When my mother, of blessed memory, was in her mid-fifties, she attended a self-help psychology workshop. Afterwards, she said, “This…
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Tantric Sex
What is Tantric sex? Can you learn it in a year, for $5750, as some teachers have claimed? Probably not! Hindu…
Listen to Your Mother
Watch out, graduating students. Your faculty may give you some brief words of advice. “Brief words?” wondered my colleague P.…
Feed the Hungry
Surrey’s Interfaith Feed the Hungry project is simple and successful. Surrey’s Lookout Shelter serves lunch five days a week. Across…
Divine Compassion
Acts of violence fill this week’s news. All have complex political, social and psychological causes. Amidst the complexity, can an…
Thanksgiving Peace, Jacob Style
Sim shalom! Grant peace! These words begin the final section of the Amidah, standing silent meditation, in the daily Jewish…
How to Be Intuitive
At the Ranger Station in Glacier, WA, a slice of Douglas fir sits on a throne. Near it, an interpretive…
Hod: Two Philosophers, Two Qualities
“To you God, belongs greatness, strength (gevurah), beauty (tiferet), eternity (netzach) and splendour (hod), because…well, everything in heaven and on…
God's Kitchen
I miss Donna’s kitchen, so far away in North Carolina. Any afternoon or evening, any time, with or without kids,…