News outlets, documentaries and articles with ‘alternative facts’ are the flavour of the day. Mainstream media is portrayed as an evil agent of the global elite. That’s the popular narrative at the moment. It is misguided. We assume every second half-baked story that gets a lot of shares, likes … [Read more...]
Knowing Through Love
Love gives us the power to perceive truths and understand our lives more deeply. Mystics and wise gurus throughout the ages have practiced knowing through love. Rumi wrote the following tribute to love: “I have forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I have become a scholar.” The … [Read more...]
Opinions of a Spiritual Person
How should we be living as spiritual people? What should our position be on issues like nationalism, bigotry and the refugee crisis? What about religion and our choices for the way we live our lives? These are the opinions of a spiritual person. First we have to ask, what is a spiritual … [Read more...]
New World Order
(Video Included at the End of this Article) Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs has to be inverted for any hope of a new world order. It’s been the wrong way around since the start and it has helped bring the human species to the brink of self-destruction. Our lives lack meaning – personal … [Read more...]
One Thing
Is it selfish to focus on one thing: our inner selves? There is so much wrong in the world. How can we talk of meditation and spiritual intelligence and such seemingly selfish things? Is it idealistic and naïve to wax lyrical about love and light in the world when there is such injustice, … [Read more...]
Certain Inclusivity
(5-minute read) - Things being connected across a divide sounds bizarre to the rational mind. Yet mystics experience a sense of oneness or connectedness – a certain inclusivity. Today, there is scientific reason to believe it may exist in the brain and in the quantum realm. Astronomers, … [Read more...]
Spiritual Mind
(4-minute read) - Our actions are effected by how we view ourselves and the world. The most telling is how we view the human mind - is it a spiritual mind or a machine? One pole is the spiritual mind. Some believe in a spiritual dimension to our selves, a consciousness that is more than biology. … [Read more...]
Quest for a Happy Life
(4-minute read) - Happiness is one thing. But a quest for a happy life is quite another. Happiness comes and goes with our moods and circumstances. It is here today and gone tomorrow. On the contrary, a happy life is a reasonably constant experience. It gently increases over the years of our … [Read more...]
Consumerism
(6-minute read) - It was another Christmas morning and another display of consumerism about to unfold. Children sat on the floor in front of the Christmas tree. They had just been given the go-ahead to start opening their presents. So the wild rush to tear open wrapping paper began. They gave brief … [Read more...]
Science of Love
Experiments have opened science to the possibility of connectedness at a quantum level – they call it quantum entanglement. It seems there is some kind of invisible reality that connects things in a realm beyond our normal perception. But what is this unknown field or force that will explain the … [Read more...]
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