Marketplace Nov/Dec 2018

Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Toolbox: Gifts That Give

Support a cycle of giving by choosing from these 
socially and environmentally conscious brands.

From the Editor: November/December

It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong!” That line, from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, helped us find fellow seekers for the launch…

Contributors - November/December 2018

Contributors to our September/October 2018 issue: Kevin Anderson PhD, Julia Cameron, Deborah Gordon MD, Alena Hennessy, Erik Sean Larson, Hal Robinson

Artists: November/December 2018

Summary of artists featured in the November/December 2018 issue.

2018 Holiday Gift Guide

Inspiring and Unique Gifts.

Talk To Us: November/December 2018

Letters from our readers.

Be The Change Award: Katherine Dunn & Apifera Farm

“Apifera Farm is not so much a place as it is my intention to the world,” says Katherine Dunn, an artist who has been featured in S&H and a farmer who is now devoted to incorporati…

5 Questions with Tal Ben-Shahar

1. You created the most popular course in the history of Harvard, and yet in Short Cuts to Happiness you talk about lessons you learned from your barber. Why? I learned that whe…

Poetry: The Dark Between Stars

Put your hand on your heart in youthere is power there are ideasno one has ever thought of there is the strength to love purely and intenselyand to be loved backthere is the power …

Rabbi Rami: What’s a Horrified Catholic Mom to Do?

Author and teacher Rabbi Rami Shapiro is encouraging Perennial Wisdom to lead us beyond alienation and isolation to integration and unity, based on Genesis 12:3: “You shall be a blessing to all the families of the earth.”*

Our Walk in the World: The Highest Ethic

Shared values are not the same thing as shared humanity. Shared values are based on agreements that come from the head. They form the basis of culture. But it’s our shared humanity…

The Happiness Track: The Path to a Lifelong Romance

We can limit the amount of pain we create for ourselves by selecting better coping tools.

The Heart of Money: Get Your Assignment

Turn That Good Dream into a Good Deed

How to Leave This World Awake

The secret may be adding a single space to play.

3 Bold Steps to Becoming the Great Soul You Want to See in the Mirror

Be the Change!

Transform Your Life One Morning at a Time

Julia Cameron’s classic practice is much more powerful if you choose the right God.

How to Become a Stalker of Your Own Mind

If we are relentless and impeccable about stalking ourselves, a result is that we leave the world and other people alone.

The Meals You Don’t Want to Skip

Already a big believer in the value of friends cooking for friends, I became essentially devout.

How to Bring Back Your Brain

The big problem is that so many people still think that nothing can be done to reverse dementia.

Our Community Journal: The Real Life of Life Coaching

On being “an advocate, an activist for the expression of Love in all its forms . . .”

Our Roadside Oracle Answers Life’s 5 Big Questions

Rabbi Rami Shapiro offers insight into some of life's biggest questions in celebration of our 20th anniversary.

10 Spiritual Leaders

We asked our readers to scout the spiritual landscape for emerging leaders who will help set our course for the decades to come. Your response was wildly enthusiastic, passionate, heartfelt, and all over the map (and the globe). Wow! What constitutes a spiritual path is becoming ever more diverse—and ever more likely to be led by women. In future issues, you’ll hear from more of your choices. We chose 10 (nine plus a wonderful collaboration of old and new) who represent your votes as well as our hopes for the spiritual future.

The New American LOVE Revolution

“This spiritual renaissance is real and has not stopped. It’s just that it’s growth—and, like all growth, it’s messy.” - Marianne Williamson

Your Personal Hero Quest

Understanding our personal Hero Quests can be transformational. What stage of the Quest are you in?

Book Review: Why We Dream

The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

Book Review: The Empathy Effect

7 Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences

Book Review: High Magick

A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row

Book Review: On The Future

Prospects for Humanity

Music Review: Secularia

Twenty albums in, Eliza Gilkyson is still creating music of richness and depth. With instruments like fiddle, electric guitar, and mandolin accentuating her singing and guitar play…

Music Review: Deva

Deva Premal and Miten have been making music together for almost 30 years. Their mantra-based albums are loved worldwide, and, with Nepalese flutist/vocalist Manose, they play to a…

Music Review: Magic Ship

One secret ingredient of the new album Magic Ship by Mountain Man are the amazing harmonies. The three singers—Molly Sarlé, Amelia Meath, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig—ha…

Film Review: Cielo

Alison McAlpine’s visually ravishing documentary takes us to the Atacama Desert in Chile, where various scientists and oddball locals contemplate the immense, crystal-clear night s…

Film Review: Inventing Tomorrow

Can kids save the world? They might have to. In Laura Nix’s absorbing documentary, we watch four groups of teens from around the globe as they work on scientific projects to help t…

FIlm Review: City of Joy

The “city of joy” referred to in the title of Madeleine Gavin’s documentary is not a city at all, but a complex that serves as a shelter, rehabilitation center, and education organ…