Stories can be instructive on a multitude of levels. Here, I share a real one about ugliness and how we may be missing something critical...

Talking about psychic-stuff is a challenge for me.  It’s been overcomplicated, mysticized, romanticized, twisted, subverted, and...

About six weeks ago, I had a vision.  In it, I was driving through some burb somewhere, sort of slowly but not slow enough to actually...

I’m asked with some frequency if I believe in reincarnation, past lives, life after death, the afterlife, Heaven, and such.  Invariably,...

From a dude on a dating site:  “How can you call yourself a mystic but not be spiritual?”  From a friend: “Isn’t a vision just a...

This is a Rumi poem about Soul Artists–those that guide the motion of energy that is given.  According to Coleman Barks, Hakim Sanai was...

Since my own significant personal transition began just about three years ago, I’ve experienced the world in a magnificent manner than...

Some commentary on the verse, As you start on the way, the way appears. When you cease to be, real being comes. Zuleikha shut every door,...

Someone Should Start Laughing I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the...

I’ve been asked my opinion of the Travyon Martin case a few times the past week and have not really given a response other than, “I really have no opinion.”  Some folks have considered that a cop out, others appeared annoyed that I didn’t take their bait.  Of course I’ve got an opinion but not many want to actually know it because it requires an understanding of my experience of Black and White relationships, my intimate knowledge of law enforcement and courts,  it requires t