Rare inside look – Pasupati Ritual at Gunung Kawi Temple, Bali
This video, taken during our most recent trip to Bali, gives you a rare inside look of... Read more…
Sweating it out: Experiencing the Temezcal
This ritual is a rebirthing of sorts, he explains. As the others have done before me, I touch my forehead to the sparse grass at the mouth of the temezcal. “All my relations,” I intone properly, while connecting to Mother Earth, Father Sky, my ancestors, my family, my friends — in keeping with Read more…
How the Freemasons Helped to Found America
How did all of these disparate fellows, whose lives should never have even overlapped, come to share ideals common enough to form an entire nation? What causes a poor printer and a wealthy land owner to be... Read more…
Inside a Sufi Rave: The Ecstasy of Faith by Greg Roach
"My feet know what to do." -Pauline Oliveros The urge to spin is irresistible. I look across the room at my buddy, Josh, who's spontaneously been overtaken by the same impulse.… Read more…
After lunch, I wanted to smoke a hookah. Mohamed, our other guide, laughed. “You mean a shisha, my sister. What kind of flavor do you want?” Shisha (called a hookah in places like Turkey),… Read more…