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  • Cover Braiding Sweetgrass

    Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass

    2020/08/25

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions (October 15, 2013) What a wonderful find! In Braiding Sweetgrass the author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, unites science and spirituality into a beautiful tapestry showing us our need for both science and spirit to survive on this earth — and for the Earth to survive us. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and a professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Inspiration, Nature

  • Book Cover: Past Lives of Children

    Book Review: Children’s Past Lives

    2020/06/05

    Children’s Past Lives How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child by Carol Bowman Element Books Ltd (1997) When Carol Bowman released her book in 1997, it proved to be quite controversial. It was the first of its kind to explore reincarnation with children. Her life-long belief in reincarnation helped prepare her for the journey into a fascinating world that inspired her to write Children’s Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child. The book is both memoir and instructional… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Enlightenment

  • The Personalized Diet Book Cover

    Book Review: The Personalized Diet

    2020/04/06

    The Personalized Diet: The Pioneering Program to Lose Weight and Prevent Disease by Eran Segal PhD (Author), Eran Elinav MD PhD (Author), Eve Adamson Grand Central Life & Style Publishing (December 26, 2017) After a month of “sheltering in place” and all the media hype about shortages, I noticed that my fascination with food, diet, and meals moved to the forefront of my life. Enough so that I need to increase my awareness factor before the kilograms start to creep… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Self Help

  • Book cover: Human Heart; Cosmic Heart

    Book Review: Human Heart, Cosmic Heart

    2020/02/14

    Human Heart, Cosmic Heart: A Doctor’s Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease by Thomas Cowan, MD, Chelsea Green Publishing (November 3, 2016) Fascinating book that challenged my thinking about how our hearts work. I learned much from reading this book. It reinforces my belief that good health and healing requires a whole-body approach that includes your mind and spirit. Dr. Thomas Cowan describes himself as a doubter — a nonconformist. It was his unending search for knowledge that… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Healing Techniques

  • One Mind Book Cover from Good Reads

    One Mind: A book review

    2019/12/17

    One Mind How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters by Larry Dossey, MD, Hay House (October 1, 2013) When I first read the book jacket for Dr. Larry Dossey’s One Mind, I thought this could just be another book that takes psychic phenomena and makes it the subject of science. I was pleasantly surprised after I began reading. As an internal medicine physician, Dr. Dossey has experienced both the science and spirit of healing… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Enlightenment, Self Help

  • Speak 4 Trees Cover

    To Speak for the Trees: A book review

    2019/11/18

    To Speak for the Trees My life’s journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest By Diana Beresford-Kroeger, PhD Penguin Random House (September 24, 2019)   I am very excited to recommend you read To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kruger. From reading my blogs and book reports, you probably noticed I have a deep love for trees. Despite this great interest, I had never heard of this author who writes about trees scientifically and… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Nature

  • Book cover: Living in a Mindful Universe

    Living in a Mindful Universe: A book review

    2019/10/23

    Living in a Mindful Universe A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness by Dr. Eben Alexander and Karen Newell Imagine, being terribly ill and falling into a coma. Imagine feeling suspended in time for seven days. Now imagine, miraculously awakening and remembering everything that occurred during those seven days. Much to the astonishment of his doctors and colleagues, that is exactly what happened to American neurosurgeon, Eben Alexander, in 2008. This near-death experience led Dr. Alexander to change his… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Enlightenment

  • Real Magic Book cover

    Real Magic: A book review

    2019/10/03

    Real Magic Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science and a Guide to the Secrets of the Universe. By Dean Radin Penguin Random House (April 10, 2018) Calling all skeptics. If that’s you — or you just want to learn more about magic, check out Dean Radin’s new book, Real Magic. It is full of useful information and interesting stories as he takes us on his journey — exploring magic from an “evidence based scientific perspective.” Since scientists tend to dismiss magic, I… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Enlightenment

  • Extraordinary Knowing Book cover

    Extraordinary Knowing: A book review

    2019/09/05

    Extraordinary Knowing Science, Skepticism and the inexplicable power of the Human Mind By Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD Penguin Random House (February 26, 2008) Have you ever had an experience you could not explain logically? That’s what happened to Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, a psychoanalyst and researcher living an “ordinary” life. The harp story After months of searching for her daughter’s stolen harp, desperation — and a good friend – prompted Dr. Mayer to call on a dowser for help in locating… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Enlightenment

  • Low angle view beautiful green Bamboo grove forest

    The tree factor for a good life

    2019/07/21

    I’ve always been connected to trees. As a child I spent a lot of time with my great aunt, Tante Liesbeth. She lived in what was then called “the Transvaal,” a former province just north of the Vaal River in South Africa. She had a country store in a forestry reserve near the town of Sabie. An incredible pine forest surrounded my great aunt’s house. I loved walking in those trees — and I loved the smell. At the bottom… Read more »

    Book Reviews, Nature

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