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		<title>Spiritual Endeavour: Dark Night of the Soul &#8211; 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] A dark night of the soul is an invitation to our own renaissance. The curse of seemingly inescapable psychological and spiritual burdens is a threshold that immerses us in a dark unrelenting entanglement with our own spiritual-renewal. It is deep within the midst of our most intense struggles in life that we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Quality: Equanimity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We find ourselves today in the midst of an economic storm born in the shadowy underworld of corporate greed, want, superficiality, and narcissism that threatens the sustainability of our immediate lifestyle. And we stand together in the midst of an approaching environmental tsunami in which our attempts to own and commoditize the natural world will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Endeavour: Dark Night of the Soul &#8211; 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] When we receive an education we are placed into a system of prerequisites that have been determined by an amorphous agency. By definition, education is an experience that is predetermined, imposed, rigidly structured, and bound to a self-reinforcing system of evaluation. The essence of the education system originates in automation, mechanization, generalization, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplative Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis When you put love and enthusiasm into your work, even if people don’t see it, they realize that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Quality: Presence &#8211; The Embrace of Life</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4739/spiritual-quality-presence-embrace-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] An external presence means that we share some kind of proximity with other living force in our world. This kind of presence may be visible or invisible, readily perceptible to our senses or it may be intuited as a felt-presence that does not present itself as everyday sensation. The invisible tends to confound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Journey: The Alchemist</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4764/spiritual-journey-alchemist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 11:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Fatalism is an insipid belief that the general order of things, including the experiences we have in life, are predetermined and that we are powerless to alter our destiny. Self-determination is an ostentatious belief that we have the power to make decisions without the interference of outside influences. There are even those that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Quality: Presence &#8211; Internal Rhythms</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4719/spiritual-quality-presence-internal-rhythms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] The spiritual dimension is the space in which we journey into our most divine essence, as well as our darkest shadow. A spiritual quality is an intuitive source of inspiration we inhabit in order to orient ourselves to the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. The word presence embraces an essential spiritual quality and creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecopsychology: Release from Spiritual Confinement</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/3090/ecopsychology-release-spiritual-confinement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 13:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] Ecopsychology embraces three vital concepts, relationship, interaction, and belonging. Psychology has had an incestuous history, one in which it constantly looked for solutions to the problems it was responsible for creating in the first place. In this sense, psychology created its own market by infecting people with false assumptions about behaviour, emotions, and [...]]]></description>
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		<series:name><![CDATA[Ecopsychology: Reanimating Our Relationship With the Earth]]></series:name>
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		<title>Spiritual Endeavour: Learning to Trust the Flow of Ancient Rhythm</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/1822/spiritual-endeavour-learning-to-trust-the-flow-of-ancient-rhythm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] We are immersed in a culture that confuses education with learning. More precisely, we ritually submit ourselves to courses that have been prepared by someone else and trust that the instructional delivery these courses will inspire learning. In a bizarre twist, we sometimes incorrectly think of education as being synonymous with learning. Learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Endeavour: Dark Night of the Soul &#8211; 3</title>
		<link>http://exploring-life.ca/4289/spiritual-endeavour-dark-night-of-the-soul-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Alger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Exploring Life] One important outcome of a dark night of the soul, if it is ever attained, is what St. John of the Cross refers to as spiritual purification. A basic premise in the dark night is that both our senses and our spirit must be cleansed in order to purify the soul, and therefore [...]]]></description>
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