Spiritual Perspectives Blog

reflections on human and world affairs


Category: Psychology

  • Harmony, An Inevitable Achievement

    That the world today is besieged by conflict, and that increasingly it is most visible on the mental plane in the “war of ideas”, is obvious.  The fields of […]


  • The Play of Duality

    In an increasingly divided world, the ceaseless play of duality bears upon the weary human spirit. The spiritual and the material, the real and the unreal, and the progressive […]


  • The Habit of Crisis

    The long course of human evolution, which stretches back into the mists of time, has been frequently punctuated with periods of intense suffering and of acute distress. All of […]


  • The Path of Love

    One of the more challenging requirements of The Path of Love is the great lesson of impersonal-ness. Learning why and how to detach from all and everything in the […]


  • My Journey to Tibet and Beyond

    I have always felt that life is a journey. This is my story of how I became involved with the plight of the Tibetan people. Since my teens Tibet […]


  • A New Type of Thinking

    A “new type of thinking”, Einstein wrote, “is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.” Thought is a truly remarkable aspect of life. It is […]


  • The Soul of the Nations

    Most people with some understanding of world history know that conflict and crises have always been an integral part of the experience of nations. Today, however, something seems different. […]


  • Unexpected Opportunities

    Unexpected opportunities for focussed collective change are thrust upon the whole of humanity in times of crisis.  Change is something we should be able to handle. We live in a global […]


  • The Power of Thought Beckons

    Humanity has plunged the depths of the oceans, ascended the heights of the great mountain ranges, explored the surface of the planet – north, south, east and west, observed […]


  • Out of Diversity Emerges Unity

    From time immemorial, humans have organized their societies by devising ways to divide themselves through caste, race, and other systems of exclusion. These have enabled the domination by some […]