Photo Essay by Ingrid A. Marcroft
On a cross-country drive, these vistas large and small invited contemplation of the natural world.
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In order of appearance: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone, WY; Jackson Lake, WY; Jackson Lake Stones, WY; Brooding Skies, NV; Sun & Evaporation, NV; Redwood Forest, CA; Pacific Coast Shells, CA; Pacific Coast Stones & Sand, CA; Crater Lake, OR; Clark’s Nutcracker, Crater Lake, OR; Bandon Beach, OR; Eastern Oregon Sky, OR; Big Sky Drive, MT.
As the global economy reels and most people have no choice but to cut down on their acquisition of unnecessary items, the time has come to ponder the simple life.
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A long and distinguished tradition exists in America that rejects the focus on wealth and possessions as the means of human happiness and glories instead in the pleasures of simplicity.
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Our world is obsessed with speed in almost every domain of human existence.
But what for? Where is it leading us?
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The emergence from addiction is more a process of discovery than recovery. Within every addiction there lies a vocation awaiting recognition.
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A close study of Twentieth Century history shows that violence as a matter of national policy has been increasingly ineffective and self-defeating.
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Today’s global financial cloud got you feeling gray? Vermonter Jim Merkel sees a silver lining. (Originally posted on AlterNet.org on November 25, 2008.)
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Over the years, the wild swings in US government policy towards hemp seem more like a smoker’s disturbed fantasy than a rational assessment of the facts.
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True wilderness remains the last great sacred temple and, in the face of modern neurosis and meaninglessness, restores the human spirit to its instinctive and natural roots.
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Before dawn, across the whole road
as I pass I feel spiderwebs.
Within people’s voices, under their words or
woven into the pauses, I hear a hidden sound.
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Ralph White, Editor of Lapis, speaks with Rene Querido, one of the seminal figures in Waldorf education, about the leading approach to alternative schooling in the world today.
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What books might help shape our thinking as we enter the new century? Lapis asked thought leaders for their suggestions.
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Understanding Goethe: why doesn’t he fit into a worldview that takes theory as its foundation? Is it because his path leads into life, through life, beyond life, and purely abstract ideas only serve to sidetrack and mislead on this journey?
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Gnosis, direct knowledge of spiritual reality, is explored in Chapter Seven, “Meddling God,” from Joscelyn Godwin’s The Golden Thread.
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Paul Hawken’s commencement speech at the University of Portland, Oregon, on May 3, 2009, is one for the record books.
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June 2009: The first topic for discussion here is the upcoming New York Open Center/Lapis Magazine Conference on Inner America – the History and Renewal of the American Soul.
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