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Let me say that I view "meditation" as a giant big blanket term covering a wide variety of techniqurs, practices, and goals. Like "sports", which can mean olympic level athetic achievements, team sports, jogging, or going to the gym, "meditation" can be extreme practices like bringing down...

Sure!

A discussion of our various and probably differing views of meditation, contemplation, and esoteric practices would be very interesting. And good practice in holding space for views and beliefs other than our own. Good interfaith dialogue opportunity! Want to start it? I'd be in!

I have no idea, I found this without comment. I hope there was a medical reason like EEG electrodes or something. For a practical joke, this would be cruel. It could also be a very skillful image manipulation.

Have a good time at Burning Man, @wil! I like to go to nice tranquil places, like a park in the early morning, the seashore nearby, or a trail outside my office during lunch break, and recite some poetry quietly to myself (whatever comes to mind), or just contemplate the moment's atmosphere...

Football/soccer is the only circumstance in Germany where flying the national flag is not automatically associated with being an ultra-nationalist nutcase. Outside this context, only the Government and outright German Supremacists will show the flag.

No, the government was firmly in Christian Democrat hands for 16 years. No chance of scratching at the church/state enmeshment. The current gov't is headed by the social democrats. As the saying goes, "Wer hat uns verraten? Die Sozialdemokraten!" ("Who betrayed us? The Social Democrats!" - it...

Same here. As to my icon: Unlike my namesake from the early Renaissance, I don't wear a turban, but I do shave. Thanks for all the pictures, you lovely people! A good-looking bunch we are!

Oh wow! Get well, @Thomas!

Depends on the federal state, I'd say. E.g. rural Bavaria will be a right-wing catholic monoculture where they are proud of their beer-brewing religion and eye Northern Germans with suspicion. Urban Berlin is as multicultural and diverse as it gets. Some religious groups are privileged by law...

Best to start a new thread to discuss religious diversity.

Aspiring to be a perfect human is an unattractive choice? And what is the other unattractive choice? As in "quandary, dilemma"? I give up. Whatever "quandary" means to you remains unclear to me. To quote the immortal Inigo Montoya, "You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you...

Not to derail this thread, open parenthesis ( Places like that (with widespread traditional religious culture) tend to be very oppressive intellectually and politically, and not very diverse. The place in question has a Muslim minority, who are massively disadvantaged. The government is always...

I'm still trying to see the two horns of your dilemma, which you are facing, personally. The quandary you keep alluding to.

So the central dilemma you personally face in your own faith is having to choose between Baha'u'llah's message and your upbringing?

So what is the central dilemma in your faith?

Lovely library, @'Amir Alzzalam, and are those your guitars? When did your interest in the occult become specifically LHP?

Thanks, @juantoo3! I think I'm missing the connecting detail between your mom's friend and the folliwing events.