Meeting a modern Shams (Shams is the friend and teacher of Rumi – the best selling poet in America and a Sufi from the early 12th Century in the Near East). In this piece, I primarily focus on the Western myths here because the East isn’t the issue. What is the issue with the modern …
bodisutra and sutranovum are two sides of the same coin. The comedy and the integration of what matters. Comedy is always about the desire to make light of what is troubled. Comedy grants spiritual distance to see what matters in what is troubled. I met a man today who said the emasculated male started to …
This is a piece that explores and exposes the existential crisis that is afoot in our world today. It is a look at the forces that have lead to the subjugation of nature (rather than working with nature’s inherent symmetry) and the subjugation of our own nature. This is about the shadow work we have …
A meditation on anima and animus in contemporary culture. Read More »
I had a dream this morning that I realized was the culmination of about 10 years of work. 8 years of that work I did in my early 30s and then two years of work this last two years. It had to do with the dance of the anima and the animus. It was a …
The sutranovum art gallery is now open for business with limited edition prints for sale. I have the second piece following soon with an artist in Canada. The focus of the gallery is on art that lifts the spirit. The website is morphing each day but we decided to start with a landing page and …
In what do you trust? “In God we trust.” That phrase was drawn from the Star Spangled banner – this lyric specifically: ‘And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”’ The phrase first turned up on the 2 cent piece in 1864 under the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. At the heart of …