DHS Writings

Touchstone (2005)

by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro

Under a football scoreboard, a weekly stretching of legs, waist high,
    before and after jogging.
A shoe touches one scratched broken ½” scarred indent, of a steel pole.
No one knows our connection, and one day all that will be left is
    A scarred indent that the sole no longer touches.

J: (2018) This poem about your sole on the pole is pretty poignant. Oh, sad! I wonder, will your pole miss your sole?:-)

A Temporary Respite

by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro (10/22/18)

Brown pine needles , tree
Aging….five crows land on limbs…
Still provides respite

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A Preliminary Study of Long-Term Meditators: Goals, Effects, Religious Orientation, Cognitions

by Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Ph.D.

Editor’s note (JTP):
Meditation, often the primary teaching method in spiritual practice, is attempted by innumerable students. It is generally believed, however, that it is most meaningful when pursued as a long-term practice. To investigate this assumption, Deane Shapiro, Jr. found and studied twenty-seven meditators with over four years average meditation experience. His research shows significant shifts along a continuum measuring the meditator’s reports of self-regulation, self-exploration and self-liberation.

(1992) A preliminary investigation of long-term meditators: Goals, effects, religious orientation, cognitions: Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24,1,23-39.

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Case Study: Background Note to Motivation, Expectation. Adherence Questionnaire (MEA)

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J’s (A Novel)

by Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Ph.D.


A personal/existential journey, a love story, a life affirming message.

From a Review:

“An endlessly fascinating exploration of the human psyche, a bildungsroman of a young man’s intensely subjective first person narrative… J’s is a novel of ideas, a love story, a sharing of wisdom teachings from different spiritual and philosophical traditions.”

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