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	Kurt Barstow LA Religion & Spirituality Examiner
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Kurt Barstow's involvement with art, culture, and spirituality span over two decades and include two books and fourteen years as a manuscripts curator at the Getty. His new direction is in health and spirituality, in both massage therapy and soul-centered psychology. He has an Integral Life Practice that includes yoga and meditation.

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The extended you: body, mind, and spirit

Friday, June 26th, 2009 · 2 comments

Just as psychological wholeness is about realizing a Self greater than the one delimited by the defensive and ambitious ego, we might say that somatic...
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Killing the gods that don’t serve

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I hate Kali. Kali is the Hindu dark goddess of death and destruction. She is depicted in art with a pointed tongue, holding on to severed skulls,...
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Spiritual guidance, part III

To doubt is to lack conviction or certainty. It is to be in a place of not knowing and is the opposite in some senses of faith, belief, or dogma,...
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Lincoln's spirituality in his own words

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The 16th President of the United States is noted both for steering the country through its most difficult period as well as for both his noble...
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Spiritual guidance, part II

Whatever else it is, spiritual guidance is not like following the law or taking the morality of others upon yourself. And it is not one size fits all....
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Spiritual guidance, part I

In my last article, I agonized to a certain extent about how one was to sort through the guidance of the soul given that 1) there are different...
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The difficulty of following the soul's guidance

In her book on how to become a "modern mystic," Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Free Press, 2007), Caroline Myss...
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Mindfulness and the inauguration as a world event

It is an awfully big moment. In a certain respect, race has the least to do with it, since, although one is keenly aware of the historical and...
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The mindfulness of relationship conflict as a capacity for loving more realistically

For ChrisOne of the perplexing things that happens in a relationship as it develops from the romantic phase (not feelings but phase) to what is...
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Scaling back, clearing energy

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Like everybody else in the current economy, I have been more concerned about money than I can remember in recent history. But as Einstein said,...
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