Sexual Trauma and PTSD keep painful memories from our past alive and present in our day to day lives. — By Corinne Farago Sexual Trauma and PTSD keep painful memories from our past alive and present in our day to day lives. …

Unless the work for justice derives from joy and compassion, we risk creating more harm than good. — By Daniel Gauss I spotted this photo in the Ho Chi Minh City Museum a couple weeks ago. It is the type of photo that immediately arrests your attention. The young woman engages you directly with her warm smile and slightly tilted head. We sense her joie de vivre, see…

the cycle of the sacred and the mundane. — By Edie Weinstein The invitation arrived in the form of a text from my BFF Barb as she told me about a women’s retreat at her synagogue. …

A visit into alternate realities. — By Edie Weinstein I ponder this paradigm often as I am simultaneously grateful for the life I have chosen. Some might contend that our lives were decided for us by soul contract before we are incarnated. I have come to believe that our lives are part personal choice/free will and…

If you are seeking an affordable, stimulating and even inspiring vacation, Hanoi is a good option. — By Daniel Gauss You can get an e-visa to Vietnam for 30 days, online, easily. 90-day tourist visas will be available in August 2023. Hanoi is a beautiful, vital, exciting city filled with sweet, kind, hardworking and optimistic people. Furthermore, it is an inexpensive travel option filled with interesting things…

Sometimes, just staying still and listening to the wind can be an event of great beauty. — By Ira Rabois The Curious Power of the Wind Sometimes, just staying still and listening to the wind can be an event of great beauty. Nothing else is needed to feel full, satisfied. Happy. Those are rare and glorious moments. Sometimes, wind is a gentle touch, a cooling breeze on a torrid day. Sometimes, it disappears…

The Center for Partnership Systems was started in 1987 by Riane Eisler and David Loye as a response to her groundbreaking book, The Chalice and the Blade, which had just been published. — By Jed Diamond Ph.D Recently I had the great good fortune to interview my long-time friend and colleague Dr. Riane Eisler. …

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara teaches us to be open to the pain of others in order to better serve the needs of others. — By Daniel Gauss The bodhisattva has one pair of hands at rest. One pair of hands is praying. 500 pairs of hands are acting in coordination with 500 pairs of eyes. This is a lacquered wood statue of the Thousand-armed and Thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara, from the 17th century, and it is…

Miró had a sorcerer’s ability to turn the mundane in our lives into a golden source of magical engagement. — By Daniel Gauss Joan Prats, one of Miró’s dearest friends, once said, “When I pick up a stone it’s a stone. When Miró picks up a stone it’s a Miró.” To a great extent this show at the Hong Kong Museum of Art is about the inevitable process of the…