Karen Armstrong is a good blender, which has made her a successful ambassador of religion in a generally irreligious age.

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Karen Armstrong, a massage therapist and chair of the Michigan Board of Massage Therapy, acknowledges that some ill-trained therapists will get licensed because of the grandfather clause.

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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.

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