be resolved, and in fact, he goes so far as to say that the legal profession, essentially, is a spiritual practice. pretty far afield, but i thought, you know, why don't we do a shocker- imagine having a lawyer speak about his profession as a spiritual practice. so if we could, let's just take a few minutes and listen to harrison shepherd, our lawyer friend in san francisco. >> you know, originally, traditionally, there were three professions. there were three professions- they were the professions of theology- the clergy; the profession of medicine- the doctors; and the profession of law. and these three professions, what it means to be a professional is to profess your faithfulness to a particular service to humanity- to spirit, body, and community, the human community. there's no doubt that law, in its highest function, is designed to bring order and community out of diversity and disorder. and the thing that i'm most concerned about in terms of what's happened to american legal practice is that the ideal of the rambo lawyer who is advocating a winner-take-all solution for a client is

i looked at the emotional and spiritual challenges that can pose. >>> three years ago, anne stine was a busy mother with three young children, and a husband who was on the road a lot. then her 87-year-old father, a very independent world war two veteran who lived about an hour away, suffered a stroke. >> and what i found was a man who was no longer independent. he was confused and worried and starting to bark orders. so it was a very emotional time for him, and it was a scary time for both of us. >> her dad, who lived alone, needed a lot of care. and the issues surrounding his care were overwhelming. >> the doctors came in and the social workers come in and they start all these questions, "where do you want your dad to go in rehab? are you set up in medicare and medicaid?" the list went on. and i was just a mom with three little kids and not prepared, not prepared to take on that responsibility. and yet i had to. >> according to a recent study, 36% of all caregivers are adult children taking care of an aging parent. and that's expected to rise dramatically. people 85 and older are the

you are known -- i have known you as a pastor and as an author and are you a spiritual activist.some concern in recruiting women for political office about the separation between the spiritual and the political? >> well, certainly as you know, jennifer, the separation of church and state and the constitution is one of the more enlightened, one of the most enlightened aspects of the constitution and it was placed there by the founders to protect both government from any religious interference as well as religion from any kind of governmental interference. when i give talks on the course of miracles every week in los angeles, no policemen gets to come in and say break it up, you're not on the list. >> jennifer: sure. >> so the founders were protecting the spiritual and religious conversation. this is not about religious dogma. a lot -- >> jennifer: a lot of times progressives have difficulty voicing their beliefs. >> let's talk about that because how that happened to the party of martin luther king and bobby kennedy is something to think about. the progressives act like they're too

honde, honde to everyone in attendance. ( spiritual chanting). (spiritual chanting). grandfather, creator, once again we come together, and gave praise and honor to you, and if you for the many blessings, and again honde, honde for this day. we say these things in your name. please remain standing as we welcome and present to you the grand entry of our eagle staff and our dancers. here we go. bring em in. carrying the first flag of this nation, of this land, the eagle staff larry harristan. how about a round of applause for larry? thank you larry. bringing in our dancers. (drums). good to see you. our southern and northern dancers. welcome ladies. welcome. followed by our jingle "dancing with dancers. welcoming our dancers as well. our northern traditional dancers followed by our grass dancers. how about a big round for applause for all ours dancers? good to see you. (drums). going over to our group over here. flag song. please. long before the national anthem composed by francis scott key the 50 people that this land. >> >> the first people that this land had these f

all religions down through history, we've se a tendency to act in a way that can somehow justify spiritually or religiously violent acts. and that's a scary point because when you think about religion, in its most beautiful form- and i hearken back to our look at the experiential dimension and mysticism when we hear these wonderful words like unity and oneness and love and interconnection- that seems to be the grounding of the ethical precepts in the various religions- love your neighbor, be kind, don't harm other people. but for me- and i wrestle with this stuff; you know, i'm not just the talking head up here, i struggle when i see violence done in the name of religion- and i began to think it's- you know, can you really teach ethical precepts? i mean, isn't it ultimately experiential? i mean, as long as you think you or your group is the center of the world and everything else revolves around you, then it's possible for you to do things that don't create the good, the beautiful, the enduring. but you know, it's a troublesome issue and we want to look at some of that today. sure, virginia?

