Free Spirit: Gabrielle Bernstein

Gabrielle Bernstein

Gabrielle Bernstein has been hailed by The New York Times as her generation’s next spiritual guru. At 32, she has transformed herself from party girl to meditation guide, motivational speaker and author.

Mind is the Link

by Yogi Bhajan: If we consider that physical health is the sustainer of life, then mental health may be considered as the real essence of life. A man might be beautiful to look at and may have a very divine spirit and may be very healthy.

Speak With Committed Language

by Yogi Bhajan: In the reality of your own structure and existence, the mind is given to you to so you can act, express, and experience your self in this creation. Instead of training your mind and using its power, you have become a slave of the mind.

Enrich Your Mind

by Yogi Bhajan: You have fashions and faculties in your mind. Your fashion is how you decide to look, act, and be; how you want to project your self into the world. You can be a person of spirit, a person of great mental intellect, a person of brute force, a healer, or a leader.

Timothy Leary, Silhouette

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by Stephen Bello: Talking to Timothy Leary, you’re pretty sure he’s right–probably because his idea alone are enough to induce a mild psychedelic experience. 

Fascinating Figures: Timothy Leary

by Christopher Ryan: I was recently asked to write a series of profiles of fascinating people and events from the 60s and 70s for a Spanish magzine called Cañamo. 

Swami Satchidananda, Woodstock’s Guru, Dies at 87

by Douglas Martin: Swami Satchidananda, the guru with the gigantic cottony beard who opened the Woodstock festival by calling music ”the celestial sound that controls the whole universe,” died on Monday in Madras in South India. He was 87.

Truth Is One, Paths Are Many’

by Daniel Redwood DC: The Reverend Sri Swami Satchidananda has for many years been an apostle of peace in a world filled with war, a herald of moderation in a culture addicted to the extremes.