Restoring the Sacred Hoop

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A University of Minnesota teacher reconnects his Gen X students to their spiritual center  She was about 19 years old but seemed younger. I knew the minute I saw her in my office doorway that she was troubled and close to tears. I encouraged her to talk to me as I leaned forward in my chair and said, "It's OK if the tears come." Her small frame trembled as she began to talk. Within minutes, she was crying openly as she shared her experiences of being a student-athlete at the University of … [Read more...]

The Lake Harriet Vortex

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Related article: Understanding the Vortex by Michelle Mayama Read below -- Lake Harriet Vortex Timeline The Earth and a spiritual community co-create a future for all of us A brilliant stained-glass image, that of Jesus standing at a door knocking ever so humbly, catches my attention within this sanctuary but my spirit is drawn to the spiraling energy felt deep within my being. Sitting still under an imposing dome, I am clearly moved. Going within, I see the door open and I am welcomed with … [Read more...]

Understanding the Vortex

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In 1983, I began to learn about and work with healing the subtle energy fields of the human body. Within my training I learned that the vortices (chakras or energy centers) of the body can be blocked and nearly closed, overextended, distorted, or contain holes and leaks from unhealed injury. Energy meridians could be cut and frayed from past trauma and subsequently the flow of energy to certain organs or limbs would be impaired. I also discovered pockets of pain, unreleased grief, fear, … [Read more...]

The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life: An interview with Thomas Moore

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Somewhere along the way to three cars in every garage, American society lost or misplaced something important: its enchantment with life and the world. Such a loss threatens an even greater loss-that of the soul. In his first two bestsellers, Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, author Thomas Moore dished out a large dose of preventative medicine for the preservation of our individual and collective souls. Moore's latest book, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life (Harper Collins, 1996), leads the … [Read more...]

Earl Bakken still challenges how we view health care

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Minnesotan finds more than sunshine in land of Rainbows -- An Edge Interview Forty-five years ago, Earl Bakken developed the first battery-powered, transistorized pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic Inc. The company, still developing ever-improving pacemakers and many other high-tech products for cardiac and neurologic health, now employs 10,000 people worldwide. Bakken has been called the "father of high-tech medicine," and he is considered a motivating force behind Medical Alley, Minnesota's … [Read more...]

Healing and Truth: An Indigenous Perspective

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Throughout the centuries, a people existed on this continent who were very successful in maintaining supremely healthy bodies and a sound mental state, living within a remarkable, democratic structure. Tribal people were not afraid to use their minds and they studied what they observed in the Creator's creation. Their concepts, the basis of their studies, was from the highest source of all things. They rarely lied and never broke a treaty, which they considered as their solemn words. Truth … [Read more...]

Soul Issues are World Issues: An interview with Robert Sardello

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No system of thought, philosophy, psychology, or religion can be static. To be viable, such systems must evolve along with the evolution of the consciousness of the humans living and embracing them. In a fine illustration of this movement toward the future, Robert Sardello, Ph.D., has gifted us with Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for Earth. Dr. Sardello's book, an exploration and guide to" finding the doorway leading to the creation of a new spiritual culture," pushes the boundaries of … [Read more...]

Recapture the Fire Within

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Hiking deep in a canyon in my home state of Arizona last year, I had a chance encounter with a timeless creature ...a wild stallion. This steed and his herd run free on Indian land and have never been ridden or domesticated. The lead stallion came forward from the pack to inspect me. He was curious and innocent in a very child-like way, yet majestic and totally sovereign. We stood, felt, enjoyed, and marveled in each other's being for an eternal moment. I pulsated with the wild, explosive, yet … [Read more...]

No Need to Clutch, It’s an Automatic Shift

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I have spent hours starting this article over several times. Sheets of legal paper surround me with dozens of outrageously brilliant thoughts that I was so cleverly going to weave together into a poignant, yet gracefully written piece of art. However, it's just not happening that way. My energy is requiring something more like a blurt-it-right-out-there approach. Here goes. It's kind of nice writing for the readers of this publication. I can skip so many preliminaries about shifts, changes, … [Read more...]

Do Beliefs Determine UFO Existence?

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Unidentified flying objects, alien abductions, crop circles, all sorts of encounters with alien beings - this is the stuff of the extraordinary, far outside our, ordinary, consensual reality. But these events do happen, they often have multiple witnesses, and they leave "nuts and bolts" evidence behind. For the most part, science, as we know it, has neither the paradigm nor the knowledge to explain these events. Therefore, mainstream science chooses to ignore these phenomena, these untidy … [Read more...]

An interview with Michael Ventura

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“An Artist Without Obsession Isn’t Worth a Damn!” According to author John Updike: "The ditch digger, the dentist, and the artist go about their work in much the same way Any activity becomes creativity when the doer cares about doing it right or better. The artistic impulse is a mix, in varying proportions, of childhood fantasizing brought on by not necessarily unhappy periods of solitude; a certain hard wish to perpetuate and propagate the self; a craftsmanly affection for the materials … [Read more...]

Ancient Prophecies: Another Vision

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"Did you see that show 'Ancient Prophecies'? It was scary!" So proclaimed my 13-year-old son after viewing the recently televised network TV program dramatizing many of the major predictions and prophecies about the end of this century. Then I overheard people talking about the show in grocery stores and restaurants, all echoing versions of my son's reaction. Finally, borrowing a copy of the video, I watched it for myself, and could immediately see why it had such an effect on those who may be … [Read more...]

An interview with James Redfield

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Celestine Prophecy articulates awakening spirituality now happening James Redfield self-published The Celestine Prophecy in 1992 under the Satori Publishing label. New Leaf, its distributor, said that over 100,000 copies sold by word-of-mouth alone. Warner Books bought rights to the book in 1993 and Publishers Weekly said in its December 6, 1993 issue that $800,000 advances to unknown authors don't happen every day. In the Spring of 1994 Warner Books released the book in hardcover concurrent … [Read more...]

Jon Kabat-Zinn – On Meditation

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Several years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., created the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where severely ill patients are treated, patients with. AIDS, cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, etc., all referred by mainstream physicians. The clinic's cornerstone healing technique is mindfulness meditation, and the results of its healing power are laid out in Dr. Kabat-Zinn's first book, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face … [Read more...]

Sensing the Spatial

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When I was a small child I had two favorite places in our house. One was the cupboard under the stairs, a small, dark place filled with junk, cardboard boxes, and the vacuum cleaner. The other was a place I had made myself by pushing a big old arm chair against some shelves, thus making a little nook for myself between the end of the shelves and the adjacent wall. By climbing over the back of the chair I was hidden to the world, and in my very own, very special place. Like most children I had … [Read more...]