Forget spirituality on the job; how about spirituality as a job? There’s no shortage of paying posts to absorb someone who’d like her professional preoccupations to reflect those filling out her personal balance sheet. Think artistic community director, organic farmer, yogi, healer and a slew of other careers with a decidedly spiritual bent. On careerbuilder.com, find some 1,108 “spiritual jobs,” an exhaustive...
So now we know. Lance Armstrong — cyclist extraordinaire, athlete of superstar dimensions, cancer survivor, fundraiser, beat-all-life’s-odds victor — lied. Oh, we’re not completely wet behind the ears here. We certainly suspected this man’s betrayal before it was officially confirmed with us. The preponderance of evidence against him was just too massive to overlook. Plus, his much-disdained abandonment of...
Truly, a person could make a New Years resolution for ones-self on any day of the year. Groundhog Day, say, or the third Thursday in August. But there’s something about New Year’s and the weight it’s freighted with expectancy for the stretch that lies ahead, that make is a prime calendric choice for enacting change. And so New Years’s it is. Let’s call it the month of January, to make...
And so here we sit on the brink. On the brink of nothing at all, maybe. Or on the brink of everything there is. It’s not like we haven’t been here before. Take 1978, when a pair of University physics profs wrote a book called The Jupiter Effect, in which they predicted the end of the world for March 1982, at which time all the planets would align themselves on the same side of the sun simultaneously. Such massive...
For ease of application and avoidance of extra effort — concepts of which we humans are extremely fond — the world’s amorphous concepts are often lumped under grab-bag headings that lose their precision with each new reference that’s stashed inside them. So it is with spirituality, and so it is with superstition. And so it is, thanks to the same pursuit of efficient and slothful shorthand, that this amorphous pair...