Spirit Craftworks

08/21/2016

I have been in the psychological, emotional and spiritual healing professions for almost 40 years. And how I define healing is the process of supporting people to live more fully from what is the most true and alive for them. To be all of who they are. To be unabashedly real. To recognize that their...

07/26/2016

We give thanks for all those who are moved, in their lives, to heal and protect the earth, in small ways and in large. Blessings on the composter, the gardeners, the breeders of worms and mushrooms, the soil-builders, those who cleanse the waters and purify the air, all those who clean up the messes...

05/14/2016

From my experience in graduate school I'd have to say that this is so very true. The way that western philosophy is handled makes it useless in guiding you to a better life.

Miranda Kerr is pretty, successful and very rich. She’s been named the sexiest woman alive. She’s also deeply interested in developing her mind. That means she’s into yoga, chanting, meditation and Japanese Buddhism. She recites Nam Myoho Renge Kyo twice a day – invoking the mystic law of th

03/11/2016

I did. Can you?

Can you?!

03/03/2016

Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy "yarn bombs" started small, with stop sign poles and fire hydrants in Sayeg's hometown, but soon people found a connection to the craf…

03/02/2016

In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's politica…

02/02/2016

Thousands of undisclosed chemicals go into cosmetics and consumer goods—and some are pretty nasty.

12/25/2015

Moussa Ag Assarid (MAA): I don’t know my age. I was born in the Sahara desert, with no papers. I was born in a nomadic camp of Touaregs, between Timbuktu and Gao, in the north of Mali. [...] J: What do they do for a living? MAA: We shepherd camels, goats, sheep, cows and donkeys in a kingdom of infi…

12/08/2015

Join David T. Nicol, founder of the Subtle Activism Network, and Philip Hellmich, Director of Peace at the Shift Network, for a provocative discussion about how our multidimensional global crisis can serve as a catalyst for the emergence of a true planetary wisdom culture.

11/27/2015

Outdoor-gear retailer REI has garnered plenty of attention and praise for it's decision to close for business on Black Friday this year and for urging...

09/16/2015

Amazing story. It made me cry. But it also gives me hope.

Home Video Every Day She Said ‘Hello’ To This Homeless Man. But One Day... VideoEvery Day She Said ‘Hello’ To This Homeless Man. But One Day He Handed Her A Piece Of Paper… September 13, 2015 0 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter tweet His name is Ramundo Arruda Sobrinho and for 35 years, this 77-yea…

05/08/2015

"Manifest Justice" in LA will make you rethink everything.

04/15/2015

Despite a growing abundance of research that shows how valuable mindfulness meditation can be, there also seems to be many roadblocks that keep people from trying it out: from simple time constraints, to the fear of becoming stereotyped as one of those 'new age, touchy-feely' kinds of people. In thi…

03/12/2015

My startling, chaotic dreams seem closer to real than the face I show in the light of day. So many tangled threads to follow and sort. So much to not know. I've lived many lives, now houses of card...

01/07/2015

"Among the most bizarre and disturbing environmental phenomena that have ever confronted America." — Mark Devries

01/02/2015

One of the most powerful metabolism boosters a person can have, and it has no physical form.

11/30/2014

There are over 800 million undernourished people in the world today. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to health worldwide. Yet there is enough food in the world to feed everyone. In San Francisco, California, 1 out of 4 people go hungry at some point during the month. There ar…

11/19/2014

In this beautifully grounding piece, a former monk shares insights from a year of silence and contemplation. "Deep within each of us is a great well of health, abundance, knowledge, guidance. When we enter the silence and stay in the silence, we come into direct contact with that sacred well. In tha…