ILLUMINATION THROUGH COMMUNION:

JEWISH RELATIONALITY VERSUS DERRIDA’S DECONSTRUCTIONISM

DR. BARRY HAMMER

[THIS UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AS AN INTENDED REPLY TO…

OUR ARCHETYPAL LIFE PATTERN

DR. MAX HAMMER AND DR BARRY HAMMER

We are using the term archetype to refer to the inherent pattern, blueprint, or predisposition of the individual soul, the collective community soul, the universal life substance in which the individual and community life forms abide, and the holistic integral Divine Intelligence, or spiritual essence and quintessence, that…

With gratitude to Peter Krones who says:

"HINENI

My friends, this rabbinical commentary on Leonard Cohen's final song, his life, surrender (Hineni) and the human condition is profound, heartfelt and moving. I hope you will spend time with it.

If you haven't heard the title song to his final collection, written…

Art : Elena Ray

"Compassion without attachment is possible. Therefore, we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment. True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Because of this firm foundation, a truly compassionate attitude toward…

I am delighted to wish to all a Happy Thanksgiving Day filled with the Creator's Love, Joy, & Abundance....and may our gratitude extend to everything we have & experience in our lives, as well as to the Creator's ever-expanding Presence within each of us.

Shanta Gabriel just sent me this timely message below that beautifully…

    When I first started talking about peace, I was four years old. My father, who brought this message to people in India, passed away when I was eight and I continued his work of bringing this message of peace throughout India. When I was twelve I was invited to England and then to America. Since then I have been continuously travelling around the world.

    For fifty years I have been talking to people about this human potential,

that peace is the core of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIhXRIMkIBI

this is worth a listen taking 1min of your time.

and if it means something to you i would think you would like this one..

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQucpAdsApw

"Water Lilies," 1895 by Isaac Levitan

"Everywhere transience is plunging into the depths of Being… It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again, "invisibly," inside us. We are the bees of the…

Next Global live broadcast - Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday 2nd Okt. 2016

United Nations International Day of Nonviolence 

EU and US broadcast at 20:30 PM on Oct 2nd local time 

The Gandhi Tour TV combines the power of music, art and media to call for peace and a culture of nonviolence with featured celebrities, local artists and well known International stars…

The Gandhi Tour is calling out to celebrate and support the International Day of Peace Sept. 21 / 2016

Let There Be Light

by David Sparenberg

2016-09-17

There is light.  We are in the light.  And we are of the light.

 

Beyond the light is darkness.  We are in the darkness; we are of the dark.

As light moves, so too moves dark.

 

Beyond darkness there is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APTn9uBrD40&app=desktop

worth the watch .. 7mins..

What is a happy marriage?

by Akli Hadid

2016-08-31

A happy marriage is a marriage with an interior ministry and a foreign affairs ministry. I just made that up.

If you go on a date and meet a potential mate, you probably want to figure out how often the person is using the pronoun “you.” When I was in my twenties, the main mistake I did was to look at how ambitious the potential mates were by listening to them talk about…

Maria Montessori: The Spirit of Education for World Citizenship

by Rene Wadlow

2016-08-31

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) an Italian childhood educator and world citizen, whose birth anniversary we mark on 31 August, would have been pleased at the efforts of the United Nations and UNESCO to promote Global Citizenship Education. (1) Montessori argued for a child's dignity and autonomy and for the ability of the child to break out of the narrow bonds of…

Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

by Rene Wadlow

2015-08-31

31 August is the birth anniversary of Maria Montessori, an Italian childhood educator and world citizen. Her approaches to early childhood education are used both in Montessori schools and also more widely in other schools and home schooling.…

Russian chocolate

by Valerie Sartor

2016-08-27

Russian chocolate has become a minor addiction for me. I eat chocolate every day, sometimes several times a day. At home in the US I avoid sweets. The reason I eat chocolate here as opposed to at home in the US has to do with packaging.

 

Since Soviet…

Here are Stations

by David Sparenberg

2016-08-25

Here are Stations

 

Here are not stations of the cross.  Here is not a pilgrimage to Mecca, or prayer before the Western Wall.

Here are the stations of my soul.  A kiss of breeze; a clasp of thunder.  Sometimes a…

I DO, I DON'T, I AM, I AM NOT

by David Sparenberg

2016-08-18

I DO, I DON’T, I AM, I AM NOT



I do not embrace austerity (self-chosen austerity) merely for the sake of austerity.  I do not advocate inconvenience because inconvenience is a virtue in itself.…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_ds1xQmD4