Reclaim the Divine Feminine: Connect to Your Creative Spirit | New Workshop for 2014
A Six Week Series led by Jude Rittenhouse
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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...
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...
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...
Ram Dass on “Letting Go”
Here's an interesting 2010 interview with Ram Dass on the process of letting go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxB-4_MGbc
"Your soul witnesses your feelings, your desires, your fearlessness. Stay in the witness, not identifying with the desires or attitudes or...
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...
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...
Martin Buber Today
this date, 47 years ago, martin buber passed away in jerusalem. he was 87 years old.
i regard martin buber as the greatest jewish philosopher since baruch spinoza in the xvii century, and not unlike...
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...
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...
Ink and Blood
One of the tasks I set my advanced creative writing students is to have them, one student a week, find three poems to read and then unpack from whatever anthology I happen to be...