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Toolbox: More Tools for Cleaning Your Brain
These picks by S&H will help your mind stay sharp and clear.
2019 March/April
Calm, Energized & Happy
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Marketplace March/April 2019
Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
5 Questions with Lissa Rankin
1. In The Daily Flame, you offer guidance from the “Inner Pilot Light.” How do you help others to recognize their own light? I use what Richard Schwartz PhD, founder of Internal …
Chelsea Hill and 100 Women Who Care Maui
Mana’olana Pink Paddlers, a canoe club for cancer patients and cancer survivors, has been a recipient of a donation from 100 Women Who Care Maui.
Columns
The Heart of Money: Wealth Drain for Single Women - What to Do?
A recent report from Asset Funder Network found that single women ages 45 to 65 lost 36 percent of their wealth between 1995 and 2016, with a 28 percent drop for single white women…Tags:
• Financial Advice
The Happiness Track: Against Slim Odds
Emilia Lahti, a doctoral student in psychology from Finland, set out to study the Finish concept of sisu, which she defines as “taking action against slim odds.” Much like grit and…
Our Walk in the World: Finding What Can Last
Dr. Leonard was about to trim down an old tooth for a crown and I was all numbed up, listening to the Beatles—Abbey Road—on small headphones. About halfway through, I b…Tags:
• Emotional Health
Rabbi Rami: Are Psychics Worth It?
I’m seeing a psychic. She isn’t cheap, but she’s very helpful. My friends say she’s ripping me off. Are psychics real? Are they worth it? Rabbi Rami: If this woman is providing yo…Features
7 Tales of Digital Minimalism
What we all need is a philosophy of technology use, something that covers from the ground up which digital tools we allow into our life, for what reasons, and under what constraints.
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• Minimalism
The Paradox of Being Holy
There are two ways to be holy, but you wouldn’t know it from the things we say about those who are.
Connections
The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing
Once a month is enough to sustain higher levels of immunity, and the intention of healing magnifies the effects.
Stepping Out of Grief
When we have walked in darkness for so long, we are sometimes allowed to step into a parallel world.
Lectio Intima
There is perhaps nothing that so fundamentally realigns your understanding of another person as to see and hear them engaged with the Holy ...
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• Reading
3 Best Supplements for Better Sleep
“We know that sleep makes us feel better, and we know it’s better for us. And we even know how to measure our deep sleep. But how do we get it?”
4 Dimensions of Peacemaking
Whether it’s Israel/Palestine or Red vs. Blue, understanding why “I would be fighting me, too!” is only the second step toward lasting peace.
Humanity’s Most Uncomfortable Question
Is consciousness an epiphenomenon of an archaic brain? Artificial Intelligence may soon have an answer.
Making Friends with Robots
Twenty years ago, Anne Foerst, the theologian at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, introduced us to Kismet, the first emotionally responsive robot. Now, Marilyn Schlitz, Dean of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, introduces us to Sophia, an android programmed for unconditional love, empathy, and compassion.
Poetry Page
Poetry: The Sea, the Forest
Like an argument against keeping the more unshakable varieties of woundedness inside, where such things may best belong, he opened his eyes in the dark. Did you hear that, he…N/A
Artists: March/April 2019
Lauren BriéreGiraffe Robot (page 25), Butterfly Bot (26)oil on woodrobotsinrowboats.com, RobotsInRowboats.etsy.com Hollie ChastainAwaits (page 38)collageholliechastain.com Brian …
Contributors: March/April 2019
Contributors: March/April 2019 - Joan D. Chittister OSB, Cal Newport PhD, Julia Plevin, Marilyn Schlitz PhD, Mirabai Starr, Tracy Verdugo
From The Editor
From the Editor - March/April 2019
One of the big questions we’ve wrestled with since the launch of this magazine 20 years ago came from a brilliant theologian at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab named Anne Foerst.…Reviews
Book Review: That Good Night
Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Book Review: How to Disappear
Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Book Review: An Elegant Defense
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System
Music Review: The Prophet Speaks
Could it be that the answers we seek are right in front of us, but our ears haven’t been open to hear them? Van Morrison seems to have this in mind on his latest musical offering, …Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: Stay Human, Vol. II
Since the 2001 release of Spearhead’s original Stay Human album, the band’s sound has edged away from funk, soul, R&B, and hip-hop in the direction of pop. Accordingly, while socia…Tags:
• Music Reviews
Music Review: The Cut of the Warrior
The Cut of the Warrior is an album about slicing through the ego and opening to compassion. These incantations by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jarboe are simultaneously exquisite…Tags:
• Music Reviews
Film Review: Genesis 2.0
Alternating between strikingly shot footage of ivory hunters in the New Siberian Islands north of Russia, looking for woolly mammoth tusks, and a gathering of young scientists in B…
Film Review: A Quest for Meaning
a Ménardière and Nathanaël Coste, one a slick, successful bottled water salesman, the other a documentarian who’s just made a film about water access in India, reconnect after many…Tags:
• Film Reviews
Film Review: Symbiotic Earth
How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution
