Articles with tag: ritual
A Staircase Connecting Three Worlds
Salma Omar Mar 27, 2008 interacts: 10This is a world where hopes are pinned, dreams take form and life’s problems seem to somehow droop their heads like tired banners on an old banyan tree.
Ashes in the River
Lokhi Menon Jan 8, 2008 interacts: 5...at that stage all the differences are really wiped out.
Demystification of the Other
Amina Agha Jun 18, 2007 interacts: 4A spiritual journey to places of worship--mosque, church and synagogue
The Secret Is: Don’t Worry, Buy Happy
Saima Shah Apr 5, 2007 interacts: 16Then mankind became a bit smarter and said no god. But that meant more and more people would ask questions and not do as they are told. So mankind had to be taught to believe in god again and ignore the really difficult questions of why we kill, why there
The Globalization of Spirituality
Saima Shah Dec 11, 2006 interacts: 50When Soros became socialist and Bill Gates generous, we all knew something big was happening. We theorized, we fantasized and we said,’aaha, perhaps intense consumerism leads to something good—philanthropy!’
Science, Psychology and Spirituality
Khalid Sohail Aug 7, 2006 interacts: 56When temporal lobe of right side of the brain is stimulated, human beings have special experiences that are known as ’spiritual experiences’ in religious traditions and literature.
Selling Spirituality
Khalid Sohail Jul 6, 2006 interacts: 157The biggest tragedy is that there is an increasing number of simple, innocent, naive and gullible people who follow these pseudo-mystics and after wasting a lot of time, money and energy realize that they were misguided and mislead.
God-shaped Hole: Contemporary Relevance of the Spiritual
Farrukh Khan Nov 18, 2004 interacts: 9From a world of certainty and solace provided by God– in the next world if not this one– the 19th century sciences, philosophy and political ideology plunged humanity into a crisis of faith and culture that has continued into the present times
Religiosity is the Death of Religion
Murad A Baig Jul 28, 2004 interacts: 43Rituals, penances, processions and offerings packaged as joyous distractions cost much less than the effort of understanding and practicing the moral, social and philosophical tenets of any religion.
The Commodity called Spirituality
Bilal Tanweer Jun 29, 2004 interacts: 17Of all the blessings of capitalism that I have experienced to date, the one that I have found most amusing is the Spiritual Industry.
My Hajj Sojourn
Sohail Moghal Jul 17, 2003 interacts: 9It all started with some weird, undefined, ambiguous changes in my daily routine. I slept uneasy… dreamed of unidentified, surrealistic places... woke up with an outlandish burden on my heart… and felt alienated the whole day. This went on for
