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I have not seen the new Ric Burns documentary “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film,” now ending a two-week run at one New York theater. But The New York Times said the film’s most significant contribution (from an art critic’s standpoint) was the linking of Warhol’s serial portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Elvis Presley, et…

Thanks to the Feingold Program’s newsletter for guiding me to “Find a Remedy,” a website where folks being prescribed drugs by doctors can read reader-generated reviews of the medicine, and compare notes with others.

This month’s Mothering magazine offers fabulous ways to honor a pregnant friend at her baby’s shower. * Pass a “wisdom book” around and ask each guest to contribute words of encouragement. * Tell guests to bring canned goods for a local women’s shelter and have everyone at the party join hands to pray for all…

This is depressing, but important to read. Toxic mercury is being discovered in more places than ever anticipated.

Did you see this? Quite inspiring. A woman who discovered at the last minute that her husband-to-be was unfaithful, turned her non-refundable wedding reception into a charity fundraiser.

Here are some excerpts from what I’ll call the Aura Debates, all spawned by my family’s aura pictures (scroll down if you missed ’em). From an electrical engineer named Brian: “…aura just means an energy field, specifically around biological organisms. It’s similar to running a current through a wire; it produces an EM field. Everything…

Please have a listen to this enlightened, American-born Muslim’s views, and catch a glimmer of our shared, and most interesting future.

Washington National Cathedral continues to publish wonderful broadband of its most important talks and speeches. Scroll down to see Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman talk about the “Joyous Science of Kindness and Wisdom” here.

In the context of the Wilber talks, I’m finding it rather unfortunate that my last post from Friday was about how I put my 10-year-old son to sleep with a Robert Browning poem that basically teaches that God is up in Heaven (outside of the human sphere), God is mythic, and God is male. A…

I am basking in full-on workshop afterglow. I heard Ken Wilber speak twice this weekend in New York to 300 people for two hours last Friday and two-and-a-half more on Sunday. Wilber currently serves as head of the Integral Institute, a spiritual think-tank that aims to elevate people to higher levels of awareness and compassion…
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