[This blog was born on January 12, 2009, and I took it down and put it up in different combinations of WordPress, Web hosting and domain names until I arrived here on January 25. But I didn’t re-post everything I had written. However, Pres. Abraham Lincoln was born 200 years ago today and Obama and …
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Understanding Obama
I was tempted to title or subtitle this, “Time to Call a Spade a Spade,” but I’m just not as slippery as Obama in getting out of immature crap like his “lipstick on a pig” remark (which was so rehearsed and deliberate he closed his eyes to help himself remember it before delivering the line) …
Is the Transcendental Meditation program a religion or cult?
No, the Transcendental Meditation program is not a religion. No, the Transcendental Meditation program is not a cult. The TM program is not a religion because it does not require you to believe anything. You do not even have to believe the TM technique will work in order to learn it and practice it successfully. …
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'Heaven is rejoicing'
Today marks the first anniversary of the mahasamadhi (death of an enlightened person) of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, at the age of 91. Maharishi’s passing was announced to the leaders of the Transcendental Meditation program who were with him in Vlodrop, Holland, by his chosen successor, neurologist Dr. Tony Nader, …
Is this how werewolves feel?
I got pulled into the gravitational field of the blogosphere right after Sarah Palin’s luminous speech at the Republican National Convention in 2008. I am a lesbian and life-long Democrat, but Barack Obama’s last chance to get my support lay in his choice of vice president. When he didn’t choose Hillary Clinton, I considered myself …