Heeding the Wake-Up Call of Terrorism “There can be no sides in a round world.” When the horror of September 11th smashed into most of our consciousness I had the good fortune to be shielded from its impact because I was miles deep and miles high in the Yosemite Sierra on my yearly quest for [...]
For thirty two years I worked with the Center for Attitudinal Healing helping families and children, teenagers and adults facing life threatening illness. Based on a question asked by an eight year just days before he died, i wrote a short book entitled – “Do They Celebrate Christmas in Heaven?: Spiritual Rite of Passage Teachings [...]
An Interview with by Lisa Alpine: Common Ground, Issue 97 – Fall 1998 Have you experienced ayahuasca?” a visitor asked when he saw my collection of Amazonian art gathered in the 1970s when I traveled extensively by small canoe through the Amazon Basin. I rebuked, ‘God, no! I didn’t want to be laid out unconscious [...]
A friend of mine, a philosopher of sorts, remarks occasionally on the absurdity of NASA’s attempts through sophisticated monitoring equipment to pick up signs of transmissions from intelligent beings from other galaxies. Isn’t it ironic, he states, that we spend all these millions of dollars trying to find these weak transmissions from somewhere far off [...]
In my work with shamanism and conscious aging I increasingly witness the importance of spirituality in creating rich and meaningful lives. ”Gero-transcendance”, a term coined by a social scientist doing research with elders, refers to the growth task in the later years of shifting the identity focus from ego to the transpersonal. In this blog [...]
From an interview with Kala Ambrose is an award winning author, intuitive and talk show host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show. Kala - Tom Pinkson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, ceremonial retreat and vision-fast leader, sacred storyteller, and shaman. For 32 years he worked with terminally ill children at the Center for Attitudinal Healing [...]