FEATURES

The Grieving Cairn
by Jesse Wolf Hardin
What’s a troublemaker? A juvenile delinquent or an emotional burden asking to be left behind?

The Academic and the Adept: A Mother’s Tale
by Bonnie Gass-Coffin
How can a heart that beats with suffering be transformed? An anthro­pologist finds her path of wisdom with Peruvian shaman Don Oscar Miro-Quesada.

We Are Sacred As the Earth
by Marilyn Berta
How can we live skillfully with the natu­ral world? And with each other? Sacred Fire interviews the irrepressible author and earth activist Starhawk.

From Survival to Reverence
by Stephen P. Huyler
Ceremony, ritual dance, traditional story and deep introspection awaken power brokers of the sustainability movement to malama, the Hawai’ian worldview where everything matters.

Opening the Third Eye: Mysteries of African Shamanism
by Geral Blanchard
Disarmed by the graciousness of a Shona shaman deep in the heart of Zimbabwe, a psychotherapist experi­ences the spider web that interweaves all spirits.
 
FLINT & TINDER

Trends / Slow Motions
Slow Planet
Not Doing Much
Slow that Train
Slow Thinker
No Time! No Peace!

Sacred Activism
Drumming the World Together

Community Connections
Road Scholars

Healing Arts
Flowers of the Heart—Sufi master musician Ustad Nizami

Sacred Fires
The Light of the Sabbath
 
COLUMNS

Reconnecting With the Earth
The One I Did Not Smash
by Amaris Ketcham

Out of the Frying Pan
Apocalypse How?
by Larry Messerman

Logs for the Fire
Even the Divine
Ones Cannot Fathom