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PAUL E NELSON

Interview with Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte

Interview with Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte

This post, originally from November 5, 2019, has been republished in the wake of the death of Mary Norbert Körte at her home in Willits, California, Monday, November 14, 2022 at 1:30pm. She was 88. She made a splash as “the nun” at the 1965 Berkeley Poetry...
Nuchatlitz, Artful

Nuchatlitz, Artful

Bhakti and I were delighted to have been offered a chance to visit Nuchatlitz, BC, thanks to Adelia MacWilliam and Shannon Bailey. It required a long drive to Tahsis, BC, with a ferry just to get there and then a 45 minute water taxi to the ancestral homeland of the...
FLEXIBLE MIND THIS CLOUD IS A LIFE

FLEXIBLE MIND THIS CLOUD IS A LIFE

I have been fortunate to facilitate online workshops since Fall 2020. It is one of the great personal developments of the pandemic restructuring that we’re experiencing right now and, of course, if you want to know more about something, teach it. Starting from...
Prostate Cancer Update

Prostate Cancer Update

I was asked by my local spiritual community, Subud Greater Seattle, for an update on my treatment for prostate cancer. An excerpt: I was diagnosed with prostate cancer on February 17, 2020 and had highly-targeted radiation treatment in Late June and early July and I...