Inspirations
“I find it very hard to imagine how we could go from meaningless, purposeless, quality-less, feeling-less, experience-less matter, into rich, subjective lived experience, unless some of those qualities were a fundamental feature of the matter and the energy that makes us up”
— Merlin Sheldrake
Thoreau - Walden
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it…”
Inspirations
The Time That Is Given To Us - Frodo and Gandalf
Breeze at Dawn - by Rumi
Lightness and Weight - by Milan Kundera
West Wind - by Mary Oliver
Science and Romance - Ray Bradbury
Love Dogs - by Rumi
Falling in Love, Eros - John O'Donohue
For Eros - by John O'Donohue
The Guest House - by Rumi
September 8th - by Pablo Neruda
Body of a Woman - by Pablo Neruda
Zero Circle - by Rumi
Loneliness - by Hafez
Alchemy for the Soul - by Tommy Crawford
The Mayo Tao - by Derek Mahon
Birds and Poets - by John Burrows
Renunciation and Daring - by Chogyam Trungpa
The Four Enemies to Becoming a Man of Knowledge - Carlos Castaneda
By the Lake in the Wood - by Bill Plotkin
Spirit Arrow - by Terence Freitas
The Owl and the Pussycat - by Edward Lear
Listening to the Wild Animal of the Soul - by Parker J. Palmer
Topaz Lake - by Jon Ekstrom
Sweet Darkness - by David Whyte
The Call of the Wild - by Robert Service
The Lady of Shalott - by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Truelove - by David Whyte
The Song of Wandering Aengus - by W.B. Yeats
Longing to Belong - by Eddie Vedder
Among the Multitudes - Wislawa Szymborska
The Invitation - by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
When You Are Old - by William Butler Yeats
If You Want to Change the World, Love a Man
Feminine Mysteries of Love & Longing - by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
The Three Marriages - by David Whyte
This Poem Belongs to You - by David Whyte
Take a Path with Heart - The Teachings of Don Juan, by Carlos Castaneda
Surrender/Acceptance vs Hope/Resistance
Stillness - by Robert Goslin
The Summer Day - by Mary Oliver
Where Has All The Magic Gone? - by Zac Hinton
Me - by Zac Hinton
The Great Stories - Frodo and Sam in the Two Towers
Lost - Native American story translated by David Wagoner
Pictures From Then - by Colin Campbell
This Morning - by Esther Morgan
How Poetry Comes to Me - by Gary Snyder
The Gift of Opposites - Rumi
Rose Garden of Union - Rumi
Unity - by George William Russell
Human Life's Mystery - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Doodle at the Edge - by William Ayot
Knowing by Living and not by Looking - Nicholas Evans
The Dark Night of the Soul - Saint John of the Cross, adapted into song by Loreena McKennitt
Kubla Khan - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The World as Sensuous and Alive - by David Abram
All the True Vows - by David Whyte
The Widower and his Clothes - by Margaret Livingston
White Wolf, Black Wolf - Cherokee Story
The Story of 800 - by Mary Courtney
The Road Not Taken - by Robert Frost
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening - by Robert Frost
Beauty to the Beast - by Theodora Goss
What If... - by Jann McGuire
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter - by J.R.R. Tolkien
To Die - Peter Pan
Articles
The Fantasy of Safety through Power: The psycho-political philosophy of The Lord of the Rings - by Rupert Read
Avatar: A call to save the future - by Rupert Read
Joseph Campbell and the Grail Myth - by Jules Cashford
Mara, Buddha & Belonging - by Joanna Macy
The Poetry of Illness - by Julianna S. Parker
The Sword and the Grail - by John Adcox
Rapunzel: Myths, Dreams, Symbols - by Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.
Inanna Descent into the Underworld
Inanna’s Descent - A Depth Psychological Perspective - by D. Scott Stanley
Unmasked Madman - by Kahlil Gibran
A Man And His Sword - by Christopher Noble