Spiritual Perspectives Blog

reflections on human and world affairs


Category: Philosophy

  • 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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  • The Doctrine of the Heart

    From the holiest spheres of divine Life upon our planet to people everywhere, the flow of love ceaselessly flows, touching the hearts of all those who respond in some […]

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  • The Light of the East

    Around 1875, the Light of the East, the fount of the perennial philosophy, began to shine its profound wisdom into the minds of thinkers in the West. Visionary scholars […]

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  • All Receive in Order to Give

    The world today is going through a long transition period, from one two thousand year old age of Pisces to the next two thousand year old age of Aquarius.  […]

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  • Holding the Inner Vision

    “From the very night of time, the period wherein the sun moves northward again has been regarded as a festival season”, according to the writings of Alice Bailey. This […]

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  • We See the Light

    The deepening Group Gaze is spreading, expanding into ever-widening ripples of energetic Love. We see the Light … Not through the violence capturing public attention – but rather, through […]

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  • Electric Life

    In the beginning God created a living Earth, And everything upon this Earth is given life by the Life of God. One electric life flowing like a river, giving […]

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