Patterns in Nature is a beautiful book by the wonderfully lucid and insightful science writer Philip Ball. He explores the many ways the natural world, both organic and inorganic, manifests principles of order that derive from fundamantal properties of the physical…
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The sacred use of symbols and the imagination is a time-honored and effective way to find healing and purpose, and live a fuller, richer, and more connected life. I think it’s central to Soul Cartography work, so it will help…
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I’ve invited participants in the Soul Cartography class starting this week to acquire a journal and write daily for fifteen minutes about their experience of the class as it progresses. This task warrants a bit more explanation. The main purpose…
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A new Soul Cartography group is starting this Tuesday! After a number of months backing up and thinking about the process and its context, I’m looking forward to putting it all to use with the intention of helping my students…
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We move backward and forward through time, scurrying ahead into our future, shuffling back to the past. Unlike our roamings in dimensional space, with time there are only two directions to go. However, both of the directions are rich and…
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Today I came across an astonishing offer of a rail journey: the Silk Road Express will take you from Beijing to Moscow in 21 days! Volgograd, Tashkent, Merv, Dunhuang, Xian…wow! On closer investigation I found any number of reasons why…
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As I wrote about last time, I am up to my eyeballs in the study of maps and mapping. I once visited Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home in Concord, Massachusetts. In his study there is a round table, which has a…
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Yesterday I went to the beach at Carkeek Park early to chant and drum as part of the water chanting project. I sat with a friend on a log on the beach, at the mouth of Piper Creek. The tide was very…
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I’m going to be offline for a few days, going to the southwest Washington coast where the great Columbia River gathers together the energies of 260,000 square miles of North American continent and funnels them to a powerful meeting with…
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I wrote a few days ago about the autumn stirring up an inward turning. That is certainly happening for me lately; the season is steadily moving toward darkness, but the inner light just keeps shining brighter. There is a sense…
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