Purchase The Big Wish from the Beliefnet Shopping Mall. The Big Wish By Carolyn Conahan Review: The Big Wish is an ambitious children’s story with a big heart.  The protagonist is a young girl who protects a field of dandelions—waiting for them to turn into wish-puffs that she can share with her community.  Eventually, the…

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Purchase The Code from the Beliefnet Shopping Mall. The Code: Unlocking the Ancient Power of Your Birthday Review: Johanna Paungger/Thomas Poppe Like most books based on a typology or numerology, The Code describes a wonderful system for classifying personality types based on a system developed in Europe. Unlike the Myers-Briggs typology, this system encompasses more…

Purchase The Wisdom of the Healing Wound from the Beliefnet Shopping Mall. The Wisdom of the Healing Wound: A New View on Why we Hurt and How We Can Cure Even the Deepest Physical and Emotional Wounds By David Knighton Review: As a scientist, I have been mesmerized by most of the new books released…

Purchase The Hollow Bone from the Beliefnet Shopping Mall. The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism ByColleen DeatsmanReview: Shamanism was always a word that scared me.  It evoked images of animal spirits entering a person’s body–inevitably in a poorly lit tent deep in the jungle.  But the word is increasingly becoming part of the…

Fighting Homelessness with Mindfulness Originally posted at: http://www.shambhalasun.com/ . Homeless youth attending a workshop at the Reciprocity Foundation. I was sixteen the first time I walked into a homeless shelter, and I was sure it was an accident. I was looking for a student art show, not broken youth. But a voice within told me…

Purchase A Child’s Book of Animal Poems & Blessings from the Beliefnet Shopping Mall. A Child’s Book of Animal Poems and BlessingsCollected by Eliza Blanchard and Illustrated by Joyce Hesselberth Review: Having created a book of blessings myself, I was eager to see what Eliza Blanchard had decided to include in this collection of animal…

Purchase My Soul Pages from the Beliefnet Shopping Mall. My Soul Pages: A Companion to Writing Down Your Soul By Janet Conner Review:I’m the sort of person who loves journals.  I have at least 15 on my bookshelf, mostly half-filled, that I picked out because I loved the cover, the paper quality, the quotes or…

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