New contemplative poetry from Natalie Crick Hush Hush Again the storm is waving, and concealed Between these waxen nets We look on. I can see no cordon, But the brittle fence and shushing stalks By which morsels of bush and neighbourly gusts Strained on fresh waste, can be absorbed....
New Years Eve 2010, photographer Tanja Hollander sat at her house in Maine instant messaging a friend in Jakarta while writing a letter to another deployed in Afghanistan. She began thinking about the differences in those two friendships, the contrast in the methods of communicating. She continued to reflect on friendships...
Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz Cécile Révauger Inner Traditions, 2016, $29.95 Already the author of several books on Freemasonry in French, University of Bordeaux professor Cécile Révauger turns her attention to the history of Black Freemasonry in the United States. As early as the...
By Brad Warner, author of Don’t Be a Jerk [Editor: Brad Warner’s recent book Don’t Be a Jerrk is “a radical and reverent paraphrasing” the classic Zen text the Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) by the thirteenth century master Dogen. Warner’s ‘modernization’ of Dongen’s work into plainspoken language...
Despite the ubiquity of news coverage in the 1980s, the Osho-Rajneesh movement’s experiment in building a spiritual city out the Oregon desert has for the most part receded from the national memory. It is little more than a quirky footnote to the history of Reagan’s American. There remain a...