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2008

About this blog: thanking those who helped make it possible

I hope few of you noticed, but I implemented a change in blog theme this week. I’ll be implementing a few small details in the coming weeks to optimize the speed of this thing (I am not pleased with my host, but there are a few things I can do about this myself as well). [...]

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Blavatsky a closet socialist?

Following dream inspiration I searched the word ‘generous’ on the digital Blavatsky Collected Writings… I found an article on social reform The Struggle for Existence which may, or may not, have been written by H.P. Blavatsky. It was published in Lucifer, Vol. IV, No. 20, April, 1889, pp. 104-111. Given the subject of this piece, [...]

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A question about (Group) karma: below average intellect?

I hope you can throw light on the following matter in connection with the karmic effects. A relative has been born with a below-average intellect; he takes time to respond to questions or join in on social conversations. He also has a very poor memory, cannot recall events, forgets what he went to another room [...]

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Sharing inspiration

Caring4U wrote a very important post about Controlling Our Responses. I’m into the I-ching a bit – the way I am into a lot of things only a bit. I’ve been reading the i-ching blog Clarity for a while now and would definitely recommend the author for insightful readings. However, most of her blog posts [...]

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Drugs & spirituality: thee, coffee, alcohol, smoking etc.

Blavatsky is sometimes accused of being a hypocrite for advocating vegetarianism, but not being one. Yet she never hid her habit of eating (lots of) meat. She didn’t broadcast it either, but then she lived in the Victorian age. In our time, especially on blogs, it is quite proper to start such a piece as [...]

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6 random things about me – I've been tagged :)

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 [...]

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Biology & sex – who are we meant to be?

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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Does biology determine who we are?

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, [...]

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Good karma and money

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 [...]

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