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		<title>Spiritual Freethinking: An Oxymoron?</title>
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Okay, I&#8217;m back thinking about freethinking.  See original Post here for a definition.
In one of the web discussions generated by that post, it was suggested that   the concept of spiritual freethinking is an oxymoron.  This seems to be a widespread belief &#8212; that freethinking must remain within the material realm, because nothing else is &#8220;proven&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Free is Your Thinking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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I love the term Freethinker.  It&#8217;s a name I&#8217;d like to give myself except for the associations it has gathered in around itself. 
A freethinker, according to Dictionary.com (rapidly replacing the OED in my affections) is: &#8220;a person who   forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition&#8221;
No problem there.  Then it goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning the Answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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Gertrude Stein&#8217;s famous quote &#8211; &#8220;There ain&#8217;t no answer.  There ain&#8217;t going to be any answer.  There never has been an answer.  That&#8217;s the answer.&#8221; &#8211; has long been a favourite among non-believers, most lately appearing on the cover of The Atheist&#8217;s Bible.
I read this morning, though, that Gertrude&#8217;s pronouncement wasn&#8217;t   answer enough &#8212; even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God for Grown-ups: Six Truths</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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In my recent post, Please Don&#8217;t Call Me New Age , I spoke of the &#8220;perennial philosophy&#8221;, a shared world view of the meaning of life &#8212; found in cultures across the globe and across the ages.
This perennial philosophy has been documented in India, Ireland, Africa, China, Mexico, Japan, Egypt, pre-colonial America, Greece&#8230;  In each place, it
displays individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Don&#8217;t Call Me New Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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I see a reader on amazon.co.uk has dubbed the contemporary story in A Dance in Time (Izzy&#8217;s story) to be &#8220;New Age&#8221;.  
No, no, no.  
I am not New Age.  I never took on New Age beliefs for precisely the same reason that I dropped my

(Roman Catholic) religion in my teens.  Because I&#8217;m a freethinker, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Belief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orna Ross</dc:creator>
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Beyond Muslim, Hindu, Atheist, Christian, Buddhist, Jew&#8230;
Beyond socialism, nationalism, feminism, capitalism,  tribalism, communism&#8230;
Beyond power, politics, money, identity, sex and culture&#8230;
&#8230;there is a space.
 
That&#8217;s the sort of space I&#8217;d like to create in this blog.
A space that is informed, but not contained, by reasoned opinion;
Where boundaries can recede and true connections be forged.
 
When we open into that [...]]]></description>
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