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Thomas Moore writes Skipping Stones  for the March - April 2015 issue of Spirituality & Health magazine. Read his column to learn how a game may be a lesson in life.

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Crafting your own religion

S&P hosts an online course with Moore starting 3 February 2014: "Crafting Your Own Religion with Thomas Moore." This course runs from Monday 3 February to Friday 28 February for…

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Thomas Moore's new book A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World  published by Gotham Books (Penguin USA) is available for pre-ordering on Amazon.com at…

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Thomas Moore offers a golf retreat with soul in Killarney Ireland, May 12-17, 2013:

http://www.specialtygolftrips.com/golf-events/golf-with-a-soul-retreat-killarney-ireland-may-12th-17th-2013/

Thomas Moore offers recent resources about his current work and activities.

Moore's new book A Religion of One's Own, published by Gotham Books (Penguin) may be out later this year.

These are available at http://barque.blogspot.ca and Moore's public FB page. I'll list four of them here for convenience:

1. Moore's promo video for the golf retreat in Killarney, Ireland May 12-17 2013…

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On 19 April 2012 Thomas Moore @thomasmooreSoul tweeted:

"It's worth reading the Heart Sutra every day to realize the ultimate purpose for everything we do. It takes a while to arrive at Zen empty."

In addition to reading it, you may enjoy two YouTube videos:



Heart Sutra in Sanskrit (with English transliteration)…

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Thomas has a full schedule in the U.K. this coming weekend as posted on his public FB page. Barque members who are there may want to check out attending one or some of these appearances. Also, his essay "Natural Mystics" is available online at http://www.lifeartsmedia.com/natural-mystics. Feel welcomed to post any reactions or comments here as well as on his public FB page. I enjoyed rereading the Spirituality &…

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A little Madness in the Spring

Is wholesome even for the King,

But God be with the Clown –

Who ponders this tremendous scene –

This whole Experiment of Green –

As if it were his own!

by Emily Dickinson

This seems appropriate given our unseasonably…

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An edited synopsis based on James Hillman's introduction to Ecopsychology (1995, eds. Roszak, Gomes & Kanner).

QUOTE: "Moreover, an individual's harmony with his or her "own deep self" requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world. The deepest self cannot be confined to "in here" because we can't be sure it is not also or even entirely "out there"!…

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Dust off your log-in. Clean out your dated posts and get ready for 2012. Barque: Thomas Moore Network is back. Check in if you'd like with a self-introductory blog comment to this post and let's get reacquainted.

Dear Barque members,

Please go to Thomas Moore's Fan Page, not his personal page, on Facebook. Click the Discussions tab at the top and briefly check in at the Barque: Thomas Moore topic. Many thanks, Your Welcoming Committee



Thomas Moore Fan Page:…

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We will start the free online course Opus, based on Thomas Moore’s A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You were Born to Do on Monday, April 21, 2008. For forty consecutive weekdays, a passage from the book will be posted with a suggested activity for that day in a Forum Discussion categorized as Opus. Registered members of Barque are warmly invited to reflect on the passage, follow the activity and share their reactions and responses with other members as a reply to that… Continue