Archives: 2009

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” That’s the world’s best known affirmation, composed by Emile Coue (1857-1926), a French pharmacist turned psychotherapist, and a champion of personal development and self-help. An affirmation is a positive declaration about your self, others, or the world [...]

That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book about Vegans, Vegetarians and All Living Things Ruby Roth North Atlantic Books 48 pp, $16.95 Review by Christine Gertz Artist, teacher and vegan, Ruby Roth wrote That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals because the children in her art classes were interested in vegetarianism when they found out [...]

By Marlene Buffa Ok.  I admit it.  I hate cleaning windows.  Like most of us, the task often gets delayed until the last possible moment.  After craning my neck to look around the spots on the glass to see outside, I finally relent and get the window cleaner and the newspaper.  My most recent attempt [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins Venus softens our hearts and offers  us the good will and camaraderie needed to handle some otherwise challenging times as it opposes Jupiter and  Neptune for the next two weeks. This Venus encourages us make extravagant displays of how we feel, whether we’re in love,  angry at the regime, or bored [...]

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more. Ask Your Mama, The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality by Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman Dear Mama Donna, Rain dance. Rain dance. There is no such thing as drought. Our lack of consciousness and our scarcity [...]

By Ariadne Green The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.  It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. -Michael Jackson On June 25th, the night before the news of Michael Jackson’s death broke, I had a dream in which I was exploring [...]

Claude Lecouteux Inner Traditions 273 pp, $19.95 Review by Christine Gertz Revenants are spirits that return from the dead to perform a task or to harass the living. They can assume a corporeal form and are strong enough to overcome and kill armed men. In many of the stories a revenant is malevolent, often harming [...]

by Chicagohealers.Com Practitioner Dr. Ian Wahl Natural Ways To Bring Relief to Allergy Sufferers Fall is right around the corner and allergens are in full force! Pollen, ragweed, and mold are still taking their toll on allergy sufferers. These are harmless substances for most; but for some they take the enjoyment out of Fall. According [...]

by Heather Roan Robbins Let’s really honor the spirit of Labor Day, take a break from our work and deal with a wave of emotions under a Full Moon in Pisces. We can use this time to find our center and catch up with ourselves before the fall work rush and before Mercury turns retrograde [...]

By Dr. Stewart Bitkoff There are as many ways to God as there are created souls. -Muhammad In our culture, who assumes the role of holy or wise one? In more traditional cultures the holy, wise one is a central figure.  Often, they advise the king/queen, sit at the right hand of the chief, understand [...]

Re-Creating Your Self by Christopher Stone We’re wrapping our discussion of the second Re-Creating Your Self tool for change, Falling in Love with Your Self. Love Does Not Demand Self-Sacrifice Some times loved ones would have us accept an unnatural guilt when we’re unwilling to prove our love by making personal sacrifice. The father insists, [...]

Through Memory’s Perception by Transcend with Time (Mark M) Transcend with Time (2009) 62:00 minutes www.myspace.com/transcendwithtime Review by Kate Russell Listed on Transcend with Time’s myspace page, composer and musician ‘Mark M’ states that he would “like to do music for films, commercials etc”. I feel he should extend this list to making music for [...]