Sacred Theatre

There’s No Business Like. . .

Peggy Rubin — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:44:07 +0000

Jean Houston and Ms. Winfrey

My old friend, working associate, and favorite teacher Jean Houston will be conversing with Oprah Winfrey on her show, Super Soul Sunday, this November 25th, on the OWN Network. If you miss the cable broadcast, you can also see MORE

New Directions 2013

Peggy Rubin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:51:59 +0000

An Evolutionary Journey, from Creation to Creativity Recently a close friend reminded me of how close I am to the final years of my life – in fact, I’m living them now. She gently chastised me for focusing on extraneous work and worries, saying, MORE

Report to Gaia

Peggy Rubin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:20:49 +0000

Gleanings from a Traveling Sabbatical

April 1 – September 1, 2011

Two Mythic Truths:

Life is Gaia’s gift to the Universe

Love is Life’s gift to Gaia

And a Teaching:

What to do for the Rest of Your Life:

Review every relationship,

Ireland’s Blessed Land

Peggy Rubin — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:27:45 +0000

The sun is bright and cloud piercing; the wind wild and almost always at our backs, the road definitely rising to meet us. For those who remember Ireland, we spent two days in Sligo, and said hello to W B Yeats at MORE

A Journey Called by My Soul

Peggy Rubin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:47:03 +0000

Creating a Book of Hours

“Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws”: Psalm 119:164

The writer of wonders Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees, and other riches, both fiction and non-fiction) once offered a teaching on the ancient MORE

Shakespeare Moments: Recognizing Truth

Peggy Rubin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:56:36 +0000

One thing Shakespeare has in common with comic book characters: at big moments of realization, a light bulb seems to go on over the person’s head. On the stage this takes place more subtly, light bulbs being singularly lacking in Shakespeare’s world. Nevertheless the MORE

The Equinox

Peggy Rubin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:29:39 +0000

Last night the first rainfall of autumn poured down as two friends and I made our way to the nearby town of Jacksonville, Oregon, intending (at yet another birthday celebration) to have dinner and hear the concert presented by the amazing ten-man singing group, MORE

A Birthday Wish

Peggy Rubin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:18:58 +0000

On my 75th birthday friends carried me away to a dream. The dream consisted of days spent in Istanbul, seeing once again Hagia Sophia, that very early Christian declaration in monumental stone of the miracle that is Holy Wisdom; the Blue Mosque (hearing MORE

Soul of the World

Peggy Rubin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:13:11 +0000

This summer’s Institute in Social Artistry, led by Jean Houston, included the metaphor of alchemy, and that included an awakening to the world’s earliest scientists, the alchemists. They were called, with good reason, “Philosophers of Fire.” In the service of honoring nature and at MORE

Harvest Time

Peggy Rubin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:12:00 +0000

In the Celtic worlds, these are days of harvesting. The still-strong sun presides over this yearly time of gathering in, then caring for and preparing for the future. During the classes of the early summer, working with my friend, ally and teacher, Jean Houston, MORE