Spirituality

I Stone saints, seated in symmetric seriesalong the pointed vault, graven angelsof the transept, and the sonorous golden soulof the bells imprisoned in the tall slender cageof the belfry tower—all…

Translator’s note. The Japanese title of this chapter is Uji. 有 u means “to have” or “there is” — thusit is often understood as Being. 時 ji means a moment…

Three chapters from Th. Metzger’s new book DOWN IN THE FLOOD We sing for the dead and we sing with the dead. Untrained, unamplified, unrestrained, our voices are raucous and…

On the sixth glad day they longed for the beggar who had no hands. No sooner had they expressed their wish than he appeared, saying “Here I am!” just as…

DEATH Jerusalem dances on living bodies,on dead bodies, on flesh, on stone—she doesn’t notice, she is not looking down.“You love death more than me,” God accuses her,“but I own death,do…

The four men have come to a decision. This over beers while sitting on lawn chairs in the Electrician’s garage. The Electrician leans against a workbench wiping his hands on…

the fifth and penultimate chapter of Nachman of Breslov’s “Tale of the Seven Beggars” On the fifth day of the wedding, in the midst of all that happiness, they remembered…

excerpted from Thom Metzger’s new book, Hakim Bey, Real and Unreal Hakim Bey named me the “Grand Metropolitan of the Burnt Over District, i.e.: the holy lands of upstate NY.”…

1.       The Black Hole of Comedy I made my way down the dank, filthy stairs, into the darkness where jokes go after they’ve died. I descended into Ha-Ha Hell, like…

After these festivities they all went to bed, but the next day the bride and groom woke up early and began to think of the beggar with the crooked neck,…