Healthy Bean Stew

In the vegetarian diet that monks and priests follow in both the Taoist and Vedantic traditions, they eat food that is full of life force. Beans and seeds are the most powerfully alive of foods: just think, simply by adding water, you can trigger their ability to grow a whole…
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Frequency and Spirit

These days people talk about shifting their energy and improving their frequency. What does this mean and how does it relate to us? The basic idea is that all things are energy. The energy in each thing vibrates at different rates, with different amplitudes. Amplitude is like the size of…
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Owl Wisdom

This is a story about finding a place to live, the magic of synchronicity, and listening to intuition and the messages in nature. When I moved back to Atlanta, I wanted to live in a loft. The only problem was that lofts are generally in the middle of the hustle…
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Winter Rice Porridge (congee)

Congee or rice porridge is a staple of the Chinese diet.  Congee can be sweet or savory, and with different combinations of herbs, congee can generate healing energy and be a most nourishing soup.  During winter we can add warming herbs such as cinnamon and clove or focus the healing…
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Meditation Basics

Meditative practices are the root of many of the world’s ancient spiritual traditions and are recognized by western science and modern traditions as being beneficial to health and longevity. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism each have huge stores of physical and mental exercises that have been developed all with one purpose: to…
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