A Morning Walk -- Traveling to Elemental RealmsSpiritual research requires the same degree of corroboration as research done in the natural sciences. This problem comes to a head in the research conducted in the realm of the elemental spirits.
Back to the Garden Part 7: Conscious PartnershipThe lovers in a conscious sexual love union share a common intent to support one another, to help one another improve, and to share one another's worlds.
How to be Fuel and Food Rich During Climate ChangeBiofuels and incineration are bad ideas promoted by big governments. Solar power, anaerobic generation of energy from waste materials, and green algae for carbon capture and sustainable biofuels are good ideas that definitely will work.
Love-Lies-Bleeding and Francis of AssisiLove-lies-bleeding flower essence helps lift the consciousness beyond individual suffering to identify with world suffering. In offering one’s suffering to a higher purpose, while cultivating compassion for the suffering of others, one’s own pain no longer weighs so heavily on the soul.
Psychic Self DefenseEmpathy is the forerunner of compassion, and therefore a potentially very positive experience. However there is a danger involved in the empathic experience we should all understand.
Bohemian Grove Works: TechnoPaganism & Visions of ExcessIn this series of digital paintings, New York artist Joseph Nechvatal explores the occult world of the Bohemian Grove, and of the neo-conservative ideologues in that fairyland of power and privilege who are dragging the whole world into needless warfare to enhance their political power.
Clean Coal? Carbon Capture and Storage Is A False SolutionCCS is considered so risky on a large scale that industry is unwilling to fully invest in it without a framework that protects it from long-term liability.
Flower Essence Formulas: Powerful Remedies for Times of CrisisFlower essences were first developed during an earlier time of traumatic economic and social upheaval, the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the face of today’s challenges, these potent plant remedies can be important allies as we seek the wisdom, inner strength, emotional equanimity and resolve needed to meet a new world crisis.
Jed A. Myers is a Seattle poet and musician whose writing has been published in various journals, posted on web sites, heard on radio, and performed, mostly by Jed, in an array of settings in the Pacific Northwest. He’s won several regional awards, and hosts a regular poetry gathering in his part of town. His loose network of collaborators, ArtsforHearts, puts on benefits in local spaces for a wide range of real life causes.