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02.05.2008

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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Pilgrimage To Nowhere

by Andrew Boyd

If spiritual seekers coming to Thailand were treated like their sex-tourist brethren, a contingent of saffron-robed monks would accost you at the Bangkok airport, getting up in your face with a laminated menu of spiritual offerings and shouting, “Intensive Vipassana meditation! Twenty-one-day monastery stay! All-you-can-eat vegetarian meals! Hurt your knees! No sex! Donations only!”

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The Sun Interview

The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart

Andrew Harvey On Sacred Activism, The Divine Feminine, And Loving George W. Bush

by Andrew Lawler

“This building makes me drunk,” Andrew Harvey says. We’re standing in the middle of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, a century-old experiment in sacred architecture in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Oak Park.

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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Room 3206

by Jane Churchon

Mr. K. was forty-two and almost dead, kept alive by machines, tubes, and liquids that would at best give him two or three days more. His wife had brought him to the emergency room, probably because he was confused or vomiting or had chest pain. It soon became clear that he had taken too much Vicodin or heroin or any one of a number of potentially lethal drugs, perhaps by accident, perhaps not.

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Poetry

The International Forgiveness Institute

by Angela Rydell
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Readers Write

Chance Encounters

by Our Readers

As a college junior I interned with Planned Parenthood. Saturday mornings at 6:30 a.m., I would open the clinic door to a line of women already waiting outside in the cold. They had come, some from hundreds of miles away, for abortions.

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In This Issue

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Sy Safransky’s
Notebook

In a few days, I leave for New York City to attend a conference for writers and the rest of the kitchen help: editors and publishers and agents and writing teachers and literary scholars and literary hangers-on. I rarely attend such events, preferring to remain in the kitchen and continue chopping vegetables: my small contribution to keeping the hungry fed.

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Sunbeams

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

 

Joseph Conrad

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Letter to the Editor

If you’re thinking about writing us a letter, give in to the temptation.

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