The First Ox-Herding Picture: Searching for the Ox
1. Searching for the Ox Nothing has been lost in the first place, So what is the use of searching? By refusing to come to one’s senses, One becomes separated from […]
Hope Is To Create
Hope is to createIn possibilityWhat for ever isHeart’s mystery, Therefore I hope for hopeDesire desireThat brings our seed to flowerTo fire our fire. ~ Kathleen Raine
Ask Me
Some time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. Othershave come in their slow way intomy thought, and some have tried to helpor to hurt; ask me what differencetheir strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say.You and […]
Holiday Reads & Recipes
Dear Members, Given a bit of downtime, even if just a quiet few minutes here and there…what is on your reading list as the end of 2025 draws near? Also feel welcomed to leave your favorite cookie or holiday beverage recipe below since ‘Tis the Season’!
How To Be A Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit downSit down.Be quiet. Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditional airShun electric wire.Communicate slowly.Live a three-dimensional life.Stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in.There are no unsacred places;There are only sacred places and desecrated places. Accept what comes from silence.Make the best you can […]
Beverly Rubik, PhD
Beverly Rubik earned her Ph.D in biophysics at University of California, Berkeley. She is internationally renowned for her pioneering research on the biofield and energy medicine. She is a professor at Energy Medicine University in Sausalito, CA, and faculty member in the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences at Saybrook University in Oakland, CA. […]
Hansueli F. Etter, PhD
Hansueli F. Etter is a long-time colleague of Marie-Louise von Franz, and founding member of The Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Zürich. He is also the president of the Foundation for Jungian Psychology in Kusnacht. Dr. Etter has a Ph.D in Anthropology and lectured […]
LuAnn Conforti-Brown, PhD
LuAnn Conforti-Brown, PhD is the Director of International Studies for the Assisi Institute. She is a certified Archetypal Pattern Analyst and holds a Masters degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University and a PhD in Existential-Humanistic Psychology from Saybrook University. Dr. Conforti-Brown spent 17 years as Assistant Professor of Clinical Instruction at the […]
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength.Move back and forth into the change.What is it like, such intensity of pain?If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. […]
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may […]