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Segmented Sleep

Many Americans are very worried about their sleep. They firmly believe the common assumption that they should get a solid uninterrupted eight hours. If they find themselves awake in the middle of the...

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Unusually Active Time

This is an unusually active time in terms of the occurrence of multiple significant astronomical events in close succession temporally. This signifies a profound time for the world astrologically, as...

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The Monroe Institute and Hemi-Sync®

  In the middle of May I spent a remarkable week at The Monroe Institute, a retreat center in rural Virginia, dedicated to research, exploration and experiential teaching about expansion of human...

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Coming to Our Senses

Derek Walcott This morning I tuned into my very favorite radio program “On Being”, which describes itself as a “spacious conversation” about “the big questions at the center of human life”.  Host...

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Soulless Psychiatry

The Kingdom of Ordinary TimeMarie Howe Did you know that the literal meaning of psychiatry is “healing of the soul”? The term was coined in France in 1846, “psychiatrie”, from Medieval Latin...

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Pomegranates and Blessings

It is September, a season of new beginnings, the initiation of a fresh cycle. We just celebrated Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The children went back to school, the summer is waning and it’s...

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Reiki: A Powerful Tool for Self-Care

I recently completed training in the Second Degree of the Usui System of Reiki Healing. I am not sure yet how I will integrate this simple, magical and beautiful healing modality into my practice, as...

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Bodily Gratitude

There is a very good blog featured by Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, called The Common Health Blog. This morning I read one of their pieces that I thought was so important that I intend to post it...

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Histamine Intolerance, Ancestral Health and Courage

Healing and illness occur on multiple levels, the physical, emotional and spiritual. In our culture we focus on the physical as of primary importance, a distant second is the emotional, and the...

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Ancestral Health Care: Shamanic Auto Immune Healing

From a modern Western perspective, the natural world, including the body, is viewed mechanistically. That is to say, it is determined and explained by physical processes alone. Over the past ten...

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The Winter Solstice and a New Moon in Capricorn

Astrology is a field that studies the influence that the heavenly bodies have upon human experience and events on Earth. Wide spread light pollution has made it impossible for many of us to see the...

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Mother Nature as the Good Mother

There are three feet of snow on the ground in Boston, and another storm is bearing down on us. Ten to twenty more inches are predicted over the next two days. The streets are already impossibly...

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Pragmatic Spirituality

Now is an opportunity for a radical new beginning, a departure from business as usual. This is a photo of the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 taken in Hamburg, Germany by my dear friend Dr. Gunnar...

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Copper Toxicity and Psychiatric Conditions

Dr. William Walsh’s research and teaching about nutrient therapy for the treatment of  psychiatric conditions changed the way that I practice. I now routinely order a few simple and inexpensive...

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A Holistic Approach to Mysterious Chronic Illness

Sue Wang’s compelling account of her holistic healing journey, Messages from the Black Recliner, is a poignant and inspiring narrative that will resonate with many of my readers, particularly those...

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The Saturn Neptune Square, Spiritual Discipline and Radical Acceptance in 2016

Neptune Saturn Of course you have heard the expression of comfort,  “You are only human” I believe that is inaccurate. I think that we are both human and Divine. Conventional medicine insists upon a...

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