Islamic Jewelry for Women: pendants
In muslim jewelry we mostly find calligraphy:Allah in Arabic, sometimes combined with ‘Islam’ as well.
Islamic Jewelry for Muslim Men Wednesday, Jan 12 2011
Uncategorized islam, jewelry, muslim 1:00 pm
Men do wear jewelry, don’t they? Well, some do. And for the ones that do it’s no help that they’re a minority, because it makes finding something you like even harder. However, you’re in luck, I’ve found you Muslim jewelry for men. A possible Eid Ul Fitr gift.
New Edgar Cayce Fan Site Saturday, Oct 2 2010
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Edgar Cayce Quotes on spiritual growth and personal development
If the Mind dwells upon the spiritual things, then it follows that it becomes what it has dwelt upon, what it has lived upon, what it has made itself a portion of. But if the Mind dwells upon self-indulgences, self-aggrandizement, self-exaltation, selfishness in any of its forms, in any of its variations, then it has [...]
Edgar Cayce Quotes on Meditation
These, as we find, are slow, yet sure, if there will be kept, not only the corrections made occasionally, once a month or such, might be the more often but the meditation; and in the meditation, don’t meditate upon, but listen to the voice within. For prayer is supplication for direction, for understanding. Meditation is [...]
New Pema Chodron fan site Wednesday, Sep 29 2010
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Great new spiritual book reviews blog Saturday, Apr 10 2010
Uncategorized book reviews, religion 8:43 am
New spiritual book reviews blog
Great Spiritual Books: Reviewing the best and most fascinating spiritual books.
Spiritual and religious forums online Tuesday, Mar 2 2010
Uncategorized buddhism, hinduism, life questions, paganism, philosophy, religion, religious philosophy, religious questions, soul, theosophical society, wicca 10:20 am
Spiritual and religious Nings
One of the great things about the Internet is that we now have the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas with people from all over the world, with all kinds of backgrounds. This is also a great opportunity for dialog between the various religions.
Soul and spirit Saturday, Dec 19 2009
Uncategorized acim, consciousness, life questions, questions, soul 9:48 am
Kim did a generous review of my treatment of Michael Mirdad’s book “You’re Not Going Crazy… You’re Just Waking Up! on Crabbysbeach. She notes that Michael’s treatment of spirit and soul is different from the usual one and it helped put things in perspective for her.
I could say a lot about this, but I won’t right now. I’ll limit myself to noting that the words spirit and soul have generally been used roughly as Michael Mirdad uses them. Spirit has more often been associated with the divine, while soul has more often been interpreted as the psyche – or that which has a psychology.
See for instance Thomas Aquinas and James Hillman in this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul
Thomas Aquinas
Following Aristotle and Avicenna, St. Thomas Aquinas understood the soul to be the first principle, or act, of the body. However, his epistemological theory required that, since the intellectual soul is capable of knowing all material things, and since in order to know a material thing there must be no material thing within it, the soul was definitely not corporeal. Therefore, the soul had an operation separate from the body and therefore could subsist without the body. Furthermore, since the rational soul of human beings was subsistent and was not made up of matter and form, it could not be destroyed in any natural process. The full argument for the immortality of the soul and Thomas’s elaboration of Aristotelian theory is found in Question 75 of the Summa Theologica.
James Hillman
Although the words soul and spirit are often viewed as synonyms, psychologist James Hillman argues that they can refer to antagonistic components of a person. Summarizing Hillman’s views, author and psychotherapist Thomas Moore associates spirit with “afterlife, cosmic issues, idealistic values and hopes, and universal truths,” while placing soul “in the thick of things: in the repressed, in the shadow, in the messes of life, in illness, and in the pain and confusion of love.”[10] Hillman believes that religion—especially monotheism and monastic faiths—and humanistic psychology have tended to the spirit, often at the unfortunate expense of soul.[3] For, again to quote Moore, to transcend the “lowly conditions of the soul…is to lose touch with the soul, and a split-off spirituality, with no influence from the soul, readily falls into extremes of literalism and destructive fanaticism.”[11]
Hillman’s archetypal psychology is in many ways an attempt to tend to the oft-neglected soul, which Hillman views as the “self-sustaining and imagining substrate” upon which consciousness rests, and “which makes meaning possible, [deepens] events into experiences, is communicated in love, and has a religious concern” as well as “a special relation with death.”[12] Departing from the Cartesian dualism “between outer tangible reality and inner states of mind,” Hillman takes the Neoplatonic stance[13] that there is a “third, middle position” in which soul resides.[14] Archetypal psychology acknowledges this third position by attuning to, and often accepting, the archetypes, dreams, myths, and even psychopathologies through which soul, in Hillman’s view, expresses itself.
Oh and thank you to growwear who also thought this lens worth reviewing 
Theosophy and the Theosophical Society Wednesday, Nov 11 2009
Uncategorized holistic thought, questions, religion, religious philosophy, spirituality, theosophical society, theosophy 12:07 pm
The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 at a time when the West was just becoming seriously aware of the existence of religions and people elsewhere. Intelligent people could no longer classify Islam as devilish for instance, or Hinduism as barbaric. But what then? The serious study of religion was started at universities – the first professor of comparative religion got his post in 1875.
More about Theosophy and the Theosophical Society.
Karma and reincarnation facts – about good and evil Tuesday, Nov 10 2009
Uncategorized buddhism, hinduism, karma, reincarnation 12:04 pm
Karma and reincarnation are related beliefs that have been popular in India and surrounding countries for a very long time. In classic religious terms it’s part of Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism for instance.
Daily Christian inspiration Monday, Nov 9 2009
Uncategorized calendar, Christianity 12:12 pm
Diaries and Biblical Engagement Planners, Calendars and Christian Date Books.
If you want your daily reminders of your faith in your date book. If you want your kids to grow up with bible verses literally on the kitchen wall. If you want your year lined with inspiring paintings and photographs to remind you of the greatness of God’s Creation…
