Featured Artist: Kurt Newton
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome back poet and writer Kurt Newton with two fascinating poems, “The Second Funeral” and “Corpse Cake.” Each piece examines a different death ritual. These rituals …
Quote for Today: Ruth Ann Oskolkoff
Dave had carried the Zen bell, and rang it every few minutes with the tap of a small hammer. The sound was clear and beautiful. The tone was harmonious and …
Quote for Today: Kamand Kojouri
Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God in every room. Today, we are divorcing resentment and marrying forgiveness. Sing, and God …
Quote for Today: Cormac McCarthy
The boy sat tottering. The man watched him that he not topple into the flames. He kicked holes in the sand for the boy’s hips and shoulders where he would …
Quote for Today: Robin Wall Kimmerer
But imagine standing by the river, flooded with those same feelings as the Salmon march into the auditorium of their estuary. Rise in their honor, thank them for all the …
Quote for Today: Toko-pa Turner
Unlike the many shamanic cultures that practice dreamwork, ritual, and thanksgiving, Westerners have forgotten what Indigenous people understand to be cardinal: that this world owes its life to the unseen. …
Quote for Today: Thomas Howard
Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part of the very fabric of our human life. …
Quote for Today: Michael Pollan
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human – in the fact that …
Warrior Dance: Maori Haka Peruperu from New Zealand
Modern weaponry has changed what it means to be a warrior. Showy technical skills are little use against bullets and rocket propelled grenades. I think most of us remember this …