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In Time With the Deluge
Nearly twenty years ago, I began writing my second book Standing Stark: The Willingness to Engage. It was a time of exhilarating change and deep insights for me, rampant with significant leaps of...
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One By One
There are aspects of life I largely keep to myself. Not because I’m withholding—but because they’re too sacred to put into words. I’m quite sure that’s true for a number of readers here. When such...
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The Fierce Devotion of Noor Inayat Khan
For nearly a decade I was involved in the local Sufi community. I studied the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan who first brought Sufism to the West in 1910 – directed to do so by his own Sufi teacher in...
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Terroir: Honoring What Is Precious of the Earth
We were on secondary roads headed down to Nice when I saw the sign…small and low to the ground, easily overlooked, as they sometimes are in France — as if they don’t want to be too open about their...
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Book Review – The Monk of Mokha
The Monk of Mokha is a modern-day Hero’s Journey – a monumental quest – and, amazingly, it’s completely true. Mokhtar Alkhanshali, was raised in the US in poor circumstances by attentive Yemeni...
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To Be Caught
I had the overwhelming pull to get out on the land. To place my feet solidly and walk. To be conscious of placing each footstep. I did…for some miles. I found it imperative. That – even though I was...
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As Good Things Come to Pass
With things the way they have been for a while now…when offensive acts strike at my core values…when I find myself becoming so incensed by it all that I’m distracted and even feel sick or paralyzed…I...
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Review: Lines of Life
Lines of Life: Ancestral Shipibo-Konibo Textile Traditions in the Peruvian Amazon Xapiri has published a report, as they label it, of their work over the last nine months, in collaboration with Alianza...
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Lineage and Tradition: Holding Strong for All That Matters
Ceiba: Tree of Life. ©2018 Carla Woody. I’ve been considering lineage. First coming from Latin as linea, evolving to Old French lignage and English line to finally form lineage, meaning lineal descent,...
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Sharing Medicine with Turtle Women Rising and Kenosis
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT A Sharing of Medicine with Turtle Women Rising and Kenosis for Indigenous Women Veterans. This is a grassroots effort. You are invited to help us create the first of many such...
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Tinkuy: The Confluence of Relationship
When two separate entities with measures of variance meet at an intersecting point and find their core elements to be the same, something indescribable occurs. Such an encounter, the inherent energy of...
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Mama Coca and a Story of Intent
In 2009 when I heard a reporter on NPR infer that the Indigenous peoples of the Andes were addicts because they use coca, a nutrient in its natural form, I was incensed. I was compelled to speak out in...
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The Calling to Truth
Any semblance of moisture we received in Northern Arizona has been long gone for months. It’s so hot that airplanes can’t fly two hours to the south. My eyes burn with the dryness, and I squint sharply...
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Of That Time in Iran
“I think you should open it,” my dad gestured to the bottle of Camus Napoleon Cognac, still in its original box after all these years. His face was poignant, holding mixed emotions: doubt, resignation,...
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Book Review: Quantum Creativity
There’s an annual tradition I hold as a year closes. I find something to read that I think will set a meaningful frame for my personal transition into the next year. This time I found that in Amit...
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The Selfless Work of an Unheralded Saint
In The Grace of Ayni I began with these words… There’s a point in spiritual development that—if we’re going any further—we recognize something so important that it will guide us the rest of our lives:...
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The Unborn, the Ancestors
Little girl…little boy. You, the leaf! You, the new branch! Listen to me. Listen to this song I have. A word I have…a speech. You must be dreaming. You must be sleeping. Are you tired? Can I speak to...
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Café Amazonia
In any journey there are times that stand out. Those moments are such that we hold them close, call them up periodically…to experience them all over again. They’re precious. Usually it has to do with...
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A Vision Comes
On the second day of our time on the Island of the Sun in Bolivia an opportunity presented itself. Local Aymara spiritual leader Mallku Roger Choque offered to take us to a closely held sacred place,...
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When the Fire Speaks
Cave ceremony with Apab’yan. Photo courtesy: Apab’yan Tew. Apab’yan Tew is an Ajq’ij, a Day Keeper, traditional dancer, musician and spiritual guide of the sacred K’iche...
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