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Organized religion versus science and atheism

This is one of those topics that just never seems to get stale online. mergyeugnau shared some of her insights on twitter just now that I feel are a mirror of what many out there are feeling about this topic. So, before her tweets get lost in the internet dustbin, here they are including my [...]

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Sorrow, stress and spirituality

My mom said good bye to her day job last week. She’s a psychotherapist and had invited a Dutch professor, Dr. Ruart Ganzevoort, who talked about men, spirituality and trauma. (One of my moms specialties was working with men and lately, traumatized men). It was a very interesting lecture and brought home to me something [...]

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Freedom – spiritual virtue, value or norm no. 1

In my series about spiritual values I want to start out with a virtue that is perhaps the strongest ideal in the series. Is freedom a virtue? In a traditional religious setting taking responsibility would be considered a virtue. Freedom and responsibility can’t be separated. Those who have freedom, have a lot of responsibility. With [...]

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Religion, what is it? Spirituality?

Spiritual people often say that they don’t like ‘religion’. They want nothing to do with religious organizations. What they usually mean is, as far as I can gather, that they want nothing to do with Christian organizations, or dogmas. Every other religious organisation is just lumped in the bag of ‘bad’, without the person having [...]

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Individualism: spiritual or not?

I’ve just been redoing a collection of holistic videos and they reminded me: one and all, just how interconnected we all are. Yet spiritual growth is an individual process. It’s so individual in fact that the Dutch newspapers had a debate a few months ago about whether or not spirituality was in fact selfish. It’s [...]

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Last minute spiritual gift ideas for Christmas

I have to bite my words: I do have something to share right before Christmas. Can’t promise to read your responses though – I’ll be busy the coming 48 hours. But I’ve made several pages online with spiritual gift ideas. I thought they might be appropriate to share here. Some of you may not have [...]

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Blavatsky and music

Madame Blavatsky was known best for her occultism, obviously, but her professional life included concert tours in Italy and Russia playing the piano under the pseudonym ‘Madame Laura’. Olcott reports (in his Old Diary Leaves, first series, p. 458) that she had been a pupil of Moscheles. He says that sometimes, when occupied by one [...]

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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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