I want to add an addendum here to what I just wrote about meditation not being the whole answer. There are many for whom meditation practice has changed their world, given their life an openness and stability many people long for and few seem to achieve. For these people, and for… Read full post »

Many of us take up a meditation practice with the assurance that all we need is to meditate twice a day and everything will automatically fall into place.  I beg to differ.

Sure, meditation practice can smooth out the rough edges of our personality. It can bring us to a… Read full post »

The more posts I read here on OS, the more I get that my tone is all wrong. Or perhaps it’s my topic. Who wants to read about prayer and meditation these days anyway? There’s just too much other stuff going on that’s taking up all the oxygen. Heck, it’s taking… Read full post »

These days I read more and more posts which hail the importance of having a meditation practice in our lives. Here in white bread America, prayer has been the one acceptable means of invoking the divine and generally for quite specific purposes: praise and thanksgiving, requesting divine guida… Read full post »

Another week has blown by. I know this by the fact that this is the day my hubby and I do our weekly trip to the big city to haunt the book stores, try to find a movie that looks appealing, starts at the right time of day, and generally get… Read full post »

     Why do Christians never speak of enlightenment and it seems the eastern religions never tire of speaking of it? Doing my morning prayers and meditation, I began to again ask this question. My entire adult life, ever since learning my own meditation technique over thirty odd y… Read full post »

I was so pleased with the conversation and response my little post stirred up a few days ago. That was an all time first, for me. I seem to struggle with how to write and how to be public with my writing at the same time. As good as it feels… Read full post »

I just posted a rather provocative, no—really provocative—post in the middle of the night. It comes from something I’d written several weeks ago, around the time of Christopher Hitchens’ death, which by the way did make me quite sad as much as I found him to be a highly exaspe… Read full post »

I am often torn here between choosing god or choosing atheism. This is because I, like most people, am of two minds: one is rational and materialistic and gets me through my day; the other is symbolic, metaphorical, poetic, and highly malleable. This, dear readers, is in my opinion exactly how… Read full post »

When Barack Obama was in the early days of his run for the presidency, I was studying about archetypes in a graduate program in Depth Psychology. Unable to complete the degree, I was, however, inspired to write about and apply these ideas to the politics and culture of that time. I… Read full post »

NOTE: This article was written and published during Obama’s original run for the presidency. I reprint it here for its core message which, in my estimation, had not changed.

Barack Obama carries his gift of leadership with grace and humility, both signs of balance in his guiding archetype &md… Read full post »

Poetry and prayer come together as a means of aligning the spirit to a higher power through surrender to the muse.

 Two days ago Christopher Hitchens passed. This made me very sad on first seeing the headline. His face always looked to me so somber, full of a private sadness or resolve or something I could never quite identify. But his insistence on his own particular form of seeking had touched a… Read full post »

"I, too, hate poetry" the great American poet Marianne Moore once wrote. Well, I too, up until recently, had taken a strong dislike to blogs. Not that I really had read them much.  I had stayed away from the genre all this time for some misguided perception that as with most… Read full post »

The movie A Dangerous Method is now playing and I am holding back. Well, actually, it’s playing no where near us in this mountain town where my hubby and I now live in a sort of semi-retirement. As soon as it reaches the nearest Alamo, I’ll be there but a bit… Read full post »