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Spiritual Articles
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Contributed by Kathleen Karlsen
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 Padre Pio
Padre Pio was one of seven children, although two siblings died in infancy. His parents Grazio Mario Forgione (1860-1946) and Maria Guiseppa de Nunzio Forgione (1859-1929) were devout Catholics. For the Forgione family, religion was the center of life.
At the young age of five, Padre Pio consecrated his life to Jesus. By the age of ten, he had made his wishes to enter a friary known to his parents. However, Padre had only three years of formal schooling and needed a private tutor to prepare for the religious life. His father went to America to find work that would provide the financial means for this necessity.
At age 15, he took the Habit of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. After many years of preparation, Padre Pio was finally ordained as a priest in August of 1910. Within a month, he experienced a visitation from Jesus and Mary and received the stigmata, or the wounds of Christ. This resulted in great consternation among his doctors and was embarrassing for Padre Pio, who preferred to live his spiritual life in private. The wounds disappeared, but only for awhile. |
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Contributed by Timothy Aaron Whiston
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 Psychic World
Think of where our world societies would be without all the debilitating skepticism many people currently suffer from. In a world where people not only accepted intuition as a wonderful reality, but also strove to find and trust their own inner voices, here are just a few possible scenarios…
- People wouldn’t need to run to the doctor and be pumped full of chemicals every time they suspected a problem. Instead, they would learn to sense the nature of their personal disturbances and take right action to correct them before physical issues manifested.
- Outrageously dishonest politics would come to an end because people would simply stop listening to garbage and refuse to vote for candidates who insult their intelligence. |
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Contributed by Bhaskar Banerjee
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 Rhythms of Mind Deeper than that is the 'alpha' rhythm - when you are not active but passive - relaxing, listening to music, or in prayer or meditation. The activity of the mind is lowered to 14 to 18 cycles/sec. (awake but not very alert /awake but passive).
Below the second, there is a third state; called 'theta', 8 to 14 cycles/sec - similar to when you take alcohol - waking but not aware. The activity of the mind has slowed down so much that it is just on the verge of falling asleep. In deep meditation also this will happen.
The lowest, the fourth state 'delta' is where the activity falls lower still, 0 to 4 cycles/sec. The mind is almost non-functioning.
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Contributed by Gangaram
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 Hanuman NEW DELHI: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama can now expect help from an unexpected quarter, Lord Hanuman.
All-India Congress Committee member Brij Mohan Bhama has organised a 11-day religious ceremony at Karol Bagh here for his success in the U.S. elections.
The idea of sending an idol of Hanuman dawned on him after friends in the United States mentioned a œprominent American politician who carried a miniature Hanuman idol in his pocket for luck, Mr. Bhama said speaking on the first day of the ceremony on Tuesday.
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Paradigm Shift The Paradigm Shift - Quotes from The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson - Thomas Kuhn and Social Transformation.
"Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. The great shuddering, irrevocable shift overtaking us is not a new political, religious, or philosophical system. It is a new mind--the ascendance of a startling worldview that gathers into its framework breakthrough science and insights from earliest recorded thought. ......."
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