The obituaries and tributes to J.D. Salinger, the seminal novelist who died in January at the age of 91, have tended to ignore one important feature of his life and work: for many readers, especially young seekers of truth in the sixties and seventies, he was a kind of guru figure. I was [...]
Buy locally, think globally…and watch Food, Inc. The messages in this film certainly make it worthy of being part of this trifecta of a motto. As the price of food is rapidly rising and the same food’s nutritional value is decreasing, the release of this feature-length documentary film in theaters and on DVD could not [...]
Dr. James Hopkins is interested in the relationship between musical vibrations, mathematics and spirit. He performs music on an instrument that has 117 strings each of which are seven-feet long and tuned to frequencies intending to generate “infinite harmonic overtone ratios hidden within the fundamental note of each string. For the most part, Hopkins succeeds [...]
Q & A With Global Healers In Print & Online It’s early afternoon; the sun sparkles on waves crashing on the beach below the bluffs. Deva Premal and Miten are in repose in Malibu sitting in the expanse of a large tastefully appointed living room bathed in a reflected glow. They’re light-hearted. They’re laughing a [...]
Marty Klein & Gretchen Hein Beginning Yoga for the Blink and Visually Impaired While Yoga is a practice that integrates all of the senses as a means to being present, it does not mean that a disability in one of the senses makes a person any less able as a practitioner. When one [...]
Sinister Yogis David Gordon White University of Chicago Press What is a yogi? This is the question behind David Gordon White's new book, the last in a series which began with The Alchemical Body and continued with Kiss of the Yogini. Unlike most academic studies in this area, the book's main object of inquiry is [...]
Finding An Authentic Voice: Suzanne Sterling Singing is one of the most intimate outer expressions of our essence. Whether it’s chanting the sacred names of the divine, singing along with the radio or joining our voices in happy birthday, we can feel that singing is more than just making a musical sound; it’s the [...]
Decoding the Spiritual Messages of Everyday Life Dr. Paul Debell, MD Sterling Ethos Decoding the Spiritual Messages of Everyday Life: Dr. Paul Debell, MD We’ve all experienced climatic life situations that feel as though they’ve been orchestrated by a higher power. We could call them destiny, fate, chance or dumb luck; psychologist Dr. Paul Debell [...]
Yoga on the Dance Floor Ekayani and Tom Glide Space Glide Recordings Yoga on the Dance Floor: Ekayani and Tom Glide Ekayani and Tom Glide Space’s Yoga on the Dance Floor transports Yoga to the club world through ancient Sanskrit and Bengali mantras set to the mystical and funky goddess of house music. The album [...]
Visions of a Universal Humanity Foundation for Conscious Evolution Visions of a Universal Humanity: Foundation for Conscious Evolution Visions of a Universal Humanity, the second installment in futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard’s award-winning documentary series Humanity Ascending begins with the noted thinker thoughtfully dedicating the film by, “thinking of all the people on planet Earth who [...]