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If the aftermath of the Federal election has made you edgy you might need a good dose of medically-prescribed meditation. Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses and Letting Everything Become Your Teacher is Professor emeritus of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, and the world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. A completely different tradition of meditation is taught by Brother Satyananda, a monk of Paramahansa Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) monastic community in Los Angeles and minister-in-charge of the SRF Temple in Phoenix , Arizona. (Rpt)
08/28/2010 10:00 AM |
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the man behind the proposed mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, which polls indicate is rejected by 70% of Americans. But Rauf, who was in Australia late last year, defended Switzerland´s ban on minarets and told Rachael Kohn that he believes Islam should conform to the countries it finds itself in. While Rauf is encouraged by America´s Christian history, Tom Frame, the winner of the 2010 Christian Book of the Year award, tells Rachael Australia is not a Christian country.
08/21/2010 10:00 AM |
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Florence Nightingale is remembered as the pioneer of professional nursing, but it was a minor part of life compared to her passion was for a new religion. Striving to unite with the `God within´, whose Laws were consistent with scientific knowledge, Florence was a radical theologian who urged religious reform. On the centenary of her death, biographer Val Webb reveals the real Florence Nightingale behind the myth.
08/14/2010 10:00 AM |
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The first Jewish Music Festival in Australia features 40 performers including Nadya Giga and Their 101 Candles Orkestra, and renowned Yiddish singer Fay Sussman - whose personal stories are as exotic as their music. The recent death of peacemaker, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari of Jerusalem is a major loss for Jewish-Muslim-Christian dialogue but in his last conversation with Rachael Kohn he talks about the huge international prayer event, "Hugging Jerusalem".
08/07/2010 10:00 AM |
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