, spiritual encouragement. this very much is just as much a physical crisis as it is a spiritual and emotional crisis for people. >> mike ebert of the southern baptist convention. many thanks. >> thank you, bob. >>> sandy also had an impact on the presidential campaigns. president obama took time off to tour some of the devastated areas of new jersey with governor chris christie. he promised that his administration would not forget the people suffering there. meanwhile, governor mitt romney held a relief rally in the battleground state of ohio for victims of sandy. he urged americans outside the affected areas to help out in any way they can. inthese fil days befe e electn, both candidates are ramping up efforts to mobilize voters, including their faith-based supporters. kim lawton has been leading our coverage of the campaigns. she looks at the many ways religion has played a role this time around. >> both campaigns continue their active efforts to get their constituencies out to the polls next week. professor

but new religious movements, new spiritualities that are emerging, they are new, they are different. if it's different let's hate it. no! let's not. that's the attitude that we want to overcome here just because it happens to be new. skeptics, atheist, humanist, some of the most religious people i have ever met have been the atheist, they have a huge-- you can take the six dimensions and track it right on down. so, these are kinds of people in society that might not reflect the prevailing values, new revelations that may have an intense way prosthetising such as the unification church sometimes called moonies or scientology is always popping up because of various issues that people take with the establishment. anything else we might have here, going through the graphics; occult groups. these are kinds of religious as you seeing millennial groups once again, occultist groups, spiritualists; people who live on the fringe of the establishment, but for whatever reason, don't reflect the prevailing values and go through it. so, that's all we are talking about, you can take this same crite

it does not mean that we're also spiritual creatures and ethical creatures. we have a brain sitting inside the skull and we have to address t. >> you say that these chemicals can change, modify, alter, nuance the gene itself? >> eventually, yes. as time goes on, yes. >> does is the brain irreplaceable? >> you can't substitute it. there is no transplant. you can't transplant a brain. are you sure that won't happen some day? >> it won't. there is no way you could do that. it would be too difficult to imagine, but parts of brains could be put from one to another. if you did, you would transfer one personalit9 to another personality. the personality is embedded in the brain. >> well, the brain, the biggest

is man a spiritual creature or just a kind of base animal tells me he wants to know the answers and he doesn't want to know the answers because somebody tells him because a priest tells him or somebody he reads in a book he wants to he's like a kind of investigator he wants to know but he really isn't given a science is i mean i mean it was after reading tolstoy you get even more questions like where when you started to read this book to do you get well at least that's what i am as a russian that's an impression i get i think that that's of course the point is that because he really wants an answer he doesn't want to here's i want to give you you know here's one to say this is it and this is the right way. the the books throw out more questions and they answer but then those are the eternal questions that people fascinate people i think you know you can be fascinated by political and social issues and obviously tolstoy was especially in the latter part of his life. but in terms of his work his it was much more of a spiritual quest and much more of a kind of psychological investigation

plane and i tired to find out something about his own spiritual journey. and i learned that when the changes took place after the second vatican council, this man felt no longer at home in church and he eventually just stopped going to church. now this was a religious man he had a little alter next to his bed, there was a little standing crucifix, he had flowers there were little plastic flowers there, he said now that he had to stay downstairs and his hospital bed was downstairs he missed his little alter up stairs. so, this was a new insight for me because i felt very much like susanna. i was grateful that the liturgy was in english, so that i would be able to truly participate, not just feel good but to have my whole self my intellect as well as my emotions involved. >> you see that's part, exactly what i'm talking about with these dilemmas of institutionalization, is that's the struggle on that particular one. well let me take you to first off tabor lutheran church. now, the key point is here is a lot of stuff that we've wound together might be a kind

