"We have become a society that by compartmentalizing work and by giving a sense of specialization to jobs which should be generalized, have created an atmosphere of complacency." Stuart Alcorn writes about the corrosive effects of our centralized and specialized economic and social system.

Ramesh Bjonnes challenges the notion that a yogi or mystic is someone who is only concerned with individual personal development, and puts forward the concept of a socially engaged spirituality, the yoga of sacred activism.

René Wadlow looks back on the life and work of former Czech President, Vaclav Havel, who passed away on December 18, 2012

Peter Sage explains how you can make gifts that actually help people in developing countries through the online AMURT-AMURTEL Gift Catalog.

A Canadian looks on his country's treatment of the First Nation (Aboriginals).