Greens for Mom: 10 Tips
posted by Danny Jensen on May 11, 2008 at 10:36 PM
This mother's day as we celebrate the wonderful women in our lives, let's not forget to give thanks to Mother Earth as well. Why not do both at once and buy mom an eco-friendly gift to show her your love, or if you're particularly crafty, make something yourself (Mom's love homemade goodies).
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Being a mother is not always pretty
posted by Susan Kaiser Greenland on May 11, 2008 at 04:46 AM
The place where I get my car washed also sells greeting cards. While waiting for my car last week, I went inside to buy a birthday card for a friend. When I first saw the mother’s day cards on display my reaction was to turn away and look at something else. I had no idea that I have an obvious aversion to Mother’s Day cards.
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To save lives, is it justified to invade Myanmar?
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 10, 2008 at 09:21 AM
Time Magazine asks, Is it Time to Invade Myanmar? With reports of up to 100,000 people dead, and no signs of relief from the after effects of the cyclone, the humanitarian crisis is unraveling. Meanwhile, the government is blocking aid because of fear of letting foreign entities in. "If we let them get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent,"
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Current Feelings
posted by Grace Wilson on May 09, 2008 at 02:03 AM
Anybody else feel like giving up? I’m going through some major unpleasantness in my life, and I’m just tired of it. I’m so uncomfortable; it really sucks to be me. I’m missing all of my deadlines, can’t keep up with my blogs, etc. I’m completely distracted.
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Myanmar Cyclone - 15,000 Dead
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 05, 2008 at 09:56 PM
The latest numbers from Myanmar, formerly called Burma, are more thant 15,000 people dead and the number is rising. As I was reading various reports this evening, I could not help thinking about how the human desire for power and control can paralyze and have such drastic consequences for thousands, millions, of people.
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Why Americans & Israelis Should be Thanking Jimmy Carter
posted by Rabbi Lerner on May 02, 2008 at 12:15 AM
On the Absurdity of Refusing to Talk to our Enemies
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has received public scorn and derision from the spokespeople of the State of Israel and leaders of American Jewish communal institutions for having met with the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas in Syria.
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Guru Maurice Pitka, and his very first blog on this site
posted by Guru Pitka on April 25, 2008 at 01:42 AM
Hello, my children. It is I, Guru Maurice Pitka, and this is my very first blog on this site.
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Gordon Brown Endorses and Widens the Framework for a Global Marshall Plan
posted by Rabbi Lerner on April 24, 2008 at 04:22 AM
Great Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown Endorses and Widens the Framework for a Global Marshall Plan. Now it's time for YOU to get involved. While the media's attention focused on the exchanges of put-downs between Clinton and Obama, or on the papal visit to the U.S., they wildly underplayed a very significant event:
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Drinking at Lunch
posted by Grace Wilson on April 18, 2008 at 05:24 AM
My office is about two blocks from the edge of campus (University of Texas), and recently I’ve taken to walking through campus on my lunch hour. I do this for two reasons:
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Obama's Error - and What It Would Really Take to Rectify It
posted by Rabbi Lerner on April 17, 2008 at 02:54 AM
A continuing irony of American politics is that the candidates of the ruling elites have been able to convince many Americans that the candidates who seek to redistribute wealth to the less fortunate, provide health care for all, and provide jobs and housing for the poor are the real elitists.
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Pangea Day
posted by Kanika Sethi on April 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Just caught this online -- a moving rendition of Indian's National Anthem sung by a Kenyan choir. (They also have a video of a Japanese opera singer singing for Turkey, Australians doing the Lebanese Anthem and the French singing The Star Spangled Banner.)
Here's the link. Enjoy! I really love this kind of thing.
Obama's Error... and Ours
posted by Rabbi Lerner on April 13, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Seeing religion as a substitute gratification grabbed on to by people who are otherwise oppressed is an insight that has been part of liberal and progressive culture for at least 150 years. Unfortunately, Senator Obama got it wrong because he identified the needs that are being systematically denied as purely material, thereby falling into the deep "It's the economy, stupid" mistake of the Left.
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To Sir, with love
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 07, 2008 at 04:44 AM
The story of an award-winning, upper-caste Geologist who is silently changing the lives of underprivileged children, most of them from lower castes, in a remote corner of India. Read Here.
