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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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December 11th, 2008
I came across this idea today on some online forum. Now I’m not surprised that some people would think the universe is morally neutral. After all for people who don’t believe in a soul, or a God - nor any kind of spirituality, it would naturally follow that the universe IS in fact morally neutral. [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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December 8th, 2008
I have long thought the reason Blavatsky did not (publicly) advise people to meditate was demographic: her audience was mainly the ‘leasurely class’. That is: people whose main occupation in life was going to each other’s teas, dressing up, reading, playing music etc. Some of those people used their energies for good - but the [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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December 1st, 2008
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 the [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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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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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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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 [...]
