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Major League Baseball has placed Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on administrative leave three days after allegations emerged that he assaulted a woman.
According to the Associated Press, the league placed Bauer on a 7-day leave. The administrative leave was adopted in 2015 by the league and players' association under a joint domestic violence policy.
ESPN reported that Bauer would not appeal MLB's decision.
Bauer, who will receive his full salary and service time during the leave, will miss his scheduled start on Sunday against the Washington Nationals.
Bauer has a formal hearing on July 23.
Bauer is under investigation after a woman obtained a protective order after she alleged the pitcher assaulted her during recent encounters.
The Pasadena (Calif.) Police Department confirmed to the AP that they were looking into the accusations.
Bauer's co-agent, Jon Fetterolf, has disputed the allegations.


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The Book of Truth
- Chapter 438 -
They Intend to Oust Pope Benedict Xvi from the Seat of Peter Using Devious Means
Saturday, May 26th, 2012 @ 16:00
I am delighted to have you back with Me. It is important to keep close to Me now My daughter. The time is short and you have much work to do.
Today I ask of My followers, My dearest daughter, to pray hard for My beloved Vicar Pope Benedict XVI . He, My Holy Servant is under terrible persecution behind closed doors in the Holy See.
I have told you before that the Masonic Groups who have a vice like grip inside The Vatican want My Beloved Pope out.
And they intend to oust him from the Seat of Peter using devious means.
He will, as I have told you in the past, have to flee for he will have little choice.
This time is short. You must pray hard that he can stay as long as possible for as soon as he leaves, the imposter, the False Prophet, will take his place.
How My tears flow for My Beloved Church on earth at this time. All those sacred servants of mine, who accept My Holy Word, as it is given to you at this time, hear Me now.
You must remain faithful to the Holy Mass and uphold the daily Sacrifices. For very soon you will be forced to swallow a lie.
The daily Sacrifices, in honour of My Crucifixion and the change of the wine into My Blood and the Bread into My Body, will be changed, twisted and I will be vilified through new laws introduced by the False Prophet.
You must never accept anything that is not the Truth
You must never accept heresy from within the walls of My Holy See. If you do then you will remove yourself from Me.
Many of you will have to offer the Holy Mass in secret and you will need all the courage you can get by praying to Me and asking Me to make you strong.
The changes will begin in the Holy Eucharist itself. You will soon be told that Holy Communion, My True Presence is, in fact, something else.
You will be told it means different things. But this is a terrible lie.
The Holy Eucharist is My Body and Blood given to you to allow Me to fill you with My Holy Spirit, to give you the nourishment that you need for your souls.
When the time comes and you, My Sacred Servants, are presented with the new modern interpretation then you will know that the contamination has already started.
This is when you will need to prepare. Gather together and defend the Truth of My Crucifixion. Do not accept the lies, the changes in the Holy Mass and the Holy Eucharist. For if you do then My Presence will be lost to all of God's children.
Follow Me. This is the greatest challenge you will ever have to face but I will give you the Graces to discern the truth from the sacrilegious fiction you will be asked to accept in My Holy Name.
You must ask for My Help now through this Crusade Prayer (56). It is for Priests seeking Protection for the Holy Eucharist
O Dear Father, in the name of your Precious Son,
Who sacrificed Himself on the Cross for the whole of mankind
Help me to stay true to the Truth
Cover me with the Precious Blood of Your Son and give me the
Graces to continue to serve You in faith, trust and honour for the rest of my ministry
Never let me stray from true meaning of the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass or the presentation of
The Holy Eucharist to Your children.
Give me the strength to represent You and feed Your flock the way
in which they must be fed with the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of
Your Son, Jesus Christ, The Saviour of Mankind.
Please know that I walk with each of you, My Beloved Sacred Servants, every day.
I hold you up. Lean on Me and I will keep you close to My Sacred Heart in these times of terrible torment within the Catholic Church.
Your Beloved Jesus


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NEW YORK – Marian Gaborik had a goal and assist in New York's three-goal first period, and Henrik Lundqvist made 35 saves in going the distance to lead the Rangers to a 5-1 preseason victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night.
Gaborik, who led the team with 42 goals and 86 points in his first season with New York, put the Rangers ahead 1-0 just one minute in with his third goal. He also helped set up defenseman Mike Sauer's first goal that made it 3-0 with 58.1 seconds remaining in the frame.
Sean Avery also scored in the spurt against beleaguered Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard, who stopped only five of eight shots in the first period. Howard, a finalist last season for NHL rookie of the year, dropped to 2-1. He made 18 saves last Sunday in the Red Wings' 5-3 victory over New York in the first half of the home-and-home exhibition series and followed it with a 21-save performance in the rematch.
Rookie hopeful Derek Stepan and defenseman Michael Del Zotto added goals in the third period to turn it into a Rangers rout.
Red Wings defenseman Brian Rafalski, who had a goal and three assists against the Rangers on Sunday, scored his second of the preseason during a power play to cut Detroit's deficit to 3-1. Rafalski fired a shot from the center of the blue line that appeared to deflect off Rangers defenseman Michal Rozsival before finding its way past Lundqvist at 8:21 of the second.
Lundqvist made 13 saves in the middle period.
