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	<description>&#34;Wisdom is not gained by knowing the answer; it is gained through the experience of the journey.&#34;</description>
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		<title>Surviving A Natural Disaster At Home</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/05/10/surviving-a-natural-disaster-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[camping stoves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster survival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurvival training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop Disasters are rare, but the effects are devastating! Even lesser events can still cause considerable hardship. We’ve all been without electricity for a few days. It’s not such a big deal, but with storms getting worse and &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/05/10/surviving-a-natural-disaster-at-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Killing Our Way To Peace&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/05/07/killing-our-way-to-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Queda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston bombings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reverend Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Brokaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People in America seemed shocked by the recent bombings in Boston. Wether from U.S. drone strikes or Al Queda truck bombs, hundreds of people are blown to pieces every day in the Middle East. <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/05/07/killing-our-way-to-peace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Violence</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/04/27/gun-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental illness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weapons ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop Glycerne is pretty harmless stuff. But, combined with nitric and sulfuric acids it becomes an incredibly dangerous explosive &#8211; nitroglycerine. The same thing is true for the set of issues that lead to gun violence. By themselves &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/04/27/gun-violence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Logic and Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/04/22/logic-and-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality in the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Roth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TheNaked Now]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of The Garden of Eden stood two trees: The Tree of Life and The Tree of The Knowledge of Right and Wrong. Mystics use these as symbols of the two fundamental aspects of humans: the logical and the spiritual. Each has great value and we are seriously limited when we lose one or the other of them. <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/04/22/logic-and-spirituality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self Criticism</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/04/05/self-criticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality in the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop How long has it been since you tore yourself to pieces? An hour? A day? And while we&#8217;re at it, how many negative thoughts do you have each day? A hundred? More? We can be pretty rough &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/04/05/self-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud of Unknowing</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/03/22/the-cloud-of-unknowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Spiritual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[14th century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationship to God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cloud of Unknowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Epistle of Privy Counsel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop The year is 1370. English mysticism is in full flower. At the same time the  populous is being ravaged by the bubonic plague and Europe is suffering through The Hundred Years War. Social unrest is everywhere as modern &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/03/22/the-cloud-of-unknowing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hermeticism &#8211; The Road Not Taken</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/03/14/hermeticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality in the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harran Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermes Trismegistus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermeticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisca Theologica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop Hermeticism, one of humankind&#8217;s oldest mystical traditions, has demonstrated a remarkable resiliency over thousands of years of continuous practice. Sometimes relegated to but a few monks in the desert, Hermeticism has also occasionally been swept into broader &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/03/14/hermeticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hermeticism &#8211; A Short History</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/03/14/hermeticism-a-short-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Spirituality in the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hermeticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ by Ross Bishop For thousands of years Hermeticism and Judaism coexisted in The Middle East. Hermeticism offered a mystical philosophy in contrast to Judaism&#8217;s more practical approach. Hermeticism had widespread acceptance at times but has generally remained a mystical tradition, &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/03/14/hermeticism-a-short-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ball</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/02/24/the-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dysfunctional families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psycohtherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shamanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop Imagine a small dark ball. This is the world of your inner child. Years ago, her world was very limited. It consisted of herself, her parents, siblings and possibly grandparents. At that age, the rest of the &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/02/24/the-ball/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>There Will Be More School Shootings</title>
		<link>http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/01/04/there-will-be-more-school-shootings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assault weapons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ross Bishop The Intersection of Social Failure Airplanes they say, crash because of multiple systems failures. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Aurora and Virginia Tech all represent significant multiple failures in the ways we regulate weapons and in our approaches to &#8230; <a href="http://rossbishop.com/blog/2013/01/04/there-will-be-more-school-shootings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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