” Working the Tarot can bring us in contact with past masters of this system. On a fall evening, I had been discussing Tarot and did a personal reading in which the last two cards were the Hanged Man and the High Priestess…”

“Brian Keane is the Co-Founder and Director of Land is Life , an international network of indigenous communities and organizations with a long history of significant achievements in the worldwide struggle for indigenous peoples’ rights. Since he has worked for 20 years trying to effect policy making, he might be a good guy to ask some questions about the oil spill.”

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“W ith more than 6,000 boats and almost 35,000 people already deployed in the Gulf of Mexico, an army of celebrity reinforcements last night hurled themselves at the rescue mission surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill… Proceeds from the event will go to three organisations: United Way, a coalition of charities, to help Gulf coast families with emergency and long-term aid; the National Wildlife Federation, which is cleaning birds and protecting breeding grounds, and the Nature Conservancy, for the recovery of sensitive ecosystems such as salt marshes and oyster reefs.”

We are each responsible for determining the quality of our personal experience. The Presence Process teaches us how to exercise authentic personal responsibility in a practical manner. It reveals the mechanics that shape the way we feel about our life. It offers a simple, practical approach to accomplishing and maintaining personal peace in the midst of globally accelerating change, discomfort, conflict, and chaos.

“According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), self-help groups are considered alternative forms of healing. They are completely peer-facilitated. In other words, everybody in the room is on the same, level, regardless of where somebody is in their recovery. This is commonly considered to be one of the best methods for mental health recovery….Some of these alternative healing methods have reached the mainstream, such as yoga, acupuncture, and the aforementioned self-help groups. Others are breaking through to the mainstream.”

“Lama Lhanang Rinpoche has been recognized as the reincarnation of Ken Rinpoche Damcho, an emanation of Nubchen Namke Nyingpo (one of the 25 disciples of Padmasambhava who was called the second Buddha and introduced the people to the practice of Tantric Buddhism.) He is a painter and healer.”

“If we are to reclaim a real relationship to life and to our planet, we must listen to the real story that is being told. It is not just a story of a deep well disaster happening in the Gulf. It is about how our present civilization is causing the waters of life to be polluted and how at present we cannot stop it. And this disaster is taking place all around us and also in our own souls. Only if we listen to life will we know how to respond.”

“In these pages, Powers not only explores this small patch of community but draws on his international experiences with other pockets of resistance. This engrossing tale of Powers’s struggle for a meaningful life with a smaller footprint proposes a paradigm shift to an elusive “Soft World” with clues to personal happiness and global healing.”