Individual Transformation

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The Connection

Essay

She follows my footsteps in the luxurious boutique. I turn and face her unexpectedly. Her porcelain pink skin blushes, shows she’s uncomfortable with people of color. Her fingers interlace tightly in front of her silk white blouse under a black cardigan, her weight shifts from leg to leg in a chic A-line black skirt. She fumbles the words, “Let me know, if you need any help.”

Published in Summer 2018 By Jerrice Baptiste

Resilience

Essay

...The car is now standing still. I smell the disaster before I see it. A smell of fuel and burnt steel. Where are the kids? Not in the car. I look for them on the highway. I find their bodies. I take care of them until ambulances arrive. While running from one child to another, I discover strength in me.

Published in Summer 2018 By Nathalie Legros

Presence at the Edge of Our Practice

Article

Humanity is in a time of transition, one that we can navigate successfully only with a shift in consciousness. How can we wake up from the collective neuroses that have driven our civilization into decadence and decline?

Published in Summer 2018 By Helen Titchen Beeth

Forgive: The new practice and mantra for Black Men

Conversation

At the fragile age of 12, Ulysses Slaughter listened as his mother Clarice was shot to death by his father Ulysses Grant Slaughter Sr. Emerging from his bedroom, he watched as life flowed out of his mother. Stepping over her body that day was the first act in his amazing odyssey toward forgiveness.

Published in Summer 2018 By Ulysses 'Butch' Slaughter and Tamara S. Hamilton

Vessels

Mixed Media

We can practice 'unlearning' grasping and clinging by using the beauty of 'Colors In Motion' to entrain our minds and our nervous systems to accept flow. Flow is a healthy approach to the rapid changes humans are experiencing, and can expand our capacity to be present in every precious moment.

Published in Summer 2018 By Colors in Motion