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Sunday, July 8, 2012

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Metaphysion Opens in Downtown Easton

Newly opened store hopes to offer gifts, services, that fuses multiple faiths and traditions.

Walk inside Metaphysion on North Third Street in Easton, and you'll see a shelf near the counter filled with small statues. Hinduism's Shiva shares space with the Egyptian diety Horus, a depiction of the pieta and an antler-horned god. "We're trying to promote spiritual diversity and religious tolerance," said Ed Garcia, manning the counter at Metaphysion Friday. "So we're trying to have a little bit of everything. We're trying to show we can all co-exist." Metaphysion opened last month, one of two new "new age" style stores in downtown Easton. (We profiled the other one, Madame Mim's -- which is also on North Third -- a few weeks ago.) The store -- which sells candles, incense, stones, bags, books, and decorative items -- is a venture of …

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