....into the nature of nature, mind, heart, and place:
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The following files deal with a variety of topics to which I attempt to bring a holistic perspective that moves beyond and below appearances to tend deeper dynamics. Also, see my channel on YouTube.
Emotional woundings and "issues": What if we did nothing but listen in on them?
Hermann Hesse on "cheerful serenity"
Three Short Pieces by Jorge Luis Borges (in English translation)
e. e. cummings: "One Winter Afternoon"
From The Autobiography of Malcolm X
From Alex Haley's Roots: the search for self and ancestry
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Promethean enthusiasm
Moby Dick: readings and reflections
Prologue to N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain
A new myth for our time? Update on the TerraPlaces psychocartography project.
Response to, "Don't indigenous people destroy nature too?"
Texas School Board decision: why rewriting history is not only dishonest but dangerous
The end of the world, or the end of something else?
Excerpts from My Books:
Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword along El Camino Real
The Tears of Llorona: A Californian Odyssey of Place, Myth, and Homecoming
Terrapsychology: Reengaging the Soul of Place
The Folly of Repetition or the Wisdom of Remembrance: 30 Crucial Neglected Lessons of History
Storied Lives: Discovering and Deepening Your Personal Myth
Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (ed. with Linda Buzzell): on resacralizing water.