Author: Carol Bedrosian, Spirit of Change publisher

In January 2001, Spirit of Change asked readers to sponsor efforts to build a midwife/health center in Concepcion, Guatemala -- home to Felipe and Elena Ixcot, currently residents of Vermont, and honored elders attending the annual Harvest Gathering each year.

Good health. To love and be loved. Inner peace. Imagine a life lived in the fullness of these three qualities and you might find yourself reflecting upon the ideal human existence.

For a culture obsessed with appearances and glamour, it is ironic how little value we place on beauty.

The elder who recently passed mentioned last year that the time for talking about the prophecies has ended because we are living those prophecies now.

Once again, for the fourth year, I attended Grandfather William Commanda’s spiritual gathering this August in Maniwaki, Quebec.

Spirit of Change Reader's Request I first met Frank DeContie and his wife Sandra at our very first Harvest Gathering in 1997. Frank is an Algonquin ceremonial medicine keeper...

"The ancients knew something which we seem to have forgotten." ~ Albert Einstein I met Sharon Anderson for the first time at Harvest Gathering in 1997 at Mt. Washington, MA. Living in upstate Vermont near the Canadian border, Sharon had…

For about seven or eight years, Spirit of Change has received news articles about positive social and political...

For hundreds, or maybe even thousands of years, we have marked the end of our calendar year with a holiday season.

  As I jotted down the text for the cover of this issue of Spirit of Change, I noticed that our article on single parenting...