I started this blog in 2013 with the aid of a friend in order to promote the first of my novels on moksha or enlightenment, Whip of the Wild God: A Novel of Tantra in Ancient India—and so was born the metaphysical and mundane musings of a maverick female scribe. Over the years, its audience has grown into the thousands and international magazines have published my posts.
Why link the metaphysical with the mundane? Ah, herein hangs a tale. During my confused early years, I came upon an ancient Eastern teaching known as the “Two Great Truths of Absolute and Relative Reality.” Through this amazing lens, life finally began to make sense to me. I learned that, for as long as we are governed by duality, we must nurture our fragile egoic selves, even as we deepen our investigation into what the sages inform us is our true nature (sat-chit-ananda...