Cutting-edge science has begun to determine that we can genetically “inherit” the trauma our parents and grandparents have experienced in their lives. A few months ago I read a book...
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Have you ever gone, without warning, from perfect calm to absolute terror? Within seconds, your heart starts racing, your blood pressure rises, and you feel sick to your stomach. When...
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When I reflect on the Baha’i teachings, which stunningly prefigure many of the discoveries of modern physics, I see an interesting pattern. As a physicist, I’ve noticed that most of...
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The Baha’i Faith is both a religion and a way of life. Baha’u’llah did not make a distinction between the two – what people believe should be reflected in what...
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Have you been seeing lime green ribbons tied to trees this month? Those would be in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental Health Awareness Month (MHA) was first observed...
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The prophet and founder of the Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah, left this world during the darkest hours of the night, at 3 a.m. on May 29, 1892. He died a prisoner...
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Have you ever had a terrible boss or colleague, one who had obviously forgotten they were no longer in middle school? Workplace bullying sadly happens on a different level than...
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We live in a technological age, and the training of the scientific mind tends to regard the virtues of the heart as impediments to truth, until religion itself verges on...
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Conscience is a thousand swords. – Shakespeare There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts. – Gandhi...
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Do miracles strengthen our faith — or do they weaken it? Much of the contemporary view of the great faiths centers around the acceptance of miracles said to occur in...
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At twelve, I found myself in a hallowed space—the room where the Prophet of God graced existence in the mid-nineteenth century. How readily, in sacred places, the soul perceives the...
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Though not well-documented in the histories of the more ancient religions, a precursor or herald often appeared prior to the advent of a divine manifestation to announce the coming of...
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