While the Rangers dressed many of their topflight players, the Red Wings put out a lineup that hardly represented the talent the makes them a championship contender in the Western Conference. Stars such as Nicklas Lidstrom, Pavel Datsyuk, and Henrik Zetterberg all had the night off.
Stepan stretched the Rangers' lead to 4-1 at 1:38 of the third, and Del Zotto pushed it to a four-goal edge at 7:34. Ruslan Fedotenko had two assists.
Gaborik got the offense going early when he scored from the top of the left circle off a feed from Rozsival during a power play. Avery made it 2-0 at 4:39 when he snapped off a shot, from the same circle, that passed through a screen and beat Howard for his second goal.
Sauer recorded his first point in three games with a goal in the final minute. Gaborik earned the second assist after blocking a shot in the defensive zone. He has four points in three games.


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By Bishop Robert Finn
Respect Life Month Commentary
"The greater the misery of a soul, the greater its right to my mercy… . On the cross, the fountain of my mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls – no one have I excluded!" ("Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska: spanine Mercy in My Soul").
"Help us O God of our salvation; … according to thy great power, preserve those doomed to die!"(Psalm 79:9, 11).
In January 1999, Pope John Paul II made a pastoral visit to St. Louis. When he met with Governor Mel Carnahan of Missouri, the Holy Father asked him to commute the death sentence of Darrell Mease, who was scheduled to be executed in the next weeks. Carnahan granted the Pope's wish, saying he was moved by the Pope's appeal for mercy.{{more}}
The Pope did not request a reevaluation of the merits of the condemned man's case. Rather, he presented a simple and straightforward petition for mercy. The sentence was changed from death by lethal injection to life imprisonment without parole. The common good of society remained protected from the perpetrator. Justice was not confounded, but a higher purpose was served in putting aside the irreversible remedy of death.
The Church's stance on capital punishment has always been based on the responsibility to protect society. St. Thomas Aquinas says that the legitimate civil authority is obliged to defend people from a dangerous criminal. At the same time, he cautions, "The execution of the wicked is forbidden wherever … the wicked are not clearly distinguished from the good" ("Summa Contra Gentiles" by VJ Burke).
Besides reminding us of well-known cases where innocent people were condemned to die, this should remind us that as Christians we are urged not to see anyone as irredeemably wicked.
An alternative to the death penalty
Prior to his intervention in St. Louis, Pope John Paul had laid out his case for the limitation of the use of the death penalty in his encyclical "The Gospel of Life" (Evangelium Vitae, 1995) and in his extraordinary 1997 modification of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC). He still allowed for the application of the death penalty as a just choice that authority may make in its responsibility to safeguard society from the unjust aggressor. Yet the revised text goes on to say: "Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm – without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself – the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity 'are very rare, if not practically nonexistent'" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2267).
The sworn responsibility of authority to secure the common good is not easily laid aside. But here the Church, convinced that society can be protected without executing dangerous criminals, charges us to look to a less violent, less final remedy. The Catechism directs us to a solution that preserves the common good without definitively curtailing the inspanidual good of the perpetrator, offering him the opportunity for redemption. Each man, no matter how sinful and flawed, has a final purpose and call to salvation, one that we ought not too easily or unnecessarily preempt.
The above is the "ought" for laying aside the death penalty: legitimate authority can fulfill its responsibility using lesser but sufficient means for protecting the common good. But we should add that the argument of spanine mercy, while never violating justice, transcends the human "ought."
Mercy surpasses justice and heals hurts
The correct dispensing of justice always seeks to provide something which is well suited to the person and the circumstance. Justice is giving each person his "due" (CCC, no. 1807). When Jesus freely submitted to human "justice," He provided by means of His Cross an act of justification that, because He was spanine, satisfied all our sins.
God did not abolish justice. Rather, He intended by the offering of His Son to purge human justice of any sense of wrath or revenge. Time and again we see that violence begets violence in a seeming unending spiral.
God told St. Faustina that "Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy" ("Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska: spanine Mercy in My Soul"). In the spanine mercy, God receives and quenches human vengeance in Jesus' own wounded heart. In this heart, which is an abyss of love, mercy overcomes hatred. Mercy brings healing that is impossible on a merely human level.
spanine mercy can restore hope, because it flows from the heart of the Risen Christ who, once and for all, has vanquished the finality of death.
A prayer of reparation
The Chaplet of spanine Mercy, which God gave to the world through St. Faustina, is a beautiful prayer that has a powerful efficacy to repair the hurt wrought by sin. As we respond to God's call to continuing conversion, the invocations of the chaplet may be offered as a litany of reparation.
With our hearts turned to the Father, we use the chaplet to profess and invoke God's mercy accomplished in Christ's sorrowful passion. We unite ourselves with the sacrifice of His body, blood, soul and spaninity, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. When human efforts seem futile and human solutions leave us empty, we pray the chaplet to beg for a new beginning. Our plea for mercy will not fail to reach the Father.
Christ's execution and the gift of spanine Mercy
The Church's annual novena to the spanine Mercy begins on Good Friday, the day of the execution of Jesus. The hour of mercy is the hour of His saving sacrifice. This is when blood and water gushed out for our salvation. "On the cross, the fountain of my mercy was opened by the lance for all souls – no one have I excluded" ("Diary of St. Maria Faistina"). This is the moment that shook the world and stirred the faith of the pagan centurion to say, "Truly, this was the Son of God" (Mt. 27:54).
As we seek a reason to put aside the practice of the death penalty, perhaps the best motive is our desire to imitate God in His mercy toward those for whom Jesus died. Mary, Mother of Mercy, pray for us and teach us to show mercy to others.
Bishop Finn is Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph (Missouri) and a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities. This column is part of the USCCB's 2010-11 Respect Life Program.


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You'll Pitch Better If You Don't Hang Back
You'll Pitch Better If You Don't Hang Back
By: David Leadbetter
Great advice to remember when hitting pitch shots is to swing through impact on a shallow angle, letting the bottom of the clubhead slide along the turf.
Having said that, I've seen the application of this advice prove troublesome for some amateurs, because they try to do it off the wrong foot—the back foot. This typically happens because the golfer wants to help get the ball in the air with some unnecessary hand and body english. There's no need for that. Wedges have more than enough loft to produce a high-and-soft shot, especially if the angle of attack is shallow—think skim, not dig.
So what I want you to do is make sure your body is being supported by your lead foot as you swing through impact. An easy way to ingrain this into your pitching game is with the classic step drill. It's reminiscent of Gary Player's signature move of walking toward the target in a seemingly continuous motion after he struck the ball. In this drill, swing down feeling all of your weight shift into the front foot. As your club is about to meet the ball from that shallow approach, your back foot should be off the ground and starting to move toward the target. Hit the shot and step forward as you see me doing here.
Getting your weight forward is going to help make your pitching game much more reliable.
Shank one shot, you try to brush it off and move on. Shank the next? Full panic sets in. Before you walk off the course and put your clubs on eBay, let me help. First, understand that the shanks most often occur when the golfer has moved too close to the ball at impact. Sometimes we unknowingly drift toward our toes as we swing, and this causes the club to strike the ball near or on the hosel. So what can you do? TRY THIS: At address, lift your toes inside your shoes (below), and keep them up when you swing. This will prevent you from moving toward the ball and clanking one off the hosel.
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By: David Leadbetter
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Rang Decor Readers Creative Spaces: IX
40 comments:
- My Dream Canvas said...
Absolutely gorgeous home with warm and vibrant hues!!
- February 27, 2011 at 8:33 PM
- Devi said...
Beautiful house!!!
- February 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- arundati said...
what a gorgeous house.... stunning and functional too
- February 27, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- The Fit.Me said...
Beautiful house and great shots too!
- February 27, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Unknown said...
lovely deco...
- February 27, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Nandita SS said...
That's an awesome home. The house seems so alive with all the colours and hues :)
- February 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Kamal Pandey said...
What a beautiful home !! Love the painted yellow cabinet !!
- February 27, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- notyet100 said...
luved all the pics
- February 27, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Reema Sahay said...
What a warm, beautiful home!
- February 27, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- Amtrips said...
i liked the write up... felt like I too visited the beautiful well-planned home with you..!:P
my personal super-likes : pic 4, 5 and 8 - February 27, 2011 at 11:43 PM
- Saji said...
vibrant coloes of india...amazing house
- February 28, 2011 at 1:49 AM
- Betsy said...
A very warm and lovely home. Loved the colours!!
- February 28, 2011 at 2:49 AM
- Laksh said...
Good angles. Loved the black and white tiles.
- February 28, 2011 at 3:04 AM
- niarcane said...
can i know where did they get their furnitures from... they are very good .. if they are custom made..would love to know from where
- February 28, 2011 at 4:18 AM
- Deepa Gopal said...
Beautiful home...
Absolutely fantastic furniture.
Loved the pics:) - February 28, 2011 at 4:20 AM
- mishta roy said...
The furniture was designed and made in collaboration with a company in Jodhpur. Look up 'Kraft n Decor Overseas' on the web and speak with Nimesh Surana,the owner.You can even send him pics of stuff you like and he'll reproduce it for you and truck it to where-ever you are.It's great!:)
- February 28, 2011 at 5:07 AM
- Anamika said...
I would so love coming back home from work to this home... Actually I might even think of not working at all...just to be home :) Lovely place
- February 28, 2011 at 5:19 AM
- Rekha said...
Awesome post, Archana, Loved every picture in the post.
- February 28, 2011 at 5:23 AM
- Shalini said...
What vibrant colors...such a holiday mood to bring into one's daily lives. Love how they went into such detail on the tiles.
Great to see you back on this series again, Arch! - February 28, 2011 at 6:33 AM
Beautiful home! Archana you have a fabulous sense of decor and I love the home tours you post!
I would love to find out more about the area rug/carpet in the living room, it's gorgeous!
Gayu - February 28, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Sound Horn Please said...
OMG! What a gorgeous home. They have completely transformed it. Congrats Mishta- Every part of your home is lovely!
- February 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Reshma at masalamangomantra.blogspot.com said...
A beautiful home! Loved the red chatais...Great pictures!Thank you for sharing!
- February 28, 2011 at 11:31 AM
- Kamini said...
