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The Cahanas: Keeping the Faith in the Worst of Times
Posted byAnindita GangulyMarch 19, 2022Tags: genocide, Holocaust, Psychology, Religion, Spirituality, Ukraine war
Posted inReligion, Holocaust, Psychology, Spirituality, War in Ukraine
Keeping the faith, as we are collectively paralyzed in dark and turbulent times, is very difficult. We are in the third year of a pandemic, marked by vast losses of lives, economic crises, homelessness, and food insecurity. The senseless genocide of people in Ukraine led and perpetrated by the Russian
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Japanese Tea Ceremony: Path of Tea
Growing up in India during my childhood, I was exposed to tea, chai, early in life. I love drinking chai. There is chai for every occasion. Drinking with friends or alone. I can drink chai for no reason at all, except that I am taking a break from a whirling
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The BLACK MADONNAS OF SPAIN
The idea for pilgrimage to see the Black Madonna at the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria in Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain germinated after I interviewed Dr. Andrew Chesnut for a blog post on Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Dr. Chesnut discussed that Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City
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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary have been reported in many places, such as, (Lourdes) France, (Fatima) Portugal, Kibeho (Rwanda) and Yuzawadai Akita (Japan). Our Lady of Guadalupe is a highly revered Marianne apparition that occurred in Mexico almost 500 hundred years ago and her basilica is in Mexico City. She
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HEROIC HOPE: CAMPHOR TREES WHICH SURVIVED ATOMIC BOMB IN NAGASAKI.
This post is a follow up to the last blog post, "Essential Hope". In the last post, I discussed the phenomenal book by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, and Gail Hudson’s (2021) “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times”. In the book, Dr. Goodall discussed the amazing resiliency
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ESSENTIAL HOPE
Posted byAnindita GangulyJanuary 7, 2024Tags: Psychology, Psychology and Spirituality
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I recently came across a study that blew my mind. Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert (2010), Harvard psychologists, found that participants in their study reported their "minds wandering" almost 47 percent of their waking hours. The term, "mind wandering" refers to thinking about stuff that is not in
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Conversations with Dr. Jean MacPhail: A Spiral Life, Spirituality and The Divine Mother
During the months of September or October (depending on the Hindu calendar), Durga Puja, worship of a manifestation of the Divine Mother ("Ma" or "Devi"), is the one of the grandest Hindu festivals in West Bengal, India. New clothes, sweets, attending puja (worship service), giving Pushpanjali (offering flowers to the