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  Journey without End - Migration...

  Rob Curran, Andrew Nelson

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  Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants. 
   
   
   
  The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster–riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal, to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darién Gap—the gateway from South to Central America. 
   
   
   
  This book follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's Darién Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

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  Poetry: An Embodied Experience

  Jane Hirshfield

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  In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield takes us beyond our analytical minds and lands us in an embodied experience. Hirshfield offers that this helps us meet the despair which inevitably rises up in the darkest moments. She adds that poetry can cut windows and doors in your despair and give you a way to walk back into the world with others. Against the torrent of data and information that issues from an increasingly polarized and rageful culture, poetry can enlivening our hearts. It can take us to a grander landscape and leads us to the wholeness of things. It helps us see from a vantage point that includes wonder and awe without denying the dangers and the challenges humanity faces.  
  Jane Hirshfield has authored many books including:The October Palace (HarperCollins 1994)The Lives of the Heart (Harper Collins 1997)Women in Praise of the Sacred (HarperCollins 1994)Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Perennial 1998) After (Harper Collins 2006)Given Sugar, Given Salt (Harper Collins 2001)Come, Thief (Knopf 2011)Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2015)The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2015)Ledger (Alfred A. Knopf 2020) The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2023) 
  Interview Date: 9/1/2023          Tags: Jane Hirshfield, Poetry, Hersch Wilson, bryophyta, mosses, kinship of all life, despair, March for Science, beauty, Poetry, Art & Creativity, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Philosophy

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  Cinder Buggy The: a Fable in...

  Kevin Endris

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  Garet Garrett's fiction deals with the social impact of economic transformations. The Cinder Buggy, his second in the trilogy, is the longest of the three and his true epoch novel and unforgettable masterpiece. With a great story, and tremendous literary passion, it chronicles the transformation of America from the age of iron to the age of steel.

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  Policing Pregnant Bodies - From...

  Kathleen M. Crowther

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  On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, asserting that the Constitution did not confer the right to abortion. This ruling, in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, was the culmination of a half-century of pro-life activism promoting the idea that fetuses are people and therefore entitled to the rights and protections that the Constitution guarantees. But it was also the product of a much longer history of archaic ideas about the relationship between pregnant people and the fetuses they carry. 
   
  In Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America, historian Kathleen M. Crowther discusses the deeply rooted medical and philosophical ideas that continue to reverberate in the politics of women’s health and reproductive autonomy. From the idea that a detectable heartbeat is a sign of moral personhood to why infant and maternal mortality rates in the United States have risen as abortion restrictions have gained strength, this is a historically informed discussion of the politics of women’s reproductive rights. 
   
  Crowther explains why pro-life concern for fetuses has led not just to laws restricting or banning abortion but also to delaying or denying treatment to women for miscarriages as well as police investigations of miscarriages. She details the failure to implement policies that would actually improve the quality of infant life, such as guaranteed access to medical care, healthy food, safe housing, and paid maternity leave. We must understand the historical roots of these archaic ideas in order to critically engage with the current legal and political debates involving fetal life.

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  Raise Your Frequency and...

  Sherrie Dillard

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  Discover Your Secret, Extrasensory Gift for Bountiful Living 
   
   
   
  Learn how your intuitive, empathic, and sensitive nature can be a valuable ally in manifesting your highest good. This book teaches you how to allow abundance to effortlessly flow into all areas of your life. 
   
   
   
  Sharing dozens of exercises and meditations, professional psychic and spiritual teacher Sherrie Dillard helps you to go beyond the conventional approach to extrasensory awareness. As you unlock your soul's full potential, ease replaces stress and your desires, wants, and needs appear. 
   
   
   
  Empaths, intuitives, and the sensitive walk a sacred path. The pure light of your destiny is calling. With Sherrie's guidance, you can ascend to a higher state of consciousness and access divine creative forces. Along the way, you'll heal old wounds, release repressed emotions, and control what energy you absorb and feel. This practical, uplifting book shows you, step-by-step, how to live fearlessly and free.

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  The Kybalion

  The Three Initiates

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  "The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy" is a book published in 1908 which claims to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. Its authors are identified as "The Three Initiates," and their identities remain a mystery. The work delves into seven Hermetic principles, including the principles of Mentalism, Correspondence, and Vibration, among others. These principles serve as foundational concepts in Hermetic philosophy, which posits that a hidden knowledge or wisdom can be sought out and understood by those prepared to receive it. "The Kybalion" is often considered a guide to understanding and harnessing universal laws.

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