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		<title>Exploring the Mystery Inside Our Own Heads</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A World Appears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Pollan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Harris]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did Michael Pollan Solve the Mystery of Consciousness? What is consciousness? Where does it originate? Does it reside in the brain or somewhere else? Is consciousness exclusive to human beings or do animals and even plants possess it? These are some of the questions Michael Pollan addresses in his thought-provoking new book A World Appears: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>RIP Sonny Rollins: A Jazz Icon and Spiritual Sage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonny Rollins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual wisdom]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sonny Rollins, one of America’s great saxophonists and jazz musicians, is dead. A post on his website, later confirmed by a number of press outlets, stated that “It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins.  The Saxophone Colossus died May 25, 2026, at his home in Woodstock, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can An Algorithm Reveal Your Soul’s True Purpose?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 11:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purpose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purpose of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur C. Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Krista Tippett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Pollan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five Ways to Serve the Force That Sent You into The World I was recently listening to the author Michael Pollan being interviewed on the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett. The subject was Pollan’s new book on consciousness, A World Appears (story to come). To my surprise, Tippett, an accomplished interviewer, used the AI [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Different Kind of Vow: Laurie Collister’s Path to Hinduism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2026/05/a-different-kind-of-vow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Hinduism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Different Kind of Vow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Collister]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A guest post from Laurie Collister, author of  A Different Kind of Vow.  As a young woman, I looked up the meaning of the word religion.  Its Latin roots meant re (again) and ligare (to bind/tie). To find a religion that fulfilled that mandate, every Sunday, I attended a church of a different denomination – [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Man Who Died on the Titanic: and What Happened Next</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Afterlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Near Death Experience (NDE)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Titanic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W.T. Stead]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Was the Journalist W.T. Stead’s biggest story his dispatches from the afterlife? William Thomas (W.T.) Stead was a pioneering Victorian-era journalist whose reporting on social issues earned him the reputation as the inventor of “New Journalism” in Britain. He was also one of the nearly 1,500 souls who perished when the Titanic struck an iceberg [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>3 Lessons from the Stoics: Staying Sane in a Cuckoo World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stoics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stoicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William B. Irvine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to stay informed—without losing your cool or your sanity. These days, it’s hard to check the news or scroll social media without finding a new evil or injustice has been foisted upon us. Political gerrymandering, the Iran war, rising gas prices, vaccine skeptics at the CDC—and that was yesterday. Once a news junkie, for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Death Gives You A 3-Month Notice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life and death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Sasse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Clements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What would it mean to approach death with acceptance, openness, and courage? To see the process of death as a necessary part of life, not its enemy? ~Liz Bucar, Beyond Wellness What a terminal diagnosis can teach us about life. I once experienced my own death—or I at least imagined I did. It happened many [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Awakening Your Soul in the Second Half of Life</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2026/04/awakening-your-soul/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Purpose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soul Awakening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brene Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Rohr Falling Upward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Half of Life Spirituality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finding True Purpose and Making the Most of Your Life  In the foreword to the revised and updated edition of Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Brene Brown talks about a subject we all can relate to: homesickness. Just the word summons up a longing we know too well, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When the Sphinx Sees Red: The Easter 2026 Prophecy</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2026/04/when-the-sphinx-sees-red-the-easter-2026-prophecy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Prophecy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Bledsoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Easter 2026]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “UFO of God” Guy and His Startling Iran War Prophecy for April 5, 2026.  I wrote about Chris Bledsoe several months ago in a story titled When God Sends a UFO. I was scrolling the social media site Threads a couple of nights ago when I saw his name mentioned—and what I read startled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond Narnia: Did C.S. Lewis get a few things wrong?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2026/03/beyond-narnia-did-c-s-lewis-get-a-few-things-wrong/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Rapsas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters on Living the Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narnia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finding wisdom and “humble disagreement” in the private letters of a Christian giant. Are you familiar with the work of C.S. Lewis? He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, a classic seven-book series and film franchise built on Christian themes and theology. And his book Mere Christianity is still a bestseller in Christian literature, recently holding the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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