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Kaleiheana Stormcrow shares a visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about consciousness, water, and the cycles of life. #IndigenousWisdom #HawaiianSpirituality #Consciousness #DeathAndRebirth #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualWriting #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/what-death-and-the-water-speak-of/

'Eleven Minutes' by Paulo Coelho https://booksperience.org/2009/04/22/eleven-minutes-by-paulo-coelho/ #Brazil, #BrazilianLiterature, #BrazilianNovel, #Coelho, #ElevenMinutes, #Erotic, #Fiction, #LatinAmericanLiterature, #Lourdes, #Novel, #PauloCoelho, #PortugueseLiterature, #PortugueseNovel, #PortugueseWriting, #Sex, #SpiritualWriting, #Spirituality

Some recent #poetry publication links - and a #sonnet

#poem #PoetryCommunity #Writing #WritingCommunity #SpiritualWriting

https://enterenchanted.com/a-poems-not-a-thing-some-recent-poetry-publications/

My essay "A Cosmic Twist" in the current issue of Kosmos Journal - weaving together the rhythms of the cosmos, the archetypal craft of spinning, and the spinners of classic fairy tales.

https://enterenchanted.com/another-essay-a-cosmic-twist/

#spinning #cosmos #nature #spirituality #SpiritualWriting #writing #FairyTales

Fairy tale illustration of a goddess-like figure spinning at a wheel, surrounded by swirling threads

Ask yourself this one question - at LisaNotes, a post that gets right to the heart of so many issues.

https://lisanotes.com/ask-yourself-this-one-question/

#SpiritualWriting #$pirituality #Questions #Morality #Religion #Life #Theology #Love

My #poem Time Change in Amethyst Review -

https://amethystmagazine.org/2023/04/12/time-change-a-poem-by-lory-widmer-hess/

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #SpiritualWriting #Time

"When the World Was Whole"
#Poem by Ellen Rowland published on Braided Way

"The echo of all that simple praise lives on / in each thing we hold up to the light "

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #Spirituality #Nature #Soul #SpiritualWriting

https://braidedway.org/when-the-world-was-whole/

Notes on the book Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence

https://myrtleskete.com/2023/03/29/book-notes-arvo-part-out-of-silence/

@bookstodon
#books #review #SpiritualWriting #music #orthodox #christian

My poem "To Speak," just published in the Amethyst Review. I'm excited to be in this wonderful publication of "new writing engaging with the sacred."

https://amethystmagazine.org/2023/03/31/to-speak-a-poem-by-lory-widmer-hess/

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #SpiritualWriting #spirituality

What I Didn't Know by Linda Laderman in Poetica, Contemporary Jewish Writing

"volume after volume stacked with stories of how things were"

https://www.poeticamagazine.com/linda-laderman

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #SpiritualWriting #Jewish #Spirititual

Winners of the 2022 Sacred Poetry Contest of Catholic Literary Arts. Each poem responds to a work of art in a surprising and memorable way. The 2023 contest is open until April 30, if any poets care to have a go.

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #SpiritualWriting

https://www.catholicliteraryarts.org/2022-poetry

Review at Calmgrove of Till We Have Faces by #CSLewis

@bookstodon #book #review #SpiritualWriting

https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/face/

My poem "Geode," published in the Winter Collection of Ekstasis -

https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/geode

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #writing #nature #contemplation #meditation #SpiritualWriting

"Each hour a miracle" - a reflection on the 2023 United in Prayer Day, from Contemplative Outreach

"Miracle upon miracle. Prayer upon prayer. The silence embraces us, washes away all that divides us. Each of us changed in ways that words are too clumsy to describe. But we feel a silence that knows no bounds, a silence that is always there, ready to welcome each of us, all of us."

#spirituality #SpiritualWriting #prayer #silence #contemplation

https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/2023/03/15/each-hour-a-miracle/?mc_cid=b83034e440&mc_eid=57088d55b7

New Blog Post: My #review of the #spiritual #memoir (s) by Joy Harjo - Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. I loved these beautiful, courageous, wrenching stories of living a creative life against all odds.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #SpiritualWriting #poet #PoetryCommunity

https://enterenchanted.com/spiritual-memoir-review-crazy-brave-and-poet-warrior/#comment-3571

Cover of Joy Harjo's memoir Poet Warrior, dark blue background with white text and a circular beaded image of a red and gold spider on a white and blue background

At Shiny New Books, Harriet reviews a new novel about Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. It sounds fantastic.

https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/for-thy-great-pain-have-mercy-on-my-little-pain-by-victoria-mackenzie

@bookstodon #bookstodon #book #review #mystic #medieval #SpiritualWriting

Advent/Lent: A Poem

https://enterenchanted.com/advent-lent-a-poem/

#poetry #PoetryCommunity #SpiritualWriting #Advent #Lent #Religion #Christian #spirituality

Black and white photo showing a man from above walking into a shaft of light

From the current issue of Parabola: "Death, the Dark Brain, and Transformations in Light" helps to give more nuance and complexity to the "dark/light" metaphors that are often employed in discussions of spiritual experience.

#SpiritualWriting #Spirit #Spiritual #Brain #Transformation #Death

https://parabola.org/2023/02/01/death-the-dark-brain-and-transformations-in-light/

New blog post - I describe the first steps in a new spiritual direction program I've just started. After a lot of false starts and misguided (though educational) paths, this feels right -- wherever it may lead.

If you have experience with spiritual direction or other spiritual formation/training, I'd love to hear from you.

#spirit #spiritual #spirituality #SpiritualWriting #mindfulness #contemplation #contemplative #religion