Valeria Teles, of Fit For Joy interviews Dr. Carlos Warter — the author of “Where Are You Running?: 9 Stories from the Heart.” Valeria’s podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual Read more…
Every New Year’s Eve, I do a ritual of review before setting my intentions for the new cycle. I am spending some quiet time reviewing the past year’s challenges, lessons and accomplishments. The most powerful learning is: I am here, I have survived, I am loving, I care. 2020’s New Read more…
Before I was socialized into our contemporary belief system, I thought that healing was a process that occurred by grace and invisibility. I thought that I could go outside of my body, see a person who was suffering, apply some touch in an invisible manner and return to my body. Read more…
In late November 1943, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, leaders of the ‘Big Three’ allied nations– the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, held a key strategy meeting in Tehran. It’s hard to imagine anymore that the United States and Soviet Union were, at Read more…
“The purpose of the discipline is to keep people from going crazy immediately thereafter.” So, specifically you mean the scene from the Matrix where Neo, having just awakened, is about to heave on the floor and one of the others is cynically saying “He’s gonna pop! I told you he Read more…
There is COVID-19 and it’s effects and yet what makes it neither admissible, nor tolerable is the RACIAL PANDEMIC that has lasted in this country for centuries. It was not addressed in the Declaration of Independence which always required the amendment which states that ALL MEN AND WOMEN OF WHATEVER Read more…
It’s harder than ever these days to tell fact from fiction. Our lives have become so inundated with information — some good, some bad, most biased, all partial — at the end of the day it can be hard for some people to tell up from down. And as we Read more…
We are, as you know, in an unprecedented time of contradiction, great tragedy, great suffering and a parallel urge to heal all which has led to this. The Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is physically isolating us from each other and so connection and interconnection are the medicines. The normal Read more…
This mess the world finds itself in isn’t the fault of the politicians. They are people who have taken the position to do the same all from a position of power and self advantage, only. We have collectively allowed ourselves to get to this point. Instead of naturally letting community Read more…
Within living memory of the Holocaust, after which the world said it would never happen again, antisemitism has returned. What is antisemitism and why should its return be cause for grave concern, not only for Jews, but for all of us? Historically, antisemitism has been hard to define, because it Read more…
