This Week at Crazy Wisdom

at Crazy Wisdom Tea Room

8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - No Cover Charge

Every Friday and Saturday night Crazy Wisdom invites you to Tea and Tunes. Not a tea drinker? No problem! Crazy Wisdom offer a wide selection of coffee drinks. (while you're here, don't forget to try some of our tasty treats as well!)

Friday, December 2 -
Bittersweet Christmas Band
The holidays are a mixed bag for many, and so is the Bittersweet Christmas Band! From Thanksgiving through December 25th, traditional artists Phil Cooper, Margaret Nelson and Kate Early join forces with songwriter and "wise woman" Susan Urban for a show that presents every possible perspective on the holiday season, ranging from the reverent to the ridiculous. Two to four-part harmonies and masterful instrumentation on guitar, hand drum and other percussion instruments, dulcimer and pennywhistle make the Bittersweet Christmas Band an act not to be missed!

Saturday, December 3
- Partly Brothers
Partly Brothers are Luti Erbeznik and Brian R. Wood, two experienced singer-songwriters whose music will relax and inspire you. With rich vocal harmonies, beautiful catchy tunes, and a blend of finger-picking and strumming on 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, Partly Brothers craft true songs of love, hope, dreams fulfilled or not, colored with intriguing reflective lyrics.

New Music CDs at Crazy Wisdom

A Gaelic Christmas
by Mary McLaughlin
This joyful cd spans several centuries with some familiar melodies and some less so. Some of the original texts have been translated while others are in Irish Gaelic set to music. Irish traditional singing is strictly unaccompanied and has no harmony; when a group sings together, it is in unison. Many traditional Gaelic songs lend themselves beautifully to harmony. McLaughlin has written choral parts with added instrumentation to create lovely, harmonic arrangements. $15.98

Celtic Christmas
by Putumayo World Music
Beautiful voices and entrancing Celtic instrumentation provide an uplifting soundtrack for the holiday season. Bands include DruidStone, Aine Minogue, David Arkenstone, and eight others.
$13.95

Upcoming Events

Healing with Meditation
with Barry Lipscomb
Nov 29, 2011 - 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Join me for a free introductory lecture and healing meditation. During the hour, I will share my perspective on working with our energy level for transformation. I will then guide you through a meditation where you will experience your own energy body firsthand. The session closes with a guided healing meditation providing an opportunity to experience the benefits yourself.
Healing Meditations reduce stress, focus your attention, keep you grounded, help you maintain clarity of purpose, clear barriers to achieving your goals, and over time connect you with a deeper awareness of your own being. Free (pre-register by emailing Barry@BarryLipscomb.com or calling 917-587-3775)

Women Standing in Their Power
Nov 30, 2011 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A circle of women coming together to create a transformational space in which we can support each other in living from our authentic selves. Inspired by Lucia Renee's workshop in Ann Arbor in November, 2010, "Women Standing in their Power," we gather to learn to stand in our power as women, helping to deepen and anchor the energy of the solar feminine. Meetings are open to any interested women and will include conversation, meditation and exercises to help us clear old disempowering patterns. Free. (734) 260-2540; chris202@comcast.net

Community HU Chant with Local Members of Eckankar · Fridays, 6:30-7:15 p.m. · All faiths (and agnostics!) are welcome to join this weekly, free get-together to sing one of the ancient names for God - HU. Popular in many cultures, the singing of HU is an undirected prayer to harmonize the consciousness with and open the heart to God's love. Free. Call John at 320-2010; john.zissis@sbcglobal.net or eckankar.org.

Finding Our Focus: Praying with Body, Mind and Spirit
Saturday, December 3
10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Crazy Wisdom Community Room
It is easy to become overwhelmed by the busyness and lose the quiet contentment to be found in the Advent season. Shift your focus and experience the peace and joy that comes from praying with body, mind and spirit, Scripture, guided meditation, journaling and music of the season. Basic movements will be taught which can be done by anyone, regardless of experience or physical limitation.
Cost is $45. Contact Janene Ternes of Prayer in Motion, LLC at 734-429-7754 to register or for further information or visit her web site at www.prayer-in-motion.com.

