New Age Journal

by Heather Roan Robbins

Happy Labor Day weekend. Labor day is the Virgo holiday, time to celebrate our work by taking a break from it and enjoying summer weather once more before knuckling down to the fall schedule. But the stars also want us to take a moment and think about the nature of our work [...]

by Dr. Tom Bayne, D.C
With over 13 million prescriptions written every month, statins, a class of drug used to lower blood cholesterol levels, are the most prescribed drug in the US. Physicians write prescriptions under the misconception that whatever downside statins may have, it is better than having a heart attack. Is this true? Do [...]

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone
Last time, I pointed out that your re-created new self is not perfect, nor would you want that self to be perfect.  Perfect implies completion - something that is finished and done. Perfection means a level of accomplishment beyond which there can be no further development and improvement.  In this [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins

It’s time to do something that’s long overdue; repair, retrieve, review, complete and amalgamate as Mercury retrogrades. It’s harder to get a new project going now, so clear up the past and begin to focus on the future after Sept 12th as Mercury turns directs, then let it rip after Sept 27th [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff
Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of God
- Koran
Recently, there has been much discussion about building a mosque near ground zero; many people feel that its location dishonors and insults the memory of those who died in the 911 tragedy. Yet, people forget that innocent Muslims died in this event, Americans fought a [...]

By Susan Scharfman
Will you teach your children what we teach our children, that the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. Earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the earth.
––Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe (et al) of the Pacific Northwest
If old Chief Seattle was [...]

by Michael Berman
Existing models of shamanism have tended to focus upon particular skills or states of consciousness exhibited by shamans and are therefore framed with reference to outcomes, rather than by attending to the processes of development leading to them. David Gordon Wilson, New College, Edinburgh in his paper “Spiritualist Mediums and other Traditional Shamans: [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Wake up and smell the turning leaves. Love and challenge are this week’s themes as Venus and Mars conjunct in ever so friendly Libra and crank up our emotional expectations, while Saturn squares Pluto and challenges our sense of security all while the Sun opposes Neptune and Mercury turns retrograde and fuzzes [...]

Women from across the Southeast will gather at the 6th  annual Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference on October 1-3, at Lake Eden in scenic Black Mountain, NC. With over 60 classes by more than 30 teachers, the weekend focuses on herbal education, nourishing foods, wholistic sexuality, and ecology. The conference, which has grown to over 600 [...]

By Keith Varnum
“You go in ocean, you study with me. You no go in ocean, you
no study with me.”
My first lesson in the art of trust was from a wily Japanese
macrobiotics teacher named Noboru Muramoto. Picture the free
spirit martial arts instructor in the movie “Karate Kid” with
a wacky sense of humor.
I’d gone to Muramoto’s house [...]

by Dr. Christina Grant
If you have undergone breast surgery or a mastectomy, you might consider specialized scar massage therapy to help your body heal from the trauma. This type of massage targets scar tissue, which is an ongoing source of pain and discomfort for many women.
Lymph drainage will also be addressed as part of your [...]

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone
As I pointed out, last time, when it comes to personal development, and most probably to most areas of your life, you can learn from everyone, and from everything, but there is no better teacher than your personal experience.
As you transition from the false, negative and outdated beliefs, the ideas [...]