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2017 January/February
Adyashanti: The Vitality of Silence
Columns
The Happiness Track: A Crash Course in Enlightenment
My junior year of college I was driving back from a ski trip during a Vermont snowstorm when I shifted gears and lost control. We swerved across several highway lanes into a ditch,…
Rabbi Rami: What’s Wrong with Being a Disembodied Mind?
Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler
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• Politics
Peace Revolution Summit 2016 - Postcards
Paul Sutherland, author and S&H columnist of The Heart of Money recently spoke at a peace conference in Nairobi and handed out six postcards like this.
The Heart of Money: What has happened to America?
I can’t breathe. What has happened to America? How could Donald Trump get elected? I am so horrified and sad when I think about the next four years.Paul Sutherland: Trump and the 4…Connections
Working Farms for Foodies
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.” —Aldo Leopold
A Survivor Creates a Cancer Support Center
Diagnosed with breast cancer, Susan Kapadia needed more support than her family—or her small community—could provide.
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• Cancer
5 Questions for Dava Sobel
In your book, you describe some of the women as “human computers.” What does this mean?In the days long before laptops—even before mainframe computers—human beings performed all th…Tags:
• Interviews
Do Animals Have More Soul Than We Do?
Not only do animals live, they have lives—with “undiluted purity and clarity…”
Enriched by Animals
“As I walked, something walked with me. Not in the sand—but to my right, in the water, just beyond the breaking of the waves.”
The Cancer Whisperer
“As I entered their field one frosty November morning, I stopped just past the turnstile gate to catch my breath and appreciate their nobility.”
Toolbox: Wearable Health
Take your health into your hands, quite literally, with these finds from S&H.
Learning to Bloom Where I Am Planted
How I turned from the question of what I wanted from life to what life wants from me
The Wrong I Needed to Write
In the last two issues of S&H, I’ve written two articles. This is the one that was trying to get out…
Features
The Way of Silence: An Interview with Adyashanti
When people allow themselves to connect with what their spiritual life is about for them—what their deep questions are, what their deep yearning is—then they have all the vitality they need
Share Your Gifts at Burning Man
If you’re into exploring other worlds, altering your sense of gravity, and playing in some of the biggest waves on the planet—you just may want to jump in.
Find Your Path
Interspiritual wisdom to help you find your spiritual style, choose the grand questions that call you, and create your personal practice.
Peacemaking the Navajo Way
How I fell in love with the depth of the Navajo people and the cultural values they have developed—and how their system of Peacemaking could be a gift to the world.
Toolbox
Best Books of 2016
S&H’s Favorite Guides for Walking the Seeker’s Path
Book Giveaway: Visit bookmark.spiritualityhealth.com by January 31, 2017, and enter to win a collection of select titles.
Marketplace
Marketplace - Jan/Feb 2017
Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Reviews
Film Review: Seed: The Untold Story
Seed: The Untold Story Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel Collective Eye Films Documentaries about the environment and food safety are a dime a dozen, but here’s a topic that’s rarely …
Film Review: Before the Flood
Before the Flood Fisher Stevens National Geographic Movie star and longtime environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio and director Fisher Stevens travel across the world to learn…
Film Review: Seasons
Seasons Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud Music Box Films Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud specialize in enchanting, nonnarrative nature documentaries that portray …
Music Review: America’s National Parks
America’s National ParksWadada Leo SmithCuneiformYosemite, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone—the beauty and wild spaces of America’s national parks have long been a focus for visual an…
Music Review: Keep Me Singing
Keep Me SingingVan MorrisonCaroline InternationalKeep Me Singing is Van Morrison’s 36th studio album—his first since 2012—and the singer’s smooth voice and bluesy lyrics remain imm…
Music Review: On Behalf of Nature
On Behalf of NatureMeredith MonkECMOn Behalf of Nature is the latest album from pioneering vocalist/composer Meredith Monk. This diverse set of 19 sound motifs feels something like…
Book Review: The Power of Meaning
The Power of MeaningCrafting a Life That MattersBy Emily Esfahani SmithCrown PublishingI was bleary-eyed, wrestling to complete a feature story at the end of a long week, yet my co…
Book Review: Encounters with Power
Encounters with PowerAdventures and Misadventures on the Shamanic Path of HealingBy José Luis Stevens, PhDSounds TrueWhile the latest book from José Luis Stevens is not without its…
Book Review: Love Hurts
Love HurtsBuddhist Advice for the HeartbrokenBy Lodro RinzlerShambhala PublicationsThis book, by 34-year-old author and meditation teacher Lodro Rinzler, had an unusual genesis: fo…
