No-Mind and Love
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Books, Love, Mind | 2 Comments »I'm going through a book this year which I bought long ago and never read: The Old Hermit's Almanac by Fr. Edward Hays. It's an unconventional book of days, full of delightful fun and deep wisdom. Here's part of today's ...
Tien, and a few other notes
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, My Life | 4 Comments »I'm reading my first novel in Esperanto, now, a book called Tien, by Claude Piron, under the pseudonym "Johano Valano." It's ostensibly a science-fiction story, but really it's about spiritual transformation... really surprising how some of the (co)incidences are lining ...
Dear Madeleine
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in Books, Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Madeleine L'Engle has passed on. Although really the most appropriate thing to say would be "Congrats!", I do find my eyes getting a bit moist thinking about it. Why? Well, that's a long story, but I've got plenty of time. Let's ...
Hofstadter and this last week
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 7 Comments »This week has been good. To explain it, I'm going to have to start with my college days. During my undergrad years in El Paso, I was in an extremely conservative congregation. My desire to know God had been subverted, ...
Imagine (interlude)
Saturday, August 12th, 2006 Posted in Books, Music, My Life | 2 Comments »I went to a peformance of The Mystical Arts of Tibet by monks from the Drepung Lobsang monastery in India. (A wonderful experience, by the way. If you ever get the chance, go see it.) After the performance, I went ...
The Holy Grail: still missing the point
Saturday, June 10th, 2006 Posted in Books, Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | 3 Comments »I'm writing my reflection on The Da Vinci Code. As I write, what strikes me most is that Brown's interpretation of the Grail comes so close in some ways, yet still misses the point completely! The Grail legend is a wonderful ...
Gnosticism? A few more thoughts on Thomas and Judas
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 Posted in Books, Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 5 Comments »Some of you requested I tell a little more about how I found my teacher, and I will return to that soon. But right now, I wanted to discuss "Gnosticism" a bit. It's one of those things that everyone's talking about, ...
Tolle does it again
Saturday, October 15th, 2005 Posted in Books, Spirituality | Comments OffEckhart Tolle, author of the spiritual bestseller The Power of Now has a new book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, on the bookshelves. I've just started it, so it might be a little while before I can ...
Superb Translation of Thomas
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Books, Spirituality | Comments OffI just came across the perfect translation of The Gospel of Thomas. It's The Gospel of Thomas: the Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus, by Jean-Yves LeLoup, translated by Joseph Rowe. This is a double translation. LeLoup translated the gospel into French and ...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Monday, July 18th, 2005 Posted in Books | Comments OffThis book rocks kicks butt frims. I definitely consider it the best of the Potter series so far, and leads to the possibility that the final book might have a markedly different format from these first six. Best line: The Aurors ...