Spiritual Perspectives Blog
reflections on human and world affairs
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The Blog’s writers offer reflective articles on the spiritual significance, and needs of our time, and into the future.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]