2009 November/December

Gratitude

The Tattoo Lady and the Pastor

The first time I heard about Mary was through her daughter. Out of the blue, the daughter called to interview me. She searched for, “A liberal pastor that would not be bothered by …

A New Primer for Psychic Research

“Something unknown is doing we don’t know what” — this is how physicist Arthur Eddington described the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal, the vexing fact that science can never pin …
Tags: Psychics Science

The Holiday Material World

BEADS OF HOPEIn Uganda, the word for hope is suubi — and the perfect name for a project that makes and sells strings of beads. The beautiful beads and necklaces are hand-roll…

Reviews

The Human Experience

Directed by Charles KinnaneProduced by Joseph CampoWritten by Michael CampoGrassroots Films / DVD, 90 minutesIn this life-affirming film, two brothers, living in a group home in Br…

The Horse Boy

By Michel Orion Scott and Rupert IsaacsonZeitgeist Films / DVD, 93 minutesWhen their two-and-a-half-year-old son, Rowan, was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson, a writer, human…

The Shadow Effect

A Journey from Your Darkest Thought to Your Greatest DreamDebbie Ford FilmsHay House / Two interactive DVDsapprox. 70 minutes and 110 minutesBased on the Shadow Process seminars of…

Seven Falls

Marshall StylerStyler Music, BMIMarshall Styler is known for creating deeply moving melodies for piano and instrumental keyboard accompaniments; this gentle and romantic improvisat…

Music for Cello and Piano by Women Composers

Iris van Eck, cello; Arielle Vernède, pianoEroicaThis 2006 album appears to be the only available recording of these stunning works for cello and piano by Henriette Bosmans, Louise…

Helpers, Guides & Allies

Navigating the Shamanic LandscapeByron MetcalfLuna Recording StudioFor over 40,000 years, shamanic societies throughout the world have used various musical strategies to achieve al…

A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency

Edited by John Stanley, David R. Loy, and Gyurme DorjeWisdom Publications, 2009, $16.95Eastern and Western Buddhist leaders acknowledge that our planet is in grave danger and are a…

The Earth Made New

Plains Indian Stories of CreationBy Paul Goble, with Foreword by Joe Medicine CrowWorld Wisdom, 2009, $17.95Joe Medicine Crow tells how he would follow his grandfather everywhere, …

The Second Book of the Tao

By Stephen MitchellPenguin Press, 2009, $25.95Adapted from two anthologies of Chinese wisdom compiled probably between 300 and 100 B.C.E. (the Chuang Tzu by Master Chuang, and the …

A Return to Healing

Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of MedicineBy Len Saputo, with Byron BelitsosOrigin Press, 2009, $21.95As the debate over health care reform grows increasing vitriolic an…

The Hope

A Guide to Sacred ActivismBy Andrew Harvey,Foreword by Carolyn MyssHay House, 2009, $16.95According to Andrew Harvey, we are living in an age in which “Everything is now at stake, …

Beauty and the Soul

The Extraordinary Power of Everyday Beauty to Heal Your LifeBy Piero FerrucciTarcher/Penguin, 2009, $22.95While many feel that beauty is something that comes with a high price tag …

Occult America

The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our NationBy Mitch HorowitzBantam Books, 2009, $27.00Mitch Horowitz, editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin in New York, has published many o…