The Translucent View

The Last Laugh will be published on May 1st by Hay House Visions imprint. Please enjoy here the back cover description, some early endorsements, and excerpts from three chapters, with audio downloads to enjoy later. “I stood on the bridge just before midnight, the wind from the ocean arriving in violent blasts, as if saying [...]

Last night I watched Kumaré, a mock documentary made by the very talented Vikram Gandhi. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly highly recommend that you do. It is extremely engaging, touching, funny, but most important it drives home a very important point with extraordinary skill. Vikram Gandhi was born and raised in New [...]

A couple of years ago I spent a very pleasant few days over New Year’s Eve at a conference in Monterey, California. One of the other speakers was my old friend, Coleman Barks, who most of us know for his brilliant, touching and soul-stirring translations of Rumi. We got to chatting over lunch one day, [...]

Today I was walking in the street with Chameli, and we came across this amazing band, playing in the street.  They tour the US and Mexico, on 5 bicycles, with all their gear on the back:   drum set, amps, speakers, guitars, clothes.  No vehicle backup.   During the gigs, the bicycles become generators to power the [...]

Let’s take a deeper look at American Beauty, written by Alan Ball, directed by Sam Mendes, and the winner of my contemporary translucent cinema poll. On its surface, the film addresses such common contemporary themes as meaninglessness, infidelity, ambition, and family dysfunction. But, as the movie poster urged before we even bought our tickets, “Look [...]

      New Age Mush is easy to spot, mainly because it offers very little variety. There are now literally hundreds of CDs available with titles like Dolphin Rainbow Suite or Angelic Symphony. The covers display the same narrow range of what’s acceptable: soft pastel colors, a unicorn, dolphins, rainbows, throw in an angel [...]

    The term ‘baby boomer’ refers to the population bubble born sooner after the Second World War. Many young men in America and Europe had gone off to fight between 1939 and 1945, and not all returned. For those who did, their priorities were clear: settle down, marry your sweetheart, rebuild … and procreate. [...]

        One of the really great things for me about being a member of the Transformational Leadership Council has been to get to know Lynne McTaggart and her husband Brian Hubbard.  They are both funny, very intelligent and insightful people, and it so happens that they both have new books out this [...]

Dear Mr Zuckerberg,  First, I really want to say that I like this Facebook thing you have put together.  I’ve been using it for a few years now, and I think you are onto something, and it might really catch on someday.  If you need any help with the programming part, my son has a [...]

*** *** One of the turning points of my life happened more than 20 years ago, when I went to sit with an almost unknown spiritual teacher and writer. There were just a few people gathered together meeting with her. This was the late 80’s, when “manifesting” was the latest greatest thing. So somebody asked [...]