Crystals for Your Inner Goddess

Crystals for Your Inner Goddess by Elina Allais (www.o-books.com) Awaken Your Inner Goddess Awakening your inner Goddess is like the blossoming of a beautiful flower. You cannot rush this process; it will happen naturally when the time is right. Just like the lotus flower, a symbol of purity, peace, and …...Read More

Refreshing pastures of Hindi literature

Article in Millenium Post by Sanjeev Chopra, dated 13 July 2024: “Shortlisted in the Hindi non-fiction category, the biographies of Pandita Ramabai, Rahul Sankritayan, and Osho Rajneesh highlight a renewed interest among readers in these diverse and impactful figures.” Shortlisted in the Hindi non-fiction category, the biographies of Pandita Ramabai, …...Read More

Reflections

Photographs by Sajjad taken in the mountains (click on arrows top right to see full-screen high definition slides) Whenever I sit by a lake in the Alps with a mountain range opposite, I wonder if by chance the wind might not subside and perhaps reflect the peak in the mirror-like …...Read More

Aladdin’s lamp

A totally before-PC joke Husband: I found Aladdin’s lamp today. Wife: Wow, what did you ask for, darling? Husband: I asked him to increase your brain by ten times. Wife: Oh, that’s kind of you. I love you so much! And did he do that? Husband: He laughed and just …...Read More

Last few weeks’ reads…

Short reviews by Madhuri on books by Anne Watts, Keith Foskett, Bill Green, Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer, Jojo Moyes, Louise Candlish, Doris Lessing, Barbara Erakko Taylor, Sherman Alexie, Karen Armstrong, David Vann, Alec Le Sueur, Elizabeth Kim A Nurse Abroad Adventures in nursing, from the Arctic to the Outback …...Read More

11 Simple Ways to Nurture Meaningful Connections Offline

“Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.” ~Gretchen Rubin We live in truly extraordinary times. …...Read More

Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness

Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness. By Dr. Gian Kumar, PhD. I have touched on a topic that is highly debatable and complex. Neither do we know much about AI’s future potentiality, nor does science know enough about consciousness to be that divine within, as claimed by many spiritualists, or if it …...Read More

Spiritualism, spirituality, spiritual, and the spirit

Spiritualism, spirituality, spiritual, and the spirit By Dr. Gian Kumar, PhD. The above-said terms, even though related, have distinct meanings. -Spiritualism is more of a religious movement focused on the afterlife and communication with the spirits of the deceased. Neo or modern spiritualism, to a great extent, comprehends the interaction …...Read More

All Is Embraced: Poems and Prose 2020-22

Pankaja Brooke on Robert Dhiraj’s latest poetry book All Is Embraced: Poems and Prose 2020-22 by Robert Dhiraj No Shadow, 2023 ISBN: 0648728927 ISBN: 9780648728924 paperback, 68 pages One Saturday last year Omkar, who has been leading our weekly meditations in Queens Wood, read aloud one of Dhiraj’s poems* – …...Read More

All Is Embraced

A poem from Robert Dhiraj’s poetry book, The Cymbal Clash of Sky the bones of the masters protect the cave on the copper-coloured mountain, the lineages are unbreakable, the karma fully-formed, perfect ‘kam sher lamkuer’, whatever arises, carry it to the path, ‘kam sher lamkyer’, bring it to the table, …...Read More