Ready to celebrate Halloween next week? Why not join one of the most famous celebrations in the world? It’s the legendary Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, now hitting it’s 41st year! Just to add another level of fun, the Grand Marshall this year is none other than Whoopi Goldberg. The 2014 41st Annual Parade will be on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 at 7 p.m.

There’s a time when every crisis can become transformation; when simply surviving can become joyous thriving. In our lives that time is The Turning Point. In our world that time is now! In this compelling new work, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to answer the questions on everyone’s minds…

We cannot say enough good things about the online courses from Master Mingtong Gu and the staff at www.chicenter.com ! This is a phenomenal resource for learning Wisdom Healing Qi Gong. We all know that there’s nothing like learning from a true master, taking the time to sit with him or her and soaking up the wisdom, skill or techniques that will help you advance physically or spiritually. Unfortunately, in this busy day and age it can be difficult to take the time off necessary to devote to learning, or worse, the teacher you need may live on the other side of the country.

How much do I miss my sleep? Let me count the ways: I can’t remember the last time I woke refreshed from six to eight unbroken hours of rest; hell, I can’t remember much of anything anymore as short term memory seems to be the first casualty of sleep deprivation. I miss dreaming and when I say, “I am tired of waking up like the house is on fire, sweating, with my heart pounding from the surge of hormones,” I mean it literally: I am tired of it.

God is in the Little Things: Messages from the Golden Angels by Patricia Brooks Review by Cheryl Shainmark — In the second of what promises to be a lively series, (click here for a review of the first book), author Patrica Brooks shares more of her autobiographical tale of spiritual growth. Written in an upbeat and humorous fashion, God is in the Little Things: Messages from the Golden Angels skips along in an engaging manner. Brook’s stories are lovely, like little pearls strung together in a delicate necklace.

It’s with great sadness that we report the death of our dear friend and sound editor, Carl Casella. Carl was a sound designer at Sound Designs in NYC, and had a brilliant award-winning career working on and off Broadway on productions such as A Night With Janis Joplin, Relatively Speaking, Sly Fox, Little Shop of Horrors, and others.

In the history of mankind we have not managed to create sustainable world peace yet. Perhaps we need fresher, less jaded, more forward-thinking and guileless minds to help find the solution. Perhaps we should ask our youth for their ideas. After all, they are our next generation of leaders. Why not engage their optimism, ingenuity and dynamism now? The World Peace Caravan, www.worldpeacecaravan.org, is doing just that. A global peace movement that will culminate in a 12 day camel caravan from Petra, Jordan to Jerusalem in December, 2015, the World Peace Caravan is selecting a delegation of 12 Youth Ambassadors, ages 16-24, from a worldwide pool of candidates to spearhead the caravan.

When we discover any possible power animal connection, we want to (1) study the natural habits and qualities or the animal (2) track it through folklore, mythology and spiritual traditions (3) learn from the animal itself, by journeying to it, and then with it (4) feed and honor the animal in our bodies and our lives. I want to let one of my great teachers on this subject speak to you on this subject. She is a true “wolf woman”. Born Huron, she was adopted by the Mohawk as a child and became the mother of the Wolf Clan of the Kanienkehaka (People of the Stone, as the Mohawk call themselves in their own language) and a powerful atetshents (dream shaman). She called me from across time….

Heather Callaghan writes on www.activistpost.com, One thing’s for sure: when Dr. Oz speaks, people listen. Many a healthfood store and tea shop owner have saluted him when he mentions their goods on air – and their stores fill up. In the past he has drawn cheers and jeers for his fluctuating stances on organic food and genetically modified organisms in the food supply. Today, he makes a very clear stance, as a concerned doctor, against the EPA’s pending approval of a new, toxic pesticide intended for use on genetically engineered crops like corn and soy – this country’s biggest crops and food ingredients.