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Aquinas did know one very important dimension to the universe that modern peoples have easily forgotten—namely, that the facts of our home, the universe, are
The experience of the Divine is at the heart of spirituality and any effort to renew religion itself. Mystics undergo such experiences and attempt to
Meister Eckhart, upending centuries of neo-platonic tainted dualistic religious teaching, said simply, “nature is grace.” His brother Thomas Aquinas, said, “The greatness of the human
We are recounting the life and work of Emily Dickinson in light of the shaman archetype. First, she underwent a kind of rupture that resulted
We have been discussing the shaman as understood by David Paladin and others.Is Emily Dickinson a shaman? In his book, Emily Dickinson: A Medicine Woman
I am grateful to Lynda Paladin’s for reminding me that I had written a Foreword to a second edition of David Paladin’s book, Painting the
With spontaneity comes wildness–both emanate from deep within creatures. Berry comments: Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being.
Today marks the third “Birthday” of our Daily Meditations which we deliberately launched on Mother’s Day in honor of Mother Earth and the return of
Yesterday we meditated on the important work that rupture sometimes plays in bringing forth the shaman in self and society. David Palladin, John of the
Another way to unpack the “more primordial” is to undergo rupture, loss or deep suffering. I pose this important question: Are the ruptures we are
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