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April showers bring may flowers but did you know that it also brings great spiritual benefits? Psychic Janet Brennan shares her insight that April is a powerful month of healing, and explains that April is the best month to receive the spiritual healing prayers of others.

It seems that every six months or so a flutter of press activity erupts over Christian Yoga. Typically, the press reduces this complex and juicy issue into two opposing sides. In one corner we usually meet one of a growing handful of Christian yoga “innovators”, who have stripped yoga of its popular Hindu roots and iconography and grafted Christian elements therein. In the other corner, we typically meet Subhas Tiwari, professor of yoga philosophy and meditation at the Hindu University of America in Florida, whose famous line is “Yoga is Hinduism.” He stresses how you can't separate yoga from Hinduism because they are one and the same.

In a landmark victory for religious freedom, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Bush administration's claim that it can bar a small congregation in New Mexico from using a hallucinogenic tea to connect with God during its rituals.

Chief Justice John Roberts led the court in its religious freedom decision and moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.

 

The influence of faith and prayer on health and recovery is a topic that's not going anywhere. In fact, it's only growing stronger. Last year the NCCAM (National Center for for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) spent roughly $800,000 on research into prayer, general spirituality and distant healing.