The True Cost
Cheap fashion rides on the back of workers—predominantly woman and often children—in countries such as Bangladesh and India who earn less than $3 a day and live with toxic byproducts of manufacturing.
Culture & Media articles:
Revelations of the Ruby Crystal
As profound religious experiences proliferate, we learn to recognize evidence of the new consciousness in friends and ourselves, and forgive the author for occasionally indulging in excessive details of wardrobes and accessories of the most beautiful people anyone has ever seen.
Stink!
The chemicals in fragrance are known to cause infertility, birth defects, diabetes, learning disabilities and cancer, and can mutate DNA. Yet because of the fragrance loophole, the manufacturers can completely hide these ingredients.
Joss Jaffe
Jaffe groves and pulses us through 11 spiritual melodies, five languages and three continents.
The Spiritual Mysteries of Blood
What follows is a fascinating survey detailing the primacy of blood over tissues and structures of the body, blood’s true purpose, physical and psychic factors influencing blood, blood’s influence on the spirit through perception, hormones and Hippocrates’ four temperaments, and the spirit’s influence on the blood affecting such things as longevity, sleep and death.
Sound Is Powerful Medicine
These days, skilled practitioners are using sound for everything from stress and pain relief to remedying sleep disorders and assisting the dying.
Changing the Channel
If you tried to picture the exact opposite of the L.A. River, you might imagine something that winds and flows, with lots of reflected light—something like the artwork of Frank Gehry, who designed the Disney concert hall, the Bilbao Guggenheim and other magnificent buildings.
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $45B Letter to His New Daughter
The kind of trust fund that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have in mind is one that benefits all the children of the world.
The Real L.A. Angels
“The program celebrates the city’s namesakes with angels that can represent every one of us living in Southern California.”
“Namaste, Bitches” TV Series on Yoga in L.A.
We all know many dedicated, professional yoga teachers and studios who do wonderful service, but this series is a good (and occasionally amusing) reminder that those who teach yoga need to not only “manifest a vision,” but also eat and pay the rent.