The Heart Is Where Home Is
A Question for The Shaman I’d been looking forward to this day ever since I’d signed up for the writing retreat on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala a month before. Now, seated on the patio just …
Joy is Not a Luxury
Are you feeling happy? Is that even a relevant question these days? Here’s what I’ve been thinking: Just two days before the election (the one that changed everything) I’d been reading a piece the New …
Dreaming on Lake Atitlan
Finding Comfort And Meaning Half a World Away It was like a dream, stepping off the boat and entering a world defined by a glistening blue basin of a lake, watched over in the distance …
To Find Inner Peace in a Time of Political Conflict … Give Dreams a Chance
Let It Begin With Me … & You … These days I’ve been wearing my peace sign socks and earrings more than usual, and spouting my lefty liberal opinions, well—quite liberally. The political times: a particularly …
Rainbow Dreams: A Post-Hurricane Post
Shortly before I was scheduled to offer a program on “The Yoga of Dreams,” at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, I dreamed I saw dark stormy clouds nearly obscuring the retreat’s palm tree-dense property. This wasn’t …
Finding Celia Green, a Female Forebear in the World of Lucid Dreams
I discovered C.E. Green in a footnote while reading an article online about Lucid Dreaming. C.E., it turns out is Celia Elizabeth Green, born in 1935, who was once the Director of the Institute of Psychophysical Research, Oxford, and an expert in the study of Lucid Dreams.
Rats from Heaven
Dispatch from the Department of Synchronicity Dateline: New York City As I stood on the platform waiting for the uptown Q train on a Saturday afternoon in August, I couldn’t help but think about my …
Mooning Over the Moon
To moon is to be idle, and in love—it’s been rhapsodized over repeatedly–but could one more ode to that pearl in the night and the dreams it inspires possibly hurt?
The Elusive Dream*
I’m currently at work writing a book about dreams, so the first task is to try to define my terms. What is a dream? And before I even get to page one—I am stuck. The …
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