[This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post]
No, this is not about Beck, Hannity and O’Reilly getting busted by a celestial truth squad. It’s about karma on Fox TV. The broadcast network just unveiled Past Life, a one-hour series—with American Idol as a lead-in, no less—whose premise hinges on (more…)
PHILIP GOLDBERG
Author - Spiritual Coach - Public Speaker
MY BOOKSAMERICAN VEDA: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West
Forthcoming in November ROADSIGNS: On the Spiritual Path -- Living at the Heart of Paradox
For anyone on a spiritual path THE INTUITIVE EDGE: Understanding Intuition and Applying It in Everyday Life
The definitive book on intuition THIS IS NEXT YEAR
A novel about a family, baseball, and Brooklyn, set in 1955 GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY -- and -- THE 6 SECRETS OF A LASTING RELATIONSHIP
Two collaborations with eminent psychiatrist Mark Goulston PASSION PLAY: Ancient Secrets for a Lifetime of Health and Happiness Through Sensational Sex
Collaboration with Felice Dunas ALPHA MALE SYNDROME - and - CREATING MAGIC
Two excellent business books, ghostwritten by me MAKING PEACE WITH GOD - and - MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR PAST
Two collaborations with Harold Bloomfield, M.D. THE BEST THAT I CAN BE
The life of the great Olympic champion, Rafer Johnson OTHER WORKS
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My BlogWHEN EAST MET WEST AT WOODSTOCKAugust 19, 2009
Of all the iconic images the media trotted out to remind us of Woodstock on the fortieth anniversary of that seminal event (August 15 – 18, 1969), the one that best captures what endured from the Sixties was orange-robed Swami Satchidananda addressing the multitude. It wasn’t displayed nearly as often as the writhing bodies, impassioned performers and muddy encampments, but that tableau, captured in black-and-white before the music started and before the rains came, stands as a potent symbol of the meeting of East and West that has transformed American culture. While most of the values that Woodstock was said to embody faded away as the baby boomers grew up, the embrace of Eastern spirituality has only grown stronger, changing the way we understand and practice religion, the way we take care of our minds and bodies, and the way we contemplate our place in the cosmos. Think of it this way: it wasn’t long before even the hippest of hippies stopped living communally, sharing food with strangers and dancing naked in the mud. But, forty years on, more people than ever meditate, chant mantras, read the sacred books of the East, and, participate in the six-billion-dollar-a-year Yoga industry. (more…)
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