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My multi-grain sourdough starter with alternative flours

Spring cleaning my digital life with Notion

Me and Theosophy and the Internet

A woman scientist… The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: The Funniest Fantasy Novels Ever

Consciousness: an Introduction, by Susan Blackmore

Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures – a novel

life changes – just some jottings

Spiritual Quotes and other news

What’s the difference between Spiritual Guidance and Psychic Readings?

Trump vs Hillary – some thoughts about the US election 2016

Does mindfulness work, or is it a hype?

My not so pretty bullet journal

Learning a language with Duolingo

Christianity vs Islam. Violence vs Peace?

Help! What is God’s Plan with My Life?

What is the goal of your spiritual path? – What’s your religious view of life?

Emotion is what holds us back from true love?

Breathing Space – short mindfulness exercise for when things get tough

Spiritual quizzes, books for kids, redesigns and more

REALLY doable beginner yoga videos

Praying for the Middle East

Why self-compassion isn’t selfish

Compassion meditation – a free ebook

Female spirituality, Mindfulness, Ultimate Questions, Books and more

Patience with the spiritual teacher

Women need to learn to break the rules!

Best Women Spiritual Teachers

Allowing yourself to just be with yourself – Jon Kabat-Zinn Quote

Matthieu Ricard – compassion and altruism

Karma, Meditation, Books, Awareness and More

2014 – what a year!

Bodhicitta and Racism – meditating on equanimity

Meditation and self-knowledge

The karma of institutions, corporations and organisations

A Dummy’s Guide to Spiritual Hitchhiking

What happened to Katinka?

Short term and long term – the environment and spirituality

Female vs Male Spirituality

How to be a bad girl – or a strong woman

How to bring more awareness in your daily life

Comments on this blog – moderated from now on #WordPress

Selfishness vs altruism – same or different?

Essays on Karma, for Kindle

Academic learning vs Emotional learning

Merry Christmas – updates on book etc

Blog Action Day 2013: Human Rights

Growing up a girl geek @DayoftheGirl

Karma and compassion – do they meet?

When your spiritual master dies

Atma, Self and Individuation – Jungian Psychology and the Advaita Vedanta Philosophy (part 2)

Atma, Self and Individuation – Jungian Psychology and the Advaita Vedanta Philosophy (part 1)

Karma for beginners: right motivation

Karma for beginners: right action

Shamanism, Buddhism, and Ayahuasca – hallucinogen and spirituality

Money and dealing with spirituality – part X

Over 500 subscribers & Most Popular Spiritual Stuff 2012 – some of my stats

My changing web policy…. spiritual websites online…

Meditation works – the happiness on button

Karma and Reincarnation: optimism vs pessimism

Sufism, Dalai Lama quotes, The Secret, LOA, philosophy and more:

Spirituality and Madness – aka are the mad really prophets?

What are you devoted to?

How not to get lost in spirituality – or Ariadne’s Golden Thread

The unity of observer and observed – various perspectives

Anatma, no Soul, Buddha Nature, Vedantins vs Buddhism

Chittamatrin, LOA, Desire and The Path

Our experienced reality – aka Buddhism and The Secret

How desire feeds on itself

Guru yoga, freedom of belief, women’s rights, compassion

The 3 basics of the path: ethics, concentration and wisdom

Ritual, Andrew Cohen on spiritual evolution, rejoicing and more

Ritual as part of a spiritual practice: Tibetan Buddhism

Giving yourself permission to rejoice in what’s good…

Merry Christmas & overview of 2011

Baby steps or big changes – about self control and habit

Meditation, Buddhist Paths, Blogs and more: overview

Regret, Guilt and changing your life

Best Buddhist Blogs

Becoming awake for others: Bodhicitta or the Bodhisattva Motivation

No more reincarnation… intermediate scope motivation in Mahayana Buddhism

My Buddhism for today, why I choose only ONE lineage…

Tibetan Buddhism and Lam Rim

Gratitude meditation – thanking our teachers

Beginners motivation in Mahayana Buddhism

Between drowsiness and distraction: meditation and certainty

Overview last month: uncertainties, channeling, soul mate, action…

Certainty, uncertainty and spirituality

Channeling: real, unreal? Divine, human?

