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Gratitude: Not in Exile
Gratitude: Not in Exile Dalai Lama thanks India for 50 years in exile NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Cloaked in a traditional flowing red and saffron Tibetan robe the Dalai Lama took a deep breath as he began to express his gratitude to the country that took him in as a refugee 50 years ago. “I think in this country (there are) many other refugees,” the Dalai Lama reflected, sitting cross legged. “But we are I think (the) most fortunate and successful refugee community because of (the) government of India’s care and support.” His journey to India was a treacherous one. The year was 1959. Tibetans had staged an uprising…
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Update on The Reincarnationist pilot
Update on The Reincarnationist pilot The blog has some photos from the Baltimore set of the Fox pilot based on M.J.’s novel The Reincarnationist. “On Wednesday and Thursday my workplace was transformed into the Department of Justice as every film production crew in town was giving the Enoch Pratt Central Library a Hollywood makeover as part of shooting a pilot episode for a Fox TV paranormal series…” Here are a couple of samples! Emily K. Editor on 14 Apr 2009 | Mysterious News &Uncategorized | Comments (0) Comments are closed. Trackback URI | Connect With M.J. Copyright © M.J. Rose, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy
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Happy Easter Reincarnationists
Happy Easter Reincarnationists Easter is about reincarnation. Renewal of body, mind and spirit. Here is a lovely and inclusive piece reflecting on this time of year from America: The National Catholic Weekly Paramahamsa Yogananda I: on Holy Thursday by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Cambridge, MA. In this Holy Week, we are of course invited to quiet ourselves down, pull back a bit, and reflect on the meaning of our lives, in light of the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are fortunate to have an abundance of aids in this reflection, ranging from the Bible and the liturgies of the Triduum to myriad homilies, spiritual writings, works of music and…
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diaphanous spirit
diaphanous spirit Here is a lovely piece from Daily Om - Journey of the Senses: Incense Meditation When we focus on incense sticks during meditation, we move into a mystical space that is both physical and spiritual at once. Like us, the incense stick is earthbound with an ember that burns for only a finite time, but the diaphanous spirit it releases is unbound by time or space. Rather than shutting down our senses to focus on an inner realm, incense involves our senses as we follow whirling smoke upward and outward while we take its scent into us, filling us as we breathe. The journey starts with a flame,…
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I heard a robot buzz when I died…
I heard a robot buzz when I died… I have always been afraid of robots. But now that I am all grown up, I think I mostly worry for them. It seems that one day in the future we will quite possibly create artificially intelligent life – but what then? Will these creatures live and then die? Will they have souls? Here we are still fumbling with the concept of our own human souls, wondering if we will maintain our consciousness in some way after we die – when we are slammed with an overlapping question: Where do the artificial lifeforms go when they die? And if they have souls,…
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The Philosophy of Reality
The Philosophy of Reality As a follow up to an earlier post about the connection between science and magic, I thought I would post the following news: Science Cannot Fully Describe Reality, Says Templeton Prize Winner By David Lindley ScienceNOW Daily News What is reality? French physicist Bernard d’Espagnat, 87, has spent a lifetime grappling with this question. Over the years, he has developed the idea that the reality revealed by science offers only a “veiled” view of an underlying reality that science cannot access, and that the scientific view must take its place alongside the reality revealed by art, spirituality, and other forms of human inquiry. In recognition of…
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2009 » April
Archive for April, 2009 Gratitude: Not in Exile Dalai Lama thanks India for 50 years in exile NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Cloaked in a traditional flowing red and saffron Tibetan robe the Dalai Lama took a deep breath as he began to express his gratitude to the country that took him in as a refugee 50 years ago. “I think in this country (there are) many other refugees,” the Dalai Lama reflected, sitting cross legged. “But we are I think (the) most fortunate and successful refugee community because of (the) government of India’s care and support.” His journey to India was a treacherous one. The year was 1959. Tibetans…
