by Michelle Ayn Tessensohn

‘The Tao that can be explained is no longer the Tao’ (Lao Tzu)

How do you explain something that cannot be explained?

Bill Nighy appears in a video backing a Robin Hood tax on banks to raise billions of pounds to fight poverty and climate change. 

by L Anne Hilty, PhD

Does psychology as an import from Western culture adequately explain Eastern behavior?  Are all human brains and thus, development, cognition, and behavioral patterns essentially alike?  Are its methods of therapy appropriate or displaced?  Are the goals for outcome similar regardless of geography, or must they be modified to reflect the values of the dominant culture?  And perhaps most of all: is the overlay of a Western model of the mind effecting change on the cultural psyche of the East?

by L Anne Hilty, PhD

As part of our occasional series on 'How i came to my Faith' Dr Anne Hilty describes her remarkable life and spiritual journey.

I have known myself to be a healer, ministering to others, for nearly as long as I can recall. My professional and spiritual selves are intertwined, and my life is “of a piece”...and surely handmade.

For actor Cliff Curtis, the notion of oneness evokes both suspicion and hope. Politically and economically, oneness has been used to justify the elimination of diversity. At the same time, achieving a sustainable future requires an awakening to our shared fate as one species on one earth. Can these opposing views of oneness be reconciled?

Starring Anonymous

What if the eyes really are the window to the soul.

As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

Check out this search engine that supports the rainforest with each search click you do. Easy and a nice way to support the planet.

Each search saves 2m² (2.4yd²) of rainforest. Their search results are as good as Google or Yahoo, and it’s free.

Construction waste, plastic bottles, styrofoam lunchboxes, cigarette packets and butts, worn-out boots, well-thumbed magazines and carrier bags...

Every day residents find rubbish left behind by contractors fixing roads, slopes, water pipes, power cables or phone lines.

Former teacher Heidemarie Schwermer has lived without money in Germany for 13 years. She challenges some of the core assumptions of how we live and why.