A study of brain scans of people listening to music reveals similar patterns.
Upheld and revered for decades as a virtual saint, Mother Teresa’s carefully tailored image has been shredded.
As reported widely in the last few days, from Times of India to The Guardian to Aljazeera and not so much in the USA…
Update 25th March 2013: Laya’s body was found late last night near the German city of Rottenburg am Neckar according to local police
Unexpected to many, Pope Benedict XVI will step down on February 28, 2013, apparently due to ill health and age.
It is with a heavy heart that I read about another brutal gang rape by 6 or 7 men of a 29 year-old woman, this time in Punjab. Not much is yet known about the circumstances other than she is believed to have been travelling on a bus back to her village on Friday night.
Only a few weeks ago I penned an article about rapes in rural India, only to read about another gruesome rape that just happened in New Delhi. Delhiites are outraged, understandably so. Women are more frightened than ever to go to work or to even venture out shopping on their own, let alone use public
Listening to people speak, I have often wondered why so many make random, commonplace statements and query them at the same time. Their voice ups and the sentence becomes a question rather than a statement.
A subject that appears to be firmly embedded in our collective unconscious is the story about a vast island empire that disappeared.
Over the last year or so, there have been increasingly reports by people about ‘strange sounds’ they heard – and that globally.
Reported widely by various media, Matthieu Ricard, a French Tibetan Buddhist monk was declared the happiest man on Earth by a group of scientists at the University of Wisconsin.
Ambika alerted us about a recent survey that shows the fastest growing ‘religious’ group in America is made up of people with no religion at all.
Abhiyana sent us this chilling video created by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto, currently working as a curator for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan.
A quite sensational discovery has been made recently that most likely won’t be too pleasing to the Pope and the pundits at the Vatican.
A recent article by Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times finally addresses the fact that common chemicals in our environment “may be even more harmful than previously thought. It seems that they may damage us in ways that are transmitted generation after generation, imperiling not only us but also our descendants.
Julian Assange has been in the news almost on a daily basis, ever since top secret US military reports and innumerable diplomatic cables were leaked by him two years ago.
Dutch creationist and millionaire building contractor Johan Huibers built a reproduction of Noah’s ark after he dreamt that Holland would be flooded once again.
Review by Bhagawati of Ragini’s book, Unflappable – 6 Steps to Staying Happy, Centered, Peaceful No Matter What
Science recognizes more and more that meditation is helpful in curing dis-ease and resulting pain in the physical body.
In an apparent effort to keep a grip on life in these days of astonishing incidents (natural and man-made) we read increasingly about visions of the future, myths, and signs. The latest sign is the birth of a white bison.
A group of scientists warns that Earth is rapidly headed toward a catastrophic breakdown if humans don’t get their act together.
Since 2005, Robert Mays and his wife Suzanne have made a huge contribution to science by conducting concentrated research into the nature of consciousness.
More than fifty years ago, on April 27, 1961, John F. Kennedy gave a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, in which he warned the press about the secret societies that are the real power in global affairs.
H.G. Wells was a fearless, outspoken and prophetic writer; ‘The Time Machine’ is among the many books he authored. His most consistent political ideal was the ‘World State’.
The mother of all latest gadgets and apps is the ‘Last Moment Robot’, created by Chinese-born Dan Chen, an artist, designer and engineer who nowadays resides in Eugene, Oregon.
The Badische Zeitung, a regional newspaper in Baden-Wuerttenberg in Germany, published on June 6, 2012 a very positive report about a recent concert given by Deva Premal, Miten and Monose.
Subtitle: “He called himself Bhagwan and in the end Osho. He was at first the sex– then the Rolls Royce Guru. 22 years after the mystic’s death his ideas live on in hundreds of meditation centers – and in Germany even in communes.
Part two of Max Brecher’s: ‘A Radically New Look at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and a Controversial American Commune’.
The last active nuclear reactor in Japan was switched off on May 5th and thousands of Japanese marched on the streets to celebrate this event, shaking “koinobori”, carp-shaped banners that have become a symbol of the anti-nuclear movement.
Bavarian Radio, BR, visited the Munich Osho Leela Meditation Center and published their report also on the internet.
Review of a documentary about a Tibetan monk who had served his Lama for 23 years and is given the task to find the reincarnation of his master.
Part 1 of Max Brecher: A radically new look at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and a controversial American commune.