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Nature is healthy – the city isn't!

Ah – well, a title will sometimes be a bit over the top. Sorry people. The point is: city life is bad for our mental processes. We are bombarded with so many stimuli, that our brain overloads. In fact one researcher says: “The mind is a limited machine,”says Marc Berman, a psychologist at the University [...]

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Wu Wei and poverty? or more about greed

Money Grows on Trees Photographic Print Katz, Paul Buy at AllPosters.com My previous post got a lot of positive response, but one reader felt I talked lightly about the problem of poverty that is going to be dominating the lives of many more people in the West in the coming years than in previous ones. [...]

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Skating on natural ice – Meditating on nature

The wonder of ice on a lake: it will sing when people skate on it. It’s the sound of the ice vibrating. A unique sound. Grey skies and the white of the ice on the trees and the dark colours of the trees around the lake (without any leaves). Skating in Holland Giclee Print Schelfhout,… [...]

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Last minute spiritual gift ideas for Christmas

I have to bite my words: I do have something to share right before Christmas. Can’t promise to read your responses though – I’ll be busy the coming 48 hours. But I’ve made several pages online with spiritual gift ideas. I thought they might be appropriate to share here. Some of you may not have [...]

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The place of astrology, tarot, aura reading etc. in spiritual development

Personally I have been much helped by an astrologer who charted out the various forces in my personality and circumstances. As I came to her after my 30’s, she did not tell me anything new. However, she did help me see these various forces and balance them in my life. A psychic who read my [...]

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How about Music and spirituality?

I got a question the other day: a reader had been told his taste in music was bad for him spiritually. What did I think? I told him to listen to whatever music he liked. I do however agree that our taste in music says something about who we are. My taste for classic 80’s [...]

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Is the universe morally neutral?

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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Activity & passivity – the value of 'meditation'

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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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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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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