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The Dice Game of Shiva: An Interview with author Richard Smoley

By Staff Reports | Published: June 1, 2010
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Richard Smoley is the author of The Dice Game of Shiva (New World Library) and five other books. He's a former editor of Gnosis, editor of the Theosophical Society's Quest Books, and the executive editor of Quest magazine. The following is an interview with Smoley about his latest book. The Dice Game of Shiva -- that's an intriguing [...]
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The Jig is Up!

By Hanakia Zedek | Published: June 1, 2010
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Religion and culture as art are beautiful. Religion and culture as truth are dangerous. Both religion and culture rely heavily on our shared mythology, dramatic tales of heroic accomplishments, ancient teachers and powerful gods. These stories are an answer to a subconscious stirring within all humankind. They are a poetic representation of the dream and the hero's journey within [...]
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The Loyalty of the New Age Movement to Religious Doctrine and Dogma

By Deanna Reiter | Published: April 1, 2010
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At the age of six, I looked up at the altar in St. John's the Evangelist Catholic Church wondering why there were only males leading the congregation. Being that I was female, I realized that I would never have a vital leadership role in the Catholic Church if I chose to. I became disinterested in Catholicism in kindergarten, even [...]
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Everyday Spirituality: Life as Prayer

By Stewart Bitkoff | Published: December 1, 2008
We are participating in an explosion of new age teaching, interest in Eastern religion, and a general curiosity about the usefulness of everyday spiritual practice. When you turn on the television, it seems just about every talk show host is discussing how to maximize human potential and help viewers become a more advanced version of self. In our effort to [...]
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Excerpts from “Healing the Rift”

By Leo Kim | Published: December 1, 2008
Many non-spiritual people subscribe to the belief that our world is the result of matter - composed of tiny billiard ball-like entities. Do they really believe that life is merely a succession of vignettes of memories, feelings, and experiences that vanish when we die? Is that it - nothing survives death? "I learned that she'd died a month [...]
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