…And so it was, when I began to read David Zimmermann’s newly released Dissipated Assets. A relatively short read of less than 120 poems (mostly one page and often one sentence), the book sucked me into the heart of Mr. Zimmerman’s honest and vulnerable expressions. Dissipated Assets is about love and death, forgiveness and trust. Though it may touch on topics of war, environmental destruction, and disease as the stories unfold, there is always the thread of an elegant grace of being and regard for the human experience…

In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Elizabeth Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser–a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose-and almost as a joke-Dr. Mayer (a prominent clinical psychologist at Berkeley) agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, with only a photograph of the harp and a map of San Francisco, dowser Harold McCoy located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.

“Now right off the bat, ‘Science of Getting Rich’ author Wallace D. Wattles says that instead of questioning how these (Law of Attraction) principles work, you’ll need simply to accept them and begin to practice them.”

A Call to Power: The Grandmothers Speak by Sharon McErlane is a fascinating narration of the author’s experience with a group of divine beings called the Council of Grandmothers. It includes the teachings given to Sharon McErlane over the last ten years as well as practical exercises for how to balance the Yin energy in [...]