Ordinary Mind Zendo, New York – “Like a lot of people in the 1960s,” Barry Magid tells me, “I encountered Zen through the Beats, in reading Kerouac and Gary Snyder. I found Alan Watts and D. T. Suzuki and those folks. So at some point I noticed the characters who were still alive – whoContinue reading “Barry Magid”
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Kurt Spellmeyer
Cold Mountain Sangha, New Jersey “I’m from a mixed background/heritage, and religion really wasn’t an important part of my upbringing,” Kurt Spellmeyer tells me. “I became interested in all kinds of religious traditions, but it wasn’t part of our family’s experience.” I ask what the mix was. “Well, I was really ‘all of the above’Continue reading “Kurt Spellmeyer”
Richard Bryan McDaniel 