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		<title>Has Scientific progress helped much in the way of promoting Universalism ?</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2013/02/has-scientific-progress-helped-much-in-the-way-of-promoting-universalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leading Article]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral instincts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Universalism, a belief that our sphere of morality should extend to the wider world and beyond, and not limited to ourselves, is not related to our belief systems'; rather they are dependent on a complex interaction between our instinctive sense of morality and our subsequent moral choices. Science or religion are merely used as tools to justify our actions in this regard, but we alone are responsible for them.]]></description>
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		<title>Love, commando style : How a new bunch of reformers are determined to set things right in India</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2012/06/love-commando-style-how-a-new-bunch-of-reformers-are-determined-to-set-things-right-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hinduism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new group called 'The Love Commandos' have attracted recent media attention by launching a crusade against traditionalists who try to oppose marriage across caste and religious borders in India.]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth State of Mind:  Neurobiology of Meditation [Part 2]</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2012/06/fourth-state-of-mind-neurobiology-of-meditation-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metta-physics.com/2012/06/fourth-state-of-mind-neurobiology-of-meditation-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Mindfully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind-body medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relaxation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meditation and relaxation alters alpha and theta brain wave patterns that increases awareness of mental processes recent research reveals.]]></description>
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		<title>The Current Global Financial Crisis : A Catastrophic failure of Spirituality ?</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/10/the-current-global-financial-crisis-a-catastrophic-failure-of-spirituality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/10/the-current-global-financial-crisis-a-catastrophic-failure-of-spirituality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The current financial meltdown should perhaps be discussed more in terms of a collapse in public morality than an inevitable outcome of free market economic cycles. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Fourth state of mind : neurobiology of meditation. [Part I]</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/the-fourth-state-of-mind-neurobiology-of-meditation-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/the-fourth-state-of-mind-neurobiology-of-meditation-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S Ghosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Mindfully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind-body medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few decades, a neurological understanding of the meditative process has been slowly emerging. It started with some simple observations of what happens when one progressively reaches deeper stages of meditation. Although we remain wakeful, in progressively deeper stages of meditation, fundamental changes start happening in our body and brain. Most striking of<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/the-fourth-state-of-mind-neurobiology-of-meditation-part-i/"><Read More></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Can education  boost our sense of religiosity?</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/can-education-boost-our-sense-of-religiosity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/can-education-boost-our-sense-of-religiosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion and Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The findings of a new study carried out by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the USA challenges the notion that modern education can lead to a dramatic fall in religious participation. This study (1) about to be published in the journal Review of Religious Research, actually found that in America, education actually bolstered people&#8217;s affiliation<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/can-education-boost-our-sense-of-religiosity/"><Read More></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>How Quantum Physics rediscovered Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/how-quantum-physics-rediscovered-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Various authors</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Physical Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive science]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you tossed a coin into the air, and as the coin was in mid-flight, somebody said to you that it would land both heads and tails at the same time. You would doubt their sanity. But if that person were a quantum physicist, you might give them more credibility. And they, for their part,<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/how-quantum-physics-rediscovered-consciousness/"><Read More></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>RNA World : Clues to the mystery of the origin of the miracle called &#8216;life&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/rna-world-clues-to-the-mystery-of-the-origin-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/rna-world-clues-to-the-mystery-of-the-origin-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Physical Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our lifetimes, it may not be possible to arrive at a detailed picture of how life was created on earth from organic molecules. Yet it must be remembered that our knowledge in building this picture has advanced through gigantic leaps in insight and the secrets of cellular machinery at work have gradually unfolded before<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/rna-world-clues-to-the-mystery-of-the-origin-of-life/"><Read More></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology : The pseudoscience that built a Church out of science fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/scientology-the-pseudoscience-that-built-a-church-out-of-science-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/scientology-the-pseudoscience-that-built-a-church-out-of-science-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion and Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pseudo-science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.metta-physics.com/?p=1806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While speculative fiction is entertaining and creative in its own right, a fiction writer giving rise to a new religion is surely an unique phenomenon in its own right. Often characterized as one of the most controversial religions of the 20th century, as evident from the numerous lawsuits and convictions for fraud (1), this phenomenon<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/scientology-the-pseudoscience-that-built-a-church-out-of-science-fiction/"><Read More></a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>The pitfalls of positive thinking: a mindful perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/the-pitfalls-of-positive-thinking-a-buddhist-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr R Lepcha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living Mindfully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we browse the self-help section of any bookstore, the vast overwhelming number of self-help manuals and publications promote positive thinking, the product of a million-dollar industry that essentially tells us to turn our negative self-images into positive ones in the pursuit of success. Intrinsically there is nothing wrong with this concept, except that positive<br /><span class="excerpt_more"><a href="http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/08/the-pitfalls-of-positive-thinking-a-buddhist-perspective/"><Read More></a></span>]]></description>
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