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Karma is what you’re born with, and this includes environment. How you play it is dharma. Dharma is the integrity with which you face karma, and how this works out is what life is all about. Dharma is to be … Continue reading →

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The new film produced by Michael Moore, Planet Of The Humans, challenges how we think of going Green. Seriously, how do we get off fossil fuels? Do we have the slightest idea of what this involves and implies? Do we … Continue reading →

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My recommendation is to follow this guideline: eschew any book or source material that spells Hafez’s name with an i, as in Hafiz. Hafez properly rhymes with Fez, not with fizz. This is most important because correct pronunciation is essential. … Continue reading →

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A friend of mine relates that Steve Edelman once asked Eruch Jessawala, “what was Baba’s (divine) mistake?”, to which he replied at once, “Sufism Reoriented”. This comes as no surprise given Eruch’s role as point man in addressing the twisted … Continue reading →

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Sir Francis Bacon authored a  work called “The New Atlantis“, which was posthumously published in 1626. It is an utopian novel that describes an island where science and technocrats create a new world. The title refers to the myth of … Continue reading →

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Fascism, American style, means imploding corporatism and militarism. It is the fervent support of exceptionalism based on the subversion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is a bipartisan project, enabled by corporate media, to completely sabotage the … Continue reading →

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  Alan Cohen’s initial remarks suggested a response to Alisa Genovese’s recent address to the Circle of Friends on the subject of the Meher Baba Center of Northern California’s reprise in 2015 of the 1980 Bell Of Warning. Such was … Continue reading →

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Nothing. The U.S. has a flatline learning curve about the Middle East. The U.S. can not register a pulse at all in Middle East politics and Islamic culture. It’s like the U.S. is a catatonic vampire salivating for the next … Continue reading →

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The problem of authoritarian religious/ racial nationalism has assumed pandemic proportions. In the case of Iran, it is based on theocracy, but is more commonly based on an implicit or explicit political alliance with religious authority and tradition, i.e. Saudi … Continue reading →

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