One of my favorite books is “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz, “a nagual (master) from the Eagle Night lineage” of the Toltec in Southern Mexico. The Toltec were “scientists and artists” who managed the spiritual knowledge and practices of the “ancient ones.” In “The Four Agreements,” Don Miguel Ruiz describes ...
I will be participating in the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010. I will record my personal, home soundscape and post it here. And you, yes, YOU are also invited. The purposes of World Listening Day are: to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to ...
An adventure of a lifetime! Left Golden Mango Inn at 4:45 am to meet the sun at Angkor Wat. It was getting brighter when this picture was taken but it was still very, very dark when we arrived. Photo taken by our guide Vath Vutha. Left to right, friends from waaaaayyy back ...
Harvey Cox of Boston Globe wrote a great article entitled “Why fundamentalism will fail: A seemingly unstoppable force is being undone from the inside” (November 8, 2009) . His premise is that beneath their squawking–abetted and further legitimized by a media who loves violence and paranoid individuals flooding the internet and television ...
I would like to go beyond emotion and say this: it is now time for all of us to look inward and assess how we have helped lubricate an entire system that breeds and nurtures the culture of violence. We have long been silent, and we have been voting one wrong leader ...
Harvey Cox of Boston Globe wrote a great article entitled “Why fundamentalism will fail: A seemingly unstoppable force is being undone from the inside” (November 8, 2009) .
His premise is that beneath their squawking–abetted and further legitimized by a media who loves violence and paranoid individuals flooding the internet and television ...
As Typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila and the nearby provinces in Luzon, submerging entire cities in waters so deep Filipinos had to stay on their roofs for up to 12 hours exposed to strong rain and dangers of being swept away before rescue came to them, these political thoughts came to me:
The ...
