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:...

KALI “If there is something in nature you don’t understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So, there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: ‘innocent until proven guilty’ as opposed to ‘guilty...

“Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace… Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world… You may...

SUPER FULL MOON IN VIRGO: Global Karmic PTSD Alert SUPER FULL MOON IN VIRGO: Global Karmic PTSD Alert   To view in your browser: CLICK HERE   If you no longer wish to receive these consciousness-expanding newsletters, please:  UNSUBSCRIBE    “We practise and we work with whatever arises without attempting to convert the disorderly nature of...

What is meditation? By my definition, it’s any practice, technique or trick that quiets the mind and allows one to just BE. The goal of meditation is to experience at least a taste of pure bliss. This level of cosmic consciousness is described by a multitude of labels in different spiritual traditions including: Enlightenment, satori...