When Joan is in the process of bringing an issue of the journal into form one of the first pieces she begins to focus on is cover art. This process has a few stages; finding the artwork, correspondence with the artist, receiving approval to publish and obtaining the artwork and information about the artist and their work. At any point along the way, there are gaps in time and sometimes quite a bit of last minute back and forth correspondence and other refinements necessary to bring Inner Tapestry's cover to form. With this issue it was a little different.

Read more: Life Without Definition

We are here to be and experience what we truly are, but to get at that mystery, we are required to rid ourselves of all the fictions we live in daily. To be truly authentic means we cannot cling to any ideas about ourselves so that we may be free to move in any direction, at any time, and to access any latent abilities we hold within us that are necessary for what’s ahead. In short, authenticity is about having a willingness to surprise ourselves as to who we really are and what we really can do.

Read more: Accessing Our True Selves

“April showers bring May flowers.”

I remember hearing that saying as a child. Of course, I was most likely to hear it when the April showers were interfering with my playing outside. The homily was, of course, filled with multiple meanings – everything from a message of patience and “good things come to those who wait” to “everything has a reason.”

Read more: A Time for Renewal

The other day, while meditating, I happened to be thinking about the people of Haiti and their current strife with not having access to food and being hungry. A thought popped into my head about a very easy way to help which was tied to my past experiences and teachings with the Blackfeet and the Lakota. Let me explain...

Read more: Who Is Eating The Strawberries

One of the most confusing things about figuring out how to nourish ourselves appropriately is learning how to sort through an ever-increasing amount of nutritional information and apply it to ourselves. It’s not surprising, then, that some people come to us looking for another diet. That is, they approach The Angel Way as another way to lose body weight. Following The Angel Way Guidelines will likely to lead to weight loss if you are carrying more weight than is healthy for your body.

To be clear, the Angel Way is not a “diet” in that sense.

Read more: Eating… The Angel Way

Have you ever noticed the wonderful way our animal companions seem to live without definitions? By taking a close look at how they approach living their lives, we might find a way to master the art of living without definition, too. Think of it, what it would be like to live without definitions? But then again, what is a definition? Is it a line drawn in the sand? Is it a rule of thumb that we choose to live by, or is it a pre-determined set of stringent guidelines that we force everyone around us to live by? How could we choose, try, learn, or even grow into living without definition?

Read more: Follow Your Pet’s Lead and Live Without Definition

“The doctor of the future
will give no medicine,
but will interest his patients
in the care of the human frame,
in diet, and in the cause
and prevention of disease.”
- Thomas Edison

Are we in the midst of becoming the future Thomas Edison imagined? I’d like to believe so. There is a slow and deliberate shift taking place and it is flowing through the cracks in our consciousness. It can be felt everywhere. The bookshelves are overflowing with new thoughts about it. There are thousands upon thousands of websites and blogs dedicated to it. Television shows have had many guests spotlighting it. There have been DVDs, movies, documentaries; all discussing it. What is it? It is the idea that we are responsible for our own health and our own state of well-being. We attract what we think and what we vibrate. We are not just glorified machines in which you can simply replace parts as needed. We are complex beings with dynamic vibrating energy fields imbued with spirit! A new thought paradigm is taking hold, but I also believe that we have quite a way to go to fully liberate ourselves from the medical paradigms of our past.

Read more: Alternative Healthcare as Preventative Medicine