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2016 July/August
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Connections
Losing the “God Talk” in Grief Groups
“To say you need the afterlife to have meaning is the bleakest form of insanity.”
The Commons: How to Occupy the 100 Percent
Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2011, while visiting my wife’s family in Los Angeles, we purchased a bag of groceries to distribute to protestors and brought our tents and sleeping ba…
You Are Better than Your Fitbit
The Simplest, Cheapest, And Most Accurate Way To Know How Hard To Work Out
When It’s Time to Burn Your Map
Because everyone’s life journey eventually arrives at a precipice or fork in the road
Features
How To Heal From A Disaster
An M.D. faces the toughest test of a spiritual practice—healing herself from a terrible fall.
Get Unstuck
We live in stories—all of us, all of the time. This is a story about breaking through writer’s block and the start of a focused, passionate, and productive period
Finding Refuge From Anxiety
One author offers her thoughts on taking a 5-week, $500 vacation from anxiety.
Columns
Care of the Soul: Angels and the Brain
There’s little room for wonder and real poetry in the mechanical metaphors we use to describe ourselves.
The Heart of Money: Why Trump Is My Teacher & Guru
When Donald Trump appeared on the political scene he seemed a joke, but now the joke is on us. He’s a wall builder and a hatemonger in a world that desperately needs to tear down w…
Rabbi Rami: Everyone Says “Follow Your Heart.” But How?
Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler
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Marketplace
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Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Reviews
Film Review: Catching the Sun
Catching the SunThe Race for the Clean Energy FutureShalini Kantayya7th Empire MediaFor years, when we talked about solar power, it was either as some kind of hippy-dippy, bac…
Film Review: Love Is a Verb
Love Is a VerbTerry Spencer Hesser and Stephan MazurekDark Sky FilmsThe Muslim thinker and academic Fetullah Gulen has been a controversial figure in his homeland of Turkey for&nbs…
Film Review: The Professor: Tai Chi’s Journey West
The Professor: Tai Chi’s Journey WestBarry StrugatzFirst Run FeaturesIn 1964, a 63-year-old Chinese academic and doctor named Cheng Man-Ching moved to New York and began to teach t…
Music Review: The Earth Wants You
The Earth Wants YouRev. Billy & The Stop Shopping ChoirCreative CommonsRev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir have been arrested more times than your average Gospel church band…
Music Review: Continuum
ContinuumNik BärtschECMLooking for a deep sensory experience? Hang out inside Continuum, the new album from Nik Bärtsch and his Mobile ensemble. This is 21st-century Zen-Funk Ritua…
Music Review: Land of Gold
Land of GoldAnoushka ShankarDeutsche GrammophonAs a daughter and former student of the late Ravi Shankar, sitarist Anoushka Shankar is in possession of jaw-dropping precision and a…
Book Review: Pathways to Possibility
Pathways to PossibilityTransforming Our Relationship with Ourselves, Each Other, and the WorldBy Rosamund Stone ZanderVikingRosamund Stone Zander is a family systems therapist know…
Book Review: Dream Yoga
Dream YogaIlluminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of SleepBy Andrew HolecekSounds TrueDream Yoga is a book that makes big promises: According to author …
Book Review: Grace Without God
Grace Without GodThe Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular AgeBy Katherine OzmentHarperWaveI’m a spot-on “none” as described by Katherine Ozment. Growing up in th…
