Featured This Month
Healing Your Sadness: An Interview with Gary Beaver
When our loved ones or pets pass away, we feel sad. Sometimes very sad. Sometimes incapacitatingly sad. For most of us, time is the only healer. The sadness fades over time and, eventually, the loss begins to affect us less in our everyday lives. We still miss our dearly departed, but their loss does not interfere with our ability ... more »
New Books & Music | Spring 2014
Previews of New Books and Music for Body, Mind & Soul New Books New Music NEW BOOKS Alarm Clock Dawn, by Eric Vance Walton (Lulu.com), 354 pages, $2.99 eBook -- Alarm Clock Dawn, author Eric Vance Walton's debut novel, is the chilling story of a world only decades ahead of our own. Adam Harkin is ... more »
Channeling Erik: An Interview with Elisa Medhus, M.D.
This is a story of a mother's love for her son, and how time and distance will never separate them. It also is the story of a medical doctor with a strong belief in science and a skepticism of spiritual matters -- and how her perception of reality turns inside out. Elisa Medhus, M.D., opens her blog, Channeling Erik, in this ... more »
Ancient technologies can balance our future: Using the energy science of BioGeometry
When a jet plane crashes and the authorities are trying to make sense of what went wrong, the first thing that they look for is the flight data recorder or "black box," a highly protected recording device that replays information from the flight crew to see what might have gone wrong and prevent it from happening again. Similarly, ... more »
Into the Mystery: Spiritual Memoir
Back when I was first learning to write memoir, my mentor, Larry Sutin, said offhandedly, "You really ought to read some spiritual memoir since you're writing in that genre." Spiritual memoir? I'd never heard of it, and now, apparently, I was writing one. So I devoured the books he handed me -- Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Margery ... more »
COLUMNS THIS MONTH
From the Editor: A Tribute to Horst and Philip
This month, I couldn't help but reflect upon the recent passing of two inspiring men: Horst Rechelbacher, 72, founder of Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients; and Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, writer, director and Academy Award-winning actor. One man led a tireless campaign to clean up this planet, and the other packed a lifetime of ... more »
Star Wisdom: A Sense of Urgency
March comes in like a lamb and leaves like a lion. With the Sun in dreamy Pisces through the 20th, life feels more like a reality show than like reality. A sense of urgency kicks in when the Sun enters Aries, compelling us to take a stand and act with purpose. Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)...Use the first three weeks of March to do ... more »
Recipe: Southern-Style Collards with Bacon
A Gluten-free, Dairy-free Whole Food Recipe NOT ONLY ARE greens nutrient dense, but they are also an excellent source of calcium. The bacon provides fat which helps the body absorb nutrients. Buy bacon from pastured pork, without nitrites. This is a delicious way to enjoy greens! Ingredients 3 bacon strips 6-7 cups collard ... more »
From the Heart: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
A student told her spiritual teacher that she was suffering under "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," quoting Shakespeare's famous verse from Hamlet. The teacher looked her piercingly in the eyes and asked, "Are you so sure that fortune is outrageous and it must bear slings and arrows?" The stunned woman replied, "But ... more »
Evolutionary Pagan: Finding the Lesson
Many pagan groups or teaching covens consist of three levels. While the timing is not always exactly the same with every coven or every student, after a year and a day an initiation can be expected as a graduation to the next level of study. But what happens at the end of the year when a student feels they are ready for initiation, ... more »
Spirited Kidz: A Summer with Horses
Dear Nadine, What are your kids doing this summer? Meditation Mom, Wisconsin Wondering what to do with your spirited kids this summer? Don't hold those horses but jump on the (band) wagon and sign them up for some mind, body and spirit equestrian fun at horse camp. Most horse camps -- like those held at Nature's Divine ranch ... more »
Yoga for YOU: Chair Pose
This month's pose, Utkatasana (ooot-kah-tah-sana) or Chair Pose, demands that our legs and booty be actively engaged. Chair pose challenges the body to become stronger. While holding the pose, we can feel a muscle burning sensation in our lower half that signals that the posture is working. It is within the challenge of holding the ... more »
Spirit Leaves: Near Death in the suburbs of Philadelphia
Usually when we hear of Near Death Experience or NDE, we think of a hospital patient in an etherized state, surgical lamp poised directly above. Subtly, the scene begins to shift. The individual gradually enters into a deeper dimension, whirring just at the edge of consciousness. My own excursion to the next world did not ... more »
