Mythology

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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(R)evolution in San Francisco: Ana Castillo Seizes the Reigns of Feminist Spirituality for 2012

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Lacma, Annie Finch, Mexico, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Women's Spirituality Movement, Poetry, Ana Castillo, 2012, Mayan Calendar, Sid Reger, Archeomythology, Goddess, San Francisco, New Age, Cosmic Mother, Guadelupe, Astronomy, Astrology, Chicana, Quetzalcoatl, Mayan Prophecy, Daniel Pinchbeck, Penn Museum, Milky Way, Precession of the Equinoxes, Z. Budapest, Dr. Heide Gottner-Abendroth, Charlene Spretnak, Miklk, New Mexico, Cross-Disciplinary, Mythology, Akio Toyoda, Chalice, Kathleen Sweeney, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, Marija Gimbutas, Cristina Biaggi, Arts News

It was clear to many in the room that she was providing the missing feminine voice capable of renewing the Goddess Movement on a global level after it disappeared underground following the backlash of its New Age commercialization in the '80s.

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Storytelling Animals: 10 Surprising Ways That Story Dominates Our Lives

Jonathan Gottschall | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Story-Telling Books, Tv Story-Telling, Media Story-Telling, Stories, Human Story-Telling, Story-Telling, Mythology, Culture News

We are, as a species, addicted to story. But the addiction runs deeper than we think. We can walk away from our books and our screens, but we can never walk away from story.

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The Way Ahead: Changing Our Internal Narratives

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Consciousness, Lifestyle Choices, Inner Life, Mythology, War of the Worldviews, Sustainability, Society, Perception, The Inner Life, Consciousness Future, Consciousness and the Future, Healthy Living News

Part of our mythological clash is about how we choose to exercise human consciousness. There are myriad ways in which modern societies limit consciousness and keep humanity distracted from their inner lives.

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Musing About Muses (Part 1)

Irene Tanner | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Apollo, Muses, Homer, Rowlings, Terpsichore, Music, Poetry, Song, Mythology, Intuition, Dance, Olympians, Shakespeare, Museum, Wisdom, Healthy Living News

Do you realize that we all have an intuitive muse available to us? All we have to do is extend an invitation.

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'Awake' Teases Mythology, Reveals Who Was Behind The Accident

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: TV Canada, The Little Guy, Video, Awake, Mythology, Red World, TV Recap, Tv Replay, Laura Innes, Reality-Free, Nbc, Green World, TV News

While the bulk of the second episode of "Awake" (Thu., 10 p.m. EST on NBC) followed a formula very similar to the pilot, the closing moments dropped a...

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The Best Is Yet to Come

Irene Tanner | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Hero's Journey, Demeter, Quest, Olympus, Hades, Mythology, Woman, Holy Grail, Wise, Best for Last, Persephone, Wisdom, Healthy Living News

I once had a friend who was so into instant gratification that in a restaurant, she sometimes ordered dessert first, so that she could fully enjoy it before she was full.

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How to Find the Creative Balance

Lisa Levart | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Creativity, Goddess-on-Earth, Lilith, The Balanced Life, Goddess, Susan-Cain-the-Power-of-Introverts, Mythology, Arts News

Individuals gathering in circles, fostering unity and co-creation is a powerful concept. And yet there is another paradigm for inspiration just as imp...

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Cy Twombly's Luscious Photography

Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Photography, Photos, Cy Twombly, Twombly, Video, Polaroid, Mythology, Graffiti, Tacita Dean, Calligraphy, UK Arts, Arts News

Cy Twombly was one of the greatest artists of our generation. His paintings, cryptic fields of "calligraffiti," derailed the course of art history...

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Science Needs To Ask: 'What Is Consciousness?'

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Living Universe, Cosmology, Consciousness, Superstition, Myths, Healthy Living Health News, Crumbling of Mythology, Fall of Mythology, Healthy Living Spirit, Mythology, Mythology and Spirituality, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

To go where science wants to go, it needs to become more complete, and for me, it can benefit hugely by expanding into the realm long governed by spirituality.

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Giants On Earth: The Untold Story

www.forteantimes.com | David Moye | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Anatomical Wonders, Giants on Earth, Giant Humans, Fairy Tale Giants, Mythology, Tallest Humans, Weird News News

Fairy tales are filled with stories of giants taller than houses, but could there have been a basis in the natural world for such beings? Some peo...

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The Bible: History Or Myth?

Jeffrey Small | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Bible Mythology, Bible, Scripture Commentary, Mythology, Bible History, Bible Stories, Christianity, Biblical Literalism, Noah's Ark, Bible Myth, Bible Scholarship, Religion News

Reading Biblical stories as mythology gives me the freedom to understand their underlying meaning in a way I never did when I was taught as a child that these stories were factually true.

