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Mystic Mantra: Holy dispassion

Edit Deccan Chronicle 30 May 2017
Who is a sadhu, in a spiritual sense? Literally, a sadhu (or sadhvi) is one who is immersed in sadhana, which refers to the practice of something with a single-pointed focus to the exclusion of all else ... Once we accept that this is, it simply is, and there is no other way it “should” be, we have slipped into a dispassionate state of being....

NADA signs MoU with WADA, ASADA to boost anti-doping programme

Edit Indian Express 06 Jul 2016
(ASADA) and World Anti-Doping Agency to ensure India implements a more effective anti-doping programme that isfully compliant with the WADA Code ... WADA’s role is to oversee the partnership, including the timeline set for the project, and to assist with th implementation of the work required ... The ASADA-NADA collaboration is part of a concerted ......

Still Howling - Whole Day (conference & performance) tickets

Edit Skiddle 09 Oct 2015
The Wonder Inn in Manchester. Saturday 10th October 2015. 1.30pm til 11.00pm (last entry 2.30pm). Minimum Age. 18 ... Event Info. Venue ... Embed Ticket Box ... Skiddle.com is an official ticket outlet for this event ... CP Lee The Isness (with Michael Beasley of Folks) Heath Common and the Lincoln 72s Chris T-T Steven Taylor George Hunt performs ‘Howl’ UK premiere of choral setting of 'Footnote to Howl' by Steven Taylor Books for sale ... 18....

Still Howling - evening performance tickets

Edit Skiddle 09 Oct 2015
Skiddle.com is an official ticket outlet for this event ... There will also be a series of musical performances, paying reference to Ginsberg and the Beats, by acclaimed spoken word artist Heath Common, joined by the Lincoln 72s and Dub Sex front man Mark Hoyle, alt-folk singer-songwriter Chris T-T, whose debut album was called Beatverse, and the Isness, an offshoot of the well-regarded Mancadelic band Folks....

The Skeptik’s Lexicon

Edit CounterPunch 18 Sep 2015
ABATTOIR, n. A slaughterhouse. An intermediate stage of the industrial meat trade, located somewhere between artificial insemination and coronary heart disease. ASSIMILATE, v ... In both Irish and Scottish mythology, a female spirit whose wail is said to herald the imminent demise of a family member, preferably one with money. As a portent of death, the banshee is now attested to abroad (esp ... “Insipid is my method, ... “And so untempered isness ... ....

Hen Harrier Poems by Colin Simms review – a remarkable tribute to an endangered bird

Edit The Guardian 08 Aug 2015
Among the species to have suffered most is the hen harrier, Circus cyaneus, a beautiful hawk known also as the “ringtail” and (in the north of England) the “gled” ... South of the border, in short, the gled is on the brink of extinction – “regularly trodden underfoot / in the interests of gamebirds”, as Colin Simms writes in one of the 270 poems about hen harriers gathered in this remarkable collection....

Our Parent's Level of Consciousness

Edit Huffington Post 07 Aug 2015
When we want our parents or anyone else to act more consciously, we are unconscious, creating suffering for ourselves because we are denying the 'isness' of the present moment....

Our Parents' Level of Consciousness

Edit Huffington Post 07 Aug 2015
When we want our parents or anyone else to act more consciously, we are unconscious, creating suffering for ourselves because we are denying the 'isness' of the present moment....

24-30: Prophecy On the Margins

Edit Huffington Post 03 Aug 2015
A journalist once asked Carl Sandburg, "What is the ugliest word in the English language?" After a few minutes Sandburg replied, "Exclusive." ... Most of us, however, have been excluded often enough to agree that exclusive is an ugly word ... I will take some of the spirit which is upon you, Moses, and put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so you will not have to bear it by yourself alone....

Parlez-vous Scientologist?

Edit The Guardian 24 Jul 2015
‘Scientologists talk of “enturbulation”, “alter-isness” and “randomity”, almost as if their religion were dreamed up by a pulp sci-fi author pulling everyone’s leg’ ... One of the strange things about Scientologists – and yes, I’m aware this sentence could end in several thousand legitimate ways – is their use of language ... But there’s wisdom in the fridge-magnet cliche that life is a verb....
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