This is a detailed overview of the human chakra system, one of the best we here at MFL have seen on the web. Read! Learn! Enjoy! Pure Heart of Yoga – Chakras – Gaiam Life.

Prologue: In the Valley of the Shadow I have been affected most profoundly by several things of late. First of all was being present to observe the moment of release from my own bondage to fear, when I was told the endometrial biopsy and pap had both come back negative. Clean, clear — the joy [...]

An incredibly exciting find in Turkey rewrites everything we thought we knew about the earliest human civilizations. via Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History – Newsweek.com. In particular, this paragraph brought a wondering smile: Schmidt's thesis is simple and bold: it was the urge to worship that brought mankind together in the very first urban [...]

Written fifteen years ago, Mr. Robbins’ remarks in Esquire Magazine are worth revisiting today. You Gotta Have Soul by Tom Robbins Mental Bungee-jumping may not be your sport of choice, but there’s a cerebral ledge that sooner or later each of us has to leap off. One day, ready or not, we glance in a [...]

In this next section on the essay adapted from “The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” by Professor Mark Lilla of Columbia University, we examine the impulses that separated man from God, and secular politics from religion. Section II: The Great Separation. For those who study the evolution of human consciousness, this could [...]

“God in his infinite freedom continuously creates a world that reflects that freedom at all levels of the evolutionary process to greater and greater complexity,” he wrote. “He is not continually intervening, but rather allows, participates, loves.” This is one of the very best summations of my thoughts and intuitions on the subject. The universe [...]

A review of Shahram Shiva’s Lovedrunk. In a phrase: Rumi served light and sensous over well-crafted Middle-Eastern grooves. Well worth adding to the soundtrack of your life. Disclaimer: I’m not a professional reviewer. No one pays me to write this stuff. Metaphors For Life is an affiliate of CDBaby.com but not of the artist or [...]

Or, how modern colleges and universities are finding ways to integrate interfaith dialogues into a post-modern curriculum. Last November, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA played host to “faculty, staff and administrators from 10 colleges and universities across the country” who gathered to discuss and develop their ideas about the integration of spirituality and [...]

A dear friend of mine in British Columbia sent me this link today. He knows of my interest in [tag]quantum physics[/tag] and [tag]string theory[/tag] (a layperson’s interest, obviously — though I’m always delighted by how these two speculative sciences end up sounding so much like [tag]spirituality[/tag] and [tag]mysticism[/tag]) and indeed, I found a lot to [...]

From The International Herald Tribune: KATMANDU, [tag]Nepal[/tag]: Paintings of [tag]Buddha[/tag] dating back at least to the 12th century have been discovered in a cave in Nepal’s remote north-central region by a team of international researchers after being tipped by a local sheep herder. A mural with 55 panels depicting the story of Buddha’s [tag]life[/tag] was [...]