Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Living with Animals

From a poem by American poet, Walt Whitman:

     I think I could turn and live with animals,      they are so placid and self-contain’d,      I stand and look at them long and long.

     They do not sweat and whine about their condition,      They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,      They […]

Posted December 31, 2018 in Monthly News

Soul Purpose

John Lennon is usually given credit for having said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The origin of the saying, however, pre-dates Lennon. That’s understandable, because it is a universal truth. Robert Browning’s version (expressed in Andrea del Sarto) was “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a […]

Posted August 31, 2016 in Monthly News

Imagine

The song central to Debra’s post this month, “Show Me the Way,” by Dennis DeYoung and Styx, illustrates humanity’s desire for meaning. As is usually the case for the Beyond Mastery Newsletter, Debra wrote her article first, so that I could write something that would fit the theme she selected. When I read her article, […]

Posted July 31, 2015 in Monthly News

Spiritual Partnerships

To the best of my knowledge, the term Spiritual Partnership was coined by Gary Zukav, who used the term initially to refer to his relationship with Linda Francis, his wife. Debra and I read Zukav’s first book, Seat of the Soul, at a time we were doing a lot of fighting. Although we shared many […]

Posted May 31, 2015 in Uncategorized

Changes in Awareness

Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the best-known lines in all of English literature:

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […]