Young adults who deem themselves “spiritual but not religious” are more likely to commit property crimes — and to a lesser extent, violent ones — than those who identify themselves as either “religious and spiritual” or “religious but not spiritual,” according to Baylor University researchers. The sociologists’ study, published in …
Essential Oneness with Alex Warden Originally aired 02/05/12 Alex Warden is a Sufi mystic who was born in Argentina and now oversees the Essential Oneness project in Northern California. Its mission is ‘to foster a consciousness of the fundamental unity of everything.’ Sounds like a daunting task in this seemingly fragmented world – …
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In a rare, new one-hour interview, Godspeed Institute founder Caer Hallundbaek shares her own vision and spiritual insights on the roles of faith and science in the modern world — as the featured guest on Philip Mereton’s program Conversations Beyond Religion and Science. An award-winning author and graduate of New …
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America’s war on Iraq started ten years ago on March 19 Some four thousand Americans and well over a hundred thousand, possibly close to a million Iraqis died. On part one, journalist Greg Barrett talks about what he witnessed among Americans and Iraqis on the ground, and what he calls …
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A look at the future of religion and the coming of an interspiritual age, with Dr. Kurt Johnson. And, a NEWSMAKER: Commentary on the Senate hearings on John Brennan to head the CIA with Shahid Buttar. Dr. Kurt Johnson has lived a dual life both as a Christian monk who …
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Belly dancing, spirit lovers, and the fascinating life of Victorian sex reformer (and mystic) Ida Craddock: a talk with Vere Chappell, author of Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: the Essential Ida Craddock. www.sexualoutlaw.com Related articles Sexxx Talk Radio – Make Love Not Porn, with Cindy Gallup – 01/16/13 Expanding Mind – Madame Blavatsky …
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Understanding how thoughts of mortality influence individuals’ beliefs sheds light on the commonalities among different groups’ motivations and could help ease tensions between opposing viewpoints, according to University of Missouri experiments that tested the relationship between awareness of death and belief in a higher power. The study found that thoughts …
The new, 113th Congress that was sworn in last week may be more religiously diverse than any other session, but the body as a whole is more committed to religion than the U.S. population. New data analysis released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life bears this out. [3] When …
While some argue Christmas is really a religious Christian holiday, that’s just not the case. On this show, Burt’s guest is the Reverend Selena Fox, a Wiccan priestess, interfaith minister, environmentalist, Pagan elder, author, and lecturer in the fields of Pagan studies, Ecopsychology, and comparative religion. Rev. Fox is a …
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Meanings of Chanukah — a talk with Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine (now in its 26th year!) and author of “How to Do Chanukah 2012″ and 11 books, including most recently Embracing Israel/Palestine; he is also the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives; tikkun.org; poem by Louise Gluck …
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A talk with Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of United Religions Initiative (uri.org) about URI’s planetary network of 560 locally initiated Cooperation Circles in 82 countries; each Cooperation Circle (consisting of at least 7 people from at least 3 faith traditions) decides on a local project that will further …
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Election 2012 – God the big loser. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.5MB) | Embed
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Dr. Stewart Bitkoff grew up in New York City and spent most of his professional career living and working in the New York City area. He holds a doctorate in education and is an avid student of Sufi Mysticism and the Perennial Philosophy. He is the author of ‘A Commuter’s …
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In July 2011, after the horrendous massacre in Norway that took the lives of 77 — mostly youngsters attending a Workers’ Youth League summer camp — radio talk show host Glenn Beck commented: “And then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, …
Divine vampires, sympathetic zombies, and the religion of superpowers: a talk with Victoria Nelson, author of Gothicka. Related articles Expanding Mind – The Cyberdelic Continuum – 08/23/12 Exploration – Mind & Immortality – 10/05/12 Expanding Mind – Alchemy – Repeat Program – 09/06/12 Podcast: Play in new window | …
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