Optimal Timing

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Five years ago I began the process of selling a home. My partner and I had purchased a building for our business and we needed proceeds from the sale to cover temporary financing of the new property. Days went by, then weeks passed with little buyer interest. We grew concerned as weeks became months and it became apparent that the housing market was heading downward. We let our listing expire, made some cosmetic changes to the home and eventually re-listed it with a different agent. Again, … [Read more...]

2010, Oh Mama

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A decade ago we were concerned about Y2K and the end of the world as we knew it. Perhaps we were right about the outcome, even though Y2K itself turned out to be a minor event for most people. Still, that possibility of radical change did ignite an awareness of our global interconnectedness and the possibility that our lives could experience significant shift in a short period of time. However, instead of a global meltdown at that time, we actually experienced 24 hours of collective joy. Do … [Read more...]

Tributes to Gary & Insiah Beckman

Thanks, Gary and Insiah, for your support and love over the last 16 years. You have been instrumental in helping me build my career, as well as an inspiration to the metaphysical community. Blessings as your journey continues. - Kathryn Harwig. Visit www.harwig.com or call 763.656.7204. Two bold leaders, Gary and Insiah,who with a vision for something that had never been done, took spirituality to a new dimension. Pioneers with dedication for serving the metro area and beyond, maintained the … [Read more...]

Thanks to All during this Wonderful Journey

On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl. - Rumi The time for change is upon us and with love and gratitude we hand over the reins of Edge Life magazine to Tim Miejan, our editor, and Cathy (Shaffer) Jacobson, our sales manager. They will both do an excellent job in many innovative ways to bring to all our readers excellent choices in their spiritual journeys. This has been a wonderful, … [Read more...]

Edge Life Magazine Sold to Editor, Sales Manager

For the past 16 years Gary Beckman has published Edge Life magazine, originally known as The Edge newspaper, providing the Twin Cities and the Upper Midwest with information, insight and wisdom in the realm of metaphysics, complementary healing, spirituality and holistic living. This February edition, issue No. 196, is his last as publisher. The magazine and its website was sold effective February 1 to Tim Miejan, managing editor, and Cathy Jacobsen, sales manager. They will relaunch the … [Read more...]

Becoming Aware of Becoming Aware

A shift is occurring within the hearts of humanity. We are finding a new passion within and recognizing that who we are counts. "I Am valuable, important and significant. I matter and I have a contribution to make!" This passion is igniting within each of us. This shift is taking place across the world in every town and village and in the hearts of each child, woman and man. A connection is being made one heart to another. In this connection of caring, sharing, giving and receiving, a … [Read more...]

The New Edge Magazine: Flowing in the Soulstream that is Now

In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp - praise song for walking forward in that light.- Inaugural Poem, Jan. 20, 2009This is a most unique moment in the history of humanity, for we are on the precipice - on the edge, if you will - between an age led by personality and ego and an age led by soul, as we have seen with the naming of our new president. There is no turning back, for the energies are set in motion … [Read more...]

The Edge Newspaper / Edge Life Magazine: A Timeline

1992The Edge Newspaper debuts in the Upper Midwest as a bimonthly in August/September 1992. For astrologers, its actual creation was two months earlier, on June 9, 1992 at 3:40 p.m. CST in St. Paul, Minn. The Edge's parent company, Leap Publications, was created earlier that day, at 11:15 a.m. The newspaper is co-founded by Gary Beckman and Lyn LaFroth, currently co-publisher of Essential Wellness newspaper.1993The Edge becomes a monthly newspaper. The first monthly edition debuts in … [Read more...]

A New Way Forward

Every exit is an entry somewhere else." -- Tom Stoppard I remember the moment like it just happened. I was sitting at a small table, facing a tarot reader with a deck of cards. She handed them to me, asked me to shuffle them, cut them or whatever I chose. I did so, handed them back and then, one by one, she placed them face up in a pattern before me. Then that card came up. The card that no one likes to see. Number 13. The skeleton. The white rose. Death. She sensed my apprehension and … [Read more...]

No Party Lasts Forever

I have a tendency to over-schedule and over commit. It comes, I think, from a mistaken belief that given enough time, I really can do everything and be all things for all people. Because I can't, of course, I end up tired and frazzled and disappointed in myself when I have to cancel things.A few months ago I realized that I simply had to drop some things from my life to make space for other things to happen. One thing I had to let go of was a monthly group that I hosted at my studio. There was a … [Read more...]