Smoke Signals Literary Magazine Online

Smoke Signals Online Volume 1 Charles Bukowski, Terry Southern, Jim Harrison

Bart Plantenga d.a. levy Mike Golden Luther Dickinson

Self Portrait: Richard Golden (1944-2003)

photograph by Richard Skidmore

RIDING THE DHARMA TRAIL by Rudy Wurlitzer The shards of my own spiritual wanderings often rise up inside me like secondhand hallucinations. The drugged out trips of the 60s that led me to Sufi dancing; Hindu chanting; new age enneagrams; Taoist breathing; Gurdjieffian and African "stop" exercises, Kriya, Hatha, Siddha, Raja and Kundalini Yogas, Indian ashrams; analysis; Peruvian and Native American shamanism... (more)