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The Road Before Us

There are times as we travel this road we call “life” that we begin to doubt that we know where we’re going. Stretching out before us, the road seems long and often contains detours. Thankfully we have access to maps and even high-tech…

Who’s Talking about End-of-Life Issues?

Just about all teenagers experience “the talk” at some point in their evolution from child to adult. “The talk” is something that parents dread – and as I recall from my own young teen years – we dreaded it just as much. Of course…
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Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

It’s not often that people get their wishes in life, however both of my parents got their wishes when it came to their deaths. My dad was diagnosed with adult onset progressive muscular dystrophy at age 36. I’m not sure what they thought…
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Why Is There Suffering in the World?

Suffering for me had always been a mystery ever since I was a child. In Sunday School we would learn about people in the Bible who suffered and a God who saved them from their suffering. But, I reasoned in my childish mind, if God loves everyone…
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Imperfection and Suffering

Life on this level of consciousness or realm of “relative” reality is not an easy one. It is in fact, Samsara in the Buddhist teachings, and Samsara consists of the cycles of birth, death and rebirth in the material world, perpetuated by…
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Essay on Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

In his last political treatise, Eliphas Levi Zahed, better known as just Eliphas Levi, he wrote in an unpublished essay on the French national motto: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity! Three words which seem to shine are in fact full of shadow!…
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Commentary on Kumare’: The True Story of a False Prophet

The movie, “Kumare’: The True Story of a False Prophet was filmed in Phoenix, by a young film-maker from New York, Vikram  Ghandi, an award-winning director of documentary films. While he was born and raised in the U.S., his family…