Tatler Singapore

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In many New Age shops, the process of purchasing crystals involves sifting through bowls of small, colourful stones. Hong Kong-based independent crystal dealer Stone and Star does things a little differently. “Selecting and owning a crystal is extrem

Chat It's Fate

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Standing on my friend’s roof terrace in Los Angeles, staring up at the sky, I felt my heart begin to pound as I noticed something hovering above me. At first, I assumed it was an odd type of aeroplane or blimp, flying in a group. But on closer inspec

Inside Out

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Kirsten completed her commercial cookery certificate before working behind the scenes on the first season of Masterchef Australia. She went on to assist food stylist Jody Vassallo on three French cookbooks in the UK, worked for 2½ years as the food e

Harrowsmith

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Got a kitchen garden you tend to in the summer? We’d love to see your pics! Send them in, along with a wee story about how you got started, and what you grow and why, for a chance to win a copy of The Long Table Cookbook: Plant-Based Recipes for Opti

Fortean Times

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By the time this issue hits the newsstands, we will know whether President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on 20January was marked by violent protest similar to that seen on 6 January in Washington DC, when thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters storm

Peppermint Magazine

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There is an undercurrent of greed in the modern New Age world. It can be flimsy and half-hearted. It’s a place that doesn’t manufacture miracles but sells the possibility of them, framed in a modern context even as the ancient or extremely old aspect

Australian Geographic

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Inga Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers Sophie Cunningham, City of Trees Alice Duncan-Kemp, Our Sandhill Country Tim Flannery, The Future Eaters Bill Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale Tom Griffiths, F

Woman's Day

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As a third-generation Scientologist, Kate Ceberano couldn’t have been prouder when her daughter Gypsy was accepted into the religion’s most prestigious school in the US. For the past year she’s been boarding at the mysterious Oregon institution where

All About History

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The Age of Reason was closely tied to the Age of Discovery, the colonial era in which Western powers, buoyed by their advanced technology, conquered and commandeered vast tracts of the rest of the world. In these mysterious new territories, notably A

Tatler Philippines

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In many New Age shops, the process of purchasing crystals involves sifting through bowls of small, colourful stones. Hong Kong-based independent crystal dealer Stone and Star does things a little differently. “Selecting and owning a crystal is extrem

Shooting Times & Country

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Shooting Timeswas saddened to learn of the death of Prue Coats, who died at the age of 95 on 26 October. Prue was the wife of the late Archie Coats, a legendary figure in the world of pigeon shooting. She was for many years a columnist and cookery wr

Guardian Weekly

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Founding president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991, who was at the heart of the fight for African independence. He died on 17 June, aged 97. Author of The Journalist and the Murderer and a New Yorker writer, whose scepticism about her trade brought her b

New Idea

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Demi was allegedly a devout Scientologist, only to depart once she married her now ex-husband, Bruce Willis. The Ghost star was reportedly asked to quit by Bruce once they had children together, due to his own religious beliefs. Before he was a meg

JOY Magazine

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In a world where people are constantly grasping for deeper meaning, deeper spirituality, and a higher purpose, energy healing is one more New Age philosophy that presents itself as very desirable to human beings. Born with sin, we all come into the w

Tatler Hong Kong

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In many New Age shops, the process of purchasing crystals involves sifting through bowls of small, colourful stones. Hong Kong-based independent crystal dealer Stone and Star does things a little differently. “Selecting and owning a crystal is extrem

Literary Hub

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My second trip to heaven was more propitious than the first. I wasn’t alone this time, but accompanied by my friend Shannon, who works as a historic preservationist in Philadelphia. Shannon lent some professional credibility to our Sunday tour of Woo

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES — It seemed like the end of a typical reiki attunement: A group of women wearing yoga pants and flowing floral skirts, gathered in a healer’s home after a course in the alternative therapy of balancing chakras, clearing auras and transfer

Writing Magazine

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Avon Books, the division of HarperCollins that publishes commercial fiction – predominantly women’s fiction and crime – is open for submissions. Authors published by Avon include CL Taylor, Sue Moorcroft, Scott Mariani and Philippa Ashley. Submit ful

New Zealand Listener

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The books that have most influenced me are those that have fully immersed me in another world, where the characters linger with me years later, or where the author has written something unique. One that achieved all these is Keri Hulme’s THE BONE PEO

Woman's Own

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Hyperfoods provide the scientific basis of a recipe book, DreamLab Antiviral Foods Cookbook (free, vodafone.com). Recipes centre on five of the hyperfoods and are prepared with minimal food processing to preserve as many as the bioactive compounds as

UNCUT

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SURING the Super Bowl back in February, Bruce Springsteen starred in his first ever television commercial, a solemn clip called “The Middle” that found him driving a vintage Jeep through rural Kansas. Over shots of empty plains and close-ups of sturd

Chat It's Fate

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The ability to move objects through the power of your mind is known as psychokinesis. It’s a popular trope in films – in the X Menfranchise, for example, Jean Grey has this ability – but the science supporting its existence in real life is sketchy. T

High Country News

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IN A GEODESIC DOME in Joshua Tree, California, hundreds of festival-goers assemble for a workshop on prānāyāma, an ancient Hindu breathing practice. Amid an acoustic blend of drumming, chanting and birdsong, a workshop leader, flanked by “guardians”

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author NE Davenport Publisher Harper Voyager Mixing fantasy with military SF, Texas-based NE Davenport’s debut initially plays out as a coming-of-age story. It’s one with some particularly tough

Woolworths TASTE

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Marianna Leivaditaki is the head chef at Morito on Hackney Road in London. Her cookbook, Aegean – Recipes from the Mountains to the Sea, is published by Kyle Books and distributed in SA by Jonathan Ball Publishers. R620, octopusbooks.co.uk ■

Who Do You Think You Are?

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This short introduction provides a valuable overview. This guide covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks, school stories, science fiction, comics and children’s hymns. a 30 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2PQ t 0300 330

Writing Magazine

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Paul Theroux received an outstanding contribution award at this year’s Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Other winners included: Travel Book of the Year: Underland, Robert Mcfarlane; Debut Travel Writer: Extreme Economies, Richard Davies; Advent

Country Life

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IT is announced that the last word of the Oxford Dictionary has been sent to the press, and probably the work will be finished in two years more. It has been one of the greatest labours of modern times, and if mediaeval monks had done it, the last of

Blue Mountains Life

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In their first cookbook La Vie Paysanne—30 Years of French Country Cookery, Bob and Barbara Ross tell the remarkable story of how their love of simple French cooking transformed a humble bistro into a revered Mediterranean restaurant. Over the pages

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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As a third-generation Scientologist, Kate Ceberano couldn’t have been prouder when her daughter Gypsy was accepted into the religion’s most prestigious school in the US. For the past year she’s been boarding at the mysterious Oregon institution where