You are your Soul Mate, Rick Singer

Mahatmas versus Ascended Masters

What we say, do, think and feel – why action matters

Ideals, moral issues and psychology

Yoga gifts, mindfulness books and more – New spiritual stuff online May 2011

Is the world objectively neutral?

Living in language? On the limitations of words…

The tragic volunteer

Sticking to one spiritual path, vs New Age shopping…

The push of experience…

India, Health, philosophy and more

Jiddu Krishnamurti as a man of his time

Start your own free spiritual blog

Selfish, unselfish, ‘love yourself’, love your neighbour

Teaching people a lesson, in real life…

Evil is treating people like things, Granny Weatherfax, #discworld Carpe Jugulum

Free will and karma

New spiritual stuff online: Heretics, Gnostics and Christians

Spiritual Valentine’s Day, theosophical meditation, Zen Mind

Is there something wrong with boredom, during meditation?

The unsaid basics of meditation and life

What they don’t tell you about meditation

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Blavatsky’s Psychology

Change isn’t easy – Discover your dharma?

Spiritual newsletters, new spiritual book reviews

Shunryu Suzuki Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind give away

Paradoxes of Giving

New spiritual gift ideas December 2010

Can you feel the quality of a spiritual teacher?

Alzheimers and spiritual growth

The present and future of Buddhism – plus a contest :)

More about Tibetan Buddhism, wicca gifts, meditation books and more

Saying Thank You and spirituality

Great spiritual blogs: Sharing Inspiration (again)

More than 300 subscribers to this blog :)

Detox week experiment, the evaluation

Day two of my detox / cleanse week

Detox cleanse: about addiction and superstition

Detox Cleanse: a week long experience

Rumi, Edgar Cayce, Buddha statues, Mindfulness – New online Sept. 2010,

Visualisation, Auroville, Spiritual Teachings, Zen Quotes, Sufism and more

The place of passion in spiritual growth

Conflict resolution and controversy

Manifestation of intention through visualisation in theosophy

New spiritual pages on squidoo August 2010

Last months spiritual stuff

Spiritual teachings best fresh?

The certainty of truth

Last month’s newsletter

New spiritual ‘lenses’ – pages on squidoo

God’s hat – a theology joke

Chocolate Frosting and Garbage, Thubten Chodron Buddhist quote

A change in blog policy

God and the Absolute, theosophy quote

Newsletter update & New spiritual stuff on squidoo and Katinka Hesselink Net

Blavatsky about the symbolism of the Christian Cross

Using spirituality and psychology as a defence

NDE, Buddha on karma, Zen Buddhism books

Searching for peace and serenity

Buddha on Good and Bad Karma (quotes and explanation)

Aim spiritual path, self control, vegetarianism and reincarnation

What’s the goal of the spiritual path?

Why is self control important?

Bhagavad Gita, Kundalini, Gemstones, names, Radha Burnier, Subba Row

Do gemstones correlating to the zodiac offer protection?

KH, Koot Hoomi and Katinka Hesselink

New online February 2010 – spiritual newsletter

Karma in the Bhagavad Gita

New theme, search page added to All Considering

Free will, freedom and philosophy series

Free will, karma and reincarnation

Free will: mind or emotion?

Freedom, statistics, Blavatsky news and more new online

The freedom of the experience of our lives

How hard is it to discuss free will?

Free will, culture and responsibility

Spiritual Quotes, Buddhist texts, ACIM, You’re not crazy and Quizzes…

Uplifting science news: universe and environment

A year of spiritual blogging: time for some statistics

Merry Christmas

Michael Mirdad interview

The five stages of the soul transformation process: Michael Mirdad

Mindfulness exercises, religion trivia, buddhism gifts, etc.

