A friend recently introduced me to David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine Monk who survived Hitler’s Germany, emigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s and, today, when he isn’t living as a hermit, still gives inspiring…

In my garage sit several boxes filled with the after effects of my father’s life, including hundreds of photos of unfamiliar faces stretching back to equally unfamiliar places and times. The thing is, nobody…

I feel compelled to start this post with yet another giant disclaimer: this blog is a confessional not meant to teach anyone anything. As the saying goes, all minds, including the one behind these…

So there’s this thing called the ‘Perennial Wisdom’ that’s composed of the accumulated teachings of mystics and masters, gurus and prophets over the ages. You know the types, Jesus of Nazareth, Guatama Buddha, Ramana…

As I see it, we move through this thing called ‘my life’ until, at some point, our sense of ownership and control over it is exposed as the illusion it’s always been. We spend…

Think I’ve shared this before, but in my early teens I kind of got swept up in stories about near-death experiences, about how all over the world and cultures and across history these NDEs…