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Kurt Barstow's involvement with art, culture, and spirituality span over two decades and include two books and fourteen years as a manuscripts curator at the Getty. His new direction is in health and spirituality, in both massage therapy and soul-centered psychology. He has an Integral Life Practice that includes yoga and meditation.

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On loss, grief, and love

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

My father, Thomas Barstow, died unexpectedly on October 19. We were to some extent prepared for this because he had been treating bladder cancer...
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Spiritual conjunctions

If you ask me, the “both/and” category rather than the “either/or” category wins hands down nearly every time. It opens us to...
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Spirituality and queer cultural diversity

This past Sunday I attended a retreat sponsored by InsightLA and held in its beautiful new center on Olympic Boulevard in Santa Monica called,...
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Mindfulness, compassion, and language

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The English word compassion comes from the Latin com (with) plus pati (to suffer). Its short definition is something like, “the deep feeling of...
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The extended you: body, mind, and spirit

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Just as psychological wholeness is about realizing a Self greater than the one delimited by the defensive and ambitious ego, we might say that somatic...
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Killing the gods that don’t serve

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I hate Kali. Kali is the Hindu dark goddess of death and destruction. She is depicted in art with a pointed tongue, holding on to severed skulls,...
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Spiritual guidance, part III

To doubt is to lack conviction or certainty. It is to be in a place of not knowing and is the opposite in some senses of faith, belief, or dogma,...
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Lincoln's spirituality in his own words

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The 16th President of the United States is noted both for steering the country through its most difficult period as well as for both his noble...
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Spiritual guidance, part II

Whatever else it is, spiritual guidance is not like following the law or taking the morality of others upon yourself. And it is not one size fits all....
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Spiritual guidance, part I

In my last article, I agonized to a certain extent about how one was to sort through the guidance of the soul given that 1) there are different...
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