• A New Approach to the Early Hours Wakeup Call

    Published On: December 24, 2025

    Much of the perennial wisdom urges us to shift our perspective on events we ordinarily take for granted. Take the wee-hours wake up call that, for so many of us, feels like a curse that must be gotten through or avoided. Rare is the individual who accepts the 3am wakeup and inquires into it. Which [...]

  • Forget the Talking Snakes; Get Rid of the Flare

    Published On: October 12, 2012

    "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning." - F. Scott Fitzgerald It's easy to blame the loneliness of the spiritual path on the reluctance (or refusal) of others to join in the journey. But it's more than that. It's lonely in part because it's so damned difficult [...]

  • A New Approach to the Early Hours Wakeup Call

    Much of the perennial wisdom urges us to shift our perspective on events we ordinarily take for granted. Take the wee-hours wake up call that, for so many of us, feels like a curse that must be gotten through or avoided. Rare is the individual who accepts the 3am wakeup and inquires into it. Which [...]

  • Forget the Talking Snakes; Get Rid of the Flare

    "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning." - F. Scott Fitzgerald It's easy to blame the loneliness of the spiritual path on the reluctance (or refusal) of others to join in the journey. But it's more than that. It's lonely in part because it's so damned difficult [...]