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Wholeness Is Beyond Belief
The pristinely clear and cold stream flows by at my feet, its brown and reddish stones burnished by the fresh current and glistening in the sunlight. A woodland hawk soars through the nearly bare...
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Strange Signs, Human and Natural
And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that that spirit of God is the elder brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers…and the women my...
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Utopia Has Nothing To Do With It
I wasn’t looking for a meditative state as I left on the bike for a sitting along the small creek at the edge of town late in afternoon, just feeling the need for the tonic of nature. Despite...
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Putting First Things First
I dislike the term ‘mystical experience.’ What happens in the brain during meditative states is neither mystical, nor an experience. It’s an event, a phenomenon that’s new each time. The brain has the...
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Transmutation Is Ending Psychological Thought
On one of the hottest days of the year, when the temperature reached near 40 degrees (104), I found a quiet, shady spot by the stream for a meditation. There were few people in the quarter-mile wide...
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Making the Leap
An ominous, orangish haze hangs over northern California. The Carr fire has obliterated the normally azure skies and made the atmosphere physically unhealthy and metaphysically surreal. People are...
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Demystifying Mystical Experience
Hawks screech from different directions in the parkland, and birds play raucously. Friendliness and joy are reflected in the faces of many of the using the park for every conceivable activity—walking,...
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Two Hinges of History
This is the second “hinge of history” in my lifetime. I didn’t think I’d live to see another, after the simultaneous collapse of the USSR economically and politically, and the US ethically and...
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There Is No Escape
It’s a day that will reach 40 degrees Celsius. Walking in the morning through the brown grass in the canyon beyond town is at once exhilarating and enervating. One cannot help but appreciate the...
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Being Is the Home of Language
Jogging up a wide path in the city park after an intense meditation at streamside, I spot a large animal leisurely walking away about 200 meters away. It’s the size and shape of an average dog. But it...
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The Resting Space Between Thoughts
Usually, an encounter with a wild animal, even in town, isn’t given a second thought. But encounters with animals in a meditative state (which essentially means a spontaneous state of inward stillness)...
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Meditation Has No Context
Lately I’ve been grappling with the question of context. It would seem to be a given that we live in contexts of one kind or another, from the context of nature, which man ignores at our peril, to the...
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