Tag: spirituality

Banking on a More Enlightened Economic Order

It’s an idea whose time has come. Timebanks, having languished in anticipation of the world’s resounding and grateful acknowledgement for too long, may just be the answer to our current spate of financial woes. Through them, we might redefine our understanding of currency to better reflect the value of those goods and services it purports to represent. And if we introduce a new economic model for a population...


Shamanism 101

There are many paths to spirituality. While some might find the solace they seek by adopting a map that travels the most conventional of routes, others discover their truest selves in a pottery class. Or between the pages of an Oprah magazine. Or at the mall.   One of the coolest ways in is shamanism, an ancient pseudo-religious phenomenon that folks have been trying to explain for a couple of hundred years....


It’s Not the Destination…

Spirituality is a journey. Kind of like a holiday to a place you’ve never visited before, but without the luggage surcharges or the blackflies. While you have some idea of what to expect, you’re largely in the dark about the adventures that lie in wait, and it’s your anticipation of them that propels you ever forward in your expedition. But the concept works just as well in the reverse. A trip to some exciting...


On a Wing and One

It is, depending on your point of view, solid science or utter bunk. Either way, it can’t hurt. It is prayer and, says a just-published study, more of us are giving it a whirl in pursuit of relief from what ails us than ever before. University of Massachusetts researchers, whose results are published this month in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, have found that more people are praying for their...


In Praise of Summer

There’s something magical about the arrival of summer, and it’s more than just the opportunity it affords to wear less clothing and play hooky on a stretch of sand. The summer solstice, poised to arrive in our hemisphere on June 21 at 1:17 pm EDT, has long been wrapped up in a kind of mystical aura. Though actually a mere instant in time—the precise moment when the earth’s axial tilt is most inclined toward the...