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		<title>Pure Heart of Yoga &#8211; Chakras &#8211; Gaiam Life</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2010/05/03/pure-heart-of-yoga-chakras-gaiam-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; Chakras &#8211; Gaiam Life.]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Center of the Wheel</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2010/04/13/finding-the-center-of-the-wheel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; the joy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History &#8211; Newsweek.com</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2010/02/23/turkey-archeological-dig-reshaping-human-history-newsweek-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An incredibly exciting find in Turkey rewrites everything we thought we knew about the earliest human civilizations. via Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History &#8211; Newsweek.com. In particular, this paragraph brought a wondering smile: Schmidt&#38;apos;s thesis is simple and bold: it was the urge to worship that brought mankind together in the very first urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enlarging the Soul</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2008/08/19/enlarging-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written fifteen years ago, Mr. Robbins&#8217; 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&#8217;s a cerebral ledge that sooner or later each of us has to leap off. One day, ready or not, we glance in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;The Politics of God,&#8221; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/08/26/on-the-politics-of-god-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God as Evolution</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/07/17/god-as-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;He is not continually intervening, but rather allows, participates, loves.&#8221; This is one of the very best summations of my thoughts and intuitions on the subject. The universe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Rumi</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/06/06/celebrating-rumi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of Shahram Shiva&#8217;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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Education Reaches Toward Higher Power</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/05/20/higher-education-reaches-toward-higher-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 19:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;faculty, staff and administrators from 10 colleges and universities across the country&#8221; who gathered to discuss and develop their ideas about the integration of spirituality and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expanding Consciousness into the Multiverse</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/05/12/expanding-consciousness-into-the-multiverse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 23:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meta4Life</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s interest, obviously &#8212; though I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12th century paintings of Buddha found in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/05/10/12th-century-paintings-of-buddha-found-in-nepal/</link>
		<comments>http://metaphorsforlife.com/2007/05/10/12th-century-paintings-of-buddha-found-in-nepal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 01:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meta4Life</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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&#8217;s [tag]life[/tag] was [...]]]></description>
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