. >> in conjunction with the institute for world spirituality you've moved your study to an international scale, where is the study headed? >> well about 8 years ago, i was invited to sit on the board of an organization in europe that was doing some of the same study of particularity the smaller religious groups in europe. and in my travels overseas, and involvement with this group called cesnur, center for study of new religions in turin, italy. i became aware that europe was somewhat like we were 20 years ago. there were no good reference book and no good understanding of the religious landscape that had immerged with all the pluralism that hit europe. at the same time we begun to realize that many of the same groups we were dealing with here were also in europe so that there was a great deal of carry-over. that led to the idea of producing some reference books on europe similar to what we had here. but then very quickly, particularly in the last couple of years with the funding from the institute of world spirituality here in chicago, that we could do the whole world, and we should do

it. >> well the fastest growing section, segment of unitarian universalism is the earth based spirituality, which is sometimes called-- neo-pagan and sometimes based on a study of indigenous religions. and we went through a several year battle in our annual general assembly to add the seventh principle to our principles like the first one is inherent worth and dignity of every person. is that american? >> yes. >> typical. but, the one we had such a struggle adding is respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are apart and then the source that we draw from is spiritual teachings of earth, centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature. so that introduced the indigenous religions of the world along with the ones we've been studying in this course they-- >> yes, i don't know if they can focus in on that, helen. >> the world's great religions. i want to give you this, could i come give it to you? >> yes. >> is this a good time? >> yes, if you can get down here with out falling. >> well, i'll try.

it's a story about faith and adventure, spirituality and most of all, it had a tricky ending that examine we believe in spirituality, why we have faith, why we believe in god, why we believe in storytelling. >> rose: that's why it was such a phenomenal book. >> yeah. it's both fantastical and mind-boggling. >> rose: and casting, when you began to cast. what did you know about suraj? >> nothing. out of the 3,000 kids we interviewed and, you know, after three rounds we narrowed it down to 12. and as soon as i saw himmish began to see the movie. we don't know what pi looks like until you see him. >> rose: he looks like pi. >> he looks like pi. >> rose: now. >> he gave me the vibe. >> rose: tell me how you got the opportunity to play this character? >> i think i'm just a very, very lucky person. the characters, the character is just an amazing, amazing, amazing person. it's almost unimaginable how he is, how curious he is, how much strength he has within himself. it's really beautiful. and the story is beautiful. and then, obviously, just-- i was just-- i still can't believe how-- how this wh

christians in america are giving thanks to god for their spiritual heritage. hello, everyone. i'm wendy griffith. george thomas is on assignment. believers are celebrating the fact that america was founded as a christian nation. not too long ago, archeologists at jamestown, virginia, discovered the original church, built in 1608 as james fort. it's the place where pok pok pokehontus married. and it is the place of america's history. >> if you kill him, you'll have to kill me, too. >> stand back. >> i won't. >> pok pokehontus is legendary. smith claimed the daughter of chief palatan came to his rescue, after he had been taken prisoner by her father's men. this native american heroin would later marry another jamestown columnist, john roth. just where that marriage took place has been a mystery, that is until now. nearly 400 years after that historic wedding. where we're standing right now, this is where pokehontus and john roth would have gotten married? >> absolutely. >> reporter: he is now 100% sure he and his team have discovered the first substantial protestant church in am

would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. >> hello, i am with the recreation and parks department. we are featuring the romantic park location in your backyard. this is your chance to find your heart in santa and cisco with someone special. -- san francisco with someone special. our first look out is here at buena vista park, a favorite with couples and dog walkers. both have a significant force. a refreshing retreat from urban life. the romantic past that meander up and down the park under pines and eucalyptus. hang out in this environment and you might see butterflies it, fennel, and then the lines. -- dandelions. is ada

