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Managing the unconscious – about possession and mediumship

I’m working on a post about channeling and mediumship, but it’s a hard delivery. One of the topics it relates to though is that of managing the unconscious. Our psychologists are learning a lot about this topic. For instance, in learning anything we’ve always been told repetition is important. What we now know is that [...]

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Rudolf Steiner and theosophy – about local versus universal wisdom

I’ve been reading ‘Rudolf Steiner Erdenleben und Werken’ (aka: Rudolf Steiner‘s earth life and works) by G. Wachsmuth. It’s a good biography, though obviously written by someone who is a fierce devotee of Steiner. He tells Steiner’s story as Steiner might have wanted it told. For my purposes this is good: I want to know [...]

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Sorrow, stress and spirituality

My mom said good bye to her day job last week. She’s a psychotherapist and had invited a Dutch professor, Dr. Ruart Ganzevoort, who talked about men, spirituality and trauma. (One of my moms specialties was working with men and lately, traumatized men). It was a very interesting lecture and brought home to me something [...]

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Disadvantages to kindness…

Alright – that title is a bit over the top. The thing is, I’ve been pondering the difficulty of managing groups filled with people who all mean well (you’ll read why later on). Or rather – the majority means well, wants to be kind and all that. The disadvantage is… that unkind people can create [...]

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Blavatsky on Atlantis

Atlantis is a Western myth that many have written about. The source of all the stories about Atlantis are the Ancient Greeks. In Blavatsky’s words: The story about Atlantis and all the traditions thereon were told, as all know, by Plato in his “Timæus and Critias.” Plato, when a child, had it from his grand-sire [...]

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Learning from contrasts or sticking to ONE spiritual path?

This post was sparked by a fellow theosophist who apparently hadn’t read the first lines of my review of Susan Blackmore’s Consciousness, an Introduction. He e-mailed me incensed at my reviewing so positively a lady who has decided that parapsychology is a foolish pursuit. To be fair: he turned around totally when I wrote something [...]

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When are you ready to be a 'spiritual teacher'?

Two people recently made the same remark to me. They both complained that they weren’t getting through to people. That they were getting negative responses to their spiritual path. They were rubbing people the wrong way. I told one that I felt that if she found she wasn’t reaching people, she wasn’t ready to be [...]

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Can spirituality be fun? about spiritual group work

When I read this blogpost ‘Is Spirituality Supposed to Be Fun?’ I thought: great question. Spiritual world answers the question by listing some ways in which thinking about fun can be part of your spiritual path. Though that can be a useful exercise, I am more interested in another variation on the question: CAN spirituality [...]

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Wu Wei – aka cleaning out the attic

Three Chinese Teachers of Spiritual Wisdom, Buddha Lao-Tzu and Confucius Giclee Print; Buy at AllPosters.com Wu Wei is a Tao concept which stands for knowing when and how to act, and the ability to act without friction. My uncles and mother are cleaning out the attic of my grandmother’s old house. She is currently living [...]

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Messengers of the Masters or the Great White Brotherhood

An anonymous reader asks my opinion on the Trans-Himalayan teachings, as they’ve been called, going from H.P. Blavatsky to Mabel Collins Cook to the Temple of the People to Agni Yoga to Alice Bailey etc. First of all: Mabel Collins wrote during Blavatsky‘s life, so it isn’t so much that she replaced Blavatsky as that [...]

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