When I was young I read books and saw television shows based upon the lives of famous people. Even as a young child, I saw the paradoxes. One person makes a global success out of meager beginnings while another squanders a fortune in reputation as well as money. I wondered why. Is it fate or luck that determines success? Is it predestination or windfall that determines a well-lived life?

(See also: Indigo Children, What is Indigo Children, Parenting Indigo Children, Adult Indigo, Indigo Children Channeling)

Read more here: » Indigo Children: Indigos The Evolution of the Gifted Child

Ordinarily in most cases the soul is not willing to take birth in the lower Yonis (wombs) for the salient reason that it has done good works in the physical body as a human being in the past incarnation. No human being is out and out an incarnation of Lucifer. Certain good qualities and actions prompted by such good qualities always outweigh the bad qualities and their actions and the human being steps into another birth either low or high out of the same species for the future evolution of the soul.

The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Sri Swami Sivananda.

Read more here: » Reincarnation: Reincarnation In Lower Births

Dear Beloved Ascending Human,

Earth has completed in this year of 2003 with a focus upon karma associated with slavery, subordination, insanity, and deformity. The purpose of this focus was to release all global karma and thought-form associated so that a new dream of biological unity could be anchored. The male and female energies upon earth were united into the flame of Divine Union within the heart chakra of earth as the karma was released in full. The flame of Divine Union has been ignited and shines brightly in the aurora of earth! In so doing, there is a greater state of soul infusion and direction on the part of the Great Central Sun for earth as a global consciousness and vessel.

(See also: Indigo Children, What is Indigo Children, Parenting Indigo Children, Adult Indigo, Indigo Children Channeling)

Read more here: » Indigo Children: INDIGO CHILDREN, ADD, AUTISM AND ASCENSION  

Some people are compulsive exhibitionists. You can find them almost anywhere; they would do anything to get noticed. At a wedding, they want to be the bride and at a funeral, the corpse.

Julius Caesar, who was an incorrigible egotist, was kidnapped when he was a child. He was held for a ransom of 11,000 gold pieces. Horrified, he exhorted his captors to raise the ransom amount to 2,50,000 gold pieces so as to preserve his prestige!

(See also: Humility , God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Read more here: » Humility: Learning To Take A Back Seat  

All democracies (and every other form of government) have certain structural defects, which are related to the nature of democracy. Although all forms of government have defects, supporters of democracy are often reluctant to concede that it is less than perfect, which in turn may hinder its reform. Two prominent defects are related to the territory and membership of the demos itself. Democracy - Immigrants and 'the people'. Many democratic constitutions explicitly state (or imply) that power belongs to, o ...

See also:

Democracy, Democracy - Democratic Government, Democracy - History of democracy, Democracy - 20th century waves of democracy, Democracy - Essential elements of a democracy, Democracy - Political legitimacy and 'democratic culture', Democracy - Direct versus representative democracy or 'democracy' versus 'republic', Democracy - Liberal democracy, Democracy - Preconditions and structure, Democracy - Liberal freedoms, Democracy - Proportional versus majoritarian representation, Democracy - Social democracy, Democracy - Illiberal democracy, Democracy - Advantages and disadvantages of democracy, Democracy - Immigrants and 'the people', Democracy - Ethnic and religious conflicts, Democracy - Bureaucracy, Democracy - Short-term focus, Democracy - Electorate Intelligence, Democracy - Public choice theory, Democracy - Plutocracy, Democracy - Tyranny of the majority, Democracy - Political stability, Democracy - Effective response in wartime, Democracy - Corruption, Democracy - Poverty and famine, Democracy - The democratic peace theory, Democracy - Sources

Read more here: » Democracy: Encyclopedia II - Democracy - Advantages and disadvantages of democracy

Sex As applied to the organism as a whole, the differentiation of the reproductive function and the character of being male and female.

Organisms reproduce their kind in various ways: fission, gemmation, parthenogenesis, hermaphrodite reproduction, and sexual reproduction. In the course of evolution, organisms pass from one method to another; the passage from the hermaphrodite method to the one in which the sexes are in separate individuals took place in the animals in the third root-race of this round on this globe, and shortly afterwards in humanity (SD 2:184), the latter then being in the fifth subrace of the third root-race.

