A Peek from a Pixel’s Perch
O Lover, Sequestered in the bifurcated gestalt of my protracted minority, in some respects an isolate harried by contingency and void, still holding both You and myself to be entities in some structure, I...
Author: ambushee
Regarding Non-dualistic Spirituality
O Lover, Over the past year I have been increasingly beset by questions regarding the implications of non-dualism for contemplative practice and awareness. I understand non-dualism as affirming that Reality in its very largest...
Beneficence
[Hall, Meredith, Beneficence. Boston: Godine, 2020.] O Lover, The setting for my reading highlight of this summer (but half spent) is largely restricted to a Maine farmstead across decades beginning in the early 1930s....
“Exploration into God”
[Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958), Towards the Unknown Region (1907) & A Sea Symphony (1910); each is an orchestral/choral setting of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (“Darest Thou Now O Soul” & “Passage...
Enchantment Revisited
[“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time” (T. S. Eliot,...
Enter Mentors
[Bourgeault, Cynthia, Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 2024. Bourgeault, OSB, is an Episcopalian priest, theologian, and practitioner of centering prayer; Keating, OCSO (d. 2018), was a Roman...
In the Tow of “Big Gravity”
O Lover, On this fair June day I am pondering the macro meaning of “gravity,” that force causing an object to be drawn toward the center of another object possessing mass. It is a...
“‘With [Moses] I Speak Mouth to Mouth’”
[“‘ . . .My servant Moses, / He is faithful in all my household; / With him I speak mouth to mouth, / Even openly, and not in dark sayings, / And he beholds...
“We Have No King But Caesar!”
[“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to...
Musings on “The Long and Winding Road”
O Lover, In recent weeks my spouse and I have watched several documentaries focusing on the deep history of planet Earth, particularly the last four billion years when it included some form of life....