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We should ask ourselves how many people should comfortably live in close proximity to one another, also in relationship to working and using the same recreation facilities. For instance, New York City has an approximate 10-mile radius (which includes the boroughs) with roughly 20 million inhabitants within that radius. In our extra-large cities of more than 10 million people, how big should that radius be?

The answer to that is really difficult to figure out today because cities have suburbs and smaller towns surrounding it that create one continual urban area. Los Angeles...

The problem with religions is that they make God too small. They see God as a narrow-minded school teacher who has to whip his students on the back of the hand or on the behind whenever they do something wrong. And unless students follow the narrow rules of the schoolmaster, they flunk the course. Most religions put God in boxes—boxes of manmade doctrines created by new souls with inexperienced minds. All too often religious doctrines are not the ideals of God. God is synonymous with love, and love does not easily condemn any of His created beings to an eternal hell because...

I was a volunteer chaplain at the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. I worked at the county jail from 1977 to 1982. I also worked with the pre-trial release program of the Department of Economic Security and accepted prisoners to my halfway house, if I thought I could work with them. Many of these prisoners I got personally involved with. I went to their trials. I learned a lot about the “injustice system” because none of these prisoners had the money to really hire an attorney, so most of them had court-appointed attorneys to defend them. And a lot of those...

History doesn’t talk much about it (with the exception of the Old Testament and other holy writings of various religions), but most of the prophets and holy men of old have been revolutionaries, including Jesus Christ. Even over the last few centuries, revolutionaries like George Washington, Joseph Smith (of the Mormons), and Gandhi were men who prayed to the Creator for guidance...

On Saturday my wife and I were driving to the Occupy movement in Tucson that was going to march to the Bank of America to protest. My son and two daughters were there already, as well as several others from our community. We drove past the University of Arizona stadium where the Wildcats football team was playing that day. We saw hundreds of college students walking with six-packs in their hands. As we drove by the university stadium parking lot, we saw thousands of students with kegs of beer and booths, all getting drunk and boisterous.

I thought this looked more like...

When I was a young man in my late twenties, I went to a sweat lodge facilitated by a shaman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was a Taino native from the tribe where Christopher Columbus landed in Central America. I told him about a book I was reading by two white Harvard graduates and pointed out a part in the book that talked about some seagulls showing up over Columbus’ ship and guiding them...

As a man of God and a man of faith, I cannot write this article without sounding idealistic to those who do not have the kind of faith that I have—a faith that I feel the majority of humankind has to have to make a future cooperative civilization possible. Let me explain.

The Aquarian Age will eventually become an age of cooperation. The Piscean Age lasted two thousand years; so, will it take us another two thousand years for planetary cooperation to become a reality? In her book Megatrends 2010, Patricia Aburdene writes about the rise of conscious...

Those of us who study the fact that human beings have various bodies all functioning with the physical body should know that any one of those bodies may need healing before the physical body can be healed. Often, band-aids are put on the disease where deep soul surgery or emotional surgery needs attention. The physical body or cellular body has to deal with impure air, impure water, impure food, and bacteria and viruses. All that breaks down the immune system. But very few individuals realize that many diseases of the body are actually caused by...

Jesus wasn't a politician. However, I recently watched both Democratic and Republican debates. I was hoping to watch a third-party debate, but that's another article. Maybe 10 minutes of the more than four hours of presentations were spent on the need for free national healthcare. And in those 10 minutes, from all of the candidates, I...