Tantra Series – Part 24
Karma Before people begin meditation practice, shell-like crusts of tension have formed around their hearts. They’ve built an armored facade many layers deep…a façade made up of fear, anger
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Tantra Series – Part 17
The first time I heard the word Kundalini I was eighteen years old. I worked as a counter man in a café on 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in
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Hymie ‘The Rag’ Goldberg
After a night of snow, the streets of New York had mountainous drifts butted up against cars and sidewalks that were being cleared by superintendents and store clerks. Augustine
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The Luckiest or Unluckiest Person on Earth
In November of 2004, Augustine’s friend Lauren asked him to monitor an English composition class that she taught in an Upper West Side New York City high school. She
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The Exhibition
Augustine grappled with a prose poem he’d been writing. He tried to create a collage of images, some connected, others not, but all part of a dream sequence that
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No Good to Anyone, Anymore
Augustine and his girlfriend Neila were sitting together at the rim of the Washington Square fountain. It was noon. “I’ve been in an old age home since nine o’clock
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NYC MOMENTS: The Mirror
One must write without thinking about forms, and just because it pours freely from one’s soul. – Anton Chekhov - The Seagull It was early one autumn morning, after
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NYC MOMENTS: The Piano Man (In a Harlem Jazz Club)
Augustine listened to the piano man’s guttural voice sing the blues. The noisy smoke filled room was silenced by the power of his words and the complicated riffs he