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David Whyte's Doorway into Ordinary Revelation

Posted on Apr 14th, 2008 by Julian : integral healer Julian

Elijah challenged me to put up video of what I consider healthy Green. With the spiritual marketplace so flooded with unhealthy regressive New Age version of Green and a lot of revenue being pumped into... More »

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Paul Lonely: Luminous Poet, Postmodern Priest, Integral Visionary

Posted on Dec 14th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

Last month I got to meet Paul Lonely, author of what he calls a "contemporary Upanishads" - Suicide Dictionary. If you move in Integral circles and/or read the blogs of Ken Wilber or Stuart Davis,... More »

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Poem#6: Antonio Machado

Posted on Jul 17th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

Last Night by Antonio Machado Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt--marvelous error!-- that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to... More »

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Poem #5: Kabir

Posted on Jul 14th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

From Sharon Olds' meditation on love and sex to Rumi's invitation to vulnerable courage to Dylan Thomas' ecstatic embrace of the primordial life force and universality of death, to David Whyte's insistence that we live... More »

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Poem #4: David Whyte

Posted on Jul 12th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

A companion piece to the Dylan Thomas poem from yesterday. Commentary later. Enjoy! Self Portrait by David Whyte  It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if... More »

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Poem #3: Dylan Thomas

Posted on Jul 11th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

Dylan Thomas is one of my all-time favorite poets. My mother had a copy of his collected works in her bathroom when i was a kid - at 16 i took it and never gave... More »

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Poem #2: Rumi

Posted on Jul 10th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

As a follow on from yesterdays Sharon Olds poem - a gift from my friend tahini, here is a companion piece from Rumi: The way of love is not a subtle argument The doorway there... More »

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New Idea: A Poem a Day

Posted on Jul 9th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

I think it might be good to share one of my other loves - beside philosophical rigor and distinction making ..... A dear friend sent this around today and I shall let it be the... More »

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Some Poems for VA Tech and The Wound/Opening to Truth it Creates

Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

A departure from the theoretical rigor. The great enduring truths of our humanity are more succinctly expressed in poetry - but of course we could write thousands of pages on what these words actually mean....... More »

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A Moth To The Flame: Rumi, The Shadow, and Connie Zweig

Posted on Mar 5th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

I am excited to announce that the first interview for my blog will be with shadow-work expert and highly accomplished author and editor Connie Zweig . I have a two-part interview in the works: part... More »

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