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Psyche

Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

Jeff Brown

By the time we retire at sixty-five many of us cannot even begin to access our real self. With our God-seeds planted in the wrong fields, we have become too tired or ill to really touch the moment. If we don’t shape up, we may be shipped out.  (more)

11-9-09

Life

Glory in the Highest (Part Three)

Rob Brezsny

But wait a minute. What about all the people who don't have enough to eat and a comfortable place to sleep? How about the victims of war and epidemics, and the oppressed who live under the rule of tyrants, and the innocents whose lives are distorted by bigotry? Where's their glory in the highest? Why should they feel grateful? Part Three of a three-part series. (more)

11-3-09

Life

The Ethics of Food

Maya Joseph and Marion Nestle

Today, so many Americans are demanding a food supply that is healthier for people and for the environment, that attempts to improve food policies can be considered a new social movement focused on community food security, organic production, local food, worker rights, animal welfare and fair trade.   (more)

10-22-09

Life

Who's the Crazy One?

Eliezer Sobel

Oh, sure, I thought. I'll take an hour out of my day and pay you a fee, open myself up and pour my heart out, and then stop midstream to either listen to you talk to your residents or else take a call myself from my friend Marty in California . . . No, I don't think so. (more)

10-5-09

Commons

Healthy Food, Healthy Thought

Joti Levy

Today, I witnessed a trauma that happens every day in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco -- a Superfund toxic site, a modern-day ghetto where people have to travel miles to get fresh vegetables. I ask my students at Willie Brown Jr. Academy, "What is food security?" (more)

10-2-09

Psyche

Psychedelics and Nutrition: Carnivorous Cultures vs. Fungal Cultures

Ido Hartogsohn

The great excitement one gets when biting into lettuce or carrots after a psychedelic experience -- sensing their rich sweetness -- is tantamount, for me, to eating for the first time after six days of fasting. Suddenly, each fruit and vegetable regains its original heavenly taste, as though we are experiencing, for the first time, the real taste of food. (more)

9-22-09

Life

Angel Needed for Crucial Health Matter

Brad Barneys

I have been using fasting in my life for 40 years.  It has been a crucial tool in my survival and healing.  The following is based on experiential knowledge... (more)

7-29-09

Psyche

The Schizophrenic Gatekeeper

Adam Elenbaas

Although I don't fully understand the complexities of the financial crisis, I am learning a lot about money. Each day between the hours of 10am and noon I am approached by 100 adult schizophrenics asking me for cash. I have to say yes or no, and how much.  (more)

7-16-09

Arts

Proper Conditions for Magic: The Shen Tao Approach to Dance

Katie Clancy

In this age of decreasing physical activity and overworked brain activity, how do we come home to ourselves in the most efficient and effective manner?  How do we train intensively without self violence?  In this interview, Bill Hedberg discusses the Shen Tao approach to physical conditioning. (more)

7-9-09

Arts

Post Modern Medicine: A Talk with Matt Roberson

Adam Elenbaas

Roberson's strange new novel, Impotent, is the first of its kind. Bravely exploring consumer medication culture while simultaneously weaving a good story and hypertextual presentation, Impotent is just what the doctor ordered. (more)

5-26-09

Life

Playing Doctor: Herbal Medicine in A New World Economy

Jill Ettinger

Plants have been used for thousands of years to treat and cure illnesses, but in modern America, we're dissuaded from these proven methods by the interests of multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies. Is all that about to change? (more)

2-18-09

Psyche

Hungry Ghost Nation

Nate Summers

If negative spiritual entities tend to accumulate over time due to untimely deaths, war, and violence, and we are no longer performing rituals or ceremonies that appease these restless forces, where does that leave us? The practice of Chinese medicine provides some answers. (more)

2-17-09

Life

The Taste of a Miracle

Nat Bletter

Taste tests showed that people preferred the miracle fruit versions of sweet treats to the sugared and artificially sweetened varieties. Just when it seemed that the miracle fruit might help eliminate the diabetes epidemic, the corporate espionage started. (more)

1-14-09

Life

Reuniting the Self: Autoimmunity, Obesity, and the Ecology of Health (Part 2)

Charles Eisenstein

The point of utter destitution is also the point of turning. We are beginning to experience the softening and expansion of the separate self. As multiple crises reach their fulfillment, could we be entering an Age of Love? (more)

1-5-09

Commons

Poverty (Un)Consciousness

Antonio Lopez

As the economy shrinks, Americans need to reevaluate prosperity to generate new meaning in their lives. Are we always aspiring to a utopian future rather than being grateful for what we have? (more)

