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Messengers of the Masters or the Great White Brotherhood

By Katinka Hesselink - All Considering | November 19th, 2008

An anonymous reader asks my opinion on the Trans-Himalayan teachings, as they’ve been called, going from H.P. Blavatsky to Mabel Collins Cook to the Temple of the People to Agni Yoga to Alice Bailey etc.
First of all: Mabel Collins wrote during Blavatsky’s life, so it isn’t so much that she replaced Blavatsky as that there [...]

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About spiritual donations and making a living

By Katinka Hesselink - All Considering | October 8th, 2008

Spirituality and money – the sticky points
The basics in the relationship between money and spirituality are clear I think: money isn’t a measure of spiritual health and each person needs to take responsibility for their own financial health.
When it comes to combining making money and being a spiritual teacher harder questions need to be asked:

Should [...]

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World War 2 story of spiritual teachers - Interviewing my grandmother

By Katinka Hesselink - All Considering | August 30th, 2008

My grandmother is living in a retirement home. She has trouble remembering the name of her eldest brother, and whether he still lives (he doesn’t). There are suggestions she might have Alzheimer’s disease. But when I asked her what spiritual teacher of the last century had inspired her most - the following conversation occurred (I’m [...]

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