| (Published: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Christmas Can Be Fun |
| As a child, Christmas was definitely a great time. Presents, presents, and more presents - the words were interchangeable.
We had our little duty to perform on Christmas Eve and that was the midnight service at church. Other than that we were free to imagine all the possibilities under the tre |
| Author: Roy E. Klienwachter |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:00:00 -0400) |
| The Spiritual Traditions of the Andes (Part 2), an Interview with Doris Rivera Lenz |
| Are people who come to you for coca divination often unwell?
If you ask me if people are unwell, the majority are unwell, in their spirit or mind, there are lots of problems today. They are particularly afflicted in the stomach, the solar plexus, and the belly button. It’s the place of emotional |
| Author: Howard G Charing |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:00:00 -0400) |
| The Spiritual Traditions of the Andes(Part 3), an Interview with Doris Rivera Lenz |
| Mother Earth is the feminine aspect of God, and father Sun is the masculine aspect, and we are a product of that. We are Gods and we should believe in ourselves first. Its fine to have Gods; the Oriental ones, an Inca, an extra-terrestrial, Buddha or Crishna, but there will never be anything like Mo |
| Author: Howard G Charing |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:00:00 -0400) |
| The Spiritual Traditions of the Andes; an Interview with Doris Rivera Lenz - Part 1 |
| A look at the rich and powerful spiritual legacy of the Andean civilization which is only now being properly recognised after 500 years of obscurity. This interview of Doris Rivera Lenz, was conducted by Howard G. Charing & Peter Cloudsley. This interview appeared in Sacred Hoop Magazine Issue 57, a |
| Author: Howard G Charing |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:00:00 -0400) |
| Kujang - the Talismanic Sickle |
| There is a unique weapon that originates in Western Java, in the Pasundan (Sundanese) region. This weapon is called "kujang," (pron. "koo-jaang.") Lacking the proper English equivalent for this we have used the term, "sickle," eventhough its form somewhat deviates from the true shape of a sickle. Ne |
| Author: Leonard Lee |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:00:00 -0400) |
| Creating an Integral Culture |
| Observers have noted that contemporary society is characterized by three sets of opposing forces:
1. BUSINESS-AS-USUAL forces that want to maintain the existing institutions and ways of doing things. They want to keep the mechanisms of institutional and governmental control pretty much as they ar |
| Author: Copthorne Macdonald |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:00:00 -0400) |
| JFK Conspiracy And Other Historical Secrets |
| The prophecies of Nostradamus, today popularly believed to be the work of a charlatan, are given new life in Morten St. George\'s Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking. St. George discovered that some of the famous stanzas masked their message by means of a unique |
| Author: Rahul Rungta |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:00:00 -0400) |
| Immigration in America - Not Everyone is Dying to Get Here |
| Not everyone in America views people from Mexico and Pan America as our little brown brothers to the south. With a deep culture and a rich heritage older than our own these people have much to be proud of. Economically and politically they are suffering behind the eight ball of progress but as in an |
| Author: Rev Michael Bresciani |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Who Else Is Looking to Attract and Retain Hispanic Customers and Employees? |
| You want to reach the fastest growing minority group in the United States, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, but you haven't the foggiest idea as to where to start.
Well, the Census Bureau is an excellent starting point. According to their census data of 2000, the Hispanic population rate of |
| Author: Etienne A. Gibbs |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| INDUSTRIAL HEMP (Cannabis sativa) Part 1 |
| Introduction
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) was first introduced to North America in Port Royal, Acadia in 1606 and became a popular crop grown in Eastern (Ontario) and Central Canada from the 18th to 20th centuries. The Canada Department of Agriculture conducted extensive research on agronom |
| Author: Kemp LaMunyon |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| History of Candle Making |
| Who invented the candle?
Candles were invented independently in many countries. The Egyptians and Cretans made candles from beeswax, about 3000 BC. In the fourth century BC there were clay candle holders in Egypt. Qui Shi Huang (259 - 210 BC) was the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC |
| Author: Kemp LaMunyon |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Why Fair Trade Organic Coffee? |
| Why Fair Trade Organic Coffee?
Coffee is the worlds second largest traded food commodity. However, because of the demand traditional coffee is sprayed with DDT, as well as pesticides, herbicides and fungicides which we know to be hazardous to our health and the environment. So the folks that de |
| Author: Kemp LaMunyon |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:00:00 -0500) |
| Conquering Defeatism and the “What’s the Point?†|
| Woah! Wait one minute here. Seems like the campaign against humankind, the one intent upon selling the race into the slavery of its own defeatist resignation, is in FULL THROTTLE.
You talk to people in the street (if you dare, that is), at work, at school – you watch the designer news, listen to t |
| Author: Patricia Cori |
| Directory: Culture |
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| (Published: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:00:00 -0500) |
| In Here" not "Out There |
| About a year back, we launched a new program at the MIT Club of Northern California titled: Exploring the Mind of the Leader, anchored by Prof. Michael Ray of Stanford Graduate School of Business. In that series, Prof. Ray interviewed some well-known leaders like John Morgridge, Chairman of Cisco an |
| Author: Sramana Mitra |
| Directory: Culture |
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