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Barbara Stahura
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top of the bestseller lists, including those of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Many of Dyer’s 20-plus other books have also been bestsellers, including his first one, Your Erroneous Zones, in 1976, which sold 25 million copies in its first year. His personal appeal is no less powerful, as evidenced by his numerous speaking engagements on motivational, spiritual, and higher consciousness topics. In conjunction with the new book’s release, he taped a 3-hour special of the same name for PBS, which was viewed by millions of people around the country as it was aired 1700 times over several weeks. (continued)
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This article appeared in the May-June 2004 issue of Spirituality & Health.
Healing From the Darkness of Torture
by Barbara Stahura
by Barbara Stahura
A Cherokee creation story holds that after the Cherokee country was created and the sun lifted to the right height, the animals were told to keep watch for seven days. But by the seventh night, only Owl, Panther, and a few others stayed awake. Because they did not succumb to sleep, they were given the power to see in the dark. (continued)
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This article appeared in the March-April 2004 issue of Science & Spirit.
A River Runs Through It
by Barbara Stahura
by Barbara Stahura
At the tail end of the summer monsoon, a storm deluged the far-east side of Tucson. A driving rain pelted the bare, desert soil for more than an hour, accompanied by marble-sized hail that hit the ground and bounced. I walked through the house, opening windows with enough overhang to keep out the wet, delighting in the feel of the moist air and the sound of pattering rain. A rainstorm feels more of a miracle in the desert than it does near the southern tip of Lake Michigan, where I grew up. (continued)
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This article appeared in the Sept./Oct 2003 issue of Spirituality & Health.
Lessons from Mindful Corporations
by Barbara Stahura
by Barbara Stahura
One day Ray Anderson realized with a jolt that he was part of the problem.
It was August 1994, and the CEO and founder of Interface, Inc., the world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, understood how much environmental degradation his company caused simply by following perfectly legal, commonly accepted methods of operation. (continued)
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This article appeared in the May/June 2002 issue of Soroptimist of the Americas.
Living in Fear
by Barbara Stahura
by Barbara Stahura
Three true stories of indifference, and worse:
In 1996, a pregnant Kajal Khidr of Iraqi Kurdistan was accused of extramarital sex by her husband's relatives. They cut off her nose and threatened to kill her when her baby was born. She received medical treatment and escaped to a women's shelter. Unable to obtain assistance from her own family or elsewhere in her own country, Khidr fled abroad with the help of human rights workers. (continued)
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This article appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Spirituality & Health.
Global Consciousness?
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