Tuesday06 May 09:44 AM
Muslim Baby Drops
Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual - they've been throwing their young children off a tall building to improve their health. Link. -[Nike]
Tuesday06 May 09:44 AM
Mon 12 May
2008
01:01 PM
“Can you see the truth of it boys?... Life and death. The eagle and the washing up and the outhouse. The stove and the snow. The horse and the mountains and the 'baca juice. No doubt about it. The whole...
Fri 09 May
2008
10:34 AM
Courtesy of Google Books---The New Larned History, 1922. (I think it's copyright free, or damn close...) BRAHMANISM: Essential features.—"Although Brahmanism has exercised a vast influence over the beliefs and worships of Asia during many centuries, and still numbers, at...
Wed 16 Apr
2008
08:11 PM
gbSk & I caught a preview show of Mike Myers doing this Guru Pitka schtick a few years ago. It was horrendous. Totally disappointing... and we were sooooooo excited about it. The show was all guru-student sex jokes with...
Thu 03 Apr
2008
03:27 PM
Souljerky (in co-operation with Process Media, the Knitting Factory, The Shala, Tee Pee Records and Cold Sweat) are overjoyed to welcome The Source Family and Ya Ho Wa 13 to NYC next week for several rare appearances and special...
Wed 19 Mar
2008
05:52 PM
Here's a real gem available through the marvels of YouTube— Living With The Dead, a heartwarming story about a young Aghori who gets homesick. The fact that this was made by the folks who later brought us Monsoon Wedding makes...
Thu 13 Mar
2008
Tue 11 Mar
2008
09:49 AM
This excellent yoga advertising campaign exploded throughout the blogosphere a couple of weeks back while I was busy smelling flowers elsewhere. Some of you have already seen this stuff, but I felt it prudent to post and share nonetheless....
Thu 28 Feb
2008
12:12 AM
“’You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?’ We didn’t understand his question, and it was a damned good question.”—On the Road For some devotees of Jack Kerouac, seeing the scroll on which he typed On the Road is...
Fri 15 Feb
2008
11:54 AM
Dance is spiritual expression —but not all dancers explore the spiritual in quite the way modernist pioneer Ruth St. Denis did. This we discovered when searching with the keyword “yoga” at the New York Public Library’s picture archive (Check...
Sat 02 Feb
2008
03:49 PM
Abdi Assadi's wonderful new book, Shadows on the Path, is an unflinching and inspiring discussion of spiritual seeking and crisis in today's world. Through Abdi's generous and colorful personal history, and via a cavalcade of lurid client stories culled...
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Foremost credit goes to my wife Erin for her tireless patience + support of this endeavor. Thanks to Barry Silver for the artwork in the above banner and for his friendship, to Robert Beer for the illustrations. Thanks to Eddie Stern for his ongoing support and for providing inspiration. Thanks to my fellow farmers at One Digital Farm for help growing this.
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