Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Tess Whitehurst, author of Magical Housekeeping, The Good Energy Book, and the new Art of Bliss. My new book, The Art of Bliss, is a holistic system of activating and maintaining a positive momentum in all life areas. You might think of it as a comprehensive magical or metaphysical process in which you can see the ways that everything in your life is interconnected, and in which you can work with this interconnection to continually manifest more and more beautiful conditions. The backbone of the wisdom in The Art of Bliss is derived from feng shui and the I Ching and it may be thought of as something that looks like a tic tac toe board, with

Be alert. We need more lerts! <snark>Last week I had the honor of performing a civic service: jury duty. For the massive time of one day I was required by law to wait in a big room, doing nothing, hoping to be called to serve on a trial. I wasn't, and I went home filled with feelings of civic pride and responsibility.</snark> I brought with me a couple of books, and during the day I was able to start and finish an odd little self-published book entitled Cult Control: The Building of a Cult by Dantalion Jones. As I read it I was drawn to recall the saying above. I don't know who came up with the saying first. I do remember the first time I heard it: I was living in

We just experienced a blue moon. Popularly, this means the second full moon in a single month. The original meaning of a blue moon, however, is based on a seasonal view of the year. Each season (winter, summer, spring or fall) typically has only three full moons. Because of the way the moon orbits the Earth, occasionally a fourth full moon may occur within a season. A blue moon is the third full moon during a season with four full moons. The next blue moon won't occur for a few years, so such events are rather rare. It was during this period that I had a conflux of things occur. First, I broke a tooth. It's going to cost me over 600 dollars, even with insurance, to get this fixed. Then,

You might be thinking that I have the title backwards. Surely I meant that I wouldn't have believed something if I hadn't seen it. Nope. The statement in the title is actually a quote from Marshall McLuhan, one of the world's greatest philosophers and multi-talented educators. The quote above clearly shows the way our mind works. If we don't believe in something, we're not going to see it. Marshall McLuhan Holding a Mirror © Library and Archives Canada In the political divisiveness becoming ever more apparent in U.S. politics, you will frequently see people quoting different sources to support their interpretations of the facts. Which sources will they quote? Which sources will