Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the "spirituality" section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not. If the religious have come to own religious discourse it is because they alone have had places where religious language could be spoken and understood. Now there is a forum for the supposedly non-religious to think and talk about what religion is, is not and might be. Killing the Buddha is it.

This is a really intriguing website for me - that made anxious in churches description really fits. I even feel uncomfortable with the "alternative" stuff - and yet I am obviously attracted to it too. I used to own a New Age store - and here I am about to produce a tarot website. But I am continually suspicious. Krishnamurti said, "Truth is a pathless land" and I say, "right on" - So when someone outlines a path, I knit my brows.

We have these great spiritual communities here. Pumpkin Hollow is a Theosophical Community where my yoga teacher happens to live. Abode of the Message is a Sufi community with a fabulous elementary school that offers child-led learning. Unfortunately I have an inherent distrust of these groups - and for no clear reason - I think just because they are "groups". At the same time, this kind of community is what I crave. I can't really imagine how that will resolve itself. Maybe we will have our own house (Steve would NEVER join a community) and I can be involved in these communities in other ways - unless they are a bunch of nut cases.

There I go...

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