ALL-NEW SEASON OF EMMY AWARD-WINNING SERIES "SUPER SOUL SUNDAY" PREMIERES SUNDAY, MARCH 23 AT 11 A.M. ET/PT ON OWN

This Season of "Super Soul Sunday" Features Shirley MacLaine, Arianna Huffington, Gary Zukav and Sue Monk Kidd

"Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth" 10-part Series To Air Immediately Following For The First Time on Television

Los Angeles - The all-new season of the Emmy Award-winning daytime series "Super Soul Sunday," designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them, premieres with legendary actress Shirley MacLaine on Sunday, March 23 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Immediately following is the premiere of the 10-part series, "Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth," which debuts Sunday, March 23 at 12 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.

The new season of "Super Soul Sunday" features Academy Award-winning actress and spiritual seeker Shirley MacLaine; media mogul and founder of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington; spiritual teacher and bestselling author of "The Seat of the Soul" Gary Zukav; Oprah's Book Club 2.0 author and bestselling author of "The Secret Life of Bees" Sue Monk Kidd; bestselling author and Omega institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser; award-winning time-lapse filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg; Harvard researcher and bestselling author of "Happiness Advantage" Shawn Achor; television writer and relationship author Tracy McMillan; and spiritual teacher and author of "Falling Into Grace" Adyashanti.

"Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth" is based on Oprah's groundbreaking and wildly successful 2008 web series on Eckhart's New York Times bestselling book "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose." In this 10-part series, Oprah and Eckhart take viewers on a chapter-by-chapter journey through Eckhart's seminal work. These thought-provoking discussions, framed with brand-new content, will teach viewers how to focus and become more aware and present, and to begin to understand the motivations of the ego.

Sunday, March 23

Super Soul Sunday: Oprah & Legendary Actress Shirley MacLaine: The Soul of A Star (11 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET/PT) Oprah sits down with legendary actress Shirley MacLaine to discuss her illustrious career, her longtime interest in spirituality, and her latest book, "What If... A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure."

Oprah & Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth - Chapter 1 (12 p.m. - 1 p.m. ET/PT) Oprah and Eckhart Tolle present their 2008 web series on Eckhart's groundbreaking book "A New Earth." The premiere episode introduces the book with personal stories from Eckhart and discussions of consciousness, presence and purpose.

Sunday, March 30

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Science is a method of understanding nature, as such, it can only be fully understood through analyzing the art, literature and culture of the worlds inhabitants.

The Rutgers British Studies Center had this understanding in mind when they invited like-minded professionals to speak at Scientific (R)evolutions last Friday in Alexander Librarys Teleconference Lecture Hall.

Erin Kelly, coordinator of the event, wanted to break boundaries between disciplines to achieve a higher understanding of sciences impact on society and vice versa.

Kelly, a graduate student from the Department of English, said the conference proved the continuities between seemingly unrelated subjects. They put a lot of effort into organizing the panels into unrelated topics.

Even if the person is [in] a completely different field than your own, you can have conversations that link different texts, she said.

They had people talking about contemporary poetry and creating coherent threads with science, Kelly said.

John Tresch, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, discussed the impacts of spirituality and multiculturalism on the progress of science. He said these other forms of thought are constructive for science.

The Society for Psychical Research from the late 19th century was a moment when loads of physicists were very convinced by spiritualism, as it existed then, he said.

On the other hand, he said, scientists frequently draw borders with what counts as believable, excluding ideas that have no concrete material manifestation. Many scientists will scoff at theories of spiritualism that require invisible forces.

In the earlier 20th century these ideas had more leniency, he said. While it is easy to find cases of simple opposition, his interest is in studying spiritualism and different cultures and its effects on mainstream science.

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Pope Francis greets pilgrims in St. Peter's Square during the Wednesday general audience on Dec. 4, 2013. Credit: Kyle Burkhart/CNA.

AVILA, SPAIN: Pope Francis received a letter Wednesday from the president of the Spanish region of Castile and Leon, Juan Vicente Herrera, inviting him to visit Spain to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Avila.

The invitation was delivered Feb. 26 to the Holy Father during an audience held with a delegation from the Foundation for the Commemoration of the 500th Centenary of St. Teresa of Jesus, the government of Castile and Leon, and the city of Avila. The Holy Father was also presented with the pastoral, cultural, and scientific program for the event.

The delegation included Bishop Jesus Garcia Burillo of Avila; Jose Martinez Gonzalez, vicar general of the Discalced Carmelite Order; Alicia Garcia, culture and tourism adviser of Castile and Leon; and Miguel Garcia Nieto, mayor of Avila.

According to EFE news agency, the delegation met with the Father General of the Carmelite Order in Rome, Friar Saverio Cannistra, and with Spain's ambassador to the Holy See, Eduardo Guitierrez Saenz de Buruaga.

The foundation hopes Pope Francis will travel to Avila in 2015 to preside at the closing ceremony of the centenary, which is being officially celebrated by the Spanish government.

Castile and Leon, where Avila is located, will play a key role in the celebrations, as the region where St. Teresa was born and died, and where she founded 17 convents.

St. Teresa was born in Avila March 28, 1515, and was largely responsible for the reform of the Carmelite Order, along with St. John of the Cross.

Teresa of Jesus had no academic education but always set great store by the teachings of theologians, men of letters and spiritual teachers, Benedict XVI said of her during his Feb. 2, 2011, General Audience. As a writer, she always adhered to what she had lived personally through or had seen in the experience of others, in other words basing herself on her own first-hand knowledge.

Teresa had the opportunity to build up relations of spiritual friendship with many Saints and with St John of the Cross in particular. At the same time she nourished herself by reading the Fathers of the Church, St Jerome, St Gregory the Great and St Augustine.

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