Spiritual evolution, cycles, 2012 and wisdom

When yoga increases stress: about the teacher

10 simple mindfulness exercises

Spiritual newsletter – Religious symbolism, organised religion vs atheism, global warming …

About the Importance of Religious Symbols

Organized religion versus science and atheism

The carbon cycle: global warming explained

Man the Measure of All Things, Sri Krishna Prem and Sri Madhava Ashish

Spiritual fantasy; spirituality lifestyle or quest? harry potter; a buddhist…?

Harry Potter and the Spiritual Quest

Being halfway a Buddhist – what’s a real Buddhist?

Is spirituality a lifestyle or a quest?

Spiritual fantasy: The Curse of the Tahiéra

What annoys me in others is what I need to look at in myself?

Meditation on the Secret Doctrine, dreams, conditioning and Tibet

The karma of disease and health

Anniversaries – really not my thing…

Why doesn’t the dream add up to the reality?

What’s normal – about conditioning

Tangled hierarchies, Buddhism best religion? courage, diversity, calendars and theosophical history

Did Buddhism win the best Religion of the world award?

There is no danger that dauntless courage cannot conquer

Unity in diversity – about a holistic approach

Upward, downward and pluralistic causation

Celebrating almost a year of blogging about spirituality

Quantum evolution, vegetarianism, Sunyata and emptiness, altruism, clairvoyance

Tangled hierarchies and the creative evolution of consciousness

Creating the universe: consciousness choosing to observe

What makes us human – about evolution and religion

Osel Hita Torres – aka Lama Osel goes on to make movies

Limits to quantum mechanics and spiritual freedom

Black magic versus white magic – it’s all about motive…

Dalai Lama, Diet, Theosophy, Steiner and Ghosts – spiritual newsletter june 2009

Will, diet, renunciation and religion

Jiddu Krishnamurti and theosophy (and occultism)

Managing the unconscious – about possession and mediumship

Rudolf Steiner: Christianity and Theosophy – about local versus universal wisdom

Remembering Blavatsky – White Lotusday

Ghosts, Magnetism and Infrasound

Moral lessons from the economic crisis & some political critique

Sorrow, stress, intelligence, wisdom, poverty, ambition & the Big Bang – newsletter, May 2009

Sorrow, stress and spirituality

Intelligence and wisdom: not the same thing

If you see the Buddha, Kill Him – an old Zen koan

About being observant of life… poverty and riches

Work as those who are ambitious…

Sharing Inspiration

7 most popular spiritual posts on All Considering

Big Bang or Cyclical Universe? Why not both!

Monthly overview & spiritual newsletter

Desire & spiritual development, some thoughts

Disadvantages to kindness…

Levels of meditation: relaxation, concentration, contemplation, awareness…

The difference between spiritual growth and personal development?

Honesty is the best policy… except…

Truth and lies – right and wrong?

Bliss, Atman, Brahman – Jnana Yoga Q&A

The Dalai Lama – a peaceful response to violence

Blavatsky on Atlantis

Learning from contrasts or sticking to ONE spiritual path?

spiritual teachers, neurology, consciousness, spiritual virtues and spiritual gifts

When are you ready to be a ‘spiritual teacher’?

Sharing inspiration

Seduction, advertisement and black magic…

Spirituality fun? Think again! Spirituality as a hard road

Tidbits about enlightenment – neurologically & spiritually

Environmentally aware – spiritual virtue no. 7

Inspiration and intuition – spiritual value no.6

Generosity and detachment – spiritual virtue no. 5

Follow your own path – spiritual virtue no.4

Blavatsky a medium? about consciousness, channeling and more

Gratitude – spiritual virtue 3

Thinking for yourself – spiritual virtue no. 2

Freedom – spiritual virtue, value or norm no. 1

Spiritual virtues / values / norms: perspective on alternative spirituality

Yoga, Religion and spirituality, the body, marketing, health

Blavatsky on Yoga

What Our Economic Woes Can Teach Us

Religion, what is it? Spirituality?

Can spirituality be fun? about spiritual group work

Looking at the body spiritually

The illusions of fame – for each of us…

Online marketing and the ego

States of consciousness: from divine to normal

Individualism: spiritual or not?

Good and Evil – useful categories?

