The occasional trip into realms labeled madness - can mean, especially if you are a writer, that you are given to telling the unvarnished, brutal, searing truth, whether society likes it or not. And not the Sylvia Plath look-at-me kinds of truth, but the spiritual-seer and mad-shaman types of truth, the truths that really hurt, the truths that get into society's craw and stick there, causing festering metaphysical sores indicative of social cancers or worse - but also the types of truth that speak to you deeply, authentically, radiantly, if you have the courage to listen.

I am in the awkward situation of writing a foreword to a book by a gay person. This is an awkward situation not because Joe Perez is gay, but because I have to…

What often happens if you study this integral map is that it begins to make room in your psyche, in your being, in your soul, for all the parts of you that wer…

Put bluntly, there is an archaic God, a magic God, a mythic God, a mental God, and an integral God. Which God do you believe in? An archaic God sees divinity i…

The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness.

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close…

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I crie…