Oh dear God! Easily the most beautiful home I have EVER seen! Just gorgeous and stunning! A color freak like me loves every single thing but that living room is just to die for! I have to somehow sneak an invitation to your home when I come to Bangalore Mishta! Fabulous post Arch!
- February 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Sanghamitra Bhattacherjee(Mukherjee) said...
Absolutely gorgeous home!..stunning!!
Congrats Mishta..! Awesome post Archana..:) - February 28, 2011 at 6:50 PM
- Sharon said...
Gorgeous home, Mishta and Anirudh! I specially loved your guest room and that shabby chic cupboard.
S - February 28, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- pRiyA said...
Utterly gorgeous and unique. Love the way the colours have been used. It has such a south indian flavour to it. Beautiful!
- February 28, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- Sunita Mohan said...
What a colour-soaked home! It has tropical-ness literally stamped on every square inch.
I looked at that water-body in the courtyard and kept thinking how much plants would love it. In my mind, I can see a forest of heliconias and orchids blooming their heads off there! - March 1, 2011 at 12:05 AM
Nice post, Archana.
Mishta...just love..love...love the curtain in your guest room..would mind sharing where you gt them.Thanks. - March 1, 2011 at 3:55 PM
- Double Glazing said...
Nice interior. I love the design of the house. Very colorful, stylish and artistically made. Impressive house! You've done a great work.
- March 1, 2011 at 11:16 PM
- Aarthi said...
This house was breathtaking
- March 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM
Love the spaces. Where did you get the curtains from? Love them :)
- March 4, 2011 at 1:25 AM
- mishta roy said...
Thank you all!
The curtains are from Good Earth, they're a bit expensive but worth it!
The chattais on the living room floor are from Mother Earth, not expensive at all! - March 9, 2011 at 1:05 AM
- Catherine said...
This is a beautiful home! Every room is full of artistic vibrance and detailing.
- March 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM
beautiful house. I really like those hanging lamps in your house. Could you please tell me from where you got those?
Thanks. - March 20, 2011 at 3:29 AM
- bird's eye view said...
Gorgeous home - so warm and vibrant, yet with a sense of serenity about it. I actually visited Geoffrey Bawas's country home, Lunu Ganga,in Sri Lanka - it is such an amazing place, simle, elegant, in touch with nature...
- March 20, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- diana said...
splendid drawing room............
- April 20, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Eyes of India said...
I love your site, the photos are beautiful and inspiring! Thank You!
- May 14, 2011 at 11:16 PM
- radhika said...
The nameplate is very Goan. I am a Goan native, Living in California.
- June 3, 2011 at 1:36 PM
colours and colours....lovely enjoyd this site
- November 1, 2011 at 7:04 AM
- icedtea said...
Great pics. The decor looks to be heavily inspired by Portuguese, what do u say.
- August 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM


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Teleological Perspectives and the Pre/Trans Fallacy of Integral TheoryWilliam Harryman
Rather than evolving toward greater complexity, the universe may well be evolving toward dissolution and entropy.
Teleology is an account of a given thing's purpose. For example, Aristotle argued that the purpose of an acorn, its intrinsic telos, is to become an oak tree. This is intrinsic teleology. [A purpose imposed by human use, such as a fork's extrinsic purpose is to make eating certain foods easier, is extrinsic teleology.] Natural teleology contends that natural entities have intrinsic purposes, irrespective of human use or opinion. According to Wikipedia: Though ancient atomists rejected the notion of natural teleology, teleological accounts of non-personal or non-human nature were explored and often endorsed in ancient and medieval philosophies, but fell into disfavor during the modern era (1600-1900). In the late 18th century, Immanuel Kant used the concept of telos as a regulative principle in his Critique of Judgment. Teleology was also fundamental to the speculative philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A recent example of teleological science is Thomas Nagel's 2012 book, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, an argument that the emergence of life, and in particular conscious life, cannot be explained by materialist or mechanistic principles but, rather, the required principles may be teleological. Integral theorist Ken Wilber has based his entire integral model on a teleological view of the universe (derived from Vedanta and Tibetan Buddhism), arguing that consciousness arose in the universe so that the universe could come to know itself. In one of his early books, Wilber says that the "Big Bang which was really the roaring laughter of God voluntarily getting lost for the millionth time" (Up From Eden, p. 328). Or this, from a later book:
Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity—a total embrace of the entire Kosmos—a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. (A Brief History of Everything, p. 38)
In Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Wilber offers,
… these life forms were apparently not content to merely reproduce themselves, but instead began a long evolution that would eventually allow them to represent themselves, to produce sign and symbols and concepts, and thus out of life arose mind. Whatever this process of evolution was, it seems to have been incredibly driven from matter to life to mind. But stranger still, a mere few hundred years ago, on a small and indifferent planet around an insignificant star, evolution became conscious of itself. (p.3)
This is a purely teleological understanding of evolution, of the universe. And for Wilber, eros is the force that drives the evolution of the universe. In this model of the universe, the intention, or even the purpose, can only be understood through actions. In essence, the result of an action (evolution is the seemingly obvious drive toward complexity in the universe as we know it) explains its intention (the purpose of evolution is for the universe to become conscious of itself). Wilber's model, like Nagel's, posits directionality—an intent—in nature. Wilber goes further and claims that the universe has become conscious of itself through human beings and that this is the intention behind evolution, going all the way back to the Big Bang (let's ignore the fact that the Big bang is still a questionable origin story). But is this necessarily true? Psychologically, this is the sensorimotor stage of mentalization (the ability to think about thinking). Mentalization, according to Peter Fonagy, is a left-brain, voluntary, and slow secondary affect regulating system. It is the ability to step back and consider our own cognitive processes as objects of thought or reflection (paraphrasing Mary Main). According to Csibra and Gergely (1998), "infant's 'teleological stance' generates reality-based explanations for actions that are neither mentalistic nor causal." In essence, the teleological perspective is "reality-based," in that it attempts to make sense of an event within the available evidence (primitive though it is), but it lacks a truly causal explanation due to a lack of ability to mentalize (to take one's thoughts/beliefs as an object of awareness). Wilber's sensorimotor stage is very low on his developmental schema and, in fact, it is the bottom (beginning) stage of cognitive development. As mentioned above, teleology is the sensorimotor stage of mentalization, the reading of one's own and others' mental states. There is likely some discrepancy in stages here, and Wilber's sensorimotor stage and pre-operational stage may well be equivalent to Fonagy's sensorimotor stage. We take for granted that intentions precede actions in our experiences of other people. The problem is when we extend this belief to non-human agents, such as animals, weather, or the universe. This is a form of anthropomorphism, the attribution of human intentions and feelings to non-human agents. As such, this is a primitive state of consciousness. It is correlated strongly with Wilber's impulsive (or magical/animistic) stage of development. Again, very low on the hierarchy of cognitive development—it's pre-rational (mind), pre-egoic (identity), pre-operational/symbolic (cognitive), and pre-conventional (moral). It is also preverbal, relying on a very basic cause and effect schema that intuits cause based on effects. How is it that a teleological perspective in philosophy (and the philosophy of consciousness) is not considered primitive and pre-rational? What we are really discussing here is a subtle manifestation of the pre/trans fallacy that Wilber himself is credited with discovering. Here is how this distinction is defined at Integral Life: Ken noticed a core confusion that made it very difficult to discern between the lower stages and the higher stages. Trans-rational mystical experiences were often being dismissed as pre-rational fantasy, postmodern values were being erroneously projected onto pre-modern cultures, and pre-modern impulsiveness and hedonism were being celebrated by the postmodern counterculture. Rather than viewing psychology as a developmental process running from pre-rational to rational to trans-rational (or pre-differentiated fusion to differentiation to post-differentiated integration), a person was seen as being either rational or not—resulting in the trans-rational baby getting thrown out with the pre-rational bathwater. This is one of Wilber's most important theoretical contributions. Despite this, Wilber's whole integral model falls into the pre/trans fallacy inherent in teleological perspectives. It's puzzling that Wilber never saw this issue in his own work, but it's often difficult to separate enough from our own beliefs to view them objectively. On the other hand, he might argue that mystical perspectives are not subject to causal explanations. He has made such claims before.
Neither sensory empiricism, nor pure reason, nor practical reason, nor any combination thereof can see into the realm of Spirit. In the smoking ruins left by Kant, the only possible conclusion is that all future metaphysics and authentic spirituality must offer direct experiential evidence. (The Marriage of Sense and Soul, p. 174)
According to this, we are to take as truth the "insights" of mystics who have seen into the realm of Spirit, whatever that may be. We are required to accept, in integral theory, a model of the evolution of the universe that is based on a teleological interpretation of why the universe is as it is. And this does not even take into account the likelihood that the Big Bang is a false theory, or that rather than evolving toward greater complexity, the universe may well be evolving toward dissolution and entropy (space is expanding faster than previously believed). As a result, it's suspected that receding galaxies will cross a type of cosmological event horizon, where any evidence of their existence, not even light, would ever be able to reach us, no matter how far into the future you went. Would someone born in a future time when there are no other stars visible from Earth come up with the same models and explanations about the universe as people born during the previous centuries? It seems unlikely. We really lack any actual evidence for what is happening in other regions of the universe. We barely have a grip on what is happening on Earth. Any person who believes that he or she can offer a cogent and comprehensive explanation for the universe and it's supposed evolution seems to me more than a little delusional. |


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By St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
The Gospels have told us today[1] about the exploits of the holy women who followed the God-Man during His earthly wanderings. They witnessed His sufferings and were present at his burial. The burial took place on Friday evening. While the Jews' wrath was pouring out like the fiery lava of Aetna not only upon the Lord, but upon all of those close to Him; while the Holy Apostles were forced to hide or observe the extraordinary events only from a distance; while only John, the beloved disciple who leaned upon the breast of the Lord, feared nothing and remained always near the Lord, the secret disciple, Joseph of Arimathea, who had always concealed his heart's allegiance due to persecution from the Sanhedrin, suddenly disregards all the obstacles, hesitations, and anxiety that had bound and worried him until then, and he appears before cold, cruel Pilate to beg the body of the One who was shamefully executed. He receives the Lord's body and buries it with reverence and honor.
The Gospels imply that Joseph's deed was big-hearted and courageous. That is truly what it was. In the presence of the Sanhedrin which had committed deicide, in the very Jerusalem that had participated in that deicide, a member of the Sanhedrin takes the body of the God-man killed by men down from the tree and carries it to the garden located near the city gates and walls. There, in quiet and solitude, under shady trees, he places the body by which the bodies and souls of all mankind are redeemed in a new tomb hewn from a solid rock, with an abundance of fragrances and oils, and wraps it like a precious treasure in fine, clean linen. Another member of the Sanhedrin also took part in the Lord's burial. This was Nicodemos, who came to the Lord by night and acknowledged that the Lord was sent from God. Having rolled a great stone to the door of the grave—doors which Gospels call a low opening to the cave—Joseph has satisfactorily finished his service and so he departs. The Sanhedrin followed Joseph's movements. Seeing him gone, it took care to set a guard at the grave and place a seal on the stone which covered the entrance. The Lord's burial was witnessed by both His friends and His enemies. Although some members of the Sanhedrin in their frenzy and rage committed a great evil, they unconsciously brought a great sacrifice (cf. Acts 17:18): through the slaughter of the all-pure Sacrifice they redeemed the whole human race, ended the fruitless number of transformative sacrifices, and made these sacrifices and their very institution superfluous. Other members of the Sanhedrin, representatives of all the righteous people of the Old Testament, served with a God-pleasing intention and disposition of soul in the burial of the Redeemer of mankind, and by this action ended and placed a seal upon the pious works of the sons of the Old Testament. From this point begins the exceptional service of those of the New Testament.
The holy women show no less courage than the selfless Joseph. Present at the burial on Friday, they did not deem it permissible on the Sabbath—the day of rest—to disrupt that peace in which the body of Christ rested in sacred darkness and reclusion within the sepulchral cave. The women were intent upon pouring out their zeal for the Lord by pouring myrrh upon His body. When they returned from the burial on Friday, they immediately bought a goodly amount of aromatic substances and waited for the break of the day which follows the Sabbath, then called the "week," now Sunday. On that day, as soon as the sun shone forth, the pious women went to the grave. On the way they remembered that a large stone had been rolled to the grave. This worried them, and the women began to say amongst themselves, "Who shall roll the stone from the tomb for us?" (Mk. 16:2). The stone was very great. Having arrived at the tomb, they saw to their amazement the stone rolled away. A light-bearing mighty angel had rolled it away: at the Lord's resurrection, he had descended from heaven to the grave which encompassed Him whom the heavens cannot encompass, stunned the guards with terror, broke the seal, and rolled away the stone. He sat on the stone, waiting for the women's arrival. When they came, he announced the Lord's resurrection to them, telling them to inform the Apostles. For their zeal for the God-man, for their resolve to render honor to the all pure body that was guarded by the military guard, after which the Sanhedrin in their hatred sharply watched, the holy women were the first among humans to receive exact and sure testimony of Christ's resurrection; they were made the first strong preachers of the resurrection, as ones who heard about it from the lips of the angel. The all-perfect God is impartial: for Him all people are equal. And those people who strive toward Him with great self-denial are are made worthy of a special abundance of Divine gifts and spiritual elegance.
"Who shall roll the stone from the tomb for us?" These words of the holy women have their own mysterious meaning. They are so edifying that love of neighbor and a desire for his spiritual benefit will not allow us to be silent about it.
The tomb is our heart. The heart was once a temple, but it became a tomb. Christ enters it by means of the sacrament of Baptism, in order to dwell in us and work in us. Then the heart is consecrated as a temple to God. We steal from Christ the possibility to work in us and enliven our "old man", which ever follows its attraction to our fallen will, our reason poisoned by falsehood. Brought in by Baptism, Christ continues to abide in us, but He is as if wounded and mortified by our behavior. The temple of God not made by hands is turned into a cramped, dark tomb. A very great stone is rolled over its entrance. The enemies of God set a guard over the tomb, and seal its entrance blocked by the stone. They seal the stone to the cave so that in addition to the stone's great weight, this famous seal forbids anyone to even touch the stone. The enemies of God themselves watch over the preservation of this deadness! They have thought through and set up all these obstacles in order to forestall the resurrection, to prevent it, and make it impossible.
The stone is the soul's illness by which all the other spiritual illnesses are guarded incurably and which the holy fathers call insensibility.[2] Many will say, what sort of sin is this? We have never heard of it. According to the fathers, insensibility is the deadening of spiritual feelings, the unseen death of the human soul with respect to spiritual things in a life that is flourishing with respect to material things. From a long-term physical sickness all strength can become exhausted and the body's abilities withered; then the illness cannot find any more food, and ceases to torment the body's constitution. It leaves the sick man alone and wasted, as if dead and incapable of movement due to the debilitating suffering, the terrible, dumb morbidity that is not expressed by any particular suffering. The same thing happens to the human soul. Long-term slackness of life amidst continuous distractions, constant voluntary sins, forgetfulness of God and eternity, inattention or only superficial attention to the Gospel teachings removes from our spirit any inclination toward spiritual things, and deadens it to them. Although they continue to exist, they cease to exist for our spirit because its life has ended for them—all its strength is directed toward the material, the temporal, the vain, and the sinful.
Everyone who wants to dispassionately and seriously investigate the state of his soul will see the illness of insensibility in it; he will see its broad significance, its gravity and consequence, and will have to admit that it is the manifestation and witness of his deadness of soul. When we want to study the Word of God, what boredom hits us! Everything we read seems hard to understand, not worthy of attention, and strange. How quickly we want to be free of that reading! Why is this? Because we feel no affinity for the Word of God.
When we rise for prayer, what dryness and coldness we feel! How we rush to finish our cursory, completely distracted prayer! Why? Because we are estranged from God: we believe in God's existence with a dead faith; He does not exist to our sensibility. Why have we forgotten eternity? Are we excluded from the number of those who must enter into its boundless realm? Doesn't death stand before us face to face, as it does to all humans? Why is this? It is because we do not want to think about eternity; we have lost the precious foretaste of it, and acquired a false perception of our earthly sojourn. This false perception imagines that our earthly life is endless. We are so deceived and distracted by this false perception that we conform all our actions to them, bringing all the potential of our soul and body as a sacrifice to corruption, not caring at all about what awaits us in the other world. After all, we must inevitably become permanent inhabitants of that world.
Why does idle talk, snide laughter, judgment of our neighbors and derision of them beat forth from us as from a wellspring? Why do we spend so many unburdened hours in empty amusements, cannot get enough of them, are always leaping from one vain pastime to another, but we do not want to dedicate even the tiniest bit of time to reviewing our own sins and lamenting over them? Because we have acquired an affinity for sin, for everything vain, for everything that brings sin into a person, and by which sin is preserved within a person. Because we have lost our affinity for all exercise that brings God-beloved virtues into us; that multiplies and preserves them. Insensibility is rooted in the soul by the world which is at enmity with God, and by the fallen angels at war with God, with the aid of our own free will. It grows and gathers strength through a life according to the principles of this world; it grows and gathers strength when we follow our fallen reason and will, when we abandon service to God, and because we serve Him carelessly. When insensibility stagnates in the soul and becomes a property of it, then the world and its rulers place a seal on the stone. This seal consists in the concourse of the human soul with fallen spirits, in the spirit's assimilation of human impressions wrought upon him by fallen spirits, and in its subjection to the aggressive influence and domination by these outcast spirits.
"Who shall roll the stone from the tomb for us?" This is a question filled with anguish, sadness, and perplexity. Those souls feel this anguish, sadness, and perplexity that have directed themselves toward the Lord, leaving behind service to the world and sin. Before their gaze is revealed the sickness of insensibility in all its horrifying enormity and gravity. They desire and pray with contrition, exercise themselves in the reading of the Word of God beyond all other reading, and abide in constant awareness of their sinfulness, in constant mourning over it. In a word, they desire to become part of God and to belong to Him. They meet an unexpected resistance in their own selves that is unknown to those who serve this world: insensibility of heart. The heart stricken by its former careless life as by a mortal wound does not discover any signs of life. In vain does the mind gather thoughts about death, about God's judgment, about the multitude of its sins, about the torments of hell, about the sweetness of paradise; in vain does the mind strive to beat upon the heart with these reflections—the heart remains devoid of feeling for them, as if hell, paradise, God's judgment, sinfulness, and the state of fallenness and demise have no relation whatsoever to the heart. It is asleep in a deep sleep, the sleep of death; it is asleep, drunken with sinful poison. "Who shall roll the stone from the tomb for us? This stone is very great."
According to the teachings of the holy fathers, in order to conquer insensibility a person must have constant, patient, uninterrupted action against that insensibility; he must have a constant, pious, and attentive life. Such a life beleaguers the life of insensibility; however this death of the human spirit cannot be put to death through human efforts alone—insensibility is destroyed by the action of divine grace. An angel of God, at God's command, comes down to help the laboring and troubled soul, rolls away the stone of hardness from the heart, fills the heart with compunction, announces to the soul the resurrection, which is the usual result of continual compunction.[3] Compunction is the first sign of a heart revived toward God and eternity. What is compunction? Compunction is a person's feeling of mercy and compassion toward himself, toward his grave state, his fallen state, a state of eternal death. Holy Scripture writes of the people of Jerusalem who were brought to this state by the preaching of the Apostle Peter and were inclined to accept Christianity that they were "pricked in their heart" (Acts. 2:37).[4]
The Lord's body had no need of the myrrh-bearers' fragrant myrrh. Any anointing with myrrh was forestalled by the resurrection. But by their timely purchase of myrrh, their early arrival at the first rays of the sun to the life-giving tomb, their disdain of any fear brought on by the Sanhedrin's wrath and the militant soldiers guarding the tomb and the One interred there, the holy women showed and proved by experience their heartfelt dedication to the Lord. Their gift turned out to be unnecessary. It was rewarded a hundredfold by the appearance of the angel, up to then invisible to them, and by the announcement that could not be anything but bountifully true—that the God-Man has risen and resurrected mankind with Himself.
Our dedication of our life and all our strength and abilities to the service of God are not needed by God for Himself—they are needed by us. We bring them like myrrh to the Lord's tomb. We shall timely buy myrrh—our good intentions. We shall renounce from our youth up all sacrifices to sin; and with the price of this we shall buy myrrh—our good intentions. It is not possible to unite service of sin to service of God: the former is destroyed by the latter. We shall not allow sin to deaden in our spirit affinity toward God and all things divine! We shall not allow sin to mark us with its impressions, or to forcibly prevail over us.
Whoever enters into service of God from the very days of an unspoiled youth and remains in this service with constancy submits himself to the endless influence of the Holy Spirit, marks himself with the all-holy grace-filled impressions that emanate from the Spirit, acquires in good time an active knowledge of Christ's Resurrection, comes alive in spirit in Christ, and becomes chosen by God to be a preacher of the resurrection to his brothers and sisters. Whoever has become a slave to sin through his ignorance or inclination, who has entered into concourse with fallen spirits, has become one of their number, who has lost in his spirit the connection to God and to the dwellers of heaven—let him heal himself with repentance. Let us not put off our healing from day to day, so that death might not creep upon us unawares and take us suddenly, so that we would not be proved incapable of entering the habitations of unending rest and festival, so that we would not be cast down as useless chaff into the fires of hell that burn eternally but do not consume. The healing of old illnesses does not happen so quickly and conveniently as ignorance might imagine. There is a reason why God's mercy grants us time for repentance; there is a reason why all the saints begged God to give them time for repentance. Time is needed to erase the sinful impressions; time is needed for us to be marked by the impressions of the Holy Spirit; time is needed to cleanse us from defilement; time is needed to clothe ourselves in the garments of virtue, to adorn ourselves in the God-beloved qualities that adorn all those who dwell in heaven.
Christ is resurrected in the person who is prepared for it, and the tomb—the heart—again becomes a temple of God. "Arise, O Lord, save, O my God" (Ps. 3:7); in Thy mysterious and yet essential Resurrection is my salvation. Amen.
[1] Mk. 15:43–16:8.
[2] The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Homily 18.
[3] The Ladder, Homily 1.
[4] The Church Slavonic scripture uses the phrase umilashesya serdtsem, which means they became contrite in heart.


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1 See 1ahow great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called bchildren of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because cit did not know Him.
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By Alicia Wallace, Camera Business Writer
Updated: 05/05/2013 01:10:09 AM MDT
Parallel Path, a Boulder-based firm that specializes in data-driven online marketing, in April appointed Hardy Kalisher to lead its strategic consulting group.
Kalisher, the founder of HK Design + Consulting, started working as a consultant to Parallel Path in November, then was brought on to a director-level position last month.
The Daily Camera spoke with Kalisher recently about online marketing strategies.
The following has been edited for clarity and space.
1. What prompted you to transition from HK Design + Consulting to Parallel Path?
I think it was a meeting of like minds. The founders of Parallel Path, Brian Cleveland and Bryan Boettinger, and I have some history with just working in the local community. Bryan Boettinger, we go back 20 years.
Conversations about coming in and supporting their leadership team as a consultant led to further discussions about joining the agency on a permanent basis. I was having success with (HK Design + Consulting) and ultimately the more I got to know about Parallel Path, the more appealing it became to join forces with them and achieve more (success) as a group as opposed to working fairly independently.
2. What do you feel separates Parallel Path from others in its field?
We're an online marketing agency and there is no shortage of those. One thing we do particularly well is we're very good at collaborating with our clients in developing direct and quantified goals.
The entire online space is very competitive, with evolving dynamics. We work as a partner with our clients to achieve their goals and build single- and multi-channel strategies to deliver against their goals.
(Working with) both medium- and enterprise-level clients, all of our clients are looking for the same thing. The clients' chief marketing officers are charged with developing their brand awareness online to developing leads and revenue through transactional websites.
Our approach is very data-driven … and (applicable) to multi-channel strategies. We don't just look at the end of the pipeline …
Our marketing decisions are moving at a faster and faster rate. … Being transactional online is happening faster and faster.
Online has gone from desktop to smartphones to tablets.
3. What types of customers are on your roster?
We have clients from Colorado to Japan. We have international clients. We have tech clients. We have e-commerce clothing companies.
We have global Fortune 50 clients. … Our clients are very sophisticated in their markets.
4. What are some tips seeking to improve their online marketing capabilities?
The most successful form of online marketing is delivering what the customer wants when they want it and where they want it, and the best way to do that is through content and relevant content. You need to reach your clients when and where they want to be reached.
When and how they are doing it (could include) smartphones and various devices.
The relevance piece, I go back to authentic content. That is where it is most effective.
If online marketing is about trying to beat the system, that is a short-term gain. Companies that are getting it right — and the strategies we develop — have developed content that's authentic and relevant for the client.
… Be honest and have quality content and you will have qualitative success and you will have quality customer engagement.
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Social media is just one part of an entire marketing strategy. Social media primarily allows companies to engage. If they're smart, they'll interact in real-time with their clients and customers and reinforce their brands or positions.
When done right, it's about creating an authentic relationship with your customers. That authentic relationship is about being transparent and honest.
(Companies that are successful on social media) are quick to respond, quick to engage. They're pushing conversations as much as they're collecting and pulling in.
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