Next London subway stop: spiritual enlightenment

The next train is for Heathrow Airport, via Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus — and spiritual enlightenment.

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3-Iron Movie Review

3-Iron (Korean title: 빈집 or Bin-jip, meaning Empty Houses) is a 2004 artistic film from Kim Ki-duk. Although it is a drama/romance film it is also a piece of art and a masterpiece of cinema. Pure poetry.

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"The choice of religious "freedom" or "liberty" as the proper category for discussion and the exclusion of "tolerance" flies in the face of the societal trend to deal with church-state issues in terms of religious tolerance."

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The Silva Method teaches ESP and Remote Viewing Techniques mastered by some of the world's leading Personal Development Gurus, Spiritual Gurus, and Psychics. Learn how you can use Extra Sensory Perception to transform your reality and create success on the path of enlightenment

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How do you feel about healthcare reform AFTER the President's speech to Congress? (Poll)

Now that the speech is over, in the cold light of day, how do you feel after hearing it? Do you feel confident or didn't it make a difference? Did you learn anything you didn't know before? More enlightened about the issues, or more confused?

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The first step in reclaiming moral language for progressive use is to show that while moral needs may be furthered by religion, it is not what keeps them alive. Rather, morality is grounded in the structure of reason itself.

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Earlier this summer, as part of a master's program at Emerson College, Kerry Skemp began blogging and tweeting about online commentary (i.e., comments left on websites or tweets) and its role in the future of publishing.

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Organizers of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair planned for a crowd of 50,000 at their August gathering 40 years ago in rural New York.

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A few Christian fundamentalists attempt to convince us to return to the Christianity of early America, yet according to the historian, Robert T. Handy, "No more than 10 percent-- probably less-- of Americans in 1800 were members of congregations."

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The way to enlightenment.

Through out my life I have read many technical manuals, some had been about weapons whilst I was a small arms instructor and later I taught soldiers the skills of using a mortar and how to control mortar fire.

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President Barack Obama said in Turkey: "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation.

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Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis.

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A writing class instructor told us to write about an accomplishment. I threw the question out to the Universe, "Who am I to write of acomplishments? There were none I had to speak of before his request, and there is no wish for any to come." This was the response:

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The Way of Being

Ways of blessings of being, stem from a connection with the divine and through the divine comes all understanding... Love is the greatest of all gifts, and to be blessed means to be the one who embodies love, out of love comes the keys to peace...

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The Philistines are at the gate! Or are they? Have humanities scholars failed to make their case in a tough economic climate?

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The Obama presidency is not a revolution, but a restoration. His words and actions are steeped in the conservative tradition.

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January 12, 2009 10:57 AM Buddhists welcome science into monasteries The Sarnath Buddhist monastery, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is revered as the site of the Buddha's first discourse after his enlightment - the stream from which the teachings of Buddhism flowed.

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The Eightfold Path is a prescription, a guide, a do-it-yourself instruction manual that outlines eight steps or practices for reducing and ultimately ending suffering and attaining enlightenment.

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Bodhi Day is the day that is celebrated as the day that in 596 BC the historical Buddha attained enlightenment.

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If we want to change the world in a significant way, if we're serious about creating a better future for us all, then we have to face the fact that the only way it's going to happen is the only way it's ever happened: through the evolution of consciousness itself.

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I am Kingbreaker...

I am Tom Joad, and I am Harrison Bergeron. I am William the Brave, and I am The Sons of Liberty. I am the flame that Socrates said burns within a man's soul...

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could make up some reason why I didn't get up and go see if he was at home before I unleashed even more radiation into my surroundings to send signals to an unknown relay tower—

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Poem: Personal Economy

By W. Calvin Anderson September 26, 2008

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Chopra's newest book Buddha, A Story Of Enlightenment shows how the iconic journey of the prince who became the Buddha has changed the world forever, and how the lessons he taught continue to influence every corner of the world

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It's a commonplace that to call yourself an atheist in the US is to render yourself unelectable. Richard Dawkins' agent, John Brockman, told me once that he would never identify as an atheist, even though he is one.

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