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Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda...
{ Jan. 16, 2007 }
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...has gone on. You can read free-form thoughts by me by going to the comments below. Here is a track from "A Monastic Trio", 1968...
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The One Mind Temple
{ 12:41 PM, Jan. 16, 2007 }
{ Posted by Spabelo }
Obituaries strike suddenly, huh? I was sad to see this passing, wishing I'd thanked Alice Coltrane for keeping me healthy way back in those early punk rock days. Curious about the true extent of her hand and heart in this, I did a little more research. The One Mind Temple (Church of John Coltrane) on Divis in SF was founded by Alice Coltrane, but she moved on to set up her So Cal Ashram long before I arrived on the scene. The Temple housed a church whose worship services (both scheduled and not) largely consisted of long soul-felt bouts of free form jazz. I often stayed with and house-sat for a friend who lived above in an adjacent building and would spend these recuperations serenaded by this music.
Many running buddies and I also ate regularly of delicious vegetarian meals served by loving people who always treated us as peers. Black beans. Rice just rightly spiced. Always perfect vegetables. I know this food and love had a lot to do with keeping me alive/ halfway-going back then. I'm sure a few of my compadres from the time would concur.
Anyway, in my reading I not only encountered the historical fact of Alice's departure pre-my arrival, but also that she'd sought legal action to get the One Mind Temple to disassociate a bit from the name of her late husband, John. Eventually, an understanding came about, and the meals kept on. That whole conflict does seem vaguely familiar now that I'm reminded. As they say, if you can remember it you weren't really there.
Interestingly, all the references to the temple's meals seem to indicate that they fed the homeless. I realize that, for some time now, I have been seeing people in need who avail themselves to such offerings, in blanket fashion referred to as homeless. I know homelessness continues to rise (Thank you, Uncle S. for gross and evil mis-spending and ensuring "No child left a dime"), but not all who partake of a free meal can be classified as such. I only point this out, as I know that those on the edge sometimes feel proud of and grateful for what little they have. I know I never once felt the threat of homelessness in San Francisco until the newly rich bought it all in the nineties
I'm sure today's honoree would agree to this suggestion: Do something nice for a stranger today and don't tell anyone but yourself about it.
Love from Spabelo
Edited by spabelo on Jan. 16, 2007 at 12:43 PM
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The One Mind Temple
{ 12:41 PM, Jan. 16, 2007 }
{ Posted by Spabelo }
Obituaries strike suddenly, huh? I was sad to see this passing, wishing I'd thanked Alice Coltrane for keeping me healthy way back in those early punk rock days. Curious about the true extent of her hand and heart in this, I did a little more research. The One Mind Temple (Church of John Coltrane) on Divis in SF was founded by Alice Coltrane, but she moved on to set up her So Cal Ashram long before I arrived on the scene. The Temple housed a church whose worship services (both scheduled and not) largely consisted of long soul-felt bouts of free form jazz. I often stayed with and house-sat for a friend who lived above in an adjacent building and would spend these recuperations serenaded by this music.
Many running buddies and I also ate regularly of delicious vegetarian meals served by loving people who always treated us as peers. Black beans. Rice just rightly spiced. Always perfect vegetables. I know this food and love had a lot to do with keeping me alive/ halfway-going back then. I'm sure a few of my compadres from the time would concur.
Anyway, in my reading I not only encountered the historical fact of Alice's departure pre-my arrival, but also that she'd sought legal action to get the One Mind Temple to disassociate a bit from the name of her late husband, John. Eventually, an understanding came about, and the meals kept on. That whole conflict does seem vaguely familiar now that I'm reminded. As they say, if you can remember it you weren't really there.
Interestingly, all the references to the temple's meals seem to indicate that they fed the homeless. I realize that, for some time now, I have been seeing people in need who avail themselves to such offerings, in blanket fashion referred to as homeless. I know homelessness continues to rise (Thank you, Uncle S. for gross and evil mis-spending and ensuring "No child left a dime"), but not all who partake of a free meal can be classified as such. I only point this out, as I know that those on the edge sometimes feel proud of and grateful for what little they have. I know I never once felt the threat of homelessness in San Francisco until the newly rich bought it all in the nineties
I'm sure today's honoree would agree to this suggestion: Do something nice for a stranger today and don't tell anyone but yourself about it.
Love from Spabelo
Edited by spabelo on Jan. 16, 2007 at 12:43 PM