The process of separation did not occur suddenly, but slowly. This is often called the Fall, and is so in one sense, since it is a descent from spirit toward matter, and was an initiation of the beasts. "THEY (the animals) BEGAN TO BREED. The TWOFOLD MAN (then) SEPARATED ALSO. HE (man) SAID: "LET US AS THEY: LET US UNITE AND MAKE CREATURES.' THEY DID" (ibid.). But from another viewpoint, it was simply a following of the natural course of unfolding progress in evolution. The separation is symbolized by a circle with a vertical diameter.

The hermaphroditic state is repeated in the developing embryo where the organs of both sexes arise from the same germinal layer of cells, and the differentiation does not occur until near the middle of the viable period of fetal life. Today, the orderly unfolding of embryonic cells into a human form is due to following the invisible model which, in keeping with the imbodying ego's karma, is directed by creative spiritual entities and forces.

"Before man could become male and female physically, his prototype, the creating Elohim, had to arrange his Form on this sexual plane astrally. That is to say, the atoms and the organic forces, descending into the plane of the given differentiation, had to be marshaled in the order intended by Nature, so as to be ever carrying out, in an immaculate way, that law which the Kabala calls the balance, through which everything that exists does so as male and female in its final perfection, in this present stage of materiality. Chochmah, Wisdom, the Male Sephiroth, had to diffuse itself in, and through, Binah, intelligent Nature, or Understanding" (SD 2:84). After the separation, the third eye began to disappear, and death as we now understand it was not known until then.

Thus the primeval polarity of all things differentiated on the material plane -- including sexual humanity -- was of immaculate origin and purpose. This sublime ancient teaching has been degraded generally in theological interpretations of cosmic sex symbols in crude physiological terms, such as the substitution of a Jehovistic god of generation for an ineffable, unknown deity.

The originating causes of sex are not rooted in the higher principles or elements of the human composite constitution. It is the effect of former thought-deposits, of emotional and mental tendencies and biases given way to in preceding lives on earth. "The predominating and it may perhaps truly be said that the main cause of sex-change in incarnation is strong attraction to the opposite sex during the few -- or in rare cases it may be a fairly large number -- preceding lives on earth. This attraction, which is the instrumental cause of the tendencies and biases spoken of, arising out of thought and emotional energy, feminizes the life-atoms, or masculinizes them, as the individual case may be, and the natural consequence is incarnation in a body of the sex to which attraction leads" (ET 666). Thus a reincarnating ego may have several incarnations in bodies of one sex, and then incarnate in bodies of the opposite sex for a number of times in succeeding incarnations. How many times, therefore, a reincarnating ego may imbody in a male or a female body is not subject to any arbitrary rule but depends solely upon the karmic impulse laid aside in the treasury of psychomental experiences.

Though the distinction of sex is biologically regarded as a profound and nearly universal attribute of organized beings, yet knowledge of composite human nature shows that it does not reach into the roots of the human constitution. Its causes go no deeper than the lower part of the human ego or soul, the psychophysiological nature. It is an evolutionary condition or cycle of the reincarnating ego's development in this present stage of materiality. Therefore, it is a transitory event in its bipolar earthly experience. As sex has been nature's plan for the race for some 18 million years, it will continue to be the natural plan for some ages to come. Some ages hence, sex differentiation will have given way to the activities of impersonal, spiritual creative energies.

(See also: Sex , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Different cultures, time periods, and belief systems have diverse variations in their opinions on the morality of homosexuality, bisexuality and the choice of sexual orientation in general. In recent decades, many societies which formerly treated homosexuality as a crime have now repealed those laws on the basis of civil rights, privacy rights, and changing social attitudes. The increasing social acceptance of homosexuality has been attributed to a range of diverse causes, including the sexual revolution, the gay rights movement, a gr ...

