Health and Wellness

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BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul

Article

Farmers in urban civilizations have always been subject to powers beyond them. Indeed, there is ample evidence that urban civilizations were invariably built on the conquest and subjection of farming cultures. Our current food industry grew out of the defeat of farmers’ efforts in the late nineteenth century to win fair prices for their production.

Published in Winter 2018 By Michael Foley

Green Medicine

Gallery

I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence.

Published in Fall 2018 By Michael O’Brien

Tending the Wild

Article

What looked to European settlers like untamed wilderness was actually the product of millennia of intentional human influence. Calling it wilderness, or “virgin territory,” gave them license to occupy it, cultivate it, “develop” it, and “improve” it.

Published in Fall 2018 By Charles Eisenstein

Consumption As The Path

Music

I had to consume everything. I had to try every possible avenue of filling the God-sized hole from the outside before I could even fathom the possibility that the emptiness and energy swimming through the cosmos was the same emptiness and energy swimming inside of me.

Published in Fall 2018 By Jeff Finlin

Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith

Music

Sound and music are very powerful, and we as emotional beings are sensitive to what we hear. We do not only hear with our ears but with our whole bodies.

Published in Fall 2018 By Kari Auerbach

Eldering in the Age of Consumption

Conversation

Perhaps more than anything, to become elder is to be comfortable with your place in the world.

Published in Fall 2018 By Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson

Climate Reports

In Brief

The power and abundance of our Earth can never be overstated; what is commonly overlooked is humanity's exploitation and neglect of its own life source.

Published in Fall 2018 By Victoria Price