By three methods we may learn wisdom, first by reflection which is the noblest, second, by imitation which is the ...
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Spirituality
What is on offer these days is a smorgasbord of recipes, many of which are enriching, uplifting to the soul. The earnestness of teachers is not in doubt but a cherry-pick from the huge spread of precepts on show is for personal choice and reflection.
At the heart of it
“It is the mark of a civilised person in a situation that is not too fraught that he or she will make time and space to reflect. The more one does it, the better one gets and if it is a habit one’s whole way of life can be transformed.”
Justin Glass, Founder
August 14th 2026, from a transcript
A Swami said to me a long time ago when I was asking about anxiety: ...
Invitation: Please join me on this journey by feeling your own direct experience of what is described rather than ...
One of the conundrums that nowadays particularly intrigues the reflecting world in that of consciousness. We all have it but what is it and what if anything is particular to the human race in possessing it? Is it likely that we alone have the key to understanding what is going on - - or perhaps the key is illusory?
What happens to us at death?
Here are some words on this from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective from a workshop ...
What does ‘mysticism’ imply? Sensitive souls may think of a mysterious Power beyond the corporeal that defies ...
A new religion or creed or faith, as yet to be named, that is widely discussed and believed is coming into being.
The purpose of evolution at any time is to make life on earth more conscious.
Barry Long, The Origins of Man ...
The unseen world! Is it any wonder that so many people ‘see’ it in different ways? Is it not passing strange that ‘so many’ people see it? If there is nothing to be seen, how come? Is it a collective delusion?
Transcript of a conversation with Brian Mayne in July 2026
I recently had a revelation which stemmed from a ...
She was four years old when she told her parents: "I died giving birth. I left three children and a husband in ...
The belief in reincarnation is common in eastern religions, but many early Christians also believed in ...
Astral Travel is thought by many to be in the realm of the Mystical if not the downright fanciful. That is not ...
Patrice Van Aersel has made a detailed study of near-death or after-‘death’ experiences interviewing hundreds of people who have undergone them.
Bacon is discussing ‘a part of man’s total presence and energy which is on a finer or higher level than the merely ...
Dennis Bardens was the least likely ghost chaser. He was a man with his wits about him, plugged right into the ...
ISBN 1 85958 518 3
First published in 1965 by The Zeus Press, London, England, then in 1997 by Senate an imprint of Random House. Review below by J. Glass.
Morphic Resonance arguably forms part for some people of a new orthodoxy in their faith. Ideas and character are transmitted via vibrations and pictures in a way may be largely independent of genetics.
It will not be “you” who chooses the next lifetime but your spirit; its location is not likely to be their top ...
Religious texts are penned by mankind. If inspired au fond by Deity. then the human filter allowing the message to ...
I’m an ordinary bloke. So why do I think there might just be something in the ‘unseen world’ that might be ...
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