Spirituality twoday
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Spirituality twodayShaman and the Sun Dance
I wouldn’t say that the spiritual void was necessarily filled by Castaneda’s words, but I began to appreciate the idea that something greater may be out there, connecting us in some way or another.
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Wellness Contributor: Sally TurkovichThe Politics of Thanks
The jobs my husband and I have allowed us to buy this big fancy bed. The pillows and comforter were a wedding shower gift from my generous cousins. I'm thankful for our jobs and I'm thankful to my cousins. Instead, I should apparently be thankful to God. What's the connection, you ask?
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twodaymag's Relationship Contributor: Anya AlvarezFinding My Way (A Spiritual Journey)
I felt like an outsider. People asked me if I had been attending another church. When I answered with a simple, “No, I just haven’t been going to church at all,” they looked at me with amazement that I surprisingly hadn’t ended up pregnant or looked like I just gotten out of drug rehab.
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Health and WellnessThe Awakening: Part Two - The Message
What if there is no supernatural being, alien race or “sky daddy” that can rescue us—only a brilliant collective brain that can be activated by each one of us to solve the most pressing problems of our time?
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Health and WellnessThe Awakening: Part One-Opening the Door
I walked briskly onward, not only free of anxiety, but feeling confident, completely safe—knowing I would reach my destination, and utterly convinced that I was somehow not alone.
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twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen HoughtonThe Catholic Church Needs to ‘Man Up’
Called the “Woodstock Defense” it states that the crime of sex abuse committed against innocent children by your friendly neighborhood priests only occurred because "vulnerable priests were influenced by the increased deviance of society during the psychedelic 1960s and 1970s."
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Health and WellnessPassover: An Outsider’s Perspective
Only when we hit “rock bottom,” it seems, are we willing to question Pharaoh’s way—whether Pharaoh represents our ego’s demands, parental expectations, social pressures, allegiance to conventional values, or unrelenting perfectionism.
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Spirituality twodayBeltane: The Festival of Passion
Before the continent was Christianized, ancient Europeans were living it up (and gettin’ down in the woods) in the merry month of May: the Romans celebrated the Floralia in drunken delight, the ancient Germanic peeps got rowdy on Walpurgis Night and the Celts fired up the bonfires (and libidos) on Beltane .
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Spirituality twodayThe Cynical Daydreamer
“Religion is based on belief in the unseen or unknown. If you can imagine mythology, you can imagine the religious mysteries.” says one friend. I disagree.