Good Clean Reads

Learning to pay attention is one of the great triumphs and challenges of the human mind.  Yet our internet technology drives us culturally and personally to increasing levels of distraction at breakneck speeds. Don’t miss Nick Carr, Pulitzer prize nominee and NY Times bestselling author of The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains, provide the insight and wisdom to make you re-think...

Don’t miss revolutionary thinker and author Inga Muscio, who channels her rage with our culture of violence into a creative and passionate endeavor. With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio explores the impact of violence, abuse, war, and cultural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path toward healthy and imaginative sex and love. Don’t miss this provocative...

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”  ~Henry James

I have been thinking a lot about kindness lately because I believe it defines our capacity to show up in our life. The Buddhists teach loving kindness as a fundamental doctrine for both inner and outer peace. In fact, religious philosophy of all denominations...

Sexual abuse affects millions of people, often without them ever recognizing it as the core of their sexual dysfunction issues.   Internationally recognized expert and author Wendy shares her decades of experience and insights into the healing journey that millions of sexual survivors have taken.  Her classic book in its 3rd printing The Sexual Healing Journey: a Guide for Survivors of Sexual...

“The important thing is to enjoy the activity for its own sake, and to know that what matters is not the result, but the control one is acquiring over one’s attention.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In a love business, the idea of pleasure is a primary theme and as a writer on the topic of enhancing pleasure, I have often freely exchanged the concepts of pleasure and enjoyment, as though they were...

Discover the power in developing your ability to harness the fundamental human need to connect. Lynne McTaggart’saward winning new book The Bond, demonstrates with the latest scientific research a profound shift in human consciousness. Listen as she explains how this new understanding of how we are designed to work together replaces the damaging practices of competitive individualism. Moving...

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”   -Paulo Coelho

It’s easy to trust when life is giving us what we want, when our relationships are stable and communication flows. Leaning toward trust when our health is broken, our relationship connections are tattered and we can’t find the words to express our own needs...

Don’t miss author and shaman Julie McIntyre discuss the sacred relationship between sexuality and our relationship to the Earth. Learn how by getting in touch with our wild and natural selves we tap in to the constant erotic nature of the earth. Julie shares her wisdom and years of wilderness training in her book Heartland reveals the healing of our deepest wounds as well as access to a deep,...

Throughout human history, what has created community and provided the structures that build into friendship and intimacy is shared work. We have lost sight of this fact in our highly technological and automated world, and it is rare that we find ourselves at work with people of all ages, side by side moving gravel or tilling fields. Our Positive Change Memorial Courtyard is offering us this...