Forbes Larry Husten November 25, 2012 Editor’s note: Below are two responses to Robert Schneider’s defense of his Transcendental Meditation paper, which Schneider wrote in response to my earlier article about the publication of his paper. In the first part I respond to some of the general issues raised by Schneider. The second part,…
Unification Church Leader Outs Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen as Moonie?
Ex-gay maverick Richard Cohen is a member of the Unification Church, according to the leader of the religious group better known as the Moonies.
Evil, part 4: the social dimension
GuardianClare Carlisle Does contemporary society give rise to conditions more conducive to evil than in the past? November 5, 2012 So far in this series I’ve considered evil as if it were an individual matter – a question of personal virtue, or the lack of it. In emphasising the relationship between sin…
Ayn Rand on Human Nature
Scientific American Eric Michael Johnson October 5, 2012 “Every political philosophy has to begin with a theory of human nature,” wrote Harvard evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin in his book Biology as Ideology. Thomas Hobbes, for example, believed that humans in a “state of nature,” or what today we would call hunter-gatherer…
The MEK Is Bad News, But Delisting Them Was A Good Decision
Huffington Post, October 1, 2012 Members of the Iranian dissident group known as the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MEK, really don’t like me. I don’t trust them, either. I’ve been reporting on the MEK for the Huffington Post since last summer, and members of the group have threatened my house and…
Reverend Moon: Cult leader, CIA asset and Bush family friend
The death of Reverend Sun Myung Moon hopefully ends one of the strangest chapters in U.S. security industrial complex history. The self-proclaimed “Messiah” who owned dozens of businesses including Kahr Arms, and who once claimed to have presided over Jesus’ wedding posthumously in order to get the Christian savior into heaven, was ultimately a front in the United States for friends in the CIA like George Herbert Walker Bush.
The Hugging Saint
A guru named Amma has drawn 32 million people into her embrace – spreading a message of love, compassion and overpriced merchandise
Kripalu Maharaj and Prakashanand Saraswati in Barsana Dham in 2007
RISHIKAOCTOBER 23, 2012′ Photo taken of Kripalu Maharaj and Prakashanand Saraswati when Kripalu visited Barsana Dham in 2007. Prakashanand built the ashram, renamed Radha Madhav Dham after his escape from justice, for Kripalu, his guru for 60 years. Prakashanand Saraswati is a notorious person among members of the transcendental meditation…
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