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The secret’s in the sauce
Amy Domini | September 2011 Issue As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fresh tomatoes were not always available, but we canned them so we Read More...
You are what you eat
Paulo Coelho | September 2011 Issue Three travelers crossed the Himalayas together discussing the importance of practicing everything in their spiritual plan. They were so enthralled by their conversation that it was only much later in the night that they realized they only had one piece of bread Read More...
Sonic boon
A search for the healing power of sound. Marieke Verhoeven | September 2011 issue I’m lying in a bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection Read More...
Running for our lives
In a small Haitian town devastated by the earthquake, communal jogging is helping kids rebuild their shattered lives. Sara Bernard | July/August 2011 issue When I was volunteering for All Hands Volunteers in Léogâne, Haiti—building schools, visiting orphanages and clearing the rubble from Read More...
The compassion instinct
Research shows that a compassionate attitude towards others improves mental and physical health. Larry Gallagher | July/August 2011 issue The Dalai Lama has been telling us for years that it would make us happy, but he never said it would make us healthy, too. “If you want others to be Read More...
Beef we can believe in
Loren Berlin | July/August 2011 issue When I started eating meat again, after 14 years as a vegetarian, I felt guilty. After all, my decision to stop eating meat was intentional. I had done the research and decided that raising animals for food was an inefficient use of natural resources. Plus, it Read More...
Damned lies and statistics
Amy Domini | July/August 2011 issue As a kid on Cape Cod, I’d get really frustrated with a ground-dwelling bird that lived all around us. The Virginia quail (or bobwhite) had the most annoying call. At dawn it would start in, tentatively, “Bob? Bob White?” This would repeat until you Read More...
Ode to Shanah Trevenna
[caption id="attachment_105700" align="alignnone" width="280"] Photo: University of Hawaii[/caption] Samuel Rosenzweig | July/August 2011 issue When graduate student Shanah Trevenna approached her professor with a proposal to make Hawaii a self-sustaining state, she didn’t get the reaction she Read More...
Standing in the light
How Johan Boswinkel is using biophotons, the faint light waves emitted by cells, to help the body heal. Jurriaan Kamp | July/August 2011 issue Warning: this story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited Read More...
Prelude to courage
How anger can improve health, enhance intimacy, spur creativity and even inspire social change. Diana Rico | June 2011 issue It’s the 1980s, and I am sitting in the Beverly Hills living room of a major 1950s television star, alongside my romantic and sometimes writing partner. I have obtained a Read More...