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Bringing Grandma Home: The Story Chair, Salmon Ceremony, and Building the Bridge.
A photo summary of the projects along Oregon's Rogue River.
2014 November/December
Becoming Sacred
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Features
Bringing Grandma Home
Grandma Aggie wants to sit in her family chair. Who could say no to that? But Grandma Aggie is no ordinary grandma and her chair is not the front porch rocker.
Becoming Sacred
An evening walk reveals the origins of sacred space, sacrifice, sanctuary, a universal god, and the timeless spirituality of “paying it forward.”
Most Spiritual Spa: The Vana, Malsi Estate
Spirituality, more often than not, when offered up in today’s spa realm, is yet another entrée on the scrumptious spa buffet. I’ll take a little bit of that sustainable salt scrub,…
What Would the Dalai Lama Do?
Contemplating creativity, compassion, mindfulness, and body image with singer/songwriter Amanda Palmer
Toolbox
Toolbox: Balancing Act
Ancient Ayurvedic wisdom informs our picks for finding inner equilibrium.
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• Healing
Columns
The Heart of Money: The Practice of Making Good Decisions
You have spent your career successfully managing stock portfolios worth hundreds of millions of dollars during periods of extreme market highs and terrible crashes. During this mul…
Close to the Ground: Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha
It is easy to get caught up in headlines and tragedy: Boys and girls ripped from their homes by the thousands; drones and missiles competing with each other for how much damage the…
Care of the Soul: Wherever I Turn, You Are There
A striking image from the late Renaissance shows a bald human head with a huge eyeball in the center of the skull. Below the image is the phrase “The Eye of Imagination.” It takes …
Rabbi Rami: How Do I Make My Space More Holy?
Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler
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• Sacred Places
Connections
Blue Mind: Solving the Crisis of Solitude
A team of researchers at the University of Virginia recently studied college students who were left alone in a room that was empty, except for a single button. When each student ar…
Quality Space
Space is not just a physical phenomenon, it is an atmosphere that includes nonjudgmental attention, mutual respect, and appreciation.
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• Relationship Advice
The Building Blocks of Calm
I remember my mother saying, “It’s a sin to worry.” When pressed to explain what she meant, she would often respond, “It’s all in God’s hands.” I think my mother used these sayings…
The Surprise Boost of Mass Mobs
A twist on the Flash Mob is helping to save historic Catholic churches.
Arjuna Ardagh: Coaching Toward Awakenıng
Rabbi Rami: Your new book, Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching, lays out a powerful and practical model for living. Let’s start with the basics. What do you mea…
5 Questions for Shakti Gawain
1. What inspired you to write about relationships?My book is based on a workshop that I have led for many years, exploring how our relationships mirror our own consciousness. I bel…
Playing with Wonder Questions
I play with “wonder questions” all the time. I use them in coaching sessions and with my Sweetheart. I use them not to shift what I am thinking about, but how I am thinking about i…Reviews
Film Review: Pelican Dreams
Pelican DreamsDirected by Judy IrvingIn 2005, in The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, filmmaker Judy Irving detailed the odd relationship between a group of feral parrots and an une…
Film Review: Faith Connections
Faith ConnectionsDirected by Pan NalinThe Hindu pilgrimage and ritual of the Kumbh Mela is the largest human gathering in the world, bringing together around 100 million people to …
Music Review: Cello & Piano Meditations, Music for Relaxation and Healing
Cello & Piano Meditations: Music for Relaxation and HealingDavid Darling and Jacqueline Tschabold BhuyanSounds True Some years ago, pianist Jacqueline Tschabold Bhuyan suffer…
Music Review, At the Temple Door
At the Temple Door Ajeet KaurSpirit VoyageAjeet Kaur encountered a spiritual sense of music early in life, raised by a father (Thomas Moore) who’d been in a Catholic monastery…
Music Review: Saraswati Dreams
Saraswati DreamsJaya Lakshmi & AnandaSounds TrueAfter fusing kirtan music with electronica on 2013’s Kirtronica, former Lost At Last singer Jaya Lakshmi and her partner Ananda …Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: Incantations
IncantationsSheela Bringi Black SwanSoulful music has probably always blossomed from an array of musical styles and sounds across planet Earth, carrying within it a diversity …Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: Heartbeats: Music Infused Nights
Heartbeats: Music Infused InsightsMonique RhodesSounds TrueAwakening to the present moment—“the eternal now”—is a spiritual thread that weaves through Heartbeats: Music Infused Ins…
Book Review: Rewilding Our Hearts
Rewilding Our HeartsBuilding Pathways of Compassion and CoexistenceBy Marc BekoffNew World LibraryI saw Jane Goodall give a talk in person once. When she took questions at the…
Book Review: Freud and Yoga
Freud and Yoga Two Philosophies of Mind ComparedBy T.K.V. Desikachar and Hellfried KruscheNorth Point PressPerception is our window to the world outside. But, like glass when …
Book Review: Home in Harmony
Home in HarmonyDesigning an Inspired LifeBy Christa O’LearyHay House, Inc.Habits determine a large chunk of our everyday activity. And becoming conscious of our habits, both the go…
Book Review: Rethinking Positive Thinking
Rethinking Positive Thinking Inside the New Science of Motivation By Gabriele OettingenCurrent/PenguinIf you can dream it, you can be it. I hate to rain on your parade, b…
