Spiritual people always bang on about "the breath". Breathing 'properly' (deep not shallow), yoga breathing, meditation breathing, alternate nostril breathing... the list goes on. I've also heard Network Chiropractors and acting teachers talk about breathing into body parts -- i.e. "breath into your shoulder, where it hurts". Whatever that means.

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If only I lived in Philadelphia. It's the only place in the world you can currently see an exhibition entitled "Cleopatra: The Search For The Last Queen of Egypt". Doesn't that sound fabulous? On display at the Franklin Institute from June 5, 2010 to January 2, 2011 are a bunch of incredible relics taken from the submerged ruins of Cleopatra's palace and temple complex, which divers have recovered from beneath Alexandrian waves.

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Let's talk about boys. As a member of Generation X, I'm a little bewildered by the specimens currently walking up and down my local mall. Back in my day (har), boys were boys -- they were dirty, rough and grungey, with long tousled hair or shaved heads. They drove beat-up cars they'd saved up to buy themselves, and listened to hard rock. They wore combat boots, army pants and flannel shirts, and spent their time in mosh pits and uni bars. So why did I do a complete double-take when I saw my friend's younger brother at a BBQ last week?

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Here's a topic that's long overdue. Thanks to M for texting her question and reminding me:

"I was wondering if you could write about cosmetic surgery from a spiritual perspective. I often wonder what the spiritual realm's take on it would be as it's such a popular practice amongst people nowadays... why women in particular feel the need to physically alter their bodies for youthful looks / breast implants etc."

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Let's talk about porn :-)  If you're a guy, porn is probably something you're familiar with, look at occasionally, and don't think much more about. If you're a girl, like with everything else in life, the topic of porn is a thousand times more complicated:

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By this point I've pretty much figured out where I stand on most spiritual stuff. I know what my beliefs are regarding spirit guides, angels, and psychic phenomena. I feel comfortable talking about aliens, Lemuria, Stonehenge. I have a pretty good grasp on ghosts, the Akashic Records and soul contracts. I resonate enough with astrology and psychic geometry to 'get' what they're all about without knowing all the tricky details. But there is one thing that I have never, ever been able to understand and have spent my life trying to figure out, and it's possibly the most familiar and common mysterious phenomenon of them all:

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There appears to be a new flood of blogging on the Internet. It's often written by 30-something-ish guys, probably none of whom would consider themselves particularly spiritual. Yet they're encouraging people to do one of the most profoundly spiritual things of the 21st century: break free from boring, mind-numbing jobs / corporate cages and, to paraphrase Gary Vanderchuk, "do shit you love!" Why is quitting a stable job to "do shit you love" a spiritual concept? Because old systems are crumbling as we enter the New Age, and it's YOU, yes YOU (who is probably reading this on the computer at work in a job you don't 100% love) who will be heralding the change! More and more people are feeling the pull inside their chests to drop their fears and live their soul purpose, and if you're ready, there's LOTS of help out there.

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