What’s My Purpose?
Finding the Big Dream of Your Life Career counseling for high school and college students these days often consists of sitting down in front of a computer and logging onto a site that offers screen after …
The Other Hand
Unlock the Meaning of Your Dreams It’s a strange paradox: Everybody dreams—several times each night in fact—and yet most people I talk to say they rarely remember theirs, and if they do they don’t pay …
A Golden Opportunity
Beyond the Drama of the Golden Calf When I signed up to lead the weekly study circle at my synagogue, I did so having no idea what Torah portion I would be getting, but I …
The Heart Is Where Home Is
A Question for The Shaman I’d been looking forward to this day ever since I’d signed up for the writing retreat on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala a month before. Now, seated on the patio just …
Joy is Not a Luxury
Are you feeling happy? Is that even a relevant question these days? Here’s what I’ve been thinking: Just two days before the election (the one that changed everything) I’d been reading a piece the New …
Dreaming on Lake Atitlan
Finding Comfort And Meaning Half a World Away It was like a dream, stepping off the boat and entering a world defined by a glistening blue basin of a lake, watched over in the distance …
To Find Inner Peace in a Time of Political Conflict … Give Dreams a Chance
Let It Begin With Me … & You … These days I’ve been wearing my peace sign socks and earrings more than usual, and spouting my lefty liberal opinions, well—quite liberally. The political times: a particularly …
Rainbow Dreams: A Post-Hurricane Post
Shortly before I was scheduled to offer a program on “The Yoga of Dreams,” at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, I dreamed I saw dark stormy clouds nearly obscuring the retreat’s palm tree-dense property. This wasn’t …
Finding Celia Green, a Female Forebear in the World of Lucid Dreams
I discovered C.E. Green in a footnote while reading an article online about Lucid Dreaming. C.E., it turns out is Celia Elizabeth Green, born in 1935, who was once the Director of the Institute of Psychophysical Research, Oxford, and an expert in the study of Lucid Dreams.