In a poor country devastated by civil war, a guerrilla army is conducting a campaign of death and mutilation. Thousands of those conscripted are children.
The Llama and the Shmuck
I confide my feelings to Bubo as if he were a therapist; he doesn’t comment because he’s a Freudian llama.
The Power of the Tao Te Ching
Perhaps the most valuable message the Tao Te Ching offers is that when something occurs, it contains within it the seeds of the negative and the positive.
Ain’t She Still a Woman?
Increasingly, patriarchy is offered as the solution to the crisis black men face. Black women face a culture where everyone wants us to stay in our place.
Inheritance
“When my father said, ‘You descend from kings,’ he was reminding us that though we did not have the money of the powerful, we were powerful nonetheless.”
Calvin and Mobs
Barry Boyce wants to know: Is America’s dream freedom or a crusade of vindictive reform?
Alice Walker in the Archives
A discussion led by Melvin McLeod It’s too bad you can’t hear the tape of this conversation we had with Alice Walker. There is a lot of heart and many powerful ideas in this printed version, but it can’t convey the real depth and caring and calm certainty of Alice Walker. While Sharon and I […]
Good Medicine For This World

Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön and novelist Alice Walker on how tonglen meditation practice opens our heart, expands our vision, and plants the seeds of love in our lives.
Constant Consciousness
“That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.” Ken Wilber discusses Emptiness.
The Irony and the Ecstasy
Now that the postmodern wave is washing on the shore of its own demise, what new worldviews surge from the ocean of the soul to announce a new perception?


