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The Passing of Aindra Prabhu

July 19th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

His eccentric nature, his unkempt look and crazy brown cloth, his frustration with the status quo and his tendency to periodically boil over and without restraint speak in such a way as to be censured by authority. He was anything but a generic Hare Krishna devotee


Are Eastern Religions More Science-Friendly?

July 8th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

The interaction of Eastern spirituality and Western science has expanded methods of stress reduction, treatment of chronic disease, psychotherapy and other areas. But that is only part of the story


The Unique Nature of Humility

June 4th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Humility is constantly in danger of subverting itself and turning into its own opposite. As a result, what appears to be humility may very easily be, or become, something radically different from humility.


The Theft of Yoga

April 25th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Why is yoga severed in America\'s collective consciousness from Hinduism?


Humble Science

April 16th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

The first cautionary note against Promethean science—the first hint that humility needed to get back in the picture—came with the atomic bomb.


True Cost: What If?

April 1st, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Kalle Lasn considers what would happen if we had to pay the true cost for everything we buy


Posthumanism: What is Humanity’s Tie to Animals?

March 27th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Posthumanism challenges previous assumptions about the “different” character of animal consciousness and behavior. It aims to produce a theory which would displace humanism and substitute a sound ethical theory upon which to base human interactions with other species


Market Idolatry

March 3rd, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

The Great Recession is not just an economic crisis, it is the result of a loss of values, a moral crisis. And to say that it is a moral crisis is also to say that it is a spiritual crisis



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