Follow Blog
Follow Blog via Email
-
Recent Posts
Tags
- Abba Moses the Black
- Abiquiu New Mexsico
- addiction
- Adelanto
- Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Aerotherm
- A Friend to China
- AIDS
- Alabama Hills
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Aldous Huxley
- Alfred North Whitehead
- All Saint's Day
- American Indian
- Anhony the Great
- Anne Hillerman
- Ann Frank Owens Valley
- Annie Dillard
- Ansel Adams
- Anthony of the Desert
- Anthony the Great
- Apatheia
- archaeology
- archaeology Poverty Hills Spiritual Treasure
- Arizona
- Arizona State University Football
- Ashram
- Astrobiology
- atheism
- Atman
- Audubon Society
- Augustine
- Auschwitz
- barbara Ehrenreich
- Basil Pennington
- Bedouin
- Belden Lane
- Benedicta Ward
- Benedict of Nursia
- Berlin
- Bird Watching
- Bishop Spong
- Black Angus cattle
- Black Elk
- Blaise Pascal
- Blessing Way
- Body of Christ
- Book of Excodus
- Boredom in Prayer
- Brandenburg Gate
- Brave New World
- Breviary
- Buddha
- Buddhism
- Buffered Self
- California
- Carl Heimbs
- Carl Jung
- Carl Larsson
- Catholic shrine
- Catholic Worker Isaiah House
- cattle ranching
- Center for Spiritual Development
- Centering Prayer
- Centering Prayers
- Chanukah
- Charles F. Lummis
- Charles Manson
- Charles Taylor
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Cheryle Strayed
- Chimayo
- China
- chindi
- Chris Langley
- Christ in the Desert Monastery
- Coach Dick Salter
- Coach Gary Griffith
- Coach Tom Hamilton
- Coffee roasting
- Communion of Saints
- compassion
- Compline
- contemplation
- contemplative
- Contemplative Meditation
- Contemplative Prayer
- Coptic
- Coptic Orthodox
- corn
- Cottonwood Canyon
- Crystal Geyser
- C S Lewis
- CVJM
- Daily Office
- Dalarna
- Dalarna Femund Drivers Association
- Dance Hall of the Dead
- David Jaspter
- David Standish
- Day of the Dead
- DDR
- Death Valley National Park
- death valley sand dunes
- Descartes
- desert
- Desert Ammas
- Desert Fathers
- Desert Fathers and Mothers
- Desert Fathrs
- Desert Hermit
- Desert Hospitality
- Desert Mothers
- Desert Mystics
- desert spirituality
- Dia de los muertos
- Diana Eck
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Dine
- District Attorney Frank Fowles
- Divine Trinity
- Don Mose
- Doubting THomas
- Dr. Bob Phillips psychiatry
- Dr. Larry Budner child psychiatry
- Dr. Lynne Emergy
- Dr. Sarah Cowie
- dreams
- Dunmovin
- dust devil
- East Berlin
- Easter
- Eastern Sierra
- East Germany
- El Sanctuario Chimayo
- Emmaus Spiritual Ministires
- Emperor Constantine
- Enlightenment Philosophy
- entheogen
- Episcopal
- Episcopal Diocese of Arizona
- ethnobotany
- ethnomedicine
- Eucharist
- Eureka Dunes
- Evangelical Student Union of GDR
- Examen
- examen of conscience
- Examen of Consciousness
- False Self
- Father Gordon Moreland SJ
- Father Jim Clarke
- Father Thomas Keating
- fear of the wild
- Fellowship of St. Moses the black
- Fetisch
- Field Archaeology
- Fifth Step
- Fr. Bob Cornelison
- Fr. Christopher Smith
- Fr. Jim Friedrich
- Fr. Pat Tomter
- Francisco Coronado
- Frank Hamilton Cushing
- Franklin Wolff
- Fred Mercadante
- Fremont Cottonwood
- G. Stanley Hall
- Ganado Arizona
- gang violence
- Gary Ferguson
- GDR
- Gerald G. May
- Gerald G. May MD
- G K Chesterton
- Gordon Moreland SJ
- Grand Canyon National Park
- gratitude
- Great Basin
- grief
- Haggadah
- Hands Together a Center for Children
- Harvard University
- Hasidic
- Hatali
- Havasupai Canyon
- Havasupai Falls
- Havasupai Indians
- healing
- healing prayers
- healing sand
- Heimbs Kaffee
- Henri Nouwen
- Herzogin Viktoria Luise von Preussen
- High Road to Taos
- Highway 395
- Hinduism
- Hispano
- Holy Quran
- Holy Sand
- Home
- Homecoming
- Homeless children
- Hopi
- Hopi masks
- House of Prayer
- hoxho
- Hozho
- Human Options
- Husho
- Huston Smith
- I and Thou
- Idea of the Holy
- Ignatius
- Ignatius Loyola
- illumination
- immigration.
