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There is no point at which those who accumulate money become satisfied. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 6th May 2013. “I never did anything for money. I never set money as a goal.

Writer Paul Miller's experience in leaving the Internet for an entire year proves what should have been obvious - the Net does not define who you are.

Will you spend a few minutes of your precious time for a tiny chance to find out if our targeted collective thoughts can affect conventional reality?

A magazine about the sharing economy. We promote an open-source and peer-to-peer based economy which protects the Commons and enhances social good.

All gurus try to undermine their followers' egos and expectations, so does it matter if the teacher is a real fraud?

When Irene starts out to deliver the dress, the odds are already stacked against her. The box containing the dress is huge, the palace is far away, and it's starting to snow.

But Irene leaves anyway. As she walks along everything continues to get worse. With each page, Steig adds another obstacle: an uphill path, the snow falling harder and getting into her boots, the wind making the walking almost impossible, and finally the wind tearing her box out of her hands and blowing away the beautiful dress.

Of course brave Irene plods onward, steps in a hole, twists her ankle, becomes lost, and must grope about in the darkness. Just when she thinks she might be there, the worst thing happens—she falls off a cliff and is buried in the snow so that only her hat and hands stick out. She's stuck with no one to help her.

There's a writing lesson packed in those few pages—the key to successful storytelling:Story-tellers must gradually heap more and more problems on the characters until they're buried under the weight of them

Jim Baker’s evolution is fascinating.

Isis: Father said Jim Baker was the animal part of him. And he got to the point where he referred to Jim Baker in the third person, and he used to laugh at him: “I loved that guy so much!” he’d say.

Wow…

Isis: And he’d tell us these stories, these amazing stories–everything about Jim Baker. And it was just so incredible to hear Father talking about that other part of him, in the third person, as he’d say, “I am not that person anymore…”

He got off on Jim Baker. Jim Baker was the ultimate animal man, and he really was. He was always working out, did judo, loved women. He was always gettin’ into trouble. And he just went as far as he could, and then crossed over into the spiritual evolutionary path.

Deep shadow-work does not leave us intact; it is not some neat and tidy process but rather an inherently messy one, as vital and unpredictably alive as birth.

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts. --David Bohm and Basil J. Hile, The Undivided Universe.1

"I suddenly developed a severe headache in the back of my head," the nurse said tearfully. "It was so painful I could not function and had to leave work. This was strange, because I never have headaches. When I reached home and was lying in bed, the phone rang. I learned that my beloved brother had been killed from a gunshot wound to the back of his head, the same place my terrible headache was located. My headache began at the same time the shooting occurred."

The woman was a prominent nurse leader at a major hospital in northern California

Peter Russell and Eckhart Tolle discuss how meditation should be effortless, an open awareness to the present moment. Online Course - http://www.peterrussell...

A new book by controversial American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has triggered a wave of protests among experts and Yanomami Indians.

Answer (1 of 27): First, a simple fact. World's total wealth (including all bank savings, stocks, homes, company treasuries. government funds, pension funds, mines and other natural resources) amounts to $200 trillion or about $25000 per person.

Featureteaser: The Matrix, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Stalker, Au Hasard Balthazar – some of the films famous for evoking the evasive nature of the mystical encounter. We polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out their favorites.