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Articles with tag: Spirituality

A Staircase Connecting Three Worlds

Salma Omar   Mar 27, 2008   interacts: 10

This 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.

Demystification of the Other

Amina Agha   Jun 18, 2007   interacts: 4

A spiritual journey to places of worship--mosque, church and synagogue

The Secret Is: Don’t Worry, Buy Happy

Saima Shah   Apr 5, 2007   interacts: 16

Then 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: 50

When 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: 56

When 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: 157

The 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: 9

From 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

The Commodity called Spirituality

Bilal Tanweer   Jun 29, 2004   interacts: 17

Of 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: 9

It 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

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