12-30-08

Life

Reuniting the Self: Autoimmunity, Obesity, and the Ecology of Health

Charles Eisenstein

The twin epidemics of obesity and autoimmunity are symptoms of a deep infirmity in our civilization. Each condition shows us something about our society, and offers clues to how we might heal these conditions that have proven so intractable to modern medicine. (more)

12-1-08

Life

The Value of Solitude

Bob Kull

Although we sometimes think that being alone is unhealthy, solitude provides a respite from the demands of social life and creates a space for personal healing. Paradoxically, spending time alone can soften our sense of alienation from others. (more)

11-21-08

Life

What Does Yoga Have to Do with Vegetarianism?

Sharon Gannon

Yoga's popularity has grown tremendously in the midst of a global crisis, because it  promises to transform our ways of relating to animals, the Earth, and one another. The most important part of yoga practice may happen three times a day when you sit down to eat. (more)

11-13-08

Life

Side Effects of Medical Marijuana

Paul Krassner

I talked with the authors of Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine, about medical marijuana's side effects, such as forgiveness, joie de vivre, and personal transformation. (more)

11-11-08

Life

A Vote for Sexual Health

Wendy Strgar

Which political party or candidate is more sexually healthy and promotes values consistent with sexual health? (more)

11-4-08

Psyche

Meditation for Life: The Spirit of Grieving

Adam Elenbaas

Scientists are examining the neurological processes surrounding grieving. The results provide an excellent backdrop for understanding meditation rituals and their age old role in coping with sadness, depression and personal loss. (more)

10-29-08

Life

The Mysterious O

Wendy Strgar

All bodies come equipped with the tools for orgasm, yet without the proper education and opportunity to practice, many people never successfully achieve the synergy of mind, body and spirit to release this unique and revelatory experience. (more)

10-8-08

Life

The Age of Water

Charles Eisenstein

For tens of thousands of years, fire has defined our civilization. But the Age of Fire is rapidly drawing to a close. With the dawning of the Age of Water, we recognize the unique, enspirited nature of each drop of water and indeed every substance in the universe. (more)

9-26-08

Life

Avian Flu: The Next Great Pandemic Threat

ST Frequency

Since 2003, an avian influenza virus called H5N1 has been killing large numbers of poultry – and occasionally people. But while public concern over bird flu has faded in recent years, the risk to humans has increased. A look at the history of pandemic flu can help us understand why the H5N1 virus remains a serious threat to mankind. (more)

5-30-08

Life

Hands of Light: The Healing Work of Brennan Healing Science

C.C. Treadway

Combining psychic skills with physical skills is powerful. The client is affected cellularly, energetically, emotionally and mentally. As the client begins to trust the healer, the environment is set for them to go into their deeper feelings, opening the space to receive more authentic love. (more)

5-28-08

Life

Mutiny of the Soul

Charles Eisenstein

Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is unfolding on the planet today, and highly significant for the light they shed on the transition from an old world to a new. (more)

5-21-08

Life

First, Love Yourself

Wendy Strgar

I have been thinking about self-love lately, and not the emotional kind. The month of May has recently been named National Masturbation Month, in recognition of the most common sexual practice on the planet. It's not just for lonely people, either. (more)

5-7-08

Life

Psychosynthesis: Speaking with Molly Young Brown

Mary Destri

How to move toward wholeness, integrating or synthesizing all the parts of the personality to work harmoniously together - incorporating wisdom from Buddhism, yoga, and other Eastern philosophies; Western spiritual traditions, philosophy, and psychology; and the emerging field of ecopsychology. (more)

1-23-08

Psyche

Eye Spirits: Visions of The Blind

Paul Devereux

Macular degeneration is a progressive disease, leading inexorably to blindness. But as sight dims, sufferers experience dreamlike hallucinations, glimpses of a realm somewhere between spirit and reality… (more)

7-11-07

Life

Transforming Repression of The Divine Feminine

Wahkeena Sitka Tidepool Ripple

Imagine what the world would look like if there were millions of women who were anchors of ecstatic bliss energy. Imagine millions of women eschewing convention and walking their path towards their authentic nature, letting go the norms of social conformity in favor of following their heart bliss. Imagine if the world was filled with juicy mamas who love to be loved, and love to get loved on. We would live in a world where the top priority is to take care of each other, because taking care of each other is taking care of the whole. (more)

5-31-07