Zen and the Art of Chinese Medicine

“Throughout eastern Asia the square signifies Earth, the circle refers to Heaven, and the triangle is the potential of Humankind to stand on the Earth and reach toward Heaven – both physically and metaphorically.”
Zen and the Art
of Chinese Medicine
by Steven Alpern, L.Ac.
The scroll of Zen Buddhist monk Sengai (1750-1838) entitled Circle, Triangle, and Square is [...]

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Natural Remedy: helps to alleviate everything from stomach ulcers and psoriasis to nail fungus

Copaiba oil has a long history of use in South America, where it has traditionally been used as a topical remedy to help clear up skin problems including dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema, rashes, herpes, insect bites, injuries, wounds and boils.
Amazonian healers also recommend diluted copaiba oil for internal use as a treatment for a wide range [...]

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Ayahuasca: visions, ikaros and the shipibo

I just returned home from the Amazon jungle’s of Peru. I went there with Michael Sonn to stay with the Shipibo Indians in their village. Michael brings interested people to this remote location for the purpose of doing personal visionary work with the plant medicine called “Ayahuasca”. His company Amazon Medicinals [...]

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The body has death, but not the soul.

He who lives the inner life knows that death is truly his resting-room. To him, death is anything but extinction. It is a meaningful departure. When our consciousness is divinely transformed, the necessity of death will not arise at all. To transform life, we need Peace, Light, Bliss and Power. We cry for these divine [...]

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Global Healing Vision: preserving traditional bodies of knowledge

Join Bethany and Amy’s discussion “Ways to preserve cultural healing and ancient bodies of traditional knowledge” the show airs this Tuesday on Voice America’s Health and Wellness Channel. . Bethany will include the efforts of Concentric Rings, an eco-travel company offering transformative, educational trips blended with [...]

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Permaculture: what’s that mean?

Global Healing will feature Penny Livingston Stark an internationally recognized permaculture teacher, designer and speaker. Tune in Tuesday at 7am pacific time to listen to Global Healing on Voice America’s Health and Wellness channel. Voice America
Wikipedia says:
The word permaculture, coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren during the 1970s, is a portmanteau of permanent [...]

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Global Healing Vision: challenge and change

It’s been an interesting journey to produce this new phase of my life, but here it is.
A new internet radio talk show, “Global Healing” its the brain child of my co-host ( Amy Greeson ) and myself.
To all beings that care for this planet, I invite you to drop by [...]

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Voice America: take a listen!

I’ll be co-hosting Global Healing with Amy Greeson on Voice America’s Wellness Channel September 4th, 2007 at 7am PST, please tune in and listen.
Voice America is the premiere live internet talk radio network, check it out!
www.voiceamerica.com/
www.concentricrings.org
www.healingseekers.com

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History Teaches Us: finding useful tools

Among all the spiritual paths that the world offer, Ayahuasca a teacher plant, is one of the surest ways for people to gain a deeper understanding, knowledge and wisdom of one’s inner life path.
“History teaches us that there are rhythms in transformation patterns that can be seen, understood, and made usable and teachable to [...]

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Bitter Orange: known for its volatile oil

Bitter orange is used in a wide variety of traditions. In Mexico and South America the leaf is used as a tonic, laxative, sedative for insomnia and to calm frazzled nerves. Bitter orange has a complex chemical makeup, though it is perhaps known best for the volatile oil in the peel.
The juice of bitter orange [...]

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