Big questions, handled carefully — world religions, philosophical ideas, mythology and ethics, explained without preaching or talking down.
Slaves from West Africa brought religions of their ancestry to U.S. generations ago, and then used that spirituality to hold on to their heritage. Voodoo Likely First African-American Religion in America.
Are all peoples living to north of Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathian and Caucasus mountains, and descendants of Assyrians and Ten Lost tribes of Israel? Does Elizabeth II, Queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, sit today on same throne as did David and Solomon? Are peoples of northern Europe inheritors of these great civilizations of pre-classical Antiquity, whose importance was” Elizabeth II on
What inspired collective will of an entire people to reflect hysterical prattling of a man considered today to be wholly insane? Yet, what Herr Hitler unleashed, was a religious zeal within German soul awakening Patriotic Church--bringing Germany’s cradle of European Christian Civilization to its fullness. Hitler’s Positive Christianity” Unleashing Patriotic Church.
Reza Aslan has studied religions at Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds an MFA in fiction from Writers’ Workshop at University of Iowa, where he was also visiting assistant professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. In arid, desolate basin of Mecca, surrounded on all sides by bare mountains of Arabian desert, stands a small, nondescript sanctuary that...
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa and a possible successor to Pope, has been appointed by Vatican to rebut what Catholic church calls shameful and unfounded errors contained within Dan Brown’s global bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. Vatican Appoints Official Da Vinci Code Debunker.
This essay is on good intent being transformed into borders, sustaining fear of border even though borders have been constructed upon trust. Trust and fear are a duality, resulting in endless border wars. Spiritual Terrorism.
But can narcissism be acquired or learned? Can it be provoked by certain, well-defined, situations? Acquired Situational Narcissism.
Laurie Conrad is author of book The Spiritual Life of Animals and Plants, a collection of true stories. The book speaks of miracles and healings - as well as innate spirituality of animals. The author is giving a large percentage of her profits to animal protection organisations. Interview on The Spiritual Life of Animals with Clairvoyant Laurie Conrad, by Diana Souza. .
To narcissist, Internet is an alluring and irresistible combination of playground and hunting grounds, gathering place of numerous potential sources of narcissistic supply, a world where false identities are norm and mind games bon ton. And it is beyond reach of law, pale of social norms, strictures of civilized conduct. The Cyber Narcissist.
Parsimony is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for a theory to be labelled scientific. But a scientific theory is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to parsimony. Parsimony — The Fourth Substance.
