Topic: Culture & Society

Did you ever wonder if your chosen career is what you should really be doing? Or maybe you've wondered if there's a way that you could fine tune your career to make your work more rewarding, both for yourself and your community. Sue Frederick tackles these issues and more in her new book.

Q. What inspired you to write I See Your Dream Job?

A. I’ve always been a writer and have written monthly career columns for local magazines and a monthly newsletter. When I got so many positive responses to my stories about working with clients, I realized that everyone is hungry for this knowledge about finding their true direction in life.

What do Spritualism, séances and the first wave of feminism have in common? According to Janet Hosmer, the Spiritualist movement that began in the middle of the 19th century might have played a supporting role in the battle for women's rights.

The religion now known as "Modern Spiritualism" officially and literally burst through to the world in the small village of Hydesville, New York, late in March of 1848. The phenomena that began when young sisters Maggie and Kate Fox reported "rappings" on the walls of their home, has grown into a religion that currently, according to the International Spiritualist Federation, has both individual and group members in over 35 countries worldwide. The National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC), describes the religion on their website as follows, "Spiritualism is the science, philosophy, and religion of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of communication, by means of mediumship, with those who live in the spirit world. Spiritualism is founded upon a Declaration of Principles, nine in number, received from the spirit world by means of mediumship. They provide a firm and tangible foundation on which to base the knowledge of Spiritualism." Although not listed as one of the top ten religions of the world, there are many who have a belief in spirit communication, even though they are not a registered member of the Spiritualist religion. The number of believers, understandably because of the fraud found in this particular discipline, is difficult to ascertain.

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The film, featuring the exiled Tibetan leader the 14th Dalai Lama, is the winner of 12 awards, and screened in theaters in over 100 U.S. cities, as well as in cinemas around the world. "Dalai Lama Renaissance" also features: Micheal Beckwith (from the film "The Secret"), quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (from "What the Bleep Do We Know"), Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, and Social Scientist Jean Houston

Dalai Lama Renaissance, the award-winning feature documentary narrated by actor Harrison Ford, which played to sold out theater audiences around the world, has now arrived on DVD.

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GeneralMarijuana.com, a center for a group of legal cannabis-business oriented websites, is calling for Americans to learn from the General Motors bankruptcy and think seriously about the real costs of cannabis prohibition.

Justin Hartfield, the managing partner at GeneralMarijuana.com, noted that most of the problems facing the world economy today resulted from a combination of bad cost accounting and even worse risk assessment. "The same hard truths apply to the war on cannabis, which has been a social and economic disaster," he said.

Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" may be best known as the book made popular by Oprah Winfrey, through her book club and online webinars.

Namaste Publishing's new iPhone app for Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth is the first in a myriad projects that the Vancouver-based book publisher is embarking on to take their published material to a wider audience.

A persistent assault by the political right threatens to erode nearly century-old principles of academic freedom that have made U.S. universities a model for the world, a new book co-written by a University of Illinois legal expert warns.

Law professor Matthew W. Finkin says society would ultimately be the loser if the right wing wins a culture war that has simmered for a decade, sparked by complaints that liberal bias is out of control in college classrooms and needs conservative balance.

Free e-coloring book educates families on the benefits of organic produce.

Surf City Growers has just published an e-coloring book, How Organic Gardens Save the Earth, available as a free PDF download from their website, http://www.surfcitygrowers.com.

"Barack Obama: People's President - The Campaign That Changed History," is a timely and important look at the grassroots campaign that elected Barack Obama President of the United States.

Choices Inc, a documentary distribution company, has announced the release of Barack Obama: People's President - The Campaign That Changed History, a timely and important look at the unprecedented grassroots campaign that elected Barack Obama President of the United States.

We all know it's important to find ways to reduce your carbon footprint, but most people don't know where to start. That's why Portland-based non-profit Bonneville Environmental Foundation created ShrinkYourFoot.org.

Like fingerprints, every footprint is unique, and that's equally true for carbon footprints. No two people produce the same amount of harmful carbon output each day, so to significantly reduce our collective emissions it's important for each of us to understand our own impact on the environment.

There are Web cams focused on falcons, ferrets and fish, virtual tours of the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, and robotic dogs, seals and even dinosaurs. But what about the real deal: observing animals in their natural habitat, hiking the John Muir Trail or a playing with a live pet?

Modern technology increasingly is encroaching into human connections with the natural world and University of Washington psychologists believe this intrusion may emerge as one of the central psychological problems of our times.