Archives: 2007 June

By Heather Roan Robbins
This week is emotionally complicated, so please move slowly and carefully and make life meditation of attention.
Pragmatic Mars in Taurus with a tough aspect to unsettling Uranus, pressures us to get busy, get work done, be independent, possibly controlling, and achieve some personal goal. But at the same time, Venus […]

By Bob Livingstone LCSW
There are a lot of us that spend too much time worrying. According to The National Institute on Mental Health, approximately 40 million American adults ages 18 and older, or about 18.1 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have an anxiety disorder. Anxiety prevents us […]

by Howard G Charing
We interviewed Shipibo maestro Leoncio Garcia, a man in his mid seventies but with the appearance of a man twenty years younger. Again a testimonial to the youth giving qualities of Ayahuasca and the plant medicines of the Amazon Rainforest.
Interviewed at Mishana Private Retreat Centre, Amazon Rainforest with Peter Cloudsley August 2005.
Leoncio […]

by Charlie Badenhop
How do you react to deadlines? How would you feel if someone said “Hurry up, the clock is ticking and we’ve got to get this completed!”? How well do you cope with stress? Isn’t it amazing to notice how radically your experience of passing time changes depending on the circumstances, with little correlation […]

By Heather Roan Robbins
This is a time of brooding opportunity, of turmoil between the acts, and astrological pressures make it easy for technical snafus or misunderstanding to throw us off, and tempt us to jump to conclusions or to make rude and ill–timed decisions. Many people are dealing with endings and beginnings as a […]

This August, Portland, Oregon, the City of Roses will play host to esoZone, a unique, three-day event billed as a “Designer Reality Expo.”
esoZone will bring together people from disparate Internet subcultures to exchange art and intellect from Fri., August 10 to Sun., August 12 at the Someday Lounge in downtown Portland. It will feature mind-altering […]

By Sharon Marcus, From the book Sufi
To save the world we must begin by saving ourself, by initiating the process of emptying ourself, everything we once thought valuable, worth saving or hanging onto has to be thrown away, probably for good, because the criteria of value have now been radically transformed. The treasures of yesterday […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Mercury retrogrades today and summer begins at the end of the week, it’s time to slow down, catch up and catch some rays. It’s hard to accomplish anything in particular right now, so let’s kick back and chill, return to ourselves. We can either do so voluntarily, or while we […]

By E. Raymond Rock
Something inside tells you whether or not you are being true to yourself - you can sense it - you can sense the difference between sincerity and falseness. Not being true to yourself means that you are faking it for some reason of convenience, and faking it, in time, eats away at […]

By Sandy Andrew
What is a Past Life?
A past life is a previous existence as a life form on earth, or other life supporting planetary body in this living dimension.
Previous life form on earth you may ask? You are an eternal spirit; you cannot, and will not cease to exist. Most human beings acknowledge they sense […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Get done what needs to be done early in the week. Tie up loose ends, make final purchases of electronic gear, cars, bicycles, tickets, in a careful and thoughtful manner, before Mercury retrogrades June 15 and downshifts our world into its summer languor.
But as the weekend begins, we have places to go […]

by Howard G Charing
Writing from my own personal perspective from my years of work and research in the Amazon Rainforest with the shamans and curanderos who drink the visionary plant brew called Ayahuasca. I use the term ’shaman’ as a convenience as this title has only been ‘imported’ from the West into […]