by Sven Davisson Visiting Allen Ginsberg’s Beat snapshots at the National Gallery of Art an unanticipated sadness black crows circle out of mind grainy blackandwhite ghosts of my own childhood the skeleton of time reminds me hours spent discussing Shelley’s ‘Ode to the Westwind’ as breath machine Ozymandias and...
Foucault & the Epistemology of Self, Post Modernity by Sven Davisson From the Archives Ashé Journal #1, 2002. I pay homage to the guru, the divine friend, Mahatma Guru Shri Paramahansa Shivaji, Osho, Baba-ji The mental focus of the past several decades, in the West, has been marked by...
by Dead Jellyfish From the Archives Ashé Journal #3.1, 2004. “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law, there is no Law beyond do what thou wilt.” In examining the doctrines and teachings of the majority of modern occult traditions one finds themes relating to Aleister Crowley...
by Ogyan Trinley Dorje the 17th Gyalwa Karamapa From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 3, Issue 2, Summer 2004. Amid a healing grove of refreshing sala trees, We discuss this time of the year two thousand. From the lakeshore, the melting white moon of merit is seen; Its rays...
From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 3, Issue 2, Summer 2004. Master Dogen’s 300 Koan Shobogenzo, Case 172 Dongshan’s “Three Pounds of Flax” The Main Case Dongshan was asked by a monastic, “What is Buddha?”Dongshan said, “Three pounds of flax.” The monastic had a realization and bowed. The Commentary This is...