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- Dec 30, 2019
- 1 min
Emulating Children
" Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi" "Someone enquired: Why is it said in the scriptures that the Sage is like a child?" "A child and a...
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- Oct 30, 2019
- 1 min
truthfulness
..."An attitude of truthfulness means to try always to see things as they are, to accept the possibility that one may be mistaken in...
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- Oct 26, 2016
- 2 min
Answering Trump, et al
I deserve better - such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain. Meredith Duran, 'At Your Pleasure' In my heart, I think a...
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- Aug 23, 2016
- 1 min
Mantras (part 4)
"Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism" - Lama Anagarika Govinda "...Thus, the word in its hour of birth was a centre of force and reality,...
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- Mar 19, 2016
- 4 min
The Surgeon as Priest
"Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery" Richard Selzer "On the bulletin board in the front hall of the hospital where I work, there...
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- Feb 9, 2016
- 1 min
Chinese Prohibitions in Tibet (partial list)
FLYING THE "TIBET INDEPENDENCE' FLAG, PUTTING UP POSTERS, SPREADING PUBLICITY MATERIALS AND PROMOTING DISCUSSION UNDERTAKING PRAYER...
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- Jan 10, 2016
- 1 min
The Use of Herbs and Food in Taoism (Part 1)
"Many practitioners of the Taoist arts of health use foods and herbs to supplement their training. The use of herbs and special foods...
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- Jan 10, 2016
- 1 min
The Use of Herbs and Food in Taoism (part 2)
"Taoism" Eva Wong "Many people are curious about the role of food in Taoist spirituality. The general rule of thumb is to let the body...
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- Sep 26, 2015
- 2 min
Homo Satanicus
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. Jon Stewart Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of...
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- Sep 23, 2015
- 2 min
The Queen of Heaven (Part 4)
"The moon has been called the Lord of Women, Queen of Heaven, Goddess Fifteen, and Great Mother. As an aspect of the Great Mother she...
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- Sep 23, 2015
- 2 min
The Queen of Heaven (Part 5)
"The Virgin Mary is the modern day form of the divine feminine as Virgin Mother. Con- cealed in Marianism, Christianity retains the...
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- Aug 9, 2015
- 3 min
The Queen of Heaven (Part 3)
"What caused the origin and spread of Moon Goddesses from 8,000b.c.e. to 2000 b.c.e? There are three important factors that contributed...
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- May 30, 2015
- 2 min
The Queen of Heaven - part 2
"The second aspect of the Goddesses is her representation as virgin or Virgin Mother with a son who becomes her lover when he attains...
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- May 10, 2015
- 2 min
The Queen of Heaven - 3,000 BC to the Virgin Mary
An exploration of the historical development of the concept of the Moon-Mother Goddess, from her beginnings in the Near East five...
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- Apr 10, 2015
- 2 min
Tibetan Mystery Play (Part 3)
"...In the Tibetan mystery-plays all states of existence are present: the worlds of gods and men, of animal-headed monsters and hungry...
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- Apr 10, 2015
- 2 min
Tibetan Mystery Play (part 4)
"And now follows the most dramatic and significant part of the sacred dances {forming the highlight of the second day of the mystery-play...
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- Feb 20, 2015
- 2 min
Tibetan Mystery Play (part 2)
"What an unforgettable sight to see the super-human fibres of saints and of celestial and demoniacal beings emerge from the dark cavelike...
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- Jan 12, 2015
- 1 min
RAMAA
Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. It may not find a place in your garland,...
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- Jan 5, 2015
- 3 min
Tibetan Mystery Play (ca. 1935) - Part One
"...Here, where people had not yet come in touch with the outer world, where people had never seen a vehicle on wheels, where the mere...
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- Dec 5, 2014
- 1 min
A Short History of Medicine
Author Unknown 2000 BC - "Here eat this root." 1000 AD - "This root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 AD - "That prayer is superstition,...
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- Oct 23, 2014
- 2 min
When Women Rule
'Columbia Ideas at Work - Connecting Research to Practice', Summer 2014 "...Women in top national leadership positions - president or...
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- Sep 26, 2014
- 3 min
Sordid Pre-History of Monogamy (part 2)
"The Totemic festival of fructification (bearing fruit) naturally had a phallic character, as it was sexual from the first. It was not...
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- Sep 26, 2014
- 2 min
Sordid Pre-History of Monogamy (part 3)
"In the south of Mayalam a married woman is permitted to have twelve other husbands as lovers besides the man to whom she is legally...
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- Sep 12, 2014
- 1 min
Opposing Views on Enlightenment
"To this day, I use [Lama Govinda's] wonderful simile for the difference between Bud- dhist enlightenment and the mystical experience of...
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- Sep 12, 2014
- 2 min
Sordid Pre-History of Monagamy (part 1)
"Ancient Egypt: Light of the World" Gerald Massey "In the course of time, as human consciousness increased, the Mother would be made...
