Psychogenetics

by David Griscom “What more profound gift  could we give than to restructure our DNA so that  all humans inherit health, peace, and relationship of the highest resonance”? I was sitting in a group of eight young people from around the world who were preparing to leave on a journey to the North Pole as part of a project called […]

Natural Pleasure

The overwhelming nature of sexual passion has caused it to be deified or divinized or alternatively feared as evil and demonic. It may seem odd that the same physiological act can raise us to the heights of spiritual exaltation or plunge us into guilt-ridden misery. The awe-inspiring force of desire and sex has played a […]

Keelung

My pilgrimage to Taiwan actually began when I left Chengdu in China. I had made friends with several families there of Taiwanese descent and was also involved in teaching several private students from Korea. After two years in Chengdu, I was thinking of leaving. I had looked at another kindergarten job in Ecuador but my […]

Navy Days

I was sent to the Philippines in 1972 by the U.S. Navy — to a small communications station located near a village called San Miguel, about an hour’s drive north along the eastern coast from the main naval base at Subic. This was my first time to leave the U.S.A. and the experience left a […]

Seoul and Kunsan

I first lived in Korea in 1973 when I was stationed in Seoul as a U.S. Naval communications technician. I later returned to Seoul with my wife in 2000 and taught at a kindergarten. Since then, I have taught again in Korea twice but most remember the six months I lived in Kunsan during 2002. […]

Cox’s Bazaar in the 1980’s

It must have been in the late 1980’s when I visited Bangladesh, although I can’t remember the year, but I do remember I was still a student, studying for my M.A. in northern India and Nepal. At the time, a tourist could stay in India for up to 6 months each year and in Nepal […]

New Year 2009 in Vientiane

I have traveled through Laos four times now — once on the way to China from Thailand, once on the return from China to Thailand, twice on visa runs from Thailand — but now (Jan-Feb 2009) is the first real visit I have made. This time, I am in Vientiane waiting for an invitation letter […]

Are you free?

“Whenever government becomes destructive of these ends (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government.” Declaration of Independence of the American Colonies, 1776 Even among people who identify themselves as ‘anarchists’ there is disagreement about what ‘anarchy’ means. This disagreement […]