Eckhart Tolle, the runaway bestselling author of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, and The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, continues to inspire with his stated goal of creating an online community intended to help usher in a new state of consciousness into the world. A long time in the [...]

Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto put forth three simple “rules” for eating healthily while being mindful of the impact your food choices make on the planet: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” His latest book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual uses these categories, but adds what he’s learned about [...]

Thank you! says Marianne Williamson on her website, posting this open letter by Jimmy Carter, Losing My Religion for Equality, to say that he is severing his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after years of trying to change its views over its treatment of women. Indeed! He also speaks as part of fellow [...]

Know someone tapping their experience to improve the lives of others? Finding new purpose, one that supplies a meaning, is one of the main drivers of The Purpose Prize. Directed by Civic Ventures the program is now in its fifth year, giving ten awards of up to $100,000 to innovators in encore careers – people [...]

Speaking of feminine power and women’s leadership in all the very diverse roles and forms it takes, this very interesting piece is part of the Roosevelt Institute’s even more interesting ‘Feminomics’ series exploring women’s changing roles in the economy. The author celebrates five courageous women who have spoken truth to power and helped [...]

With the debut of the first ‘modern’ retirement facility in Sun City, Arizona in 1960, replete with golf courses, recreation centers and activities clubs, it’s been 50 years that Americans’ ideas have shifted about retirement. Sun City recast the idea of retirement as a non-working life of limited opportunity to one of possibility and productivity. [...]

From the overwhelming response we’ve received from you about your interest in transformational women thought leaders, and women’s spiritual growth, we’ll be actively looking to post on more events, in addition to the regular updates on conferences and retreats in our monthly newsletter. This month Carolyn Myss introduces her new book Defy Gravity: [...]

We are committed to spreading the word about this unique global conversation among women on feminine power. Here’s an update on this weekend’s event: Join Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton for what promises to be a bold and fascinating exploration of the relationship between our freedom and our femininity – one that will illuminate [...]

“The world will be saved by the western woman.” His Holiness the Dalai Lama. What is our role as women in creating the future of our world? Thanks to ‘blogee’ and friend Julia for sending us the following invitation to a free teleseminar for a life-changing conversation with leading women visionaries and change agents, [...]

In the highly charged atmosphere of debate on health care reform, focused as it is on re-structuring and reigning in costs, there is little dialog that questions our assumptions of how we provide care. That perhaps some of the inefficiencies may be built in to how we currently provide care, and the types of [...]

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