Namaste
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." -Mark 12:30-31 Before I became a Christian my Mom and Dad had been involved in Siddha Yoga for a while. If you're not familiar with what that is, my limited understanding of it is that they had a "guru" that they would listen to, they went to people's houses for "meditation sessions" and would often visit the Ashram that was in Oakland. This practice was mainly based on Eastern philosophy, with influences from Hinduism and Buddhism. After my parents divorced when I was three, it wasn't long until my Mom started to get back to her Christian roots and went back to church. She had grown up in a very conservative Christian home and in her twenties she rebelled against that in a sense. When she went back to church...