Louis Sahagun is the author of Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly P. Hall. He is a senior staff writer at the Los Angeles Times where he covers religion, politics, the environment, law enforcement, and race relations. He is also current president of the L.A. chapter of Latino Journalists of California Association. Read More
by Joyce McFadden- We as mothers are putting our own fears ahead of our daughters’ well being, and we have to confront this crisis of confidence in order to offer our girls more grounding in sexual vitality than we were given by our own mothers.
by Letha Hadady-If you have complexion troubles or cloudy vision two garden flowers can make your life easier. They are also useful cold and flu remedies.
Honeysuckle is a flowering shrub that blooms late spring and all summer with a penetrating sweetness from delicate blossoms containing honey. You might grow this lovely, fragrant flower in your garden. It likes temperate climates and a well-drained soil. Honeysuckle, a perennial, needs full sun, but tolerates light shade. Best planted in the fall as a hedge, spacing the shrubs three feet apart, water them freely during summer and sparingly during winter. Feed the plants monthly during the growing season with a balanced fertilizer, and propagate new plants from softwood cuttings in late spring or from cuttings in late summer. Read More
by Letha Hadady, D.Ac.- This spring’s unusual flu season may be an indication that more is to come this fall. It would be wise to act preventively now and throughout the summer. Many alternative health experts agree, “At least 70% of our immunity against illness comes from a healthy colon.”
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Mitch Horowitz is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin in New York and the author of the forthcoming Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation which has been called “a fascinating book” by Ken Burns and “a sparkling, down-to-earth, and often deeply touching account” by Jacob Needleman. Read More
Occasionally I get requests for online versions of Reiki training, and although I believe online courses and electronic media is a most powerful development for easier access to information and training, there are some things that simply can’t replace the experience of live instruction. Read More
by Letha Hadady-During the mid 1990s, after being nationally certified as an acupuncturist in New York, I traveled to China for advanced training with a wonderful professor, Dr. Chao, who had worked with patients for forty years at Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The cheerful, rosy-cheeked man treated everything from overweight to depression, thyroid conditions and schizophrenia to post-stroke paralysis using acupuncture needles and Chinese herbal medicines. I marveled at the ease with which he inserted the needles that immediately put his Chinese patients at ease. Read More
By Dr. Steven Farmer- Recently I was pondering the various new age and metaphysical groups, practices, and in particular the various leaders and the styles of leadership they provide. While there are many fine teachers and healers in this broad category we call new age, there are some I’ve seen or been around that trigger an uneasy feeling in my gut. Read More
By Letha Hadady–The San Francisco Chronicle reported March 25, 2009 that health officials are seeing a new type of Tuberculosis patient, someone who isn’t poor or homeless or a newly arrived immigrant. TB is being found in low-risk settings–an affluent high school, a law office, bars, at a venture capital firm. The global economic crunch is packing us closer together as people lose homes, jobs, and health insurance. Read More
By Phillip Moffitt -In my role as a Buddhist meditation teacher, I’ve observed a phenomenon that I call the “stigma of suffering syndrome” among many beginning students. They are uneasy with the fact that their lives contain suffering; therefore, they are ineffective in coping with whatever difficulties and disappointments arise. For such individuals to admit to suffering would mean defeat, humiliation, or shame because they did not measure up to our culture’s view that winners don’t suffer. Their ineffectiveness manifests as passivity, helplessness, guilt, or self-hatred.
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