Thursday05 Jul 04:14 AM
Hinduism's holiest river is drying up. And because the 1,568-mile river holds deep religious and ritualistic significance to India's 800 million Hindus, the Ganges' ultimate demise could throw into turmoil the intimate religious traditions of the nation's devotees. Link. -[SA]
Thu 05 Jul
2007
04:25 AM
Here's an exceptionally beautiful collection of photographic centenarian portraits; photos of folks who have lived over one hundred years. They drop some funny quotes— “Why have you lived this long?” I asked. He said, “I don't fool around with...
Tue 03 Jul
2007
04:14 AM
The New York Times recently profiled Rudolf Stinger's coy relationship with Lord Buddha, or at least the iconography. Non-committal yet visceral, his interest explores a critique of appropriated eastern religious iconography in the modern upscale lifestyle. Of course Stinger...
Sun 01 Jul
2007
Fri 29 Jun
2007
05:20 PM
It's not often that a popular television series attempts to grapple with trans-human, non-dual concepts. But David Milch's new series on HBO, John From Cincinnati, does just that. Let's just toy with the idea that we are all one...
Thu 28 Jun
2007
01:51 PM
Who doesn't think meditation improves concentration and memory? I suppose it's akin to driving a car and learning about the roads. This week the meme sprouted on the interwebs— Meditate To Concentrate Brain scans show meditation changes minds, increases...
Wed 27 Jun
2007
03:50 PM
The Dhuni is not a simple camp fire. It was viewed by the Nath as a living deity, emblematic as the womb of the Earth Goddess from which all manifestation was generated, sustained, and destroyed. Although many cultures have...
Thu 21 Jun
2007
01:43 PM
Northern solstice happens today! Some 24,000 sun worshipers gather for ancient fest. Link. Summer Solstice: How and Why Seasons Change. Link. Wikipedia on Solstices. Link....
Tue 19 Jun
2007
06:24 PM
"..an iconographic treatise written in the 19th century in Karnataka by the then Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III... The Maharaja was a great patron of art and learning and was himself a scholar and writer. There are around...
Tue 12 Jun
2007
06:19 PM
Perched at the collision of yoga with popular culture, Souljerky has spent considerable time contemplating music and spirit and culture. So when David Byrne and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) broached the topic, we had...
Fri 08 Jun
2007
12:10 PM
I've got some revolutionary yoga vibrations careening through the mindscreen right now, my own private Operation Garden Plot. A work-in-progress, a theory & practice where there is no escape. We is I. You are them. They are us. Wherever...
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