A small quote received some attention last week because it combined several components that are most frequently reserved for a film plot starring Helen Mirren, Matt Damon and Damon’s snug black shirt. The components are as follows: mysterious women, assassination plots, secret agents and the spiritual leader of Tibet. Read full article > >

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Could the Dalai Lama really have been poisoned with a scarf?

Back in the late ’90s, Spiritualized started making New Age music for hipsters — slow, dreamy minimalist pop that buried “oohs” and “ahhs” in a haze of studio gook. Then Jason Pierce, the band’s frontman, realized that if he really wanted to ascend to the astral plane, he might need a gospel choir or two to help him along. Read full article > >

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Spiritualized lets its energy loose at 9:30 Club

Can the MCAT identify that ethereal mix of scientist, humanist and spiritualist that makes a good doctor?

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Pre-Med’s New Priorities: Heart and Soul and Social Science

In his letter from Hajj, a spiritual journey for Muslims and the largest gathering of people in the world, Malcom X , once wrote: “Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land.”

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Where London and Mecca Meet: The British Museum’s Hajj Exhibition

Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the world’s Anglicans, is stepping down at a time of shrinking congregations and divisions over social issues.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to Resign at End of Year

It was Sunday morning, and the church was filled with more than 200 men, women and children, praying, singing and testifying. “I have been searching for a faith all of my life,” Melvin Davis, 60, of Southeast declared from the pulpit. The grocery clerk’s story, genial and direct, bared a quest for a spiritual home that long had come up short. Read full article > >

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Mindful of history, Mormon Church reaches out to minorities

Yoni Bock took a year off college to backpack around the world. But when he got to India, he decided to stay. There was something about the duality of the culture that felt right to him— it was both wealthy and impoverished, spiritual and materialistic. During the few months he was there, he realized how he wanted to live: in shades of gray that deny the certainty of black and white. Read full article > >

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On Love: ‘I had a sense very early on that I wasn’t going anywhere’

On Tuesday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg evicted the Occupy movement from its spiritual home near Wall Street. Soon afterward, a longtime Occupier sent us his testimony from the streets of New York: “Lost my stuff, including power cord for my laptop, in the raid, something or someone cleared out my bank account, and it’s raining. I could just write a country song. I’ll tell you this: the resolve is still here. People I talk to are a healthy mixture of rage, comedy, resolve, and excitement. Also exhaustion. Maybe the raid was the best thing that could happen? Winning at last, winning at last, thank God Almighty, we are winning at last.” Read full article > >

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Why Occupy Wall Street will keep up the fight

A Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge ruled Monday against Joel Peebles, the son of late megapastor Betty Peebles, who said his mother left him in charge of the multimillion-dollar Jericho City of Praise ministry in Landover. The ruling by Judge Dwight Jackson says the lawful governing body is the board of trustees, whose members argued that Betty Peebles wanted her son to oversee the church’s spiritual direction but not its finances. Read full article > >

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Joel Peebles loses court battle over megachurch Jericho City of Praise in Prince George’s

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a man of faith, and one of the big questions about him has been whether he would seek the presidency more as an evangelist or as a job-creator. On the debate stage, Perry decidedly has done the latter. But he demonstrated Wednesday that he would not shy away from cloaking his candidacy in his Christianity, delivering an address here at the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University that presented his life in deeply spiritual terms and cast his political aspirations as destiny. Read full article > >

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Perry talks about his faith, forsaking talk of jobs for a day

Oprah Winfrey plays many roles– talk show host, chairman of a television network, philanthropist — but the one she says is most important to her is that of spiritual leader . “ . . . I’m very clear about what my role and purpose is,” Winfrey said to Piers Morgan in a January interview . Read full article > >

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Oprah Winfrey, spiritual leader?

Cisco Systems rejects a Falun Gong lawsuit that alleges it helps the Chinese government repress the spiritual group via the Golden Shield project.

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A former RAF officer persuaded to give his home to a spiritual healing centre speaks out for the first time.

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Donor ‘influenced by guru centre’

This article “Test was designed by Psychologist who inspired CIA’s torture program” may set the record for the sheer number of false statements about me, about positive psychology, and about Comprehensive Soldier Fitness. Apparently the reporter, Jason Leopold, has a checkered past in misreporting. read more

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Psychologist Martin Seligman Responds to Truthout Report on Army "Spiritual Fitness" Test

Test Was Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA’s Torture Program An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture program is under fire by civil rights groups and hundreds of active-duty soldiers. They say it unconstitutionally requires enlistees to believe in God or a “higher power” in order to be deemed “spiritually fit” to serve in the Army. read more

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Army’s "Spiritual Fitness" Test Comes Under Fire