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The Yoga of the Resurrected Christ Empowers Healing & Diversity
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The Yoga of the Resurrected Christ Empowers Healing & Diversity

"Yoga" means union and is a way of life encouraged by many traditions. As the incarnate God(dess) who transcends any one religion, the Resurrected Christ in Mark 16 emphasizes this union by pointing to how we should move beyond differences in how we find God, as well as beyond our old unhealthy habits, instead finding healing and community renewal in diversity from God-consciousness and love.

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Becoming Human: How Empathy Empowers Healing & Community
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Becoming Human: How Empathy Empowers Healing & Community

Recent psychological studies show that empathy is the key factor within healing therapeutic relationships. And many traditions emphasize that God(dess) sees and cares about us as a Divine Friend, and that our ability to empathize is gifted to us and can be further empowered by reflecting the Divinity within and around us.

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Renounce Zombie "Capitalism" for Divinity's Love of True Capital
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Renounce Zombie "Capitalism" for Divinity's Love of True Capital

Like many of the world’s scriptures, the Bible is very critical of unjust economics and many of the hard sentiments at play in our Western systems. God(dess) often demands that we uplift the downtrodden and broken, relinquishing our worldly riches and our hoarding of gold for the betterment of humanity as part of how we interact in commerce and community. Unfortunately, today we often give lip-service to God the Christ (“the One who Saves”) while actively embodying the opposite of his radical economics. The Divine Savior at the heart of all of our traditions puts value on the greatest capital of all: life - our labor, leisure & intellectual capital, and even more so on the point of economics itself, saving and uplifting lives.

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