What happens when we experience the world directly, without the conceptual overlay of thoughts, names, interpretations, explanations, intentions, beliefs, values, clocks, purposes and goals - yours and others? What happens when there is no map, no place to go, no one to be, and nothing to fix or accomplish? What happens when things are Read More
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The Spiritual Practice of Aging
July 6, 2016
In the spiritual practice of aging, we are gradually and steadily transformed into love. It is a long slow process of melting the False Self - the idea of me - into a fathomless inner sea of divine love, like sliding into the bubbling waters of a hot tub, like a candle melting in Read More
Aging's Ultimate Gift
June 19, 2016
My lifelong call, and one that's taken me decades to understand and appreciate, is simply to dissolve in the intense, immense, sentient reality of now and know that I am that, a step that is nothing short of being bathed in divine love and living from its radiant conscious oneness. I sense it. I Read More
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Love at 70
June 5, 2016
Sharing a little speech I gave recently at my 70th birthday party:
Thank you all for being here. You are my really good friends and I am so grateful for your presence in my life. Your being here with me today makes me really happy. My kids, grandkids and extended family already sent wonderful Read More
Thank you all for being here. You are my really good friends and I am so grateful for your presence in my life. Your being here with me today makes me really happy. My kids, grandkids and extended family already sent wonderful Read More
Reaching Out to the World
May 20, 2016
On a whim, I uploaded my work onto Facebook, Linked In, Pinterest, and Twitter. It feels like I'm sending mystical trial balloons into the vast internet world, calling forth kindred souls that we might echo each other's beautiful and universal voices of love and peace and divine being. My new book, The Divine Human, Read More
Confessions of a Reluctant Mystic
April 6, 2016
I am a mystic. This is my confession.
All my work, beginning with Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul to The Divine Human (in press) has been the product of an unfolding mystical revelation. It was given to me fully formed from the start but I had to work out each piece Read More
All my work, beginning with Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul to The Divine Human (in press) has been the product of an unfolding mystical revelation. It was given to me fully formed from the start but I had to work out each piece Read More
Defining God
June 8, 2015
"What is God?" We can ask this question from two distinct positions: thought and experience. In the thought approach, we engage our intellect and conceptually ponder the nature and characteristics of the divine - a fascinating though often controversial subject that has produced vast libraries of belief and speculation. When we seek to understand Read More
The Nature of a Sage
May 7, 2015
In many ways, the sage can be a precursor to the divine human, for they have much in common. The qualities of a sage flow from the wisdom earned in a lifetime of personal growth mixed with the new and spacious consciousness that comes as the self-concept dissolves in aging. We grow into a Read More
Breakthrough - A Spiritual Novel for the Second Half of Life
December 3, 2014
I haven't blogged a while because I've been busy working on a novel (an earlier version is serialized on the website). One editor calls it "a novel of ideas" because it explores so many facets of the mystical experience through conversations between the main characters, giving me an opportunity to engage the implications of Read More
It is the Heart that will Save the World
October 11, 2014
I remember James Hillman, the Jungian writer/analyst, speaking at a Mendocino Men's Gathering about the coming of age. He said that a young man, like a conqueror of old, travels out into the world of man, sending his troops far and wide to conquer vast swaths of life. But an aging man recalls Read More