Category: Miscellaneous Topics

Kindness Above All

Kindness Above All A Community Message from Sacred Seven NPO | Awakened Yoga By C.J. Nava Kindness Whether or not we consciously acknowledge it as fact, we crave, feed on, thrive in, and long for it. Humanity has an active history embracing leaders, masters, guides—many of whom held unconditional love and kindness as a foundation… Read more »

Designer Perception

Designer Perception By Redtail It seems that the leading edges of science agree with the wise fool “Nasrudin,” who appears in Sufi teaching tales making illogical observations such as “If I hadn’t believed it, I wouldn’t have seen it with my own eyes.” Though conventional wisdom insists that seeing is believing, scientific evidence suggests it… Read more »

Conscious People

A Pathway to an Addiction-Free Society By Elena Tonetti What does addiction have to do with birth? In one of the previous issues in this magazine, in my article “Limbic Imprint,” I’ve described the mechanism of the correlation between the way we were born and the quality of our emotional lives as adults. Limbic imprint… Read more »

Going Solar Part 2

By Rich Varlinsky If your energy audit is complete and improvements have been made, we can proceed to the next step of the “going solar” process. Read Part 1 in the Jan/Feb/Mar 2016 issue of Lotus Guide or online at www.LotusGuide.com. Solar PV System Types Solar PV (photovoltaic) systems are divided into two types, grid… Read more »

Why Thermography?

By Michelle Hodge, DC, CTT   We all see ads promoting early detection as a preventive measure for breast cancer, but is that really prevention? It seems that mainstream medicine focuses on early detection rather than prevention, followed by treatment and ultimately providing palliative care for those patients who are diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer.… Read more »

Whistleblowers

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Whistleblowers: Heroes/True Patriots or Enemies of the State/Corporations?    Before you try to answer the question posed in the title, let’s look at some history and imagine what our world would be like without people who were guided by their conscience and integrity instead of their corporate/political masters. Samuel Shaw: In 1777 he blew the whistle… Read more »

Returning the Social to Agriculture

We live in exciting and challenging times in which we must adapt to weather changes and water shortages. Look to your local community for programs like this. One that I know of is the Paradise Grange Community Garden. You can contact Debbie at 530-413-3974 for more information on what they’re doing and what might be… Read more »

RePurpose-Making Something from Nothing

RePurposing Every time we go to the dump to take all of our broken “stuff” from China because of “planned obsolescence,” we are amazed at the things people throw away that could be resurrected into something else. We really need to rethink how we live our lives on every level. Most of the time when… Read more »

Want to Change Your Life?

It’s as Quick as Switching the Channel By Meg Benedicte During this extraordinary year of transformation, our planet is morphing from the dying, outdated 3D model of Duality into an alternative 5D paradigm of Unity Consciousness. This is often met with perplexing confusion, as the human mind attempts to grasp how it is possible for… Read more »

The First Buddha in the Dental Chair

 Swami Devageet’s journey to higher consciousness is told in a heart-warming sincere way—humorous, yet profound—in his book, Osho: The First Buddha in the Dental Chair: Amusing Anecdotes by His Personal Dentist (Sammasati Publishing). The unique book reveals an intimate and charming portrait of the revered spiritual master and how he worked to bring enlightenment to… Read more »