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Haiku Master & True Human Being :: H.F. Noyes, aka Tomas :: reading of haiku, along with excerpts from correspondence during the final decade of the Master's life.  beforethepage@gmail.com

Gazing at Flowers  :: selections of haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Michelle Tennison, & Santoka Taneda :: read by  Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Essential Haiku : Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa -  edited by Robert Hass : ECCO Press, Hopewell, New Jersey 1994 Walking Into the Wind : A sweep of poems by Santoka, versions by Cid Corman  : Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, California 1...

Part 4 : GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès, translated by Edourad Roditi - this episode ( #42 ) opens with a haiku composed by Michelle Tennison - then continues on with our sequential and final audible offering of this seminal work, Genesis Rejuvenated. We begin where we left off with Chapter 3 / Within the Heart :: The Crystal Well, The Life of the Heart, The Heart of All, And a Man Who Was Se...

Part 3 : GENESIS REJUVENATED  by Carlo Suarès - this episode continues on from Chapter 2 /  The First Day  - reading the following sections in sequence :  The First Night, The Second Day, The Second Night, The Third Day, The Third Night, The Minor Genesis, The Minor Shadow, The Flight of the Seventh Day, The Continents. Before the Page  will finish with its presentation of Genesis Rejuvenated  in...

Part 2 : GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès - this episode continues reading from where we left off in our previous, Part 1, episode. We begin with Chapter 2 / Bubbzy - reading the following pages in sequence :  Blue Waters, Evening, The Lights, The New Adolescent, The Kiss of Peace, Joy, The Song of The Created, The First Voice, The Second Voice, The Third Voice, The Fourth Voice, The Fifth Voic...

Part 1 : GENESIS REJUVENATED  by Carlo Suarès - this episode features a reading of the book's brief introduction along with the opening chapter of this spectacular literary and spiritual effort. Originally written in French, then published in France in 1929 under the title La Nouvelle Création, Genesis Rejuvenated was not available in English until 1973; both publications are now rare.  Genes...

Words from WOLFKILLER - early chapters on Observation & Gratitude. WOLFKILLER : Wisdom from a Nineteenth-Century Navajo Shepherd - as recorded by Louisa Wade Wetherill, compiled by Harvey Leake : published by GIBBS SMITH - Layton, Utah.  " the sun / she / is setting...." - EARTH PRAYERS from around the world : 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth (HarperSanFranc...

The Path of Light - reading from WOLFKILLER : Wisdom from a Nineteenth-Century Navajo Shepherd  - as recorded by Louisa Wade Wetherill - compiled by Harvey Leake - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff.  WOLFKILLER: Wisdom from a Nineteenth-Century Navajo Shepherd -  published by Gibbs-Smith - Layton, Utah. 

Attention & Will : an essay composed by Simone Weil during the last years of her short life.  Translated by Emma Craufurd. Read by Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. 

J. Krishnamurti asks and then addresses the question: Can peace be brought about by the mind. - He also answers the question: Will you please teach me how to love. - The words featured in this episode come from talks that Krishnamurti gave, talks that were compiled into book form. Read by  Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff.  Living in an Insane World   : Selected Passages - 1989 - J. Krishnam...

Selections from the DIVINE FLASHES of Fakhruddin 'Iraqi - translated by William Chittick & Peter Lamborn Wilson - read by Charlie Mehrhoff. Divine Flashes - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi - translated by William Chittick & Peter Lamborn Wilson : Paulist Press, New York 1982 

Words from The Dhammapada,  Ursula K. Le Guin, Joseph Fasano, Mina Loy - read by  Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Dhammapada  - Eknath Easwaran, translator - Nilgiri Press.  Poetry by Ursula K. Ke Guin, Joseph Fasano, Mina Loy, Charlie Mehrhoff.  beforethepage@gmail.com

Honoring Meir Michel Abehsera author of The Possible Man: Life in the Shadow of the Just : voiced by  Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff.  The Possible Man: Life in the shadow of the Just  -  by Meir Michel Abehsera, Swanhouse Press. 

Words offered from  The Sevenfold Peace - Book 4 / The Teachings of The Elect : THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE  translated by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely - read by  Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Essene Gospel of Peace : the complete four books in one volume. 

