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Cell Phone Users Are Finding God
Once merely a useful tool for keeping in touch on the go, the mobile phone is fast finding a new niche as an instrument of spiritual enlightenment, reports Wired in an article on cell phones and religions. Many of the services described in this article have been covered in this blog before - but this one is new: -- A daily service called The Seven Spiritual Laws, which features the holistic teachings of Deepak Chopra. Currently available from two U.S. mobile operators, the service provides daily aphorisms as well as diet tips and an inspiring image. And these are old time favorites: "In China, people burn paper effigies of material goods, including mobile phones, to ensure their dead relatives are fairing well in their parallel lives. While last year one might have burned a basic phone, this year's offering will be a camera phone with color screen. On a recent field trip around Asia, Genevieve Bell, senior researcher at Intel, saw people getting their mobile phones blessed by a Buddhist monk. "Because they are wearing them on their bodies, they didn't want them to be bad for them," she says." For a roundup of religions around who have awakened to text messaging as a way of reaching out and spreading the good word, cf SMS, good for the soul and SMS and Religion category in Textually.org) |
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