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This month marks the 11th anniversary of my mother’s passing, and I find myself thinking about her a lot. It seems to be a summer of remembering: last month I was reminded of my father’s birthday on the Fourth of July , and now I’m thinking of my other parent. She, more than anyone, had a tremendous influence on me that continues to this day. My mother was a psychic from a long line of gifted seers, and she taught me how to use my own psychic gift as well.

What’s all the fuss about new planets? As reported in The Huffington Post, “We may have lost Pluto , but it looks like we might be getting Tyche.” There’s a movement afoot to start including the lesser, dwarf planets as well as this new gas giant (which technically may not belong to our solar system at all!) that astronomers have named “Tyche.” According to astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who first proposed Tyche’s existence in order to explain a change in path of comets entering the solar system, scientists are close to proving the existence of this hidden planet.

Sitting Kills, Moving Heals by Joan Vernikos, Ph.D. If you’re like me you do a daily walk or a workout, get your exercise and then go sit at your desk, at your computer or in your car, for hours on end. Still, you may think, “I exercise, I’m fit, that’s enough, right?” According to this thought provoking new book, the answer is “NO — exercise isn’t enough!” As the author writes, “exercise is not a substitute for doing those activities that come naturally throughout the day, 365 days a year, for the rest of your life.”

An emerging leader in the field of mind-body-spirit medicine and healing, Dr. Steven E. Hodes’ articles have been published in dozens of healing-oriented magazines. This fall, he begins his fourth year of teaching at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey. He is author of Meta-Physician on Call for Better Health: Metaphysics and Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit, by Praeger Publishers.

Life can be busy. You may have a full time job & children. Those children have karate class, hockey practice, dance class, art class, and drama club to be picked up and dropped off at. Maybe you work full time, 6 days a week, with two hour commute in both directions. Or maybe you’re overwhelmed with all the work its taking to save this planet. Well don’t worry! Here are 10 easy to do things that will save hundreds and thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year…and you barely have to lift a finger!

Remnants of Ancient Sphynx Found In Israel — Nearly a year after discovering the base of a small sphynx buried in northern Israel, archaeologists have finally cleaned and unearthed the statue. It is the first of its kind to be found outside of Egypt, and is believed to be dedicated to Mycerinus, who ruled Egypt circa 2500 BC, and was the builder of the smallest of the Giza pyramids.

Dreaming Into the All At Once by Robert Moss Aboriginal Australians believe that we dream our way into this world, and dream our way out of it. “We talk to the spirit-child before a baby is born,” naturopath and traditional healer Burnham Burnham explained it to me. If the father-to-be is a dreamer, he is frequently the one who first meets the spirit-child in dreams. These dream encounters often unfold at places of water that exist in the natural world — a billabong, the shallows of a river, a waterfall — where the spirit-child plays with its own kind and is not confined to a single form.

The Problem with Fluoride — Voters in Portland, Oregon just passed a bill stopping the practice of adding fluoride to the water in their city. Ironically, Portland was one of the first cities to implement water fluoridation in the 1950’s, as the clear water runoff from the snowy Cascade mountains that poured into the city reservoir was so pure it contained very few minerals. At the time, dentists and pediatricians were convinced that adding fluoride to the water was a cheap and effective way to promote tooth and overall health.