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WATCH: Sassy Gay Friend Goes Greek

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Homosexuality, Video, Gay Friend, Greek Mythology, Homer, Mythology, Gay, Myths, Sassy Gay Friend, Comedy News

Sassy Gay Friend is back, and this time he's coming to the rescue of Odysseus from Homer's "The Odyssey." It seems that the book could have been a who...

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PHOTOS: Haiku Reviews: Mythology, Twinkies and Iraq

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Peter Frank, Twinkies, Haikus, Theater, George Heymont, Music, Los Angeles, Art Galleries, Iraq War, Mozart, Video, Laurence Vittes, Mythology, Iraq, Haiku Reviews, San Francisco, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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Yeti Probe Planned In Siberia

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Siberia, Bigfoot@Y:World, Abominable Snowmen, Yeti, Yeti Research Institute, Kemerovo, Mythology, World News

Officials in west Siberia plan to launch a new scientific institute dedicated to studying yetis after a spate of reported sightings in remote areas. ...

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Discovery of the Continent of Emotion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, Psychoanalsysts, Intelligence Quotient, Psychology, Iraq, Human Ecology, Dick Cheney, Emotions, Humanistically, Mark Epstein, Humanism, Ancient Wisdom, David Brooks, Mythology, New York Times, Human-Climate, Afghanistan, Developmental Psychology, Healthy Living News

By Carol Smaldino, CSW Commentary on David Brooks' op-ed "The New Humanism" in The New York Times on Monday, March 7, 2011. According to David Brook...

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Celebrity Gods And That Blinding Warlock Sheen

Kelley Harrell | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Odin, Charlie Sheen, Sobriety, Isis, Celebrity Culture, Addiction, Yeshua Ben Joseph, Goddesses, Horus, Warlock, Demeter, Polyamory, Osiris, Mythology, Jesus, Collective Consciousness, Divinity, Persephone, Healthy Living News

We don't have earthly gods and goddesses to look up to anymore, but we do have the next best thing -- celebrities -- seekers of fame and fortune, whose lives are thrown into the awareness of almost every living creature in the modern world.

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Great Art Inspired by Homer and Cartoons

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La Art, Art, Dining, Roy Lichtenstein, Homer, Mythology, La Around Town, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

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Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama

Christopher Cocca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monomyth, Religion, Joseph Campbell, Jesus Christ, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, 2012 Election, Religion and Politics, Barack Obama Biography, Dreams From My Father, Heroes, Mythology, Religion News

Know that you are always voting, at least in part, for echos of a common journey, and for the hope that once your hero wins the victory, he or she will not be changed by it.

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Stage Door: Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses, Baby Wants Candy

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comedy, Ovid, Theater, Improv, Musicals, Off-Broadway, Mythology, The Flea Theater, Jonathan Davenport, Pants on Fires Metamorphsis, Metamorphosis, Cupids, Jo Dockerty, Tom Mccall, Andromeda, Mabel Jones, Medusa, New York News

Silly, wild and occasionally inspired, Baby Wants Candy is a reminder of how scary and amazing improvisation can be.

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Writing Mythology in an Age of Reality Crisis

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, India, Hinduism, Religion, Hindu Mythology, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Arts, Books, Buddhism, Animals, Myths, World News, Book Publishing, Books News

In an age when the word "reality" has become synonymous with nasty behaviors on TV shows and "truth" seems impossibly divided between political cults, perhaps we could find a better sense of both in what we lightly call "myth."

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Mad Men Season 4, Episode 6 -- Dissolving Identity and the Female Gaze

Janet Turley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Mad Men, Ancient Greeks, Don Draper, Peggy Olsen, Sexuality, Mythology, Entertainment News

Don, the ultimate charlatan, is imploding under his identity crisis. He's so drunk throughout most of the episode that he becomes unconscious of his actions.

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Earth, Our Mother

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Earth, American Indians, Goddess, Mother, Mythology, Mother Earth, Creation, Patriarchy, Healthy Living News

In its infancy, humankind clung to the primal comprehension of a maternal Earth. The biblical name, Eve, means Mother of All Living. Her name is derived from much older creation myths.

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Mythology, Media and the Future of Hinduism

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hinduism, Colonialism, Mythology, The Future, Hillary Clinton, Commercialism, Gandhi, Hindu Gods, Religion News

Hindu myths have survived much over the centuries. In the present day, mythology may not seem overtly in danger of extinction, but it will have to be thought through carefully to remain as vibrant and vital as it has been.

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