The Power of Divine Feminine and the Great Awakening

By: Kiernan Antares
Are you hearing talk of 2012 and wondering what all the hype is about? Are we on the verge of Armageddon as doomsday sayers are spouting? 2012 movies are starting to come out and many of them will support this theory to strike fear in the hearts of many or just for [...]

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Review – The Trickster and the Paranormal (Hardcover Book)

Title: The Trickster and the Paranormal
Author: George P. Hansen
Media: Hardcover Book
Publisher: Xlibris (564 pp. with endnotes and index)
Date: 2001
George P. Hansen’s The Trickster and the Paranormal offers a variety of paranormal considerations around the psychological, anthropological and literary image of the trickster. Hansen’s exposition of Max Weber and Claude Lévi-Strauss is competent while reflections on [...]

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Newsweek says “We Are All Hindus Now”

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“We Are All Hindus Now”—headlines the article in the upcoming edition of prestigious newsmagazine “Newsweek”, saying “U.S. Views on God and Life Are Turning Hindu”.
Written by its religion editor Lisa Miller, it says, “…recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like [...]

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Reincarnation: A New Look at an Old Idea – Part 2

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Folklore and Reality

Believers in reincarnation sometimes say that many ancient cultures believed in some form of reincarnation.
A good number of ancient myths do point to some kind of reincarnation theory but, at the same time, many cultures contained figures opposed to these ideas.
For instance, the ancient Greek and [...]

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Reincarnation: A New Look at an Old Idea – Part 1

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Reincarnation is the belief that the soul travels from one life form to another.
It is often understood as the soul leaving the body at the point of death and, not too long after, taking a new birth.
However, in most Asian religions the reincarnating soul may spend a considerable [...]

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Mail Online: Scientists ‘discover’ source of wisdom in the human brain

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Here’s a quote from a brain imaging story in Mail Online that seems to overstep its bounds.
Professor Jeste admitted the possibility that wisdom and free will are based on the make-up of someone’s brain rather than metaphysics is unsettling (Full article » http://tr.im/irbJ).
Not that we should overlook our bodies [...]

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Krishna, Buddha and Christ: The same or different? (Part 2)

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Violence and the Just War
With so many different schools, scriptures and interpretations of scripture within Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, one might wonder how anything meaningful can be said about Krishna, Buddha and Christ.
There’s always a counterexample, it seems. [...]

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Krishna, Buddha and Christ: The same or different?

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Introduction
The following is not about the Hindu, Buddhist or Christian person who integrates their religious beliefs within a peaceful and considerate lifestyle.
It’s about some of the scriptures, doctrines and beliefs that have emerged from the figures [...]

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An Outline of Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy by Michael W. Clark, Ph.D.

Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational was first published by Oxford University Press in 1923. A second edition appeared in 1950.
This brief outline follows a 1973 reprint of the second edition and [...]

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The spiritual and practical aspects of discernment

The following originally appeared as an entry at Earthpages.ca – Think Free.

One Aspect of Discernment

In Catholic thought one aspect of discernment is the use of reason and experience coupled with divine gifts to distinguish between true and false interior perception.
As Henri Martin P.S.S. puts it:
The charism of discernment is “a kind of supernatural instinct [...]

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