If there is any truth in this, I doubt it is true everywhere. Growing up in London in the 60's and 70's I often came across references to "The Battle of Cable Street." In 1936 many local Jewish people joined various other people to prevent fascists marching through London's east end.
When I...
Maybe Frank it is because you ask dozens of questions yet give no indication of learning from the results. Maybe it is because that although many people have responded to your posts, you rarely have the decency to respond to them.
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Yes it can. It can lead to rather strange situations.
Back in the 70's I worked in Israel for a little while. One day I was going somewhere and I stopped a man to ask directions. He pointed down the road and said "go to the museum, do you know the museum?" Yes I knew the museum. "Well" he said...
So basically, you are saying that us primitives are the only ones to have convincing experiences while the "more neutral and independent" never do.
Well you are wrong. Among believers I have known there has been a physician, a pharmacist and a biochemist. Not a witch doctor or soothsayer among...
I find this very hard to believe. I can imagine that victims of the holocaust would elicit great sympathy but that is something different. In my life I have never come across anything like the authors premise.
Yes, I think that is a fair comment.
I have had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and in the main I have found that the difference between believers and non-believers is one of experience. The non-believers have simply not seen what the others have. There is nothing we can do about it, such...
Great question Salix, and not one that I had really considered.
To be honest, with my life as it is, I could not care at all. I have been unlucky in that many good friends died young. Where I live in East London, local people have been leaving in droves for decades. Many of the incomers do not...
I have mixed feelings about it. I was working long hours in a job that I hated and was struggling financially. I had stayed on as an RAF reservist which I did usually enjoy. It certainly made life more interesting.
This question certainly provoked a lot of thought. In recent times there have been quite a few deaths but the two which really hit home were that of my mother and my ex-partner. I had not been on speaking terms with my mother for some years. I was very moved when one of my sisters told me that...
I certainly agree @Spice it is a tough one.
However, Salix's post did remind me of this,
" Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of...