People who have a spiritual understanding of life in the absence of a religious framework are vulnerable to mental disorder Written by Elizabeth Drescher British psychiatry researchers recently stirred the […]
Huff Post: Michael P. Murphy. The word “religion” finds its root in religio, which means “to bind.” And herein lies the main point: we like being “spiritual” because the concept, as we perceive it, makes no claim upon us. It binds us to nothing — or at least nothing communal, confessional […]
Dawn: MEXICO CITY: The world’s happiest people aren’t in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren’t in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy. Canada, with its […]
The Gazette: Jillian Page. In case any readers are wondering, I am not anti-Christian or anti-Muslim or anti-religion. In fact, as my regular readers know, I am very spiritual and identify as a Theosophist. I believe that all religions have value, and that we gravitate to those that best fill our […]
theguardian: Mark Vernon. Spirituality has always been associated with the quest for health. Camberwell in south London, I recently learned, derives its name from a healing well frequented by those who were “cambered”, or physically disabled. But it is only a scientific age that would seek to distil causal links […]
Huff Post: by Steve Mcswain. The title of this post alone will put some branches of the Christian church immediately on the defense. The fact is, however, I travel all […]
Source: Qantara On the 15th anniversary of the death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the world can look back on an extraordinary musician. The “King of Qawwali” was a source […]
US Sponsored “Islamic Fundamentalism” Politics / Middle EastSep 09, 2012 – 03:14 PM By: Global_Research Benjamin Schett writes: The alliance between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia helped spread the ideology of fundamentalist Sunni Islam all over the globe. The majority of its victims are not citizens of Western […]
Businessinsider.com: Roger Ekrich noticed many old books, including Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales“, referenced two periods of sleep being the norm in their era. Via Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep: …Ekirch […]
Huff Post: by Samir Selmanovic Community Engagement Catalyst, Communicator Life interrupts us. When we can’t fit our life experience into our religion, something has to give, and life can’t give. Like a sturdy surgical tool, life cuts back across our religion to save us from it. Just when we figure […]
Huff Post I was living in New York in 1979 when Etan Patz disappeared, and it changed my life forever. I knew his uncle, who was a fellow rabbi, and I remember how the shock of his disappearance reverberated throughout the Jewish community, then all of New York as pictures […]
Huff Post When I tell people about the activism work I do, many people wonder if I’m a Muslim, and when I tell them I’m not, they’re either confused or intrigued. Sometimes both. They wonder what it is that makes me want to be an advocate for Muslims even though […]
Huff Post Growing up, we have a intuitive sense of wanting to belong or fit in. The emptiness in our hearts says that something is missing in our life. That dormant desire for acceptance gets cultivated into full blown beliefs, usually inherited and taught to us. We believe in things […]
Huff Post Most, if not all religions, function in the world of symbolism and communicate their universal messages to their followers through these religious symbols. Rituals, sacraments, prayers, worship services, religious ceremonies and more are nothing but to invite believers to engage with very deep ethical, moral and spiritual teachings […]
Ifpress.com- News London I’ve spent the past eight Sundays at a London mosque, learning about Islam, the fastest-growing religion in the world. Though two months is hardly enough time to scratch the surface of a complex religion dating back hundreds of years and with more than a billion followers worldwide, […]
Huff Post These words of prophetic wisdom were delivered, last week, to me at the very height of my own crisis, from a very close friend and mentor, a spiritual warrior, who, as of late, has endured many valleys of his own, yet still continues on his daily trek toward […]
AN EXTRA-ORDINARY AND EXCLUSIVE TESTIMONY This is a an old story that took place before many of us even took birth, way back in 1938, which is 73 years ago. […]
In the token of being a Naturopathy Enthusiast – which is more so termed in the vogue as -:- Alternative Medicine-:- and in the back ground of it; carrying EFFECTS of my Ancestral Trail in this profession and the auspicious advice of (late) Hakim Muhammad Saeed of Hamdard (the unrivalled sage […]
Source: Spirituality & Health As a surgeon I have used the word “cancer” — the C-word — thousands of times in my life. I have spent my entire professional life researching it, trying to find ways to resect it, suppress it, and, whenever possible, outright annihilate it. I knew what […]
Huff Post I was sitting on the dirt floor with about a dozen of my seminary students. Bugs crawled along the walls of the shack constructed of discarded wood, cardboard and plasterboard. Empty plastic bags and trash littered the flimsy structure, hugging the hut as if they were adornments. The […]