For an audio version: YOUTUBE CHANNEL “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”―Mary Oliver Dear One, I’m delighted to announce that, starting on May 13, expansive Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and abundance on all levels, is dipping his toe into the Cosmic Ocean Consciousness...

YOUTUBE CHANNEL   Microcosmus Melothesia—Benjamin Vierling   “The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.”  Rumi For more:  Ruminations of a Timeless Mystic Dear One, I hope this holiday missive finds you well and at peace with what IS. The good news is that,...

***LAST CALL*** Only Three Days Left to Claim Your SOLSTICE SPECIAL GIFT OFFERINGS Please scroll down for details. Dear One, Every year we celebrate the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, as the time when the Light slowly but inexorably begins to return. This year, we have a lot more to celebrate as...

*** Please scroll down for: YOUR SOLSTICE SPECIAL GIFT OFFERINGS *** For audio versions of these newsletters:Joan’s YOUTUBE Channel “In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness” ―Chögyam Trungpa   Dear One, If you’ve been feeling bombarded like never before by all the chaos and uncertainty of 2020, which...

For audio versions of these newsletters, as well as “SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE PANDEMIC,” please check out:Joan’s YOUTUBE Channel “When you begin to feel completely desolate, you begin to heal yourself. You make yourself at home.” ―Chögyam Trungpa Dear One, With all the chaos and confusion on the planet these days, how do we light...

“The Appointment in Samarra”The speaker is DeathThere was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, “Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when...

The Web in the Womb—Joan Pancoe “We are a hundred thousand years beyond insanity. Plato does not speak of this. The physical beauty of men and women is not an image here. Lovers are alive to the extent that they can die. If you want to more alive, love is your true health.” —Rumi Dear...

Going with the Flow II   Joan Pancoe “What if God was one of usJust a slob like one of usJust a stranger on the busTrying to make His way home?”Lyrics by Joan Osborne   Dear ONE,What if, from the far future, we could look back at this time in human history with 20-20 hindsight? My...

WORK/PLAY VARIATIONS      Joan Pancoe “All madmen may not be mystics, but all mystics are mad. By mad, I mean they have gone beyond the mind. The madman may have fallen below the mind, and the mystic may have gone beyond the mind, but one thing is similar. Both are not in their minds.”  OSHO Dear...

GOING WITH THE FLOW Joan Pancoe “There is no better fuel (than sicknesses) to burn off the bad karmas.Don’t get into entertaining a sad mind or negative views (over the sicknesses). But see them as signs of the waning of your bad karmas and rejoice over them.” Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa (1729–1798) Apparitions of the Self:...