Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Trying to Speak: A Personal History of Stage Fright
David Guy discovers a method for confronting his deepest fears.
David Guy
David Guy is the author of six novels, including Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence and Hank Heals: A Novel of Miracles, the first two volumes of his Zen trilogy. He co-authored Breath by Breath and Living in the Light of Death with his first meditation teacher, Larry Rosenberg. Now retired from Duke University, he divides his time between Durham and Asheville, North Carolina. Learn more at www.davidguy.org.
Christmas Humphreys
[Humphreys and his wife] ran the Buddhist Lodge from their flat . . . where they had made a hideaway with a bright fire, Persian rugs, incense, golden Buddhas, and a library of magical books which…
The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky
The famed psychic, mystic, and founder of Theosophy
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel lived 100 years. She was born in France in 1868, the period of la belle epoque, and died there in 1969, soon after the student riots in Paris. In between she spent fourteen years…
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
Alan Watts Reconsidered
At the meditation center where I used to practice, my teacher told a story about a time when he had lived in Korea and studied with a Zen monk. One of the nuns in the community…
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