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Churchless potpourri

I've got a little engaging links floating around my email inbox, interjection to blog visitors who wanted to share a little churchless info. Also have a few alternative cyberspace-inspired thoughts floating around my psyche. Might as well toss them all in to a potpourri post... ----------------------------------- Wow! How did a United States ever come out victorious in World War II but carrying "under God" in a Pledge of Allegiance? Makes me wonder because each president right away finds it necessary to contend May God magnify a United States of America during a finish of his State of a Union speech. (Thanks for promulgation a You Tube link, Robert.) ----------------------------------- An India-based spiritual/mystical organization, Radha Soami Satsang Beas, has an armed forces during an estate in Haynes Park, England. The RSSB guru is supposed to be God in human form. Yet lightning struck a Haynes Park center final summer. Could this be a pointer from a real God? (Thanks

World-Famous Archaeologist Zahi Hawass

World-renowned archeologist as well as star of the History Channel series Chasing Mummies, Dr. Zahi Hawass will title A.R.E.'s Annual Ancient Mysteries Conference: Dr. Zahi Hawass' Secrets from the Sands Oct 8-10, during Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. Dr. Hawass will uncover attendees the ultimate discoveries coming out of Egypt, as well as very old mysteries expert John Van Auken will uncover the ultimate updates in the search for Atlantis as well as the hidden gymnasium of records, in as well as around Bimini, Bahamas. A capacity throng is expected. Other featured speakers during this renouned annual discussion embody bard as well as researcher Mitch Horowitz, who explores the little-known history of how mysticism as well as occult influences helped shape the nation; astronomer James Mullaney, who will take the assembly upon the debate of very old times by the heavens with assistance from Hubble Space Telescope images; hypnotherapist James Parker, who will assistance attendees bond

Harmony by Karate Declared Top, U.S. Martial Arts

Sensei John Mirrione's Harmony by Karate module at Reebok Sports Club/NY was named one of America's "Top Ten Martial Arts Schools" by eHow Website, in partnership with a Lance Armstrong Foundation's Livestrong Website. eHow is a leading Website which scarcely 70 million singular users worldwide per month revisit to learn, research, share as well as plead clear, concise, actionable solutions to a vast form of life's everyday inquiries. About a top-selected, programs, an eHow editor says: "There have been a large series of armed forces schools around a United States. Many open as well as tighten every year as well as it can be difficult to find a propagandize which is legitimate. The most appropriate ones have trainers with years of experience as well as a story of branch out great fighters as well as students. While karate schools have been still numerous, schools which specialize in churned armed forces humanities (mma) as well as Krav Maga, a renouned fo

Aging Creatively

Psychologists who study creativity say which artists as well as writers often can furnish some-more new ideas in their sixties or seventies than in their twenties. One interesting variable is which a later we take up any beautiful pursuit, a some-more expected we have been to aspire to it in to old age.Creative knowledge might raise a structure of a brain itself. Chinese studies of old people in Shanghai prove which less prepared people have higher rates of dementia as well as Alzheimers disease; a import is which prepared people, having been lerned to use their minds, kindle full of health brain activity.PET scans show increasing red blood upsurge to a brain during durations of beautiful thought; a distinctive EEG of awake rhythms across all bands of brainwave wake up is associated with a Aha! or Eureka! knowledge which characterizes art as well as creativity in general.Also, its a myth to think which it harms a brain to get as well wrapped up in mental work. As prolonged as it is

Chakra Balancing

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7 Quick Meditation Tips to Combat Sleepiness

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Tips for Meditation Overcoming Obstacles of Meditation In a article, Meditation Help as well as 5 New Tips for Beginners, we gave an critical list of imagining tips to assistance we to establish a strong, daily imagining practice. Today, there have been couple of some-more imagining tips we would like to pass along to we as well as these have been specifically with regard to traffic with sleepiness during meditation. Undoubtedly a many appropriate time to discuss is early in a morning, though unfortunately this is additionally a time when we have been many prone to feel exhausted during our imagining session. Recently, we have received multiform emails regarding this really issue, so we thought it would benefit everybody to share a little tips regarding how to understanding with this challenge. Below we will find 5 discerning ways to assistance we strike this obstacle during meditation. we can assure we we have used all these methods during a little indicate in a

Missionaries, Carpetbaggers, Highjackers, and Honkies: Dharma in the West

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The plateau weren't high sufficient this morning, so a clouds came up with their own solution. If we wish to engage in quick as good as dirty, tactical warning of a target population, do an perspective poll, call a press conference, as good as massage a results. It is finished all a time, for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes we call it public diplomacy, as good as alternative times we call it plain, old-fashioned turn doctoring. When we do it to sell toothpaste, we contend which 9 out of ten dentists agree, as good as call it law in advertising. Truth be known, it is all bullshit. I see a technique has been used again utterly not prolonged ago -- by an organization funded with a deduction from Big Oil, hustling to in front of itself in Big Media -- with a single anticipating which purports to show Buddhists in America have been not unequivocally good suspicion of by average Americans. If they knew a total truth, they would similar to us even less. There was another, unequivocally un

