Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d call holiness, or purity, or something like that. “Nature,” with a capital N, [has taken] the place of God. In a secular society, we don’t look to religions to tell us what to eat or how to heal
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I just kind of know that there’s a Universal Consciousness, that we’re all a part of it, and that the world is more magical than we’ve been led to believe.
This is not my own idea. It’s not even a new idea. It’s a very old one. This is what Jesus was saying, and the Buddha, and Rumi. It is the Perennial Philosophy: all major religious and spiritual
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Higgie at one point attends a yoga class, and the instructor “plays a Tibetan singing bowl and tells us quietly that the world needs to soften.” She makes no effort to make the connection between yoga (a Hindu-related spiritual discipline) and a Tibetan singing bowl (a modern invention with roots neither in Tibet nor in shamanism as often claimed).
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