Category Archives: Story

Rescuing my True Self from the Cage of Lies

Posted on June 3, 2014 by jenny

I haven’t posted to the blog since May 15.  I’ve been having a pretty tough time.  I wrote a longish piece about wanting to die and read it to a friend.  She said not to post it because people would … Continue reading →

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Epiphany

Posted on January 20, 2014 by jenny

On Saturday I was talking to a friend about spiritual practice.  She had been reading something that talked about single-mindedness as the way to enlightenment.  I said I wasn’t interested in enlightenment, I wanted to live my life as well … Continue reading →

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Versions of the Universe

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jenny

This quote is from a post called “Shamanic Realm.” ‘The difficulties most of us have with visionary literature are related to how we construe reality in the first place, and that is to a considerable extent culturally determined. Examining the … Continue reading →

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When We Talk About God

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jenny

Rob Bell:  What We Talk about When We Talk About God This book was given to me by my recovering alcoholic brother, who has just done an extraordinary thing by turning his life completely around.  What he’s done is so … Continue reading →

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The Story of God Greeting Me at the Gates of Heaven

Posted on August 22, 2013 by jenny

After searching through all my journals since 2000, I found a reference to this story in February of 2011.  So I suspect it happened sometime in late 2010.  Apparently I never wrote it down at all! I was feeling bad … Continue reading →

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Rock Recycling Itself

Posted on June 14, 2013 by jenny

(I wrote this at a workshop with Deena Metzger at Rowe in April 2010.  I was outside sitting near an altar of stone set up in front of a big quartz rock.) Quartz.  Crystallized slowly from a melt where all … Continue reading →

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“We’re at Home in the Universe”

Posted on May 28, 2013 by jenny

This description of how “life is the natural expression of complex matter” meant a lot to me.  In fact the whole idea of chaos as something that can be expressed mathematically greatly expanded my appreciation and understanding of the universe. … Continue reading →

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Happy Egg’n’Bunny Day!

Posted on March 31, 2013 by jenny

In April of 1965, I was in the village of Naoussa on the Island of Paros for Holy Week.  We went there because a Greek friend (who spoke good English) would be visiting her brother, who was the doctor in … Continue reading →

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How I Got to Stonehenge

Posted on February 27, 2013 by jenny

I was a senior at Wellesley College.  I was taking a modern architecture course, and we had to do a paper on a building.  My parents knew someone who owned a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  When I called … Continue reading →

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September 1998: The Story You “Haven’t Told Yet”, the WHOLE story

Posted on September 25, 2012 by jenny

Another gem from converting old journals.  This must have been written after the retreat with Deena Metzger.  A lot of the writing was done in the retreat, but some of it was done elsewhere.  It’s a different way of looking … Continue reading →

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