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...book, Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment, speculates a story of the Messiah-to-be during what might be called his early Wanderjahr. And wander he does. We meet Jesus consulting with a guru on an icy mountaintop in what seems like Tibet. He gets caught up with armed Jewish zealots, dallies with the Essenes (who collected the Dead Sea Scrolls) and eventually achieves a oneness with God. Chopra spoke with TIME about his novel...
...there were Buddhist texts. The church of St. Thomas in India's Kerala state is the only place where Christ is not pictured on a cross but in a meditative samadhi posture. I also researched that period in history for Jesus's religious context, political and cultural contexts, the Jewish sects at the time, the occupation by Rome. Then I went into incubation, meditation, and I allowed this story to unfold. It fits into the category of "religious fiction...
...This California contingent’s program of challenging tax-exempt institutions that visibly backed Proposition 8—including Mormon, Catholic and Orthodox Jewish religious organizations and groups like the Knights of Columbus—is a deserved one; these institutions have a responsibility not to lobby and fundraise substantially for any political cause, let alone the dubious one in question...
...Winner Barkat, 49, is eager to close the rift between Jerusalem's secular community and the black-hatted religious population, which widened during the fierce campaign. "Victory belongs to all those who love and cherish this special and amazing city of ours, the Jewish people's eternal capital," he said. "It belongs to the Right and the Left, it belongs to the religious and the secular...
...such a secular 'miracle'. Taken together, ultra-orthodox parties will still be the largest block in Jerusalem's city council. In order to win over the large religious Zionist vote, Barkat, a former city councilman, swung from the center to the far right, campaigning on promises to build more Jewish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem. U.S. administrations and the international community have repeatedly said that these settlements are an obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians...