To be succinct: changes.
Just what those changes will be is something still under discussion. We’ve tried a variety of approaches for this website and blog, and still believe that merging them was the best approach. It’s just that we want the final product to reflect who and what we are now — as mystics, as [...]

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If you’re wondering why you landed here, it’s probalby because you requested a page that hasn’t been re-installed here at our new website.
Check back often as we finish the remodeling of our look here in our new home!

There seems to be some confusion in certain circles about what a “community” is, and what it isn’t. And no, I’m not talking about Andrew Cohen’s (among others) ground breaking highly evolved community experiments. I’m talking about the basic criteria required to form any community — highly evolved or not.
A community is not a club [...]

If you haven’t yet heard of the “Downing Street Minutes” (aka “Downing Street Memo), that’s understandable. This remarkable document hasn’t made much of a splash in the mainstream media, and certainly isn’t as flashy as the Michael Jackson trial.
If you’re okay with the explanations to how we got into the mess in Iraq, don’t bother [...]

No Toto, we’re not in Nazi Germany anymore. Or Korea or Vietnam during the wars. But we might as well be:
Mr. Dilawar asked for a drink of water, and one of the two interrogators, specialist Joshua R. Claus, 21, picked up a large plastic bottle. But first he punched a hole in the bottom, the [...]

According to CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll, I am one of the 25% of Americans who knows what a “blog” is. Of that fraction, I am one of 32% that can claim to be “very familiar” with them. And, to my astonishment and dismay, I am one of a very slim 2% who reads blogs with political content [...]

It was a sad moment for me when I read that Newsweek had officially retracted their Periscope article on prisoner abuses at Guantanamo Bay. It was a sadder moment for the so-called “free and independent press” and for American democracy. For those of you who haven’t been following the story, it’s really pointless for me [...]

If you never read another article on politics and foreign policy, then please read this one. The excerpt I’m going to quote here is attributed in the article to “an unnamed `senior advisor’ to President Bush:”

The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and commentators] were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which [...]

Contrary to what the keyboard pounding pundits have been bleating at the top of their lungs since last November, a new Pew Research Center Survey shows that the Religious Right cannot be blamed for Bush’s re-election. It also punches holes in the meowing pessimist’s pet theory that the Democratic Party is losing support. Sorry Mr. [...]