Featured Resource: In The Global Soul, Pico Iyler proves to be a perfect international guide to a brave new world of multiculturalism, instant communication, vast movements of refugees, and spreading homelessness. His openness to these fusions and confusions is commendable and insightful.

• Paula Gunn Allen writes about the spiritual benefits of mixed ancestry, heritage, and culture.

• Megory Anderson suggests ways to sit vigil with dying persons and to be open to what arises in the moment.

• Walter Truett Anderson presents post-modern psychology's construct of human nature as multiphrenic, protean, relational, and characterized by openness.

• Shirley du Boulay lionizes Benedictine priest Bede Griffiths for his openness to people of all religions and especially those who had wandered away from Christianity.

• David Deida gives an in-depth salute to the spiritual practice of openness.

• Anna Fadiman's account of a medical adventure demonstrates the openness inherent in integrative medicine.

• Christian Feldman reviews the life and work of Pope John XXIII who humanized the office and opened the door to the renewal of the Catholic Church.

• Kathleen Hirsch's openness to urban living comes across as a paean to community.

• Chungliang Al Huang presents an invigorating overview of this ancient martial arts practice designed to facilitate an open body, mind, and spirit.

• Rodger Kamenetz probes openness between Jews and Buddhists.

• Diane Mariechild offers meditations to achieve an open mind.

• Cynthia Kneen offers an inspiring overview of the Shambhala warrior training to awake the mind and open the heart developed by the Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditation master Chogyam Trungpa.

• Mary Lou Kownacki demonstrates the beauty and the bounties of spiritual openness, hospitality, and connections.

• Robert Levine's study of the geography of time is a cross-cultural gem examining different points of view about time.

• Wes "Scoop" Nisker, a long-time broadcast journalist, who is a Buddhist with a keen sense of humor, takes jauntily open trip down memory lane.

• Shunyru Suzuki presents a classic on the spiritual practices of openness, nonduality, emptiness, and enlightenment.

• Dan Wakefield's engaging accounts of individuals whose lives have been enriched by experiences which defy logic and the consensus view of reality.

• Macrina Wiederkehr provides exercises to help us plumb the depth of our experiences and be more open to what is happening to us.

• Leslie Wines celebrates the openness of the thirteenth-century poet and seer Rumi.

• Theodore Zeldin will speak to all those tired of the egocentric posturing and adversarial stance of so much that passes for talk today.

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Solar Storms is a novel by Linda Hogan about an encounter with both one�s roots and the unknown. After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Angel returns to her Native American family. Together with three of her women elders, she journeys through the wilderness to her ancestral homeland. Angel�s unique coming-of-age is achieved through the practice of openness on many levels.

• David Deida reveals how opening our hearts to others changes everything.

• Karen M. Jones suggests practices we can do to open ourselves to serve others.

• Arthur P. Ciarmicoli and Katherine Ketcham present empathy as an element of the spiritual practice of openness that brings us closer to others, even those who are very different from us.

• Toinette Lippe writes describes the spiritual benefits of "thinning out" her life and being open to whatever shows up.

• Shunryu Suzuki writes about the beginner's mind in Zen which is open to all possibilities.

Sometimes the only way to "get" a teaching is to practice openness.

• In Awakening, Anthony de Mello presents a story about a monk who thinks he needs a method to obtain inner freedom.

• Alan Watts in Taoism writes about an elder who really knows how to go with the flow.