Family Relations
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009My dad said he was a diamond in the rough. Forty years and no diamond. Your children inherit a chisel.
Archive for 2009
Attention, Pantheacon Shoppers!
Thursday, February 19th, 2009I’ve been home from PantheaCon since Monday evening, and I can still hear Thalassa’s voice over the vendor’s room microphone, cracking jokes and telling people to leave because the room is closing. Is this some weird sign of stress or lingering sleep deprivation? The answer is probably yes on both counts, considering that I only [...]
Courageous Dreaming? Really?
Saturday, February 7th, 2009This book, Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being, caught my eye a year ago in a local bookstore, so I requested a review copy from the publisher. Now, before I get into reviewing the book I need to say something about Hay House Publishers. I both admire and am horrified by Hay [...]
Poetry for St. Brigid’s Day
Sunday, February 1st, 2009Has it really been four years now that we have been doing a virtual poetry reading for Brigid? Apparently so. Here is one then, in honor also of the great Hermes: Trismegistus O Egypt, Egypt—so the great lament Of thrice-great Hermes went— Nothing of thy religion shall remain Save fables, which thy children shall [...]
Hotel California Cosmology
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009The unique blend of Eastern and Western mysticism, science, and parapsychology that characterizes California Cosmology makes so much intuitive sense to me that it is difficult to even describe why that is so. In my review of Jeffrey Kripal’s book on Esalen I gave it a pretty fair shot, so I won’t spend time tonight [...]
New Year’s Dream Resolutions
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Okay gang, it’s back to work. I have spent the past couple days reading through the morass that was 2008, as written in my journals. And I am happy to report that while the year was no picnic, from it I did end up with pages and pages of really interesting dreams. It was hard [...]
