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Exploring the World Religions

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In this Internet Age we seem to be drowning in information, distracted by a million voices. A world of knowledge and opinion may be at our fingertips, yet wisdom remains a bit more illusive. My goal with these articles, blogs, public speaking, and podcasts is not so much about sharing of information as it is about revealing a state of Being and Becoming.

Read more: The Secret of Spirituality: Going Beyond The Universe

A Mandean woman, known in Arabic as Sabian, reads from a religious book, as they mark the "great feast" or the Mandaean new year, according to the Sabian calendar in Baghdad, on July 19, 2010, as Iraq’s 5000-strong sect practice their Gnostic religion along the banks of the Tigris River. The Sabians were driven out of Jordan and settled in southern and central Iraq around AD 67. They speak a distinct language, Mandean, and their religious books are written in Sabian script.

Read more: The Mandaean Religion of Iraq

The Imagined Apocalypse

False Prophets Making Profits

It’s the end of the world... again? Don’t you just hate it when that happens?!

Read more: Apocalypse ~ The End of The World Real and Imagined

There are so few satsang meetings of any kind in New England, whole regions with little happening, where there has never been much for meditation groups connected with any Eastern spiritual path. There is room for new satsang activity, expansion, and development.

Read more: New England Needs New Satsangs and Sanghas Spiritual Gatherings

Kabir lived during the fifteenth century, born near Banaras, India of Muslim parents. He grew in the impassioned poetry and deep philosophy of the Persian mystics like Jalaludin Rumi. He is, as he says in his hymns, “at once the child of Allah and of Ram.” He achieved a synthesis of Hindu and Muslim belief and freely used symbols from both religions. He was a weaver, a simple and unlettered man, who earned his living at the loom. It is out of the heart of the common life that he sings his rapturous lyrics of divine love.

Read more: Kabir: One of India’s Greatest Poet-Mystics and Spiritual Masters

In 1945 this mysterious ancient text known as the Gospel of Thomas was unearthed in Egypt along with forty-nine other fascinating writings from the early days of monastic Christianity in the Egyptian desert. The Book of Thomas was also used as scripture by the Valentinian sect in Egypt and elsewhere around the Roman Empire in the Second and Third Centuries, a Gnostic movement with a version of Christianity that’s seemed much more “Eastern,” in many ways closer to Hinduism and Buddhism.

Read more: Thomas – A Gnostic Gospel From A Parallel Universe or Past Life

In 1945 this mysterious ancient text known as the Gospel of Thomas was unearthed in Egypt along with forty nine other fascinating writings from the early days of monastic Christianity in the Egyptian desert. The Book of Thomas was also used as scripture by the Valentinian sect in Egypt and elsewhere around the Roman Empire in the Second and Third Centuries, a Gnostic movement with a version of Christianity that's seemed much more "Eastern", in many ways closer to Hinduism and Buddhism.

Read more: The Gospel of Thomas

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