NPR

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The transcendence of human into information is either almost here, a step in evolution — or an impossibility, a mad dream of people who can't accept the inevitability of death, says Marcelo Gleiser.

PEARL

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What is the narrative to human experience if not the spur to an inner awakening? We human beings are moved by powerful impulses in treading paths of existential pilgrimage. Our passage is beset by adversities through the temptations of the world that

PEARL

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According to man's spiritual state in the Gross Material World as well as in the Ethereal World, the spiritual man, the real ‘ego’, must either move upwards or remain chained to the World of Matter. The serious longing for Truth and Light will, by

Chat It's Fate

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are the messengers of the divine. They are high vibrational, loving, and non-judgmental. This means that they can inspire the same sentiments in us. include members of our family lineages and vocational or spiritual predecessors. They often assist

Fortean Times

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A History of the Afterlife Bart D Ehrman Oneworld 2020 Hb, 352pp, £20, ISBN 9781786077202 Many Christians believe that their doctrines sprang fully-formed from the Jewish origins of Christianity. But if this were so, many beliefs would be very differ

Best Self Magazine

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— As we move more deeply into this time of global quarantine, many people are feeling out of control, frustrated, trapped and unsure about the future. We are all being faced with situations none of us have learned to navigate in our lifetimes. With a

The Paris Review

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A textile design by Varvara Stepanova, 1924. In the opinion of well-read governesses and educated governors’ wives, the soul is an indeterminable entity of psychological substance. I have no reason to disagree with this. One scholar writes: “To disco

MAXIM New Zealand

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Unbelievable. This is my one word summation of this year, so far, and we’re only a little over half way through. The year began with the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and their seven friends on board his private helicopter, followed by th

Chat It's Fate

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Learn more about yourself and your relationships Heal your heart Develop your psychic insight Have you ever met someone and felt like you already know them? Or had a relationship with someone you couldn’t live with – and couldn’t live without?

WellBeing

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Words SONIA ZADRO Denise Linn is an international lecturer, healer and worldacclaimed expert in feng shui and space clearing. She has given seminars in 25 countries to audiences of thousands, published 18 books, which are translated into 28 languages

Post South Africa

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THAT the world, as we know it, fundamentally changed with Covid, is not seriously debatable. It was often said in jest between relatives and friends, that they found time to see one another only at weddings and funerals. Now, with grandiose weddings

Best Self Magazine

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Artwork by Lori Anne McMahon _____________________________ The time has come to realize that I am no longer unequipped. The time has come to embrace the power I possess. No longer do I need to look outside of myself for answers that are so clearly fo

MAXIM Australia

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Unbelievable. This is my one word summation of this year, so far, and we’re only a little over half way through. The year began with the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and their seven friends on board his private helicopter, followed by th

PEARL

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We are born, we live for a time, then we die. We can plan our lives in accordance with this self-evident truth, or we can suppress any thought of it and live our lives as if death did not exist. By so doing, however, we are just deluding ourselves be

PC Gamer

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World of Warcraft is more than just an institution – after over one and a half decades of enduring popularity, it’s practically PC gaming bedrock at this point. Which makes it all the more amazing that it’s still finding ways to break new ground. In

Chat It's Fate

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Sometimes we get a bit of a shock when we glance in the mirror – where did those wrinkles and grey hairs come from? We’d all like to look younger and more vibrant, but cosmetic enhancements like Botox or even expensive pills and potions aren’t for ev

Writing Magazine

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In my dreams1 I stick, ever so slightly,2 to the surfaces of things.3 Not physically – how would that work4 – no, it’s more of a spiritual thing.5 When I wake6 I’m conscious that parts of me have remained, still attached to the landscape of my sleepi

PEARL

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And supreme over all the Will of our Creator inexorably manifested and manifests in the irrevocable march of events. On passing into the beyond every human being is divested of earthly power and its protection. Name, position, everything is left behi

TIME

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GEORGE SAUNDERS, THE COMIC empath, introduces President Abraham Lincoln as he unwittingly enters a bardo—a Buddhist limbo, here populated by ghosts he cannot sense. These specters travel around the cemetery where Lincoln’s son Willie has been interre

The Art of Healing

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. George Eliot There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditiona

PEARL

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There is not a single thing that man could really create without taking it from that which has already come into existence through the Will of God! He would be unable to create anew a single grain of sand without finding all the material for it alrea

PEARL

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MARIANNE KLAUSER STALDER I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be lost, and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes. Yet stars will watch at night, and morning rise as before, and hours h

Best Self Magazine

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Photograph by Chris Ensey — I wish I had a magical mantra you could repeat when needed and poof– suddenly – you don’t just know, but FEEL the love that you are. The hardpart about loving ourselves is that it takes hard work. It takes daily, inner dos

PEARL

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To be a personality, to master life by one’s own will; who does not feel the yearning to do so from the depths of his soul? As many-sided as the forces may be, which influence us and shape our inner stirrings, if our spirit is alert we will, neverthe

Scootering

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Scooterists are complex characters. The owner of Ghost Hunter, Martin Reeves, is no exception. “So many things have happened in my life that I can’t believe in anything other than an afterlife,” he explained. To understand Ghost Hunter it’s necessary

Best Self Magazine

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Photograph by Steve Snider ____________________________ My name is Anastasia and I am a self-proclaimed jew-menian unicorn. Basically I’m half Jewish / half Russian Armenian. I threw in the unicorn reference for good measure. My journey to the path o

New Philosopher

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As a philosopher I have read reason’s response to death, and my mind is convinced by the Epicurean rationale that says death is nothing before it happens and we are nothing while it happens. It’s too bad that philosophers are also made of carne y hue

PEARL

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MARIANNE KLAUSER STALDER I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller Maturity of the spirit, however, must not be confused with knowledge acquired by

that's life

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This ancient martial art is something that goes far beyond the physical plane of existence and is a practice that combines movement, meditation and awareness in its pursuit for spiritual connectedness and grounding in all areas of life. Just half an

Literary Hub

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My soul mates Have yet to be conceived Underneath the mating Of surrogate spirits  vacating bodies By the minute Directed To live by, but I Want to live By the future Ordure I want to eat it     I want to feed it A pool-like visage On the crumpling h