“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 […]
Nature and New Yorkers
There is nature IN New York, there is nature as TRANSMUTED through the sensibility of New Yorkers, and there is New Yorkers AS nature herself. This piece explores them all. Another love letter to my Gotham home.
The Pentacle and the Wand: Contemporary Witchcraft in America
The witch has come in for some pretty hard knocks in previous centuries, but lately there has been a resurgence of interest in what she has to offer both as a way of seeing, and a way of being that is female, strong, earthy, connected and wise. This is a half hour documentary that explores […]