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Detox Cleanse: a week long experience

I was visiting one of our theosophical lodge members in hospital yesterday – despite setbacks and mediocre (if not bad) treatment by the staff she was quite upbeat. She had angel cards there, and stimulated me to draw one. I drew the one about cleansing and detoxification. It said that it would be good for [...]

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The place of passion in spiritual growth

Guest post by Michael Brown I have often been asked if any one experience led to my view of existence, and one certainly stands out. Hindsight shows me that it was a vital signpost on my path, which, as you’ll see, is deeply ironic. I was in the Andes mountains of Peru at the time. [...]

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Manifestation of intention through visualisation in theosophy

I’m very glad to note that Pablo Sender had an article published in The Theosophist about a topic that’s VERY relevant to today’s world. Since he always gives me permission to publish his articles on my site, I just did. I’ll leave it to you all whether he understood today’s spirituality well enough. Anyhow, he [...]

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Using spirituality and psychology as a defence

1) Someone asking me to become a lecturer on an event asked me about karma: I hear people saying, about someone else, that their ill health or poverty is ‘bad karma’. Tell that to the starving child in Africa. She was right of course. 2) I heard a longtime Krishnamurti student saying: Your whole work [...]

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Searching for peace and serenity

Someone asked: I have been on a path in life that has brought me to you. My thoughts at the moment are how does one decide which new path to take. My search for peace and serenity has not been fulfilled and I could use some direction. Any help you may give would be appreciated. [...]

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What’s the goal of the spiritual path?

I got three books in the mail this week… Two from Quest publishing, the Theosophical Publishing House of the TS Adyar in the US, another from an author herself. All three are about what one might call ‘the spiritual path‘. Two are highly personal accounts of people on the Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, one was [...]

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Why is self control important?

Having struggled for years with a chocolate addiction, I know the territory well. I used to eat one bar of chocolate a day. I slowly lowered that to zero chocolate. Then, a few years ago, I decided to go easy on myself and allow myself one bar (200gr) a week. I stray a bit above [...]

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Free will, freedom and philosophy series

Over the past month or so I’ve written about freedom and free will. It has turned out to be a difficult subject to discuss. Here are the posts in the order I wrote them: Free will, culture and responsibility There is a consistent stream in our culture that everything is determined by circumstance: genes, conditioning, [...]

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Free will: mind or emotion?

We’ve been discussing free will, and whether we have freedom or not, for a while now. The discussion has, as I’ve noted before, not been very clear. Either the topic is just plain difficult, or the right approach has not been found yet. Perhaps the following may help: When philosophers discussed free will in the [...]

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The freedom of the experience of our lives

The ultimate freedom philosophers talk about, especially existential philosophers, is not so much the world, but our experience of the world. In the words of psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom: Nothing in the world has significance except by virtue of one’s own creation. There are no rules, no ethical systems, no values; there is no external [...]

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