Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff- perspectives on inner work

Sculpture from the Cloisters, Manhattan A moment comes when I experience a feeling of total solitude, when I no longer know how ...

Announcing two new books which are part of a fund-raising effort.  I'm offering two quite different books, because those who are...

From the Cloisters Collection, Metropolitan Museum It’s useless to believe that the philosophies, attitudes, or information of eith...

We live in a world that carries the perception of divisions. The natural tendency within us is to perceive everything as a whole th...

Capital at  Basilique St. Madeleine , Vezelay, France Photograph by the author Continued from Feb. 15. In examining the root ...

Capital at  Basilique St. Madeleine , Vezelay, France Photograph by the author God is required to consume death at every moment ...

Capital at  Basilique St. Madeleine , Vezelay, France Photograph by the author Continued from Feb. 9. When my wife asked me w...

Capital at  Basilique St. Madeleine , Vezelay, France Photograph by the author Notes from Hangzhou and Yantai December 3, 2017 ...

Capital at Basilique St. Madeleine , Vezelay, France Photograph by the author Here we come to an essential law difficult to gra...

Capital, St. Lazare, Autun Perhaps the most obvious aspect of Beelzebub’s Tales is also its most esoteric: it is hidden in plain si...

Capitals at St. Lazare, Autun photograph by the author From an exchange on Dec. 10: in reply It’s true that “no” is part of the...

A Capital from the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun , France. Photograph by the Author from The Reconstruction of the Soul (not...

Frieze from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II Metropolitan Museum, NY Nov. 26th, 2017 A long-time and most valued friend in the wor...