Year: 2022
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Season’s Greetings 2022
Since the Spiritual Perspectives Blog was launched in April 2019, over 130 blog posts have been published. This is due in no small part to the generous and thoughtful […]
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Envisioning a Better World through Creative Sharing
Living in a time of transition when the energies of the past age are withdrawing—a stage in which the lower aspects are now more visible than their higher, and […]
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Thoughts on Sagittarius
The quality of the hidden vision In the continuum of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn, the energies of Sagittarius, the Archer, draw upon the balance of the scales in […]
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Spiritual Perspectives: A Search for Truth
Sceptics might ask, are spiritual perspectives relevant in an era of scientific materialism? To this question, others may add, will they help us make sense of an often chaotic […]
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Some Thoughts on Scorpio
Triumph through testing and trial Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point, both in the life of humanity and of the individual human being, according to […]
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The Turtle as a Metaphor for Humanity
Imagine a baby turtle lying in the wet sand, stuck on its back with its underbelly exposed to direct sunlight, terrified and frantically waving for help. Sometimes, life grabs […]
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Thoughts on Libra
“All paths meet at the centre” When we look at today’s world it can be challenging to ponder on the energies of Libra, “the balance”, for it seems there […]
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Imagination As a Tool for Compassion
The blog post “Imagining Other Worlds” considered the challenge of gaining insight into the worlds that animals, birds and insects inhabit. As the recently published book An Immense World—How […]
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Thoughts on Virgo
The Gift of the Present Moment The entire theme of the zodiac can be understood esoterically from the angle of light and its increasing radiance. The light shining through […]
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Thinking with the Heart
“Great is the Mystery of Thought” and when thought begins in the heart we uncover the birthplace of joy. Thinking with the heart is both an art and a […]
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Imagining Other Worlds
A new book which is receiving a lot of attention, An Immense World – How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong, focuses on the […]
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Thoughts on Leo
A new concept of identity Leo, “the birthplace of the individual”, looms large in the world today, when both extreme individuality and a growing group awareness are increasingly visible […]
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Great is the Mystery of Thought
“Great is the mystery of thought”, wrote Alice Bailey, an eminent spiritual philosopher, in the last century. It is one of four profound mysteries, so we are informed, revealed […]
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Some Thoughts on Cancer
Working lovingly with substance The Sun’s passage into Cancer marks the transition from the subjective energies of Aries, Taurus and Gemini into the realm of manifestation—of form life. In […]
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Through the Democracies Humanity Speaks
Democracy in the world today is both a cherished ideal and an approach to self-government that is under extreme challenges. Why is it so difficult for a society to […]
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Some Thoughts on Gemini
The deliverance of mind Gemini is the sign of the messenger. The Buddha and the Christ are considered the greatest of all the Messengers who have come to awaken […]
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A Noble Service
Few can doubt the formidable challenges facing humanity today and the stark truth that selfishness lies at their root. But, perhaps, we can take heart that many millions each day […]
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Thoughts on Taurus
The touch of Shamballa Taurus is the symbol of desire in all its phases. So powerful is desire that it mobilizes the will to live, to draw the next […]
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Codes of Conduct
Many millennia ago, before the starlit arrival of The Christ, homo sapiens survived the great terrors of the wilderness by banding together and forming an instinctual code of physical […]
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Thoughts on Aries
Creation as an act of boldness The transition from Pisces to Aries, the Omega and Alpha points of the zodiac, marks the beginning of a new spiritual year and […]