Category Archives: Project Purpose Profiles
SHAPE SHIFTING: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom for the 21st Century
(Originally appeared in Intuition Magazine) The young American Peace Corp volunteer lay on the wooden bench in a hut built of split-wood staves, too sick to notice the discomfort of the hard pallet. He felt utterly alone and abandoned in the world’s largest rain forest deep within the Amazon. What had appeared at first to…
Chitra: Canine Crusader
Chitra: Canine Crusader Chitra didn’t plan to be a hero, but she is. In fact, she’s been a hero for over 1600 four-legged canine and feline friends. But, as often happens, Chitra’s heroism began with one small act of kindness over 25 years ago. It was shortly after arriving in the U. S. from her…
Connecting the Cosmos
Connecting the Cosmos While she was driving her ’36 Ford truck on a country road on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York, coming home from a sorority dance, a dense blizzard enshrouded the vehicle as it inched along route 11. White and her passenger, her friend Stu, could barely make out the dozens of cars…
Transforming the Golden Gheto
Transforming the Golden Gheto Out of her own suffering in a world of affluence, she found the creative vision to enlighten us all about the illness of “affluenza,” and to become a spiritual force for its healing. To the casual observer, Jessie O’Neill grew up in an idyllic setting. Her family lived in a spacious…
Born to Run With the Dogs
Born to Run With the Dogs The occasion, hosted by his wife, Carolyn, was held at the bottom of the world and on top of a mountain named for Vaughan by Admiral Bryd when the two men shared another expedition to the frozen wasteland of Antartica, some 65 years before. Vaughan has been itching to…
Fed Up With Hunger
Fed Up With Hunger Carol Porter was celebrating her daughter’s birthday party at a fast food restaurant in Houston when she happened to glance out the window. She describes a scene “straight from Dickens.” Children stood outside, staring in hungrily at the food-laden tables. So Carol invited them to join the party. The next day,…
When One Cries the Other Tastes Salt
When One Cries the Other Tastes Salt I’m sure it was some famous person who first talked about the high and low roads of life. The analogy has been with me for so long I forget where I first heard it but it came to me again when I learned that Bo and Sita Lozoff…
The Orient Express
The Orient Express And each morning, Orient answered the call but it wasn’t as simple an invitation as one might think. Bill wasn’t asking Orient to guide him around the block in his quiet suburban neighborhood of Burlington, N.C. or even to walk with him to a nearby grocery store. No, when Bill Irwin goes…
Career Dreams, Inc., Dreamweaver
Career Dreams, Inc., Dreamweaver “Acting is definitely where my talent lies and I love it,” says Diane, “but there was always this deflated feeling like, ‘Is that it?,’ especially when the money started to come in. Instead of flying with it and feeling thrilled, I’d almost feel bad. Other people would be impressed by my…
Michael Bleyman of the CPT
Reclaiming Our Health – Part 2 MICHAEL BLEYMAN OF THE CARNIVORE PRESERVATION TRUST If Dr. Michael Bleyman and his army of 450 volunteers have it their way, our children will have many more wild animals with which to share the earth. Bleyman is the founder of the Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT), 55 acres of Carolina…
Isn’t it Time You Knew Your Purpose?
