Collision with the Infinite

This article was written by Madhuri for, and posted on, Osho News. Madhuri’s review of Suzanne Segal’s book subtitled, A Life Beyond the Personal Self. Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self by Suzanne Segal 1996, Blue…

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Hawthorns, Seen from a Train

This article was written by Madhuri for, and posted on, Osho News. All over England the hawthorns are freaking out in the best way – hitching up their skirts and dancing – in Hag Fold, Farrowbottom Brow,…

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Dancers

This article was written by Madhuri for, and posted on, Osho News. How incredibly lucky we were, to live with a Master who understood that dance is one of the basic human functions; one of the basic languages of our species. That dancing is perhaps the…

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The Signature of All Things

This article was written by Madhuri for, and posted on, Osho News. A book review by Madhuri; “A juicy, original, very absorbing read.” The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London, 2013 580 pages This sweeping…

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Why I’ve Not Been Writing Here

It just seems too much of a muchness to keep up with blog, FB, e-mails, and my writing too. I’ve recently come out with a new book of poetry, More About the Moon, of which I’m very proud! it’s gotten great reviews. For more info go to my website, www.madhurijewel.com…

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Knees and Nightshades

Nightshades are a plant genus which includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplants, deadly nightshade, and more. All contain some amount of a certain toxin. In India in the 90’s sometime I was told by a kinesiologist that I was allergic to all of these except eggplant. Cessation of potato-eating led to…

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My New Book

I am sooo pleased to announce that nearly six years of work has culminated in the recent release of my new book, Love at Dancing Leaves: a Tantra Memoir. I have a feeling of deep completion, and yet of new beginnings. I’ve poured so much of myself into this project…

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Slug Haiku

I’m back in Missouri, sooo enjoying garden (strawberries are the most incredible thing to grow – great ground cover, and then they just start giving you this wealth of jewels, a quart of them a day! Wow!), life, house, man, life, body, meditation, life…Scotland was tops, have written about it…

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Bengal Cat

Here’s a pic of a marvellous kitty my brother Ian and I met at the house of an old friend’s, in Sausalito. It is a leopard cat, a cross of some sort of jungly feline with house cat. A descendant of this one won a prize in Monaco and had…

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A Goofy Guy

One evening I stood in a huge room with about fifty other people, in our meditation Commune in Poona, India. We were all experienced, intense, dedicated seekers-after-our-own-truth. The facilitator of the group asked us to begin walking around the room, looking at each other; we were to notice if anyone…

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