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Are You Still Renting Space in Plato's Cave?

Peter Baksa | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Religion, Theology, Einstein, Plato, Science, Religion and Science, Platos Cave, Spiritual Development, God, Plato Cave, Healthy Living News

Observe your thinking and be sure to evaluate this difference. Whatever we end up thinking becomes our reality.

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The Grim Reaper

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Reaper-Drones, God, Evangelical Christians, George W. Bush, The Grim Reaper, Drones, Separation of Church and State, Barack Obama, Politics News

The poison seeps slowly into the future. No one notices. "The Obama administration," the Wall Street Journal informs us, "plans to arm Italy's fleet...

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Religious Faith Affected By Common Developmental Disorder, Study Suggests

Posted 05.31.2012

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/30/2012 05:07 PM EDT on LiveScience People who have more traits of autism are less...

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Accessorizing Hate

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Bias, Jesus, Non-Profits, Gays and Lesbians, United States, Love, Bigotry, Minorities, Civil Rights Movement, Hate Crimes, Intolerance, Southern Baptists, Kindness, Non-Profit-Tax-Status, Religious Tolerance, Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Christianity and Homosexuality, Murder, Politics, God, Hate Speech, Politics News

When we choose silence in the face of bigotry, we threaten the lifeblood of our Union. We've all experienced more than a few bigots in our lives. Th...

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Who or What Is God?

Peter Baksa | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Science and Religion, Spirituality, God, Quantum Physics, Einstein, Spiritual Development, Religion, Consciousness, Gps-Soul, Theology, Science, Quantum Theory, Healthy Living News

What is the story you are telling yourself? How does this story keep you stuck, fearful, angry and arguing for more of the same?

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Why I'm Skipping Shavuot

Rabbi Laura Baum | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Shavuot, Judaism, Mythology, Torah, God, Bible, Hebrew Bible, Jewish Holidays, Jewish History, Religion News

I'm a rabbi. But I won't be observing the Shavuot holiday this weekend. Not because I don't have the time. It's because the traditional message of Shavuot doesn't speak to me.

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I Was At Mt. Sinai: A Personal Revelation Story

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Shavuot, Jewish Holidays, God, Bible, Torah, Judaism, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Mount Sinai, Religion News

Never has the spiritual force of revelation affected me more than it did on the early morning of May 31, 1998.

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Thinking Outside The Book: Shavuot And The Great Torah Download

Eitan Press | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Shavuot, Jewish Holidays, Consciousness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Jewish Spirituality, God, Torah, Judaism, Religion News

Many people associate the word "Torah" with the Five books of Moses, but according to Jewish wisdom, the Torah and what was given at Mt. Sinai was much more than a book.

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Is God A Person?

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa | Posted 05.24.2012

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Even though it may sound attractive or may be easier to understand that God is formless energy, as far as I'm concerned, it's not possible to exchange love with formless energy

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Live Without Fear, Because God Loves You Like A Mother

Catherine Meeks, Ph.D. | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Fear, God, Love, Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Mindful Living, Faith, Religion News

Each person will have to come to terms with their own fears in their own way. The most helpful first step is to have the intention to live without fear and then to seek every path that will help in realizing that intention.

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Trusting God As Some Leave The Presbyterian Church

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 05.22.2012

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Like most new church planting pastors, when someone chooses to leave, no matter the reason, my heart and soul aches: I question my pastoral abilities, grieve the loss of relationships and always have an urge to do something to get them back.

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Bristol Palin And The Blind Man Healed By Jesus

Michael Pettinger, Ph.D. | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Frank Bruni, Bristol Palin, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Sin, God, Forgiveness, Gospel of John, Religion News

Sin is not about breaking rules. Rather, it is resistance to the creative power of God. Those who thought that they were on the side of God are revealed to be profoundly wrong. We might even call them hypocrites.

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Grace in the Parenting Storm

Heather Choate Davis | Posted 05.17.2012

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Love is equal parts attachment and suffering, and so one needs to search for a source of truth and grace big enough to embrace them both.

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Reflections on the Earnest "Pursuit of Happiness"

Bob Banov and Roger Ohlsen | Posted 05.17.2012

When you consider that the founding fathers of our country tried to provide us with the means for the actual separation between church and state, you ...

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WATCH: What's Homeless 'Man With The Golden Voice' Up To Now?

Posted 05.17.2012

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Ted Williams, “The Golden Voice” success story who went from homeless to famous overnight, has made another big stride. Williams released a boo...

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Seek Your Own Truth

Aaron Anson | Posted 05.16.2012

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We must seek those quiet spaces in our life that are safe for vulnerable explorations of meaning. These spaces are not found inside physical institutions or places where demagoguery slays reflective, rational and factually grounded discourse.

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Are There Really No Atheists In Foxholes?

Matthew Hutson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Magical Thinking, Atheism, God, Religion and Science, Death & Dying, Ptsd, Prayer and Meditation, Agnosticism, Religion News

New research suggests that inducing fear of death at least makes atheists a little less entrenched in their beliefs.

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Talking To God: It's A Brain Puzzle

The European Magazine | Posted 05.14.2012

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What happens when believers attempt to communicate with their God? If the brain did not evolve a system for conversing with highly abstract invisible entities, what brain systems activate when it does?

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God's Challenge

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: God, Torah, Holiness, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Parshat Kedoshim, Torah Wisdom, Judaism, Weekly Torah Portion, Religion News

It is a simple yet profound challenge -- be holy, imitate God in our own lives. It is the fundamental lesson that for Jewish civilization, the ultimate goal of life is not "happiness," it is "holiness."

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The Difference Between Prophet And Madman

Nathan Greenberg | Posted 05.07.2012

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As the world watches a man attempt to sacrifice his son in response to quiet voice in his head, it should give us pause for other such moments in history carried out by men we now deem holy.

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Why Rules Create Toxic Religion

Craig Groeschel | Posted 05.08.2012

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Thankfully, Jesus didn't come to make us religious. He brought us the good news of his eternal life, a relationship with the living God.

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Faces, Voices and the Brain-Heart Brake: The Divine Science of Tibet

Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Facial Expressions, Tantric Buddhism, Prayer, Jungian Archetypes, Religion and Science, Buddhism, Neuroscience, God, Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Religion News

Breakthroughs in the neuroscience of empathy, emotions and our conscious control of the breath have radically changed our view of our nature, helping explain the stubborn power of spiritual imagery, prayers and ritual.

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Striking at the Source of the War on Women

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: War on Women, Carol W. Napier, Religion and Politics, God, United Methodist Church, Feminism, Religion and Sex, Adrienne Rich, Desexualizing God, Politics News

The misbegotten -- indeed, utterly senseless--idea that God is male is the casus belli of the War on Women -- what provides the putative justification for the subordination and mistreatment of women.

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Review: The Avengers Delivers!

Bryan Young | Posted 05.02.2012

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The Avengers is going to be the biggest movie of the summer. There's really no question about that.

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The Soft Overcomes the Hard: Walking the Spiritual Path with Excruciating Humility

Mariana Caplan, Ph.D. | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Yoga, Lifestyle, Spiritual Journey, Spirit, Enlightenment, Chronic Fatigue, Spiritual Awakening, Travel, Psychology, God, Awakening, Spirituality, New York, New York News

We convince ourselves that we are practicing heroically by setting up routines and disciplines that are ultimately unsustainable -- emoting and meditating so intensely that we are actually distracted from a subtler and softer level of feeling.

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