Holy Ground

https://youtu.be/Wx0yDbJbcBQ
 

 

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Connell

Lawrence O'Connell treats the issue of conflating the bible with the constitution in this country political discussion. He interviews Anthea Butler,  Dean of Graduate Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Homosexuality and the Bible by Matthew Vines

Mathew Vines is a 21 year old Harvard student who makes an exceptionally well researched examination of scripture to see how well condemnation of homosexuality holds up. The video lasts for 1 hour and 7 minutes.
Not to be missed.

Sistine Chapel

Click on the link for a virtual tour set to music. Very beautiful!


http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

If You Want Your Dream To Be

Wonderful Donovan song in Brother Sun Sister Moon film about Saint Francis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TiwtPMDhKI

Into Great Silence

Follow the link for a short interview (8 minutes) with the prior-general of La Grande Chartreuse monestary in which he talks of his life at the monestary and life therin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQpN3bbOQU&feature=related

For a deeper look into life at a Carthusian Monestary follow the link for Elegy To Silence, a 23 minute documentary about life at a Portugese charter house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQaUZObyCw&feature=fvwrel

Deepak Chopra: How to Create a New Self

Talk by Deepak on the nature of conciousness. Filmed by the Commonwealth Club in 2009. Chapters include:
1. What is Conciousness
2. Perception and Conciousness
3.You are not in the body, the body is in you
4. Continuity and discontinuity
5.Five attributes of discontinuity
6. Five breakthroughs for the body
7. Five breakthroughs for the soul

Follow the link:

http://fora.tv/2009/10/22/Deepak_Chopra_How_to_Create_a_New_Self#fullprogram

Avatar Meher Baba Trust

Follow the link for access to many of Baba's writings.

http://www.ambppct.org/index.php

Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche

Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche web page containing many recorded teachings based on the teachings of CTR who was the teacher of Pema Chodron and the founder of the Shambala center.

http://www.chronicleproject.com/index.html

An Interview with Pema Chodron

In this engaging and articulate interview, Pema explores the concept of "shempa", how we get hooked into habitual ways of dealing with the world, ways that are not in sync with our desire to be happy and content. She speaks about working with "groundlessness' and how becoming more comfortable with the fluid nature of the universe and abandoning our more rigid perspective can reduce personal and global suffering. She distinguishes the difference between suffering and pain and articulates how not to use "kerosene to put out the fire". There is great hope for the direction of mankind in her belief that all beings are capable of awakening, and that it is through working skillfully with negativity that we can accomplish this.

Follow the link for a Bill Moyers interview with the abbess of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia

http://www.pemachodronfoundation.org/bill-moyers-with-pema-chdrn/