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Upcoming Events
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 Witches' Night Out at Crazy Wisdom Tea Room - Jan. 8, 7 p.m. - Come join us for tea and networking on Witches' Night Out. It is a chance to meet others of like mind, drink Witch Brew tea, and have a great time. No cover. $3.25 for a pot of tea with free refills. Call Carol at 665-2757; info@crazywisdom.net or crazywisdom.net.  Raw Foods Series with Ellen Livingston sponsored by People's Food Coop - 7-8:30 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room - Free, but pre-register with Karen at 994-4589; outreach@peoplesfood.coop or peoplesfood.coop. Jan. 8 - Conquer Your Cravings and Attain Your Ideal Weight Naturally - Learn why you can eat as much as you want and be healthy, if you eat the right foods.
 Tired of Being Tired? with Paul Hess - Jan. 9, 7-9 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room - Energy crashes? Tired after meals? Need to eat urgently? Crave sugar or caffeine? Brain fog? Moody? Overweight? Chronic fatigue? Learn how to improve your energy and health through nutrient dense and complete foods, along with detoxification of poisons like mercury that steal energy and impair digestion and the brain. Learn how to know what is working and stay motivated until you get your energy back. Free. Call 408-489-1190; hess.paulc@gmail.com or primalrejuvenation.com.
Jan 9 - 7 to 9 pm
Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series at the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room hosted by Joe Kelty and Ed Morin
Second Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m.: Poetry Workshop at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom. All writers welcome to share and discuss their poetry and short fiction. Sign up for new participants begins 6:45 p.m.
Fourth Wednesdays: Featured Reader, 7-7:45 p.m. Followed by Open Mic reading, 8-9 p.m. - All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m.
 Our Amazing Brain: Neuroscience's New Discoveries and Implications for Us with Carole Kirby - Jan. 13, 2-4:30 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room - In the past 15 or so years, neuroscience has demonstrated the existence of neuro-transmitter circuits in the brain that can be altered and redirected by our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, relationships, and external environment. The brain is a dynamic, connective, socially seeking organ. Learn about mirror neurons, ways to deal with our reactivity, and differences between men's and women's brains. Everyone welcome. Free, but please pre-register at 424-2797;
carole777@aol.com or therapy4couples.com.
Community HU Chant with Local Members of Eckankar - Fridays, 6:30-7:15 at Crazy Wisdom Community Room - Singing HU, an ancient name for God, is a great way to tune into the spiritual currents and initiate profound spiritual experiences. Popular in many cultures, the singing of HU is an undirected prayer to harmonize consciousness
and open the heart to God's love. It's simply for the spiritual upliftment of those who come and is not directed to any other purpose. Free. Call John Zissis at 320-2010; john.
zissis@sbcglobal.net.
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Live Music Weekends in the Tea Room
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8:30 to 10:30 p.m. - No Cover ChargeEvery 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, January 11 -
Spencer Michaud Local favorite Spencer Michaud is a narrative singer-songwriter that uses an elastic tenor voice to cover an incredible range of genres and emotions. He draws upon the ghosts of Motown, Tin-Pan Alley and the folk tradition to create a sound that is both theatrical and sincere. Michaud is a regular performer at the Jeff Buckley Tribute concerts held annually at Uncommon Ground in Chicago, IL. He currently teaches guitar and songwriting in the Ann Arbor area and often plays with his full band. Spencer is currently working on a new EP, due to be released in the very near future! www.spencermichaud.com  Saturday, January 12 -
John Churchville Local tabla player John Churchville hosts an evening of Indian classical, light classical, fusion, and folk music in the wonderful Crazy Wisdom Tearoom. 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, including the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Hiawatha Music Festival, as a presenter for the Michigan Music Educators Conference, the North American Bengali Conference, and as a featured performer with the Michigan Pops Orchestra. 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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New Music CD
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 Celtic Fire cdby GovannenCeltic Fire is a powerful album of rhythmic instrumental Celtic music, featuring jigs, reels, and new music from the hugely talented Govannen band. Blazing fiddle, Irish whistles, bodhran, and percussion, plus a host of exotic instruments feature on an album that will warm your heart and make your feet want to move. $15.95 |
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AVAILABLE NOW  The January through April 2013 issue of The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal,Ann Arbor's Holistic Magazine,Full of great articles, interviews, and event Information. Pick up a copy today at Crazy Wisdom or at any of our 210 Distribution Points. You may find the CW Journal at Whole Foods, Plum Market, the Food Co-Op, Kerrytown, and Nicholas... just to name a few places. The CW Journal Online
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Tarot Readings with Rebecca Williams Tarot Readings with Randy Weiser Intuitive Readings with Irena Nagler Tarot Readings with Jenna Harbin Palmistry Readings with Vijayalaxmi Shinde Intuitive Psychometry Readings with Barbara Pott
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What is your emotional fingerprint?
Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people always up and others always down? In his thirty-year quest to answer these questions, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson discovered that each of us has an Emotional Style, composed of Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention. Where we fall on these six continuums determines our own "emotional fingerprint."
Sharing Dr. Davidson's fascinating case histories and experiments, The Emotional Life of Your Brain offers a new model for treating conditions like autism and depression as it empowers us all to better understand ourselves-and live more meaningful lives.
 Open Heart
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A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces and questions flash through his mind. His family before and during the unspeakable Event. The gifts of marriage and children and grandchildren that followed. In his writing, in his teaching, in his public life, has he done enough for memory and the survivors? His ongoing questioning of God-where has it led? Is there hope for mankind? The world's tireless ambassador of tolerance and justice has given us this luminous account of hope and despair, an exploration of the love, regrets and abiding faith of a remarkable man.
 The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less
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A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free.
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In The Zero-Waste Lifestyle, Amy Korst shows you how to lead a healthier, happier, and more sustainable life by generating less garbage. Drawing from lessons she learned during a yearlong experiment in zero-waste living, Amy outlines hundreds of easy ideas-from the simple to the radical-for consuming and throwing away less, with low-impact tips on the best ways to:
* Buy eggs from a local farm instead of the grocery store
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 Eye to Form Is Only Love: A Journal of 100 Days
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By Traktung Yeshe Dorje
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For 100 days, at the request of one of his students, an American born lama in the Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism kept a journal of short reflections. Some days, the heartbreaking poetry of devotion, or essays in celebration of dawn, light, trees; on others, razor-like distinctions about the nature of the mind, challenges to conventional views of seeing, or seething commentary on the shallowness of contemporary culture. Taken together, but in small considered bites, the entries will provide a rare meal to any sincere practitioner who recognizes direct and authentic spiritual discourse. The heart of this book's message is that a mind that wishes spiritual freedom (which is both the starting point and the end of the spiritual path) must question everything. And further, that this questioning can only be done with great sensitivity from a vantage point that sees its past conditionings, and aims to be free from them. This book is a demonstration and celebration in poetry, prose and song of that freedom. Traktung Yeshe Dorje has been guiding both individuals and community for the last 23 years, drawing his students and friends into the world of spiritual awakening by offering them a window into a different way of considering appearances. The unique offering of this book is the deeply personal manner in which insights are presented-using a journal format rather than direct instructions about spiritual topics. An astute reader will glimpse-even "fall into"-the way of perceiving of a tantric spiritual adept. We experience, if only for a moment, how things appear to one whose mind is free from conditioning. Eye to Form challenges the reader to consider familiar topics & scenarios from a new, perhaps radical, perspective. The invitation here is to profound consideration of life's deeper meanings through the unique intersection of beauty, wisdom & silence. This is not a "practical guide"-it offers no plans for or steps to enlightenment or happiness. In fact, the author has no compunction in undermining such fast-food approaches to the recognition of Buddhahood. Eye to Form, therefore, can be extremely beneficial to those who not looking to be told what to do, but rather are inspired to think deeply, carefully & freshly. Intelligent choices on the spiritual path can be made only as one's considerations reach beyond ordinary-mind's conditioning. The challenge for this type of consideration is perhaps more useful than yet another self-help manual.
An Evening with Traktung Yeshe Dorje, a Crazy Wisdom Salon featuring the author of Eye to Form is only Love: A Journal of 100 Days * Thursday, March 14th at 7 pm in the Tea Room * Traktung is an American born lama in the Nyingma lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism, and he and his wife, Katie, are the leaders of the Tsogyelgar Dharma Center on West Liberty in Ann Arbor. Free. Call 665-2757 for more info.
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The Emotional Life of Your Brain (9780452298880)
Open Heart (9780307961846)
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Eye to Form is Only Love (9781935387299)
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