By Raphael O’Suna

I met a holy man once in a redwood forest. He was the son of a great Sufi Master.

He was unable to answer or understand my questions. We stood beneath the virgin timbers, silently, and then I walked away.

I met a Nazi doctor on that very spot years before; and the woman I should have married, was met there, many years after the holy man.

The bank was wide there and the river curved to the left. The gulch widened there, and gigantic trees grew side by side.

Spirituality, mystery and magic, and romance, three lifelong interests of my adult years: All of them intensified, vivified, and seemingly offered to me over a fifteen year period at the same spot.
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Cheer Up the Lonely Day Day 1912of 2009 173 days left in this year

LONGEST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE 21ST CENTURY TO OCCUR: The solar eclipse that will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. The maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii. More >

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