Featured Blog Posts – January 2010 Archive (5)

Love Serve Remember

I am remembering my senior year of High School. I am sure there was a level of excitement at the thought of being free, all grown up with a brand new world before me. Yet, I imagine there was a certain level of apprehension, as well. What would the unknown of the world be like? Who would I become as I emerged from a safe, dependent reality to my own unique purpose in the world?

In the infinite world of light and mystery, Spirit communicates to us through energy, tones, symbols,… Continue

Added by DeAnne Hampton on January 31, 2010 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Supreme Court Says Corporations Can Spend As Much as They Want on Getting Their Friends Elected

By Pareene

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court reiterated their utterly insane opinion that corporations are people today as they struck down restrictions on campaign spending by corporations in a decision that everyone expected but that is depressing nonetheless.

(A lot of people are reporting that… Continue

Added by theGIC.org on January 22, 2010 at 10:17am — 2 Comments

A Place Called Evin

Our Dear Baha'i friends are locked up in this prison charged for spying. Baha'is believe in the spiritual advancement of the world. We happen to have our World Center in Haifa, Isreal but we are not spies for Isreal. Does that mean that the Muslims that have their Mosque in Jerusalem are spies? Or that Christians that visit Isreal and have their churches their are spies. These charges are false and ridiculous. Bahai's believe that people choose to believe in Baha'u'llah's teachings because they… Continue

Added by Ken Rice on January 8, 2010 at 2:36pm — 1 Comment

Touching Center

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and feel. Can you imagine if the whole world truly understood that all the secrets and unknown mysteries of this existence are mirrored within one’s own heart?

As we take the first tentative, yet wildly anticipatory steps into a brand new decade of an evolving world, what can we expect? How do we best proceed? Where will the stardust settle and who will we be in the settling?

Everything is so new, beautiful energy has found a permanent… Continue

Added by DeAnne Hampton on January 6, 2010 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty… Continue

Added by theGIC.org on January 5, 2010 at 10:10am — 2 Comments