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YouTube.com isn’t the exclusive realm of wacky home videos made by suburban boys in their teens and early twenties. Here’s a vintage black-and-white film snippet of Swami Yogananda in which he lectures Westerners on how to go to sleep.

Heavenly Father, bless the nations of the earth, our own large family, that all may realize their eternal kinship as Thy children. Thou art our one spiritual Father, the Beloved of the Universe and the Beloved of our hearts. May the strong thoughts of love we broadcast today possess the brains of the dictators and…

This is fascinating. I’ve never read it before. In 1950, Martin Luther King took a course called “The Religious Development of Personality,” and wrote an autobiographical work about the various religious stages of his own early life. The professor marked it “Excellent.” Here’s an excerpt: “I had always been the questioning and precocious type. At…

I did not make it to this National Gallery Show when I was in Washington D.C., but I surely wish I had. These exquisite Dutch-school partnered paintings are called diptychs, and they consist of two small, hinged panels: A portrait of the diptych’s owner was usually painted in a prayful pose on one side facing…
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