A3radio's FOLK IT Broadcast in the

Crazy Wisdom Tea Room

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Nov. 6, 2011

Live broadcasting comes to CRAZY WISDOM Tea Room every Sunday evening starting at 6PM. The A3radio.com shows will be free to the public and will feature Folk music every week. The Crazy Wisdom music series runs Sundays from 6PM to 7:30 weekly. The audience is live and these shows are video streamed on www.a3radio.com and replayed during the week at the same station. For additional information call 734-604-5347 or email tsaunders_48@hotmail.com
Jen Sygit and Sam Corbin

Mid Michigan's most compelling songwriters make a trip to Ann Arbor to play their award winning music. Jen Sygit, winner of the WKAR-TV Award for her appearance on Backstage Pass, is among the fastest rising writers and performers in the United States. Sam Corbin is making a name for himself with delicately wrought poems set to winning music. Don't miss this one.

Great New Reads!

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December 5th, 2011

Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World (Hardcover)
By H.H. Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman
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A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels-including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values
Ten years ago, in his best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles. Now, in Beyond Religion, the Dalai Lama, at his most compassionate and outspoken, elaborates and deepens his vision for the nonreligious way. Transcending the mere "religion wars," he outlines a system of secular ethics that gives tolerant respect to religion-those that ground ethics in a belief in God and an afterlife, and those that understand good actions as leading to better states of existence in future lives. And yet, with the highest level of spiritual and intellectual authority, the Dalai Lama makes a claim for what he calls a third way. This is a system of secular ethics that transcends religion as a way to recognize our common humanity and so contributes to a global human community based on understanding and mutual respect.
Beyond Religion is an essential statement from the Dalai Lama, a blueprint for all those who yearn for a life of spiritual fulfillment as they work for a better world.

Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy (Hardcover)
By Bill Clinton
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President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters-presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future business." He explains how we got into the current economic crisis, and offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new businesses. He supports President Obama's emphasis on green technology, saying that changing the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast-growing economy while enhancing our national security.
Clinton also stresses that we need a strong private sector and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress, demonstrating that whenever we've given in to the temptation to blame government for all our problems, we've lost our ability to produce sustained economic growth and shared prosperity.
Clinton writes, "There is simply no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy," based on "a philosophy grounded in 'you're on your own' rather than 'we're all in this together.' " He believes that conflict between government and the private sector has proved to be good politics but has produced bad policies, giving us a weak economy with not enough jobs, growing income inequality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position. In the real world, cooperation works much better than conflict, and "Americans need victories in real life."

The Flying Witches of Veracruz: A Shaman's True Story of Indigenous Witchcraft, Devil's Weed, and Trance Healing in Aztec Brujer (Paperback)
By James Endredy
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Waking up blind in a cave, nearly dead from an evil witch's attack, is merely the beginning of James Endredy's true and utterly gripping adventure with the witches of Veracruz, Mexico. As the apprentice of a powerful curandero (healer), Endredy learns the mystical arts of brujeria, a nearly extinct form of Aztec witchcraft. His perilous training--using dream trance to "fly" and invoking spirits of the underworld--is fraught with spiritual trials. Upon becoming a curandero himself, Endredy takes on real-life cases: battling malevolent witches, healing a young man possessed by an Aztec spirit, rescuing a teenage girl from a Mexican drug cartel, and hunting down a baby-killing vampire witch.

East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg (Hardcover)
By Gordon Ball
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Praise for East Hill Farm
"In writing a memoir about the time he spent managing Allen Ginsberg's farm in upstate New York, Gordon Ball has detailed an important yet often overlooked side of the poet's colorful life. Anecdotally fertile, with a memorable cast of characters, East Hill Farm is informative, entertaining, often very funny, and ultimately important. Allen Ginsberg and Friends live again in these pages." -Michael Schumacher, author of Dharma Lion: A Critical Biography of Allen Ginsberg
"I couldn't stop reading East Hill Farm and learning so much of what really went down on that farm in that so crucial period in the lives of the Beats. I visited the farm just twice but wish I had had Ball's innocent yet so perceptive eye." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"In the late 1960s, poet Allen Ginsberg bought an isolated, broken-down farm in upstate New York as a retreat for himself and his worn-out, burned-out friends. Ginsberg hoped to create an Elysium where they could escape from the urban pressures and drug addictions that had laid Kerouac, Corso, Orlovsky, and Huncke so low. Only a masterful story-teller like Gordon Ball could turn a depressing tale of poets at rock bottom into a triumph of the human spirit. Ball's East Hill Farm is one of the most intimate memoirs I've read about those wild, back-to-nature expeditionary times which so many baby-boomers recall. Ball has painstakingly traced his days as the "farm manager" who tried to plant the crops, do the chores, and keep on an even keel while the rest of the tribe were literally bouncing off the walls. It led him to tremendous joy, sadness, ecstasy, and a black eye. This is a personal book that examines the period that changed America-for better or worse? You decide. -Bill Morgan, author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

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