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Shanti Louise Grafstrom

Shanti Louise Grafström was born in Uppsala but lived most of her life in the US and returned to her native Sweden to get her Masters in Religions in Peace and Conflict. Her favorite pastimes include cooking, knitting, writing, walking her dog Peachy, collecting palindromes, and standing up for peace, earth justice and human rights. She has spent most of her life studying various religions. She now spends most of her days studying various sociopolitical issues. Her true passion is socially engaged spirituality. She believes that the true revolutionary act is being LOVE.

Politics

Breaking Down Borders, Regaining Our Unity

By Shanti Louise Grafström Many times on social media I have seen that picture of two babies hugging, one black and one white, over a caption

Economics/Philosophy

Money as God, Consumerism as Religion

In our enlightened times, the sentence “We don’t want to anger the gods” sounds preposterous, yet what about the sentence “We don’t want to upset the

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      • One for All, All for One 2024
      • The Issue of Indecision 2024
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      • The Issue of Technology 2025