An interview with Huston Smith Introduction A professor of philosophy and religion at several noted American universities for over fifty years, Smith is the author of many books, including the classic text The World’s Religions, which has sold over two million copies. He recently became known to an international audience through Bill Moyers’s widely acclaimed [ Read More ]
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Kelamuni @ Blogspot Introduction This post will look at the classical Advaita Vedanta of Shankaracharya and how he dealt with some basic questions of epistemology and soteriology. The presentation will stay close to what Shankara actually said and avoid speculative interpretations of his thought, such as how Advaita Vedanta might be meaningfully adapted so as [ Read More ]
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Mystery of Existence From New York Times today: JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead [ Read More ]
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Giving up belief isn’t such a bad thing. Makes room for what is real to have a chance to break in. If you’d been born around the block, your beliefs would be totally different. Beliefs are in the mind, such as the belief that god is in the sky or heaven or whatever. The truth [ Read More ]
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An interview with Karen Armstrong Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong says the afterlife is a “red herring,” hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile ideas of God. By Steve Paulson Karen Armstrong is a one-woman publishing industry, the author of nearly 20 books on religion. When her breakthrough book [ Read More ]
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When I look at freedom through form, I find that it happens in many different ways. Existence finds freedom to explore itself through taking on various forms. Or more accurately, when I notice what I am (that which content of experience happens within and as), I find that this content of experience is the play [ Read More ]
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An dialogue between Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber Introduction Evolution is a multidimensional business—its movements painted in the broadest strokes across the contours of the cosmos, yet mirrored in the subtleties of each human soul. And indeed, a growing number of people—from scientists to mystics, from futurists to psychologists—are telling us that it is in [ Read More ]
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Indistinct Union @ WordPress Matthew pointed me to this article by Dennis Prager on the need for belief in God (and by God he means a conflation of the Biblical Hebraic god with the Deistic god of the US Framers). Now as a religious person myself I find this line of argument he takes up [ Read More ]
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Interview w/ Huston Smith Introduction Huston Smith, arguably today’s foremost authority on the world’s great religions, has, for over half a century, dedicated himself to transmitting the wisdom of the traditions through books, television, and film and in the classroom. His best-known volume, The World’s Religions, has been the standard introductory textbook in college religion [ Read More ]
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