uguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. A Robin Red Breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.

First Published in New Age Consciousness on Medium Dr Eben Alexander is an American neurosurgeon. He was a staunch atheist, who believed that NDEs were the result of oxygen being [...]

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What is Meditation? "It's what happy and successful people do," I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other [...]

The Parable of the Twins I came across this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. I [...]

In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides [...]

The Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it [...]

Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom. [...]

But not in the way I expected… I turned thirty and wanted to change. Engaging a therapist who utilized a post-Freudian type of psychoanalysis, seemed to me to ensure a [...]

The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning [...]