In the book, Not-Two Is Peace, Adi Da Samraj writes that humankind is, “chronically depressed by the frustration of the ego-transcending deepest and most profound impulses that are the inherent characteristics at the heart and root of every living being. The ego- ‘I’, whether individual or collective, is eventually reduced to sorrow and despair (or chronic life-depression), because […]

I’m sitting outside at the coffeeshop, chatting with my old friend, Jack, when an old acquaintance comes barreling up to us on her bike. She stops in front of our table, legs spread wide as a sumo wrestler. Apropos of nothing whatsoever she announces, with Spanish Inquisition zeal, that she has been “working ceaselessly to […]