it is spiritually empty. there is a news story being born in san francisco. it is one where the more you contribute to the common good, the more you are respected. the better you believe in committee, the more access to what you have -- the better you behave in a community, the more access you have. instead of judging each other, we help each other and realize our greatest potential. we open our world to each other. through doing that, we are liberated. we find freedom through our relationships. i have lived both of these stories. the old one almost broke my spirit. the sharing story has saved me. let's continue the discussion about how we can bring more people into that story. thank you. [applause] >> we will start with you. is that ok? >> sure. and the mayor's chief innovation officer, it is a new position created three months ago. i am excited to be part of that. my role is to use new approaches and ideas to solve longstanding civic issues. we launched the mayor's 2012 innovation portfolio the couple of weeks ago. a couple of weeks ago. we're looking for v

loughner in court as he was given seven life terms total. >> the church of england named their new spiritualead. he will be enthroned as the archbishop of canterbury. he is a former executive from the oil industry. he will become the leader of the more than 77 million anglicans worldwide next march. >> it is the biggest protest argentina has seen in a decade and the anchor is aimed out their president. >> one and a half million people filled the streets of the capital, buenos eras, but protesting political corruption and inflation. they are enraged by rumors that the president wants to amend the constitution to allow her to serve a third term. hundreds of thousands of protesters take to the streets banging pots and pans. they say the government is mismanaging the economy and they are fed up with rising crime. they say government is asking -- acting unconstitutional. >> there is no justice. without it there is an security. there's no health care, nullification, no nothing. we demand respect. we demand to be heard. >> argentina's economy has been slowing down. growth has fallen sharply and inf

years is after the 560 and god says jesus returns after three and a half and it's obvious it's a spiritual three and a half and logical to multiply the previous figureo i did and i arrived at 9060 years which is strange because the 560 years does not start on a jubilee year. >> >> it's three sabbatical cycles yet when it ends it ends on a jubilee year. 1996 was a jubilee year and from the 70 weeks from the end of daniel which i mentioned before -- >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon board of supervisors and president chiu. and so in 1962 january it snowed. i will show you a picture. here it comes up. that's our backyard and the golden gate park is right here and the bridge is over this way and that's part of it, and let's see. here are some more pictures of the backyard and there is snow out there on the street there. and that was 1962 and here is our dog and the bridge in the background in 1962 or 64 rather. yeah. and that is the golden gate bridge and we're on the bay fishing. here i am showing you pictures, pictures of the boat club. it's no longer there. it's on mar

he saw man as a sexual being tormented by a sense of spiritual despair.e thought human existence without meaning, a continual striving doomed to frustration. schiele's willingness to confront himself and his world directly, however disturbing, is at the core of modern art, found d not only in vienna, but especially in germany in expressionism. at this time, germany was engaged in rapid industrialization and imperial expansion. many artists rejected this new germany. but, ironically, they were influenced by the exotic world discovered in the kaiser's colonies in africa and the pacific. the myth of the innocent savage held special attractions for artists across europe. i think especially of a small group of german artists, hardly more than students, who called themselves die brucke, the bridge. they were based in dresden. these artists, like schiele, thoroughly disliked the idea of art as like some sort of beautiful curtain. inspired by what they thought of as the directness, the spontaneity of primitive art, they tried to free themselves from the constrain

. >> first, how did we participate in the region of spirituality?wareness of this participation lead us to be a better steward of our trees? i see people shaking his or her head, and that's when they come up afterwards and say, would you be able to map the trees in my yard as well? i think that's progress. >> so these obviously were not part of the original churchyard. >> i found her to be a bridge builder, and she was reaching out to a community that was saying, hmm, i'm not sure about you, and by the time she was done, they a dord her. i'm susan soleil. i'm the director of interfaith power and light. malini does stick out a little bit, and i think that's one of the reasons why it works well. i -- it's fun to have someone that comes with the cultural diversity that malini comes with, and the knowledge and passion, i think, ignites everyone. >> if i could stir them up and say, look, your religious texts say trees are important. i'm not telling you that, your bible is telling you that, your koran is telling you that, your buddhist ins krrks rrks ircr