Secrets
posted by Grace Wilson on April 03, 2008 at 10:19 PM
My friends gave me this book about a year ago; I can’t remember the name. The author asked for people around the country to send him anonymous postcards containing whatever secret they wanted to tell. The book is full of those postcards.
An airport and some mercenaries
posted by Rahul Pandita on April 02, 2008 at 08:51 AM
My friend, Neelesh Misra has sent me this thought-provoking story. Read it here.
Jesus, self-knowledge, and compassion
posted by Rex Weyler on March 31, 2008 at 04:40 PM
I’ve been absent from Intentblog while writing a new book: The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message
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4000
posted by Mallika Chopra on March 24, 2008 at 07:59 PM
4000 US soldiers dead. The number of Iraqi's - citizens, children - not even quantified. I challenge you to type the numbers... I almost gave up at 282, thinking this is a waste of time, then reminded myself that each one was an individual, with a family, who had dreams and aspirations. Who was 1483, 2567, 321, 3999? What was their story? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Can't wait to go to bed tonight!
posted by Grace Wilson on March 20, 2008 at 11:59 PM
This is a difficult day for me, communication-wise. I was trying to have a conversation with someone at work and even though my inner voice was screaming at me to just shut up and let it go, I didn’t (of course).
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Time
posted by Intent on March 20, 2008 at 12:18 PM
The Love Field Expands; News from the Human Forum in Costa Rica
posted by Arsenio Rodriguez on March 20, 2008 at 07:39 AM
The notes of the symphony started to gather, as each heart responded to this primeval call that reverberates surreptitiously in profundity, beyond mind and understanding. We all came, along with our exquisite mosaic of role, personality, ego and purpose. A bouquet of quarks, a possibility of expression, we were, congregating Being.
We played the first notes of a symphony, creating a love field woven with our own fragility, our deep recognition of oneness. It spilled in embraces, in garlands of smiles and kisses, to adorn the hidden Beloved who in silent song invited us, to become aware for a moment, of the unified field of existence we really are, and to rejoice at the infinite possibilities of creating from this vision field, a new world.
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ONE PROCESS
posted by Intent on March 19, 2008 at 05:55 PM
Obama's Speech on Race
posted by Mallika Chopra on March 18, 2008 at 04:36 PM
I just listened to Obama's speech on race, I was touched, inspired and impressed. And, what he did today, solidified my slow conversion to wholeheartedly support him. Today
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Attacks on Spitzer Reveal America's Ethical Perversity
posted by Rabbi Lerner on March 14, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Why are Sexual Crimes the only ones Americans Really Seem to Care About? The cross-the-political-spectrum attacks on Elliot Spitzer and demands that he resign his office show just how far the combination of Right-wing sexual moralism and counter-cultural sexual-correctness have been able to trump any other kind of ethical reasoning in American society.
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Murders at a Yeshiva in Jerusalem
posted by Rabbi Lerner on March 09, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives unequivocally condemn the killings of students at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem today. Just as last week we prayed for a speedy recovery of Israelis and Palestinians wounded in the fighting in Gaza and the bombings of Sderot, so today we pray for a speedy recovery for those who were injured in this ghastly attack.
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Weight Loss Doesn't Equal Health
posted by Joe Kelly on March 07, 2008 at 06:16 PM
"The debate over whether the health risks of obesity are exaggerated seriously detracts from the real question: what should we prescribe for our health in any case? Weight loss or management is constantly recommended—disregarding the fact that weight is not a behavior, and as such it is not ours to “control.”"
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Electromagnetic Fields
posted by Grace Wilson on March 06, 2008 at 09:53 PM
I’m close to someone who is sensitive to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). She has noticeable, physical discomfort when exposed to any number of things: cell phones, wireless routers, cordless telephones, digital clock radios …
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Giving back, the new high
posted by Max Simon on February 29, 2008 at 09:58 AM
A good friend of mine invited me to come teach meditation at a youth facility that houses run away kids who have left because of abusive or unsafe living conditions. From what they described, I was expecting to show up to a house full of angry, pissed off, rebels. Haha....fooled me!
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Deepak Chopra / In the Vanguard of Antichrist
posted by Intent on February 22, 2008 at 11:03 AM
This article appeared in the Catholicism.org News Portal:
Deepak Chopra / In the Vanguard of Antichrist
By Brian Kelly
Chopra said the Jesus created by the Catholic Church was confusing because although the religion had done a lot of good in the world, it had also taken part "in the Crusades, in witch hunts, in burning people on the stake, homophobia, ...
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How do you let it flow when what's flowing doesn't work?
posted by Max Simon on February 22, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Over the last few months, I have noticed a shift in myself. Situations where I once felt totally comfortable make me a little nervous. Circumstances where I would normally feel afraid don't phase me. I've found myself feeling out-of-sorts more often then usual lately.
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You Can't Say That Out Loud
posted by Grace Wilson on February 22, 2008 at 02:03 AM
Recently my friend Tracy & I were talking about our boyfriends. We’re in similar circumstances, being older, not married, no children. We’ve both been divorced, so marriage is not a top priority for either of us.
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Global Warming: Livestock, worse than world's cars!
posted by Zappy on February 14, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Livestock production is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent, a share 38 percent higher than that emitted by all the world's vehicles. Domesticated animals worldwide are the source of 37 percent of all human induced methane, with most of that coming from intestinal fermentation of ruminants. They also are the source of 65 percent of human-induced nitrous oxide, the great majority from manure.
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The Feminist Debate on Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama
posted by Rabbi Lerner on February 06, 2008 at 05:09 AM
While the media portrays the selection of a Democratic Party presidential candidate as pitting women against men, over 100 feminists--including Katha Pollitt of The Nation, Kate Michelman chair for 20 years of NARAL Choice for Women, and Ellen Bravo, former director of 9to5, the National Association of Working Women—have endorsed Senator Barack Obama.
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Obama's Jewish Problem
posted by Rabbi Lerner on February 01, 2008 at 10:23 PM
In the days leading up to the Super Tuesday presidential primary sweepstakes, the Obama campaign has been making a special effort to reach out to Jewish voters. Representatives of the campaign have been visiting Jewish retirement homes, synagogues, and wherever else they can find a willing audience. Faced with Clinton campaigners making charges that he is not sufficiently pro-Israel, Obama himself wrote a letter to
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Wanted: Kickball Players
posted by Grace Wilson on January 31, 2008 at 09:03 PM
I sent an e-mail to all of my work mates to see if anyone wanted to get together one night a week and join an adult kickball league for the ten-week summer season. Fun, right? No, apparently not. No one even mentioned it until I ran into “Bobby” hours later in the break room – someone I’ve rarely even interacted with on the job, so I was surprised.
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On suicide, Wandhama and, perhaps, everything else in life
posted by Rahul Pandita on January 25, 2008 at 09:51 AM
This evening, a middle-aged man with receding hairline jumped from the top floor of my office building and died on the floor, next to a promotional board of Johnie Walker which reads: Keep walking. His one shoe lay near his motionless body.
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Contemplating My Navel
posted by Grace Wilson on January 24, 2008 at 09:21 PM
I think my favorite yoga pose is a lazy-person’s version of plow (halasana). Instead of having my legs and spine straight I like to slump into it, round my back and let my knees hang down by my ears. (This could be a proper yoga pose on its own, I’m not sure.) I just really like it and could easily hang out in that position for five minutes or more.
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Listening to Inner Guidance
posted by Grace Wilson on January 17, 2008 at 09:08 PM
I’m making progress! Is anyone else?
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Body Beautiful
posted by Sarah Maria Dreisbach on January 14, 2008 at 08:52 PM
What is beauty, and how do we find it?
We live in a culture where feeling beautiful has a profound impact on one’s self-esteem and self-confidence, particularly for women. This culture would have us believe that there is a particular “look” that is beautiful, namely thin, young, and blemish-free.
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Opps! think before that zipper goes down!
posted by Vijay Sappani on January 12, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Having sex after false promise of marriage is rape according to a court in India.
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How Much Change Does It Take?
posted by Grace Wilson on January 10, 2008 at 11:50 PM
I often remember the expression “Insanity is wanting your life to change, but doing nothing differently.” So how big (or how small) of a change must I make to effect change in my life?
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It’s no longer Okay
posted by Kavita Chhibber on January 09, 2008 at 04:55 PM
To be a woman and
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Zappy hosts Grateful Dead Television Show “The Long Strange Trip Continues”
posted by Zappy on January 06, 2008 at 11:19 PM
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Help me understand the value of emotional contrast…
posted by Grace Wilson on January 03, 2008 at 09:55 PM
My girlfriend Jennifer and I have a fantasy where the two of us get married and live together while her husband and my boyfriend live in the house next door to us. We love our guys and we’re not into each other, if you know what I mean.
