SEEING
VOLUME 36 NUMBER 3 FALL 2011

6 WHERE'S THE TEMPLE?  Trebbe Johnson
In which the author opens "a doorway into the world beyond the known"

14 ILLUSIONS  James Opie
Quite a bargain, that grand old painting...or was it?

18 CHERRY tree BLOSSOM  James Whitlow Delano
Amid the devastation of the tsunami, hope and beauty bloom

24 THE UNSEEN RIVER  Joyce Kornblatt
Peering into the sacred heart of things

32 THE COSMIC METABOLISM OF FORM  Christian Wertenbaker
A meditation on a "great cosmic ecology of consciousness"

38 LOOKING with your whole body
A conversation with acclaimed artist Jane Rosen

46 SEEING IS AN ACT  Jeanne de Salzmann
Rare wisdom on "how to see"

48 AWAKENING SIGHT  David Ulrich
What happens when a professional photographer loses an eye?

62 DIGGING DEEPER
A conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal

66 "SEEING" BY ZEN MASTER DOGEN  Kazuaki Tanahashi
Commentary on, and original translation of, the great Zen icon

74 DIONYSOS  George Latura Beke
There, in the skies: A golden pathway to the heavens

80  HUGH BROCKWILL RIPMAN  Martha Heyneman
Introducing a remarkable spiritual teacher

82  THE EYES OF THE SOUL  Hugh Brockwill Ripman
An unforgettable story about crossing the threshold to Reality

88  THE SILENT WITNESS  Hugh Brockwill Ripman
Questions, and answers from a man who knows

94  SEEING AND THE YOGA SUTRA  Dolphi Wertenbaker
Toward freedom of seeing

EPICYCLE

28 NOMAD GIRL  Anonymous | Tibetan Buddhist
Retold by Barbara H. Berger

POETRY

56 VANISHING POINT  Tina Schumann
57 SPRING FOR EDWIN  Linda Ann Suddarth
58 ANCIENT FRENCH ART HISTOR;, LESSONS IN GLASS-ENCASED POOL  Anna Roach
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