“The Woman in White”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “A young woman appeared out of nowhere. She was suddenly standing right next to the five friends. Her hair was long, wavy, and black, her eyebrows thick and as black as if they had been drawn with coal. She had full lips and a narrow nose. The woman wore long, […]
Continue reading“The Milky Way”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “By now it was late. The scene before, below, and above the friends was marvelous. The Milky Way looked like a gigantic brain spread across the middle of the sky. A central spine of plum purple rose up to their left at a sixty-degree angle. This spine overlay a roughly […]
Continue reading“Beyond Differences”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “My friends, words and concepts and logic are not the tools we will need to accomplish our quest. The world is already at war, with words the first of its weapons drawn. It is fighting to the death over concepts that, in most every case, are simply rallying cries for […]
Continue reading“Big Sur”
Excerpt from “A Living Lighthouse”: “Ten eyes stared in the same direction. Five souls stirred at the sight presented to their eyes. Something about the surrounding scene seemed to bear directly on the wild and wonderful idea they had been thinking and talking about for several days. On the beach below the cliff where the […]
Continue reading“Dawn at the Lake”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “As I stood there on the shore of the lake, I knew that I was living one of those rare moments in life that are so powerfully poignant one will never forget them. There was the sheer beauty of the pale-peach clouds, above us in the sky and […]
Continue reading“Ripple”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: At Yak’s guidance, Hebie had put the Dead’s American Beauty album on the turntable. “Ripple,” the song Artus had earlier talked about as relating to Pure Consciousness, began to play. First, there was the downhomeyness of the acoustic guitar. Then Jerry Garcia began to sing to us, as […]
Continue reading“Love Among Friends”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “When I turned my attention from the floor back to the room, I experienced a surge of love for all my friends. It was the tenderest, most caressing love I had ever felt for anything. There was Yak. How generous he was to host us and provide for […]
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