When Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was recovering from a massive stroke, she had a sign put on the door of her hospital room that read, “Please be responsible for the energy that you bring into this room.” She was asking every medical professional  who entered  to leave their negative thinking at the door, because  she knew that her best chance of recovering from the brain hemorrhage … [Read more...]

I was listening to a talk by evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest recently, when he said something that made me sit up and take notice. He was discussing his natal North Node in Taurus in the sixth house. Despite being in his early 70s, the world-renowned author admitted that until recently, he hadn’t had a medical checkup in 14 years. He prefers to spend time, he said, in … [Read more...]

Deborah Kushner has been arrested three times for acts of civil disobedience related to gas pipeline construction and permitting. In one of those incidents (pictured below), the retired social worker  chained her rocking chair to an old police cruiser painted with attention-grabbing slogans that made folks take notice! Mild-mannered Kushner, 67, isn’t your typical activist. … [Read more...]

One spring night in 1968, 21-year-old Patti Smith went with some friends to see The Doors live at the Fillmore East in New York City. A recent college drop-out, Smith was working in a bookstore and wondering what to do with the rest of her life. Little did she know that an unexpected vision of her future was about be catalyzed. As she later wrote in her memoirs: “I had a … [Read more...]