2012 September/October
Sneak Peek: "Samsara"
Enjoy this web exclusive sneak peek of the film Samsara, and read more about the film here. …Columns
Heart of Money: In God We Trust?
In this election year, there’s so much talk about the state of the economy. While the powers that be continue to point fingers, I’ve lost faith in our financial institutions. Have …
The Pattern of Genuine Transformation
With spiritual practice, "ah" usually shows up as a first taste of "just this" or timelessness or spot-on grace. When we taste it, there is no going back.
Scriptures Reflect the Best and Worst Within Us
To these perennial questions, I offer some answers―not to close a conversation but to broaden one. I do not claim to know anything you don’t know, but if I can help you remember wh…
Inner + Outer Worlds
Gifts from Trees
They house us, feed us, and help us breathe, yet what we tend to forget is the healing aspect of trees. Leaves, bark, and buds have long been used in rituals and medicines, and now…
Teresa Damron Climbs a Tree and Saves a Forest
How a "typical middle-class suburban mom" saved a forest—and how you can, too.
Music for Social Change
Margaret Mead once said, “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” These artists represent a personal and political co…
Reflections on Judgment
I’m too judgmental. It is a bad habit (there I go again!), one I learned from my family, where criticism far outweighed compliments. I went to a liberal arts college to learn criti…
Ritual Science
A new field of research explores how diverse spiritual practices use the same scents, sounds, and movements to tap into our deepest selves.
For the Love of Dog
Several new studies validate the notion that living in hermetically sealed, antiseptic environments makes us more susceptible to allergies while living in environments closer to na…
Love, Withheld
Experiencing the heartache of being disowned, writer Ayesha Mattu reflects on the surprising elasticity of familial relationships.
The 3 Phases of Every Relationship
Seana McGee and Maurice Taylor, married psychotherapists and authors of The New Couple, explain how understanding the phases of your relationship can help you stay in love.Int…
A Seat at the Table
Women’s Congress for Future Generations seeks to put the "mother" back in Mother Earth.
Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking
A diagnosis of celiac disease or gluten intolerance can often come as a relief to someone who’s been struggling with mysterious sickness and pain for months or even years, says Pet…
Going Gluten-Free: Favorite Recipes
Artisanal Gluten-Free Flour Blend1 ¼ cups (156 grams) brown rice flour¾ cup (88 grams) sorghum flour2/3 cup (84 grams) cornstarch¼ cup (37 grams) potato starch1 tablespoon plus 1 t…Features
Gabor Maté: Why We're a Culture of Addicts
We're a culture of addicts, says Canadian physician Gabor Maté, whose controversial ideas just might heal us all.
Embodying Change: How Movement Can Transform Your Life
Research now proves what these experts already knew: that if you want to change your life, the place to start isn't in your mind, but in your body.
How to Change the World: An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz
The author of The Four Agreements reflects on what it takes to change the world―and yourself.
"Samsara": A Cinematic Meditation
Two decades after rewriting the language of documentary filmmaking in the groundbreaking Baraka, director Ron Fricke and writer-producer Mark Magidson are adding the next chapter w…
9 Fresh Juice Recipes for Renewal and Relief
With these easy recipes, you’ll be on the road to better health. Drink juices as soon as possible after they’re prepared. (For more on the health benefits of fresh-made juice, see …
Lift Off! Yoga to Prepare for Inversions
Inverted postures in yoga include any pose where the head drops below the heart, and can be as simple as downward dog or as hard as headstand. These postures increase circula…Tags:
• Yoga
Artisanal Gluten Free Cooking: Bonus Recipes
Dig into these web-exclusive recipes from Artisanal Gluten Free Cooking:Grilled Pizza1 recipe Pizza Dough (recipe follows)Olive oilCornmeal1 cup crushed San Marzano tomatoes (about…Reviews
The Man Who Planted Trees
by Jim Robbins“When the Europeans landed, the forests were so thick that it’s often been said that a squirrel could travel from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River wi…
Inspired & Unstoppable
by Tama KievesThe effervescent author of This Time I Dance!: Creating Work You Love is back to confirm what the more adventurous and nonconforming among us have always felt t…
The Healing Power of Breath
by Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. GerbargRichard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg, both MDs and teaching psychiatrists, weave contemporary science together with ancient wis…
Faith Beyond Belief
by Margaret Placentra JohnstonWhat brings people to leave their church, the traditions of their faith―and sometimes even their friends and family members―to embark on a personal jo…
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
by Pema ChodronIn her latest book, the beloved American Buddhist nun, author, and teacher Pema Chödrön affirms that it is possible to live beautifully, compassionately, and happily…
Minds in the Water
As a sport, surfing can trace its roots back to ancient Hawaii and Polynesia. As a subculture, surfing is a more recent phenomenon, dating back to the ‘50s on various Pacific shore…
"Liberal Arts"
Like several of his huggable cast mates on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, Josh Radnor moonlights during the hit show’s hiatus. Embraced on the film-festival circuit in 2010 for…
Eckhart Tolle's "Music for Inner Stillness"
Music has always been a way to get in touch with emotion, nature, and inner stillness. And who better to choose a compilation of songs to promote relaxed presence than Eckhart Toll…
"Stifters Dinge" by Heiner Goebbels
Soundscape, audio collage, musique concrète, found sound. Those are some of the ways to describe the avant-garde traditions that Heiner Goebbels has drawn upon in his career. …
"Apollo" by Icebreaker
Imagine life without gravity: weightlessly floating with ease. Images of the earliest astronauts bouncing in slow motion on the moon’s surface and drifting in space exude this feel…
"Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions" by Billy Bragg and Wilco
Fifteen years ago Nora Guthrie, the daughter of political folk legend Woody Guthrie, asked British singer Billy Bragg if he’d create music for some of her father’s thousand unrecor…