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

Nature is healthy – the city isn't!

Wu Wei, Self-knowledge, short quotes & spiritual products – Lucifer7, January 2009

Wu Wei and poverty? or more about greed

Skating on natural ice – Meditating on nature

Wu Wei – aka cleaning out the attic

Last minute spiritual gift ideas for Christmas

Busy week ahead – Merry Christmas everybody :)

Blavatsky and music

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

How about Music and spirituality?

The origin of evil – the great mystery

Is the universe morally neutral?

Clairvoyance … illusion or reality?

Activity & passivity – the value of 'meditation'

About this blog: thanking those who helped make it possible

Blavatsky a closet socialist?

A question about (Group) karma: below average intellect?

Sharing inspiration

Holliday season, new online, karma, and the Lord’s Prayer…

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

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

Biology & sex – who are we meant to be?

Does biology determine who we are?

Good karma and money

Karma and learning from life

Are humans meant to be vegetarian?

Messengers of the Masters or the Great White Brotherhood

Karma and right action

Karma and Time

Karma and Harmony

Group Karma and the Economic Crunch

Group Karma and Barack Obama

Today is a new day

"Love is the opposite of fear" ?

Sharing Inspiration

monthly summary: Marion Zimmer Bradley, the spiritual path, detachment, buddhism etc.

Reiki and healing without money as a motive?

Caring for beginners… a mistake?

Right Intentions or Right Actions …

Easier for a sinner to go into heaven…

Intention and Karma

The science of gossip – some moral consequences…

Some words on daily life – a theosophical classic

A universal and mature spirituality – what is it?

Attachment – an overview

Attachment and addiction – about spiritual hierarchy

Attachment, addiction and dependence: tv versus the internet

A short history of brotherhood, sisterhood and religious tolerance

On being our best self – letting in the Higher Self

Those times when life forces rest on you…

Detachment – some spiritual dimensions

On being authentic – spiritual fiction?

Cycles: ancient or modern thought?

On spiritual experiences – what are they worth?

About spiritual donations and making a living

Money and spirituality – let's be responsible about it

My disillusionment with Jiddu Krishnamurti

Some recommendations for spiritual growth

God, or the Logos, or the intelligence in the universe…

Following the news & spirituality

Compassion in business – aka rational giving

Practical spirituality, election business, vedas, upanishads etc.

Karmic debt – what I owe the theosophical movement

The Hermetic Axiom and The Secret

Time – linear or psychological – in relation to spiritual growth

Are we even in the same (spiritual) conversation?

The Law of Attraction explained for newbies

No Labels? No Spiritual Path? Beyond Concepts?

In the sky there is no distinction of ‘East’ and ‘West’…

Belief in Magic? The theosophy of H.P. Blavatsky

Sex and spirituality – abstention?

The purpose of reincarnation

Natural affinity to age – old people, young people

Choosing a spiritual path or group

Going beyond spiritualism – Blavatsky’s first occult shot

John Algeo about the TS, Blavatsky and more: an interview

The Secret applied to Young Muslims

Spirituality and worshipping personalities – a blogging perspective?

Pride: how about the ego?

Labelless spirituality – an interview with Mimi

Elementals & Elementaries: various types of spirits

Spiritual Growth and Sunyata

Samsara, Nirvana and Sunyata

Mediumship, paramitas, Love and new blog – Lucifer7, September 2008

To my Buddhist (and semi-Buddhist) readers

More theosophy

World War 2 story of spiritual teachers – Interviewing my grandmother

Blavatsky on Krishna – signs of respect

What I Believe

On being personal – or impersonal

Can a person live on a vegan diet?

My spiritual path: pondering (or jnana yoga)

Dreaming your life – or living it?

Concerning 'loving your neighbours'

Transcending the self… serving humanity

The friends of Mary – about speaking the truth

Real life and the search for happiness

Practical versus Theoretical spirituality

Religion versus Spirituality part 2: How to reconcile commitment and scepticism…

Youth and wisdom

Religion or Spirituality

Letting Go and Visualizing where you’re going

Sharing Inspiration