The V-Word

Half of all the honey bees on the planet have died in recent years. A startling fact when you consider not only the impact that this has on the food chain and our food supply, but the even deeper metaphor that this represents for our culture. The disappearance of the bees has been named “Colony Collapse Disorder” and one well-known bio-dynamic bee keeper featured in the new film by Taggart Siegel,...

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”  -Albert Schweitzer

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One of the most obvious, if least utilized practices of positivity is creating a strong social network. I am not talking about digital friends here, but rather actual 3D situations where you do things with people you like. Ironically, all of the hyper online social connectivity is leaving many people with less time and opportunities for real interactions. So I have been starting positivity circles...

Discover the mysteries of life and relationship through the perspective of a truly renaissance scholar, David Barish, professor of psychology at University of Washington and author of over 30 books on topics including animal sociobiology to human evolutionary psychology. This fascinating conversation travels through the evolutionary mysteries of sexuality and illuminates our fundamental human...

by Anastasia Strgar

I wouldn’t say I was surprised when I discovered Kim Kardashian’s divorce the other day, but I will say I was a little disgusted. Any respect that I had for her previously (which was very little, mind you) disappeared in a pouf when I read her statement about the divorce, which said something along the lines of expecting a fairytale… Although we’d all love to be Cinderella, the...

“Love and magic have a lot in common.  They enrich the soul, delight the heart, and they both take practice.”   From my birthday invitation

I celebrated my 50^thbirthday this week and was blessed by the presence of lots of friends old and new, an incredible troupe of fire dancers, a Houdini-like magician and an iconic fortune teller. The potluck was a gourmet feast, the local park building a...

“I do not ask to know,  I do not ask to see,  I ask only to be used.”  -Sufi Prayer

 

Today is my last day of my last year of the forties. Tomorrow is the first day of a new decade for me and so it seems only right that I start with the beginner’s mind. These last weeks of my 49^thyear have been a jumble of success and pain. I have been recognized outwardly as a success by large groups of...

“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”  -Voltaire

 

Orgasm transforms our physical bodies into a vessel of energy. Our cellular physical boundaries fade as our bodies become the vehicle that transports us into experiences that connect us to universal energy, our spiritual source. Studieshave confirmed that as many as one in twenty individuals experience a...

Rethink what orgasm means for you in this provocative conversation with Mikaya Heart, author of The Ultimate Guide to Orgasm for Women. Explore female sexuality from a perspective that normalizes the diversity of women's experiences— including the wide range of physical experience, emotional release and spiritual recognition that comes through orgasm. Discover new ways to find your capacity for pleasure and ways to communicate it to your lover. Understand your connection to the erotic and witness how that enhances your connection to life.