APRIL 2014 ECLIPSE ALERT: “Strange Days Indeed” “To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE “GOING WITH THE FLOW”   by   Joan Pancoe “Death, impermanence, things that go wrong, laughter, colour, light sparkling in puddles, cars breaking down, relationships ending, falling in love—all are the play of existence, the movement and change that is reality. It is...

“We practise and we work with whatever arises─ without attempting to convert the disorderly nature of existence into something more regimented.” “We exist in continual flux. We move, and are moved, in the dance of appearances─ in the limitless pattern of creation and destruction. The perceptible and imperceptible seem to make each other a mystery.”...

SPRING FORECAST: Love the ONE you’re with . . . or ELSE! To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE VENUS AND JUPITER by Joan Pancoe “The essential thing is not to chase after ecstasy. It arises naturally if your presence in the world remains relaxed, without goals and constraints—free, opened and light.”  Daniel Odier in...

Your Karmic Line in the Sand: “I’d Do Anything for Love . . . but I Won’t Do THAT!” To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE I DREAMT I WAS FLYING . . . Joan Pancoe “If you don’t try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when...

HAPPY NEW YEAR—NEW MOON—NEW YOU! TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER:  click here “I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before.  Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is...

YOUR 2014 LOVE KARMA: Venus Rx sez to Mars Rx: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY PANTS?!” To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE SHIVA/SHAKTI “What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love that somehow contains the entire universe.”  Rumi Dear Friend,         Happy Solstice!  2014 kicks off with Venus and...

2014, THE QUICKENING: “You Can Check Out . . . but You Can Never Leave!” TO VIEW AS A WEBPAGE:  click here THE DELUGE             Joan Pancoe    “The great secret to becoming enlightened is to walk  in all things contrary to the world.” Jacob Boehme, 17th century mystic  Dear Friend,         When I meditated on...

The Ultimate Dance of Eros and Spirit To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE From COSMIC SUGAR’s  book cover “When we dive deeply enough into the river of Life, we realize that the separate banks of Eros and Spirit become One at the ground of Being.”  Joan Pancoe For more: COSMIC SUGAR:  The Amorous Adventures...

What do we need to do to have these good feelings more of the time? I’m glad you asked! It’s one of my favorite themes, and I hope it will become one of yours too. Let’s talk about pleasure first. I know this may sound self-evident but: There is no other plane of existence except...

Alan Watts: “As you get older and wiser, it is not just flagging energy but wisdom that teaches you to look at mountains from below, or perhaps just climb them a little way. For at the top you can no longer see the mountain.” An old aphorism from India says: “What is beyond, is that...