From Age-ing to Sage-ing with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
An old paradigm, in which the elderly lived with their extended families and participated in the lives of their loved ones, is long gone. Somehow, the elderly in America are now often forgotten, in...
Restoring the Sacred Hoop
A University of Minnesota teacher reconnects his Gen X students to their spiritual centerÂ
She was about 19 years old but seemed younger. I knew the minute I saw her in my office doorway that...
The Lake Harriet Vortex
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The Earth and a spiritual community co-create a future for all of us
A brilliant stained-glass image, that of Jesus standing at...
Understanding the Vortex
In 1983, I began to learn about and work with healing the subtle energy fields of the human body. Within my training I learned that the vortices (chakras or energy centers) of the body...
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life: An interview with Thomas Moore
Somewhere along the way to three cars in every garage, American society lost or misplaced something important: its enchantment with life and the world. Such a loss threatens an even greater loss-that of the...
Earl Bakken still challenges how we view health care
Minnesotan finds more than sunshine in land of Rainbows -- An Edge Interview
Forty-five years ago, Earl Bakken developed the first battery-powered, transistorized pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic Inc. The company, still developing ever-improving pacemakers and...
Healing and Truth: An Indigenous Perspective
Throughout the centuries, a people existed on this continent who were very successful in maintaining supremely healthy bodies and a sound mental state, living within a remarkable, democratic structure. Tribal people were not afraid...
Soul Issues are World Issues: An interview with Robert Sardello
No system of thought, philosophy, psychology, or religion can be static. To be viable, such systems must evolve along with the evolution of the consciousness of the humans living and embracing them. In a...
Recapture the Fire Within
Hiking deep in a canyon in my home state of Arizona last year, I had a chance encounter with a timeless creature ...a wild stallion. This steed and his herd run free on Indian...
No Need to Clutch, It’s an Automatic Shift
I have spent hours starting this article over several times. Sheets of legal paper surround me with dozens of outrageously brilliant thoughts that I was so cleverly going to weave together into a poignant,...
Do Beliefs Determine UFO Existence?
Unidentified flying objects, alien abductions, crop circles, all sorts of encounters with alien beings - this is the stuff of the extraordinary, far outside our, ordinary, consensual reality. But these events do happen, they...
An interview with Michael Ventura
An Artist Without Obsession Isn't Worth a Damn!
According to author John Updike: "The ditch digger, the dentist, and the artist go about their work in much the same way Any activity becomes creativity when...
Ancient Prophecies: Another Vision
"Did you see that show 'Ancient Prophecies'? It was scary!" So proclaimed my 13-year-old son after viewing the recently televised network TV program dramatizing many of the major predictions and prophecies about the end...
An interview with James Redfield
Celestine Prophecy articulates awakening spirituality now happening
James Redfield self-published The Celestine Prophecy in 1992 under the Satori Publishing label. New Leaf, its distributor, said that over 100,000 copies sold by word-of-mouth alone. Warner Books...
Jon Kabat-Zinn — On Meditation
Several years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., created the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where severely ill patients are treated, patients with. AIDS, cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, etc., all...
Sensing the Spatial
When I was a small child I had two favorite places in our house. One was the cupboard under the stairs, a small, dark place filled with junk, cardboard boxes, and the vacuum cleaner....
Goddess Consciousness
When it’s cold I put on a long, wool cape and take my drum to my deck where I dance, my head sandwiched by headphones blaring Celtic songs. I hope my neighbors hear me...
