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Our hearts expand as we embrace the enormity of all the pain being suffered by the people and all living beings in Japan who have been impacted by the earthquake and the tsunami. When we feel that our hearts are breaking as we watch levels of suffering. In actuality, our hearts are expanding allowing us [...]

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Shamanism is unlike many other topics, in that you get your best information about it from blogs. Although shamanistic practice reaches out to all of Creation, it is also subjective and deeply personal. Scientific minds insist that almost all the “evidence” for the invisible world is “anecdotal.” In their view, nothing matters except lab results, [...]

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Christian Science Monitor correspondent Laura Kasinof reports from Cairo, Egypt, that the art of zar has been reduced to only about 25 performers and one public venue, because the hardcore Islamists don’t like it. It’s perceived by them as a form of communion with evil spirits, but this is not so, as Kasinof tells us: [...]

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Who were the first black South African musicians to record a jazz album? The Jazz Epistles, in 1960, headed by Abdullah Ibrahim (whose stage name then was Dollar Brand). Now in his late seventies, Ibrahim is still going strong. We know this because of the terrific interview with him that appears in the online magazine [...]

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“Heal the Earth to Heal Yourself” is a title of Peggy Wheeler’s article about the Gaia Principle on Examiner.com. It just about says it all, but — who is Gaia, and why heal the Earth itself, or herself, as we are fond of saying? Just think of the planet as a sentient being… and don’t do [...]

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Random Good News: In an interview titled “The Woman Who Just Might Save the Planet and Our Pocketbooks,” Fran Korten talks to Lin Ostrom. (Korten is the publisher of YES! Magazine, who has 20 years experience, with the Ford Foundation behind her.) The main message spread by Lin Ostrom is that the “tragedy of the [...]

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The Personal Celebration The Toltec Center of Creative Intent brings us an essay by Heather Ash Amara, whose message is “Celebrate Your Life: Infuse It with Joy and Spirit.” A celebration can mark a transition, the anniversary of an important (inner or outer) event, or the fact that today is Wednesday. A personal celebration is [...]

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In his article on Sacred Naturalism with Steve Serr website, “Close Encounters of the Bird Kind,” the author displays some strong convictions that are hard to argue with. For instance, he feels that humankind has become distanced from the Earth’s gifts of healing and wisdom. Dr. Serr goes on to say that shamanism, a natural and [...]

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Sandra Ingerman wrote and made available online a very powerful essay called “How to Heal Toxic Thoughts.” It’s about the negative energy we send out, and how unconscious of it we often are. She tells about a dream that brought her a powerful message about “psychic punches.” These are impalpable, intangible attacks done with weapons [...]

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Kunsang Hyolmo is a social worker and a lover of traditional music, who has posted wonderful video clips of people drumming and chanting at a shaman festival in the Nepalese Himalayas. A shaman is known there as a Bhombo or a Jhankri, and shamanic practice is so integrated into everyday life that it’s not even [...]

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