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January 1, 2024: Can Grace Mark this New Year, 2024? We have been exploring the concept of grace—in the Iranian fish seller and his countrypeople
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January 1, 2024: Can Grace Mark this New Year, 2024? We have been exploring the concept of grace—in the Iranian fish seller and his countrypeople

Alex tells us that “the Green Hand is my homage to Viriditas!” Which indeed it is. Green hands bespeak the reality of human work that can bring

Alex Grey is a notable artist of our time with whom it has been my privilege to work on several occasions. He gave the teaching

For Hildegard, as for Einstein, awe and knowledge, intuition and intellect, aren’t at odds but are companions on the journey. When she says “there is

It seems to me that Rabbi Abraham Heschel offers a deep insight into this most important question: “What does it mean to be human?” Heschel

Dualism is the basis of all war. It creates either/or thinking. Subject/object thinking is necessary for carrying on wars. Mysticism is non-dualism. Julian of Norwich invented the word oneing. How

Hildegard calls Christ “green wood” and green man. We are all called to be green men and women today. If we are not, we are neither

In their classic work, The Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth, English photographer Clive Hicks and poet William Anderson teamed up to bring

To talk of divinization and the Cosmic Christ is to talk of the numinosity in all things. And meaning. And creativity. The inherent creativity and “intelligence” of

One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
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