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A Trip to Choctaw Country
Dispatches from the Drivers Seat Earlier, I shared an experience of my relationship with the elements and etheric that developed as I...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 15, 20164 min read
Mystery Lovers
The mysteries are showering you with kisses of fate, destinies unfolding, like lovers set to move the heart into more....
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 13, 20161 min read
Who Are You Exactly?
“And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 12, 20162 min read
Can I Get a Witness?
The Power of Being Seen Aspects of the work I do are profoundly intimate. It’s close enough that men have said, “I feel like we just...
Ingrid Oliphant
Jan 6, 20165 min read
Martin Luther King’s Last Christmas Sermon
I was introduced to this after Christmas when I finally got around to reading an OnBeing piece I’d saved. I think everyone should read...
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 29, 201511 min read
Walmart is a Holy Land
Source: Walmart is a Holy Land
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 22, 20151 min read
Changing My Tune, Growing my Mind, Expanding my Heart and Self
“To be or not to be.” “Very few of us are what we seem.” Agatha Christie Honoring myself & those with whom and for whom I walk I’ve made...
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 7, 20158 min read
The Industrialization of Shamanism
“From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over...
Ingrid Oliphant
Dec 7, 20157 min read
The Place of Rest
Unto the deep the deep heart goes, It lays its sadness nigh the breast: Only the Mighty Mother knows The wounds that quiver unconfessed....
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 10, 20151 min read


“If You Find Me” by Hasan Askari
Spiritual Human Muslims thought that Kabir was a Muslim. Hindus regarded him as Hindu. But he was independent of them both. When the hour...
Ingrid Oliphant
Nov 5, 20151 min read
The Stone’s Daughter
The stone said, “Daughter” And the dammed wound seeped with memory of pain from the one that would not claim her, forsook her When the...
Ingrid Oliphant
Oct 26, 20151 min read


The Rose
A white rose opens in a quiet arbour Where I sit reading Dante, Paradise unfolding in me, opens hour by hour, In sunlight and amidst...
Ingrid Oliphant
Oct 26, 20151 min read


Elements of Weaving
Built by fire Inhabiting the winds Unleashed from the earth to quench the thirst of the ages. We weave. Bound to nothing but the breath...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 30, 20151 min read
Baraka
Are you First Nations? Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. ~ Guy de...
Ingrid Oliphant
Sep 25, 20158 min read


Thistle and Thyme
Passages of thistle and thyme lead us to where time or we forgot. In the breadth of a scent, a moment of breath. To remember, to be...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 24, 20151 min read


Bitterroot Landing
The first three paragraphs of the above named novel by Sheri Reynolds:
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 23, 20151 min read
Mathnawi, II, 3027-3045
Four Indians enter a mosque and begin the prostrations. Deep, sincere praying. But a priest walks by, and one of the Indians, without...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 21, 20151 min read
An Ocean without Shore
I marveled at an Ocean without shore, and at a Shore that did not have an ocean; And at a Morning Light without darkness, and at a Night...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 15, 20151 min read
Mathnawi, II 1680-1708
Here are the miracle signs you want: That you cry through the night and get up at dawn, asking, that in the absence of what you ask for...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 12, 20151 min read
Weaving Wisdom
Like the waves of the sea and the winds from the mountains The past and Presence rise to meet me. Grief, gnowledge, knowing, impatience...
Ingrid Oliphant
Aug 11, 20151 min read

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