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Happy New Year
posted by Vijay Sappani on January 01, 2008 at 09:09 AM
2007 was a year marked with events that will determine the the fate of many things in the world in 2008
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The Female Orgasm
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on January 01, 2008 at 05:44 AM
Is there a connection between the development of a society and its people and the female orgasm?
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Happy New Year!
posted by Mallika Chopra on December 31, 2007 at 11:50 PM
To all my friends around the world!! Best wishes for a healthy, happy, and fulfilling 2008.
Love Mallika
MERRY CHRISTMAS
posted by Gotham Chopra on December 24, 2007 at 07:58 PM
Merry Christmas from all of us at Intentblog. I know I have a lot to be grateful for this year. How about you?
hmmm....what to call it?
posted by Max Simon on December 22, 2007 at 09:41 AM
Hi friends,
I would REALLY like your input on this post.
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A Soul Question
posted by Max Simon on December 19, 2007 at 10:37 AM
This morning, I woke up with a question in my consciousness. It came from when I saw the Dalai speak a couple of months back. It's funny how these things spontaneously pop back into awareness....isn't it?
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Mother Earth: How the Earth Was Born
posted by Environmental Graffiti on December 17, 2007 at 09:07 PM
Why are we here?
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Why can’t we talk about money?
posted by Grace Wilson on December 13, 2007 at 09:14 PM
It seems to be easier for people with less money to talk about their lack than it is for people with more money to talk about their abundance. If it’s so shameful to have lots of money, why do we want so much of it?
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Explore the frontiers of intention
posted by Stephen Dinan on December 13, 2007 at 03:35 AM
Until Dec. 24th, the Institute of Noetic Sciences is extending a special Jubilee offer in which their entire library of audio and video is available for free, including 25 interviews with scientific and spiritual pioneers such as..
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Violence in School
posted by Nandita Kathpalia Baig on December 12, 2007 at 09:40 AM
Yesterday, two 13 year old boys shot dead a schoolmate as he had been bullying them and acting like a 'don'. One of the boys took his fathers gun out of the tv trolley, went to school and hid it in the bathroom. When school got over and the victim was waiting to board the school bus, he was called out and 6 bullets were pumped into him.
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Sweet...
posted by Saira Mohan on December 10, 2007 at 05:52 PM
As Above So What?!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on December 08, 2007 at 06:59 PM
Did you feel ambivalent about the hard-sell, materially-driven style of “The Secret”? If so, check out the new book by my friend Maja D’Aoust (Co-edited with Adam Parfrey), The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One of Seven Hermetic Laws: Here Are the Other Six
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Zappy and Barack Obama
posted by Zappy on December 04, 2007 at 03:45 AM
I had the chance to meet Barack Obama this morning and found him to be very likeable.
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Akshardham and Sonu Niigaam symbolize Unity in Diversity
posted by Kavita Chhibber on November 28, 2007 at 09:21 AM
Its beauty and majesty inspires an awed silence,
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Meditation isn't for everyone
posted by Max Simon on November 25, 2007 at 09:35 AM
This comment was made in my last post and I can honestly say that I nearly fell out of my chair when I read it. I was momentarily speechless....until I realized that I've got plenty to say about that.
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I'm back just in time to give thanks
posted by Max Simon on November 21, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Hi everyone. I know I've been away for way too long....but I can explain. Who's up for a story?
As you may or may not know, I have been working at The Chopra Center for the last four years running the products division. I have also had the good fortune of traveling the country teaching meditation, yoga, and Ayurveda at the Chopra Center's wonderful events. Yet in the beginning of 07, I stepped back and realized that there was an absence of young people at these workshops. Maybe it was because they just couldn't afford it.....or maybe it was because it just didn't resonate.
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A Hundred Dollar Holiday: Give the Environment a Break
posted by Rabbi Lerner on November 20, 2007 at 05:20 AM
This Year Don't Buy Things For Holiday Gifts
Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on holiday gifts that will quickly be discarded or put into a closet where it will be little used. Many will end up in a junk pile sometime in the next few years, further polluting our environment.
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Star Canyon
posted by Saira Mohan on November 18, 2007 at 01:10 PM
Have you ever read a menu like this?
My Battle with the Raccoons
posted by Mallika Chopra on November 16, 2007 at 08:58 PM
While monkeys are terrorizing people in New Delhi, I am being harassed by raccoons in Santa Monica, California! Four big raccoons
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Writing Muse
posted by Monica Bhide on November 07, 2007 at 01:29 AM
I have spent a large part of my writing life waiting to fall in love. I have read relentlessly - the classics, the contemporary novels of great writers, short stories, memoirs… I have read endlessly. While I had great respect for the writers and their works, I had not found one whom I wanted to emulate, to be like.
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Amazing Illusion
posted by Zappy on November 05, 2007 at 11:00 PM
What You Believe Is What You Will See.
This is without a doubt one of the coolest PC-Illusion, I have seen so far.
Follow the instructions:
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A CAT-Scan of the Global Brain
posted by Deepak Chopra on October 29, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Someone e-mailed me a link to a 6-minute video that summarizes where the world is heading. Like any snapshot, it gives a limited view of a moment in time. Even so, these emerging trends are global and yet mostly overlooked by the average person in the U.S.
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Mayberry RFiD
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on October 25, 2007 at 01:13 AM
I vant to be alone!
I love my privacy! Hell, I love YOUR privacy. And chips.
Casino chips, poker chips, tortilla chips, potato chips.
But I draw the line at Radio Frequency IDentification chips!
They suck with salsa! And I don’t want one in my body!
If I wanted implants, I'd call Dr. 90210!
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A Letter
posted by Rustum Roy on October 23, 2007 at 01:43 AM
Letter to the Editor, Centre Daily Times, Oct. 13, 2006
By far the most valuable outcome for the nation from the recent horror in one of our Amish communities was that the true meaning of the Christian life – in practicing forgiveness even in the most extreme situation - was given some appropriate visibility at least on public television.
God’s Warriors - Stumbling towards the truth
posted by Rustum Roy on October 15, 2007 at 01:24 AM
Christiane Amanpour will no doubt garner many honors and plaudits for her brilliantly produced 6 hour series entitled, “God’s Warriors” which captured the engaged, intelligent TV viewer, August 21-23, as few shows have recently. But I think she should be honored even more for a much deeper insight -
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The Vocabulary of Numbness
posted by Deepak Chopra on September 17, 2007 at 09:02 AM
War is about loss, destruction, and the price a society has to pay. The final reckoning of the Iraq war can't be predicted, but we are paying a high price in an area most people don't consider: language. When Pres. Bush coined a new phrase in his speech last week, "return on success," the crudeness of his verbal ploy made one wince. "Success" is a hollow buzz word, open to endless revision and by now totally empty of meaning. The slogan's purpose
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Anita Roddick
posted by Mallika Chopra on September 10, 2007 at 09:54 PM
It is with tremendous shock and sadness that I read, just now, about the death of Anita Roddick. Although I never met her, I was a great admirer of hers and she knew my father well. She set the precedent for socially responsible and environmentally sound businesses - and her work with the Body Shop provided one of the first case studies we did in Business School. When Anita agreed to share some of her blogs on Intentblog, I was giddy.
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Chit Happens!
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on August 30, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Art or Arson?
The Man, symbol and center of the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert was burned by another man. Performance artist Paul Addis, 35, of San Francisco was arrested by local authorities in connection with the blaze of 40-foot structure, which is traditionally burned down on the final Saturday night of the weeklong event of Radical Self-Expression.
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Remembering Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997)
posted by Salman Ahmad on August 10, 2007 at 02:37 AM
Long before 9/11 and the subsequent drum beat of a war on terror and talk of a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistan's greatest musical export, sang ecstatically about the Oneness of God and love for humanity.
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Having Travelled The Green(er) Mile, I Am Exhausted
posted by Catherine Connors on August 08, 2007 at 10:43 AM
I am privileged to live in a country, and a city, where living green is made very, very easy. There are two recycling receptacles for every single trash bin on nearly every street. Compostable materials are collected from every household, every week. Rebates are granted by the government for using energy-efficient appliances.
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Things!
posted by Mallika Chopra on August 07, 2007 at 11:05 AM
My baby daughter drew a picture. Its a circle with a line in it. Red and blue. Its one of hundreds of pictures. Its just a circle with a line in it. Its in a pile of papers that I never look at. But my baby drew it. Why can't I just throw it away?
Jihad and Suicide in Islam
posted by Salman Ahmad on August 04, 2007 at 03:07 AM
JIHAD
Prophet Muhammad described armed struggle against tyranny and oppression as a LESSER JIHAD. He also warned against the dark whisperings of the Nafs (ego) and called the fight against the lower self,the GREATER JIHAD.
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South Asia Crisis: Millions Flee 'Worst Ever' Floods
posted by DK Matai on August 03, 2007 at 10:20 AM
After USA, UK, China and Pakistan, it is India, Nepal and Bangladesh's turn: 100s have died & millions have been left homeless by floods across South Asia. 35 million are affected. Hope for humanity? YES!
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Bridge Collapse: 70,000 similar; Repair Cost $188bn
posted by DK Matai on August 02, 2007 at 01:39 AM
Update 5: This is one horror story of a "structurally deficient" bridge out of 70,000. Total estimate of repair is USD 188 billion per the American Society of Civil Engineers, ie, USD 9.4 billion pa for 20 years.
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20th Anniversary of the arrival of IPKF falls today
posted by Bandula Jayasekara on July 29, 2007 at 01:05 AM
Will Sri Lanka take another twenty years to construct memorial?
Twenty years ago the Indian Peacekeeping Force came to Sri Lanka. Their mandate was to uphold the Indo-Lanka Accord signed between President J.R.Jayawardane and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who was later assassinated by the LTTE in Southern India.
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Climate Chaos, Capitalism, Cosmopolitics & Energy
posted by ATCA on July 24, 2007 at 10:57 AM
We are grateful to Prof Barbara Harriss-White, based in Oxford, UK, for "Climate Chaos, Capitalism, Cosmopolitics and Energy Policy Coherence;" and John Menzies, an Australian national, who operates between Sofia, Bulgaria, and Vancouver, Canada, for "Climate Chaos or a Chaotic Climate?
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Toronto Globe and Mail In-depth Online Interview with Deepak
posted by Deepak Chopra on July 23, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Dear Friends,
Here is an interview that Deepak did in Toronto yesterday.
The Globe and Mail online interview with Deepak Chopra
Enjoy,
Carolyn
Crisis: UK Floods cause Large Scale Devastation
posted by DK Matai on July 22, 2007 at 03:53 PM
One million victims... Where to go at the crossroads?
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The Green(er) Mile
posted by Catherine Connors on July 20, 2007 at 11:45 PM
To be perfectly honest, when the idea of organizing a road trip as a means of transporting six Toronto mommy-bloggers to the BlogHer conference in Chicago at the end of this month first occurred to me, I was not thinking green.
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Extreme Weather: Flash floods Cause Chaos
posted by DK Matai on July 20, 2007 at 03:37 PM
Flash floods have caused chaos across the UK as emergency services went into meltdown. RAF helicopters are being used as major roads are under water with a month's rain falling in less than a day...
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What Have They Got Against Girls' Sports?
posted by Joe Kelly on July 19, 2007 at 04:51 AM
A dad named John Humphreys recently wrote to me upon learning that the Department of Education is weakening Title IX, the federal civil rights law granting fair access to sports for girls and women. He asked “Why ever should there be any darn sex discrimination at all?” Like John, I’m stumped, too. But the fact of the matter is that discrimination still exists—which means we parents and others who care about girls need to do something about it.
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Brazil's Worst Air Crash: 200+ Dead; Probe Begins
posted by DK Matai on July 18, 2007 at 12:48 PM
All 186 people on board TAM Airlines Flight 3054 died as well as 14+ on the ground in Sao Paulo. President Lula da Silva has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of Brazil's worst air disaster.
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Hoare: Destructive Creativity, Leverage, Derivatives
posted by ATCA on July 16, 2007 at 08:44 AM
We are grateful to Alexander Hoare, CEO, C Hoare and Co, Private Bankers, based in the City of London, for "Destructive Creativity, Leverage and Derivatives."
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A Musical Mission from Allah
posted by Carter Phipps on July 16, 2007 at 02:09 AM
Can a Pakistani rock star strike a new chord in the hearts of Islamic fundamentalists?
The most important battle in the world right now may not be between radical Islam and the West but between Islam and itself. The fourteen-hundred-year-old religion has hit a crossroads.
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Sicko
posted by Kavita Chhibber on July 13, 2007 at 05:47 PM
Stirring Quite a Pot!
Dr Malmgren: The Fear of Central Bankers
posted by ATCA on July 12, 2007 at 02:11 PM
We are grateful to Dr Malmgren from Washington, DC for "The Fear of Central Bankers -- Flight from Illiquidity and Heightened Risk of Contagion."
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Severe Dollar Decline: Markets Warning of Trouble
posted by ATCA on July 12, 2007 at 02:34 AM
News that Standard & Poor's may cut the ratings of 612 residential mortgage-backed securities backed by US sub-prime loans -- worth an estimated USD 12 billion -- began the US dollar's further decline...
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Inner debate in Pakistan about culture, religion and politics
posted by Salman Ahmad on July 11, 2007 at 09:32 PM
Check out this video...
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Chatter
posted by Gotham Chopra on July 10, 2007 at 09:02 PM
I've tried to google Jihadist websites so I could see the chatter myself but I've never quite found anything that I can say even rivals the type of trash talk I see bwtween Sox and Yankee fans on sports blogs. That not withstanding, apparently the real Jihadi blogs are atwitter with chatter.
Chopra: Changing Perception; Carlson: Other & Me
posted by ATCA on July 09, 2007 at 02:17 PM
We are grateful to Dr Deepak Chopra, based in California and New York, USA, for "Case of the Evil Doctors: Changing Perception" and Aurora Carlson, based on the West Coast, Sweden for "The Other and Me" in response to The Lord Desai of St Clement Danes, based at The Palace of Westminster, London, UK, for "The Roots of Terror: Islam or Islamism?"
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Terror and Transition
posted by Dave Sidhu on July 05, 2007 at 01:19 PM
"One day after the British police discovered what they called a double car-bombing plot in London, two men slammed a Jeep S.U.V. that caught fire into the departure doors at Glasgow Airport," the New York Times reported last week. 
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Mango Madness
posted by Mira Kamdar on July 04, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Nothing more deliciously evokes memories of home to expatriate Indians than mangoes. I remember how my grandfather, my Bapuji, used to coddle a crate of Alphonsos during mango season in Bombay, turning each blushing fruit in its nest of straw with great respect and affection, doling out the ripe ones to us waiting kids to carry into the kitchen where my grandmother or aunt sliced them up for us to slip into upturned mouths.
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The Powerful Positive Of A Thousand Small Green Steps
posted by James Boyce on July 03, 2007 at 05:47 AM
The awareness phase of the campaign to stop global warming has reached a crescendo, which may also be a plateau. With the exception of front groups sponsored by oil companies, it is becoming more and more accepted that we, in fact, are the cause of global warming.
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The Luminous Numinous
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on July 02, 2007 at 11:08 PM
To paraphrase the great Rudolf Otto, the Numinous can be described as a distinctive experience of God, ineffable and transcendent, the primary source of beauty and love. Feelings of awe, fascination and elements of overpowering-ness, urgency, and that which is "Wholly Other" are present in the numinous experience.
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UK at Highest Level of Terror Alert post Attack
posted by DK Matai on June 30, 2007 at 02:59 PM
Two men rammed a flaming Jeep into the main passenger terminal of Glasgow airport...
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What's your definition?
posted by Max Simon on June 25, 2007 at 07:34 PM
If you were to describe consciousness to someone who had never heard the word before, what would you say?
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help save our friend
posted by Sandeep Sood on June 25, 2007 at 01:25 PM
Meet Vinay Chakravarty. He went to college with me and is a close friend of my sister's.
He has two weeks to find a bone marrow donor.
Since Vinay is a South Asian, the probability of finding a donor is best within our community. There is a staggeringly low number of South Asian donors currently registered.
Here is how you can help:
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The Mind Outside the Brain (Part 5)
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 18, 2007 at 10:06 AM
With the discovery of mirror neurons, another piece of the puzzle was added, the puzzle being how we learn and understand others. Learning occurs in the animal world largely by imitation, it is thought. Recently whale researchers were startled
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Gaza: What Just Happened and What It Means for Us and the World
posted by Rabbi Lerner on June 17, 2007 at 10:32 PM
For many years, Tikkun has argued that a goal of Israeli policy has been to strengthen Hamas sufficiently so that it's power in Palestine could be used as an irrefutable 'proof" to the West that Palestinians couldn't be trusted to run a state of their own, and that therefore all it could be allowed would be the bantistun version of a state--little Palestinian enclaves cut off from each other by a sourrounding Israeli Army and the Israeli settlers.
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World Peace Begins With Your Neighbor
posted by Richard Flyer on June 15, 2007 at 09:56 PM
Why does it take a disaster to bring us together? Recent tragedies like 911, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tsunami remind us of who we are deep inside--- a spiritually connected part of a large extended family, a web of living beings, sharing a tiny biosphere, on a small planet.
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BIG PAPA DOG
posted by Gotham Chopra on June 12, 2007 at 07:16 AM
That's right - I'm gonna be a dad! But here's the thing: I just bought a new XBOX so I could get back into video gaming. I still will plan my days around being able to get home to watch the Red Sox play. And when the doctor
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World Awakened: One Community; One Neighborhood; One Street at a Time!
posted by Dr A T Ariyaratne on June 10, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Dearest Brothers and Sisters:
We envision a worldwide network of villages, communities, and cities--a global commonwealth of “village republics”. This is our common dream of what we call Vishvodaya, or global awakening.
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Fathering
posted by Joe Kelly on June 08, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Why do so few fathers and stepfather's father with intention? Most men in our culture take only a marginal role in the day-to-day rearing of children, while getting caught up in the traditional (and too narrow) role of dad as provider of money.
DO LESS, LET GO! Conscious Return to Simplicity
posted by ATCA on June 07, 2007 at 08:56 AM
We are grateful to Aurora Carlson, based on the West Coast, Sweden, for "DO LESS, LET GO! Conscious Return to the Simplicity of Intent" in response to Richard Thomas Gerber, based in Michigan, USA, for his submission to ATCA, "The Deadly Interplay of Nature's System Architecture -- Red Flag Warning!"
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Deadly Interplay of Nature's System Architecture
posted by ATCA on June 06, 2007 at 05:22 PM
We are grateful to Richard Thomas Gerber, based in Michigan, USA, for his second submission to ATCA in June, "The Deadly Interplay of Nature's System Architecture -- Red Flag Warning!" which follows from "Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- Mysterious, Massive Death of Bees in the US -- Are bees the Canary in the mineshaft?" submitted in February.
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The Mind Outside the Brain (Part 2)
posted by Deepak Chopra on June 04, 2007 at 02:17 PM
If it is true that intelligence arises in a "mind field" that surrounds us on all sides, we must all be participating in it. Almost a century ago Carl Jung proposed that our participation takes place in a "collective unconscious,"
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Things That Annoy Me
posted by Mallika Chopra on June 01, 2007 at 12:52 PM
People who talk on their cell phones while driving (even though I am guilty of doing so).
Salespeople who are really slow, incompetent or unhelpful.
Warrantees that are a pain to deal with. (Remember Sears Sucks.)
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Battle at Kruger
posted by Saira Mohan on May 31, 2007 at 12:48 AM
Battle at Kruger...
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Do you have a minute to save the world?
posted by Mallika Chopra on May 29, 2007 at 01:07 PM
Every time I walk out of my local Whole Foods, there is a young, wide-eyed, optimistic activist asking for signatures on a petition. It just takes a minute to save rainforests, whales, protect the ozone, etc. Just sign here! Likewise, I get
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How does one overcome anger and hatred?
posted by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi on May 19, 2007 at 10:01 AM
It’s all very well to talk about love and its healing power. Infact I and everybody else at intentblog do that all the time.And we really mean it-well i certainly do :-)
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On the Air with CNN Larry King Live
posted by Intent on May 18, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Dear Friends,
Deepak is scheduled to appear tomorrow - Saturday, May 19th at 9pm ET and 6pm PT on CNN's LARRY KING LIVE to discuss his New York Times Bestseller, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
WFC: IntentBlogger -- Dr Vandana Shiva -- elected
posted by DK Matai on May 16, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Dr Vandana Shiva, renowned Indian environmental campaigner, founder of Navdanya, an IntentBlog contributor, and a good friend, has been elected an executive member of the World Future Council...
Vandana at The World Economic Forum, Davos
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