Oils and Allopathy: Permanent Medicine vs. Temporary Measures by Dr. David Stewart from allthingshealing.com Applying essential oils is an ancient and effective modality for (1) First Aid, (2) Stress Management, (3) Pain Management, (4) Improving Your Quality of Life, and (5) Living up to Your Peak Performance.

What’s a Canola? 7 Mystery Foods, Exposed! What’s really in spam, non-dairy whipped topping, and other edible enigmas Elizabeth Goodman Artis from www.shape.com Even the most passionate whole food fanatic has probably consumed something of dubious nature at one point in time. In fact, many everyday items on grocery store shelves–and even in higher-end health food stores–are, on closer inspection, more enigmatic than they first appear.

7 Warning Signs From Your Consciousness, Not to be Ignored by Penni Mannas Diefendorf at www.finerminds.com No crisis happens overnight: it’s a gradual deterioration of conditions that comes to a head suddenly. If we pay attention, we can pick up the signals along the way. If we can see ourselves and others clearly, we can interpret those signals with accuracy and take appropriate, timely action.

The Green Thoreau – America’s First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More Edited by Carol Spenard LaRusso Henry David Thoreau saw nature as teacher and companion, and many of his philosophies guide the contemporary environmental movement. What Thoreau wrote about simplicity, materialism, technology, and our troubled relationship with nature is perhaps even more relevant to our lives today than it was in the nineteenth century.

Past Lives, Our Lives – Remarkable, Enlightening, Healing Stories We are infinite spiritual beings on an eternal journey of growth and enlightenment. This I know… The most valuable gift of recalling past life data rings out loud and clear; we are not limited beings who live only one life as a result of some insignificant random fluke. We do not lose what we learn in any lifetime. We carry it with us! Womanofthewind.blogspot.com

Consciousness & Dying With Peter Fenwick – Peter Fenwick is an eminent neuropsychiatrist, academic and expert on epilepsy and other disorders of the brain. However, his most compelling and provocative research has been into the end of life phenomena, including near-death experiences and deathbed visions of the dying person, as well as the experiences of hospice and palliative care workers and relatives of dying people.

For Conscious.tv, Iain McNay interviews a wide variety of leaders in the fields of consciousness, science, healing, the mind-body connection and more. Recent interviews include Amit Goswami, Jason Shulman, and Byron Katie. The interviews are free and cover a wide range of topics. Check out www.conscious.tv

It will come as no surprise to pet owners…. An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are – a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus. But, as one reporter writes, “Will this make us stop treating these animals in totally inhumane ways?”

Women & Power – What’s Possible A Weekend at the Omega Institute: September 21 – 23, 2012 At this year’s Women & Power conference, we bring together creative & courageous women who inspire you to plot breakthroughs at home, work & in the world.