Barbara Hebert - USA The challenges we face in our world today seem almost impossible to overcome. We often look to our leaders—religious, political, and spiritual—to make a difference, but it doesn’t happen. Instead of looking outside of ourselves to make change happen, it is time to start looking within. Each…
Michael Shermer. The Believing Brain; From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. Available on Amazon. For more details click HERE Fantasy and fiction, truth and deception, magical thinking and plausible reality are all around and often within us. Emotionally…
Antti Savinainen – Finland The author H. P. Blavatsky (HPB, 1831–1891), the central founder of the Theosophical movement, has been considered an opponent of Christianity (1) .Christian theologians have viewed HPB as such. Her defense of the 'pagan' traditions of the West and her conversion to Buddhism have accentuated her stigma…
Psychotic-like experiences resemble symptoms of psychosis, but are milder, less frequent and much more common than psychotic disorders. While these symptoms do not constitute a disorder diagnosed as psychosis, they can still be disruptive, distressing or detrimental to functional capacity. Typical psychotic-like experiences include…
Long ago lived a young man in Istanbul, Turkey. Because he was poor, he had only a single room, sparsely furnished with a few books and a small cot for a bed. One night the young man had a dream — a vision, really. In it, he saw himself walking on a street in what he came to realize was the city of Cairo in Egypt, a place…
David M. Grossman – USA The author, David Grossman, is a professional photographer and lives in Brooklyn NY. He is a life-long student of Theosophy, a regular contributor to Theosophy Forward and his articles have also appeared in The Theosophist. The Sunflower is his favorite flower.
Joma Sipe I share with all of you the Artwork (Special box with Pendant) that I created for Christmas 2024. It is the VISHVA-VAJRA 2024 (The Double Thunderbolt Sceptre — The Diamond of Power). See explanation below. This symbol was inspired by the Vajra symbol used by Tantric Hindu and Tibetans, also called Dorje. This is a double…
Douglas Keene – USA As we plunge into the darkness and the cold of winter (now in the northern hemisphere) and then begin to climb out again we can’t help but think of the cycles we experience in life. The annual verdant explosion of spring, the gentle breezes of summer and in the involution and withdrawal of autumn touch most…
Sally and James Colbert -- USA James and Sally Colbert with your editor at Olcott, Wheaton during ITC 2012 NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles intended to help Theosophical students or their families deal with some of the major traumas visiting so many of us. Included will be alcoholism, marijuana addiction, Alzheimer’s,…
Gottfried de Purucker – USA [Taken from Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy , First Edition. Relevant pages are mentioned] ... if ... our thoughts are running downwards, and we wear away the ... "golden thread" which binds us to our Higher Nature, ... at last the final rupture ... comes, and the soul becomes the "lost soul"…
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