Volume 40, Issue 4 is off the press. The August / September “Back to School” issue is about lessons: the ones we sign up for, and the ones life hands us anyway.

Summer is thinning out. The light is shorter at both ends of the day, the air has an edge to it in the early morning, and whether or not there are children in your house, something in the calendar shifts and asks you to get organized again. That turn is what this issue sits with. Not just going back to a classroom, but going back to yourself after a season of being outside your routine.

The cover is a watercolor by Jan Guarino: a woman stretched out on a beach towel in the last of the heat, reading, in no hurry at all. It seemed like the right picture for a season that is about to ask something of us.

Every piece is on this site to read free, and the whole issue as it was laid out is here too. If you would rather hold it, we deliver the print edition to nearly 900 locations across New York City and Long Island, and it costs nothing there either.

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The cover story

Perception and Intention Create Reality, from Valir, channeled by Dave Akira, is the fifth installment of an ongoing series. It looks ahead to the moment science stops treating the universe as a dead machine, and asks what happens to medicine, to technology, and to those of us who have been walking a spiritual path for years, when consciousness is finally allowed into the equation.

From the editor

Back to School, Back to Self. Domenick on the season of wisdom, and on the quiet, unglamorous way maturity actually arrives: through repetition, disappointment, patience, and time. Also on the hardest lesson in it, which is knowing where your responsibility ends and someone else’s begins.

Features

  • Our Differences Are Necessary by Ann Albers and The Angels. A tale of two sparks, one a farmer and one a healer, and why every soul on the planet, light or dark, has a place in the puzzle.
  • “Fine” Is Not a Feeling. It’s a Sentence. by Áine Rock. On the social contract we sign without reading it, and what waits for the women who slow down long enough to feel any of it.
  • The Vitality Secret That Medicine Hasn’t Told You by Dr. Colette D. Sinclair. We can track our sleep, our glucose, our microbiome, and still live at a fraction of our aliveness. A case that your emotional state is not separate from your physical health but one of its primary architects.
  • The Trauma Deception by RJ Spina. Told he had forty-eight hours to live and permanently paralyzed, he announced he would un-paralyze himself in one hundred days, and filmed it. On misperception, misidentification, and what he says can never be harmed.
  • A New Path for Conscious Entrepreneurs by Jeanna Valenti. For every practitioner who finds marketing distasteful: what changes when visibility becomes an act of service rather than self-promotion.
  • The Things We Don’t Do by Joanne LaCurrubba Steenberg. A return to Dr. Leo Buscaglia, the elevator we all ride staring at the numbers, and his instruction, which was simply: do it now.
  • Blood Not Required by Alan Cohen. Lucy gave until burnout took her down. On the old belief that helping has to cost you, and how to serve from strength instead.

Poetry

Six poems this issue, most of them from readers on Long Island, alongside watercolors by Jan Guarino.

Books and products

Holistic health, from our advertisers

Three pieces from practices we work with, marked as advertorials in print and here.

Where to pick up a copy

We print more than 60,000 copies of every issue and place them, free, in nearly 900 locations across New York City and Long Island. If you are near any of these, the August / September issue is either on the rack now or on its way this week:

  • Health food stores
  • Wellness and spiritual centers
  • Yoga studios, gyms and meditation centers
  • Libraries and universities
  • Supermarkets and coffee shops
  • Music and bookstores
  • Cultural arts venues
  • Green and wellness expos

If you run a place where our readers already spend their time and you would like copies on your counter, tell us where to send them. We have been doing this since 1985 and the racks are still how most people find us.

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Thank you for reading. Have a piece you would like us to consider for a coming issue? Our writers’ guidelines are here.

Peace all-ways,
Domenick, Neil & Andrea