Starring Gene Pascucci

I don’t make ads. Not really. But if I did this is what might happen. I made this for Gene. You might recognise him from the first Soul Portrait.

And I was struck by a single line:

"Everybody was an honor, everybody was a privilege to be with."

And the reason I’m playing it here is because this is how Gene is. Truly is. Everybody is an honor and a privilege to be with. And in this action he proves that a life time of ’seeking’ can transform a person.

An extract from Alistair Conwell's new book 'The Audible Stream' about facing up to Death.

Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. - Carl G. Jung (1875–1961)

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all. 

By Hersha Chellaram

David Spangler writes about the Oil Tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico and the spiritual dimensions of that spill.

There are times when events overtake intentions. There was another topic that I had planned to write about for this month’s letter, but events in the Gulf of Mexico loom so large with the spreading oil spill and the consequent devastation to animal, plant and human lives that no other topics seem fitting this month. The amount of email I’ve had asking for insights into what is happening, for perspectives from the subtle worlds, or for suggestions for subtle activism in response to this tragedy affirms for me that this is the subject close to people’s hearts and minds right now.

(Reprinted from Positive News Hong Kong)

by Dr Anne Hilty

Welcoming a stranger into your home can be an act of peace.

William Bloom writes about his recent surgery and the spiritual lessons of the crisis.

Here I am alive and well, having gone through my first ever general anaesthetic and surgery — and I am grateful to be so well. (What I thought was the natural decline of old age turned out to be a surfeit of calcium, which is now healed, and I feel vital again! And lucky.)

Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.

Jonathan Safran talks joins ABC's Lateline to talk about the ethics and environmental impact of a meat diet.

Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), speaks of the ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor meeting to bring a new harmony into the world.
Don Alverto invites us all to trust the universal human intuition to bring greater harmony into our lives, and to seek after life's deeper meaning.