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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, the seventh and final book in the best-selling series, has been scheduled for release at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007, it was announced today by Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company.

Many of us have struggled to come to terms with jealousy over the years. Avoidance strategies vary widely from strict monogamy to maintaining "emotional insurance" through multiple relationships. Deborah Anapol, Ph.D. is proposing a novel concept: What if rather than being something to be avoided, jealousy is to be welcomed as a way to illuminate the subtle ways our ego insinuates itself into our spiritual endeavors, revealing powerful opportunities for personal evolution? Her new eBook, Compersion: Using Jealousy as a Path to Unconditional Love, offers a series of brief, inspirational thoughts on how to transcend jealousy. To view an excerpt, visit http://www.lovewithoutlimits.com/articles.html.

Join host Alex Tsakiris when he interviews biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake of Trinity College, Cambridge about telepathy research, 'neo-Darwinism,' and how controversial science is debated.

During the hour-long interview Sheldrake responds to the comments of evolutionary biologist Dr. Richard Dawkins, of Oxford University.

Author John Benjamin Sciarra recently released the second book in the Shoestrings series, Shoestrings - Paradox. This is the story of three children caught in a time machine of their physicist father's design, and continues with Kyle caught in a strange world where dinosaurs and humans coexist. Characters in the story are not always who or what they appear to be.

A controversial novel about a bisexual Jesus is being published now by AndroGyne Press.

Spiritual teacher Michael Mamas has received the title of Adhyatm Vidhya Visharad (translated, Master of Spirituality) from Bhagavan Yagnyavalkya Ved Tatavagyan Yogashram, the Sanskrit College at the University of Gujarat. Dr. Mamas is the first person who is not a Brahmin, priest, or pundit to ever receive the award, and the first American. In Gujarat, India, on Thursday evening, Dr. Mamas was awarded this title for his expression of deep knowledge and wisdom.

There are 9.1 million Americans, 18 to 54, who suffer from anxiety disorders, making anxiety the most common mental health problem. Anti- anxiety drugs are dangerous and psychotherapy is extremely limited in its ability to relax the body and nervous system. People need effective, safe anxiety treatments.

AlternativeApproaches.com, the publisher of the popular New Age site AlternativeApproaches.com and of the successful New Age online retail store The Unicorn Shoppe, today announced the launch of a new site. DeltacomSucks.com is targeted to serve unhappy customers of Deltacom, a provider of low cost phone service for business.

The Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER), a project of the Center for Inquiry/Transnational, will host a landmark conference on critical Biblical and Qur’anic research at the University of California at Davis on January 25 - 28 of 2007. The conference is being co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at the University. Titled "Scripture and Skepticism," the conference will explore the legacy of skepticism and historical-critical interpretation in the study of religious texts, founders and ideas.

PacificTao.com is announcing the release of a new package of workshop DVDs. Called the "Taoist Heritage DVD Collection," this set is being made available to the public for the first time. The exclusive DVD collection takes you directly into the workshop with world-renowned Taoist Master Mantak Chia to follow the same step-by-step instructions that his students receive.