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		<title>When Love Outlives Death: Grief, Consciousness &#038; Connection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Greyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Klass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[healing from grief]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim B. Tucker]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What happens to love when someone dies?&#160;The body is gone. The chair is empty. The phone no longer rings with that person's name. Yet something strange remains.&#160;We still speak to them in our thoughts. We repeat their sayings. We make their recipes. We hear their voice in our memory. Sometimes we dream about them with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anthony de Mello’s Awareness: Waking Up Through Comedy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imaginary Talks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony de Mello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Approval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imaginary conversation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Gaffigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Amini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual awakening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trevor Noah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waking Up]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What if being awake and having your eyes open are two different things?&#160;In Awareness, Anthony de Mello makes a provocative suggestion: much of human life is lived almost automatically. We chase success because we learned that success makes us valuable. We seek approval because being liked feels like proof that we matter. We acquire things [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Love As If You&#8217;ve Never Been Hurt: 25 Book Club Questions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awakening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book club questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living fully]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love As If You've Never Been Hurt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryu Si-hwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What can a poem actually do when something in life cannot be fixed?&#160;That question lies at the center of this second exploration of Love As If You've Never Been Hurt, the anthology edited by Korean poet Ryu Si-hwa.&#160;In Part 1, we approached the collection through an imagined conversation about wounds, healing, love, mortality, and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Love As If You&#8217;ve Never Been Hurt: 5 Modern Stories</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[betrayal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impermanence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ishikawa Takuboku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love As If You've Never Been Hurt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Octavio Paz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omar Khayyam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[returning to life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryu Si-hwa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What If Healing Is Not About Getting Over the Hurt, but Returning to Life?What does it really mean to love as if you've never been hurt?&#160;Surely it cannot mean forgetting.&#160;A person who has been betrayed cannot simply erase betrayal.&#160;A grieving mother cannot pretend her child never died.&#160;A craftsman cannot restore the fingers he lost.&#160;A father [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Empty Nest Syndrome Story: 5 Modern Stories for Parents</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[family traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loneliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern short stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal growth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;Empty nest syndrome is often described as loneliness after children leave home, but the deeper transition can touch nearly every part of a parent's life.&#160;How much should you call?&#160;What happens to a marriage after decades of parenting?&#160;What if being needed has become part of your identity?&#160;How do holidays change when adult children build families of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Empty Nest Syndrome: 30 Questions Parents Ask</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empty nest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[generativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life transition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[IntroductionWhen a child leaves home, parents often expect the house to become quieter.&#160;What they may not expect is how much of themselves seems to leave with that child.&#160;The empty bedroom is only the visible part.&#160;Underneath it can be grief, identity loss, changes in marriage, uncertainty about how often to call, fear of becoming unnecessary, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Empty Nest Syndrome: When the House Goes Quiet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college departure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[finding purpose]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;There is a moment many parents are never fully prepared for.&#160;The child leaves.&#160;Maybe for college.&#160;Maybe for work.&#160;Maybe for marriage.&#160;Maybe for a year away.&#160;The bedroom remains.&#160;The favorite food is still in the refrigerator.&#160;The parent still wakes up thinking about what the child needs.&#160;Yet suddenly, nobody is asking.&#160;For eighteen or twenty years, parenting creates thousands of tiny [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If God Is One, Why Do Religions Divide Us?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divine love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fictional conversation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hinduism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith Dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rabindranath Tagore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sufism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Blake]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;If God is loving, why has religion so often become a reason to divide, condemn, and kill?Across centuries, human beings have built temples, mosques, and churches in search of the divine. Yet the walls raised to honor God have sometimes become barriers separating one community from another. Sacred names meant to guide people toward mercy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Joan of Arc: 5 Modern Stories About Faith and Courage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[betrayal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conviction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[historical figures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspirational stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan of Arc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern short stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public memory]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;Joan of Arc’s story raises questions that still follow us more than six centuries after her death.&#160;How do we know when a calling is real? Does success prove that we are right? What do we owe the people whose sacrifices helped us succeed? When personal conscience clashes with institutional authority, who should yield? And what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Humanity Entering a New Earth? Spiritual Awakening Explained</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History & Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clif High]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness shift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Hamilton-Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Icke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth April]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future of humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human awakening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Tittel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry K]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pam Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prophecy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social transformation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What if the chaos surrounding us is not simply a collection of unrelated crises?&#160;What if political distrust, technological surveillance, war, economic strain, spiritual searching, social fragmentation, and growing anxiety about the future are all part of a much larger transition?&#160;In this imaginary discussion, Joseph Tittel, Craig Hamilton-Parker, Pam Gregory, Lee Harris, Kerry K, Elizabeth April, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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