A little over a year ago, I felt a subtle internal shifting that called for me to take a little leap of faith and let some things go to allow room for other things to take their place. I was guided to alter a few things in my meditation practice, among other subtle shiftings. But one of the biggest revelations that came to me is how beneficial work in the external world is. It could be all kinds of work: my vocational work as a mediator, volunteer work serving on the board of

Part of an Artist’s Job There are always areas of vast silence in any culture, and part of an artist’s job is to go into those areas and come back from the silence with something to say. --Ursula K. Le Guin Chief Xian aTude Adjuah Interview Following are excerpts from an interview between Finn Cohen and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, born Christian Scott, in the May 2026 edition of The Sun magazine. Chief Adjuah comes from a New Orleans lineage of one of many Native American tribe

Introduction Spiritual intuition is a subject of great significance to me that I have addressed in some of my books. I describe it as a “faculty”, for lack of a better term, that is innate and available to us if we know how to tune into it, just like other faculties that we regularly utilize, especially what we commonly call the senses, thinking (mental faculties), and feeling (emotional and artistic faculties). We employ them when we engage with the world, interacting and ex

Following are excerpts from an interview with Michael Pollan in the May 2026 edition of the Buddhist magazine, Lion’s Roar, with my comments {noted like this}. Q: What is consciousness? In what way is the soul a good definition for it, and in what way is it not? A: Consciousness and the soul have an old relationship. The people who talk about the soul often do it in a religious context, and it has supernatural implications that consciousness doesn’t always have. But soul tal