Healing Ourselves to Heal the Planet

Unless you prefer to believe in the lost city of Atlantis, the world won’t one day end in a sublime implosion killing us all, instantly. Thanks to climate change, it is declining gradually, with areas here and there succumbing to floods, drought, storms, heatwaves, disease and starvation. In many areas there is a slow almostContinue reading “Healing Ourselves to Heal the Planet”

Shiva: Revisiting the Myth of Death and Rebirth

Shiva is one of India’s most famous gods. Part of the Hindu trinity of Brahma, the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, Shiva is god of death and rebirth. Shiva is the ruler of the third eye centre and meditation, associated with the crescent moon and sun, ‘ha’ and ‘tha’, he symbolises aContinue reading “Shiva: Revisiting the Myth of Death and Rebirth”

The Karmendriyas

Our hands, our feet, our mouth, our excretory organs and our reproductive organs, these are the karmendriyas, the five ‘organs of action’ through which we operate in this world. We reach for things with our hands, we step on things with our feet, we feel comfortable or attracted to things, or scared, through our gentials.Continue reading “The Karmendriyas”