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Before the Page
An offering of poetry, parables, fiction and non.
Episodes
43 episodes
GAZING AT FLOWERS :: Haiku of Issa, Michelle Tennison & Santoka
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, & I...
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GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 4
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 wo...
GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 3
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, Th...
GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 2
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 :&...
GENESIS REJUVENATED by Carlo Suarès : Part 1
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 pub...
Observation & Gratitude : Wisdom from Wolfkiller
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 : publis...
WOLFKILLER : The Path of Light
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.
Simone Weil : ATTENTION & WILL
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.
Can peace be brought about by the mind? - J. Krishnamurti, from selected teachings
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, tal...
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi - DIVINE FLASHES - selected reading
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 Lambo...
HEARTS OVERFLOWING - words of the Buddha, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joseph Fasano, others.
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. Poet...
Regarding THE POSSIBLE MAN: honoring Meir Michel Abehsera
Honoring Meir Michel Abehsera author ofThe 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 ...
THE SEVENFOLD PEACE : words from The Essene Gospel of Peace
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....
IN BLIND AWARENESS : Sufi Parables, Poetry of al Shushtari & Jerry Smaldone
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. ...
Catching Arrows in Midair
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 a...
Rav Kook : Poetry of Repentance
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,
WHAT IS ESSENTIAL? - Attar of Nishapur, T'ao Ch'ien, Charlie Mehrhoff
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), consid...
IN PRAISE OF TREES - words of gratitude, homage, awe & love for trees.
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 ...
FADING INTO SPRING: Sarah Yehudit Schneider, David Scaduto, Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh, etc.
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 <...
SANCTITY: Abraham Heschel, Carlo Suarès, Attar, Maria Berardi, Meir Michel Abehsera, Rav Kook, Etty Hillesum, Charlie Mehrhoff.
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...
COURAGE & LIBERTY: Words of Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman, René Char, Alexandra Smyth, Charlie Mehrhoff
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 Sha...
REGARDING FEAR: Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, White Eagle, Hafiz, Maria Beradi, Sabine Miller, others
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 Charli...
Mahatma Gandhi's letters to a dictator, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Kabir, Rumi
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 ...
The Beloved's Design - words of Tagore, Attar, Rav Kook, others
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 Bi...
THE NIGHT BEFORE CREATION (or, Midnight in Medzhybizh) by Idit Miriam Codish
The Night Before Creation, or, Midnight in Medzhybizh - by Idit Miriam Codish - takes listeners along on her recent incredible journey to the Ba'al Shem Tov's Tzion, gravesite, in the Ukraine. Idit's prose is simu...