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Yoga Journal Live! New York Event
While I may be settling back into some degree of normality again in New York, backpack safely stowed away for the foreseeable future, I’ll be out of town celebrating a friend’s birthday when the Yoga Journal Live event swings by. It also sounds like a great event. Running from Friday 8th April – Monday 11th…
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The Story of God – Searching for Answers
On Sunday, April 3rd National Geographic are screening the first part of a six-part documentary series called ‘The Story of God.’ Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it follows the actor to the lengths of the Earth as he explores the major religions to better understand God’s origin and how that image has evolved over the years.…
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92Y Challenge for a New Religion
Note: The public round of voting for the 92Y contest has ended. More information to come soon. Please Like Me before Valentine’s day. I’ve finished my book and am now in New York to publicize and publish it. I’d like to ask you, my friends, to lend a hand. The 92Y, a non-profit cultural and…
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Lady Ganga
A few years ago I was in Leh, India, for a few months. When I received an invitation to a screening of Lady Ganga: Nilza’s Story, I watched the trailer and was drawn in at first by the scenery and the mountainside highway along which Nilza was traveling. Cut to a clinic, which was the same…
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Recovering Nomad – Winter in New York
It was a great weekend in my new city of New York, and a great way to start the new year and new aspect of my adventures.
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Their Weight in Gold – Shwedagon and Sagrada Familia
(reposted with permission of The Myanmar Times, additional photos added) Their weight in gold: How material wealth creates spiritual energy in some of the world’s costliest holy places
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Just Smile
Yesterday, I experienced the first negative energy day I’ve had in a long time. It started with this policeman stealing my motorcycle at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.
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Falling for Nepal
“Well-come” read the signs at Nepali restaurants, hotels and other attractions. It’s pronounced with equal accents on both syllables, and with a slight pause in between. It’s said less as a greeting, and more as a syncopated response where a Westerner would precede it with “you’re.” It’s hard not to hear it as two words…
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Zigzag to the Ganges
The trip to Rishikesh from Srinegar was not a simple one. It involved a wooden Shakira or shikara, as they call them, then an auto rickshaw, and then an 8-hour taxi ride through the Himalayas with a driver who self-identified as — wait for it — Fuckery Zigzag. Okay, I think it was actually Fakira Zigzag,…
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Holy Health in the Himalayas
How could someone not like a place called Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India? That’s the full name of a single place, which should tell you something about its complicated history. I got a unique glimpse into this corner of the world when I joined a cardiac screening camp to check the cardiovascular health of…
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