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Gratitude meditation – thanking our teachers

I’ve written about gratitude before, but I think the topic merits a revisit. For one thing: in our culture we’re taught, by psychologists, to face up to the negative things our parents and teachers did to us as we grew up. Facing up to our emotions, including the negative, is a good thing no doubt. [...]

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More than 300 subscribers to this blog :)

I’m not a feedburner stats addict, so when I saw accidentally yesterday that this blog had topped 300 subscribers, I was surprised. I added the feedburner widget to my blog just to show you all off To celebrate I’ll do two things. Today I’ll share my top posts of the past month with you all [...]

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Uplifting science news: universe and environment

The Dec. 2009 issue of Scientific American seems unusually boring at first sight. At a more thorough reading though, it has some interesting tidbits relevant to this blog: A bouncy universe Recent theoretical physics calculations by Horava split time from space in the General Theory of Relativity. The result is that cosmologically it’s no longer [...]

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Anniversaries – really not my thing…

About a month ago I announced that on August 23rd I’d be celebrating a full year of blogging. It’s the 27th now that I finally get around to it. So here go my stats: 93 subscribers to this blog according to feedburner 12 people subscribed to the comments on this blog 87 visitors to this [...]

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Tangled hierarchies, Buddhism best religion? courage, diversity, calendars and theosophical history

Contents of my monthly spiritual newsletter New Online Short Quotes Mind, H.P. Blavatsky Averting a Third War, Jiddu Krishnamurti The Theosophical Attitude to Life New Online New on All Considering BTW – for those of you reading my blog by feedreader and wondering why you haven’t been receiving any updates… the feed is now at: [...]

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Will, diet, renunciation and religion

Traditionally the main religions have advocated renunciation in one form or another. Whether it’s the fasting for Lent or the day time fast in Ramadan – lay people have been stimulated to restrain their appetites at one time in the year. For religious professionals – like monks, nuns and priests – renunciation was a full [...]

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What Our Economic Woes Can Teach Us

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last six months, you know that our current economic crisis has been going from bad to worse, with no respite on the horizon in the near future.

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States of consciousness: from divine to normal

[Warning: a lot of technical language in this piece.] My usual Friday piece about Blavatsky is based on The Key to Theosophy. ‘The Key’, as theosophists call this book, is the one book by Blavatsky with a traditional linear setup. In other words: the ordering of the subjects is like you would expect in an [...]

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About this blog: thanking those who helped make it possible

I hope few of you noticed, but I implemented a change in blog theme this week. I’ll be implementing a few small details in the coming weeks to optimize the speed of this thing (I am not pleased with my host, but there are a few things I can do about this myself as well). [...]

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Pride: how about the ego?

One of the first posts I did for this blog was about how I intend to have a very personal voice on this blog. I will be going against the grain of theosophical tradition by not being impersonal. I want to devote a few posts to the opposite issue: What kernels of truth are hidden [...]

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