Gabor Mate, M.D. begins his book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, with the following explanation of the hungry ghost realm in the Buddhist wheel of life, several questions we must ask (and try to answer) about the addiction process, and what readers can expect to explore through the topics covered …continue
In a recent release, Charles Eisenstein shared the following announcement. I am going to try a little experiment here. Every day, actually many times a day, I get these exciting ideas for essays that I file away in my head for when I have time to write them out. Now there are hundreds of them, …continue
David Wolfe writes, Beauty is such a precious commodity. The potential of beauty is so great that it is never given away freely. “Something for nothing” is against the flow of nature. “Anything worth having is worth working for” was Andrew Carnegie’s important insight. If you desire vibrant beauty, you must earn it, step by …continue
Mark Stephens writes, In its noun form, the Sanskrit term guru means “one who shares knowledge,” while as an adjective it means “heavy” or “weighty” in reference to spiritual knowledge. Some have suggested that the separate syllables gu and ru refer to dark and light, with the role of the guru being to impart the …continue
Chapter 1 – Earth Under Siege Nathan Beals punched out from work at precisely 6:00 p.m., smack in the middle of Los Angeles rush hour. After the most ballistic holiday shopping mania he had ever seen in his twenty-odd years working security at the mall, he finally had an entire weekend off. Exhausted, he dragged …continue
Linda Bender, D.V.M. writes: In the hour before the 2004 tsunami struck, many people noticed that the animals were acting weird. Cicadas stopped rattling and birds stopped singing. Dogs refused to go outdoors. Elephants trumpeted in alarm and stampeded toward the hills. Relative to the human population, very few animals were drowned. They seemed to …continue