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ART, HEALING, & Slowing Down

SIDDHARTHA V. SHAH has been promoting art as a means of community engagement and social responsibility throughout his professional career. Recently he took up the role of Director of the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, and talks with VANESSA PATEL about how he is expanding his vision in this new college environment.

TAP into Peacefulness: Developing Peace Inside Out

DR. RANJANI IYER, SYLVIE BERTI-ROSSI, and SHARAT HEGDE from the Peacefulness Movement explore the need for peace with globalization and increasingly rich diversity across the world.

Character Builds Personality

In September 2022, DAAJI released his latest bestseller, The Wisdom Bridge, and throughout 2023 we are sharing highlights from the various chapters to give you a taste of the wisdom the book offers. This month the excerpt is from chapter 14 on Principle 6: Character Builds Personality.

True Wealth for One and All

CHARLES EISENSTEIN challenges our reliance on money to cater to all our needs, and asks, \"What is the corollary to such a life?\"

The Language of PEACE

JOHANNA VILHJALMSDOTTIR and SYLVIE BERTI ROSSI offer us a glimpse of this year's Spirit of Humanity Forum's retreat in Iceland. They also share insights from some of the participants on the final day.

Searching for Peace

DR. ICHAK ADIZES is nostalgic for a time when he could be in tune with the natural world, at peace with himself, and unrushed by modern life.

ARE WE ASKING The Right Questions?

DEEPAK CHOPRA was interviewed in Kanha Shanti Vanam on July 2, 2023, by EKTA BOUDERLIQUE. After an illustrious career bridging health, science, and spirituality, he tackles the big questions of consciousness, existence, truth, and human evolution, and challenges science to re-assess the questions it is asking.

Sustaining the Soul, nurturing the Earth

LIAA KUMAR and LAYA IYER explore the relationship between peace and our connection with the natural world.

May Peace Be Upon You

MANILAL ROOPA lives in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He is retired after a career as an educator and facilitator for over 50 years, and continues to work as a Heartfulness trainer, which he has done for over 30 years. As a “colored” under Apartheid in South Africa, he has been through much and seen a lot of social change during his life, radiating peacefulness and love throughout.

Bridging the Gap: Biophilia as a Path to a Sustainable Lifestyle

SRAVAN BANDA is an architect with a strong awareness of Nature and its role in building. He shares some basic principles of biophilic design.

How to Manifest Peace

DAAJI shares some simple practices that allow peace to manifest in daily life. The ripple effect as more of us do this is already building momentum.

MY FELLOW TRAVELERS

This is an invitation from TRACIE PAPE to practice Peacefulness and see what the simple and powerful intentions can create within you and in others.

What We Think

LYNN GEDDES explores the importance of what we think and how our thoughts create our own unique reality. She also shares a way to change that reality by working with intentions and manifestation.

STALKING YOUR Mind

Stalking the Mind is part of an ancient Indigenous American Medicine Way to tame your guilt, fears, and shame. What we’re “stalking” are our thought patterns and beliefs that seem to create the opposite of happiness and wellbeing. It’s a powerful psychotherapeutic journey of healing without the diagnosis or labels.

THE FIRST BOOK ANYBODY LOVED

Eco-feminist BEVERLY FREDERICK explains why credit for the world's first author has been so slow: Early archaeologists first had to first figure out why an ancient woman had a tablet in her lap.

WELLNESS IN THE WILD

Spa aficionado MARY BEMIS takes the [cold] plunge at Mohonk Mountain House.

WISDOM IN 20 QUESTIONS

THE SOUL OF THERAPY

BECOMING YOUR OWN LEAD RESEARCHER IN HEALTHCARE

PEGGY LA CERRA, PHD, downloaded a health app to aggregate her medical records and was stunned to see the phrase \"aortic atherosclerosis.\" What she did next is a helpful model for all of us.

ARCHETYPAL ASTROLOGY

\"Is astrology true?\" is the wrong question, writes RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO. He suggests that the truth is out there, but out there is really in here.

ONE WORD TO BEAT WINTER BLUES: BIOMIMICRY

CREATURELY REFLECTIONS

THINKING ABOUT RESTITUTION

THE HEART OF HAPPINESS

the trail of ATONEMENT

One Ashkenazi Jewish family escaped pogroms in Russia and then flourished in South Dakota, but the “free land” of their new homestead had been unfairly taken from the Lakota by the United States. Generations later, a celebrated investigative journalist set out to tell the truth of the Lakota and her family, calculate The Cost of Free Land—and pay it back.

WAITING IN LINE

OUR WALK IN THE WORLD

MY SMILING NEIGHBOR CALLS ME A CHRIST KILLER...

ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE FOR THE SPIRITUAL TRAVELER

FEATURED ARTIST - Paul Lewin

Lead digital editor Brenna Lilly spoke with artist Paul Lewin about ancestral inspiration, visions for the future, and the art of patience.

LEAVING MESA VERDE

After 21 years of service at Mesa Verde National Park, RANGER DAVID FRANKS recently guided his last tour of the pueblos and cliff dwellings. He says he was fortunate to assist the archeologists with a variety of work and never lost his amazement with their ability to figure out how and when things happened. The question he still wrestles with is much deeper: Why they left?

ENTER THE SAUNA

Journalist Emily O’Kelly shares some uplifting research on the benefits of sweat bathing, a global healing practice not just limited to Northern climes.

7 Tips that Show How Crucial Social Connection Is to Well-being

Could public health guidelines help stop loneliness? Kiffer George Card shares both research and his perspective on how we can address the pandemic of loneliness. He advocates coming together in a whole-of-society response, which means addressing the very problem he is seeking to solve.

TALKING WITH MY GRIEF

RUBY CARMEN explores the often repressed emotion of grief, and shares some ways we can accept it, value the meaning behind it, and integrate it into our being as an expression of love.

The Perils of Being "Too Smart"

DR. ICHAK ADIZES challenges the notion that smarter is always better. What is able to surface when we move beyond the intellect?