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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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Do gemstones correlating to the zodiac offer protection?

I just started a website devoted to astrological jewelry. Though obviously related to my spiritual interests, this is a commercial project: everything that someone buys on that site earns me a percentage. (my disclaimer) One of the things I present there are amulets made of semi-precious gemstones. This reminded me of something I used to [...]

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KH, Koot Hoomi and Katinka Hesselink

Yes, that’s tongue in cheek headline. For those not ‘in the know’, Koot Hoomi was one of Blavatsky’s Masters. With his friend Morya he wrote a lot of letters that form some of the earliest theosophical literature. The Masters, or Mahatmas as they are often called, often abbreviated their names. This has become something of [...]

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Karma in the Bhagavad Gita

Vijay Kumar commented on my post about karma and free will with the remark that the Bhagavad Gita has something to say about the topic. He stresses the freedom of the Soul, or Atma, and it’s joy in finding itself in life, doing something. He has a point, but how does that relate to freedom [...]

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New theme, search page added to All Considering

Just letting you all know that I’ve finally added a search page to All Considering. Of course many of you will be aware that I already had a search page at Katinka Hesselink Net (or two: a Dutch one too). But with 200+ readers here daily and almost 200 posts, it was time for a [...]

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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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