Germ Theory vs Host Theory
 adapted by Jean-Claude van Itallie from Darin Olien’s online article

12 Quick Tips for the Movement

So thrilled by all the forms of resistance happening right now. We’ve got protests on the reg, boycotts brewing, we’re lawyering up, making noise with our representatives, and looking for more ways to organize and disrupt. Even this tree is getting in on the action:

Spiritual Techniques — 
 If we agree that we routinely see the world through habitual filters and preconceptions — then what do we do about it? How do we change that?
 It’s not…

Crowd Mantras for Now

An artist friend making visual art for demonstrations against the dangerous 2017 Republican administration asked me to…

My Way on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

by Shantigar teacher Tony Allicino

Seeing devils and demons clearly for who they are, unmasking them, is the first step toward freeing ourselves from their sway.

Shantigar is proud to welcome Philadelphia Poet Laureate, Yolanda Wisher

James Baldwin: “I am not your negro. I’m a man.”

Saw in NYC today I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, a moving film with narration by the late aristocratic deep thinker James Baldwin. He and film-maker Raoul Peck beautifully articulate the sad truth that an America driven by hate, racism and violence…