Today, on the eve of the next millennium, we are standing between two worlds. We live daily with remnants of the old one, with its myths of disharmony and competition, but I feel we are also experiencing the beginnings of a transformation to a new world based on life-affirming principles. Many of us look forward to a greater awakening of the human spirit, and a future of peace and harmony.

Welcome to Solimar, a magazine we’ve created to honor and celebrate the unlimited possibilities and potential that lie within each human being.

Solimar is about sharing uplifting stories of how we are discovering new ways of relating to ourselves, our families, and our world. Solimar gives voice to people who are walking a sacred path, both in the public eye and quietly in their day-to-day lives. It’s a magazine about people and their inspiring stories of spirit, hope, love and joy.

Here, you’ll meet people — all kinds of people — who are creating extraordinary results by weaving their spiritual practices into their everyday lives. Their goal, and ours, is to light the way to awareness, inner peace, and sustained joy: as you read their stories, you may find the courage to create the same results in your own life.

We believe it is by opening our hearts to each other that people and our world will be healed, and the future ensured for our children.

Inside this preview issue you’ll discover a small sampling of what we have planned for our first exciting year of publication. Contributors Randy Peyser and Julie Henderson delve into what’s behind the success of a new breed of Hollywood star and movie producer. Author Joel Saltzman shares surprising advice on parenting — straight from the mouths of the kids themselves. Veteran world traveler Gilah Hirsch shares the secret of “spiritual trekking” that anyone can learn. Jack and Janet Lerner, an everyday couple who has built a shining example of a marriage tell how they did it, and how you can, too.

In upcoming issues there’ll be even more to challenge, surprise, and please you in every area of your life: relationships, sex, food, business and finance, celebrity interviews, environment, family and parenting, community, art, education and more.

Let us be the first to welcome you to Life in the New Millennium. We invite you to turn the page and start experiencing this bright new future for yourself.

Sunni Taliaferro

CEO, Publisher