I have been participating in Sweat Lodges since about the age of 8 or 9 years old. My mother, though not by blood of the First Nations, has been recognized by Indigenous elders as an “honorary member” of tribes based on her extensive healing work and embodiment of indigenous spirituality and traditions. Despite this, I [...]
I was in Safeway last Sunday, buying rhubarb. The stems were meaty and a little bit limp, and they were the colour of flesh. One stalk had five little shoots emerging from its end, which had been snipped off, so that it they looked like five fingers on a tiny hand. A tiny hand [...]
Scientists have shown that in order to keep global warming and climate change from reaching truly devastating levels every country needs to lower its carbon output by 27% each year. That means starting now. Kyoto II, a plan to be decided on at meetings in Copenhagen next autumn, has the potential to completely change the [...]
That’s the title of a PhD dissertation by Elaine Aaron. Here’s what she says:
Archetypes, as Jung said, have dual aspects. The archetype of forceful big is the counterpart, or opposite, of the archetype of delicate small. Once forceful big enters the scene, there is no more space for delicate small. It gets crushed.
This observation alone [...]
It’s interesting that the manifestation movement became mainstream around the time that the great rug-pull of globalization began to seriously affect the economic stability of millions of Americans.
The prevailing ideology in any culture is one that serves its reigning economic system, concealing the truth of its power relations and its real aims, veiling them with [...]
I’m sniffing a new scent on the wind in the US these days. It could be my imagination, but it seems to me there is a real change in the air.
- First of all, there’s the financial bail-out, and the widespread disgust at the greed and the arrogance of the people involved. The 400,000 dollar [...]
A friend of mine knows a guy from the Pashtun region of Afghanistan. The guy told my friend that if he wanted to send money home, he would do it by giving cash to someone from the same culture who was traveling back. “What?” asked my friend. “Someone you know, or just anyone?”
“Anyone”, said the [...]
Mike Spino is a running coach who specializes in mind/body integration, teaching athletes woo-woo techniques such as visualization and meditation to improve their performance. Spino says that as athletes approach peak performance, they enter a “state of elegance”. This happens, he says, only a few times in a season.
Spino’ role, as a coach, is to [...]
I went to a talk by Esalen-founder Michael Murphy last night. Michael is like the best college professor you never had—brilliant, engaging, able to riff on almost any topic connected to human potential and comparative spirituality, and vastly enjoying himself while doing so. I consider it one of the greatest pieces of luck currently present [...]
Yesterday people across the world from every spectrum of background and tradition celebrated the Equinox, the harvest, for some of us the coming of winter. I participated in a celebration of the Equinox with the Montreal branch of Reclaiming. The Reclaiming tradition was initiated in the 1980’s by Earth Activist Training founder Starhawk and Diane [...]
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