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Never give up on your Art. {Comic}

by on Sep 30, 2011

There are no borders. “Evolution of an artist.” For those who love Art or supporting a loved one who loves Art. Artist’s statement and source here. Via Reddit.


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“Tread softly, and with Joy” (ancient Thai saying) ~ Ben Ralston

by on Sep 30, 2011

It wasn’t just their gifts that made me uncomfortable. It was their generosity of spirit. They gave me some things, yes. But they gave me all of their attention. They were totally present. And I’d never met anyone before that wasn’t in two places at once…


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Will You Pay $5 Fee for Debit Cards?! Do Corporate Banks Serve You?!

by on Sep 30, 2011

High Unemployment and High Profits at Commercial Banks. How do we respond? Regulation? Meditation Occupations at Wall Street? Share your opinion.


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The Astrology of Revolution.

by on Sep 30, 2011

We’re on the brink of a huge change right now in the world. Astrologically this is indicated by the upcoming Saturn transit into Libra. Since September 2009, when Saturn entered  Virgo, we have been analyzing, worrying over and trying to reorganize the “post-Empire” world. (after the transit of Saturn and Ketu through Leo – the [...]


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Boulder’s Electricity Debate: Easy Enough for a Baby to Understand. ~ Ted Rose

by on Sep 30, 2011

After spending years working on clean energy across America, I have become active in a campaign in our own community, Boulder, Colorado.
This current debate over Boulder’s energy future can seem complex, so I wondered how I would break it down for my nine-month-old son if he spoke his first words this morning and asked: “Dad, why do you care about this?” I’d probably say something like this…


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In which Rumi & I write ourselves melancholy birthday letters.

by on Sep 30, 2011

can’t fathom being here in this world unless it’s for a reason bigger than this hurt, broken, healing, beautiful, terrified body. So hitch me up on your bow, Something Bigger, help me out. I have been trying to do this all alone, and when I don’t understand, I fall to pieces, I am making a mess. I am making a mess of love and destruction. Help.


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Why Are Yoga Peeps So Broke? ~ Sergio DiazGranados

by on Sep 30, 2011

I think most of us would agree that we don’t need a lot of money. In fact, most of my friends would say a solid $40,000 – $50,000 after taxes would be plenty to live a good life. Yet so many are barely getting by; so many wonderful people with amazing ideas and intentions barely have enough to eat, let alone fork over cash for a monthly yoga membership. I have a friend who will trade eating properly on a regular basis for taking yoga. Is this the way we should be living?


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Finding Strength in Real Communication

by on Sep 30, 2011

Relationship Bootcamp: Week 3   “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said.” -Anonymous   The strength and endurance training in any and all relationships starts and ends with the capacity for communication. I have often called our communication skills the currency of a relationship, because it is literally the air [...]


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Why I’m Not Doing Yoga, or…Why the Hell Am I Not Doing Yoga? ~ Alexa Maxwell

by on Sep 30, 2011

If yoga is as necessary to my life as the other things in it—such as eating, drinking, sleeping, breathing– then I will find a way to do yoga even without a formal class.


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Boulder events: Aykanna Concert October 1 & Sacred Relationship Workshop October 2.

by on Sep 30, 2011

elephantjournal.com is proud to be a media sponsor of this event. Aykanna Boulder Concert. Come have a joyous and meditative experience with this dynamic duo who is sharing the sacred sounds of AYKANNA. An uplifting blend of soul and mantra music. Tickets: $25 – presale | $30 door | Online Tickets: Aykanna.com Event info here.   Sacred Relationships Workshop. [...]


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Why do you love organic?

by on Sep 30, 2011

The people of Boulder share why they love organic at Boulder Green Streets 2011.


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Andrew Cohen & Ken Wilber LIVE @ Boulder Integral Center October 9, 2011

by on Sep 30, 2011

On Sunday, October 9, Boulder Integral Center is proud to host Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber, for their third live Guru and Pandit event. Using Cohen’s new book, Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening, as a starting point—a book that Wilber calls “one of the most significant books on spirituality written in the postmodern world”—these two mystical pathfinders will explore why only a profound integration of timeless Being and dynamic Becoming can offer a spiritual realization that makes sense of life in today’s rapidly changing world.


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Live Like A Superhero? ~ Tiffany Cruikshank

by on Sep 30, 2011

Photo: Lady Yoga, Superhero Recently I wrote an article on how to unleash your inner superhero…and it got me thinking. Normally I think of superheroes as fantasy figures with superhuman powers that live in a world (very) separate from my own. But, really, superheroes are just ordinary human beings with what seems to be limitless [...]


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Having Yogasms (The Big Yohhh?)

by on Sep 30, 2011

That’s right, women are claiming, much more frequently and openly now than they have in the past, to have full blown orgasms during their Yoga practice


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A First Taste of Tantra…

by on Sep 30, 2011

An excerpt from my personal journal…I finally tasted the tang of a tangible-for-me “gist” of Tantra.


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Future President…and Yoga Lover?!

by on Sep 30, 2011

Could it be that a future President of the United States also leads hundreds of yogis in “AUM?”


