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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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6 random things about me – I've been tagged :)

Blogs are about communication. And I started this blog out warning my theosophical friends that I was going to get personal every once in a while. I’m afraid I haven’t been true to my word – but that’s going to change today.
I’ve been tagged by Joyful Days and I’ll be tagging 6 other bloggers at [...]

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Spirituality and worshipping personalities – a blogging perspective?

Yesterday I talked about how being impersonal is not a way to avoid pride.
Today I’m going to face up to the main worry people have about being too personal: it might lead to the worship of personalities. This worship leads to the following problems:

Dogmatism: so and so said this is true, so it must be [...]

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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 in [...]

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On being personal – or impersonal

This is for my theosophical readers.
Blogs are a personal medium. Having quit college I’m going to spend the coming months (at least) trying to find my own voice – instead of struggling with the demands of scientific writing. I’m going to try finding my own voice – and that’s not the voice of the Theosophist [...]

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