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Category Archives: Spirituality
Documentary Film Review: Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
A portrait of doctors doing the best they can in hellish circumstances that shows them as more human and heroic than ever.
Spiritual Quotation: Sacred Feminine, Water
God our Mother, Living Water . . .
Book Excerpt: The Art of Affirmation
Robert Furey on affirmation as an act of kindness.
Whiz Kids
An extraordinary documentary about three smart, intense, and talented teenagers in the Intel Science Talent Search.
Book Review: Heart Yoga
A masterwork that fuses together yoga practice and mystical meditation in a sacred unity that serves as a spur to sacred activism.
Book Excerpt: Heart Yoga
Andrew Harvey and Karuna Erickson's description of the child's pose in yoga as one of humility, surrender, and reverent connection with the animal world.
Book Review: Tanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom
A translation and commentary on selections from a classic Hasidic text that is filled with insights into the Holy One and essential spiritual practices.
Book Excerpt: Tanya, the Masterpiece of Hasidic Wisdom
How according to Tanya, a master work of Hasidic wisdom, the body and humor can both be used in the service of God.
Book Review: Brainstorm
An exploration of the creativity involved and challenges and myseries of following productive obsessions.
Book Excerpt: Brainstorm
Eric Maisel saluting the mystery, adventure, and creativity of following a brainstorm.
Book Review: The Myth of Stress
A helpful reframing of the causes of stress along with a process to transform and reduce it.
Book Review: Teaching Spirits
An examination of the spiritual themes that animate Native American cultures and communities.
Book Excerpt: Teaching Spirits
Joseph Epes Brown on the role of animals as spiritual teachers in Native American religious traditions.
Book Review: 100 Words
Statements from 200 visionaries on their hopes for a better and more peaceful world.
DVD Feature Film Review: Alice in Wonderland
An exotic adventure tale about a young woman's trip to an alternate reality and the testing of her will power, resourcefulness, and courage in the face of weirdness and danger.
Book Review: The Practical Visionary
Ideas, resources, and spiritual practices for an emerging New World of synthesis, collaboration, and unity consciousness.
DVD Feature Film Review: The Secret in Their Eyes
A combination psychological thriller and love story that offers an engrossing look at memory, yearning, and the toxins of revenge; winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Book Excerpt: The Practical Visionary
Corrine McLaughlin's list of values, such as such as compassion, justice, and fairness, that underlie a transformation of society.
Book Excerpt: Ethics of The Sages
Rami Shapiro with wisdom sayings of the early Rabbis.