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The sponsors and organizers of the Telluride Festival of the Arts announced a surprise addition to this year's festival schedule - a special one-night performance by Taj Mahal and the Trio Band on Friday, August 15, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. on Sunset Plaza in Mountain Village, CO. The performance will be free and open to the public.

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and two-time Grammy® winner Taj Mahal is one of the most prominent and influential figures in late 20th century blues and roots music. With a professional career that spans more than four decades, Taj Mahal's artistic scope extends beyond American Blues to include musical influences from around the world, including west Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Hawaiian islands.

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Taj Mahal in a photograph by Jay Blakesberg

Curious students will be gathering in Culver City the weekend of August 1st - 3rd for a three-day workshop that promises to teach everyone in the class how to hypnotize themselves and others in just one weekend.

If you've ever wondered if hypnosis is real, now you just might get the chance to find out.

The Sedona Meditation Training Company announces The Radiance Retreat at the Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain September 12-14, 2008.

Created as a response to the overwhelming demand from her students for more intensive meditation events, Sedona Meditation Training Company Director, Sarah McLean, has announced The Radiance Retreat, to be held at the Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain. The event will be held September 12-14, 2008.

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Sarah McLean, Director, Sedona Meditation Training Company.

David Brown, host of the spiritual internet radio show "Inside Out," will interview Sir David Hawkins tomorrow on his program. Dr. Hawkins is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and pioneer in the fields of consciousness research and spirituality.

David Brown, host of the web-based radio show "Inside Out," explores with his weekly guests how their inward journey is shaping our world. Also a public speaker, poet and teacher, David reveals the truth to his listeners: we are all connected and we are all possible.

The Sanatana Dharma Foundation in Dallas held its first Hindu Unity Day on the 19th and 20th of July. Dr Subramanian Swamy's latest book "Rama Sethu Symbol of National Unity" was released and distributed at the Event

Rama Sethu is the original Sanskrit name given to a bridge built by the legendary King Rama, who crossed over to Sri Lanka from India to fight the King of Lanka, Ravana, recover his wife Sita, and restore Dharma (Order) in the land of India. While it is difficult to establish the exact historical age of these events, the bridge is thought to be at least 5,000 years old, if not much older, making it the oldest causeway built across an ocean channel. The Rama Sethu is referred to in numerous ancient Sanskrit texts and scriptures, as a man made structure, and in recent times it has been vividly photographed by both NASA and Indian Satellites.

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Gemini XI photographed the Rama Sethu (bridge between India and Sri Lanka) vividly on Sep 12th, 1966.

Hot weather, rising domestic energy bills and concerns over climate change have conspired to make life easy for companies selling solar energy systems to householders. However, according to Cambridge UK based analysts, CarbonFree, some parts of the domestic renewable energy market are, themselves, starting to overheat with the benefits systems being oversold to householders.

Already a few renewable energy technology installers have made front page news in local newspapers for all the wrong reasons as customers discover that either promised benefits do not materialise or in some cases the systems do not work. According to CarbonFree the number of dissatisfied customers could increase this coming winter when the performance of solar energy systems fall. In addition, it believes that if the price of oil falls some householders, who were persuaded to buy at the peak of the market, may question the cost effectiveness of their new heating systems.

Barack Obama is going to win the Presidency in an historic landslide that changes world history, says numerologist Marcy Leefar, professionally known as Mystical Marcy.

Barack Obama is going to win the Presidency in an historic landslide that changes world history, says numerologist Marcy Leefar. Ms. Leefar, professionally known as Mystical Marcy, reports that the numbers all add up to a dramatic win for the Senator from Illinois.

Transpersonal psychologist and author, Albert Clayton Gaulden, will hold a Path to Authenticity Workshop August 22-24 at the Sedona Hilton.

Based on his new book, You're Not Who You Think You Are: a Breakthrough Guide to Discovering the Authentic You, Albert Clayton Gaulden with host a workshop that promises to guide participants with proven strategies and tools to unearth their genuine, real selves. They'll dig deep to determine why certain people and situations keep recurring and why hidden issues and blocks are holding them back from becoming the people they were meant to be.

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Albert Clayton Gaulden.

Editor's note: Although this article is rather one sided, supporting only the position held by the Dorje Shugden practitioners, we are giving it space because we believe that all sides on an issue deserve to be heard. However, we suggest that you visit http://www.tibet.com/dholgyal/CTA-book/chapter-1.html for the official Tibetan Buddhist take on this issue.

This Saturday, 600 Buddhistswill protest against the Dalai Lama claiming a campaign of religious intolerance and immoral discrimination against the Buddhist community who practice the protective deity Dorje Shugden. This Western Shugden Society organized demonstration hopes to expose what they categorize as abuse of the Dalai Lama's dual political and religious status, by which all Tibetan-exiles must take a public oath to abandon this spiritual practice as well as association with anyone who practices this 400 year old Buddhist Deity, in order to receive a state issued identity card. Without this identity card it is difficult and sometimes impossible to purchase food in many stores, receive medical treatment, and obtain travel documents. The protests is scheduled to take place Saturday, July 19th and promises to be colorful and lively event, with passionate Tibetan and English changt and bright placards spotting the crowd.

Noted author and philosopher Deepak Chopra shares his fascinating perspectives on the world with 170 people gathered at Children's Hope India event to raise funds for cyclone victims in Myanmar.

When Deepak Chopra talks, everyone listens! There was pin-drop silence as the noted author and philosopher took the stage at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, taking the audience on a spiritual journey. Over 170 people came to listen to him speak about his perspectives on the world, touching everything from war and peace to spirituality and how to obtain it.