Category: Book review

Books we like and recommend.

Send them love

In the movie The Secret Life of Bees, the beekeeper August Boatwright tells the little girl staying with her that all little beings want to be loved.  She says to send the bees love as a way to avoid getting

Dream Yoga

Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, provides training on how to remember your dreams, and a world of additional dreamy advice.     By focusing in a prescribed manner (detailed in the book) and

Have we lost our souls in a constant quest for speed, entertainment, and convenience?

There’s Something Terribly Rude About Texting on a PDA During Conversation describes 4 stages of abandonment: Confusion – the abandoned conversationalists are simply bewildered, wondering “Why is this happening to me? Why aren’t they listening? Uncomfortable – “How long is

Prove It!

A recent reader comment closed with: “Those scientists… if they can’t prove it, it doesn’t exist”, which is I think one of the rules those scientists go by. (I don’t know for sure; I’m not a scientist.) It is time that

No News is Good News

For the month of March, we have taken the NO NEWS Vow. We will not read newspapers, not watch or listen to news, not click on media news sites on the Internets. We will not even watch much TV, or

The Brain That Changes Itself

This book is full of amazing information and stories, told in an approachable manner by a gifted science writer. I had never heard of the Gypsy People before, who paid attention to what was happening around them and survived the

Brain Wave Management

The state we are in at any time, (alert, relaxed, “in the zone”, dreaming, etc.), correlates directly to our brain’s electrical frequency patterns. You can see this on an EEG or many other monitoring devices, such as the EmWave by HeartMath. Practically speaking,

A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

On Eckhart Tolle’s website, he says: Millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore, but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive. Everything is speeding up – the madness, the collective

What is Education For?

Today I started reading It covers some very interesting questions: What is education for? Where should it take place? How? When? What is the ideal school? The ideal lifelong learning experience? Who should be in charge of education? And who

Sacred Earth

Martin Gray spent 22 years visiting 1,000 sacred sites in 80 countries around the world. He traveled as a pilgrim, along with the other pilgrims who honored the sanctity of those places. His background as a professional photographer combined with

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