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Resources
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STORIES OF SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE
William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
A Study in Human Nature (Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion)
Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Harvard Divinity School Address (Excerpts)
delivered Sunday evening, July 15, 1838, before the graduating senior class in the chapel, Divinity Hall
Excerpted by HDS student Thomas Riedlinger in 1995
Noetic Gnosis: Cosmic Consciousness
by Beatrix Murrell
From: murrell@netcom.com (Beatrix Murrell)
September 3, 1995
Biography of Bill W., Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
A book by Susan Cheever
Booklist: Kundalini Awakening
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
Meditation Instructions with Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
CD or Cassette Tape from Siddha Yoga Bookstore
Awakened Heart Meditation
Meditation Workshops with Sally Kempton
An Interview with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama
by Mary S. Aikins, Reader’s Digest Canada, Sept.25, 2004
Nalandabodhi
Founded by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche to provide a gateway to the Buddhist science of mind. Through an international network of meditation and study centers, Nalandabodhi's teachers and facilities support Buddhist study, meditation, and action.
An Inquiring Life
Self-Study Courses with Laura Duggan
The Creation & Offering of Mandalas in Buddhist Practice
Retreat Centers for Spiritual Practice & Renewal in California
THE GURU PRINCIPLE
About Swami Chidvilasananda
Answers the question: Who is the Siddha Guru?
The Guru and The Guru Gita Pocket Books
By longtime practitioners of Siddha Yoga Meditation
The Guru Principle
A talk by Joseph Chilton Pearce
30-min. video by a student of Swamis Muktananda and Chidvilasananda
(1 in set, “Mystical Paths”: talks by students of Buddhism, Sufism & Yoga)
The Guru Question
An Interview with H.H. the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa
“View” Issue #9, International Drukpa Publications
SPIRITUALITY & SCIENCE
Scans of Monks' Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning
By Sharon Begley, November 5, 2004
The Wall Street Journal © 2004, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Self Tests: Spirituality and Well-Being
By Jared Kass, Ph.D, in Spirituality & Health Magazine
Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality
Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion
By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post, June 17, 2001
Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
Founded in 2001 with a start-up endowment from the John Templeton Foundation, this institute is led by Prof. Stephen Post, a bioethics professor at the Case School of Medicine. It funds scientific research on the human capacity for unselfish love.
The National Study of Youth and Religion
This is a research project being conducted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor in the Department of Sociology. The six-year study is designed to enhance our understanding of the religious lives of American adolescents and includes a national telephone survey of youth and their parents, as well as in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of these youth.
Center for Study of Religion and the Brain
The center’s purpose is to contribute to the understanding of religious experience in light of the cognitive sciences. Of its many areas of concentration, it creates a forum for exploring the relationship between faith and cognition, religion and consciousness, faith and intuition, the role of the senses in religious experience, and spirituality and memory.
Director Dr. Jerry Larsen (interviewed on NPR’s The Infinite Mind)
HEALING COMMUNICATION
Center for Nonviolent Communication
A global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another through Nonviolent Communication, a process created by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
“Compassionate Communication”
An article by Marshall Rosenberg
The Compassionate Listening Project
founded by Leah Green, is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching skills that heal polarization and build bridges between people, communities and nations in conflict.
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
The United Religions Intitiative
The initiative has the goal of creating peace through global interfaith dialogue. The heart of its mission is the creation of Cooperation Circles, in which members of different spiritual traditions gather to initiate interfaith acts of cooperation.
“Spiritual Courage”
An Article by Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade
Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones
Inspiring talks and interviews with good company, great minds, and innovative thinkers.
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
A Network for Grateful Living (ANGeL)
A worldwide community dedicated to gratefulness as the core inspiration for personal change, international cooperation, and sustainable activism in areas of universal concern. The purpose of the organization is to create a global network of people whose spiritual practice—grateful living—fosters personal fulfillment, ecological concern, and action on behalf of peace and justice.
Alliance for a Caring Economy
The newest of The Center for Partnership Studies (founded by Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice & the Blade), ACE is forming a network to develop the foundations for a caring partnership economics, along with representatives from government, business, civil society, and academic sectors, including faculty and graduate students at the Case Western Management School, the University of Michigan, and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Beginning with the statement, “We decry the lack of caring of many economic policies and business practices,” ACE seeks to bring caring back into these sectors by creating strategic partnerships.
Berkana Institute
A worldwide community of people who recognize the need for change in our communities, organizations and nations. Their mission states, “We are offering our leadership to help resolve our most pressing local problems. We define a leader as anyone who wants to help, who is willing to step forward to make a difference in the world. We know that the world is blessed with an abundance of these leaders.”
Heifer International
This unique foundation seeks “to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.” Its strategy is to “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others—along with their knowledge, resources, and skills—an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.”
Pachamama Alliance
Its two-fold mission is “to preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians, and to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.”
Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program (Seattle, WA)
Literacy can make the difference between the poverty of one generation and the promise of the next. Page Ahead helps children realize their potential by providing them with the inspiration to read. Page Ahead provides new books and promotes reading activities for at-risk children to enrich their lives and strengthen our communities.
Peacetrees Vietnam
“Working alongside the Vietnamese people to build the capacity for a safe and healthy future for the children of Quang Tri Province.” This peace-building organization does an artful combination of landmine and bomb clearance, environmental restoration and community work, mines awareness education, and citizen diplomacy, including the recent dedication of a former battleground, now safely cleared of land mines, as the PeaceTrees Friendship Village—providing homes and micro-credit loans for 100 families whose lives have been shaped by the aftermath of war.
The Hunger Site
Your click helps feed the hungry with the value of 1.1 cups of staple food.
The Total Experience Gospel Choir
If a whole choir can be a hero, this choir and its leader, Pastor Patrinell Wright, is mine. After 30 years touring internationally and uplifting audiences past the point of ecstatic bliss again and again, you'd think this Choir might rest on its laurels, but no chance! Their ministry to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina is a wonder of love in action. Read about their noble, true service in this Seattle Times article: "Do Unto Others Rings True for Seattle Gospel Choir"
FEATURED PHILANTHROPICS
Alliance for a Caring Economy (ACE)
http://www.PartnershipWay.org/html/acepage.htm
The Berkana Institute
http://www.berkana.org/index.html
The Compassionate Listening Project
www.CompassionateListening.org
Global Citizen Journey
www.GlobalCitizenJourney.org
Heifer International
www.Heifer.org
The Hunger Project
http://www.thp.org/
Lifelong AIDS Alliance
www.LifelongAIDSAlliance.org
The Natural Resources Defense Council
www.NRDC.org
The Pachamama Alliance
www.pachamama.org
PeaceTrees Vietnam
www.peacetreesvietnam.org
The Prasad Project
www.prasad.org
Kiva.org
www.kiva.org
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
www.pbtfus.org
OTHER
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