One Billion Rising: A Message from Cecile Lipworth and Eve Ensler

One Billion Rising: A Message from Cecile Lipworth and Eve Ensler

Cecile Lipworth is the Managing Director/Campaigns Director of V-Day. Founded by Eve Ensler, V-Day is a global movement of grassroots activists dedicated to generating broader attention and funds to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sex slavery. On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, 14 February 2013, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an...
The Heart of Lightness

The Heart of Lightness

Edith Turner is an anthropologist engaged in the study of ritual, religion and consciousness. She has been researching the field of symbol and ritual for 58 years, formerly in collaboration with Victor Turner. Edith Turner has researched traditional healing and its ritual implications, initiations in Africa, celebrations and festivals in the Americas, Europe, and the far north, and pilgrimage in Central America, Europe, and Asia. Author of many books, among them:...
Belonging Here

Belonging Here

 Judith Blackstone is an innovative, experienced teacher in the contemporary spiritual and psychotherapy fields. She developed the Realization Process, a method of realizing fundamental (non-dual)  consciousness,and applying it to psychological, relational and physical healing, and has taught it for over thirty years throughout the United States and Europe, and at Esalen Institute in California since 1987. Her main teacher has been nature–the subtle...
Awakening in the Dream

Awakening in the Dream

A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the author of the upcoming book “Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil”(North Atlantic Books, release date Jan. 15, 2013). He is also the author of “The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis”. An artist, he is deeply steeped in the...

Message from Joanna

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The Spiritual Gift of Madness

The Spiritual Gift of Madness

Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist (he received his doctorate in 1984),visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements — and a supporter of animal rights) and co-founder of the Network Against Coercive Psychiatry (1988). His newest and most important book is “The Spiritual Gift of Madness:The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement”. http://www.sethhfarber.com/ Seth...