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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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How about Music and spirituality?

I got a question the other day: a reader had been told his taste in music was bad for him spiritually. What did I think? I told him to listen to whatever music he liked. I do however agree that our taste in music says something about who we are. My taste for classic 80’s [...]

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Drugs & spirituality: thee, coffee, alcohol, smoking etc.

Blavatsky is sometimes accused of being a hypocrite for advocating vegetarianism, but not being one. Yet she never hid her habit of eating (lots of) meat. She didn’t broadcast it either, but then she lived in the Victorian age. In our time, especially on blogs, it is quite proper to start such a piece as [...]

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Easier for a sinner to go into heaven…

My understanding of karma comes back to habits. Habits of the mind, habits of the heart, habits of the word and habits of action. We know that all thought strengthens certain pathways in the brain. From a theosophical, Buddhist and Hindu perspective these thoughts aren’t just strengthened in the brain, but in a more lasting [...]

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