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Sleeping with anger: what happens when I take it to bed

by on Sep 30, 2011

Pre-dawn anger is the one I slept fitfully with and dragged into my sub-conscious. It catapulted me out of bed and had me in such a frenzied state that I was compelled to discharge its energy by engaging in some physical activity.


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The Exquisite Lover: Resonance.

by on Sep 30, 2011

The flame of the brightest passion can dim, and eventually you will reach a ceiling on applicable technique. How does one transcend mastery into ascendance?


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The Most Popular Way People Get to My Blog! Yay!

by on Sep 30, 2011

The single most popular way people have arrived at my blog who have no idea who I am (so this eliminates all social media) is by typing in the words “I Want to Die” into a search engine. 4,722 people did that this last month. Specifically that phrase: “I Want to Die”. In Google. A [...]


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I’m Swamped, Stoked, & Nutty Busy. What I’m Learning about Letting Go, Getting on with it, & Getting it All Done.

by on Sep 30, 2011

Maybe the message is more important than the way it’s delivered. Maybe the intention is greater than the sum of its parts. Maybe it’s enough sometimes just to say, ‘This is all I have to give right now.”


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Before You Hit Reply (or Reply All), Take A Breath.

by on Sep 30, 2011

One minute you’re sitting at your desk, being productive, clicking through tasks. The next, you’re feeling exposed, vulnerable, and — maybe — furious.


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Mental Diet: Cut out the junk

by on Sep 30, 2011

“To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.”


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Day 1: The Junk Closet

by on Sep 30, 2011

Most people have a junk drawer. I have a junk closet. It’s the place I toss all the things that I can’t deal with, fix, figure out what to do with, or think I might need someday.

I didn’t even like passing this closet because I’m sure I heard it whisper, “Deal with me”.


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Coming out to Mother.

by on Sep 30, 2011

Followup: an hour after coming out to his father thanks to the repeal of DADT, this young soldier calls his “more conservative” mother.


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Burrito-slinger sings Etta James’ “At Last.” Simon Cowell: “Really?”

by on Sep 29, 2011

3,335. “Burritos are good..!” Josh Krajcik sings At Last by Etta James at his first audition in front of THE X FACTOR judges…watch to see how he does! Catch all-new episodes of THE X FACTOR WED & THUR at 8/7c, on FOX ~ Relephant:


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Hearing for the First Time. {Videos}

by on Sep 29, 2011

God bless Science. You will cry. Woman hearing herself for the fist time: I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time 8 Month Old Deaf Baby’s Reaction To Cochlear Implant Being Activated: Cochlear [...]


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Three dogs. Which one trashed the house? {Video}

by on Sep 29, 2011

This video has 1,000 views. Prediction: by end of week, 100,000. Love this dog owner. “It’s my fault, I left the trash open.” Same with my dog…he loves to get into the trash and make a huge mess, even if he’s eaten and exercised and has farmers’ market bones…trash everywhere. I used to get mad. [...]


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Lion Club falls down Cliff, pride try to rescue, give up. Enter Mother. {Photos}

by on Sep 29, 2011

Animals don’t have feelings, clearly, so it’s okay to eat them for fun! ~ ed. “Wildlife photographer captures lion rescuing helpless cub from falling to its death.” Click over to the photographer’s site to see the series of photos…give him some love…we don’t want to “borrow” his amazing photos. Update, it’s on Reddit, so…well, here’s [...]


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Lure the Goddess.

by on Sep 29, 2011

Stay close and lean in. She awakens your senses and tantalizes through them.


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Interview with Derrick Jensen: Staying Sane in Environmentalism.

by on Sep 29, 2011

Where so many millions of bugs, foxes, bears, humans and powerful beasts have lain down on the earth and died, it will be hard to tell what was once bone, from the scraps of our everyday. What does the awesome task of reconciling our minds, hearts and souls with what we have built mean for those of us still in love?


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Catching Thoughts: Losing the Neti Pottal Virginity

by on Sep 29, 2011

If you are like me (who had no clue that a Neti Pot was something way different than a thing you make tea in or a ceramic bowl thing that you pee into) then you’re in the right place.


Your cat will be jealous of this home . . .

by on Sep 29, 2011

 I would say “Now I’ve seen it all”, but I know it gets much weirder than this house in Japan designed for the enjoyment and amusement of the family cat. It also reminds me of a hipper version of Ben and Jerry’s house where there were all those holes in the wall for the mouse. [...]


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Vert Couture in Chicago. Hot Stuff. Be There.

by on Sep 29, 2011

(October 3rd update: This just in… purchase your tix by October 13 and be entered in the myEARTH360/VertCouture drawing for cool eco chic accessories! Click here for deets.) Photo by Ray Pfeiffer, Komifoto Although I’m not exactly what you’d call a fashionista… I plan to attend Vert Couture Spring 2012 on Thursday, October 20, 2011. [...]


