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Jaszy’s Jewelry launches new e-commerce website

Image of Jaszy McAllister As more attention has been focused on environmental sustainability and social justice, nowhere is it more apparent than in the upsurge in eco-fashion. From organic fabrics to recycled metals, more and more designers are opting to make sustainability a part of their designs. One of the front-runners in this movement is [...]

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Refusing the Call of the Hero’s Journey

Image by Rubink1 via Flickr According to Joseph Campbell, a common theme among those who are called to the Hero’s Journey is the Refusal of the Call. When faced with the daunting challenge to step out of his comfort zone, the hero often flinches, doubts, or runs the other way. Both Luke Skywalker and Han [...]

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Meeting the Magician

Image via Wikipedia As the Fool continues on his journey, after making his leap of faith, the first person he meets is the Magician. This card portrays the Magician in a red cloak standing before a table outdoors. On the table are the symbols of the four suits of the Tarot (swords, wands, coins, and [...]

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Overcoming Guilt

Cover via Amazon In his book Power vs. Force, David Hawkins outlines the various stages of human consciousness and places them on a scale of one to one thousand the highest being Enlightenment. Though the lowest level of consciousness lies at Shame; not much higher than that is Guilt. For instance if after eating of [...]

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The Call to Adventure

Cover of The Power of Myth According the Joseph Campbell, the next stage in the Hero’s Journey, after he is established in the Ordinary World, is the Call to Adventure. In each of our lives, when we find ourselves in our own little comfort zones, we often get the opportunity to expand our reach to [...]

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A strange place to start a philosophy…

Image by annamatic3000 via Flickr When I was an evangelical Christian, we had a system by which we would share the Gospel of Christ with others (although it is based on a book written by Paul). We called it the Romans Road. The first step on the Romans Road is taken from Romans 3:23 – [...]

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Welcome to the New Revolution

There is a revolution underway. It goes by many different names depending upon a person’s upbringing and station in life. It has been called the Rise of the Cultural Creatives, the Environmental Movement, a Spiritual Revival, the new Renaissance, and many other things. We have come to call it the Modern Hippie movement. Though it [...]

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We are what we think

We are what we think: Why the press fails us and how to fix it * Michael Tobis Posted 8:32 PM on 24 Jun 2009 by Michael Tobis We are what we think. With our thoughts we create the world.—Buddha OK, first, let me hasten to say that I find myself, as most any physical [...]

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PooWatt

Crappy innovation.

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Food, Inc.

Image by allaboutgeorge via Flickr This is a great interview with the director of the new documentary Food, Inc. http://www.grist.org/article/2009-06-26-food-inc-kenner/

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