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The Sex Drive Roller Coaster

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Laurel Alexander can help you get a derailed sex life back on track.

Where Soldiers Come From

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Co-produced and directed by Heather Courtney
This low-key documentary begins with all the hallmarks of a working class drama but unfolds into the kind of slower-moving “hippie” film initially disdained by its unlikely heroes, a crew of buddies from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The combat footage is startling (director Courtney embedded with the platoon to capture it), [...]

Hike for Survival: Wilderness Trek

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Thomas Coyne’s account of fishing with his hands, and other juicy details from the trail

After Sex, the Spiritual Path

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Why spiritual teachers have feet of clay, by Robert K. C. Forman

Recipes for Supernatural Kids

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

The kitchen is a playground for kids

The God Question: What do we really know?

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

When we talk about God, it is in the context of a 2,000-year-old conversation in which nothing significant has been brought to the table for a great many years…

There Is Nothing Wrong with You

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

I met Peter at a summer camp for the Royal National Institute of Blind People in Hampshire, England. I was teaching a day on self-esteem to 50 teenagers, and Peter was in the class. They were like any large group of teenagers in school—creative, unruly, funny, boisterous, challenging, very energetic . . . and blind.
Peter [...]

One Lucky Elephant

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Lucky is a subjective word. The central human character in this endearing film, David Balding, was certainly lucky to make a deep connection with his massive friend, Flora. But whether Flora was equally lucky is less certain. How lucky is any wild animal, really, when taken from its native habitat and made to perform in [...]

Unbidden Insights Are Like a String of Pearls

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Sometimes unbidden insights reveal themselves in meditation. For David Lynch, they helped him create a film

The Eastern Science of Self-Healing

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Aggravated energy finds a defective space in the body to take root. You can control that.