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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…

For years Alex Grey’s visionary artwork portraying the body’s interior, auras, and energetic systems has inspired countless artists, seekers, and decors. Now you can get a more personalized version of the human imprint in these colorful, custom-made art pieces from your own DNA or fingerprints. The company sends you a “collection kit” and then translates…

I love the way a reader named Aciana described her world as she “sees” it. She writes: “What I ‘see’ are vibrations that form outward from objects. Sometimes just in the air. Since everything “vibrates,” the sights I see differ with the intensity of each object. For example, once I was started to look up…

What happens when two happily-married yoga practicioners with children fall in love? This.

Oneness–of one kind or another–is coming this way. Here’s what scientists now say the world will look like in 250 million years: They call it Pangea Ultima. These continental shifts and collisions are occurring at a rate “slower than the growth of a human finger nail.” Africa will basically kiss both sides of the Atlantic!…

Sticking with the subject of money, click here to see a filmed conversation about poverty and prosperity between spiritual teachers Ram Dass and Wayne Dyer on Ram Dass’s new, beautifully produced website, RamDass.org. Ram Dass, as you no doubt know, was a Harvard professor in the 1960s whose worldly, pretentious ambitions as a striving American…

A few readers object to Christian prosperity gospels and the preached belief that “God wants you rich.” “I’m all for prosperity,” writes steady CM reader Stacey-Robin, “but in a more holistic fashion. Be grateful for what you have and practice good stewardship. Life isn’t neccessarily going to be better with a bigger house or new…
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