“The pure products of America go crazy—”                –William Carlos Williams, “To Elsie”             While his name may live on in militant rightwing bunkers on the internet as a martyr to government tyranny, most likely most of us won’t remember his story a day later.  Americans have extraordinarily […]

In 1981, my first year at Naropa, Ram Dass came and did some talks.  One thing he said has always stuck with me: “People ask me what I think about the theory of reincarnation, and they get mad when I tell them it’s not a theory, it’s a fact.” It’s not a theory, it’s a […]