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Aikijujutsu vs. Aikido: The Transition From Deadly Combat to Gentle Self-Defense

2009-11-05T17:06:10Z

Aikijujutsu vs. Aikido: The Transition From Deadly Combat to Gentle Self-Defense

A black belt and years of martial arts training do not guarantee survival on the streets. Some even say these skills may be absolutely useless in real-life combat situations.

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Merkel set for landmark speech to US Congress

2009-11-03T14:29:50Z

Merkel set for landmark speech to US Congress

WASHINGTON (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a major speech to the US Congress Tuesday, nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, amid tough questions on Afghanistan and climate change

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Towards a post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations

2009-11-03T06:42:04Z

Towards a post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations

No more special relationships: Europe is wasting its "Obama Moment"Europe has the US president it wished for, but Barack Obama lacks the strong transatlantic partner he wants. As European Council on Foreign Relations analyst Nick Witney and Jeremy Shapiro from the Brookings Institution warn in ECFR's latest report, ‘Towards a post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations', national governments in the EU must shake off illusions about the transatlantic relationship if they want to avoid irrelevance on the global stage.

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The World as Light: An Introduction to the Art of Adi Da

2009-11-01T09:22:27Z

The World as Light: An Introduction to the Art of Adi Da

Adi Da Samraj's exhibition at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia (2007), Transcendental Realism, marks the first time his work is being shown to the public. The purpose of The World As Light is to provide an overview of his entire artistic oeuvre of the past forty years?accompanied by key statements he has made on his own art and on the artistic process in general. His art can be understood as an intensive investigation of the human condition?the condition of presumed existence as a ?self? in the midst of a world that is ?not-self?. Adi Da's art is meant to call into question the most basic presumptions of ordinary human life: the ?fact? of existing as an independent ?self?, the ?fact? of every ?self? being separate from every other ?self?, the ?fact? of the ?self? being separate from the world of ?everything else?. Indeed, Adi Da intends his art to communicate the profundity that is known when all presumptions of ?separateness? are relinquished.

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"Masculine" and "Feminine" - Seeking a more nuanced and integral approach to gender and types

2009-10-28T15:23:41Z

"Masculine" and "Feminine" - Seeking a more nuanced and integral approach to gender and types

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Thew new German Cabinet with Angela Merkel

2009-10-28T10:18:05Z

Thew new German Cabinet with Angela Merkel

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World Leadership Day eBook

2009-10-26T16:40:29Z

World Leadership Day eBook

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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

2009-10-25T15:23:48Z

Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

In this epic spiritual poem, Sri Aurobindo reveals his vision of mankind's destiny within the universal evolution. He sets forth the optimistic view that life on earth has a purpose, and he places our travail within the context of this purpose: to participate in the evolution of consciousness that represents the secret thread behind life on Earth

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The Great Indian Novel

2009-10-24T16:32:25Z

The Great Indian Novel

Indian writer Tharoor's first novel--while more realistic, less magical (despite its allegorical roots), and more politically engaged than Rushdie's Midnight's Children--is a readable, often witty, and frequently wise story of 20th-century India. Taking the title of his book from one of the great Indian epics (The Mahabhatra, which literally means ""Great India in Sanskrit""), Tharoor has also ...

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The Idea of the Wholy: An Inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational

2009-10-21T15:28:22Z

The Idea of the Wholy: An Inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational

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Leadership development is not about filling a gap but about igniting a field of inspired connection and action

2009-10-13T08:41:23Z

Leadership development is not about filling a gap but about igniting a field of inspired connection and action

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World

2009-10-13T06:58:24Z

The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World

In this postmodern world, cultural conflicts are becoming more dangerous than any time in history. A new model of coexistence is needed, based on man's transcending himself.

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Dmitri Medvedevs Article: Go, Russia

2009-09-28T12:26:08Z

Dmitri Medvedevs Article: Go, Russia

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Germany on the Net: 2500 Selected Links

2009-09-27T10:07:37Z

Germany on the Net: 2500 Selected Links

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What Does Russia Think?

2009-09-25T09:47:17Z

What Does Russia Think?

The EU's Russia policy cannot succeed as long as it continues to rest on faulty analysis and mistaken assumptions. This is the main conclusion of What does Russia think?, a collection of politically revealing essays by intellectuals whose views influence the Kremlin - many of whom have advised Putin or Medvedev - which the European Council on Foreign Relations has published today. The collection includes essays by Fyodor Lukyanov, Valery Fadeev, Vyacheslav Glazychev, Gleb Pavlovsky and Leonid Polyakov.

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Completing Europe

2009-09-23T14:12:18Z

Completing Europe

The next five years may be remembered as the last chance Europe had to be relevant in the world. When we look at the European Union we now have, we see cracks, tears, plans left hanging in the air; risks but also opportunities.

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Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious

2009-09-20T18:01:32Z

Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious

This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome

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The Blackwinged Night

2009-09-07T11:54:20Z

The Blackwinged Night

Brilliant and wide-ranging, The Blackwinged Night explores the very essence of the creative spirit and the way it animates the physical world, giving us the power to experience beauty-whether gazing into the night sky or listening to Bach's B-minor Mass.

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Thus spake Zarathustra

2009-09-07T10:41:23Z

Thus spake Zarathustra

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KNOW YOUR REAL EDGE AND DON'T FAKE IT

2009-09-04T10:14:12Z

KNOW YOUR REAL EDGE AND DON'T FAKE IT

It is honorable for a man to admit his fears, resistance, and edge of practice. It is simply true that each man has his limit, his capacity for growth, and his destiny. But it is dishonorable for him to lie to himself or others about his real place. He shouldn't pretend he is more enlightened than he is—nor should he stop short of his actual edge. The more a man is playing his real edge, the more valuable he is as good company for other men, the more he can be trusted to be authentic and fully present. Where a man's edge is located is less important than whether he is actually living his edge in truth, rather than being lazy or deluded.

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