Archives: 2007 July

by Diane Saarinen
Ever wanted to go camping but also wanted access to a warm bed, a microwave oven, and — oh yeah — a nice, hot shower? Well, now you can at Harmony Hill Retreat Center.

My husband and I recently spent a week at Harmony Hill. We didn’t know quite what to expect when […]

‘Raw for 30 Days,’ a documentary film on reversing diabetes naturally, today released an extended nine-minute preview available on YouTube, Google Video, and the website www.rawfor30days.com.
The film has been called “un-SuperSize Me” for its premise of challenging six McDonald’s-munching Americans with diabetes to go on a vegan, organic, live, raw diet for 30 days. Sundance […]

by Heather Roan Robbins.
This is a productive week in the material world, abundant with possibilities and abounding curiosity, yet may challenge us on the spiritual plane and offer interesting lessons in compromise in the emotional realm.
Venus and Mars are in solid earth signs, Virgo and Taurus respectively, giving us oomph, sensuality and practicality, but may […]

by Jason Randhawa
The New Earth exists within you right now. In order to experience a New Earth you must align with its “high” vibrational frequency.
Here are 10 easy techniques to help you accomplish this:
1. Trust that you will always be looked after. Act as if there is an infinite non-physical world that is […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
It’s a sensuous, stubborn week. Both Venus and Mars in practical and tactile signs, which helps us find it attractive to work side by side, to do something together. With Venus in Virgo, fresh sweat is a turn on and efforts made on our behalf are like roses delivered to our doorstep. […]

Review by Diane Saarinen
I just love teleclasses. I love the convenience of being able to hear from various experts from all over the world via conference call, without having to leave my home. When I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Maya Bailey speak on the Law of Attraction on a free teleconference call that […]

By Stephen Ruppenthal
One day this past winter, I decided to take in a talk on the Buddhist mother of compassion, Kuan Yin. Interested people, and not only women, flooded out the doors of the bookstore where it was being held. I asked myself, why do other talks barely fill the room while this one has […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
We get a whiff of the fall this week as Venus enters Virgo. Though it’s not quite time to buy school clothes, we begin to wonder what we can do now, in our leisurely summer moments, to prepare for the work ahead.
With both Venus in earthy Virgo and Mars in enduring Taurus […]

By Bob Makransky
When we listen to sounds, we can distinguish between two phenomena: “sounds” and “listener listening to sounds”:
“Sounds” is when we are hearing all sounds indiscriminately, like a tape recorder does; when all sounds are impacting on our awareness with equal vividness.
“Listener listening to sounds” is when we are focusing on one specific […]

By Gina Lake
Just sit still a moment and experience what is. What do you experience? a thought? a sensation? an image? a feeling? a desire? tension? relaxation? contraction? expansion? awareness? presence? silence? acceptance? beauty? love? joy? All of this and more can be happening in the now. It turns out the now is packed! […]

by Jean-Claude Koven
Back in 1992, Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise co-starred in a movie entitled A Few Good Men. The high point of the film, in my view, was a classic, heated exchange between their characters, during which Kaffee (the military attorney played by Cruise) says: “I want the truth,” and Col. Jessup (Nicholson) […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Everyone just needs to chill. The stars reward us for holding still, but that‘s hard to do this weekend. We’ve had it with delays. Impatience and action drive us as the Moon enters Aries, but we won’t have a green light for big projects until after July 9, so let’s just […]