by admin on November 3, 2013, no comments
Rossellini’s Ten Commandments Roberto Rossellini’s Ten Commandments on film-making he gave to his students at the Centro Sperimentale, 1. The camera is a pen, a plain ordinary Bic, easy to use. It’s enough to know what you want to say – if you have something to say. 2. The camera is a paper tiger. Don’t […]
by admin on October 19, 2013, no comments
“The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration. Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, wives, et al. derive meaning from their relations to another person. Witches, on the other hand, have power on their own terms. They create. They praise. They commune with nature/spirit/God/dess choose-your-own-term-semantics, freely and free of any mediator. But most importantly, they […]
by admin on August 4, 2013, no comments
Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, but denies a Supreme Being, or Personal God. Logically the difference between the two might be questioned; for in this case, the Power and the Being are identical. Human reason can hardly imagine to itself an Intelligent Supreme Power without associating it with the idea […]
by admin on August 4, 2013, no comments
Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved Look at This Beauty The beauty of this poem is beyond words. Do you need a guide to experience the heat of the sun? Blessed is the brush of the painter who paints Such beautiful pictures for his virgin bride. Look at this beauty. There is no reason […]
by Amanda on July 26, 2013, no comments
We need more shamans in Los Angeles. In all the cities across America. Shamans and mystics are important because they are interpreters of microclimates within our communities. Shamans cultivate their own personal relationships with the divine, with the fundamental principles of life. Their ability to find meaning within the mysteries of the universe, rather than […]
by admin on July 4, 2013, no comments
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev (leader of a women’s climbing team, all of whom died in a storm on Lenin Peak, August 1974. Later, Shatayev’s husband found and buried the bodies.) The cold felt cold until our blood grew colder then the wind died down and we slept If in this sleep I speak it’s with […]
by Amanda on June 30, 2013, no comments
“What you say about Jesus says more about you than it does about Jesus.” — Richard Smoley The other day I was introduced to this couple and we were bonding about the affect of music on courtship. As they were explaining how they met, I asked them their astrological signs. I could sense an inner […]