Spirituality & Metaphysics articles:

CD—Internal: Music for Dissolving

Right to the Heart Jamie Catto & Alex Forster This evocative collaboration between Jamie Catto and Alex Forster reflects our deepest emotions—sadness and ecstasy, fear and courage—and the unchanging space in which they swirl. A compelling combination of electronic and organic world music, Internal brings us a powerful complement for movement or body-based practices. Catto […]

Book—The Spiritual Life of Water

Were water actually what hydrologists deem it to be—a chemically inert substance—then a long time ago there would already have been no water and no life on this Earth. I regard water as the blood of the earth. Its internal process, while not identical to that of our blood, is nonetheless very similar. It is […]

Music as Medicine with Deva Premal & Miten

The cellular vibration of Deva Premal & Miten By Jessica Arconti “Music is a form of medicine and meditation music is the ultimate elixir,” says Deva Premal, a German-born musician who performs her spiritual chants with audiences all over the world. “Singing has a strong healing power. Deep breathing changes our cells with the vibration […]

Book: The Joyous Cosmology

Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness By Alan W. Watts Venerated mentor of many, Alan Watts here explores and contrasts religious experience with that of psychedelic drugs. This long-awaited reissue of his out-of-print 1962 Pantheon classic has lost none of its luster and seems timelier than ever—introduced by eloquent next generation advocate and firebrand Daniel […]

Having a baby taught me how to meditate

Reality vs good intentions by Tracy Olson I started practicing mindfulness meditation a few years ago after a trip to India, inspired by the serene Tibetan monks with whom I sat and sat and lost feeling in my hindquarters in a cold and incense-filled monastery. Several months later, amidst snarls of traffic back in Los […]

Film: Finding Happiness

Written & Directed by Ted Nicolau The film Finding Happiness is a beautiful invitation to the Ananda spiritual community, wrapped lightly in the framework of a story. Of primary interest is the character J. Donald Waters, aka Swami Kriyananda, recently deceased founder of the Ananda movement worldwide, as himself. The film is set in the […]

Lake of the Gods

Into the dreamtime on Lake Titicaca Story & photos by Rogelio Martell As we set sail in the morning fog after a night of violent earthquakes, the waltz of light and shadow across the surface of Lake Titicaca immediately began to dispel my fears and worries. In the magical watery light, mundane reality doesn’t exist […]

James Turrell—Touching the Silence of Light … and Seeing Seeing

James Turrell Retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art By Stephanie du Tan “I like to see light like we see it in dreams. We all know this light. We don’t see it very often with our eyes open.” ~James Turrell Objectless art: in which the object sees itself. How is this achieved? […]

Book: Gabriel’s Mountain

By Mickael Taddeo This fast-paced sci-fi/spiritual novel retells the Armageddon tale of Archangel Gabriel, now in the character of a brilliant and tortured Montreal homeless man on the run from the CIA in a different era. Clearly, you haven’t heard this perspective on the story before. The story is set in a future in which […]