Barbara Gates

Barbara Gates is a writer and developmental editor living in Berkeley, California. Author of Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place (Shambhala, 2003) and other publications, she was cofounder and coeditor in chief of Inquiring Mind. She is currently working on a memoir: On the Trail of Birth and Death.

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Found in Translation

Exploring the Day of the Dead, a writer learns to reframe painful past experiences and let go.

By Barbara Gates

Nov 01, 2021

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Magazine Personal Reflections

Cycles of Motherhood

A practitioner reflects on her mother’s uniquely challenging qualities following a trip to the emergency room.

By Barbara Gates

Spring 2020

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My Teacher, The Tree

Thai Buddhist monk Ajahn Pasanno and environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill discuss what nature can teach us about love in an interview with Inquiring Mind.

By Kim Criswell, Barbara Gates, and Wes Nisker

Aug 15, 2018

Magazine

In the Bathtub of the Masters

Sometimes a forbidden soak is just what you need—to find peace.

By Barbara Gates

Fall 2016

Magazine Society & Environment

Standing as Equals

A conversation with Rinchen Khando Choegyal, founder of the Tibetan Nuns Project

By Barbara Gates

Winter 2013

Magazine

Under the Pavement

Barbara Gates learns to use a jackhammer to uncover the neglected realms of the self.

By Barbara Gates

Fall 2003

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Dec 2021

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