Lapis Magazine

See for yourself the original paper Lapis issues that received Utne Reader’s Alternative Press Award for New Paradigm / Emerging Culture Coverage in 2000.

Back issues are $10 each (4 or more copies $8 each), including postage and handling, payable in U.S. dollars. The original paper Lapis issue 1 is sold out; it is only available in a photocopied version at $12.

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Lapis 1

Mikhail Gorbachev on the philosophy of survival; Vaclav Havel on the spiritual roots of democracy; Chester Higgins Jr. photoessay on the African Diaspora; Jerry Mander on the tyranny of television; Vladimir Solovyov on perfect religion; Tom Porter on the Mohawk Nation; Ralph White on Croatia; William Kistler on Reaganomics and its aftermath; poems by Robert Bly and Nancy Willard; and more. (Sold out; only available in photocopied version, $12.)

Lapis 2

Andrew Harvey interview; Mohammed Yunus on Grameen Bank and microlending; Aung San Suu Kyi on political integrity; Robert Sardello on work and the soul; David Orr on the greening of education; James Parks Morton on religion; Laurens van der Post on wilderness; poetry by Quincy Troupe and William Stafford; and more.

Lapis 3

His Holiness the Dalai Lama interview; Nelson Mandela on freedom; David Korten on sustainable societies; Robert Bly on disdain for children; Winona LaDuke on native peoples; David Fideler on Eros; William McDonough on design, ecology and ethics; Joscelyn Godwin on Orpheus; David Yeadon on Aboriginal dreamtime; and more.

Lapis 4

Ismail Serageldin on sustainable development; Robert Kaplan on the new world disorder; Michael Tobias on population explosion; Marsilio Ficino on divine frenzy; Kathleen Raine on poetry and Platonism; Sven Birkerts on the changing face of time; Rachel Naomi Remen on kitchen table wisdom; John O’Donohue on Celtic friendship; and more.

Lapis 5

Carlos Castaneda interview; William Greider on global capitalism; Charlene Spretnak on modern ideologies of denial; Jalaja Bonheim on Indian temple dancers; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke on the occult roots of Nazism; Alexander Roob on the hermetic tradition; Luigi Zoja on addiction; Wei Jingsheng on human rights; and more.

Lapis 6

Ross Gelbspan on climate change; Anna Fischer on the women of Afghanistan; Wade Davis on the Amazon; Robert Thurman on the great adepts of Buddhism; Michael Vannoy Adams on race in New York City; Anthony Olcott on Russian detective literature; Palden Gyatso on thirty years of Chinese prison life; and more.

Lapis 7

Neil Postman on remaining sane in a technological society; Seamus Heaney on hope and reconciliation in Ireland; Theodore Roszak on the ecology of wisdom; China Galland on fierce compassion; Thomas Lavin on myth and addiction; Pete Bracy on hemp; John David Ebert interview with Brian Swimme; Stephen L. Talbott on wired classrooms; and more.

Lapis 8

Thomas Berry on technological triumphalism; Suzi Gablik on the making of a modernist; David Shi & Jerome Segal on the simple life; Wade Davis on the end of the wild; Larry Elliott & Dan Atkinson on economic alternatives; Annemarie Schimmel on great women in the Quran; Ptolemy Tompkins on my decade in a cardboard box; and more.

Lapis 9

Branimir Anzulovic on the myth of heavenly Serbia; David Korten on life after capitalism; Satish Kumar on following in Gandhi’s footsteps; Gary Lachman on the mystic sixties; Clyde Ford on the hero with an African face; Ptolemy Tompkins on the wisdom eaters; Christopher Macintosh on the Rosicrucian legacy; and more.

Lapis 10

Rupert Sheldrake on the unexplained powers of animals; Bill McKibben on the deeper aspects of climate change; Robert Sardello on freeing the soul from fear; Ben Cohen’s journey from peace pops to war costs; Pico della Mirandola’s oration on the dignity of man; poetry by Quincy Troupe; and more.

Lapis 11

Winona LaDuke on mothers’ milk and PCBs; Russell Hemenway on an effective Congress; Theodore Roszak on demographic destiny; Anita Roddick on bringing consciousness to capitalism; Kenny Ausubel on when healing becomes a crime; Richard Hayes on human genetic re-engineering; Ansel Adams on the photography of Vittorio Sella; Christopher Bamford on Enlii, Island of pilgrimage; Terry Tempest Williams’ LEAP; poetry by Robert Bly; and more.

Lapis 12

David Suzuki on nature; Prince Charles on sacredness and sustainability; Kathy Kelly on Iraq’s children under siege; Ron Miller on caring education; interview with Satish Kumar; portraits of vanishing species; JP Harpignies on the perils of eugenic techno-utopianism; Robert McDermott on Anthroposophical and transpersonal worldviews; Allen Ginsberg up close; William Irwin Thompson; and more;

Lapis 13

Julia Butterfly Hill on ecoactivism; Simon Retallack on alternative energy; Naomi Klein on multinationals and the appropriation of meaning; Ethan Nadelmann on ending the war on drugs; John Muir; Elder Grace with Chester Higgins Jr. & Maya Angelou; Teachings of Iamblichus; Rabindrath Tagore; Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths; Harry Smith; and more.

Lapis 14

Mikhail Gorbachev on Architects of Peace; Arundhati Roy interview; Jeremy Rifkin on the new genetic rights movement; Fritjof Capra on the challenge of the new century; Eve Ensler beyond the Vagina Monologues; Alex Grey interview; Thomas Tomczyk photoessay on the Kumbha Mela; Joscelyn Godwin on the religion of art; F. Bruce Lamb on Manuel Córdova-Rios; and more.