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Essays listed in chronological order starting with most recent. For archives, please see previous volumes below.

Water over Stones

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., M.D. In a river, water flows over stones, and the stones do not mind. Their edges, worn smooth, bring evenness...

Stirring of Elements as Syllables Unspoken

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., MD. As breathless breath unbreathing, without pause, we go. Into an elemental opening of word and symbol and...

Nothing Reaching an End: A Natural Place of Freedom

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., M.D. If we can place aside, just for a moment, our understanding and our thinking, if without understanding,...

My Journey Towards the Experience of No Doubt

Elizabeth Ebaugh, LCSW-C, LICSW Born with the doorways wide open learning to trust the flow of the light; learning to live in complete...

Radiant Light of Divine Love

By Karen Ferguson MA, RYT As a young child I had a dream about Jesus and me... He most generously helped me with such compassion and...

Heidegger’s Ereignis: The Presence of Choice

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., M.D. How odd it seems that in writing in his native German, Heidegger chooses the most concrete noun he can...

RADIENCE OF THE GREAT COMPASSION

By Gisela Miller During meditation I revisit an experience I had had years ago that I can now interpret within our studies of Radiance...

Forbidden Fruit

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., M.D. At the University of Freiberg in Bavaria in the pre-war years of 1934-35, Professor Martin Heidegger read...

THE EXPERIENCE OF FORM AND FORMLESSNESS

BY JAN NICHOLSON, EDD Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia, Maryland 4/27/17 The first time I entered the dharmakaya (infinite,...

The Divine Mother is My Spiritual Archetype

Carolyn Long Having been raised Roman Catholic, the Divine Mother – or the Blessed Mother, as she is known by Catholics – played an...

Becoming Light

An excerpt from: Creating Peace Inside and Out: cultivating heart-centered living by Carol Marcy, PhD It was early evening when we...

BECOMING A LOVER

Tom Walsh, LCSW-C Have you ever looked into the eyes of love. The eyes of a mother Gazing into her newborn The eyes of lovers Greeting...

An Experience of Non-Duality

Carol Marcy, PhD During our Wednesday morning seminar that focus on Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism and Phenomenology, Rudy started to pass...

All Things

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., M.D. When I understand the equanimity of form, I know too there are no supporting bases for names, for we are...

Abiding

by Erin Johannesen, M.A., M.D. (A rendering of 13th teaching, “Knowing the Field” from The Bhagavad –Gita as translated by Barbara Stoler...

A Poem from the Field of Awareness

By Elizabeth Ebaugh, LCSW Tukaram Maharaj said, "God belongs to me, and I belong to God. I speak the Truth, I speak the Truth, I speak...

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