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• A High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy

  

  NASA has published the sharpest composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It is a bird’s-eye view of a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Guru Puja: Scenes and Images

  

  Each year, the Guru Puja celebrations follow a similar structure of rituals and program items. So the second day early morning, the members from the West were... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• The Beginning of the Guru Puja Celebration

  

  Saturday morning, the group went to Simhachalam to visit the temple on the top of the hill. Before the journey, Sri Kumar explained that it is the only temple i... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Group Living: Small Excursions and End of the Seminar

  

  Today was the final session of the seminar and the good-bye ceremony. From tomorrow on, we will be at the Guru Puja celebration at Simhachalam, only returning... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Visit to the Birthplace of Sripada Srivallabha, Avatar of Lord Dattatreya

  

  Already in a previous blog-post I described how I came to know about the incarnation of Lord Dattatreya as his first avatar in this era, as Sripada Srivallabha... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Back to Visakhapatnam: The Beginning of the Seminar

  

  On Wednesday we flew from Bangalore, where we had attended the December Call, to Visakhapatnam. It was a beautiful flight – unlike the flight of some other grou... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Bangalore: December Call Ambiance

  

  (I now inserted the pictures to my last blog-post from Doha. I still could not get to my e-mails; the mailings from the seminar will go out later, from Vizag. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• On the Way to India – An Unscheduled Stop in Doha

  Yesterday a quarter past 3 am I left the house in ice-cold night, driving to the flat of my eldest son, Marwin. He took me with our car to Geneva airport. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• A Video on Gratitude

  

  A beautiful 6 minutes inspirational video by the visual artist Louie Schwartzberg on Gratitude. The text is written and spoken by Benedictine monk Brother... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Picture to the Month of Capricorn

  

  We just have entered the month of Capricorn. In spiritual astrology, Capricorn symbolises the time of dawn on the different scales: the daily sunrise, the dawn... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• A Winter Solstice Celebration

  

  We yesterday celebrated the winter solstice at the Paracelsus Centre near Einsiedeln, Switzerland. We were a small group but the celebration gave us great joy. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• A Flashmob with Young Musical Talents

  

  Some kind of a Christmas present: The French TV channel France 2 is running a talent show “Prodiges”, about high talent children in the fields of classical... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• United Nations Declares 21 June as ‘International Day of Yoga’

  

  A very positive news: Yesterday, 11 December 2014, the General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted the ‘International Day of Yoga’. Starting... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• A Call for Help and A Petition to Putin Not to Allow the Destruction of the...

  

  I just came across a petition on Change.org addressed to Mr. Vladimir V. Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, with an appeal to prevent the... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Clay Art: Mikhail Sadovnikov – Dance on the Circle

  

  Mikhail Sadovnikov, a Russian artist and former mathematician, uses a spinning potter’s wheel to create hypnotizing dynamic patterns from out of wet clay sludge. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Lord Dattatreya – Adventurous Encounters

  

  The month of Sagittarius is related to spiritual aspiration and the teacher, represented by Jupiter, and thus also to the cosmic principle of the Teacher.  In... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• A Virtual Visit to the TS Headquarters in Adyar

  

  A few days ago, I came across a nice video about the international headquarters of the Theosophical Society (TS) in Adyar, Chennai (Madras), India. I visited th... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Sagittarius – Fiery Alignment

  

  Today, the month of Sagittarius starts. Sagittarius is the fiery sign of the archer, symbol of single-minded attention. It teaches us to direct all our forces t... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Fantastic Fungi: The Hidden Internet of Mushrooms

  

  We know from the wisdom teachings hat all nature is inter-related, and it is getting more and more confirmed by modern science. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY

• Uranian Children

  

  The last 100 years, there was not only a tremendous speed-up of human evolution through the influx of the Aquarian energies. Also a re-modelling of the human... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, SPIRITUALITY