Kabbalah in Winesburg, Ohio
When I studied Integrated Kabbalistic Healing, my teacher Jason Shulman told us about the Hebrew word yesh. One way to translate the word is simply as “there is” or “there are.” But a yesh...
Reclaim the Divine Feminine: Connect to Your Creative Spirit | New Workshop for 2014
A Six Week Series led by Jude Rittenhouse
When:
Begins Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 7 pm (Eastern Time) Whether you write, paint, draw, sing, cook, raise children, dance, take care of elderly parents, run a household or a...
A Mixed Lineage
This past weekend I meditated with Susan Piver as I participated in her Open Heart Project Virtual Retreat (susanpiver.com). Susan is a terrific meditation teacher, and I have been using her beautifully-voiced instructions in...
Classical Literature, the Gods, and Metaphysical Desire
In December I finished teaching a course on classical myth and literature for undergraduates. We read a variety of texts and from a variety of time periods. Among the works we studied were The...
On Merton’s Snow and Watt’s Potatoes
"your heart is my hermitage" - thomas merton
one of the most profound beauties in merton's spiritual journey is his progression from a spirituality of "the" heart as a general proposition in the abstract, to...
BEAUTIFUL RUINS — beautifully insightful
Sometimes a book comes along that moves me on such a deep level that it is difficult to words to what has occurred in me. For 2012, that book is BEAUTIFUL RUINS, by Jess...
addendum: on i-it and the god we repress
god is the between of an i and a thou, and it is precisely this existential dialogue with all that exists, our "essential deed" as buber called it, that which we repress within us...
Just One Thing. Rick Hanson Ph.D.
Home > Blog > Fear > Embrace Fragility Could it crack?
The Practice:
Embrace fragility.
Why?
The truth of anything is like a mosaic with many tiles, many parts.
One part of the truth of things is that they are...
Mary Jo Bang Translates Dante’s Poetry with Pop Culture Twist
Poet Mary Jo Bang translates Dante's 'Inferno,' and gives it an update A great many college students give up on “The Divine Comedy,” usually after they’ve determined in which circle of hell they are destined...
Poetry Changed the World: Injury and the Ethics of Reading
Interesting essay "Poetry Changed the World" by Elaine Scarry in Boston Review
What is the ethical power of literature? Can it diminish acts of injuring, and if it can, what aspects of literature deserve the...