Author of books including Soulfully Gay, one of the first memoirs in the tradition of World Spirituality based on Integral principles. Director of Communications and Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for World Spirituality. Blogger since 2003. Arctophile and ailurophile. A little bit country and a little bit "part and whole."
Whatever your taste in movies, it’s hard to deny that Hollywood does a brilliant job of selling comic books to the world, illuminated with dazzling computer-powered, imagination-dazzling on-screen effects. Many adults find these action packed movies to be a guilty pleasure, and we ponder whether they have a redeeming educational or morally transcendent worth beyond [...]
By Joe Perez In certain places in America, conservatives are so scarce they’ve begun to import them from abroad. Specifically, in Tampa, Florida, where 1,000 delegates gathered for the United Methodist Church’s General Conference. While liberal American Methodists pleaded for tolerance for gay people, conservatives from overseas compared homosexuality to bestiality. A report on Huffington [...]
Originally posted on Spirit’s Next Move. Last month, I engaged in dialogue with Stuart Davis, a contemporary American musician, actor, and stand-up comic. With over 10 full-length music albums to his credit, including the brand new Music for Mortals, Davis has bravely brought depth and spirituality into popular culture — including the topics of God, [...]
According to a story in The Raw Story, a group of Canadian psychologists has concluded that directing test subjects to think “analytically” lowers their level of religious belief. Their research was published in this week’s issue of Science. A look at the study’s methodology, however, reveals misguided assumptions. Test subjects were given a problem-solving test, [...]
A few cosmetic changes tonight: I’ve updated the name for this column to The Nightly View and removed numbers from this and The Daily Wisdom columns. Thorny questions about reincarnation The worst thing to be reincarnated into is an animal, because you can’t learn, says a past-life specialist who ponders questions such as the reincarnation [...]
Robert McNamara’s approach to resistance training, as described in his book Strength to Awaken, is grounded on integral principles… and he views muscle building as a spiritual discipline. On his Embodied. Evolution. blog, the author explains why people over the age of 22 to 24 need to build muscle: Muscle strength cannot be reduced to [...]
“Given enough time, modernity is enough to show traditional churches that homosexuality is not an illness or disorder, and ought to be tolerated. Given enough time, postmodernism is enough to show modernist churches that they need to accept gays, lesbians, and other sexual and gender minorities for the diversity they bring. Given enough time, an [...]
Hoot! The Price of Limerence Let’s leave aside for a moment all the mushy poetic and theological language about love. Let’s put on Ebeneezer Scrooge’s worldview and simply ask: how much money is love worth? Well here’s a short YouTube video that explores that very question. Among the interesting findings: Hearing that someone loves you [...]
By Joe Perez Ruth Franklin, a senior editor at The New Republic, tries to explain why people seek for meaning in tragedies. The victims of tragedies, Franklin says, remind us that they were once like us, but now emptied of significance on account of their tragic end: To look at the video of Anne Frank, or [...]
“Show me a man who will give you the shirt off his back and the angry words off his chest. I will show you a man whose heart beats naked.”
Joe Perez is the author of books including Soulfully Gay, one of the first memoirs in the tradition of World Spirituality based on Integral principles. He is Director of Communications, Scholar-in-Residence, and Executive Editor of Spirit's Next Move at the Center for World Spirituality. He is also a blogger and Facebook Page curator exploring and advocating emerging ways of being an awakened human being by consciously evolving a better world and brighter future for all sentient beings. Earlier … [more...]