The Way of Wonder: a return to the mystery of ourselves, by Jack Haas (free ebook, pdf)

Due to the coronavirus and all of the subsequent unemployment and financial ramifications, I'm offering this book free as a pdf, which is an exact copy of the printed book. Download here: the way of wonder: a return to the mystery of ourselves (pdf) Many thanks to the doctors and nurses on the frontline of …

The Omstrument: A Distillate of Being

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 7, by Jack Haas

Part 1, chapter seven During my stay in Darjeeling, before heading south, I had run into a man named Hank, whom I had met only once previously, the night before leaving Canada for India, at a buddy’s place who was holding a going-away party for me. Hank and I were both heading to the subcontinent …

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 6, by Jack Haas

Part 1, chapter six In the Delhi train station that morning, in the frantic bustle while hunting for my carriage out of Delhi’s tortured cosmolopolis, I had my day-bag and the back of my pants slashed by a malevolent urchin, who sought to rid me of my rupees, though fortunately all he got away with …

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 5, by Jack Haas

Part 1, chapter five Occasionally I was lucky enough to run into a kindred soul who was passing through Delhi for a short spell, and, upon meeting and becoming acquainted, we would enjoy each other’s company for a few days, which allowed me the necessary respite of communion, before we inevitably said our goodbyes and …

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 4, by Jack Haas

Part 1, chapter four Before all of that which I have just written came to pass, which was before I understood that God brings all things about through us, I had to live my life out in the world. Out in this crazy, impossible, beautiful world. And so at thirty years of age I was …

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 3, by Jack Haas

Part 1, chapter three Coming into this world as I did, as we all do- like little God-maggots, growing in the stool and searching for our new wings that we might learn again to fly- I could never have imagined what was to happen. How could I? Who, after all, can know the unknowable? Who …

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 2, by Jack Haas

Part 1, chapter two But let me explain. Let me hopelessly explain why I cannot explain what I cannot help but try to explain. Were it not for the fact that God dwells, and is worthy, in all people, I could not just now have so emphatically declared the gospel of my own idiosyncratic dissent, …

ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth, part 1, chapter 1, by Jack Haas

Part one, chapter 1 Out in this world, in this impossible world, in this crazy, mysterious, magical world. Out into this world I came, like a wild thought fleeing its captor. Out and out I plunged, never towards but only away, as if I was born solely to become what God had not yet made. …

IN AND OF: memoirs of a mystic journey, part 2, chapter 14, by Jack Haas

Part 2, chapter fourteen No matter what I have written here, nor how I have explained or come to understanding, throughout it all I was nothing, and did nothing, for it was the great mystery of life, of the spirit, which did it all. And yet I once had a very wise woman teach me …