- India
- Inn at Halona
- Islam
- Jackie Robinson
- James Martin SJ
- Japanese-American
- Japanese Garden
- Jesuit
- Jesuit leadership
- Jesus Project
- Joe Leaphorn
- John of the Cross
- John R. Stilgoe
- John Wayne
- Joy
- Kachina
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Kami
- Karelius
- Karelius and Company
- King Tut
- Kuan Yin
- Laguna Beach
- Land Art
- Lao Tzu
- Latino
- Latino immigrants
- Lent
- Les Cooper
- Lima
- LIttle Lake
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Logan Barrio
- Lone Pine
- Lone Pine California
- Lone Pine Film History Museum
- Louis Sagahun
- Lsa Truchas
- LSD
- Magdeburg
- manna
- Manzanar
- March on Selma
- Martin Buber
- Martin Burber
- Mary Austin
- Max Weber
- meditation
- meditation. Thomas Merton
- Meditation Walk
- memorials
- Mens' Spirituality
- Merritt Garden
- mescaline
- Mesquite Flat Dunes
- Messiah Episcopal Church
- Michael Prather
- Milagro Beanfield War
- Mindfulness
- Mindful Walk
- mining
- monasticism
- Monument Valley
- Moral Inventory
- Morning Garden
- Moses and Exodus
- Moses the Black
- Mount Calvary Monastery
- Mount Whitney
- Mracus Borg
- Mt. Calvary Monastery
- Musko
- Muslim
- Mystery Valley
- mysticism
- Nahuatl
- Nanise
- NASA
- Native American
- Native American Spirituality
- nature
- Navajo
- Navajo Herbal Medicine
- Navajo Moon Project
- Navajo spirituality
- New Mexico
- Nitrian Desert
- noetic
- No More Deaths
- ofrenda
- Olacha CA
- Olancha
- Ora et Labora
- Owens Lake
- Owens Lake Project
- Owens River
- Owens Valley
- Owens Valley Paiute
- Pacific Crest Trail
- Pacific School of Religion
- Paiute
- Palm Sunday
- pan del muertos
- Pasadena
- Pasadena High School
- Passion of Jesus
- Passover
- Pastor Georg Nuglisch
- Patriarch Abraham
- Paul Ricoeur
- Peace demonstrations DDR
- Penitentes
- Perry Cardoza
- peyote
- Phillips Scheldrake
- pilgrimage
- PInto people
- Pinyon PIne
- Plaza Trail
- Plover Wing Plaza
- Pluralism Project
- political resistance
- Porous and Buffered Self
- Power of Thought
- Preaching to the Birds
- present moment
- Prussia
- psychedelics
- psychosis
- psychotherapy
- Quran
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
- Racism in America
- Rationalism
- Real Presence
- religious dialogue
- religious tolerance
- Relocation Camp
- Requiem Mass
- Resurrection
- reunification of Germany
- Richard Francaviglia
- Riddarshausen
- Ridgecrest
- Robert De Nero
- Robert Frost
- Robert Redford
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
- Ron Rolheiser
- Ron Rolheiser OHM
- Rorosmartinan
- Rose Bowl
- Rose Springs
- Roy Rogers
- Rudolf Otto
- Ruth Cooper
- Saddleback College
- Saddleback Community College
- Sakuteikei
- Sand Dunes
- Sange de Cristo Mountains
- Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- Santa Ana
- Santa Fe
- Santa Fe New Mexico
- Santuario de Chimayo
- Scetia
- science
- Scott Daniel Warren
- Scottish Highlands
- second naivete
- Secret Swedish Navy Base
- Seeing Nature
- Shaman
- Shinto
- Silence
- Singing Sand Dunes
- Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange
- Skepticism
- Skete
- solitude
- Spiritual Direction
- Spiritual Exercises
- spirituality
- Spirituality for Men
- Spiritual Warfare
- St. Andrew's Church Braunschweig
- St. Augustine
- St. Francis
- St. John of the Cross
- St. Joseph's Church
- St. Joseph Ballet
- St. Katherine's Church Braunschweig
- St. Mark's Altadena
- St. Mary's Laguna Beach
- St. Timothy Parish Laguna Niguel CA
- Stacy Harvey
- Stagecoach
- Stahl Site
- St Anthony of the Desert
- Stasi
- Stations of the Cross
- St Benedict
- Steve Lupardo
- Stewart Indian School
- St Francis of Assisi
- St Pachomius
- Summer of Love
- Supai
- Sweden
- Swedish summer house
- T.S. Eliot
- Taller San Jose
- Tangermunde
- Taoism
- Taos
- Tao Te Ching
- temptation
- Teresa of Avila
- The Liturgy of the Hours
- The Southewest
- The Spiritual Exercises
- The Wild
- Think Together
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas McEvilley
- Thomas Merton
- Timbisha Shoshone
- Timothy Leary
- Tom Hamilton
- Tony Hillerman
- Trappist
- True Confessions
- True Self
- true self False Self
- University of Nevada at Reno
- University of Scranton
- Upanishads
- Valley Fever
- Vastagarden
- Verla Lasiloo Jim
- Via Crucis
- Viking
- Vikings
- Vince Lombardy
- Walpi Mesa
- Walter Brueggemann
- Walter Bruggemann
- Washoe I Indians
- Western Film
- wilderness
- William James
- William Janes
- Women Spirituality
- world religions
- X Files
- yoga
- Zakhor
- Zane Grey
- Zen
- Zuni
- Zuni Pueblo
Archives
- April 2023
- February 2023
- August 2022
- June 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- October 2020
- September 2020
- July 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- August 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- August 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- November 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- December 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- March 2016
- November 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- May 2015
- March 2015
- December 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- April 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- November 2013
- October 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Leaving the House of Prayer
“However, (Thomas Merton said), the usual road to contemplation is through the desert, a barren land with no trees, beauty or water. This prospect is so frightening that we are afraid to enter. In that desert God is nowhere to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcoholics Anonymous, examen of conscience, Gordon Moreland SJ, Ignatius Loyola, Phillips Scheldrake, Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, Saddleback Community College, Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange, The Spiritual Exercises, Thomas Merton, Walter Bruggemann
2 Comments
I need your help as I write my new book
Dear readers of the DesertSpiritPress Blog, I am currently working on a new book on Desert Spirituality: Desert Spirit Places. I am expanding explorations into the greater Southwest. Many of the chapters are based on blogs that have already appeared … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
2 Comments