Harold Camping explains that Judgement Day WAS on 21st May, it's just that it was spiritual and not physical; all the physical stuff will happen on 21st October, instead:

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Bless him.

He's so calm and genial about it all, isn't he?

That's because he's had practice: he did the same thing in 1994.

Oh, and his followers who spent their life savings ( Read more... )

The current 40-Day Global Sadhana began yesterday. I, however, began it today.

The Japji is the first Bani of the Sikh sacred book the Sri Guru Granth Sahib. It's also A Big Deal in Kundalini Yoga circles, even for those practitioners who are not Sikhs.

It basically lays out the concept of the genderless Divine as indwelling, not separate from the ( Read more... )

I survived the 40-day global sadhana. ( Update, Reflection, & New 40-Day Sadhana )

One of the things I love best about BBC Radio 4 is In Our Time, a discussion programme on a variety of topics, covering science, religion, literature, etc.

They've archive all the series on the website since it became possible to do that, and it's such a treasure trove.

For anyone interested in mythology, they've some really fabulous resources. And ( Read more... )

You've got 4 days to listen to part one of the fabulous historian Bettany Hughes' exploration of the role of women in the early Christian church of the 2nd century, Banishing Eve. She works out how attitudes to women and religion were formed in the context of goddess worship, the widespread concept of the Mother of God, Mediterranean and Middle ( Read more... )