Have you ever heard of Consciouness-Enhancing Media or inner-tainment? It involves using music and media as a kind of medicine. Award-winning media composer/producer Gary Malkin’s inspiring short films at Wisdom Films are an example. They feature spoken wisdom from around the world combined with time-lapse cinematography and musical soundtracks – meditations to help slow us down after a […]
Lifestyle
Freedom is Choice
Giving up freedom I hate losing stuff. I hate losing valuable time. I hate losing friends. I hate losing money. But most of all, I hate losing freedom. I would give up stuff, time, and money for freedom. I’d give up friends who threaten my freedom. Losing my freedom is unacceptable. Pure and simple. Then […]
Space of Stillness / Point of Dynamic Rest
Eckhart Tolle says, “Being is finding within yourself that space of stillness that is always there, where you can be conscious without thinking.” I love it when I find myself in this “space of stillness,” this “point of dynamic rest,” but it doesn’t happen nearly enough. When I look at the small hill of daffodils that bloom […]
2012, Gratitude Just Makes Sense
What better way to start the new year than with a post about GRATITUDE? Gratitude isn’t just about being thankful. Gratitude changes us neurologically, makes our brains stronger, just makes sense. Gratitude burns away the shadow of life’s circumstances, like the sun burns away fog–that empty mode we can lockourselves into, where we’re unable to shift […]
Sassman Memory Farm
It all started with a single strand of Christmas lights put up by a brother in memory of his sister, who had passed away due to cancer. Now, 19 years later, the Christmas light display at Earl Sassman’s Memory Farm at 3446 Point Pleasant Road in Elk Grove has grown to 150,000 lights and can be seen from […]
Having Never Really Lived
When the 14th Dalai Lama was asked, “What about humanity surprises you the most?” he said: “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn’t enjoy the present. As a result, he doesn’t […]
