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2013 July/August
Thou Shalt Have Great Sex
Columns
Rabbi Rami: How Can I Get My Faith Back?
My dad is dying and angry and takes his frustration out on me. I don’t want to abandon him, but being with him is painful. How do I handle this?Rabbi Rami: Dr. David Reynolds, foun…
Natural Medicine: GMO Foods, Migraine Relief, and Building Bone Collagen
I keep hearing I should drink kombucha. Is it really as healthful as people claim?Dr. Michael Murray: Kombucha is a fermented drink made with tea, sugar, and a glob of yeast and b…Tags:
• Natural Medicine
Connections
Faith and the Family: When Our Beliefs Differ
When loved ones challenge our deepest beliefs, is it even possible to agree to disagree?
Design Therapy
Does your décor reveal your secret anxieties? Never fear—holistic design expert Laura Benko is here.
Living With Chronic Pain
Stricken with untreatable and unexplainable pain, writer Monica Bhide finds solace—and strength—in a fragrant cup of tea.
Where’s My White Knight?
Instead of waiting to be rescued, look inward to save yourself.
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• Courage
Chart Your Own Course for Healing
When grief left her adrift, Jennifer Ewing found solace in spirit boats.
Easing the Angst of Adolescence
Practicing mindfulness can help teens cope with the pressures of growing up—and even ward off symptoms of depression.
Rabbi Shefa Gold: Giving Voice to Sacred Texts
The author of The Magic of Hebrew Chant, Rabbi Shefa Gold is also a recording artist and the director of the Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in New Mexico. She…
The Commons: Mother Tongue
Half of the world’s languages could vanish by the end of the century. With each one we lose part of humanity’s story.
Star Voyagers
In his next journey across the Pacific, Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson will chart a course for sustainability.
When Pines Are Divine
A six-year Japanese program preserves thousands of Shinto shrines and woodlands.
A Food Cure for Inflammation
Herbalist Kathy Abascal is on a mission to change the way we eat, with her TQI (“to quiet inflammation”) diet plan.
Support for the Bereaved Animal Lover
Pet-loss support groups can help the healing process when we lose our most constant companions.
Features
91-Year-Old Meditation Master Ruth Denison
In the California desert, a vipassana pioneer prepares for the next stage of her remarkable life.
Extreme Permaculture
From the rainy coast of British Columbia to the Texas desert to the snows of Sweden, these die-hard off-the-gridders test the limits of complete sustainability.
In Pursuit of Sacred Sex
In a world where Judeo-Christian faith no longer writes the rules on intimacy, who will define the new sexual ethics?
Questions for Ram Dass
When you describe your first encounter with your guru, Neem Karoli Baba, the writing is so vivid, you seem to be reliving the experience. Does the encounter come to life anew each …
Reviews
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…Tags:
• Music Reviews
