Saturday Night Reflection

It’s Saturday night and the Moon is waxing gibbous. The wasps are in the river. The Politicians are still lying, While the earth is crying And babies are dying. The Occupy Movement is slowly fading as a memory. No matter what I or anyone else does, it is never enough. It will not be enough until we thoroughly dispel any notion that the earth belongs to us humans. No, as Chief Seattle said, we belong to the earth. I was recently put in touch with another tarot reader and wrote to her commenting on our status as Special Forces in the spiritual war that is waging. We are the vanguard and are...

Christmas-Carnaval Diary Part 1

So much has been going on over the last few days that I’m feeling the need to share in order to gain some perspective. Not extremely elegant but I will just write this as a diary with dates. Dec 24 AM. Went to give out some presents to a group of underprivileged kids. One of my friends teaches them salsa during the week in what I’m assuming is some sort of after-school program. The thing that struck me is the quality of energy these kids release with the dancing, something I have sometimes noticed in myself. They seem to have a lot of stored up anger and frustration that another friend...

The Ceaseless Search

I have been on a spiritual quest for my adult life which has taken me to the ends of the earth. The search began with transcendental meditation and the work of Thoreau and Emerson during my last year in a New England prep-school. My curiosity then shifted like the wind towards the East. I studied Buddhism and Eastern philosophy which was the motive force behind in my life energy throughout my early to mid twenties. I spent several years in China, studying martial arts, Daoism and absorbing the collective soul of the East. My wanderings included Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam,...

The Need for Coexistence Over Prevalence

I have been getting involved with a dance group here in Colombia. We dance a wide variety of traditional Colombian and Andean styles. I wanted to share a statement my friend and a leader of our group made at a recent presentation of our material. Andean Dance as a catalyst for a coexistence among our people Bolivian native Edy Flores introduced Andean dancing at ‘’La Loma de la Cruz’’ artisanal park in Cali. Mr. Flores is an artisan himself who decided to create the ‘’Wara Workshop,’’ attempting to convert the park into a place where people could learn the rhythms of the South...