Topic: News

Spiritual advisor brings meditation workshop to Ireland.

This summer the Chopra Center will offer its Seduction of Spirit program in Dublin, where the Center's co-founders, Deepak Chopra and David Simon, will guide participants in a six-day exploration of deep meditation, yoga, and practices for fulfilling their highest human potential.

Two web sites help to memorialize and research the lost Jewish community of Klodawa, Poland. The sites have attracted second and third generation members from the United States, Europe, Israel and Australia. Those with roots or an interest in Klodawa are invited to contribute content.

The Jewish community of Klodawa, Poland was decimated during the holocaust, leaving only a small number of survivors to carry on the memories of what once was.

Now, however, through the power of the Internet, second and third generation descendants from around the world are meeting one another and sharing the memories and experiences of their ancestors.

Becoming a global education company is difficult enough, but it's a lot harder when you are teaching Wicca and Witchcraft. Yet no matter how difficult, Witch School International is focused on doing just that. To accomplish their goals they name their first Board of Directors to focus the company on the future.

In the battle for religious equality and recognition, Witch School International, Inc. has taken a major step forward by electing its first Chairman and Board of Directors. While seemingly commonplace by most companies, it is a monumental and historic moment for this Pagan dedicated community. This first step allows Wiccans to be recognized as equal members of Corporate America with all the same rights and privileges as any other company, including paying taxes.

Luxury Alaskan Cruise to feature Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D.

The Chopra Center is offering Grow Younger, Live Longer, a life-changing cruise through Alaska’s ancient waterways, where Chopra Center co-founders Deepak Chopra and David Simon will premiere their powerful program for age reversal to an exclusive, intimate group of only 100 passengers.

A collaborative study by biologists in Israel, the U.S, France and Germany has found that evolution is not a random process, but rather occurs through the natural selection of successful traits. The findings confirm the mechanism of natural selection behind Darwin’s theory of evolution.

According to Darwin’s theory of evolution, individuals in a species pass successful traits onto their offspring through a process called “deterministic inheritance.” Over multiple generations, advantageous developmental trends – such as the lengthening of the giraffe’s neck – occur.

Journeys International offers a new holistic tour that includes yoga, meditation and the explorations of spiritual Nepal.

As the popularity of yoga, meditation and holistic healing continues to rise, Journeys International offers a tour that combines the spiritual and healing aspects of yoga and meditation with the cultural introduction of Nepal.

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17th Annual UFO Conference and Film Festival, now the largest event of its kKind, adds new events and packages to extended eight-day, nine-night festival.

The International UFO Congress, a leading organization for the research and documentation of UFO and related information, today announced the extension of their 17th Annual UFO Conference and Film Festival to eight days and nine nights, making it the largest UFO convention in the world. The annual convention featuring 40 speakers and 35 exhibitors from around the globe will be held at the new Aquarius Resort and Casino in Laughlin, Nevada from February 23 through March 1, 2008.

Right whales are one of the most endangered species in the world and lobster gear entanglement is the second leading cause of their deaths.

The International Fund of Animal Welfare (IFAW) held a landmark "Lobster Gear Summit" today in conjunction with the Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association (AOLA), connecting regional lobstermen groups with fishing gear manufacturers, federal and state fisheries officials and rope-recycling specialists for a day of information sharing, fact-gathering and strategic planning. The meeting was held in order to discuss what is needed for industry-wide compliance toward recent equipment mandates issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

Rev. Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, to join "American Family Outing" to create dialogue between evangelical Christians and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families.

This winter, as the Rev. Joel Osteen graces the pages of People Magazine, the familiar image of the old-school, anti-gay televangelist is rapidly being replaced by a new iconography: a younger generation of mega-church leaders with upbeat and inviting messages. Unfortunately, while this generation's tone may seem less harsh, many of their mega-churches still enforce policies of exclusion and teach theologies that label Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people as sick, sinful, and in need of change.

Expedition to Everest with the sons of the original climbers. Film includes Peter Hillary's poignant call to Sir Edmund from the summit

Sir Edmund Hillary, a former beekeeper from Auckland, New Zealand, along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In celebration of his remarkable life, the National Geographic Channel (NGC) will air a special one-hour encore of the critically acclaimed special Surviving Everest this Saturday, January 12, at 10 PM ET/PT. The special takes viewers on a remarkable journey back to the summit with the sons of celebrated Everest climbers, including Hillary's son Peter, Jamling Norgay and Brent Bishop (son of Barry Bishop, a National Geographic explorer and a member of the first American team to achieve the summit). Following the same routes pioneered by their fathers decades ago, the National Geographic 50th Anniversary Everest Expedition attempts a perilous double-route ascent to meet at the top.