Blog o’ Gnosis

I woke up this morning with a stiff left shoulder and clavicle, stretching all the way to a stiff neck, especially on the left side. This is something that happens off and on, and I deal with it in several different ways. Today I decided to take a long walk, my favorite meditative way to deal with physical imbalances.

I mentioned Donald Engstrom here earlier this week. Today I happened on a lovely article by Donald that really summarizes his approach to not only life but teaching, and also illustrates a point I’ve been meaning to make. This train of thought was brought on by my witchcamp teaching experience last month where, as I [...]

Choice
Blindfolded
I would know
the touch
the taste
the smell of you
among a thousand others
and knowing, choose you
–Maude Meehan, Chipping Bone

For the first time this summer, Ross and I actually managed to get out of town together for an entire weekend, solely to have fun. This entails making sure the noisy, diabetic, incontinent (did I mention blind and unpleasant?) miniature toy poodle that belonged to Rosses late mother has someone to give her insulin shots 2x a day (did I mention she bites nearly everyone who tries?).

I can count on one hand the number of events in our culture that were so important that it seems everyone remembers where they were at the time. The assassination of JFK is one, though I was only a few months old at the time so I was probably spitting up baby cereal all over my mother’s dress. I don’t really remember that.

Last weekend I was down in Berkeley for the annual IASD (International Assoc. for the Study of Dreams) conference. This was a really inspiring conference, as usual, with lots of dreamworkers presenting on all sorts of topics. There was a panel of invited Muslim academics speaking on dreams and Islam; dream researchers reporting the results [...]