For anyone else who loved the Netflix show, My Octopus Teacher, I know, ants aren’t as smart as octopuses, but there are a lot more of them… A Cosmic Perspective My spiritual master in India, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, once said that an ant is as important as the brilliant sun…

This beautiful 300 acre property near Calistoga was once a popular retreat site. In 2017 it was destroyed by fire. But now the owner, David Levy, inspired by a new vision, is on a mission to restore the land and rebuild better.

Author’s Note: This is an excerpt from a novel in progress — the first sequel to Real Dragons Don’t Cry. Working title: The Way of the Banana. The good thing about freezing to death in the snow in a walrus suit is that after a certain point, it doesn’t hurt…

Thanks, Louis, for this superb article. You're not just a good singer! 😊❤️🎶 Of course we particularly love writers who happen to agree with us, and you put many of my own thoughts on this subject into words. I think about AI, Intuition and Creativity a lot as I teach Meditation and Creative Thinking for companies in Silicon Valley. I'm also a life-long musician and creative writer so this is close to my heart.

Last May I was relaxing for a few days at our spiritual retreat center in Mexico. The climate was warm and idyllic and the surrounds were uninterruptedly pleasant, featuring decorative stone walls, exotic plants and just the right quantity of friendly humans. Our delightful American ex-patriot neighbor, Dorinda, comes every…

I expect that you’ve been lying awake and night wondering, what is Monkotopia? It’s really quite simple. You’ve heard of utopia — a perfect world where everything seems designed to please You. Hence ‘You’ topia. It makes ‘You’ happy to live in this kind of world. Dystopia is the opposite…

When I was eleven years old I read a book called African Adventure by Willard Price. I thought this book was wonderful, particularly the part where the villain killed an enemy by putting chopped leopard’s whiskers in his soup. According to Willard Price, leopard’s whiskers are indigestible as the sharp…

A Gallbladder’s Story That’s right, folks, I’m playing the sympathy card. Don’t panic — I’m not dead. I am however, as of July 1st, one gallbladder poorer, and our parting, as is often the case with someone we’ve grown close to, was somewhat painful. Still, as one so-called-friend wrote, “I…

Definition: Chores — a malevolent parental curse designed to spoil the bliss of childhood. Of course in New Zealand we never called them chores. That’s an American term. I don’t know what we called them, but they were no less painful for being nameless. Like most members of the parent…