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It’s How the Light Gets In.

by on Sep 29, 2011

“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open. ” ~Philip Roth


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Event: Coalition Against Nukes Rally, October 1, 2011.

by on Sep 29, 2011

Coalition Against Nukes Rally For Nuclear-free Energy, October 1st: NYC and Nationwide. The Coalition Against Nukes National Day of Action flagship rally will be Saturday, October 1, 2011 at Pier 95 Hudson River Park, NYC, from Noon to 3:30 pm, with more events happening throughout the United States. The Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns inspired this grassroots [...]


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¿Qué sucede cuando llega la muerte?

by on Sep 29, 2011

La consciencia no desparace exactamente, sino que atravieza un cambio. ~


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Watch: Rosh Hashanah explained by cute boys doing Parkour.

by on Sep 29, 2011

“L’Shana Tovah.” Here ya go ladies (and some gents): Rosh Hashanah, http://www.aish.com/newyear, – Get ready for the New Year and Jewish High Holidays with this video. To see the lyrics click on the CC for closed captioning. For more visit: http://aish.com/newyear For revamped High Holiday services, visit http://nomembershiprequired.com. Rosh Hashana Rock Anthem is a parody [...]


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Eco Fashion Picks of the Week: ReMade in USA Upcycled Bags, A Look at the Design Process & Undressing.

by on Sep 29, 2011

Love fashion? Love it even more when it has a green twist? Then you’ll love EcoSalon’s weekly roundup of eco fashion picks. Enjoy! Did you know that the average American throws out about 68 pounds of textiles per year? Fortunately one designer is doing something about it: Shannon South and her ReMade in the USA line [...]


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The Beginning is Near!

by on Sep 29, 2011

Sometimes less is more.  The photo speaks volumes.     Assuming that assertion is true, as Sean Connery’s Irish cop character put it in The Untouchables, “What do you propose to do about it?”   Peace. Roger   === Roger is the author of Kissing Fish: christianity for people who don’t like christianity.  — Apparently, he [...]


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The ethical choice is vegan.

by on Sep 29, 2011

All sentient beings feel pain. Meat, dairy and eggs come from sentient beings. Meat, dairy and eggs always cause pain. Humans do not have a biological need to eat meat, dairy and eggs. So, if you choose to eat meat, dairy and eggs, you are choosing to cause pain and to participate in exploitation and murder. Participating in pain and murder is always unethical. The ethical choice is vegan.


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How many D*cks does Jon Stewart have?

by on Sep 29, 2011

Too Many! Not enough ladies, too many men! MUST SEE VIDEO: Pop Culture Hacker Jonathan McIntosh, creator of Right-Wing Radio Duck, has done it again! For full video commentary, see Rebellious Pixels. Image via ContactMusic.


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Evolutionary Enlightenment by Andrew Cohen: Book Trailer featuring Linus Roache

by on Sep 29, 2011

Let yourself follow this theological fantasy, just for a moment…


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Jon Stewart with Ron Paul: “You are one of our last consistent politicians.”

by on Sep 29, 2011

If I were Republican, I’d vote Jon Huntsman. If I were human, I’d vote Ron Paul. I don’t like his positions on many issues—say, abortion—but I respect and trust him, which is more than I can say for many. Still, coming down on the right side of various issues is sometimes better than coming down [...]


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Why Michelle Bachmann’s (Possibly) Gay Husband Is My Greatest Teacher.

by on Sep 29, 2011

Someone posted this on Facebook the other day about Michelle Bachmann’s political ambitions: “…one quibble: her husband may be (sic) closeted homosexual…self-loathing homosexual…but he is most certainly NOT GAY. Gay is a mindset and a political position fought for and died for by people who have self-respect. Just because he sucks d**k secretly doesn’t make him [...]


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The Devil in a Red Dress

by on Sep 29, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I found myself at the low dose of 37.5 mg, housed in a lovely peach-blue capsule. Getting off of this was to be my last step. I spent a week at this dose with no adverse affects, followed by a week of one-day-on, one-day-off. Aside from some fatigue I was still feeling pretty good even though this taper was faster than any doctor would have recommend. At this point I wanted to push to the finish, win the race to be free!


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What the Tea Party is really demanding

by on Sep 29, 2011

If only this group of angry shouters weren’t puppets in a larger game. More on what’s behind the Tea Party From Grist: Tea Party-backing Koch Industries is major carbon polluter From Open Secrets: Oil and Gas–Influence and Lobbying From Mother Jones: Rick Perry’s Dirty Deals With Big Coal Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon [...]


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Lack of Faith.

by on Sep 29, 2011

When was the last time someone offered to be vulnerable for you? My project, 25 Days, is going to take me to 15 cities across the U.S. this year. I have just arrived in my fourth city, well, fifth, technically, Austin, Texas. In my last post I proclaimed all the ways in which Amtrak is wonderful. [...]


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Forget Buddhism & Be a Zen Master Today. ~ Karen Maezen Miller

by on Sep 29, 2011

A belief that doesn’t change your day isn’t spiritual.


I do more yoga than you. ~ Brie Doyle

by on Sep 29, 2011

A poem about how much more yoga I do than you. And her. And him, too. And everyone, really.


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Video: Stressed-out Yoga Chick.

by on Sep 29, 2011

Funny yoga video. A must see!


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