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Yesterday, we celebrated Walt Whitman’s birthday as a “Bard of 7th Chakra Numinosity.” One valuable reason for comparing the seven chakras and seven capital sins is that
For weeks we have been approaching the vital topic of a healthier masculinity so that we can have a healthier culture—one that provides some hope
The story about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been preached as a story about the sins of pride and disobedience.
It is interesting, I think, that in yesterday’s DM about climate change and in today’s news about rising COVID cases amidst people who refuse to
When we think of ceremony or ritual or liturgy, we often think of worship leaders whom we may call priests or ministers, rabbis or imams.
Hinduism honors creativity, art, and ritual-making. The Chandogya Upanishad says: Where there is creating, there is progress. Where there is no creating, there is no
Whirling dervishes dance their way into union with the Divine. It is a different form of meditation from sitting and meditating, but the results are
Joy mattered among our hunter-gatherer ancestors who expressed it in their rituals. As Barbara Ehrenreich observes in her iconic study on ritual, Dancing in the Streets, ecstatic ritual
We have been meditating for several months on the foundational question of our era: What does it mean to be a human being? We have
Is an election a referendum on What it means to be Human? Is it a referendum on our shared values, on the common good, on
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