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2009 July/August

Sail In Sacred Spaces

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Religious Freedom Beats Drug Law

In 1999, Jonathan Goldman’s house in Ashland, Oregon, was raided and Goldman jailed briefly for possession of an hallucinogenic tea known as ayahuasca or daime. The tea contains DM…
Tags: • Ayahuasca
Pray 117848952

Why I Pray

by Sister Karen Zielinski
One of my most precious experiences was finding a list in my dad’s handwriting as I sat in his recliner in my parents’ home. When I asked my mom about it, she told me it was his pr…
Tags: • Prayer
Material 119570855

Material World

by Heather Shaw
This Clothesline Hides Your VirtuesProject Laundry (laundrylist.org) has a laundry list of good reason for using a clothesline rather than a dryer: You’ll save 10–15 percent on you…
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Sacred Symbols

Symbols are religion’s most powerful references to their systems of belief. They can effectively diagram, call upon, and communicate mystery, all without the need of words. A new b…
Tags: • Beliefs • Traditions
Walk 136220385

Take This Walk of Gratitude

The beautiful hills of the Ojai Foundation in Ojai, California, are a wonderful place to walk. The mission of the Foundation is to strengthen individuals, families, schools, and co…
Green 126832358

Going Out Green

by Bob Butz
One Man’s Adventure Planning His Own Natural BurialOld Arctic Inuit hunters could supposedly sit for days, harpoon poised and ready to strike, just staring at a hole on an otherwis…
Tags: • Organic • Sustainability • Death
Tia 146062256

Just Say T–I–A

by Paul Sutherland
My wife, Amy, arrived with Patrick Dale Sutherland, our newly adopted 14-month-old son from Zambia, on Sunday, April 26. She had been in Zambia for 14 weeks. Zambia is a peaceful c…
Tags: • Gratitude • Family

Reviews

Unmistaken Child

Unmistaken Child

Filmed by Nati BaratzOscilloscopeDocumentaryAlthough books and films have been made about the search for reincarnations of Tibetan masters, never before have we been privileged to …
Sacred

Sacred Love-Making

Sacred Love, Inc. / Alive Mind MediaInstructional, for adultsThis sensitive, discreet, and beautifully filmed DVD on the Taoist art of love features Karinna Kittles-Karsten, author…

Jesus in India

Yellow Hat ProductionsPaul DavidsDocumentaryThe just-released DVD of what has been called “the most controversial film ever to play on the Sundance Channel” chronicles the 4,000-mi…
Living Temples

Living Temples – Sacred Land

Directed by Jan NickmanThirdPlanet ProductionsHealing / MeditativeScientists and researchers at major institutions, including Harvard and Dartmouth, have shown that exposure to nat…
Water

Water

Directed by Deepa MehtaFox Searchlight Pictures / Mongrel MediaIn Hindi with English subtitlesDramaDeath threats, the destruction of sets, and the burning of Indian-born Canadian d…
Reema

Truth, Love, Creation

ReemaNutone MusicBorn into a family of yogis, Reema Datta grew up with the Sanskrit chants and philosophy first introduced to her by her 86-year-old grandfather. Truth, Love, Creat…

What If a Day

N. Sophia EngkvistSophia’s SongfireEngkvist’s ethereal songs are New Age in style and, with the exception of the title song, are her original writing. Accompanying Engkvist’s vocal…
Gospel Superfest

The Best of Gospel Superfest

Spirit Rising MusicLovers of Black gospel music will find much to like in this CD/DVD collection of music from what has become the most anticipated and widely distributed urban gos…
Geography

The Geography of Light

Carrie NewcomerRounder RecordsThe Geography of Light is Newcomer’s eleventh release on Rounder Records, and those who have enjoyed her previous albums, including The Age of Possibi…

Brahms

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, op. 77, and Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in A Minor, op. 102Vadim Repin, violinist, with -Riccardo Chailly and the Gewand…
End Of

The End of Your World

Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of EnlightenmentBy AdyashantiSounds True, 2008, $24.95“More and more people are waking up — having real, authentic glimpses of reality,” says…
American Gospel

An American Gospel

On Family, History, and the Kingdom of GodBy Erik ReeceRiverhead Books, 2009, $24.95Erik Reece is the author of Lost Mountain, for which he won the John B. Oakes Award of the Colum…
My Mother

My Mother, My Mirror

Recognizing and Making the Most of Inherited Self-ImagesBy Laura Arens Fuerstein, Ph.D.New Harbinger Publications, 2009, $17.95The mother is the most powerful figure in the life of…
In The River

In the River They Swim

Essays from Around the World on Enterprise Solutions to PovertyEdited by Michael Fairbanks, Malik Fal, Marcela Escobar-Rose, and Elizabeth HooperTempleton Foundation Press, 2009, $…
Mindful

Mindful Eating

A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship to Food(includes a CD of guided mindful eating exercises)By Jan Chozen Bays, M.D.Shambhala, 2009, $16.95The Zen tradition…
Jesus In The Lotus

Jesus in the Lotus

The Mystical Doorway between Christianity and Yogic SpiritualityBy Russill PaulNew World Library, 2009, $14.95“The yoga of Christianity is love,” says Russill Paul. “It is indeed a…
Play

Play

How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the SoulBy Stuart Brown, M.D., with Christopher VaughanAvery/Penguin Group, 2009, $24.95“A lack of play should be tr…
Barefoot

The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales

By Dawn Casey, with illustrations by Anne WilsonBarefoot Books, 2009, $19.99Both children and adults will delight in these seven stories from seven different cultures, pleasingly r…