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Michael Mirdad interview

As promised, here’s some questions I had for Michael Mirdad, author of ‘You’re Not Going Crazy…You’re Just Waking Up! The Five Stages of Soul Transformation Process’, and his answers. 1. You say that nearly every process of learning is ultimately about understanding and experiencing greater levels of unconditional love (p. 14). What do you mean [...]

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The five stages of the soul transformation process: Michael Mirdad

Two weeks ago I wrote about spiritual evolution from the perspective of long term cycles. This week I will go into the more practical day to day questions relating to our own soul transformation process. Personally I can’t take 2012 seriously enough worry about it. I do however have to deal with personal challenges just [...]

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Is spirituality a lifestyle or a quest?

I have been pondering recently the difference between spirituality as a life style and spirituality as a quest. Consider the following Blavatsky quote (the modernized English is mine) from The Voice of the Silence, The Seven Portals: Before you stand on the threshold of the path; before you cross the foremost Gate, you have to [...]

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The karma of disease and health

The relationship between karma and disease is a controversial one. There is the common sense view that since disease is unwelcome, it ‘must be’ bad karma. On the other hand there is a long tradition of theosophical thought saying that bad karma doesn’t exist. I was reading up on a related topic this summer and [...]

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The Dalai Lama – a peaceful response to violence

It is a good blogging tradition to pay attention to important dates. Today it is 50 years since His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet, because it was being occupied by Chinese forces. I’m not going to go into the whole story here. Follow the links in this post for more details. Got Enlightenment? [...]

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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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Caring for beginners… a mistake?

My post about My disillusionment with Jiddu Krishnamurti has gotten quite a lot of comments. ‘Rinzai’ said the other day: Whether beginners are practicing virtues or not is their problem not yours. Believe in no teachers, trust your own logic, your own experiences, make your own mistakes, learn and grow. Have a courageous attitude and [...]

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Compassion in business – aka rational giving

After the deep stuff yesterday I was out of topics, so I asked for ideas on twitter. Sheridan King came up with the one I am trying on for size in this blogpost (literal quote, though spell checked): How about compassion in business? In these tough times we could use it instead of being chased, [...]

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