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Book Review: The Power of Awe
What if you were offered a microdose as potent as a psychotropic that lifts depression and gives you a buzz? Would you try it? Turns out, we all have access to something just as po…
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Book Review: Gentle Power
For many of us, the word “power” evokes images of executives around a conference table, politicians delivering fiery speeches, or, unfortunately, all kinds of violence. But what if…
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Book Review: Psychedelic Buddhism
Even those of us who consider ourselves square may be intrigued by a growing renewal of cultural interest in psychedelic drugs—signaled by a recent flood of books that explain just…
Film
Film Review: No Bears
Despite being the subject of a filmmaking ban imposed by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi has defied his country’s authorities by directing five features since the ban was impo…Tags:
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Film Review: Utama
Utama, which has been chosen as Bolivia’s Academy Awards submis-sion, opens with a striking image of a man walking towards a setting sun across a landscape of cracked and scorched …
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Film Review and Director Q&A: Inhospitable
Documentaries about the broken American healthcare system are nothing new, but Inhospitable applies a laser focus to a part of the problem that has gotten relatively little attenti…
Music
Music Review: Synesthesia
Sherry Finzer’s new album is a journey of radiant solo flute music that releases stress and relaxes the mind and body. Finzer specializes in native flutes and low flutes. This is t…
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Music Review: The New Faith
The New Faith is a beautifully crafted Afrofuturist album by Jake Blount that tells the story of a group of Black climate refugees who are cursed to wander the planet after it’s de…Tags:
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Book Review: Know Justice, Know Peace
For decades, Deborah Threadgill Egerton has used the Enneagram, a well-known psychological assessment tool, to improve workplace dynamics. In Know Justice, Know Peace, her first bo…
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Book Review: Namwayut
Sometimes the path to peace is through a struggle with self. This was so for Chief Robert Joseph, a survivor of a residential school for Indigenous children in Canada. For him, t…
