"For the Mystically Inclined" is a collection of easily readable poems, high flying and down to Earth both, on the relevance of soul and spirit to every aspect of life. It aims to cultivate the mystic within each reader.

Addiction of one kind or another touches us all. Given its destructive course, it would seem an unequivocal curse to be lamented. The thrust of The Elixir of Air, however, is that it need not be. Addiction can in fact be a hidden blessing for what it forces us to face and change in our lives, for the spirit journey it rudely launches us on. Which is not to glamorize the searing pain experienced by addicts and their loved ones. Addiction''s gathering force is such that only searing pain can stop us in our tracks long enough to make possible a life transformation. We are in the presence here of...

Exacting, exasperating, exhausting, rich, awe-inspiring, transforming-all are accurate partial descriptions of the high calling of parenthood, a calling from the Universe to marvel before its evolution reenacted, a calling from the Earth to nurture and embolden the children she entrusts, calls eliciting from parents all the intelligence, heart, imagination and spirit they can muster that they might mold nothing less than the future. Deep Joy, Steep Challenge witnesses to the arduous bliss of parenting a child, inviting other parents to remember their hundred good reasons to fret, their...

The crisis facing not only humankind but the very planet is of such a magnitude that we need avail ourselves of all the accumulated wisdom possible-which necessarily includes the wisdom of Jesus of Nazareth-or else literally perish. Earth Brother Jesus is indeed about salvation, but salvation of the entire Earth community; and it is indeed about the potential magnificent role Jesus can play in this salvation, but a dramatically different Jesus than traditionally imagined. "Who do men say that I am?" As Jesus asked this long ago, imagine him asking it of us now. Courage to each as she or he...

"Memento mori," intoned the ancients. But why remember death, why keep the thought of death before us? Is not the goal to live, in effect to fight death, to stave off as long as we can the wrinkles and the gray? "Think positive," intones our culture. "Look on the bright side. Granted death will claim us in the end, it doesn't have to cheat us out of life in the meantime." "On the contrary," Death counters. "If you let me, I can serve you as no other servant, teach you as no other teacher. Keep conscious of me and discover life. Embrace me as your dark lover, and find energy in your mission."...

Fuel for Ware hopes to help break a spell, an Earth-imperiling entrancement that weaves together patriotism, nationalism, and war. That its hold on Americans is particularly fierce is grimly demonstrated yet again in the recent Gulf Wars. Until we collectively awaken from this spell and begin espousing a broader patriotism, elicited by the stupendous image from the moon of the living jewel of a single family on a fragile planet, peace will be but a nervous interlude between ever more destructive and dispiriting wars, boding ill, with the advancement of weapon potency and technology, for the...