Tree and Serpent- A Global Story of Shared SYMBOLS. ‘’Prayag was viewed as the navel of the earth… just like Eridu, Delphi or Cuzco: the site of the primordial Mound which rose out of the waters……Here was an…
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Asoka and Akbar ~Exemplary Syncretists
Dharma Chakra – the Wheel of Dharma Came across these two chaps again in recent reading and thought I’d put together a few details about their lives …..mainly because of their commitment to religious pluralism, an attitude that certainly…
Gopi Krishna ~ Kundalini
Gopi Krishna (1903 – 1984) was an Indian who, after many years of intense meditation, experienced a kundalini awakening in 1937. It took 12 years for him to stabilise this experience, and those 12 years he described as alternating between ”sensations…
The Fallen and their Followers..
The Followers and Their Fallen 🙂 It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as…
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One World Religion?
“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.” (Albert Einstein) So. What do we have in common, eh? Here we all are…quite the raggle-taggle assortment of metaphysical pilgrims! Look…
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Magical Thinking
”If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will get neither comfort nor truth and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair” C S Lewis I have a…
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Prehistoric Goddess Worshippers
”The Goddess does not rule the world…She is the world”. (Starhawk – activist and witch) ”In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?”…
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"Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.'' ~ Jorge Luis Borges
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