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As has been noted, actor David Carradine died recently, in Thailand, under circumstances suggesting an autoerotic asphyxiation accident. There. That’s about it. (photo by Jano Rohleder) Lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, died similarly 12 years ago, in Sydney, Australia. Yet there seems to be a much higher level of interest in this sad celebrity…

The world continues to mourn one of the pseudo-masters of eastern spirituality, David Carradine, in our culture’s peculiar way: we are dying to see the Carradine hanging photo. Thai Rath, a local paper, has supposedly published a Carradine death photo, rightfully enraging his family. (David Carradine in one of his very best pseudo-eastern-spirituality roles, Kill…

The superhero lives! Maybe even down your block.The costumed superhero is a peculiarly American fantasy. But it’s not a fantasy anymore. As CNN reports, everyday citizens who want to help their communities are putting on tights and masks to do good — more than 200 of them, in Walla Walla, WA; San Diego, CA, and…

Rilke, like Rumi or Gibran, wrote almost exclusively about the spirit.  Or course I feel in over my head trying to say something new and insightful about Rilke’s works–“A god can do it.  But tell me how a man / is to follow through the narrow lyre?”–but I do want to take a moment to…
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