Including:

• Religion and sexual orientation - Overview
• Religion and sexual orientation - Organized religions
• Religion and sexual orientation - Aspects of the conflict
• Religion and sexual orientation - Reactions to homosexuality
• Religion and sexual orientation - View that homosexuality is moral morally acceptable or is not an issue of morality
• Religion and sexual orientation - Controversy over parallels with other civil rights movements
• Religion and sexual orientation - Genetic determination choice and change
• Religion and sexual orientation - Attacks based on stereotypes linking homosexuality to other behaviors
• Religion and sexual orientation - Views of specific religious groups
• Religion and sexual orientation - Atheists agnostics and secularists
• Religion and sexual orientation - Abrahamic
• Religion and sexual orientation - Buddhism Confucianism and Taoism
• Religion and sexual orientation - Hinduism
• Religion and sexual orientation - Greco-Roman religion
• Religion and sexual orientation - Mythological figures who engaged in same-sex love

Read more here: » Religion and sexual orientation: Encyclopedia - Religion and sexual orientation

A Theosophical definition of Trishna :

Trishna

(Sanskrit) The meaning of this word is "thirst" or "longing," but it is a technical term imbodying the idea that it is this "thirst" for the things which the human ego formerly knew, and which it wills and desires to know again  - things familiar and akin to it from past experiences  - which draws the intermediate nature or human ego of man back again to incarnation in earth-life. It is attracted anew to what is to it old and familiar worlds and scenes; it thirsts for the manifested life comprising them, for the things which it formerly made akin to itself; and thus is it attracted back to those spheres which it left at some preceding period of its evolutionary journey through them, when death overtook it. Its attraction to return to earth is naught but an operation of a law of nature. Here the intermediate nature or human ego sowed the seeds of thought and of action in past lives, and here therefore must it of necessity reap their fruits. It cannot reap where it has not sown, as is obvious enough. It never goes whither it is not attracted or drawn.

After death has released the intermediate nature, and during long ages has given to it its period of bliss and rest and psychical recuperation  - much as a quiet and reposeful night's sleep is to the tired physical body  - then, just as a man reawakens by degrees, so does this intermediate nature or human ego by degrees recede or awaken from that state of rest and bliss called devachan. And the seeds of thoughts, the seeds of actions which it had done in former lives, are now laid by in the fabric of itself  - seeds whose natural energy is still unexpended and unexhausted  - and inhere in that inner psychical fabric, for they have nowhere else in which to inhere, since the man produced them there and they are a part of him. These seeds of former thoughts and acts, of former emotions, desires, loves, hates, yearnings, and aspirations, each one of such begins to make itself felt as an urge earthwards, towards the spheres and planes in which they are native, and where they naturally grow and expand and develop.

In this our present life, all of us are setting in motion causes in thought and in action which will bring us back to this earth in the distant future. We shall then reap the harvest of the seeds of thought and action that we are in this present life planting in the fields of our human nature.

In the Pali books of the Orient this word is called tanha.

See also: Trishna , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Creepin' On Ah Come Up. Their first release on Ruthless Records, Creepin On Ah Come Up (EP) was released in June 1994. After a slow start that saw the album's success limited to within the gangsta rap scene, it broke through to the mainstream with the release of the singles "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" and "Foe Tha Luv Of $", the second of which featured a guest rap by Eazy-E. Recorded during the "golden age" of West Coast rap music, the album's production draws heavily upon it, with beats supplied by Yella of NWA fame, Rhythm D and newco ...

See also:

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Beginning, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Ruthless Years, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Creepin' On Ah Come Up, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Art Of War, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - BTNHResurrection, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Thug World Order, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Turmoil, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - A New Beginning, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Legacy, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Line-up, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Current members, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Discography, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Main albums, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Compiliation albums, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Singles

Read more here: » Bone Thugs-N-Harmony: Encyclopedia II - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Ruthless Years

The following subsections contain remarks on the nature and use of mantras in their context as Hindu religious practice. Mantra - What is Dharma?. A western expert on Hindu philosophy and religion writes: Sanatan (eternal) Dharma as a universal tradition has room for all faiths and all religious and spiritual practices regardless of the time or country of their origin. Yet it places religious and spiritual teachings in their appropriate place relative to the ultimate goal of Self-realization, ...

See also:

Mantra, Mantra - Introduction, Mantra - Mantra in Hinduism, Mantra - Mantra Japa, Mantra - Some Hindu mantras, Mantra - Lead me from Ignorance to Truth, Mantra - Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, Mantra - The shanti mantras, Mantra - Universal prayer, Mantra - Other examples, Mantra - The Hindu Bija Mantra, Mantra - Remarks, Mantra - What is Dharma?, Mantra - The Significance of the Symbol Om, Mantra - Mantras and Prayers, Mantra - Kirtan and Bhajan, Mantra - Vedic Conception of Sound, Mantra - Mantra in Buddhism, Mantra - Mantra in Shingon Buddhism, Mantra - Mantra in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Mantra - Om mani padme hum, Mantra - Some other mantras used by Tibetan Buddhists, Mantra - Mantra in other traditions or contexts

Read more here: » Mantra: Encyclopedia II - Mantra - Remarks

Hawkins has worked closely with the New Thought Movement and shares many similar beliefs. He is formally affiliated with the largest New Thought church, Unity Church, and its ministerial education arm, Unity School of Christianity, which offers continuing education credits for attending his lectures. In Truth vs. Falsehood he describes New Thought churches as follows: "The liberal "New Thought" religions emphasize tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness, and compassion towa ...

See also:

David R. Hawkins, David R. Hawkins - Background, David R. Hawkins - Early life and professional development, David R. Hawkins - Professional life, David R. Hawkins - Spiritual teaching, David R. Hawkins - Calibration, David R. Hawkins - Quotes, David R. Hawkins - Books

Read more here: » David R. Hawkins: Encyclopedia II - David R. Hawkins - Spiritual teaching

Carthage - First Sicilian War. Carthage's success led to the creation of a powerful navy to discourage both pirates and rival nations. This, coupled with its success and growing hegemony, brought Carthage into increasing conflict with the Greeks, the other major power contending for control of the central Mediterranean. The island of Sicily, lying at Carthage's doorstep, became the arena on which this conflict played out. From their earliest days, both the Greeks and Phoenicians had been attracted to the l ...

See also:

Carthage, Carthage - Founding of Carthage, Carthage - Life in Carthage, Carthage - Carthaginian Commerce, Carthage - Carthaginian Government, Carthage - Carthaginian Religious Practices, Carthage - Conflict with the Greeks and Romans, Carthage - First Sicilian War, Carthage - Second Sicilian War, Carthage - Third Sicilian War, Carthage - Pyrrhus of Epirus, Carthage - The Messanan Crisis, Carthage - The Punic Wars, Carthage - Roman Carthage, Carthage - Carthage in fiction

Read more here: » Carthage: Encyclopedia II - Carthage - Conflict with the Greeks and Romans

Black Death - Depopulation. See also: Medieval demography. Information about the death toll varies widely by area and from source to source. Approximately 25 million deaths occurred in Europe alone, with many others occurring in northern Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Estimates of the demographic impact of plague in Asia are based on both population figures during this time and estimates of the disease's toll on population centers. The initial outbreak of plague in the Chinese province of ...

See also:

Black Death, Black Death - Pattern of the pandemic, Black Death - Asian outbreak, Black Death - European outbreak, Black Death - Middle Eastern outbreak, Black Death - Recurrence, Black Death - Causes, Black Death - Bubonic plague theory, Black Death - Consequences, Black Death - Depopulation, Black Death - Socio-economic effects, Black Death - Persecutions, Black Death - Religion, Black Death - Other social effects, Black Death - Black Death in literature, Black Death - Contemporary, Black Death - Modern, Black Death - Selected sources and further reading, Black Death - Notes, Black Death - Primary sources, Black Death - Secondary sources, Black Death - Related events

Read more here: » Black Death: Encyclopedia II - Black Death - Consequences

I've nursed a deep desire since childhood to see truth, face-to-face. I knew that truth would remain elusive unless I learnt to recognise the true nature of my own self and the world around me. But bookish knowledge did not take me any closer to this goal. Knowledge derived with the help of the senses is not entirely dependable, for our senses can deceive us.

