A Culture of Contribution
We are shifting from a global culture of consumers, whether for material wealth or power or spiritual states, to a culture of contribution.
We are shifting from a global culture of consumers, whether for material wealth or power or spiritual states, to a culture of contribution.
Priscilla Warner | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living
While I've been experiencing hundreds of panic attacks, these men have been meditating so effectively that their pre-frontal brain lobes light up on CAT scans, plumped up like perfectly ripe peaches.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
1. You don't have to be thin to be flexible. 2. To get into certain poses, however, it does help to be thin to make up for a lack of flexibility. ... 14. Yoga teachers are not "yoga therapists" unless trained as such.
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Just in case it's not patently obvious to you why becoming a multiorgasmic man is a Good Thing, here are some reasons (or just watch the video).
Paula Gordon | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
I was attacked for an earlier post as un-American for acknowledging Canada's Thanksgiving celebration and for not celebrating America's. Rest assured! I fully intend to celebrate next month as well.
Paula Gordon | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
This and every second Monday of October, an entire First World nation takes the day off to cherish all that is best. Today is Thanksgiving Day. In Canada.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Whether they're cynical postures or sincere beliefs doesn't matter: ruthless opposition and dingbat delusions are the currency of right-wing success, and sand in the gears of democracy.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
I've realized that love -- ordinary, human, personal love -- is actually a more important value for me than "spirituality" in a more pervasive sense.
Linus Roache | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
I found what I was looking for in the contemporary teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. I experienced first hand the transcendent nature of who we are as spirit first, beyond time and the mind.
Elizabeth Debold | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Will embracing woman-centered spirituality take us beyond patriarchy? The goal is to create a new spiritual and ethical context that would balance and heal our hyper-masculine world.
Ross Robertson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Zoltan Toery's major work of materialist science was inspired by a seemingly nonmaterial event -- a vision of literally cosmic proportions that came to him late one night during his weeks in a Sydney hospital bed.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
How many of us would give up much of anything in an attempt to save our souls? I mean this seriously -- really -- how much would we be willing to sacrifice?
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
Spiritual seeking may have a defining end; the process of embodiment, on the other hand, is endless. It is a relaxing, the allowing of more love, more presence, more creativity to flow.
Isha Judd | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
You can find inner peace and greater awareness in the middle of Manhattan, just as you can be stressed out and worried while walking on a paradise beach.
Alex Henry | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
What might happen if the entire world tried switching from coffee to tea for, say, a week?
Isha Judd | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living
It's impossible for intellect to see beyond its own constraints; impossible, for example, for it to understand love. The intellect is prized in western society, yet it is so limited in so many ways.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living
At the retreat there was a ban on talking, and eye contact was discouraged, but I managed to find everything funny.
Isha Judd | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
Our society is always fighting, arguing, debating. We consider peace to be the ideal, but in reality, we feed off conflict, both in our personal lives and on a world scale.
Jay Michaelson | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Having taught it for many years, I find eating meditation -- yes, eating meditation -- to be one of the simplest, most profound, mindfulness practices. Here are some tips to start your own journey.
Isha Judd | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
The distraught entrepreneurs soon learned that the beaver's coat grows thick when the animal experiences fear. With no bears, there was no fear, and so their coats did not grow!
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
I am constantly amazed by the depth of training provided by motherhood for seeking "enlightenment."
Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
We are truly one with the mind of God--one with the original evolutionary impulse that chose to take that eternal leap from Being to Becoming fourteen billion years ago.
Sara Davidson | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
"What do you want to do?" I asked Billy. He smiled and said, "Date all three of you. You're all busy, and I have enough time for all of you."
Isha Judd | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
The following incident, which took place when I first established a retreat center in Colombia, shows that an inherent desire for peace permeates humanity across the globe.
Sara Davidson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
"Davidson's first job was with the Boston Globe, where she became a national penis finder," read my bio on Wikipedia. What?! I blinked. I read it again. How had this happened?
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living