In our spiritual journey across the Internet this month, ThirdAge discovered several sites worth sharing.

The writers on the Cross Currents site offer intelligent and sophisticated commentary on many religious topics, including Foucault's discussions of politics and the soul. Cross Currents is published by the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL).

The current Dalai Lama was born Lhamo Dhondrub in 1935, the son of a peasant family in northeastern Tibet. The recognized reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, he assumed the political leadership of Tibet in 1950, at the age of 16, when China invaded Tibet.

Exiled and living in India, in 1989 the Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace prize for his worldwide mission in search of a peaceful solution to the Chinese repression of Tibet. ThirdAge joined him in San Francisco at a recent conference called "Peacemaking: The Power of Nonviolence."