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Ray Grasse

Signs of the Times: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events

(Chartottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2002, 297pp.)

            Each major writer who analyses the transition from the Piscean period to the Age of Aquarius does so by looking at what he feels are the key signs of transition but also in terms of the ideas and discipline with which he is most at home.  C.G. Jung’s important analysis Aion stresses psychological…

Rudolf Steiner’s Legacy Today

Rene Wadlow

            2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the spiritual and esoteric teacher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).  Although his key book is titled Theosophy, and he was secretary-general of the German branch of the Theosophical Society from 1902 to about 1913 when he left to start the Anthroposophical Society(1)  I would normally have left to others who are part of…

William Bloom

The Power of the New Spirituality

(Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2012)

William Bloom who combines a long-standing interest in New Age approaches to spirituality with an identity focus in international relations (1), has written “We are in changing times. Our culture and technology are continually transforming, and the intellectual certainties of the last few hundred years are no longer secure…It is our need to find a new authenticity in our spiritual…

I am realizing when people — like us being with each other — is like at a soul level — the peace & warm love feeling seems to be common meeting place for souls — which is eternal — i see that it is possible here in our human lives to experience this. 

I once had a dream where i looked thru many eyes — since this dream long ago — i practice this looking and it has stayed with me — it helps me understand compassion too.

In…

Religion –the Dharma, in context of adopting goodness, as it is the real meaning and purpose of it, or in perspective of discharging one’s duty by her or his righteous acts, or in the form of an injunction, the Shasana, is eventually committed to harmony. It is, in fact, the essence of religion –the Dharma. 

All religions established or developed on this planet, from time-to-time, by making harmony as the nuclei of their foremost fundamentals, in one way or the…

Child disability is, in fact, a serious and challenging problem of the world. In India approximately one of every ten children is disabled. Among two crores twenty lakhs declared disabled in the whole population of the country, 35. 29 percent are children. The same situation stands at the global level. In the whole world more than sixty five crores people are disabled and among them approximately 40 percent are children. This state categorically reveals the seriousness of the…

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cut-leaf uniformity

our hearts beat as one

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Floy Dy Ra, march/30/2013

You are the fragile perhaps forgotten the betrayed and the endangered, you are the vulnerable yet a vessel for wisdom-primordial and a life hidden from freedom over time. You are the uncertain and unknown neglected soul and a soul ambiguous. Yet you are a visionary a myth-dreamer dancer and a pathfinder of subtle dimensions and primal energies.

You are the “yes” and the shaman of mutual salvation, a monumental miniature of messiah and one light-breather meditating in the cavern of…

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Dear all,  

Question: “Today’s society seems to be in a very bad condition as never seen before. What is the reason for this?”

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji:

“It is only men who form the Society. Today, individual discipline has become a big question mark. Therefore, society will also be indisciplined only.

Responsible parents bring up their children in a disciplined way. They do not like their children reading unwanted, useless…

The reason I'm sure

the existence of an Absolute…

Hello to all friends! It was 2 months ago today that OVI published my LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS volume one as a free ebook download. In this brief 2 months there have been 30,000 downloads. If one of those is yours, thank you and a sincere wish that you and the book have made a healing and creative bond. If not yet: when? Below is a link. Presently, let me share a composition from the book as both invitation and enticement to read more. After all, it is about the Earth,…

A Teacher I was specially in resonance with, was Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Here is the link to a video I really like. I heard that 'teaching' live in Saanen CH 1980:

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Dear All,



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Girish Chandra Ghosh was a man full of vices. Name the vice and he had it. However, he had deep affection for Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Ramakrishna asked him to chant the Lord's Divine Name every morning and evening. Girish Chandra Ghosh said, I cannot. It is not possible for me to chant the Divine Name every morning and evening



Paramahamsa said, "Well! Chant it just before…

FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS LIFE. 

FALL IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTY WITHIN,

AND YOU WILL HAVE A LOVE AFFAIR THAT 

YOU COULD NEVER DREAM OF.

- MAHARAJI…