Restless, I read the biographies of Jesus Christ, the Buddha, Ramakrishna, Mirabai, Mahatma Gandhi and others. Inspired, I tried to acquire qualities that could elevate me to a higher position. But it was not easy; I was young and passions and desires had me in their grip.

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Read more here: » Peace of Mind: Eternal Game of Hide-and-Seek

Rosicrucian Fellowship - Life as a School: doctrine of Rebirth and Law of Cause and Consequence. These teachings advocate the dualistic view: on one hand, they hold that man is a Spirit enfolding all the powers of God and that these powers are being slowly unfolded by a series of existences in a gradually improving earthy body; on the other hand, that this process of development has been performed under the guidance of exalted Beings who are yet ordering our steps, though in a de ...

See also:

Rosicrucian Fellowship, Rosicrucian Fellowship - Origins & foundation, Rosicrucian Fellowship - Philosophy teachings, Rosicrucian Fellowship - Life as a School: doctrine of Rebirth and Law of Cause and Consequence, Rosicrucian Fellowship - Evolution, Rosicrucian Fellowship - The Seven-fold constitution of Man, Rosicrucian Fellowship - The Seven Worlds & the Seven Cosmic Planes, Rosicrucian Fellowship - The Ten-fold constitution of Man, Rosicrucian Fellowship - Death as a Birth, Rosicrucian Fellowship - the Cosmic Christ and the Christ Within, Rosicrucian Fellowship - Rosicrucian mission

Read more here: » Rosicrucian Fellowship: Encyclopedia II - Rosicrucian Fellowship - Philosophy teachings

Sri Aurobindo's view of society and the emergence of a spirit-oriented future existence can be explained as follows: Beyond the physical-based social life of early man (marked by survival, fear, subservience, etc.), the vital-based social life of the past five hundred years (emerging through trade, travel, discovery, adventure, and the fulfillment of the individual needs, wants, and desires), and the currently emerging mental-based age (indicated by freedom, individuality, democracy, education, rationality, technology, and the common man) is the possibility of the eme ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth

Reincarnation - Eastern religions and traditions. In India this doctrine was thoroughly established from ancient times. While metempsychosis was not established in the older sections of the Vedas, it was explicated first in the Upanishads (c. 1000 BC - AD 4), which are philosophico-mystic texts held to be the essence of the Vedas. The idea that the soul reincarnates is intricately linked to karma, whose first explication was also seen in the Hindu books of the Upanishads. The idea is that individua ...

See also:

Reincarnation, Reincarnation - Overview, Reincarnation - Reincarnation in various religions, traditions and philosophies, Reincarnation - Eastern religions and traditions, Reincarnation - Western religions and traditions, Reincarnation - Contemporary movements and thinkers, Reincarnation - Common variations in the belief, Reincarnation - Reincarnation Research, Reincarnation - Objections to reincarnation, Reincarnation - Theories put forward to explain the phenomenon, Reincarnation - A theory of reincarnation

Read more here: » Reincarnation: Encyclopedia II - Reincarnation - Reincarnation in various religions, traditions and philosophies

A mantra is a religious syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language. Their use varies according to the school and philosophy associated with the mantra. They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words and vibrations that instill one-pointed concentration in the devotee. Other purposes have included religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or eliminate enemies. Mantras originated in India with Vedic Hinduism and were later adopted by Buddhists and Jains, now popular in various modern forms of spiritual practice which are loosely b ...

Including:

• Mantra - Introduction
• Mantra - Mantra in Hinduism
• Mantra - Mantra Japa
• Mantra - Some Hindu mantras
• Mantra - Lead me from Ignorance to Truth
• Mantra - Hare Krishna Maha Mantra
• Mantra - The shanti mantras
• Mantra - Universal prayer
• Mantra - Other examples
• Mantra - The Hindu Bija Mantra
• Mantra - Remarks
• Mantra - What is Dharma?
• Mantra - The Significance of the Symbol Om
• Mantra - Mantras and Prayers
• Mantra - Kirtan and Bhajan
• Mantra - Vedic Conception of Sound
• Mantra - Mantra in Buddhism
• Mantra - Mantra in Shingon Buddhism
• Mantra - Mantra in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
• Mantra - Om mani padme hum
• Mantra - Some other mantras used by Tibetan Buddhists
• Mantra - Mantra in other traditions or contexts

Read more here: » Mantra: Encyclopedia - Mantra

The relative economic failure of Africa has long been an important issue both in Africa and abroad. Many attempts at solving Africa's poverty have been attempted, but few have had any great degree of success. Economy of Africa - Socialism. In the years immediately after independence many nations saw the rapid industrialisations of the Soviet Union and China under communism as models to follow. This led to command economies and major investment in heavy industries such as coal and steel production to stimul ...

