Trevor Hall The Fruitful Darkness For the second time in my life, Trevor Hall has given my heart and mind a voice in times of difficulty, times of processing, and times of major metamorphosing and shape-shifting. As I wrote in 2014 about his Chapter of the Forest album, his most recent album, The Fruitful …
Category: present life
Now Available: The Energy of God!
My dear brothers and sisters, I’m beyond humbled and amazed to announce my new book, The Energy of God, is now available in paperback and Kindle eBook format! Five years in the making, this project has been a major undertaking, taking me under the waves of my own heart, mind, and experience, leaving me eternally …
All The Things That Man Has Made
Catch the Bird of Heaven, Lock Him in a cage of gold. Look again tomorrow And He will be gone Lock Him in religion, Gold and frankincense and myrrh Carry to His prison, But He will be gone All the things that man has made Cannot hold Him anymore. Still the Bird is flying as …
Community
I THINK I AM figuring out that one of the root longings I feel ever-present deep inside is indeed for community… I’ve always been—or thought of myself as—solitary, not needing others in order to be me or do what I do. This most likely came from the way I grew up, homeschooled and alone, even …
I Am Not Christian
I am not Christian. I am one who will stand with the outcast and the judged But I am not Christian. I am one who has to defend the defenseless But I am not Christian. I am one who offers my hand to any color height size orientation caste But I am not Christian. I …
The Spirit Grieves
LAST NIGHT, I WENT into a Christian book and supply store to try to find a gift for a couple family members who are getting baptized tomorrow, and the Spirit within me began to grieve. Every item in there felt hollow, clichéd, fear-based, condescending, or arrogant, whether it was a trinket, a figurine, a wall …
Five Fingers
The wakened lover speaks directly to the beloved, “You are the sky my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place. Let this window be your ear. I have lost consciousness many times with longing for your listening silence, and your life-quickening smile. You give attention to the smallest matters, my suspicious doubts, and …
Face to Face with Death
On this Dia de los Muertos—Day of the Dead—it is the perfect time to pull out and begin re-reading the beautiful and inspiring Tibetan Book of the Dead, something I’ve been wanting to do again for a while now anyway. The following is the opening chapter of my favorite translation by Gyurme Dorje, edited by …
The True Constant
When I was younger, and first learning I could feel the presence of the Earth, I would get SO annoyed and upset with concrete blocking the way and covering up so much of the ground everywhere I went. I became anti-cement nearly to an extreme anti-civilization frame of mind, until I grew a bit …