A Mystic Journey

This is the second post in which I write about a favorite old book. I loved Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974) years ago Funny, but what we knew in our youth was a surprising wisdom. Sure, we tend to be smarter as the years go on, but when it…

In my mystic journey, I find I am revisiting some of the books that I loved when I was in my 20s and 30s. How fun to discover that what I resonated with then, I continue to find relevant. I wanted to share short posts on a few of those books. Here is the first.…

“High conflict is what happens when conflict clarifies into a good versus evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them.” Amanda Ripley is a NYT best selling author and investigative reporter for Atlantic, Politico, and Washington Post, among others. Her High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out…

“Consciousness is existence itself; Consciousness, existence and our souls cannot be separated.” Ivan Antic, author of The Physics of Consciousness: In The Quantum Field, Minerals, Plants, Animals and Human Soul (Samkhya Publishing, 2021), is a Zen Buddhist monk with an impressive array of over 40 books on such topics as consciousness, soul, meditation and astrology.…

“We need to remember that we are at a prophetic turning point for humanity and that this volatility is here again for a reason by our choice. We need an explosiveness to make the leap.” Jose Stevens, PhD, in “The True Nature of Infection and Viral Contagion” (thepowerpath.com, March 15, 2022), offers a positive view…