Our Walk in the World: Finding What Can Last

Dr. Leonard was about to trim down an old tooth for a crown and I was all numbed up, listening to the Beatles—Abbey Road—on small headphones. About halfway through, I b…

The Happiness Track: Against Slim Odds

Emilia Lahti, a doctoral student in psychology from Finland, set out to study the Finish concept of sisu, which she defines as “taking action against slim odds.” Much like grit and…

The Heart of Money: Wealth Drain for Single Women - What to Do?

A recent report from Asset Funder Network found that single women ages 45 to 65 lost 36 percent of their wealth between 1995 and 2016, with a 28 percent drop for single white women…

Rabbi Rami: Are Psychics Worth It?

I’m seeing a psychic. She isn’t cheap, but she’s very helpful. My friends say she’s ripping me off. Are psychics real? Are they worth it? Rabbi Rami: If this woman is providing yo…

5 Questions with Lissa Rankin

1. In The Daily Flame, you offer guidance from the “Inner Pilot Light.” How do you help others to recognize their own light? I use what Richard Schwartz PhD, founder of Internal …

Talk To Us: March/April 2019

Letters from our readers.

Chelsea Hill and 100 Women Who Care Maui

Mana’olana Pink Paddlers, a canoe club for cancer patients and cancer survivors, has been a recipient of a donation from 100 Women Who Care Maui.

Marketplace March/April 2019

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

Toolbox: More Tools for Cleaning Your Brain

These picks by S&H will help your mind stay sharp and clear.

From the Editor - March/April 2019

One of the big questions we’ve wrestled with since the launch of this magazine 20 years ago came from a brilliant theologian at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab named Anne Foerst.…

Contributors: March/April 2019

Contributors: March/April 2019 - Joan D. Chittister OSB, Cal Newport PhD, Julia Plevin, Marilyn Schlitz PhD, Mirabai Starr, Tracy Verdugo

Artists: March/April 2019

Lauren BriéreGiraffe Robot (page 25), Butterfly Bot (26)oil on woodrobotsinrowboats.com, RobotsInRowboats.etsy.com Hollie ChastainAwaits (page 38)collageholliechastain.com Brian …

Poetry: The Sea, the Forest

Like an argument against keeping the more unshakable varieties of woundedness inside, where such things may best belong, he opened his eyes in the dark. Did you hear that, he…

Making Friends with Robots

Twenty years ago, Anne Foerst, the theologian at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, introduced us to Kismet, the first emotionally responsive robot. Now, Marilyn Schlitz, Dean of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, introduces us to Sophia, an android programmed for unconditional love, empathy, and compassion.

Humanity’s Most Uncomfortable Question

Is consciousness an epiphenomenon of an archaic brain? Artificial Intelligence may soon have an answer.

4 Dimensions of Peacemaking

Whether it’s Israel/Palestine or Red vs. Blue, understanding why “I would be fighting me, too!” is only the second step toward lasting peace.

3 Best Supplements for Better Sleep

“We know that sleep makes us feel better, and we know it’s better for us. And we even know how to measure our deep sleep. But how do we get it?”

Create Your 40-day, Brain Body Diet Book Club

This could be the healthiest group you’ll ever join.

Lectio Intima

There is perhaps nothing that so fundamentally realigns your understanding of another person as to see and hear them engaged with the Holy ...

Stepping Out of Grief

When we have walked in darkness for so long, we are sometimes allowed to step into a parallel world.

The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing

Once a month is enough to sustain higher levels of immunity, and the intention of healing magnifies the effects.

The Paradox of Being Holy

There are two ways to be holy, but you wouldn’t know it from the things we say about those who are.

7 Tales of Digital Minimalism

What we all need is a philosophy of technology use, something that covers from the ground up which digital tools we allow into our life, for what reasons, and under what constraints.

Showing Up for What Is

The contemplative life of women mystics.

40 Days to a Lean, Calm, Energized & Happy Self

An interview with Sara Gottfried MD

Book Review: This Life

Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

Book Review: That Good Night

Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

Book Review: How to Disappear

Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

Book Review: An Elegant Defense

The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System

Music Review: The Prophet Speaks

Could it be that the answers we seek are right in front of us, but our ears haven’t been open to hear them? Van Morrison seems to have this in mind on his latest musical offering, …

Music Review: Stay Human, Vol. II

Since the 2001 release of Spearhead’s original Stay Human album, the band’s sound has edged away from funk, soul, R&B, and hip-hop in the direction of pop. Accordingly, while socia…

Music Review: The Cut of the Warrior

The Cut of the Warrior is an album about slicing through the ego and opening to compassion. These incantations by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jarboe are simultaneously exquisite…

Film Review: Genesis 2.0

Alternating between strikingly shot footage of ivory hunters in the New Siberian Islands north of Russia, looking for woolly mammoth tusks, and a gathering of young scientists in B…

Film Review: A Quest for Meaning

a Ménardière and Nathanaël Coste, one a slick, successful bottled water salesman, the other a documentarian who’s just made a film about water access in India, reconnect after many…

Film Review: Symbiotic Earth

How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution