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VOICES ACROSS BOUNDARIES
ACROSS BOUNDARIES MULTIFAITH INSTITUTE VOX FEMINARUM The Canadian Journal of Feminist Spirituality
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Every morning began at 4:00 am with a hard set of Kundalini Yoga followed by 2 and a half hours of serious meditation. That sounds extreme and it probably was. With the enthusiasm and energy of a teenager I dove into this lifestyle and in a few years I adopted the Sikh faith as my own religious path.
The idea of diaspora implies multiple points of departure and multiple destinations; it implies instabilities and inequalities, not only in the meeting of two different cultures or populations but also within any of those cultures, groups and communities.
I honestly believe that if Indonesian Muslims were given what they deserve as citizens of a free country, they would prove themselves ardent defenders of pluralism and tolerance.
Many factors, including the international proliferation of the Hindu Diaspora, guru-based movements, and the pervasive impact of Hindu thought on contemporary Western spirituality, consciousness movements, alternative medicine and New Age ideology over the last several decades, have all thrust the Hindu ethos into the global arena.
If the contest between individual liberty and communal identity is rendered contingent on individual choice, then the balance is already tilted toward the individualist side, and a form of community life that is more than a construction of individual choices is surreptitiously removed as a real possibility.
The technological advances of cyber space have suddenly brought together Zarathushtis from Azerbaijan and Singapore, Houston and Montreal, who had not interacted with each other for thousands of years.
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Voices Across Boundaries is a publication of Across Boundaries Multifaith Institute (ABMI), an educational institute whose goal is to increase knowledge and understanding of religious faith traditions, their history, practices and place in the contemporary world through research, publications and public forums.