Jonathan Cainer's technical partner and long-term friend Stephen Lord has written this beautiful eulogy to his "wildly generous, crazy, loving, maddening, big-hearted friend." Indeed.

Jonathan, who left us unexpectedly Monday morning at age 58, was of course a Sagittarius (and Sagg rising, and Saturn). This was an unusually philosophical horoscope even for him, though that was his role: to be a kind of public philosopher and spiritual psychologist. Read Eric's full treatment of Jonathan's life and teachings here.

When I was first studying A Course in Miracles in 1986, someone told me about another channeled work called The Starseed Transmissions. That was my friend Ginger, and more than tell me about it, she read it to me on the phone from Buffalo while I was living in Brooklyn.