Exangel

by William E. Douglas, Jr. I have been on a 40 year journey around the planet studying and teaching meditative practices, which 25 years ago led me into the halls of modern medicine and science. My journey started in a Tai Chi Meditation class at South Coast Community College in Southern California where I went […]

by Gary Bolick. Hot had, long ago, stopped being a descriptive term, it no longer worked as an adjective. “An element, now. Maybe the fifth one. No different than air, earth, fire or water. Just there. Sure, a physical thing, but now it affects the head, the metaphysical, the philosophy of things. Ancients thought the […]

by Chris Farago. I listened but could not tell if I was hearing a dozen butterflies or a ceiling fan or ten butterflies. It was dark and I asked the Earth to stop moving  for a moment so I could hear better. She said she could not stop but that she would ask the kaleidoscope  […]

by Chris Farago. I chide the butterflies For being erratic, But who I am to judge?

by Tamra Lucid. Mine is a story of fate and chance, of happenstance, and even of romance. A story about how one book changed two lives. This is the story of how I became friends with Manly Palmer Hall. *When eighteen year old MPH arrived in Los Angeles, he strolled on wooden sidewalks. The sheep, […]

by Barry Vitcov. My friend Billy carried a honeybee Around in a Diamond matchbox We were five or six or seven (Specific memories aren’t as important as the sense of things) Tramping around the rocky hill behind our South San Francisco house It seemed like Mt. Everest at the time (Still does from time to […]

by Benjamin White. -1- In the chrysalis mist, Vulnerable insects, Perplexed by the changing order, Cross the border to cling Beneath the leaves protected From the layers Of projected dangers Knowing knowledge and sin Are caught again By Mason-jar choices made To betray compliance When angry science rips Away the fig-leaf belief Of exile out […]

by Sean Murphy. Take a guy. Let’s say he is about my age: old enough to own a place and pay almost all his bills sometimes; young enough to understand that he is not getting any younger. Add a dose of fresh alienation—not enough to be unhealthy, of course, but enough to enable him to […]