On the passing of Ralph Metzner
With psychologist, researcher and author Ralph Metzner, a second member of the old Harvard crew has followed Timothy Leary. We owe Ralph countless insights and wonderful writings on a wide range of topics from shamanism to the great questions of our time. The gap he leaves behind is felt here too. I didn’t know Ralph very well, but I once was his guest in Tiburon, where his wife made sandwiches for my son and I interviewed him about his latest book, That was more than thirty years ago. Ralph Metzner was a frequent writer. German-speaking readers know him for the lance he broke for the mythology of his country of origin when he got the old Nordic gods out of the far right closet and revived them for us. How enthusiastic he was in Todtmoos, in the Black Forest, how feverish he felt about his very first lecture in German!
Dear Ralph, you will be missed by all of us who knew and read you.
In sadness,
Susanne G. Seiler
Hope
& what if hope crashes through the door what if
that lasts a somersault?
hope for serendipity
even if a series of meals were all between us
even if the aeons lined up out
of order
what are years if not measured by trees
Mong-Lan