Karme Choling Tibetan Buddhist Community in Vermont
Tibetan Buddhism has changed and blossomed in the American context. Nowhere has it taken deeper root than in the Karme Choling (Tail of the Tiger) center in Barnet Vermont, in the heart of the Green Mountains. This is not a monastery; men and women live together, cook together, make drama together and walk a path […]
The Doo Wop Revival
Oyez oyez ooh bop she-bop ooh bop she BAM! Doo wop was a great musical form that teens loved and parents often detested. In any case. its melodiousness has resurfaced big time on the revival circuit. This story here is one from one I attended at a cheesy (grand) venue in Atlantic City.
“All-Seeing Eye of God” Goes from Blue to Brown
The Eye is also in the eye of the beholder. When Saint Jerome’s, a church in the South Bronx, was constructed at the turn of the 20th century, it was built by immigrant artisans, mostly from Ireland and Italy, where the human eyes were often blue. So of course, they imagined the All-Seeing Eye of […]
Black Mountain Kentucky and Mountaintop Strip Mining
The Kentucky coal region is a tough area with its own culture, its own natural beauty, and its endless seams of coal, many of which lie underneath the ground on mountains, rather than below ground. Many mining companies have taken to shaving off the top of the mountains, but the slag and the unsightliness and […]
Spirituality and the Dying Process (documentary)
Almost all the world’s religions and spiritual paths agree: how you you live is how you die, so you better get ready. This long form doc explores the wisdom of several perspectives on this urgently relevant topic. Listen, laugh, and get going! Includes lots of talk with Ram Das and Steven Levine, Robert Thurman, and […]
Ram Das on Spirituality and the Dying Process (RAW INTVW)
Ram Das aka Richard Alpert, the author of “Be Here Now,” is one of the spiritual giants of the 20th and 21st century. This is a raw interview I did with him in connection with a 20 minute story I was doing for VOA about spirituality and the dying process, and how several spiritual tradition […]