A while back a friend of mine asked me, “Why do people live in the past?” The surrounding conversation, as all conversations between us, was sharp witted and thought provoking.... 

My first meeting with the concept of the here and now was around 28 years ago when I was involved in a 2 day retreat in Vancouver. As part of the activities, we were asked to compose... 

Ritual is one of the oldest human activities. It has often been relegated to a strictly religious category. Yet beyond Sunday services, public prayers and providing religious institutions... 

There is something you want to experience in your life right now, but your mind is insisting that there are things that have to happen first, there are other events that have to take... 

Thomas Aquinas said that beauty arrests motion. He meant, I think, that in the presence of something gorgeous or sublime, we stop our nervous natterings, our foot twitchings and restless... 

I first took these rites in February of 2007 and since then my life has literally turned around. The rites, gifted from the shamans of the Amazon and of the Peruvian mountains are wondrous... 

by Adam, Viking Press  ISBN 978-0670064489 Unless you have read anything else recently about quantum physics, such as “the Elegant Universe” by Brian Green, you may think that... 

As a tool for turning our fears into power we use the element Fire and participate in a “Firewalk”.  Many cultures use this activity of walking on hot coals or cinders as a wonderful...