Carnal Zen is my forum to explore all the ideas, contradictions, religions and credit card bills that pepper my life.
Looking over recent entries, I talk a lot about spiritual awareness but one of the reasons this blog began was to find balance. The spiritual journey can take us so deeply into ourselves that we neglect the human experience. We focus on disciplines and practice self denial in silent apology for the [...]
Predictably, I recently read Eat, Pray, Love wherein Elizabeth Gilbert shares her devotional studies at an ashram in India. I can’t afford the flight to India, even if I could scrape up the spare change and abandon my day job - I’d turn into the backpack wearing, camera wielding tourist in Mumbai or New Delhi [...]