“The Park: Part 3”
“Horizontal layers of shelly rock reveal this place’s ancient existence at the bottom of a great sea. The square white bits of rock are set into the hillside quite evenly, like teeth into some great jaw. From the woody stems of the silver lupine bushes emerge exquisite earrings of lavender-hued flowers. The sun brings out […]
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“As you start your hike, you immediately get the sense that these sinuous, narrow paths carry ancestral memories: of ferny forests in Paleozoic days, of Native Americans padding silently down the trail’s pressed earth. The massive boles of the wild oak and bay trees emanate a dense and heavy consciousness of vital life force. Down […]
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“If you ever happen to be up in the Oakland hills, be sure to hike the Huckleberry Loop. This little park, tucked in luxuriously between a half bowl of shale, blocking out the winds from the sea, and the still green demilune known simply as the East Bay Hills, is a shaded beauty, cool, calm, […]
Continue reading“Hypnotized: A Tribute to Bob Welch”
“There is the quick triple bass drum beat and the persistent snare and cymbal. The band is preparing to Hypnotize you. Then that spacey guitar chord, that yelp yearning for transcendence, that treble growl of escape, the one where you can clearly see, in your mind’s eye, the guitarist leaning back, and pushing forward his […]
Continue reading“The Foothills”
“He caught glimpses of the most primitive roadside huts imaginable: jerry-built lean-tos fashioned from corrugated iron roofs supported by bent and weather wooden posts. But behind these flimsy structures, rising like a silent commentary on the difference between the skills of human beings and those of nature, were the sentinels of the magnificent Garhwal Himalayas. […]
Continue reading“Knowledge”
“Thoughts are subtle vibrations moving in the air. If you become very quiet yourself, you will begin to notice them. There is no trick about it. Abilities that appear miraculous to you, because science cannot explain them, are simply beyond the present thresholds of your instruments. Spiritual knowledge is just as precise as scientific knowledge, […]
Continue reading“The Divine Mother”
“The pilgrim began to experience something unusual. His Consciousness felt caressed, enfolded, and cherished by some great power of Love. What had been flat now became curved. What had been sterile now became fecund. The immense Ocean of the Absolute was now stirred and stimulated. The Love that was always immanent in It now came […]
Continue reading“The Cave of Beings”
“The atmosphere here consisted in Purity and Bliss far superior to that which he had witnessed in his trip to the heavens. That all-knowing observer might have speculated that the air here was supercharged with the Consciousness of so many Enlightened Beings brought together in one place, that their individual Energy was exponentially increased by […]
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