Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
Get ready to fall madly in love with two of the most remarkable women ever to be immortalized on film.
Kathy Conour has cerebral palsy and her caregiver for the last 37 years has been...
A Glance at New Resources for Body, Mind & Soul
Sixty Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything, collected by Phil Bolsta (Beyond Words Publishing) $18.95, www.sixtysecondsbook.com
Longtime readers of The Edge will recognize their origin as Sacred Moments, a column periodically published over the years reflecting...
Preserving Food, and Gentle Birth Choices
Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage and Lactic Fermentation, by Deborah Madison and Eliot Coleman (Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT, 2006) $25.While...
The Oscars and the Film Network
The Academy falters, the critics fail, and the people rule!In the brilliant 1976 film Network, news anchor Howard Beale rallies the whole country behind him with a classic mantra: "I'm mad as hell and...
A Glance back at Film: 1998
I have never received as many responses as I did to last month's column about the darkness and cynicism in films over the last several years, particularly 2007. Many of you asked me to...
A Glance at New Video & Audio Resources for Body, Mind & Soul
THE ANSWER TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, 80 minutes, DVD, available at GetTheAnswer.orgThe Answer to Absolutely Everything explores the fundamental questions of how to live a profoundly abundant and joyful life. Inspiring people whose stories are...
Traveling, Sound Healing and the Challenge of Chaos
THE PACKING BOOK: SECRETS OF THE CARRY-ON TRAVELER, by Judith Gilford, Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, CA, 2006) $12.95Whether you are trekking at high altitudes, spending three weeks in European museums, traveling with kids or...
Eating Healthy, Listening to the Body and Recovering from Loss
Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine, by Elson M. Hass, M.D. (Celestial Arts, 2006), $39.95Leaving no area of nutrition untouched while answering the mystery of how to put...
My Favorite Films of 2007
Before we look at my favorite films from 2007, I have a message for both the mainstream film industry and its film critics: You have both lost all connection with film audiences. Hollywood has...
A Glance at New Books, Audio and More
Bumbling Towards Nirvana, by Allen Johnson, Jr., 133 pages, free download, available at BumblingTowardsNirvana.comIn the introduction to Bumbling Towards Nirvana, Allen Johnson writes: "I have felt for some time that the New Age movement...
A Paean to Love in all its Glory
Since the wild success of The Secret, dozens, if not hundreds, of filmmakers have been approaching investors and producers, claiming to have the "next" version of The Secret. At the Spiritual Cinema Circle, we...
A Glance at New Books, Videos and More
Another Place, Another Time: The Reincarnation of Crazy Horse
by C.D. Montana, 332 pages, Coramer Books, available at Amazon.com
Reincarnation is real, and author C.D. Montana is living evidence. Her new book, Another Place, Another Time,...
A preview of new works of note
Life Changing DreamsNoted author Gay Hendricks shares the conversation that changed his life and the powerful, yet simple process he discovered for turning your dreams into reality in his new book Five Wishes ($18,...
A Preview Of New Books, Music, Products On The Horizon
New shopping: Some people grow their own veggies and collect rainwater in a barrel. The Virtuous Consumer (New World Library) by Leslie Garrett is for the rest of us. Each chapter tells us how...
Sound Healing, Gentle Births and the Sacred Raven in Hawaii
Sound Healing with the Five Elements: Sound Instruments, Sound Therapy, Sound Energy, by Daniel Perret (Binkey Kok, Holland, distributed by Red Wheel/ Weiser, Boston, MA, 2005), $19.95Whether banging on clay flower pots to work...
InterPlay: Unlocking the wisdom of our bodies – in community
Creativity and play, relaxation and reflection, are the hallmark of InterPlay, a 15-year-old system of creating in the moment that allows participants to regain integration and connectedness, with their own bodies and with each...
