The New York Times covers current medical research of hallucinogens:
Scientists are especially intrigued by the similarities between hallucinogenic experiences and the life-changing revelations reported throughout history by religious mystics and those who meditate.
The subjects’ reports mirrored so closely the accounts of religious mystical experiences, Dr. Griffiths said, that it seems likely the human brain is [...]
Taking a meditative trip
April 15th, 2010 · View Comments
Tags: empowerment · health & well-being · human development · spirituality
Raquel Welch’s yoga & feminism?
April 13th, 2010 · View Comments
The book, “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage,” has made the New York Times Best-seller List. Has she actually transcended the beauty business thanks to age and yoga?
“The thing about aging is that its got all these wonderful answers attached to it,” Welch said, adding that age alone should never define a person.
I’m holding together just fine, I’m not [...]
Tags: empowerment · gender bias · health & well-being · media · sex and sexuality
Yoga is non-religious…?!
April 9th, 2010 · View Comments
Thanks Jagga for posting this article, Bending yoga to fit their worship needs!
Many Christian and Jewish yogis are incorporating prayer and religious teachings into the practice. ‘It allows us to blur the line between the physical and the spiritual,’ one leader says.
Interesting how they are co-opting yoga to suit their beliefs. Isn’t the pursuit of yoga [...]
Tags: health & well-being · human development · religion
“Unfortunately, when you utter the word ‘yoga’ in the West, people always think of impossible physical postures.”
March 31st, 2010 · View Comments
Actually among the 2000-and-odd sutras Patanjali wrote, only one sutra, which contains only five words, is dedicated for the physical postures. But today, in the Western part of the world, when you utter the word “yoga,” people think it is just that. It is a miniscule of yoga.
Another excerpt from Sadhguru’s Sacred Awakening Series teleseminar [...]
Tags: Isha US · empowerment · health & well-being · human development · spirituality
Mahashivarathri 2010, 12 Feb
February 8th, 2010 · View Comments
Please join us at the center, via live webcast at http://yaksha.info/ or on the Aastha channel (Sky 807 in the UK) for this night-long festival which goes from 6pm to 6am, 12-13 Feb.
Discourses, live Q&A and meditations by Sadhguru, and performances by:
Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia
MIDIval PunditZ & Karsh Kale
Sivamani
Sounds of Isha
and more…
Mahashivarathri is celebrated at Isha Yoga [...]
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