See also:

Economy of Africa, Economy of Africa - Regional variation, Economy of Africa - Variation, Economy of Africa - By country, Economy of Africa - History, Economy of Africa - Economic sectors, Economy of Africa - Agriculture, Economy of Africa - Mining and drilling, Economy of Africa - Manufacturing, Economy of Africa - Investment and banking, Economy of Africa - Determinants, Economy of Africa - Geography, Economy of Africa - Disease, Economy of Africa - Colonialism, Economy of Africa - Borders, Economy of Africa - Language issues, Economy of Africa - Governance, Economy of Africa - Civil and international wars, Economy of Africa - Foreign trade, Economy of Africa - Effects of widespread poverty, Economy of Africa - Attempts at promoting growth, Economy of Africa - Socialism, Economy of Africa - Liberalism, Economy of Africa - Autarky, Economy of Africa - Foreign aid, Economy of Africa - Debt relief, Economy of Africa - Central banks and currencies

Read more here: » Economy of Africa: Encyclopedia II - Economy of Africa - Attempts at promoting growth

In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the Act of Union 1800, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Unionists are mostly, but not exclusively, from Protestant backgrounds in terms of religion. In the context of Irish history, the term refers to those who opposed home rule for Irela ...

Including:

• Unionists Ireland - Irish Home Rule
• Unionists Ireland - Partition

Read more here: » Unionists Ireland: Encyclopedia - Unionists Ireland

There is no official creed of A.A. belief about alcoholism, since individual members are free to believe whatever they wish based on their own experiences. Even the core twelve step program is presented to members as suggested rather than mandatory. While AA literature states that "our twelve steps are only suggestions", many more traditionally-minded members claim that today's decreased emphasis on "Step Work" has resulted in a drastic decline in AA's success rate. In the early days of AA, say critics of today's meeting-centered brand of Al ...

See also:

Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous - History and development, Alcoholics Anonymous - How the A.A. program works, Alcoholics Anonymous - Beliefs about alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous - Structure, Alcoholics Anonymous - A.A. religion and the law, Alcoholics Anonymous - Discussion of the Merits of A.A., Alcoholics Anonymous - AA's Supporters, Alcoholics Anonymous - AA's Critics, Alcoholics Anonymous - Literature, Alcoholics Anonymous - Dramatic Portrayals

Read more here: » Alcoholics Anonymous: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholics Anonymous - Beliefs about alcoholism

When Earl Warren became Chief Justice in 1953, Brown had already come before the Court. While Vinson was still Chief Justice, there had been a preliminary vote on the case at a conference of all nine justices. Then, the Court had split, with a majority of the justices voting that school segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. Warren, however, through persuasion and good-natured cajoling—he had been an extremely successful Republican politician before joining the Court—was able to convince all nine justices to join his opinion declaring school segregation unconstituti ...

See also:

Equal Protection Clause, Equal Protection Clause - Background, Equal Protection Clause - Post-Civil War interpretation and the Plessy decision, Equal Protection Clause - Between Plessy and Brown, Equal Protection Clause - Brown and its consequences, Equal Protection Clause - Carolene Products and the various levels of Equal Protection scrutiny, Equal Protection Clause - Discriminatory intent or disparate impact?, Equal Protection Clause - Who is a suspect class?, Equal Protection Clause - Affirmative action, Equal Protection Clause - The Equal Protection Clause and voting, Equal Protection Clause - Notes

Read more here: » Equal Protection Clause: Encyclopedia II - Equal Protection Clause - Brown and its consequences