This Week at Crazy Wisdom
March 19th
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Upcoming Events
 A Conscious Business Discussion7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Mar 19, 2012
Join me for a discussion of Conscious Business. I will review my own model for Conscious Business and then open a dialogue to explore the elements and practices of this model and how to nurture a Conscious Business environment. You can read more about the Conscious Business model at www.BarryLipscomb.com.
This event is free, though registration required by calling 917-587-3775 or emailing Barry@BarryLipscomb.com.
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Series hosted by Heather Glidden * Eight Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room * Calling anyone (not just artists) who is interest in leading a more creative or spiritual life? This workshop is a guided exploration of The Artist's Way and includes mediation, life coaching inquiry, and time to work through exercises in the book. Free/donations welcome. Call Heather 709-1464; heather.glidden@gmail.com.
March 20 * The Artist's Way, week #4: Recovering a Sense of Integrity
March 27 * The Artist's Way, week #5: Recovering a Sense of Possibility
 Healthy Living Series in the Crazy Wisdom Community Room, sponsored by People's Food Co-op
Thursday, March 22,
7-8:30 p.m.
Herbal Wisdom -
Herbal Allies for Men with Linda Diane Feldt
Linda Feldt has been associated with Crazy Wisdom since its early years, having hosted a Crazy Wisdom Speaker Series at the old store on N. Fourth Avenue, and teaching Herbal Wisdom classes at the Main Street store. She will begin the evening with some reminiscences and then will discuss herbal health topics such as prostate health, heart and cancer health, nutrition, and special herb allies for men. Free. For info, call Caitlin Joseph at the Co-op, at 994-4589; outreach@peoplesfood.coop
 Crazy Wisdom Monthly Book Discussion,
Friday, March 23rd, 7 p.m.,
in the Community Room
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012
edited by Philip Zaleski
Hosted by Crazy Wisdom's long-time co-owner, Bill Zirinsky, and former owner, Jonathan Ellis. * Culled from a wide range of American journals, these spiritual perspectives are expressed in splendid pieces as diverse as the sources from which they come, offering all readers a unique opportunity to explore the world of faith and spirituality. Free. Feel welcome to just come! * For more information, email bill@crazywisdom.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.
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Featured This Week
at shopcrazywisdom.com
 Happy Home Blessed Herbal Candle
This candle releases stress and creates a loving atmosphere for a higher quality of life. By using the candle, you can focus your goals and bring them into manifestation through self-empowerment. Handcrafted in Michigan in small batches, these wonderfully scented candles are made with essential oils and herbs "when the moon is right". Because of the high content of oils, they should be used with an appropriate bowl or burner. Measures 7 ½" tall. Regularly $10.00 Only $9.00 thru 3-18-12
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Spring Equinox Celebration
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Spring Equinox Celebration, and 30th Anniversary Ceremony, Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 pm at the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room.
"During this week of celebrating 30 years of the presence of Crazy Wisdom here in Ann Arbor, let us come together in Ritual Ceremony on this first day of spring, held lovingly within the Equinox Portal. Let us open to gratitude and say 'Yes' to the invitations and challenges we are each being offered to bring more conscious and hence more empowered Futures into being." Facilitated by Bronwen Gates and other community ceremonialists and musicians, including Lori Fithian and Jeanne Mackey, as well as store founder, Aura Glaser, long-time owners Ruth Schekter and Bill Zirinsky, and long-time staffers Sarah Newland, Jodi Bordeau, Carol Karr, Diane Evans, Jerri Dodge, and Rachel Pastiva. Free. For more info, call 734-665-2757 |
New Music CD
at Crazy Wisdom
 Eckhart Tolle's Music for Inner Stillness cd
The bestselling author presents a handpicked compilation of music purposefully sequenced to center us in the moment in what he calls the "joy of being". Artists include Grammy-nominated Nawang Khechog, ambient composer and sound healer Alex Theory, and shakuhachi flutist Riley Lee.
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at Crazy Wisdom Tea Room
8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
No Cover Charge
 Friday, March 23 Ruth and Max Bloomquist Ruth and Max Bloomquist have been making music together since they met in 1975 and discovered their shared love not only for each other, but for music and songs made with acoustic instruments and featuring lyrics from the heart. Ruth and Max immersed themselves in folk, bluegrass, country, singer songwriters, and other acoustic music to create a sound and style all their own. Ruth's resonant alto has been compared to Anne Murray, Linda Ronstadt, and Kathy Mattea. After hearing Ruth and Max perform the Scott Wiseman standard, Remember Me, Garrison Keillor told Ruth, "You have a big voice... I'd like to sing that song with you." And the next night he did! Songs from the CD h Turn Back a Page have been featured on syndicated programs like The Folk Sampler, The Midnight Special, and Car Talk. www.ruthbloomquist.com
 Saturday, March 24Indian Tabla Music
with John Churchville,
8:30 p.m., in the Tea Room
Local tabla player John Churchville hosts an evening of Indian classical, light classical, fusion, and folk music. Come hear the sounds of a musical tradition that dates back over 2000 years. John has performed this music all over the United States and India. Now he brings his friends Dan Piccolo, Scott Brady, Prashanth Gururaja, Atmaram Chetainya and others to the tearoom for a monthly Indian music night that will include the sounds of the tabla, sitar, bansuri, violin and vocals. www.johnchurchville.com |
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Second Annual Spring Equinox
Craft and Psychic Faire at
Crazy Wisdom Community Room
March 24, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Come to Crazy Wisdom to help us celebrate the welcome arrival of Spring! Shop directly from local crafters in our Community Room
Artisan Market upstairs, and receive a psychic/tarot reading from local intuitives set up
throughout the store. Admission is free with readings for $1 per minute. No appointment necessary. Snacks will be available. For more information, contact Sarah at sarah@crazywisdom.net,
or phone 665-2757; crazywisdom.net.
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(Hardcover)
By Rafe Sagarin
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Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe remains unchanged: add another step to airport security, another meter to the levee wall. This approach has proved totally ineffective: reacting to past threats and trying to predict future risks will only waste resources in our increasingly unpredictable world. In Learning from the Octopus, ecologist and security expert Rafe Sagarin rethinks the seemingly intractable problem of security by drawing inspiration from a surprising source: nature. Biological organisms have been living-and thriving-on a risk-filled planet for billions of years. Remarkably, they have done it without planning, predicting, or trying to perfect their responses to complex threats. Rather, they simply adapt to solve the challenges they continually face. Military leaders, public health officials, and business professionals would all like to be more adaptable, but few have figured out how. Sagarinargues that we can learn from observing how nature is organized, how organisms learn, how they create partnerships, and how life continually diversifies on this unpredictable planet. As soon as we dip our toes into a cold Pacific tidepool and watch what we thought was a rock turn into an octopus, jetting away in a cloud of ink, we can begin to see the how human adaptability can mimic natural adaptation. The same mechanisms that enabled the octopus's escape also allow our immune system to ward off new infectious diseases, helped soldiers in Iraq to recognize the threat of IEDs, and aided Google in developing faster ways to detect flu outbreaks. While we will never be able to predict the next earthquake, terrorist attack, or market fluctuation, nature can guide us in developing security systems that are not purely reactive but proactive, holistic, and adaptable. From the tidepools of Monterey to the mountains of Kazakhstan, Sagarin takes us on an eye-opening tour of the security challenges we face, and shows us how we might learn to respond more effectively to the unknown threats lurking in our future.
 Navigating the Out-Of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques (Paperback)
By Graham Nicholls
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Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience is the most personalized, scientifically advanced, and accessible guide to astral projection available today.
Drawing from more than twenty years of study and hundreds of OBEs that he has brought about in himself and others, Graham Nicholls reveals proven immersive techniques for leaving the body. Begin by filling out an in-depth, personal questionnaire to gain greater insight into your psychological makeup and unique strengths--and use this knowledge to build a customized approach to astral projection. Blending hypnosis, breathwork, virtual reality, quantum science, nutrition, and healing, Nicholls teaches you how to move past limiting beliefs and deepen your level of self-understanding so you can achieve your astral goals.
By Elaine Pagels
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A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief.
Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it?
In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies.
In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.
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By Jack Kerouac
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In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon.
Written seven years before The Town and The City officially launched his writing career, The Sea Is My Brother marks a pivotal point in which Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method and signature style. A clear precursor to such landmark works as On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Visions of Cody, it is an important formative work that bears all the hallmarks of classic Kerouac: the search for spiritual meaning in a materialistic world, spontaneous travel as the true road to freedom, late nights in bars and apartments engaged in intense conversation, the desperate urge to escape from society, and the strange, terrible beauty of loneliness.
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Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
The Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel