Diary of a Watts Princess: A Memoir of Hopes and Dreams

I love my father so much that if someone asked me “how much?” I couldn’t explain it. I feel about him as e.e. Cummings did in his poem “If There Are Any Heavens.” Mainly the part that says, “If there are any heavens my father will (all by himself) have one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses. ~ Tamara Smiley,…

Preparing for Profound Change | Four Key Lessons

We know profound change is coming. We feel it in our bodies. The converging crises have been named, like hurricanes brewing off shore: climate chaos, escalating militarization, economic collapse, all forms of intolerance. The early effects of these mighty storms are already being felt by many, lashing the coastlines of our lives. For others, the unthinkable has already occurred. The Kosmos…

book excerpt | The Soul of Education

A book entitled The Soul of Education inevitably raises the question “Should modern public school education even have a soul?” Geometry and history, English and science—places and times for these subjects in the contemporary classroom are secure. But the soul? Doesn’t that belong in church? Aren’t questions of the soul private spiritual matters that are best left at home? If so, someone had…

Science and Religion: Toward a Universal Path of Divine Love

How did you move from mathematical physics and environmental science to gender equity and reconciliation, and then to the universal path of divine love? I am often asked this question and the short answer is three-fold: Science is a quest for truth; the deepest truth is love, and the most profound form of love is divine love. So for me it’s all been a natural evolution. Love for nature and the…

The Heart of Awakening

Many of us are confused, angry, fearful, grieving, insecure. We watch in disbelief as our world begins to crumble—torrential rains, tornado winds, mass shootings, threat of nuclear annihilation, breakdown of civil discourse, drug addiction, fake news, economic inequality, paralyzed government, deniers of climate change, a broken justice system and the breakdown of infrastructure that is supposed…

Artistic Practices for Social Change

Theory comes from practice—feeling comfortable with the unknown, with humility and compassion, in a very, very complex world ~ Alain Ruche In recent years, my frustration, my curiosity and, yes, pure serendipity gave me privileged access to high-level scientific conferences on system analysis and complexity, where I was the only policymaker. Indeed, our results-oriented policies do not…

Prayer | The Consecrated Hour

Do you not see them the ashen ones, the grey ones the starving orphans, the seduced innocents, the decimated specters of conflagration, all the beings trampled in degradation crowding our collective shadow field? Go find them. In this, this consecrated hour of human becoming find your estranged, your lost and abandoned family and embrace them into the vital marrow of your life. Kiss…

William Keepin

William Keepin, PhD is co-founder of the Satyana Institute and the Gender Reconciliation International project, which has organized more than 100 workshops and trainings in nine countries for social healing between women and men. Keepin has studied and practiced intensively in Eastern and Western spiritual disciplines for 35 years, and immersed himself in contemplative practices from the…