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WHY IT NEVER RAINS ON THE ENLIGHTENED

ROSHI STEVE HAGEN, a Zen priest and author of The Grand Delusion, sat down with RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO to wrestle with some big stuff—including the ghost of “It!”

MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER WANTS TO TRANSITION ΤΟ A BOY

ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE FOR THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER

Shachi Kale

We spoke with Shachi Kale about healing with art, wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita, and the female journey.

HOW TO MINDFULLY PHOTOGRAPH ANIMAL ROOMMATES

CREATURELY REFLECTIONS

GIVING SPACE FOR HOPE

THE HEART OF HAPPINESS

THE ARTS OF LIBERATION

OUR WALK IN THE WORLD

Find. Your Unicorn

HOW A CREATIVITY EXPERT CAN HELP

Awakening to the Wisdom of the Oak

Kristoffer Hughes is the chief of the Anglesey Druid Order in Wales, and his mission—through his school of myths and workshops and books—is to provide everyone a bite from the cauldron of modern Druidry.

THE ENIGHTENMENT LAB

8 ZEN LESSONS FROM HORSES

It's Not Just a Metaphor

For the past 15 years, I’ve helped clients shift into a place of being where they connect with their own healing power, Divine wisdom, and creative genius. It can be a dramatic and instantaneous shift, which I first encountered by accident, head-on…

Why-Still-The Sound of Silence?

Three healing professionals-Amza Ali, MD,Justin Grant, PhD, and Mary-Elizabeth Gifford-consider the high costs of not speaking up for palliative care with psychedelics.

Why Dance Makes Brains Better

How an effort to help people with Parkinson's disease now helps everyone keep a healthier brain, mind, and body

Become a Connoisseur of Time

We know we’re only here for a short time. So, we don’t really want to get more efficient at spending our time. And we don’t really want to cram it with more distractions. What we really want is to experience our lives in ever-richer ways. And that means getting off the clock. Here, a master outlines how to do just that. Here, a master oulines how to do just that. An interview with Joel Bennett, PhD

CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION

SUZANNE MARRIOTT's beautiful memoir on caregiving, published this month, began taking shape years ago with conversations at a S+H writer's workshop.

FAITH TECH

STEPHEN KIESLING has a virtual dialogue with venture capitalists bent on buying the stairways to heaven.

HACKER SPIRITUALITY

Theologian ANNE FOERST suggests that the young man who stole your identity set out to find himself on a quest for freedom.

DELIGHTFULLY DEEP IN THE WEEDS

Digital editor BRENNA LILLY spent a week apprenticed to a master seaweed harvester-and learned much more than how to gather kelp.

THE FUTURE OF TOUCH

Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS traveled to New York to receive her first massage from a robot.

THE MISSING MIDDLE

CORI HOWARD finds that it takes more than Marie Kondo and burning sage to transition to an empty nest.

DANCE INTO A NEW GROOVE

NOT MOVING is a good way to get stuck emotionally and intellectually, to remain the same, to avoid any new flow of old emotions, and to keep things locked up in our body and mind. Even if we do move regularly, when our bodies are always moving in the same way, we can lose the vital possibilities of sending breath into the areas of our bodies where those stuck emotions, inspirations, or ideas are hiding.

Julie Liger-Belair

Lead digital editor Brenna Lilly spoke with artist Julie Liger-Belair about sacred art, household altars, and the \"muscle\" of creativity.

Practices for Shattered Nights

March 11th was a normal day, filled with typical responsibilities and joys, concerns and endeavors, practices and distractions.

I don't just take photos

ALSO PRACTICES THE ART OF GIVING THEM AWAY

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES

AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIP CONLEY

A Surgeon's Long Night's Journey into PTSD

As a neurosurgeon, the Intensive Care Unit used to be my safe place. Over the past few decades, I have consigned thousands of individuals to be intubated and placed on ventilators. As a veteran of Desert Storm, have participated in research studies to evaluate brain function among my fellow veterans afflicted with PTSD. It never crossed my mind that I might experience PTSD myself as a result of being intubated inside my own ICU.

5 Benefits of Virtual Yoga

In an ideal world, practicing yoga among others would always be better. But in reality, virtual practice may be best.

NAKED TRUTH AND THE STORYTELLING ANIMAL

Evolutionary Neuroscientist PEGGY LA CERRA tells us why it’s time to take a deep dive into the ultimate story: Reality.

THE ANCIENT SCIENCE OF HONEST PROPHESY

Archaeologist BRADY KIESLING explains how Greeks dealt with bribed gods using perhaps the world's first double-blind experiment.

HAWAII WAS HELL UNTIL HOOPONOPONO KE ALA

When Olympic gold medalist OLIVER FIX moved to Hawaii, the way he had learned to do things did NOT work.

THE PREIDLHOF WAY

Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS visits a magical retreat in Italy's South Tyrol.