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I think Cable is one of the very few really honest, dedicated and sincere politicians of our time. My website is not necessarily a political site – but with an election looming I thought I would contribute in the way that I can. I pray for a hung parliament, I really do. I [...]
I consider myself very lucky because when I first started studying spiritual healing in my twenties, I read what I still consider to be the wisest and most helpful book on the subject, Alice Bailey’s Esoteric Healing. If you are seriously interested in illness, healing and the process of death, then in my opinion it ought to be top of your reading list.
This is just a short, few minutes to make you smile.
All of us lapse into such mistaken impressions of old age from time to time. It stems in part from an age-centered perspective, in which we view our own age as the most normal of times, the way all life should be. At 18 the 50-year-olds may seem ancient, but at 50 we are apt to say the same about the 80-year-olds. “So what’s it really like to be old?” I often ask my patients, who are mostly in their late 80s and 90s, and the responses are unexpected. “I forgot I was so old,” a 100-year-old patient recently told me, and then excused herself to make it to bingo on time.
Why did Osho change the traditional order used for The Three Jewels? At first I wondered if it was just a mistake that Sheela made when introducing us to them, but later I found discourses in which Osho referred to them in the order that was presented to us:
This book was written by someone I knew from my years with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I was never a member of the hierarchy, I was a ‘peon’. From that perspective this extremely well researched book helped me understand many things that I couldn’t possibly have known about.
Finally here are the videos of the Richard Dimbleby Lecture – Shaking Hands with Death. I have written recently about Terry Pratchett, so you can imagine my joy when I realised I can share these videos with you after all! The film quality isn’t brilliant, but the collaboration of writer and speaker very [...]