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SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
Keeping the Holy Land Holy
Group travel can test your will to be uplifted. How to stay tuned in on tour.
By Mary Ann Brussat
05/05/2000
Thinking Like the Universe
How the Sufis integrate the egoic and cosmic levels of reality.
By Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
05/05/2000
We Are Not Alone
Thomas Merton's struggles with sexual desire and the need for public acclaim remind us that everyone wrestles with human frailties.
By Dan Wakefield
08/09/2000
Online Ancestor Worship
Still Here
05/05/2000
Why Ram Dass Is Still Here
How one man's spiritual journey turned on and sustained a whole generation.
By Mark Matousek
Stroked by a Guru
An interview with Ram Dass.
Growing Old
An excerpt from his latest book.
Plus: Listen to a recent speech.
Communicating With the Unseen
05/24/2000
Dan Wakefield talks about his Aunt Ollie, a woman who introduced him to the realm of the invisible.
American Spiritualism: A historical overview of the spiritualist movement.
The Grasshopper Tale
Learning to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
By Lewis Richmond
03/10/2000
Far From the Maddening Din
The case for creating your own inner Cone of Silence.
By Arthur Magida
03/17/2000
The Game of Run and Seek
Sometimes to find ourselves we need to care for someone else.
By Mark Matousek
04/13/2000
Sex, Love, and God-Images
Divine intimacy and human intimacy might actually go together.
By Wade Clark Roof
04/04/2000
Homecoming
A son leads the way for his parents' emotional return to a country they thought they'd left for good.
By Andrew Pham
03/29/2000
Meeting in the Rain Forest
Journeying far from home to find out what home is all about.
By Ira Rifkin
03/17/2000
Our Soul's Odyssey
The soul has its own set of rules that are not the same as those of life.
By Thomas Moore
03/17/2000
Altars All Around Us
An altar can be a place where you reflect on the things you truly value.
By Margot Adler
07/17/2000
A Tactical Retreat for the Spirit
What happens when you withdraw from the world and concentrate on spiritual practice?
By Lama Surya Das
04/07/00
Art of Pilgrimage
In search of the sacred on the road more travelled.
By Phil Cousineau
12/20/1999
Seeding Your Spiritual Path With Pebbles
Taking a spiritual dimension away from your trip can be as easy as leaving a trail of trinkets.
By Carolyn Scott Kortge
04/19/2000
Sister Pilgrim
Modern-day journeys--whether actual or virtual--connect us to ancient pilgrimages.
By Diana Bass
04/19/2000
Intentional Communities
08/23/2000
Journey Toward Wholeness
The author had everything he ever wanted; yet he still felt fragmented, unsatisfied. Then he took a radical step.
By Charles E. Moore
Living Like Jesus
The Bruderhof communities have a long history of Christian faith and social action.
By Frances Borsodi Zajac
Learn about a successful Methodist co-housing community.
The amazing growth of Christian communal living.
Spiritual R and R
Spiritualist community offers programs, readings, meditations to lift and guide the spirit.
By Carolyn Thompson
09/07/2000
Meet the Gita
10/05/2000
A review of two new Bhagavad Gita translations
An excerpt from Stephen Mitchell's translation
An interview with Mitchell
The Gita's enduring appeal
Does Being Gay Make You More Spiritual?
09/28/2000
Being gay can mean looking at society as an outsider. A new book says being different gives gays a unique view to a higher plane.
Read an excerpt of Toby Johnson's "Gay Spirituality."
Read a critical review of the book.
Plus, Coming Out as Sacrament: liturgies for gays and lesbians.
Mother Drexel's Miracle
09/28/2000
According to the Vatican--and Amy Wall's family--the little girl regained her hearing through the intercession of socialite-turned-nun, Katharine Drexel.
Read more about the October 1 canonizations. And vote your favorite activist for saint.
Letting Go of the Divine Matchmaker
The longer I felt God was making me wait for my perfect partner, the more pressure I put on any potential mate.
By Amy Sullivan
09/25/2000
Needed: One Spiritual Emergency
A Protestant encounters two very different experiences with Catholic institutions.
By Dan Wakefield
09/21/2000
Hospital Patients Walk a Labyrinth
The ancient maze has yet another new application
10/12/2000
Walking the Wedding Labyrinth
Getting married on a labyrinth turns a ceremony of union into a walk of love
By Helen Curry
10/12/2000
Balancing Inner Work With Group Needs
Quakerism is about more than self-realization. How can Friends balance individualism with the will of other members?
By Marty Grundy
10/05/2000
What Price Enlightenment?
10/18/2000
Dan Wakefield: If you value the teaching, pay the guru handsomely.
Margot Adler: Keep the pagan tradition of freely passing on the craft.
Joseph Arpaia: What should wisdom cost?
A Common Spirituality
Matthew Fox's latest book serves as a report from the front lines of the spiritual movement in modern American society.
10/05/2000
Sinful or Good?
07/21/2000
"Some believe human nature is bad. I think that's a mistake." - Dalai Lama
Each religion has a different way of thinking about the human condition. Are we born in sin? Are we born blessed?
What eight major religions say.
Truly Good at Heart?
Quotes on our essential nature from Dante to Yoda
Natural Real Buddha Nature
A Zen perspective
The Story of Angulimala
A Buddhist fable
Simply Natural
An excerpt from Rachel Naomi Remen's most recent book
The Spiritual Life of Kids
Young children have a spiritual hotline to the divine presence. Don't talk too much--just listen in.
By Jean G. Fitzpatrick
07/21/2000
True Freedom
When identity of 'sexual abuse survivor' no longer fits.
By Mariah Burton Nelson
07/21/2000
Barking for the Buddha
07/19/2000
Does a Dog Have Buddha-nature?
A professor of Buddhism explains how a classic Zen koan sheds light on the nature of dogs--and their owners.
By T. Griffith Foulk
The Buddhist-Canine Dialogue
What happens when a mutt becomes devoted to a guru.
By Rodger Kamenetz
Plus: Kukkuripa the Dog Lover, a Tibetan teaching tale.
TEACHING TALES FOR KIDS
As retold by Aaron Zerah
Elijah's Favorite Seder (Jewish)
Stones in the Road (Jewish)
Yima and the Terrible Winter (Zoroastrian)
A Cup of Water in the Desert (Sufi)
The Way You Like It (Jewish)
Lord Krishna and the Two Men (Hindu)
The Tortoise and the Snake (Yoruba)
When the Cat Came to Muhammad (Muslim)
Who's to Blame? (Taoist)
Why Fight? (Buddhist)
King David and the Spider (Jewish)
Who Am I? (Sufi)
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