Lumpkin is a figure who appeared to me in a dream. Since then he has grown in importance for me. Now here is a full description of how he came into my life and the changes he wrought.... More

Here was a wonderful dream I experienced. I woke in sleep and found myself in a strange place. It was not a country or environment I immediately recognized, and yet it was familiar to me, as if from long past times. And there were companions with me, men and women; and again they were familiar, yet ... More

Sometimes, when working so hard physically to earn a crust, I felt exactly as I describe Dave to feel. What I felt that so lifted me was seeing my life overall instead of just the days toil and pain.... More

I AM the tree of Life. I draw upon the past that is now the soil from which my roots feed. I reach up to receive the giving death of the sun as it pours out its energy and awareness. And I can blossom and form seeds.... More

I walked on Combe Martin beach this morning With my dog Tramp. The only other person on the footpath Around the rocks Was the local Baptist Minister. I was in a thoughtful mood, noticing things. And what took my attention was That not once did the vicar meet my eyes, Even though at one point we were... More

Several times in my life I have had extraordinary experiences of entering and exploring the world of death. This poem describes one of my most joyous.... More

I had been dead in so many ways. But when you are dead you do not know what it is to be alive, to know and sense things. And coming alive is often a painful business. After all the begin to know all the things you missed, all the hurts to children through having dead heart.... More

I used to wonder what was meant by the way, when used in connection with Tao and the paths people travel as they seek the trackless way. Then one day while staying on Skyros Island in Greece, I saw something growing out of a dried stream bed that showed me.... More

He asked me this silly question, ‘Was Mexico good?’ I said to him, ‘Good’ What do you mean, ‘good’? ‘What happened in Mexico picked me up and shook me. It threw me on the ground and made love to me. Then it left me alone and I cried like a child. The mountains skirting Monterey opene... More

After meeting several women in their forties or fifties I wrote this as a statement of what I had heard and observed.... More

Here is the story of how love can go in an awful direction, perhaps through miscommunication. She walked in from another room wearing only a tight one-piece silky red negligee. She had never worn anything like that before, so at first I didn’t understand its meaning. Then she moved in a way that w... More

Love is everything if you watch or live it long enough. I was without and gained it and lost it. Then sometimes you reach beyond the boundaries of your previous knowing and see it all at the same time.... More

I didn’t take the dream seriously, thinking it was some sort of personally symbolic dream. But we couldn’t seem to extract any personal meaning for Brenda, so just in case I sent an account of the dream to Jane and Bob. About a week later we had a letter from them saying that the letter and dre... More

I am now one of the silver haired males in our society. While I was still a dark haired young man I used to think I would end my days as someone extraordinary. The reason being that I was taking risks in unconventional ways, delving deeply into the unconscious, meeting things that most people try t... More

Breathing has been linked in some way with most of the world faiths. Early man noticed and was impressed by the fact that if a new-born babe did not breathe it did not live. He also saw that at death one suddenly ceased this continuous and rhythmic movement of breathing. So breathing became synonymo... More

This early exercise is to help us become aware of responses in our being within and beyond the usual direction we focus our attention. That is, when we seek information we usually direct attention to our senses, our tissue reactions as in emotions, our thoughts, our memories or conclusions from them... More