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The Spiritual Psyche in the Animal Body

Posted on Jun 16th, 2009 by Julian : integral healer Julian

The room is quiet, a picture of concentrated engagement. The group of around forty sweaty participants are lying on their bellies, hands clasped behind their backs, legs lifted behind them, feet alive, hearts lifted up... More »

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Imagine: A Spiritual Manifesto

Posted on Mar 21st, 2008 by Julian : integral healer Julian

Imagine: A Spiritual Manifesto by Julian and featuring Kabir, Joseph Campbell, Rumi, Walt Whitman,  Albert Einstein, David Whyte and John Lennon. Imagine that the next stage of spiritual life is a step beyond the religious... 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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Interview with Connie Zweig: A Moth To Rumi's Flame

Posted on Mar 8th, 2007 by Julian : integral healer Julian

Connie Zweig Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and author of several non-fiction books including the widely acclaimed Romancing the Shadow  has just published a novel about the life of Sufi poet Rumi called A Moth To The Flame.... More »

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