iowa State University on what he calls “climate suffering.” A professor of environmental politics at American University in Washington and […][…]
[Part 2 – click here to read Part 1] In March of 2012, myself and twenty other “adept” meditators participated in an experiment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The […][…]
