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Creative Healing

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News-1-MaddyThe Tannery grieves for Madyson Middleton

Randall Grahm Reloaded

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Humanity in a Time of Crisis

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In Leo, we are on the Burning Grounds, given tests, standing in the fire. The crisis builds the fire of knowledge in our minds. Our God is a fire, Agni. In these sacrifices occurring in our families, towns, cities and world, a critical question arises: what is our response? When experiencing shocks, loss, devastation, exhaustion, and inexorable grief, we are in danger of losing our hearts. We don’t know how to respond. Leo is the heart of all that matters, calling us to maintain connection with our hearts, thus poised within the heart of all that matters, and to call forth our spiritual will of goodness. When we stand in spiritual will, we help the forces of light “seal the door where evil dwells.”

Here is a Mantra of Oneness; the Mantram of Unification. We recite it each day, together and from now on: The daughters and sons of men (humanity) are one. And I am one with them. I seek to love, not hate. I seek to serve and not exact due service.
 I seek to heal, not hurt. Let pain bring due reward of light and love.
 Let the Soul control the outer form, And life and all events.
 And bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the time.

Let vision come and insight.
 Let the future stand revealed.
 Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone.
 Let love prevail. Let us all love more.

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Be Our Guest: Hotel Paradox Pool Party

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Cinnabar Winery

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Film, Times & Events: Week of July 31

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Close ‘Encounters’

Local artist Andrew Purchin and Pakistan’s controversial Mohsin Shafi open cross-cultural conversation at the Radius Gallery Mohsin Shafi arrived in the United States for the first time a little over two weeks ago, but it took a six-hour interrogation by four Homeland Security agents before he was allowed to leave the San Francisco airport. Shafi was...

Creative Healing

The Tannery grieves for Madyson Middleton The scent of flowers, burning sage and melting candles fill the Tannery Art Center’s courtyard—the smell of a memorial. It’s just after 8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31, and dozens of people huddle around a shrine dedicated to Madyson “Maddy” Middleton, the 8-year-old girl who was slain on Sunday, July...

Randall Grahm Reloaded

The Bonny Doon Vineyards iconoclast dives into uncharted waters again, fueled by an epic new vision of American soil and a search for the grape less planted When a tall young Beverly Hills oenophile transplanted himself to Bonny Doon in the early 1980s, he wanted to produce nothing less than the great American Pinot Noir. A...

Humanity in a Time of Crisis

In Leo, we are on the Burning Grounds, given tests, standing in the fire. The crisis builds the fire of knowledge in our minds. Our God is a fire, Agni. In these sacrifices occurring in our families, towns, cities and world, a critical question arises: what is our response? When experiencing shocks, loss, devastation, exhaustion, and inexorable grief,...

From The Editor

Plus Letters To the Editor Before the arrival of the Warriors, Santa Cruz didn’t have sports teams to get behind (other than the Derby Girls, of course). Our civic pride instead went into a rooting interest in only-in-Santa-Cruz phenomena that seemed like everybody everywhere should embrace. Spoiler alert: usually, they did not. That’s why it seemed...

RETURNED TO SENDER, BANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

RETURNED TO SENDER After enduring four years of gruelling tests, AP courses, high school drama and all the other attempts to stand out in the college admissions battle, 520 students already admitted to UCSC received news last week that their admission was revoked because of a missed deadline. While “senioritis” has led many to pretend that...

Be Our Guest: Hotel Paradox Pool Party

Win a pair of passes to Hotel Paradox Pool Party on SantaCruz.com Every Sunday this summer, Hotel Paradox, the local boutique, retreat-style hotel on Ocean Street, throws a giant pool party. Complete with an outdoor bar, large swimming pool, lounge recliner chairs, rentable private cabanas, a fire pit, jacuzzi, and a poolside fitness center, it's stuff...

Cinnabar Winery

Pinot shows they’re so much more than their famous Mercury Rising Mention Cinnabar wines to most wine lovers, and they immediately think of their famous Mercury Rising. Mercury is extracted from cinnabar, giving this purple-red wine its catchy name. But there’s much more to Cinnabar Winery—close to two dozen other varietals, including an ultra-smooth 2013 Pinot...

Film, Times & Events: Week of July 31

Films this WeekCheck out the movies playing locallyReviews Movie Times Santa Cruz area movie theaters > New This Week MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE- ROGUE NATION At this point, audiences might be thinking it’s Tom Cruise in another of these franchise films that is truly impossible (did they get him in a lifetime deal...

Spirited Debate

Facing opposition from churches, ‘Right-to-Die’ bill gets tabled in Assembly   By Seven out of 10 Californians believe that the terminally ill should have the right to choose to end their lives with the help of a physician, according to a poll last month. But it appears lawmakers on the Health Committee of the State Assembly do...
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