“An Example of Untrammeled Maternal Instinct” “In Ladakh, boys and girls are encouraged to develop their nurturing instincts.” Read More »
“Belovedness Is…” Belovedness is the blessed state of Knowing you are beloved. Basically, by your mother – as she always yearned to give to you to Know. Read More »
“Going Down to Come Up” In John Blofeld’s worshipful book "In Search of the Goddess of Compassion," he writes on Kuan Yin, Tara, Amida – but never mentions his own mother. Read More »
“The Start of Shaktism” In the Hindu religion,
Shakti (energy, power) is Divine Power personified as a feminine principle. Read More »
“Our Task in Life: to Transmute Kali” Kali: the Hindu black goddess; she of the black, horrible tongue. She wears a belt made of dismembered arms and a necklace of skulls. She wanders through cremation grounds, being the mistress of a world rushing uncontrollably toward death. Read More »
“Holding the Twig ‘Just-So'” Holding the twig
“just-so.”
The Japanese is sono-mama which naturally I particularly like because of the mama. Read More »
“The Ambivalence of Goddesses” The most interesting recurrent image is the ambivalence of so many of the goddesses: they could help or harm, cure or curse, promote life or destroy it. Read More »
“Mencius and My Mother’s Love” I will believe, with Mencius,
that my inherent nature is to love,
as it is the inherent nature of water
for it to flow downstream. Read More »
“Helping the Children of Mothers with Schizophrenia” I remember back in 1960 attending a lecture by a visiting psychiatric dignitary, I believe it was E.J. Anthony. His subject was the children of schizophrenic mothers. Read More »
“Would That We Were All Philomators!” There were seven Cleopatras, the last one – the one of our fantasies – was Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt. The name is Macedonian meaning “Famous in her Father.” Read More »
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