Chattering Mind

In a feng shui seminar I once took, teacher Nancy Santo Pietro told us to always unplug appliances when they weren’t in use because they can still produce an electro-magnetic field that can create health problems over time (ranging from subtle to severe depending upon length and proxmity of exposure, plus one’s sensitivity). I do…

By age eight, about half of African-American girls and 15 percent of Caucasian girls show clear signs of sexual development. Boys too are maturing earlier than ever. Thanks to author/researcher Marcia Herman-Giddens, we knew that in 1997. But now public health watchers and naturopathic doctors like Sherrill Sellman are really becoming alarmed about the trend.…

You cannot imagine what a queen of the earth I was when I was 12 years old…Ah! how you would have loved me, and how I miss myself!—Colette I’ve heard that whenever a woman feels indecisive or depressed, she should recall who she was when she was 12. At 12, you’re in touch with the…

Check out the cute photograph that has disgusted some 5,000 complaining readers of BabyTalk magazine. Oh, what a world, what a world!

In 1996, a Laguna Beach psychotherapist named Sharon McErlane was startled by a vision of a “council” of loving grandmothers who urged her to help balance the “masculine and feminine energies” of the earth. Ever since that day, McErlane has been sharing the information those sweet, old, and powerful-beyond-measure ladies gave her by showing others…

Send in a thousand grandmothers,They will surely volunteer.With their ancient wisdom flowing,They will lend a loving ear. First they’ll form a loving circleAround the wounded wing,Then contain the brutal beasts of warSweet freedom songs they’ll sing! A lullaby much strongerThan bombs and threats to kill,A force unlike we’ve ever seenWill break the murder’s will. To…

Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson says that this summer’s high temperatures have converted him to believe in global warming. Do you like him any better?

I wholeheartedly recommend that you read Beliefnet’s new “Posts from a War” blog–particularly if you, like most people, find the Middle East conflict confounding. Every day Beliefnet posts new commentary on the war by scholars and religious leaders designed to help readers understand what the conflict means for Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, American Jews, American Muslims,…

Medical intuitive and mystic Caroline Myss sent the following around in her newsletter(which is always a riot of interesting thinking). First of all, when a planet is at war, the entire vibration of the planet shifts to one of trauma. The physical war does not have to be fought on local territory in order for…

This new study sort of gets you thinking that the folks once considered “extremists” (like vegans) actually prove to be leaders dragging us all in a good direction. I do not practice a vegan lifestyle, but I learn much about good eating through their literature. Likewise, I do not homeschool our children, but I used…

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