Karmapa's Gift to the Karmapa

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In 1978, Tashi Mannox's father, Peter Mannox, was commissioned to have a enclosure -- a tangshup -- for an picture combined by a 16th Karmapa, with whom he was utterly friendly. Peter Mannox is a Western world's inaugural maker of Dharma articles from precious metals -- a career that was in truth selected for him by means of divination. This enclosure is twenty inches in length, of solid silver, as well as lapis enamel. What picture this enclosure essentially encases is unknown, but as Peter reports, "It is meant for transmission to a 17th Karmapa," if as well as when he is ever able to revisit Samye Ling Tibetan Centre, in Scotland. The total story can be found during Peter's wonderful blog North Fife. Write to rinpoche2006@gmail.com http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com

Tibetan Tattoos

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One of my all time a one preferred blogs -- The Lost Yak -- has an essay upon a theme of Tibet as well as tattoos which you have long wished to see. The gist of a thing is which inland report upon a theme is difficult to find. Such is not a box in a West. If you're articulate "Tibet" as well as "tattoo" in a same sentence, you are in a sights of a great Tashi Mannox -- a world's foremost Tibetan calligrapher, a longstanding crony of DTBA, as well as a unequaled source of report upon a theme of Tibetan tattoos. If called upon to do so, he could testify as an consultant declare upon a theme in justice record -- he is which knowledgeable.(I will discuss which Tashi's father is additionally a crony -- he sent us something a few months ago, though whilst you were working with it, Blogger experienced a mother of all crashes, as well as you mislaid a whole thing -- a miraculous essay upon a puzzling scroll box for a Karmapa!)I have often wondered either tattoos

Possibly I'm becoming more of a "possibilian"

My primary bloggish foray in to possibilianism had a flattering amiable title, "Nothing wrong with being a churchless 'possibilian'." After celebration of a mass some-more about this meaning-of-life stance in a most recent emanate of New Scientist, you find myself increasingly enthusiastic about David Eagleman's perspective toward uncertainty. His square is called Beyond God as well as atheism: because you am a possibilian. It's a nice blend of pleasing openmindedness as well as systematic where's-the-evidence? I have devoted my hold up to systematic pursuit. After all, if you wish to crack a mysteries of a existence, there might be no improved approach than to directly investigate a blueprints. And scholarship over a past 400 years has been tremendously successful. We have reached a moon, eradicated smallpox, built a internet, tripled lifespans, as well as increasingly tapped in to those mind-blowing truths around us. We've found them to be deep

La Jolla Yoga Center Presents Swami Veda Bharati

San Diego, CA. World-Renowned Spiritual Guide, Philosopher, Poet, Author, Lecturer as well as Preceptor; Swami Veda Bharati offers a singular vocalization event during a La Jolla Yoga Center (LJYC) in La Jolla, California, October 9, 2010 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The special occasion is seen as an unprecedented opportunity to experience an intimate evening with Swami Veda Bharati who has historically not trafficked to La Jolla. As an advanced teacher of meditation, Swami Veda Bharati's provides guidance as well as clarity according to a ancient Himalayan tradition. His interfaith efforts to harmonize mankind have inspired leaders of various religious traditions around a world. "I have no ambition. we only have a very amatory avocation since to me in my devout heritage of a Himalayan Masters who have passed down this avocation from era to generation, perhaps for thousands of generations: The universe has misery, a universe has suffering. Do what we can to reduce a pain. D

Free Exercise and Fitness Tips from Yoga

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Free Exercise Tips Fitness as great as Exercise Tips Although yoga exercises can assistance form a great aptness routine, there have been other forms of practice as great which we might be interested in incorporating in to we regiment, as great as to raise such aptness programs there have been most great tips we can get from yoga. In this essay we will give we 3 giveaway tips from yoga to make your practice as great as aptness slight better. These 3 tips have been helpful regardless or what kind of practice as great as aptness slight we have. Whether its aerobic activity, insurgency training, sports, armed forces arts, dance or any other type of exercise, we consider a following tips will infer to be unequivocally useful to you. Free Exercise as great as Fitness Tip #1: Use powerful, Breath of Fire, yogic respirating to kick proceed or raise your practice routine. One of a most appropriate ways to proceed your practice slight is to ox

The Man in the Arena

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Theodore Roosevelt as good as John Muir during Yosemite. These dual group have been a usually reason since there is anything left of a American wilderness Well, over in France, that is where liberty, equality, as good as fraternity -- Libert, Egalit, Fraternit -- used to be a categorical course, they have been deporting a Romany people -- we used to call them gypsies, nonetheless we guess that is not politically scold anymore. we suspicion that male with a bad behind staid this issue prolonged ago, differently since else did we enshrine him in literature? Here in America, things aren't that most better. Now it seems we have slick political packages, instant ministers, radio personalities, as good as glorified housewives out stirring up a citizenry so they can land remunerative media contracts. we am talking about America... where we used to have statesmen running a uncover -- tangible group of substance -- behind in a day when we got a Nobel Prize for essentially accomplishing some