Bali Spiritual Tour: Eat-Pray-Love
We're in Bali enjoying the gorgeous scenery and sacred energy of just one of the island's 10,000 temples. This enchanted land is spectacularly beautiful so I invite you to sit for a moment and... Read more…
Navigating the Holy Waters of Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
From the time of the Middle Ages, people in Southern France have honored Les Saintes Maries—”The Saint Marys”—with Sara’s Procession to the Sea. Candles in hand, the crowds of worshippers take part… Read more…
Egypt & Bali: Opposites Attract
On September 22nd, I'm giving a talk at Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice, CA, called "Egypt & Bali: Opposites Attract." In honor of that event, I thought I should explain… Read more…
Further Thoughts on The End of the World
I hadn’t thought the world would end, not really, but the recent school massacre in Newtown back home made me wonder if it might have gone mad. Now I suddenly felt so lucky to be alive, so happy to be in this crazy, wonderful city where I had drunk tea in Tahrir Square not two weeks earlier, so glad to be graced with this intrepid band of fearless travelers who saw what the news said and came to Egypt anyway. Read more…
or some of us, our tours are marked by visits to islands of happiness; for others, we seem to travel from tragic place to tragic place, as if the only hotels open to us were the sad, run-down ones where the mattress sags, the coffee is cold, and the staff is only ever rude. Read more…