Spiritual Tide

(spring 2007)
A cypress stands guard over a tiny village in the south of France. Mountains hover around the village. Overhead the cosmos threatens to explode, stars spin and planets swirl. On this starry night things are not as they seem – impressions of a painter’s mind on a canvas, fixed in oil.
What makes a sense […]

Wouldn’t we all like to live freely without struggle, in the moment, in harmony with all universal elements, guided to the best possible actions for our own and others’ fulfillment? The key word here is guided. So many times we act without reflection and suffer the end result of negative consequences we did not foresee. […]

The beat is off. The bees and the monarchs have told me – it is almost too late. We are marching out-of-time and have trashed our hive beyond repair with fingers of restlessness and selfish desire.
Where have the monarchs and bees gone? While roaming around a friend’s property in the country, I saw a total […]

“Our inner assertion of spiritual identity is sufficient to operate the law for fulfillment of prayers.” (all quotes in italics, Paramahansa Yogananda)
This is a colossal statement. When we assert our identity to be one with God, we have access to all God has. Then we may demand our legitimate share of abundance, and believing shall […]

“It is about the hurt of not being able to express yourself properly, to express your intimate relations, your unconscious, to trust the world enough to express yourself directly in it.” Louise Bourgeois on Modern Art
What good is creativity if it fails to communicate? I sit and wonder what it is all about. Why it […]