would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states. the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the a

other news, british officials have announced the selection of the next archbishop of canterbury, spiritual head of the worldwide anglican communion. he is justin welby, the bishop of durham, in england. welby is 56 and a former oil executive who has been a bishop for only one year. he succeeds rowan williams, who is stepping down next month. he takes over an international body of churches deeply divided over several issues including homosexual. george carey, who was archbishop of canterbury from 1991 through 2002, was in washington this week to receive an award for his interfaith work. he told us welby is a good choice. >> just comes with very good credentials. i mean, he's a wise man. he's young enough to have bags of energy and to set a new course. there's a freshness about him. >>> in egypt, the new coptic pope urged coptic christians to become more active in public and political life. pope tawadros ii also voiced his opposition to calls from some islamist leaders for a constitution heavily based on sharia law. the new pope was chosen last sunday. according to tradition, his name along

clearly a deep and spiritual relationship or that between jesus and the olympic disciple. but i don't think we hope our case any to extrapolate from that more than the tax can bear. the shoshone people of what is fair and just let them sit with it. like really, i think we'd be better off. right here, who's next? >> thank you for your talk. i was actually raised to make church similar to what you describe. our church was 12,000 people and it was predominately blacks. i work for mass equality is a community engagement organizer and something that i struggle with is how i can be like and gay and christian on the ones in the race within the community and also trying to gain support from black ministers for gay marriage. as wondering which are dots were about the racial divides within the lgbt community. >> great question. after i return going to be senior fellow at the american progress with john podesta's think tank in d.c. the one thing i'm most looking forward to is a former newspaper editor who is african-american and use they are doing stuff unreason were going to do some

moving on through the graphics here, if you have them, we're talking about meditation, spiritual practices, and just a love for god, a mystical union- you know, we're back to mysticism- a mystical union with god. yeah, janet? >> if we have time, i was reading this book and it has a love poem written by a woman saint. >> we have time for you! fire away. give us just love here, yes. this is a mystical love poem from- by a woman, a sufi. hit it. >> "my god and my lord, eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. hushed are the movements of birds in their nests, of monsters in the deep. and you are the just who knows no change, the equity that does not swerve, the everlasting that never passes away. the doors of kings are locked and guarded by their henchmen, but your door is open to those who call upon you. my lord, each lover is now alone with his beloved, and i am alone with thee." >> that kind of love- love of god- that erases the boundaries between who you are and who god is- the identity and relationship issue. that's what we're seeing here. just a couple in the tradition, a famous- al-hall

my hope for the recovery community is that a reconciliation of science and spirituality, that we learn from what science teaches us about the brain and apply it to the more spiritual principles of recovery which talk about what do we want out of life. and there shouldn't be any reason why these two approaches can't coexist. i wish they didn't get me crying. [laughter] it's real important that they understand that we are all in this process. and if i was able to come out of that process successfully and have the opportunity to be able to be of service to help you, then you can do it, too. i'm learning that i'm not my disease. it's just something that i have. it's not who i am. make sure that you're paying attention to what's happening in the field of research and addiction because it's changing every day and you can't-you cannot be stagnant, i don't think, in this field, and you can't just be comfortable with one approach. things are always changing. from a individual practitioner perspective, you feel good about what you're doing because you're providing something that you know will wo

saudi arabia's top spiritual leader has issued a prohibition against any contact with foreign press does have made ongoing pro-democracy protests denouncing the regime has urged his worship girls in the capital of riyadh to save their complaints for the authorities to move she also said the international media was unreliable and accuse them of wanting to destroy their nation's unity and. well deadly and dangerous feared for its effectiveness we explore the secrets behind the kalashnikov assault rifle up next here on our t.v. . it's perched atop a jaw drop and a view from the ball scrabble and stretches this fall is that all you can see up for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed by the chance i bear in railway but the a spiritual center. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worshippers implicity water to commemorate the baptism of jesus. there when you pull up on board them it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst