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hi tom i think this is an important and valid question. especially in a post modern context that allows contradictions to sustain agendas.( for instance how can wilbur suggest universal adressal for the AQAL model... More »
LoL Mike~ Maybe the Leopold analogy doesn't fit at all, or perhaps it fits only in the moment it seems to fit. I've never analyzed it closely enough to answer that. Perhaps it is because... More »
That's your homepage...? :S If you mean starting page, which comes up when you log onto the internet, this is mine . It is designed so that every time you log in there's some advertising... More »
Greetings~ While the article certainly has the element of emotionalism to it and as with most emotional responses, a tendency toward exaggeration, I think the underlying concern is very real. One has to simply investigate... More »
awesome! i've never met a person from the middle east, so this is really cool for me. I'm Suni, and i live in the boondocks of the United States. i just graduated high school, and... More »
Hello Lovely Ambassadors, I hope you are having a fantastic month. Life is taking its dynamic turns into summer and we're having a beautiful time here on Gaia . We've had a few lovely additions... More »
:-D I think the 'enlightened masters' ARE teaching this... but then, as I've expressed, I wonder about anyone calling themselves an 'enlightened master' who isn't designing what they say not to tell people these things,... More »
Hello Lovelies! We're introducing a new little feature here in the Lounge. It's a weekly discussion designed to inspire and I'd like to invite you to participate :) There's so many wonderful people on Gaia.... More »
Following are some tips from Jessica for those of you new to the site. As she puts it, “This really is a magical place and a community rich with extraordinary people and ideas… so, here... More »
I had to bring this to the table.....fabulous, but long article from Douglas Rushkoff. Here's a sample So it’s not just a case of hip, hypergentrified Brooklynites succumb- ing to market psychology, but people of... More »
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The UFO/ETI phenomena coincides with the present unfolding energetic convergence which effects us at the energetic and DNA level and thus, our conscious awareness. Click Here The great sleep that mankind has been in... More »
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Angel and Stone by Howard Nemerov In the world are millions and millions of men, and each man, With a few exceptions, believes himself to be at the center, A small number of his more... More »
Terrill
I am pleased to announce that a provocative, dynamic and learned guest has accepted my invitation. The next Vision Practice Retreat will host Dr. S Fuller on June 27, 2009. Don’t Let’s Wait for the... More »
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Dispelling Myths: Hinduism Awareness Week Source: www.dailytexanonline.com AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA, February 24, 2009: The sounds of Bollywood music Monday accompanied an educational rally that launched the annual Hinduism Awareness Week at the University of Texas... More »
Marky Mark
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TimeToShine
CHECK THIS OUT: Raw Mineral Makeup Coleen Jones responds to the question: What is mineral makeup? No dyes, fragrance, petroleum or mineral oil. The raw materials are rocks from the earth raw materials are sourced... More »
TimeToShine
Okay, bike ride along the river and back in the gorgeous morning sun, then I will get this TipJoy going... It SO lends itself to Airillions Lything , that I am very excited to bring... More »
Sylvia
Over the years, I've attended a number of rallies, protests, vigils, and other social activism events - and I keep running into people with whom I've shared peace cranes. They'll say to me - you... More »
Terrill
As I lay on my side with my ribs up against a sandstone rock and my hip resting on the damp ground I hear a woman call out "hellooo!" Standing behind me, my partner David... More »
Meenakshi
We have just had general elections in India for the Lok Sabha [general assembly]. A slightly personal touch for me, is that Shashi Tharoor, one of those who won, was at the University of Delhi... More »
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: This means: "Turn the [divine] face which is particular to you. . . ." This face is the secret (sirr) through which your spirit subsists. . . . It is the source of man's being and the command [formulated in the verse] is in reality concerned with this. God . . . does not consider your exterior form but only your heart - which is the "divine face" proper to each of you, and it is this "divine face" which, in you, "contains" God even though His sky and His earth cannot contain Him. . . . He who turns (toward the sacred Mosque} with his body alone, without also turning this face, has not truly turned. . . . He who looks with his finite eye only sees finite things - bodies, colors or surfaces. He who looks with the eye of his hidden spirit sees the hidden things - spiritual beings, forms of the world of the absolute Imagination, jinns - all of which are still only created beings and therefore veils. But he who looks with his face, that is to say, his secret (sirr), sees the face which God has in each thing; for, in truth, only Allah sees Allah, only Allah knows Allah. . . . As for the "sacred Mosque" . . . , although this term applies literally to the Mosque perceived by the senses, it should be understood as designating the degree which totalizes all the divine Names, that is to say the degree of the divinity which is the "place of the prostration" - of the prostration of the heart, not of the body.
Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.
Know however that God, in order to manifest Himself by His essence to His essence, has no need of creatures since, with relation to Essence, he is absolutely independent with respect to worlds and even with respect to His own names. . . . On the other hand, when He manifests Himself with His names and His attributes - which implies the manifestation of the effects - He needs (huwa muftaqir) the creatures. . . . This relation is . . . necessary in order that the divine Names, which are only distinguished by their effects, can be distinguished from one another. At the same time, the divine Names, by the one of their "faces" which is turned toward the Essence, are themselves totally autonomous with respect to worlds. In this respect, they are nothing other than the Essence itself and that is why each of them can be qualified and designated by all of the other Names in the same way as the Essence.
The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice's Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn't, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet "too much" competition is condemned as "cutthroat." It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as "enlightened" when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge's verdict after the fact.
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.
DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
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