Once past the in-your-face, nude cover picture of Peter Orlovsky and the poet Allen Ginsberg embracing, taken by none other than Richard Avedon, a reader is provided with an inside view of the gentler and more serious aspects of the Beat... Read More

It could be alleged—no insult intended—that Tim Grove, who has worked in the most prestigious history museums in the United State, is a rewriter of history. Take the case of Betsy Ross. Every school kid knows she sewed the first... Read More

What with the damning convolutions of ignorance, disingenuousness, and angst that shadow so much of the discussion of race in the United States, it is heartening when hope glimmers, as it does when Clifton Taulbert unpacks his defensive... Read More

In his brief, thoughtful essays in "Something There Is", David Sayre, an engineer who has led advances in communication and energy technologies for thirty years, speaks about the encounters he has had with people all over the world who... Read More

“Spirit is always at work in dreams,” writes Lori Joan Swick, PhD, and human history is filled with dreamers who have encountered the sacred with results that have shaped our world. Both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Gospels... Read More

Raven Grimassi first came into contact with the Rose and Thorn Path of Witchery—an expression of the Greenwood Realm—through conversations with Old World Witches. Later, direct contact with the spirits of plants and the deep places... Read More

“There is another reality in addition to the ordinary reality of space, time, matter, and energy,” writes Claude Poncelet, author of "The Shaman Within", who has spent nearly thirty years engaged in shamanic practice and twenty-five... Read More

Certain poets harness inhuman powers of observation, as if they were closer kin to hawks, dogs, and heavenly angels in the ability to see, hear, and intuit their surroundings. Rarely such poets complement these observation skills with... Read More