2013 July/August

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Free the Mind

Directed by Phie AmboWe’ve seen plenty of documentaries that seek to reveal the benefits of alternative therapies. Often these films are informative but unengaging. So Phie Ambo’s …

Bidder 70

Directed by Beth Gage and George GageIn 2008, the environmental activist Tim DeChristopher disrupted a land-rights auction for oil and gas companies by posing as a bidder and offer…

Hannah Arendt

Directed by Margarethe von TrottaMargarethe von Trotta’s new film about the secular Jewish German thinker Hannah Arendt is not your standard biopic. Arendt’s life was, of course, a…

Soul March

Chandrika Krishnamurthy TandonSoul Chants MusicTwo hundred forty miles. That’s the trek thousands of satyagraha activists made with Mahatma Gandhi during the 1930 Salt March to end…

The Best of 25 Years

The Tibetan Healing Music of Nawang KhechogArtist: Nawang Khechog; Produced by: Sounds TrueNawang Khechog was born in the Kham region of the Tibetan Plateau, where his family …

Everything Is Broken

Songs about Things as They AreAlan SenaukeSonic Zen RecordsTake a close look at the photo of Alan Senauke on his new album, Everything Is Broken, and you may notice a dark bump on …

Mala

Devendra BanhartNonesuch RecordsI first heard about singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart from the visual artist Camille Rose Garcia, who said his gentle-hearted folk songs “pulled me…

Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living

The Practice of Mindful AlignmentBy Kathleen PorterHealing Arts PressThis updated second edition is an instructive, comprehensive look at how we move unconsciously in ways that cau…

Fevered

Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health—and How We Can Save OurselvesBy Linda MarsaRodaleA plague of locusts is about the only thing missing from Fevered, by Linda Marsa. To be fa…

Down in the Chapel

Religious Life in an American PrisonBy Joshua DublerFarrar, Straus and GirouxIn his classic work The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James muses that religion starts wit…

Polishing the Mirror

Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual HeartBy Ram Dass with Rameshwar Das; Sounds True PublishingConsidering his long-standing advice to “be here now,” the spiritua…

The Distraction Addiction

Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your SoulBy Alex Soojung-Kim PangLittle, Bro…

Tooth & Nail

Billy Bragg Cooking Vinyl Tooth & Nail is Billy Bragg’s first studio album in five years, and the self-defined anticapitalist “sherpa of heartbreak” comes through with yet anothe…
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