Religion and Soul
Everywhere you go you find people believing in these invisible projections of themselves or their fears, gods, they call them.
And everywhere you go there are these organisations run by people who say they talk to these gods and interpret their rules, religions, they call them.
Here are some guides to the main world religions to help you understand a little of the incomprehensible.
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Buddhism Guide Online
Buddhism is kind of strange in that it began in India and is now almost extinct there. It began in one place and then spread so far that it’s ...
Islam Guide Online
Have prayer mat, will travel
Islam claims a billion followers and is one of the most misunderstood religions in the world. It’s a close cousin of Christianity but has no ...
Christianity Guide
Christianity is the world’s single largest religion and is responsible for most of the course of the last 2000 years of world history. That’s not a glowing recommendation but ...
Judaism Guide
Whatever the Sumerians might have to say about the matter, Judaism claims to have been the world’s first monotheistic religion. So whilst all the pagans were busy soliciting favours of ...
Hinduism Guide Online
Hinduism is probably the hardest religion of all to pin down. In fact, try and find two Hindus who believe exactly the same thing and you’ll be doing well. The ...
Zen At Work – Vipassana - An Indian Meditation Bootcamp
It’s 4.35 in the morning. Not a time of day with which I am particularly well acquainted. Outside it’s raining heavily. But I’m indoors, in a large, dimly lit hall ...
Yom Kippur - Heaviest Day in the Jewish Calendar
Wake up in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur and you could be forgiven for thinking that you’re the lone survivor of a biological attack. No cars are in the ...
The Wanderer and the I Ching
The image of the Wanderer in the I Ching is formed from two images: fire above and mountain below. So imagine flames leaping around on a hillside, never lingering ...
The Soul of a Road Junky
When you travel for long enough, you eventually leave your past behind. It becomes another place that you might visit physically or just behind your eyelids on another bus journey ...
Hugging Amma in Milano
The skating rink was ablaze with lights, incense in the air and the sound of bhajans drenched our ears. The ice was covered with carpets and devotees kneeled down in ...
The War of Terror Against the Muslims
Some years ago, I was in Delhi and an Indian told me with great certainty:
“Look anywhere in the world where there is war or problems and you will find ...
Sita Sings the Blues - Reinterpreting the Ramayana
An incredible one-woman production.
Peru Shamans for Obama!
How can Obama lose with backing like this?
(Do your best to ignore the patronising voice of the Associated Press narrator – we would have used the BBC version but they disenabled embedding)
