A Hidden Northern Treasure: Riding through Dreamtime to Meet the Shadow Spirit
Ryan Sgroi Ryan Sgroi

A Hidden Northern Treasure: Riding through Dreamtime to Meet the Shadow Spirit

A large white horse plodded forward, slow and steady, through parched valleys and snow-covered mountains. Mirages appeared and disappeared, swallowed up by sands of quantum tunneling. In this vast emptiness, I felt it again: a familiar ache rising from somewhere deeper than the mind, from a place the mystics call ancestral memory…

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Vajrayogini: The Fierce Dance of Diamond Wisdom
Ryan Sgroi Ryan Sgroi

Vajrayogini: The Fierce Dance of Diamond Wisdom

The other day, a stranger on the street looked me dead in the eye and asked, “Are you Shakti? Or a yogini?”—as casually as one might ask for the time. I blinked, muttered a confused “No,” and kept walking, wondering if I had unknowingly failed a secret password test or just looked especially cosmic that morning…

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What Happened to Mom?
Ryan Sgroi Ryan Sgroi

What Happened to Mom?

As a kid, my mom was a source of fascination and fear. I’d stare in awe when she sang, long sequin gown sparkling, me peering from behind backstage curtains while she belted out songs throughout Ohio’s nightclubs…

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