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2017-04-05T17:53:43-04:00

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Is my iPhone Sacred? Secular Ritual & the things that Matter

Last updated on: April 5, 2017 at 5:53 pm By Sable Manson

Hello, iPhone This past January marked the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’s historic announcement at MacWorld Convention of the revolutionary iPhone. In the now infamous presentation, Steve Jobs, Apple’s minister and magician, stands on a darken stage in front of his most ardent supporters. Over Jobs’s shoulder the iconic Apple logo silhouetted with a heavenly blue shining light. You can hear the excitement building in the room as Jobs recounts Apple’s historic contributions including the Macintosh computer and iPod. He... Read more

2017-02-07T19:10:37-05:00

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‘Conversations with Neale’ Helps us Apply Practical Spiritual Principles to Everyday Life

Last updated on: February 7, 2017 at 7:10 pm By Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley

Neale Donald Walsch knows about uncertainty. He knows about the mental and emotional toll of dire circumstances. He knows what it is like to reach the “end of line” when you can’t go any farther because you’ve hit rock-bottom. He knows because in the early 1990’s Walsch suffered a series of crushing blows—a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, and a car accident that left him with a broken neck. Once recovered, but alone... Read more

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2017-02-07T19:19:22-05:00

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The Quantum Physics of Donald Trump

Last updated on: February 7, 2017 at 7:19 pm By Michael Wayne

Here in the U.S., one of the stranger things in American history occurred this past November: the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the U.S. I say strange on a number of accounts: because Trump is an odd and peculiar character, and because his election took a confluence of events to line up. On one level, Trump is a bundle of contradictions: a billionaire born with a silver spoon in his mouth who appeals to populist values;... Read more

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2017-02-07T19:04:52-05:00

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What does it mean to pray? Lessons from Standing Rock

Last updated on: February 7, 2017 at 7:04 pm By Chelsea MacMillan

A few weeks ago, I returned from a journey to Standing Rock, where three members (including myself) of the Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism joined Oceti Sakowin for a few nights. But, I should tell you that I didn’t get back from a week of protesting and fighting for justice. I spent the week on a meditation retreat, a retreat during which I arose with the sun for morning prayers and walked in mindful prayer the rest of the... Read more

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2017-01-11T07:04:12-05:00

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Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Consciousness Came to the West

Last updated on: January 11, 2017 at 7:04 am By Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley

Imagine, if you will, boarding a cargo ship at 69 years-old to leave your home country for the first time in your life. You’ve set out on a month-long journey to go to a country where you don’t know one single person. During the journey you suffer from sea sickness, dizziness, vomiting and also have two heart-attacks. After 37 days you arrive in the United States of America with an umbrella, a small supply of dry cereal, about forty Rupees... Read more

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2016-12-27T15:26:40-05:00

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Gnosticism & The Urantia Book II: Apostle John Versus Apostle Thomas

Last updated on: December 27, 2016 at 3:26 pm By Byron Belitsos

Elaine Pagels is perhaps the world’s leading scholar in the field of Gnosticism. In her luminous work, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels details a provocative theory of an open conflict between the competing Gospels of John and Thomas that caused a fatal bifurcation in the early Christian community. She boldly argues that John “[wrote] his gospel to refute what Thomas teaches,” claiming that John may have in fact gone so far as to create the character of... Read more

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2016-12-27T15:15:08-05:00

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Is Civilization Dying, Or Being Born?

Last updated on: December 27, 2016 at 3:15 pm By Robert Atkinson

What is our current state of affairs, on the collective, global level? What is really going on all around us in the world today? Can we even say it is one thing and not the other? Maybe it is both at the same time. The story unfolding all around us now seems to be telling us the old world is dying. Are we in the midst of a slow and painful death? Could this be the “muddle” phase of our... Read more

2016-12-27T14:58:44-05:00

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Your Soul is a program, your body is a smartphone

Last updated on: December 27, 2016 at 2:58 pm By Sarah Lawrence Hinson

When we try and consider the nature of our eternal souls, it's such a big overwhelming subject, sometimes it can be hard to get into our human incarnated brains. Here's one metaphor that came to me during my Akashic Records study. Your Soul is a program, your body is a smartphone. Read more

2016-12-27T15:13:14-05:00

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Heartbreak and Grace on a New York City Street

Last updated on: December 27, 2016 at 3:13 pm By Nancy Raines

I don’t know how long we stood like that... or whether any pedestrian noticed the strange sight of two strangers locked in an embrace in the middle of a New York City street. Read more

2016-12-28T14:47:44-05:00

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How Awe Cultivates Kindness

Last updated on: December 28, 2016 at 2:47 pm By Andrea Hollingsworth

Most of us have had the experience of being bowled over by something exquisitely vast and ungraspable. Awe can overwhelm us when we gaze at mountains, oceans, or the night sky. It can overtake us when we’re witnessing birth or death, or when we’re falling in love. It can surge through us as we consider the mere fact that we exist. I’m a Minnesotan, a theologian, and a pregnant woman. So for me, predictable awe-inducers include Lake Superior, God’s infinity,... Read more

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