This is an Index of Content on History and Culture.
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Take Heart, an Essay
Take heart! Although the news each day seems more and more alarming, the political divisions and unrest, at home and abroad, seem more and more severe, do not think that hope is lost. Consider [...]
Prison
On November 28, 1990, Glenda Taylor, at the request of a prison chaplain, addressed the assembled staff of the federal prison at Bryan, Texas, speaking on the subject of "Native American Spirituality." The substance [...]
Tibetan Monks Create and Disperse Green Tara Sand Mandala, a Video
Tibetan monks, in reverence and silence, create a Green Tara mandala, and then, ceremonially, sweep the sands together and carry them in procession with others to disperse the sands in the river, in Durango, Colorado. [...]
Texas?
I’m not saying it’s a fact. At my age most everything feels like a Great Mystery and hardly anything feels like a fact, so I [...]
Hexagrams of the I Ching
The following is a useful list categorizing each of the 64 hexagrams of the ancient Chinese study I Ching, or Book of Changes. For further information on this classic spiritual work, see my workshop on the [...]
Timeline: History of Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. The word Islam means voluntary “submission” or “surrender” to the will of God; [...]
