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100 Books We Love
In this, our first “100 Books We Love” special section, we celebrate our readers’ deep appreciation and passion for the written word.
2018 September/October
Take Control of Your Story with Zainab Salbi
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Contributors - September / October
Contributors to our September/October 2018 issue: Amber Bodily, Mirabai Bush, Ram Dass, Katherine Dunn, Stephanie Ludwig PhD, Zainab Salbi
Features
Create A Living Ritual
No matter your spirituality or background, it's possible to turn every day into a living, breathing ritual. Explore how one author transformed her life by doing so.
The Awakening of a Healer
“Don’t you want your son to live?” The nurse asked. Yes, of course. And that was why I felt I had to leave . . .
Welcome to Chambalabamba!
If you can afford to retire, you can afford to start your own eco-community.
Connections
Meds & Consciousness
Listening in on a great conversation between Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush
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• Awareness
How to Experience Canine Flow
“A fantastic way to harness and empower your own heart frequencies and create happiness . . .”
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• Self-Help
8 Best Plants for Improving Memory & Concentration
These botanicals are nontoxic and can be taken with confidence.
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• Enlightened Diet
7 Steps to Embracing Your Full Story
This may be the least expensive way to solve our health care crisis.
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• Practice
The Catalyst
One rather innocuous experience delivered the most exhilarating, victorious, and perfect moments of my life.
Why Share Your Pain
If we all speak our truth, no matter how heavy or how trivial our stories seem, then together we can light the way toward a new future and a new story, one that is no longer based on silence and shame.
—ZAINAB SALBI Freedom Is an Inside Job, by Zainab Salbi.
Columns
The Heart of Money: What About Intentional Communities?
Question: Have you ever experienced an intentional community that works? Paul Sutherland: I lived in what would be considered an intentional community from age 18 to 25. About …
The Happiness Track: The Loneliness Paradoxes
We live in a time of overpopulation on the one hand and extreme loneliness on the other. We crowd into urban areas and yet sit—and feel—alone. Or we buy large homes and…Tags:
• Loneliness
Our Walk in the World: Bending or Loving the World
I was at the airport, traveling to New York, waiting to go through security with my passport out, when I noticed for the first time that most pages have quotes on them. And two of …Tags:
• Inner Self
Poetry Page
Poetry: Why Tinkerbell Quit Anger Management
I had to give up on their remedies.They kept trying to make me less angry,but I refuse to surrender my rage. Because whole kingdoms have already spentmillennia trying to keep wome…Tags:
• Poetry
Talk to Us: September/October 2018
Help for Depression I read with great interest the article titled “Zoloft & the Sacred.” As a nurse practitioner working in psychiatry, my day is filled with patients seeking help…
5 Questions with Zainab Salbi
After years of persuading women in crisis to share their stories, humanitarian Zainab Salbi turns the lens on herself for her new book, Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World.
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• Humanity
From The Editor
From the Editor: September/October
The Toe of Awakening In the rush of this issue I took a break and waded into the Rogue River and soon got caught up rolling boulders out of the launching area in preparation for o…Toolbox
Marketplace
Marketplace Sep/Oct 2018
Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Reviews
Film Review: Strangers on the Earth
TRISTAN COOK’S intriguingly conceived documentary follows the American cellist Dane Johansen as he treks the famous pilgrimage path known as the Camino de Santiago, which stretches…
Film Review: Sunday's Illness
AN INTIMATE FAMILY DRAMA shot like a slow-burn horror movie, Spanish director Ramon Salazar’s film centers on an odd, evocative arrangement: An aging, wealthy woman is confronted o…Tags:
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Music Review: Down Come the Walls
DOWN COME THE WALLS is a heart-opening album about personal transformation and removing barriers to authenticity. It’s also about the political walls of our time. “We started recor…Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: Here in Heaven
DONNA DE LORY’S new album, Here in Heaven, begins with percussive vocals that bring to mind Indian singer Sheila Chandra. Elements of pop, world music, chanting, and spiritually fo…Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: Lost Souls
WHILE THE TITLE TRACK from Canadian vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt’s 10th studio album takes its inspiration from Ronald Wright’s 2004 book, A Short History of Pr…
Book Review: Seven Types of Atheism
TRADITIONALLY, atheism and religion are seen as diametrically opposed, but in this dense, challenging, and erudite little book, former politics and philosophy professor John Gray m…
Book Review: Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