Sufi Parables from the Qadari Order & other seekers of Divine Love. Ecstatic poetry of Abul Hasan al-Shustari - Leader of the Withdrawn - and Rocky Mountain Mystic, Jerry Smaldone. The Way of the Sufi - Idries Shah.  Tiny Tales from the Sufis - Laura Gibbs : https://pressbooks.pub/sufis/chapter/chapter-1/ Regarding Abul Hasan al-Shustari : from the Let's Talk Religion podcast :  https://w...

Allen Afterman on Poetry & Song. Charles Reznikoff :  Messianic, Palestine Under the Romans, Kaddish.  Charlie Mehrhoff :  Eons Ago, Messiah, Impossible Times, One Last Shot Glass.  Kabbalah and Consciousness & the Poetry of Allen Afterman  : Sheep Meadow Press. The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff (1918-1975)  : Black Sparrow Press :: Pieces read originally published in Separate Way (1...

Rav Kook : the Poet of Repentance - - reading of prose poetry related to the subject of Repentance (Teshuva) composed by Rav Kook --  translated into English from Hebrew by Rachel Tova Ebner : printed in a most exquisite book, The Torah of Tomorrow - One Song: Teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook , by Mosaica Press. Read by Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. https://mosaicapress.c...

Opening with The Miser & The Angel of Death  - a parable by Attar of Nishapur, this episode challenges listeners to search themselves for the essential. - - We also feature the poetry and prose of T'ao Ch'ien (365-427 CE), considered by many as the grandfather of the Chinese poetic tradition :: Read by Before The Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Miser & The Angel of Death  -  The...

IN PRAISE OF TREES  - words offering gratitude, homage, awe and love for trees. Rabindranath Tagore, W.S. Merwin, Attar, John Wright, Ryokan, a chapter from The Essene Gospel of Peace, a teaching of the Chisti Sufi Order, a prayer from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Etty Hillesum, Aura Chaya Gispan - read by  Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov - prayer for going amongst th...

FADING INTO SPRING : Words to honor the essence of trees. Inspirational writing on Tu B'Shvat by Sarah Yehudit Schneider & David Scaduto. Poetry by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mary Oliver, Maria Berardi, Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff. Shevat: Renewing the Divine Flow - David Scaduto, posted on the Sefaria platform: https://www.sefaria.org/texts The Shekhina&ap...

Words Regarding Sanctity: Abraham J. Heschel, Carlo Suarès, Attar, Maria Berardi, Rav Kook, Etty Hillesum, Li Po - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff. Who Is Man? - Abraham J. Heschel (Stanford University Press). The Second Coming of YHSHWH: The Rabbi Called Jesus Christ (Weiser Books). The Conference of the Birds - Attar : translated by Sholeh Wolpe (Norton). The Possible Man -  Meir M...

Courage & Liberty  - an offering of words from Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman, René Char, Alexandra Smyth, Charlie Mehrhoff - read by Before the Page  host Charlie Mehrhoff. Leonard Cohen's words regarding Ariel Sharon were read from Matti Friedman's book Who By Fire . Leonard's words on courage can be found in Leonard's book entitled The Flame (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). T...

REGARDING FEAR: Words from Taittiriya Upanishad, Thich Nhat Hanh, Khalil Gibran, Sabine Miller, Hafiz, Idit Miriam Codish, M.K. Gandhi, Clint Frakes, Maria Beradi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Frank Herbert, H.F. Noyes, White Eagle - read by host Charlie Mehrhoff.  Contact us at : Beforethepage@gmail.com

M.K. Gandhi's letters to Adolph Hitler, Jiddu Krishnamurti - on how to overcome nationalism. A brief message by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Poems of Rumi and Kabir translated by Daniel Ladinsky. - Reading by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff. Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West - translated by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin, Compass).  J. Krishnamurti The First and...

Readings from Rabindranah Tagore's GITANJALI (Song Offerings) , Attar's THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS , Jerry Smaldone, Sabine Miller, Psalm 10, Rav Kook - read by host Charlie Mehrhoff.  The Conference of the Birds - Attar, translated by Sholeh Wolpé (Norton). The Torah of Tomorrow - Rav Kook, translated by Rachel Tova Ebner (Mosaica). https://mosaicapress.com/product/the-torah-of-tomorro...