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November 29th, 2008
Blogs are about communication. And I started this blog out warning my theosophical friends that I was going to get personal every once in a while. I’m afraid I haven’t been true to my word - but that’s going to change today.
I’ve been tagged by Joyful Days and I’ll be tagging 6 other bloggers at [...]
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November 28th, 2008
H.P. Blavatsky had quite an original (partly based on Plato I think) view of the origin and future of humanity. She envisioned a past in which we were hermaphrodite. And before that sex didn’t even come into it. The sexes split yet in the future, in a more enlightened age (a long time into the [...]
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November 26th, 2008
It’s a bit funny to me that with all that is going on in the world - economic crashes, ecological transformation, oil depletion - we should still consider it an important issue to what extent our behavior is determined by biology.
People asking that question aren’t wondering whether we should go back to the Savanna, leave [...]
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November 24th, 2008
I guess I can’t get away from the topic of karma. In my post on karma and right action I wrote that
The doctrine of karma is in Biblical words ‘as you sow, so you will reap’. Contrary to what many people suggest it is a long term doctrine. It means in simple terms that if [...]
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November 22nd, 2008
One of the harder parts of Blavatsky’s explanation of karma and reincarnation is that she insisted that only the best in people goes on to form part of the divine Ego. That is: a person without a shred of goodness in them will be lost to the higher self. They will have lost the opportunity [...]