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- Aug 27, 2014
- 2 min
Make it Plain, Brother
Robert Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Columbia University "However, as we begin the twenty-first common era century in hopes...
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- Aug 22, 2014
- 2 min
Breathing Exercises (Pranayama) and Time of Day (pt 1)
"In connection with the science of chakras (Laya Yoga), we have said a little about the three principal nadis - pingala, ida, and...
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- Aug 22, 2014
- 2 min
Breathing Exercises (Pranayana) and Time of Day (pt 2)
"Retention (of breath) should be practiced perfectly four times a day: early morning, midday, evening and midnight, so that retention is...
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- Aug 5, 2014
- 2 min
Breathing Exercises {Qigong} and Time of Day
"The 3rd century A.D. alchemist Ko Hung wrote: From midnight until noon, energy waxes; from noon until midnight, energy wanes. When...
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- Jul 22, 2014
- 1 min
Origin and Development of Tibetan Medicine (part 4)
"The Content of the Four Tantras The first Tantra is the Root Tantra. It presents teachings about illness and relates all the elements...
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- Jul 22, 2014
- 2 min
Origin and Development of Tibetan Medicine (part 5)
"The Chagpori Medical School Sangye Gyatso performed another great service when he founded the Chagpori medical school in Lhasa in 1696,...
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- Jun 27, 2014
- 2 min
Origin and Development of Tibetan Medicine (part 3)
"Tibetan Medicine" Gerti Samel "The Four Tantras The Four Tantras are also known under their Tibetan name of rGyudhzi, which is pro-...
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- Jun 22, 2014
- 2 min
Indian (Vedic) Mysogyny (part 4)
New York Times, June 4, 2014 - Amana Fontanella-Khan 'India's Feudal Rapists' "...For much of India's history, the lower castes,...
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- Jun 22, 2014
- 2 min
Origin and Development of Tibetan Medicine (part 2)
"The First Medical Texts Under the rule of King Songsten Gampo many texts from India were translated into Tibetan. There was a lively...
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- May 21, 2014
- 2 min
Origin and Development of Tibetan Medicine (part 1)
"Tibetan Medicine - A Practical and Inspirational Guide to Diagnosing, Treating and Healing the Buddhist Way" Gerti Samel" "A Buddhist...
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- May 21, 2014
- 1 min
Ayurveda and Samkhya
"Tao and Dharma: Chinese Medicne and Ayurveda" Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade "The evolution of the universe as detailed in the Sankhya...
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- May 16, 2014
- 2 min
Origin and Development of Ayurveda
"Tao and Dharma - Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda" Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade "The word 'Ayurveda', which comes from the Vedas, the...
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- May 16, 2014
- 2 min
Origins and Development of Chinese Medicine (part 2)
"Tao and Dharma - Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda" Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade "Subsequent works especially of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C....
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- May 15, 2014
- 2 min
Origin and Development of Chinese Medicine (part 1)
"Tao and Dharma - Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda" Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade "A fundamental tenet of the Chinese system of medicine is...
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- May 14, 2014
- 2 min
Sacred Root of Herbalism (Part 3)
"The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist." E.A. Wallis Budge "According to a magical papyrus in the British Museum (No. 10051,...
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- May 14, 2014
- 3 min
Sacred Root of Herbalism (part 2)
"The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist" E.A. Wallis Budge "The principal Egyptian gods and goddesses who were specially...
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- May 13, 2014
- 2 min
Sacred Root of the Herbalist (part 1)
"The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist" E. A. Wallis Budge "The religious and magical writings of the great nations of...
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- Apr 21, 2014
- 2 min
Sub-Saharan Origin of the Heiroglyphics (part 4 of...)
"Sign-Language includes the gesture-signs by which the mysteries were danced or other- wise dramatized in Africa by the Pygmies and...
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- Apr 21, 2014
- 3 min
Sub-Saharan origin of the Heiroglyphics (part 3 of 3)
"One of the most profound perversions of the past has been made in misapprehending this primitive sign-language for what is designated...
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- Apr 4, 2014
- 1 min
Indian (Vedic) mysogny (part three)
My understanding of Indian spiritual history is that there have been two streams, Vedic and Tantric. Most of what we associate with...
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- Mar 14, 2014
- 1 min
Sub-Saharan origin of the Heiroglyphics (part 2 of 3)
...An ignorant explanation of the Egyptian Sign Language was begun by the Greeks, who could not read the hieroglyphics. It was repeated...
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- Feb 21, 2014
- 3 min
Sub-Saharan origin of the heiroglyphics (part 1 of 3)
"Ancient Egypt. The Light of the World" Gerald Massey (1829 - 1907) (991 pages - a phenomenal, monumental work) "Myth-making man did...
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- Nov 25, 2013
- 2 min
Thoth (final comments)
(We can't let those Rosicrucians have the last word) "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation" Volume 1 - The...
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- Oct 27, 2013
- 2 min
Isis (part 7)
'Moses the Egyptian - The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism' Jan Assman "Lucius...awakens on the shores of the Mediterranean as the...
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