by Melinda Wells | Articles, Featured Blog Posts
Moldavite, Libyan Desert Glass, and other gems and metals of extraterrestrial origin, such as meteorites, have been getting a lot of attention recently, and we are pleased to offer some of these treasures in the shop right now. We get a lot of questions about them, so...
by Melinda Wells | Articles, Crystals, Featured Blog Posts, Meditation
Crystals and meditation seem to be like peas in a pod here in the west. It’s not like that in the wisdom traditions that bring us meditation, but a newer intuition with its roots in the American cultural revolution of the 1960s has put crystals into the same space...
by Melinda Wells | Articles, Featured Blog Posts
These days most everyone has heard of yoga, but we tend to think of it as a kind of exercise class. We may be generally aware that there are many different forms of yoga, but the majority of us do not know very much about them. Today I would like to talk a little...
by Melinda Wells | Articles, Featured Blog Posts
Sound healing is found in various forms throughout most of human history. It was practiced by the ancient Greeks and the Egyptians, among others. These techniques can be found in the Vedic scriptures of India and the shamanic lineage of the Navajo and other indigenous...
by Melinda Wells | Articles, Featured Blog Posts
OM. That is the western spelling of the sanskrit symbol you see to the left. The proper phonetic pronunciation is actually more like AUM than OM and while it still seems fairly exotic, it is becoming widely recognized in western culture. But what does it mean?...
by Melinda Wells | Articles, Featured Blog Posts
“Beginners mind” is a term used to describe the flexibility of an advanced meditator’s mental state, constantly open to freshness and the newness of the truth as it appears in this moment. Perhaps Socrates is best known in the west for this because...
