Monthly Archives: January 2012

IT’S ONE THING TO HATE, ANOTHER TO DO SO IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE HATED

Posted by & filed under Abraham Hassan, Can different religions get along, Haroon Moghul, is Islam a religion of peace, Middle East, Palestinians, republican debates, Romney Gingrich.

TweetShare A Palestinian American, Abraham Hassan, got to ask a question in the debate the other night. He wanted to know what the candidates would do to help bring peace to the Middle East. It created an awkward moment. “It’s one thing to hate”, notes Haroon Moghul in an article in yesterday’s Religion Dispatches, “and…
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SRI CHINMOY: “TRUE RELIGION DOES NOT FIND FAULT WITH OTHER RELIGIONS”

Posted by & filed under different faiths, interfaith, Meaning of religion, religious diversity, religious tolerance, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Chinmoy.

TweetShare Born in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in 1931, Sri Chinmoy was the youngest of seven children. In 1944, after both his parents had passed away, 12 year-old Chinmoy entered the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a spiritual community near Pondicherry in South India. Here he spent the next 20 years in spiritual practice. In 1964, he…
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THE HAJJ

Posted by & filed under different faiths, Hajj, interfaith, Islam, Islam Religion of Peace, islamic stories, ka'bah, Mecca, Pilgrimage, sacred quest.

TweetShare Each year, Muslims from all over the world travel to Mecca, the site of the Ka’bah that was built by Abraham and Ishmael, to praise and give thanks to God, to ask pardon for their sins, and to renew their spiritual commitment through an elaborate series of rites and rituals. One of the five…
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BURIED TREASURE

Posted by & filed under Buried Treasure, Freemasons, Knights Templar, meaning of life, Meaning of Religious Symbols, mythology, Solomon, Spirituality.

TweetShare The dream of buried treasure has always fascinated the human mind: the lost treasure of the Pharaohs, buried in Egyptian tombs; the jewel-filled treasure chests of pirates, buried on Caribbean Islands; the incalculable treasure of Solomon’s Temple, discovered by the Knights Templar and hidden once again by the Freemasons. In an age of science,…
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WHAT EXACTLY IS “SAUL ALINSKY RADICALISM”?

Posted by & filed under anti-american, anti-god, Gingrich Alinsky, Judaeo-Christianity, Newt Gingrich, radicalism, Saul Alinsky.

TweetShare Who was this evil, anti-God, anti-American, radical that Newt Gingrich dismisses with so much arrogance and distaste? Alinsky was a community organizer in Chicago who, among other efforts, challenged the political machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley (a Democrat by the way) and helped register tens of thousands of previously disenfranchised black voters. He…
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HATE ‘RELIGION’ BUT LOVE ITS INTENT AND MEANING?

Posted by & filed under evangelical, Hate Religion but Love Jesus, is Jesus God?, Meaning of religion, religious poetry, spiritual awakening, What doe the Bible mean, What is Bible about.

TweetShare  This video of a young Washington man reciting a poem about his spiritual journey, has quickly gone viral with more than 16 million hits, launching lots of conversation about religion. His enthusiasm for his new realization — that Religion can be stifling whereas Christ’s original intention (as is true of all great spiritual teachers)…
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DID THE DISCIPLES BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION?

Posted by & filed under Grace, is Jesus God?, man born blind, New Testament, Prodigal Son, Reincarnation, symbols meaning, where in the Bible.

TweetShare    As Jesus was walking with his disciples, “he saw a man who was blind from birth”. His disciples, having learned that this sort of affliction can be the result of ‘sin’, and noting that the blindness in this case had been from birth, asked Christ whether it was the man himself or his…
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ANGELS ON MT. SINAI

Posted by & filed under Angels, Angels on Mt. Sinai, Hadarniel, Jewish Folklore, Kemuel, Moses, Raziel, Sandalphon, Talmud.

TweetShare According to Jewish folklore, when Moses first stepped into the cloud at the top of Mount Sinai, he was confronted by the angel Kemuel, known as the ‘gatekeeper’. Kemuel, the Guardian of the Threshold between Heaven and Earth, tried to prevent Moses from passing, claiming he did not belong there. Moses explained that he…
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REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Posted by & filed under been to the mountaintop, Martin Luther King, messengers, self-evolution.

TweetShare  I’ve long understood that, while most of us arrive here with the task of self-evolution, there are higher-level souls who occasionally arrive as ‘Messengers’, souls who have already done the Work in past lives and are sent to accomplish great tasks and help the rest of us. They might be recognized by their extraordinary…
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AN INVITATION/REQUEST FOR REVIEWS

Posted by & filed under book reviews, islamic stories, jewish christian, sacred quest, spiritual awakening, spiritual books, symbols meaning.

TweetShare Are you interested in the topics we discuss on this website? The esoteric Symbolism of spiritual and religious stories? The sacred inner Quest for Enlightenment? The underlying Unity of all our traditions? The hope for international and intercultural Friendship and Peace?  I would like to invite any interested readers of my Blog to read,…
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ABORTION, RELIGION, & POLITICS

Posted by & filed under Abortion, Abortion in the Bible, Christian Right, Christianity, fundamentalism, literalism, Progressive Christianity, Religion and Politics, What does the Bible mean, What does the Bible say.

TweetShare Christianity has been hijacked by right-wing zealots who have demeaned the teachings of Jesus. When they quote the bible, they take phrases out of context and interpret them with an extreme brand of literalism that distorts or ignores their vast possibilities of meaning. Even worse, they practice a selective literalism – taking literally those…
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ABRAHAM, HAGAR AND ISHMAEL: THE STORY FROM TWO TRADITIONS

Posted by & filed under Abraham Isaac, Abraham Sarah Hagar Ishmael, Can Different Faiths Get Along, interfaith, Judaism Islam, ka'bah, Mecca, Qur'an Bible, where in Bible.

TweetShare According to the Jewish Tradition: Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing. She said to Abraham, “Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a…
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