In 2004 Sekhmet began sending out an email newsletter called Palimpsest. What is a palimpsest?
In times gone by, parchment was too precious to toss in the circular file as we do our writing paper today. Sheepskin is, after all, quite durable. Many manuscripts which made it to modern times show that beneath the writing, there are faint images of previous text which has been scraped away.
We like the sense of mystery, mystery being a hallmark of the spiritual path, and we liked the idea of there being layers of meaning to explore each time we return to something we thought we already knew.
All articles published by Sekhmet before August 2008 are now archived.