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2009

Organized religion versus science and atheism

This is one of those topics that just never seems to get stale online. mergyeugnau shared some of her insights on twitter just now that I feel are a mirror of what many out there are feeling about this topic. So, before her tweets get lost in the internet dustbin, here they are including my [...]

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The carbon cycle: global warming explained

It’s Blog Action Day today. This year the theme is Global Warming. Since I’ve recently been in a discussion with people who still don’t believe it’s real, I decided to share with you the main arguments why I do believe Global Warming is a real threat. Let me start out with some basic facts I’ve [...]

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Man the Measure of All Things, Sri Krishna Prem and Sri Madhava Ashish

I’ve just discovered an old classic whose title I have heard and read mentioned time and again. It’s a classic for a reason. There’s hardly a sentence that doesn’t add insight or new perspective. I’m talking about Man The Measure of All Things, by Sri Krishna Prem and Sri Madhava Ashish. I suspect this book [...]

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Harry Potter and the Spiritual Quest

Every once in a while I like to share with you all some of what I have on my website. Today it’s a long overdue post about Harry Potter and how one can interpret his magical adventures from a spiritual perspective. It makes sense to start with what Helene Vachet has to say about Harry [...]

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Being halfway a Buddhist – what’s a real Buddhist?

I said in my blogpost about whether Buddhism was the best world religion (let alone win an award) that I was halfway a Buddhist myself. I got a question about that: what do I mean? A real Buddhist, in my view, and in the traditional Asian view, is someone who has taken refuge. That is, [...]

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Is spirituality a lifestyle or a quest?

I have been pondering recently the difference between spirituality as a life style and spirituality as a quest. Consider the following Blavatsky quote (the modernized English is mine) from The Voice of the Silence, The Seven Portals: Before you stand on the threshold of the path; before you cross the foremost Gate, you have to [...]

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Spiritual fantasy: The Curse of the Tahiéra

I met Wendy Gillisen online. It turned out we have a lot in common: an interest in fantasy fiction and spirituality and what’s more, she’s also Dutch. So she sent me her novel ‘Curse of the Tahiéra. I was of course surprised that she would have written a novel in English when her first language [...]

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What annoys me in others is what I need to look at in myself?

It’s very common basic spiritual and psychological advice that ‘That which annoys me in others is a mirror of what I need to look at in myself’. (@verna_maruata) Well, I thought I’d look at that a bit more today. I think it’s probably true: what annoys us in other people is likely to be something [...]

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Meditation on the Secret Doctrine, dreams, conditioning and Tibet

Contents of my spiritual newsletter september 2009 New online Short Quotes Christianity and Materialism New online On Katinka Hesselink Net Who Am I?, Pablo Sender On All Considering Anniversaries – really not my thing… (2 comments) Why doesn’t the dream add up to the reality? (6 comments) What’s normal – about conditioning On squidoo Art, [...]

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