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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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Tidbits about enlightenment – neurologically & spiritually

Still reading Consciousness: an introduction. Still thrilled The book closes with two chapters about spiritual aspects of the subject: awareness and Buddhism. Just some interesting tidbits thrown our way: People who start out meditating are more neurotic than average. People who continue their practice are more extroverted than those who quit (us introvert people naturally [...]

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Inspiration and intuition – spiritual value no.6

Intuition is perhaps the most central of spiritual values. I was reading a piece about a college graduate business man who was into reiki and such. Why was he doing all that? Because he wanted to get in touch with a wisdom beyond intelligence. The fact is that our culture stimulates thinking. We learn by [...]

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Blavatsky a medium? about consciousness, channeling and more

Warning: this is going to be a rambling post. I’ve got too many thoughts singing through my head about this – and they aren’t organized into anything clearcut yet. Let me start by sharing a fascinating book I’ve started reading yesterday: Consciousness: an introduction, by Susan Blackmore. I read fast – so I’ve already started [...]

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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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A spiritual perspective on extraterrestrial life – aka intelligence in the universe

Just watching this video by Stephen Hawking made me realize just how different my perspective on intelligence in the universe is from that of mainsteam science… From a material perspective Richard Hawking has several great points. He notes that the next hundred years are going to be crucial in determining whether we will survive on [...]

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The place of astrology, tarot, aura reading etc. in spiritual development

Personally I have been much helped by an astrologer who charted out the various forces in my personality and circumstances. As I came to her after my 30’s, she did not tell me anything new. However, she did help me see these various forces and balance them in my life. A psychic who read my [...]

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Is the universe morally neutral?

I came across this idea today on some online forum. Now I’m not surprised that some people would think the universe is morally neutral. After all for people who don’t believe in a soul, or a God – nor any kind of spirituality, it would naturally follow that the universe IS in fact morally neutral. [...]

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What I Believe

Let’s start with the comfortable fact that as a Theosophist – what I believe is totally free. There are no dogmas theosophists have to subscribe to. Nothing is mandatory. No trinitarian God, no ‘Mohammad is the Messenger’, no mandatory belief of any kind. We even have atheists among us. Still – I do believe in [...]

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Transcending the self… serving humanity

Never content to not understand anything related to theosophy – I looked up this phenomonoly (hope I spelled that correctly) Govert and Chris talk so much about, without ever explaining it. Anyhow – I still don’t really understand Govert’s posts on the subject, but I did read some interesting bits on self transcendence last night. [...]

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