Archives: 2008 June

The Alchemical Woman; A Handbook For Everyday Soulwork
By Catherine W. Davidson and Ramona P. Rubio
Cultural Tapestries, Oregon
107 pages, $16.95
The soulwork handbook is written by Catherine Davidson, Ph.D, who is a therapist specializing in depth psychology and life transitions. She has many years experience teaching counseling psychology, and clinical practice. Co-author, Ramona P. Rubio, Ph.D. is […]

Ask Your Mama, the What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman

Dear Mama Donna,
I have always felt drawn to the full moon and would like to have some kind of ritual in its honor. The problem is that I don’t know anybody else in my town […]

by Dana Dorfman
I believe women live in their own pocket of time. As nurturer’s of Earth, women have a way of transcending their senses. As Earth nurturer’s they do not freely follow the road of logics. Instead they float through life’s curves by their hunches. Utilizing the appearance of common sense the female life scientist […]

by Heather Roan Robbins

Around this week’s New Moon in Cancer, family and family-like personalities take top billing this week, whether we define ours as the nuclear family, our chosen family of friends, or the family of all sentient beings.
Many people will chew over how we relate and what responsibilities do we owe this family of […]

Breathe Smart - The Secret to Happiness, Health and Long Life
By Aaron Hoopes
Zen Yoga Press, 80ps
$9.95
Self-Help/Fitness
Breathing is something that is second nature to all of us, and yet, as Aaron Hoopes points out, few of us do it correctly. That is to say, in a way that will give us optimum health benefits, reduce negative […]

by Christopher R. Edgar
The most effective inner work I’ve done on myself has been what’s often called “conscious suffering.” The term comes from early twentieth-century mystic G.I. Gurdjieff, who “distinguished between unconscious suffering, which is without value, and conscious suffering, sometimes termed ‘voluntary’ or ‘deliberate’ suffering, through which we can self-perfect.”
By this, I mean […]

by Karen Tate
Writing my current new book, Walking An Ancient Path: Rebirthing Goddess on Planet Earth, required that I look back over years of happiness, sadness, revelations, success, disappointment and patterns. One of those patterns was my relationship with surrender and my belief in universal wisdom.
Surrender was not a concept I easily related to or […]

by Heather Roan Robbins
Happy Solstice, though it may be a subdued and thoughtful first day of summer the Sun opposes Pluto just before it enters Cancer at 5:59 pm MDT. Mercury is now direct after three weeks retrograde and so delayed plans or slow projects now pick up speed, but first we need to take […]

by Mama Donna Henes
Tomorrow is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. How long is that? The only way to really understand how long it is, is to experience it. Get up with the sun and stay in its presence until it sets.
SOLSTICE SUNRISE: 5:08AM Eastern Daylight Time
SOLSTICE SUNSET: 8:25PM Eastern Daylight Time
Do […]

In medieval France, a sect of enlightened mystics tried to preserve Christ’s true message. The Church exterminated them during Christianity’s darkest hour.
By Glen Craney
They were called Cathars-”the Pure Ones”-because they lived simple lives of poverty and embraced pacifism in the example of the Apostles. Traveling in pairs, they healed the sick and quested for a […]

By Christopher Stone
Re-Creating Your Self is a process of personal transformation, based upon belief system work, that assists people in becoming the person they want to become, living the life they desire. This life-changing blueprint explains one time-honored theory of how life ‘works,’ and what makes things happen. Re-Creating Your Self reveals how you became […]

This is an interesting little book. I say “little,” since it’s a slim volume at just 82 pages. However, there’s a lot of wisdom held within it — particularly for those who are healthcare workers battling job burnout and stress.

I think the author (an MD) would like this book to appeal to a […]