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Fall is the time when the veils between the worlds are thinnest. It is the time when the dead walk among the living and pagan beasts are blurs in the shadows. The final harvest done, the fields are given over to the faery.

This issue of Ashe Journal brings together celebrations of the wild and pagan energies of this time featuring the poetry of Skadi meic Beorh, David Finn, Robert Walker, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Diana R. Thompson, David Finn, Lupercus Pagani and Jess Mann.

Also featured in issue #7.2 are a history of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence by Sister Soami; an essay on becoming yourself through your dreams by Dr. Jerrid P. Freeman and Angela Passarelli; new writing from Raymond Yeo and Sud Ram; and book reviews.

Check out the new issue of Ashé Journal.

Selections available online:
http://www.ashejournal.com

Print edition available from the Press’s online store and Amazon.com

Ashé Journal 7.1

ISBN: 978-0-9790838-4-6
Paperback, 120 pages, 6×9, $12.95

PUNK BUDDHISM

Features an examination of the Buddhist influence on the artwork of Sylvain Bouthillette by Peter Dubé; new fiction from Riley McLeod; The Sutra of Immeasurable Life and Wisdom translated by Brendan Connell; excerpts from Brad Warner’s Sit Down and Shut Up; and writing from Darin Beasley, Tim Holmes, Iamba, Thomas Fuchs, Girish Menezes, Charles Suhor, Bob Makransky, Stephen Killeen, Toni Fergusson and Farrell Davisson; artwork by Garin Horner; plus books reviews.

With the release of 7.1 come some exciting changes in the direction of the journal. We have decided to expand the Ashé project by increasing our focus distribution of the print edition. In order to make this feasible, the Journal will be issued biannually around the spring and vernal equinoxes. The full table of contents and selected samples of each issue will be presented online immediately. The release of the full online edition will be embargoed for approximately twelve months.

The full print edition is available through your local bookseller or directly from Rebel Satori Press at http://www.rebelsatori.com/shop/

Subscriptions

Many people have asked about journal subscriptions over the past several years. Now, with the move toward full print runs, we are introducing a subscription service.

Introductory subscription rates are $16.00/ year (2 issues) within the USA. That’s over 60% off the cover price and 20% off regular subscription rate.

Subscription information is available on the journal’s website. International readers should contact the journal for a custom quote.

The new issue of Ashé Journal is now online and available.

This special full color art issue features the work of Antonio Roybal, Nemo, Ben Baldwin, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Darrell Black, Tantra Bensko, Janice Lincoln and A.R. Teest. Opening the issue is a essay “Eternity in Ephemerality: An Enduring Enigma” by Patrick Jemmer, Ph.D. and Rachel Jemmer, HND.

The Spring 2007 issue of Ashe Journal is now available:www.ashejournal.com

This issue features the a lead article by David R. Cole, Ph.D. on Techno-shamanism and Educational Research; fiction by Brendan Connell, Tristram Burden and Christopher Woods; an examination of struggles over sexuality, filth and salvation by Diepiriye Kuku-Siemons; poetry by David Finn, Tim Holmes, Matt Mallon, Andrew T. Cutler, Laurie Corzett, Johnathan Sampson; plus reviews and more.

The issues features the artwork, cover design and artist statement of Jason Kraley.

Enjoy!
Sven

The winter issue of Ashé Journal (#5.4) is now live and online. This special issue is guest edited by Jay Michaelson, editor of Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture.

www.ashejournal.com

Jewish spirituality in the last several decades has undergone multiple revolutions. The liberation movements of the 1960s, encounters with non-Western religious traditions and the cosmopolitanism of the Internet have all left their mark, and have created new forms of Jewishness. Today there are feminist Jews and queer Jews; Jufis, BuJus, and HinJus; meditating Jews and psychedelic shamanic Jews; and even a few traditional Jews scratching their skullcapped heads and wondering what it all means.

Thank God for Ashé, because within the established Jewish community, many of the voices represented here would be considered threatening or foreign. I edit a progressive Jewish magazine, which features cultural and spiritual writing, but we’re still sometimes expected to conform to expectations of what “Jewish” is supposed to mean. It’s been truly liberating to curate an issue of Ashé, where the boundaries are more permeable. Here are pot-smoking Hasidim, Jewish priestesses, horny tourists and political poets. A former dean of a rabbinical school, now praising the Golden Calf. A Poet Laureate… of Queens. And, on the cover, Allen Ginsberg meeting Kabbalah: the Hebrew means “Serpent / Messiah,” and plays off the antinomian Kabbalistic observations that the two words share the same numeric value; the drawing personally inscribed in a book for Ashé’s founder, Sven Davisson.

These are the words and images of a Jewish culture beginning to emerge, a new spirituality that, born from the creators of boundary, now seeks the Boundless.

The issue includes the work of Tom Bland, Mordecai Drache, Susan H. Case, Jill Hammer, Rahel Chalfi, Rabbi Ohad Ezrachi, Jacob Staub, Jay Michaelson, Ruth Knafo Setton, Yoseph Leib, Hal Sirowitz and Sven Davisson; and artwork by Darryl Zudeck, Stan Goldberg, Ken Vollario, Orly Cogan, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Rebecca Jay, Bara Sapir and Allen Ginsberg.

Ashé Journal is seeking creative and inspiration pieces of short fiction, poetry, art and photography for our Spring 2007 issue (6.1). For this issue, we are particularly interested in pieces that explore the “American sadhu.” We welcome pieces exploring any aspect of youthful independent renunciation with a particularly western flair… skate-rat squatters, punks, straight-edge, krsnacore, riot grrrls and other misfit toys! The flora and fauna of saying no to just saying no… Modern shaman, hardcore Buddhist, postmodern Christian or D all of the above…

Please forward or repost this call to anyone you think might be interested.

Questions and inquiries welcomed.

Please submit material as electronic attachment to
submit@ashejournal.com

Deadline: March 1, 2007

For full submission guidelines, submission FAQ and author agreement, please refer to our website. http://www.ashejournal.com

The Fall ‘06 Issue of Ashé Journal (#5.3) is now available:

http://www.ashejournal.com

Articles include:

Earth and Sky Gods of India and Greece: Finding the Feminine in Masculine Myths by Dirk Dunbar, Ph.D.

All Things Are Like This
by the 13th century Master Dogen Zenji, founder of the Soto school of Japanese Zen
Commentary on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
by Brendan Connell
A World Divided
by Zen Master Gudo W. Nishijima
The Savage Buddha: Notes on Gautama & the K?p?lika-vrata by Sritantra

Cultural Engineering With Eyes Wide Shut? Playback/Feedback Magicks And The Archaeology Of The Now by Tristram Burden
Teachings by Shakyamuni Buddha and Nissim Amon

Artist Portfolio: Ernest Williamson III
Astroplankton Break Dance
New literary fiction by Sarah Knorr

and Poetry by David Keali’i

plus reviews of Tibetan Magic and Mysticism, Enlightened Courage, The Hundred Verses of Advice, The Complete Magician’s Tables, and Pan’s Road