Into the Din of Life Comes the Quiet Hush of Death
It's easy to forget -- when you're knee-deep in the process of living -- that Death is up ahead somewhere waiting to be dealt with, an inevitable passage we ponder and fear.
It's easy to forget -- when you're knee-deep in the process of living -- that Death is up ahead somewhere waiting to be dealt with, an inevitable passage we ponder and fear.
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.15.2012
If we're going to invoke the principle in public discourse, let's get it right, before some yahoo claims it's Iran's karma to get bombed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.27.2012
Mahatma Gandhi, who employed nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence after more than a century of British rule, was posthumously b...
Anneli Rufus | Posted 04.27.2012
Is our love for ginger ale or pickled eggs based on nostalgia tagged not to comfort or joy we consciously remember, but comfort or joy hailing us across the chasms of our own unremembered deaths?
National Geographic | Posted 02.06.2012
On the surface, this temple in northern India appears like any other. But there's a main difference: there are 15,000 deities living inside it and the...
Newser.com | David Moye | Posted 11.29.2011
Yoga is the work of the devil, according to a man who claims to have banished evil spirits from 70,000 people. Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief...
Jennifer D. Fox | Posted 12.26.2011
Filmmaking in America is about as hard as it gets. My film "My Reincarnation" is a good example of that. I filmed for 12 years before a drop of support ever came in.
Gary Zukav | Posted 11.27.2011
A friend took a trip to New Orleans after Katrina. He is a jazz musician and singer. He has been most of his life, and he feels that jazz is the greatest thing that has happened in America.
Thomas David DuBois | Posted 10.13.2011
Buddhism has no single dogmatic view of karma. Unlike Western religious traditions, Buddhism is extremely fluid in its teaching, and assumes that people will gradually move towards more sophisticated understanding of the truth.
Sebastian Siegel | Posted 08.08.2011
Breath -- and he is inextricably rewoven into eternity, ideated as an aperture through which light shines. Upon a closer look he appears as a portal o...
Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 08.01.2011
"Reincarnation is just another form of therapy. In my books, instead of going to a traditional shrink, my characters go to a therapist who practices past-life regression."
Jennifer D. Fox | Posted 07.23.2011
I imagined a father-son film where the son would wake up and recognize his reincarnation, return to Tibet and be enthroned in the monastery waiting for him. But when I told Yeshi of my filmmaking dream, he said I should forget it.
Matteo Pistono | Posted 05.25.2011
Part spiritual biography, part nail-biting undercover reporting, this book is the result of a quest to uncover long-hidden spiritual truths and real-time violations of religious freedom in Tibet.
Matteo Pistono | Posted 05.25.2011
The more time I spent in Tibet delving into the 19th-century teachings of Tertön Sogyal, the more often I met Tibetans who wanted to tell me their story of frustration and pain at what they see as China occupying their country.
Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Here is a video from a seminar in London, in which I answer a participant's question about reincarnation.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
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Elisa Medhus, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
Eventually, my research evolved into a new understanding of the quantum physics behind all things metaphysical, converting me from skeptic to believer. I now know the soul survives death.
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The results of quantum physics confirm that observations can't be predicted absolutely. Instead, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2011
With each lifetime, our spiritual nature has a chance to take root, our attachments and desires for earthly pleasures to be transformed into altruistic work and purpose.
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
What is the significance of a show requiring viewers to buy-in to karma and reincarnation? To me, it indicates that society's notion of cosmic justice is undergoing a seismic shift.
Posted 05.25.2011
Proof of the afterlife? Radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long's new book, "Evidence of the Afterlife" is a study of 1300 cases in which patients claimed ...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011
Each week, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra responds to Oprah.com users' questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives. This week Deepak starts by addressing the question of reincarnation.
Michael Shermer | Posted 11.17.2011
Deepak Chopra is unhappy with my brand of skepticism--the type that identifies woo-woo nonsense and calls it for what it is: baloney. Last week Deep...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. A new film from Israel is out to change that.
Telegraph | Alastair Jamieson | Posted 05.25.2011
He said: "People often say, 'What would you like to be if you came back to Earth as an animal?' Well the answer I give depends on the company I'm with...
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 04.17.2012